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Contents

Volume 7, No. 21, February 13th, 2008

On the cover: American Gun

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Hear and Now 9

Art Patrol 26

News & Opinion 8

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Editor’s Note Devastating accident Feedback Your letters Hear & Now Robin’s world Environment Savannah Tree Foundation Politics Presidents and climate change Blotter From SPD reports News of the Weird Chuck Shepherd’s latest Earthweek The week on your planet

Lie of the Mind

22 Theatre

The Pillowman 24 Art Review Hung Liu@Pei Ling Chan 26 Art Patrol Exhibits and openings 28 Pop! Juno what sucks? Juno

Movies 33 Screenshots

All the flicks that fit

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Thursday, Feb. 14

Valentine’s Day Weddings in the Garden

What: Judge Harris Lewis will perform wedding ceremonies in the garden of one of Savannah’s most beautiful historic houses. The ceremony can be conducted in English or Spanish. When: Feb. 14. The event will begin at 5 p.m. and end at 7 p.m., with ceremonies every 10 minutes. Where: Isaiah Davenport House Museum, 324 E. State St. Cost: Suggested donation $100. Info: 236-8097.

Tie the Knot on Tybee Celebration

What: Participate in a group wedding or renew your vows. The public is invited. The event will feature foods served by local restaurants, plus a wedding cake. When: Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. Group wedding will take place at 8 p.m., followed by group vow renewals at 9 p.m. Where: Tybee Island Pier and Pavilion. Cost: $35 per person, with a portion of proceeds benefiting the restoration of the Cockspur Lighthouse. Info: 786-5319, info@tietheknotontybee.com or www.tietheknotontybee.com.m

Thursdays at Seven

What: Savannah Arts Academy Chorus will present A Valentine for You. There also will be a silent auction.

When: Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. Where: Savannah Arts Academy. Cost: $5 general admission, $3 seniors and students.

Karaoke with Savannah Derby Devils

What: Party with the roller derby and enter the karaoke contest. When: Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. Where: Rail Pub, 405 W. Congress. Cost: $5 karaoke contest and $1 per vote for your favorite singer. Info: www.savannahderby.com.

Week at a

Glance compiled by Linda Sickler

Freebie of the Week

The Pirates of Penzance, Jr.

What: A musical presented by the Savannah Children’s Theatre. When: Feb. 14 and 15 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 16 and 17 at 3 p.m. Where: Savannah Children’s Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Dr. Cost: Tickets are $10. Info: 238-9015 or www.savannahchildrenstheatre.org

SCAD Performing Arts: Lie of the Mind

What: A play by Sam Shepard, directed by professor Mark Tymchyshyn. When: Feb. 14, 15 and 16 8 p.m. and Feb. 17 3 p.m. Where: Mondanaro Theater, 217 MLK Jr. Blvd. Cost: $10 public and $5 students and seniors. Free with SCAD ID. Info: www.scadboxoffice.com.

Savannah Actor’s Theatre: The Pillowman

What: A play by Martin McDonagh, directed by Sheila Lynne. When: Feb. 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23 and 24 at 8 p.m. Where: Savannah Actor’s Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: $15 general admission and $10 for students, seniors, military. Info: www.savannahactorstheatre.org

Friday, Feb. 15

Springtime Made in the South

What: A gathering of more than 200 artists who will be showcasing and selling their wares. When: Feb. 15 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Feb. 16 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Feb. 17 from 10 a..m. to 5 p.m. Where: Savannah International Trade and Convention Center. Cost: $6 general admission, good for all three days with a hand stamp, and free for children under 12. Info: www.carolinashows.com.

Rialto Actors Theatre: The Vagina Monologues

What: This play by Eve Ensler is a sometimes poignant, always hilarious play. The first two performances are fundraisers for the Rape Crisis Center. It is presented by Savannah’s newest theater company, the Rialto Actors Theatre Performing Arts Kompany, or RATPAK. When:

16th Annual Savannah Irish Festival

What: Entertainment for the whole family on four continuous stages, plus vendors from Ireland and America and free arts and crafts for kids. When: On Feb. 16, at 10 a.m. opening ceremonies take place. On Feb. 17, the event opens at noon. Where: Savannah Civic Center.

Cost: $10 one-day ticket, $20 two-day ticket. Children under 14 free with a paid adult. Info: 651-6556.

Georgia Birthday Bash & Gala Presented by the Georgia Historical Society

What: The anniversary of the founding of Georgia, featuring acclaimed author and NBC’s Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss as keynote speaker. Reservations required. When: Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. Where: Hyatt Regency. Cost: $175. Info: www.georgiahistory.com.

George Jones in Concert

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Diva Divo Gala

What: Savannah Sinfonietta with soprano Malinda Haslett and tenor Jonathan Boy will perform. When and Where: Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 W. President St., and Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. at the Landings Plantation Club. Cost: $35-$30 adults, $30-$25 seniors and students. Info: www.savannahsinfonietta.org

onstrations. Vendors will offer live bamboo and crafts.

When: Saturday, Feb. 16 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Where: The Bamboo Farm & Coastal Gardens. Cost: Free.

When: Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Savannah Civic Center’s Johnny Mercer Theatre. Cost: $45 or $35. Info: 651-6556 weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Valentine’s Day Sock Hop

What: A fundraiser for [nine.one.two], a non-profit arts and social service organization. It will be hosted by Rushelle Frazier and DJ Keith Kozel. Prizes given for the most unique costumes. When: Feb. 16, 8-11 p.m. Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $6 or $3 with the donation of new art supplies. Info: 232-4447.

Sunday, Feb. 17 Jepson Gospel Brunch What: Two events will be held in recognition of the Silver Anniversary. The first is a lecture, Trees: Growing Stronger and Healthier Communities, by Dr. Kathleen Wolf, research director of the Center for Urban Horticulture College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington. The second is a breakfast workshop with Wolf, Trees and Urban Streets: Research on Public Perceptions and Transportation Safety. When and Where: Lecture is Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. Workshop held Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 8:30 a.m. in the MPC Arthur A. Mendonsa Hearing Room, 110 E. State St. Cost: Free and open to the public, reservations required for breakfast workshop. Info: 233-8733, savstf@aol.com or www.savannahtreefoundation.com.

Feb. 15, 16, 21, 22 and 29 and March 1, 7, 8, 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m. Matinees Sunday, Feb. 24 and March 2 at 3 p.m. Where: The Bay Street Theatre at Club One. Cost: On Feb. 15 and 16, tickets are $25 adults, $18 seniors and students. All other dates, tickets are $20 adults and $15 seniors and students.

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SCT: See How They Run

What: This British farce tells the very confusing and hilarious tale of a “clerical” error, and it’s so popular, it’s being held over.

When: Feb. 15 and 16 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Savannah Community Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Dr. Cost: Adult tickets are $25, seniors 55 and up $20 and students and children $15.

Info: 898-9021 or www.SavannahCommunityTheatre.com.

Saturday, Feb. 16

27th Black Maria Film and Video Festival

What: Sponsored by SCAD’s Department of Film and TV, the festival is a traveling showcase tour of indie shorts and videos.

When: Feb. 16, 8 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $5. Info: www.blackmariafilmfestival.org

First Annual Bamboo Festival

What: The Southeast Chapter of the American Bamboo Society and The Bamboo Farm & Coastal Gardens is hosting the first annual Bamboo Festival, featuring lectures and dem-

What: The Grace Full Gospel Choir will perform and a buffet will be served. When: Feb. 17 12:30-2:30 p.m. The live performance at 1:30 p.m. Where: Jepson Center for the Arts. Cost: $10 admission, plus $15 for the brunch.

Reel Savannah: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

What: Sidney Lumet directs this thriller. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a broker who lures his younger brother, played by Ethan Hawke, into a scheme to rob a jewelry store that seems to be an easy target. Cast includes Marisa Tomei and Albert Finney. When: Feb. 17 at 7 p.m.

Where: Victory Square Stadium 9 theaters. Cost: $8.

The Essence of Love

What: A gay pageant, the Mr. and Miss Sweetheart International, presented by Sweetheart International and Candiland Productions. When: Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. Where: Savannah Civic Center’s Johnny Mercer Theatre. Cost: $30 to $50. Info: Call 651-6556.

Tuesday, Feb. 19

AASU Music Ensembles Showcase Concert What: Performers include AASU Wind Ensemble, University Chorale, University Singers, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo. When: Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: $10. Info: 927-5381.

AASU Poetry Reading

What: The Poetry Society of Georgia presents Barbara Hamby, whose collection, Babel, won the 2003 Associated Writing Programs Donald Hall Prize. When: Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. Where: AASU Memorial College Center Dining Hall, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free.

SAT: The Vagina Monologues

What: This production of Eve Ensler’s play is part of the 10th anniversary of V-Day, an annual worldwide campaign to end violence against women. When: Feb. 19 at 8 p.m. Where: Savannah Actors Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: $15. All proceeds go to Rape Crisis Center.

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Lucas Theatre ¡ March 8 at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $40, $27, $22 and $15, and are available online at www.lucastheatre.com or by calling 912.525.5050.

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News & Opinion

| Editor’s Note by Jim Morekis

Devastating Few things in my lifetime have rocked Savannah the way the recent tragedy at Imperial Sugar has rocked this city over the last several days.

Nearly everyone in town seems to have some personal link to the Port Wentworth plant. Either they know somebody who currently works there, they know somebody who worked there in the past, or they’re a contractor who has done some work there over the years. In any case, all are taking stock right now of how fragile life is and how quickly it can be taken from us.

As comparisons go, this event is having the kind of seminal effect on the community that the Sofa Super Store fire had

on Charleston, in which nine firefighters lost their lives in a blaze on Highway 17 last summer. While in that case the tragedy involved the poignancy of firefighters losing their lives trying to save others — hence enabling some small amount of closure and nobility in the sad result — the Imperial

Sugar explosion seems a little harder to take.

It happened without warning, to people who were minding their own business and trying to do a difficult, largely thankless job.

In a flash it was over, and all that remains is the long, painful aftermath.

The sugar trade has never been easy, and feeding our insatiable demand for its product can be extremely hard on the people within as well as on the land without. As with mining, no amount of technology can completely eliminate the risks involved in dealing with a combustible product.

Historically, work on sugar plantations was regarded as the most difficult, backbreaking labor imaginable. In modern days, no one who has driven through the sprawling cane farms around Lake Okeechobee, Fla. — a surreal scene of ecological impact stretching from horizon to horizon — will

ever look at the humble container of Dixie Crystals on their kitchen table in quite the same way again.

Savannah’s experience with Big Sugar has been different. Imperial Sugar is one of our more well-regarded institutions, a refinery, not a farm. What happened last week was an accident, not a matter of policy.

The time may come —and probably should come — for a penetrating look at safety within the sugar industry, but now is not that time.

We extend our condolences, thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims of the disaster at Imperial Sugar, and hope that some form of closure may be soon in coming, if such a thing is indeed possible. w

an Oligarchy form of government in which a few persons hold the ruling power, and is well under way of becoming a system of government in which a dictator and a single party have absolute power over the politics, industry, etc. of this country, and seek to stay in power by promoting nationalism, racism, and militarism, as in Italy under Mussolini and in Nazi Germany this will be the beginning of the end when Americans liberty and freedoms will die.

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ous. Billions of dollars are spent on things which are futile in comparison with the big picture. Education and recycling is the key to control this already unstable situation.The planet is in peril so let’s be diligent.

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Jim Morekis is editor of Connect Savannah.

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The truth about Jekyll

hundreds of privately owned condominiums and time-share units.

Editor, Equally unexplained is the location of Supporters of the proposed Linger this massive project, which would impose Longer project on Jekyll Island, including densely developed shops and condos in an the Jekyll Island Authority (JIA), make no open area presently offering an unimpeded attempt to reconcile the project with past view of the ocean. This area also includes the planning or other informed analysis of the most popular location for beach access public’s preferences for revitalizing this cherby the visiting public. ished coastal state park.

At the heart of this issue is the Curiously, neither the Jekyll lack of transparency and public inIsland Master Plan, the still volvement in the planning unfinished and unadopted process, which has ineviconservation plan, nor : or it ers to the Edints letters from across tt Le tably resulted in the high any reference to the nnah pr does not Connect Sava Printing a letter opin- level of controversy about s. ea id of m promised evaluation of the spectru ment of the ply our endorse ited for the project. capacity is being used necessarily im tters may be ed Le . ein er th d presse ex s The JIA should take a ion to justify the scale, y. space and clarit nnah.com va step back and honorably tsa ec nn co location, or des@ E-mail: letter 32 reconsider their obliga.99 31 2.2 91 7, sign of the project x: ite Fa ., Su 00 E. Victory Dr tion to serve Georgia’s 4 Snail mail: 18 40 31 now being proGA , ah Savann citizens. This should moted. What is the lead to a truly legitimate planpoint of doing such planning ning process involving ample public studies if they are summarily participation supported by objective ignored when development decisions are analysis of environmental and capacity made? factors that are critical to a responsible outIn fact, neither the location nor the size come, including alternative sites. Otherwise, of the Linger Longer project is justified by the treasured character of this unique state any past studies or plans for the island. To park will be lost forever to the public for the contrary, areas of highly important marwhom it was created. itime forest and wetlands identified in the Jekyll Island conservation plan, including David Kyler habitat for critical species, would be unnecDirector, Center for a Sustainable Coast essarily degraded or destroyed by the project being proposed. And it must be made clear that the project site itself is the cause for Fight for the Bill of Rights many of these conflicts, yet is was the only Editor, location offered by the JIA to the developers.

This Bush administration has proven itMoreover, extensive polling of some self hostile to the American basic rights as 6,000 visitors by the Initiative to Protect guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Jekyll Island clearly indicates that the proBill of Rights. They have allowed this Iraq posal is way beyond the bounds of what the war to develop into a quagmire reminiscent vast majority want to see on the island. of the Vietnam War. This administration No one questions that many of the existwith the help and support of the Republican ing beach-side hotels need to be revamped Party have taken this nation and turned it or replaced. But there is utterly no justificainto a state for the government, by the govtion on record for a project in this state park ernment, and of the government. adding more than 1500 rooms, including This country is one election away from

A planet in peril

Editor, The article entitled “Oceans in Trouble”

by Sharon Guynup impacted me so much that sleep wasn’t possible at all. It had me wandering what was killing the bees off.

Global Warming is rarely discussed in the media. We have only one Earth. Mass extinction is a remote possibility and thats not fair to other lifeforms that help keep the environment sound.

Each and ever creature should do its part to maintain the balance of life. That’s our only purpose here on this planet.The show on PBS called Wired Science aired an episode on the floating debris in the Pacific Ocean called “The Great Garbage Patch.”

The word patch as used is misleading because the plastic accumulated there is the size of a continent.

We need a better recycling program that should be world-wide.Environmental education and control should be top priority and should not be just ignored or shall we say swept under the rug.

Since this editorial deals with art maybe the paper could do a piece on Chris Jordan’s work. It deals with the environment and is phenomenal. His works defy words.The Popular Science web page has an environmental section article called “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Statistics.”

Overpopulation is the cause of all of societies ills. Environmental pollution is seri-

More local issues please

Editor, I’d like to comment on something you mentioned in one of your editor’s columns recently. You said that you had heard from a reader who thought you and the paper should return to issues of city interest. I very much agree, and I am sure that many if not most of your readers feel the same.

There is no need to read Connect to find out anything about Obama, for instance, or any other nationally known politician. The airways, the media generally, the internet, etc. are glutted with such stuff.

In that regard, I suggest that you free up valuable space by getting rid of junk like Blotter and News of the Weird and begin a regular column in which the citizens can ask questions of the city councillors hor Mayor and one of your reporters could try to get a response.

One other vital and original column might allow people to express their ideas for improvements that could be implemented here to all our advantage, or which are working well elsewhere and should be tried.

During this time of national electioneering, it is important to remember that most of the basic decisions affecting the lives of Savannahians are taken in this town itself and for any kind of democratic governance to happen, individuals have to have a real voice in the system, not merely an empty vote.

Your paper is the perfect venue in which to find out what kind of a town people want, and what’s on their mind. Everything else is advertising.

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News & Opinion

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Sunday in the woods at Wormsloe

lica of an early settler’s shelter and garden, while across a clearing, women and children played colonial games next to an old-timey tent, chatting with 21st century onlookers.

The circular nature trail continues from the colonial village area along the marsh edge toward the tabby ruins of the Jones family’s first house. Despite dozens of Sunday afternoon visitors the wildness of the land quickly swallowed up anyone that passed by, including two illegal bicyclists, and the noisy quiet of the breeze rustling the palmetto leaves almost covered the reenactors’ musket fire that repeated through the afternoon.

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The museum people must have made a deal with the gnats, which were uncharacteristically absent on Sunday. Those gnats have a history at Wormsloe, even earning a mention in a colonist’s diary in the interpretive film--a historic detail that all of us visitors were happy to pass up.

From the ruins of the Jones house, now a few falling down tabby walls dating from the mid 1700’s, the nature trail circles to the site of the first Jones family burial plot. The temporary nature of humankind’s hold on the Earth was evidenced by the lichen forming on the cross shaped vault.

Many new things to experience transcended the human history of the site.

Decomposing logs lay alongside the footpath, twisting open as they decay, new shoots growing up beside them. A skinny pine barely as thick as a baseball bat, covered in crusty gray bark, stretching 15 feet tall or higher, its spindly twigs with green needles brushing against a branch of a larger, sturdier water oak. The low tide, muddy smell of the marsh; the thickness of leaves and springy earth of the trail that without fanfare changes to white sandy soil; the hard clear brightness of the afternoon February sun.

Turns out none of these things is new at all. They’ve been right here since long before the Jones family arrived from England, long before the land was turned over to the state of Georgia, long before anyone needed a super Sunday as an excuse to go outside and see that there really is nothing new under the sun. w Wormsloe State Historic Site is located at 7601 Skidaway Road on Isle of Hope.

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With only four hours set aside for Super Museum Sunday this past weekend, it was important to choose wisely from among the 39 cultural sites opening their doors free-ofcharge for the annual museum showcase.

Any of these attractions would be a worthwhile way to spend an afternoon, but which would be best for my peculiar, conflicted mood? Sunday’s cloudless sky and mild temperatures held out the promise of springtime, pulling the body outdoors and easing, if just a bit, the spiritual cloud shared by most of the city, brought on by Thursday night’s sugar refinery tragedy.

That call of the wild plus a curiosity for something new compelled me to head toward Wormsloe Historic Site on Isle of Hope, rather than return to one of many favorite and praiseworthy downtown museums.

Despite living nearly 30 years in Savannah, Sunday was my first trip down the mile long, tree lined drive off Skidaway Road, the desire for the trip fueled more by a vague hunch about what Wormsloe offers to visitors than by any facts. The photos I’ve seen of the place are all variations of the same classic image of oak trees arching over the road. I knew that old Georgia families with names like Jones, Wymberly, DeRenne and Barrow had an association with the property.

There was plenty to see and plenty to learn at Wormsloe on Sunday. A late 20th century interpretive center offers a 15-minute film that put most of the Wormsloe information into familiar context. My “curiosity for something new” wasn’t exactly satisfied, since it turns out that Noble Jones, the original owner of Wormsloe, was one of those first 114 colonists who arrived with James Oglethorpe on the ship Anne in 1733, a fact that I somehow never absorbed despite living here for two thirds of my life. I also never figured out that Jones, Wymberly, DeRenne and Barrow weren’t old Georgia families, they were all one family--various branches of a singular Noble Jones tree.

Heading out from the interpretive center is a one mile nature walk that loops through undisturbed woods of live oaks, magnolias, and cabbage palms, with footbridges traversing tidal wetlands.

On Sunday, Colonial reenactors had settled in for a living history demonstration in a spot designed for such entertainment.

The menfolk spent the afternoon loading and firing their muskets, next to a rep-

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Back to its

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Savannah Tree Foundation marks 25th anniversary

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age Hungerpiller grew up in the shade of mighty live oaks.After her marriage, she and her husband raised their family among the trees along White Bluff Road.

When those trees were threatened by a road-widening project, Hungerpiller and her neighbors became activists. “Our husbands called us the Monday Morning Mothers of the Earth,” she says. “The lovely two-lane road I’d been on since I was a toddler was going to be changed. It just was something we thought we should attack.” The group was successful in saving the trees.

From that early bit of activism, the Savannah Tree Foundation was born. Even more trees have been saved in the past 25 years.“We got wind of the fact that the property with the Candler Oak had been bought by an Atlanta developer,” Hungerpiller says. “The first thing he said was to get rid of the tree, it was in the way of everything.“That galvanized us,” she says.

“That developer turned out to be a good friend.” The group had a professional arborist come and determine how old the Candler Oak was. The developer was so impressed, he gave them an environmental easement and the Candler Oak still stands today. “He said, ‘Take care of it!’”

Hungerpiller says. That developer became a staunch supporter, helping the group with other projects. “We were all sort of on the same wavelength,” Hungerpiller says.“By this time, there was a lot of development in Savannah. Not every developer was sensitive to the environment and it had to become better. Back then, the attitude was ‘cut everything and then put back crepe myrtles’.”From the beginning, education has been a major component of the STF, not just for developers but the general public, too. “Project Learning Tree was a program we brought to Savannah,” Hungerpiller says.The STF continues to monitor and support the tree canopy and has planted 2,000 trees. To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the STF is sponsoring a lecture and workshop. “We feel people are tired of hearing about how trees sequester carbon and

Tuesday and Wednesday feature events in organization’s quarter century anniversary

prevent water runoff, so we’re doing something different,” STF board member Diane Houston says. “The lecture will be presented by Dr. Kathleen Wolf, with a wine and cheese reception to follow,” Houston says. “She’s going to be talking about the social implication of trees.”Nowhere is the importance of trees more evident than in Savannah. “One of the most amazing things about Savannah is the wonderful trees,” Houston says. “I’ve always been interested in gardening, and trees are one of my particular loves.”Five years ago, Houston attended the STF’s 20th anniversary celebration. “It was held under the Candler Oak,” she says. “I live a few blocks away and decided to go to it.”Houston has been involved ever since. She says one of the things the board wants to do is develop a curriculum about the Bacon Park Forest to be presented in local schools.“We try to stay on top with what’s happening and be there if a tree is about to be destroyed,” Houston says. “That usually happens when neighbors call. Sometimes we can step in and give a hand.” The STF recently took on a new role as contractors in planting trees and shrubs at the Mother Matilda Beasley Park. Contaminated soil had to be removed there, and people in the neighborhood were upset about losing the trees.“Nobody bid on the project, so it languished for three years,” Houston says.

“It was something new for us, but it’s worked out very well.“We also have done a tree planting on Tybee and planted trees on FEMA property. Our goal is to plant 200 trees every

year from the fall through the spring.”Wolf has appeared at STF events in the past, and is looking forward to returning to Savannah.

Trees do have a major impact on humans, she says.“There are important benefits to having vegetation all around us – in yards, at work, in schools,” Wolf says. “One investigator found that desk workers who had windows and vegetation outside were more satisfied and missed work less.”Children with attention disorders respond better when they participate in outdoor activities. “Trees are very good for us, often in ways we don’t even recognize,” Wolf says.

Even after 25 years, Hungerpiller says she still enjoys planting trees and educating others about them. As she puts it, “Everytime we go on White Bluff Road, I say ‘Whee!’” w The Savannah Tree Foundation will celebrate its 25th anniversary Feb. 19-20. Dr. Kathleen Wolf will present a lecture Trees: Growing Stronger and Healthier Communities, Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public.On Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 8:30 a.m., Wolf will present a breakfast workshop, Trees and Urban Streets: Research on Public Perceptions and Transportation Safety in the Arthur A. Mendonsa Hearing Room, Metropolitan Planning Commission, 110 E. State St. This event also is free, but preregistration is required. Call 233-8733, e-mail savstf@aol.com or visit www.savannahtreefoundation.com.

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Scientists fear that climate change could accelerate more quickly than expected, in which case we don’t have a moment to lose.

John McCain also supports a cap and trade bill, but there are many reasons to think he’d settle for a policy that is more lenient and compromise-oriented. Notably, McCain worked closely with Sen. Joseph Lieberman on climate legislation in the past, and the current bipartisan LiebermanWarner bill sets a lower target for emission reductions - a 70 percent reduction in capped emissions by 2050 (and not all emissions would be capped).

There’s another major difference between the Democratic and moderate Republican approach on global warming. Clinton’s and Obama’s cap and trade plans would auction off 100 percent of the initial pollution permits, using the proceeds for needed causes like investing in clean energy technologies that will reduce carbon emissions.

In contrast, the Lieberman-Warner bill - closer to McCain’s favored approach - would auction off only a small percentage of allowances initially.

Major emitters would be granted many allowances to pollute for free at the outset.

McCain’s approach is a good way to get needed support for the bill from industry.

But giving away so many allowances not only massively subsidizes special interests, but ignores the principle that the polluter ought to pay for harming the environment.

In essence, we’re looking at a classic conflict between idealism and pragmatism, with the fate of the planet at stake. Moreover, it’s not obvious which approach is more viable: pushing for a moderate Republican bill that can pass Congress, or pushing for a more ambitious Democratic bill that assures stronger congressional opposition.

Recently, the League of Conservation Voters launched a campaign to pressure top talk show hosts to ask the candidates more questions about global warming. Let’s hope that between now and November, journalists and debate moderators see beyond the broad similarities between McCain and the two Democrats on the issue, and press them to explain their differences. While we seem assured of a candidate who wants to address global warming, we still have to decide whether to move slowly or quickly. w

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ne result of Super Tuesday’s primary elections has gotten very little coverage. With those results, the world nudged ever closer to finally - finally - grappling with what is arguably our greatest shared challenge, global warming.

Consider: While as of this writing Mike Huckabee says he’ll remain in the race, Arizona Senator John McCain has clearly emerged as the Republican frontrunner. That makes it likely that the U.S. general election will feature a contest between two candidates who take global warming very seriously, who agree that it’s caused by human activities, and who want to do something decisive to stop it - McCain on the one hand, and either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama on the other.

The fact that the presidential field has apparently narrowed to these three contenders might seem grounds for planetary rejoicing. However, it’s important to note that despite their broad similarities, when it comes to global warming McCain and the two leading Democrats aren’t perfectly interchangeable.

Certainly, all three want a bill passed that will do something about climate change.

Moreover, they want the same kind of bill: so-called “cap and trade” legislation that will set an ever-tightening economy-wide cap on total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and empower the government to distribute pollution allowances or permits to all emitters.

Companies that wind up emitting less than their allotted amount would be free to trade their remaining permits to others as they see fit. And so, thanks to market forces, the total amount of emissions would steadily decline.

So far so good. But examine the positions of the leading contenders, and differences emerge between McCain and the two Democrats almost as large as the difference between McCain and Mitt Romney (who has repeatedly attacked McCain over his strong stance on climate). Those differences could have dramatic implications for the future of the planet and humanity.

Both Clinton and Obama say they want a stringent bill that would cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050. Those are the kind of deep cuts that scientists say we must have if we want to avoid the worst possible impacts of global warming. The news coming in from the climate system, after all, has been getting more and more alarming - with the record decline in Artic sea ice observed in summer 2007 perhaps most shocking of all.

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from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports

One Way to Unite

A Savannah-Chatham Police employee said she was provided with and completed a United Way contribution form.

She said she opted out of making contributions for personal reasons. When she got her pay check, she noticed that $2 per pay period had been deducted for the United Way. Someone had written $52 for the year over the $0 the employee had written. She said she didn’t authorize anyone to alter her amount, and the matter was placed under investigation.

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• An officer pulled a car over in the 400 block of West Congress because it had a paper drive-off tag.

Two men were in the car. The passenger got out of the car as the officer was approaching the driver’s side and began running.The officer yelled for him to stop, but he kept running. The officer began chasing him on foot.

After a foot pursuit, the man was caught on the north side of Franklin Square. He was put on the ground and handcuffed.

The man voluntarily said the “stuff ” was in his left coat pocket. The officer walked to the area of the traffic stop but the driver had fled, so a look-out was posted.

The passenger was searched and a blue pouch was found in his left jacket pocket.

Inside the pouch were five baggies of a white powdery substance, believed to be cocaine, and a small black digital scale with a white powdery residue on it.

The cocaine, scale and pouch were confiscated and later logged into evidence.

The suspect said his “partner” gave him the “stuff ” and told him to run. He said he knew his partner only as “Lucky,” and said he had a cell phone number for Lucky in his phone. The officer located the number and several text messages from Lucky asking what was going on for the evening and talking about meeting up. The cell phone was confiscated and logged into evidence.

The man was charged with intent to distribute a controlled substance, cocaine possession, possession of a drug-related object and obstruction by fleeing. He was already on parole so a hold was placed on him after his parole officer was contacted.

• An officer called to the scene of a “cutting” was in route when flagged down by a man at West 40th and Whitaker streets.

The man said he had gone to a residence on East 38th Street to collect a debt and was attacked by a man who owed him money. He said he was owed money for drugs he had sold the suspect and was told to be at that address to collect his cash.

When he arrived, the suspect began to “freak out” and stabbed him with a kitchen knife. The victim was treated by EMS and released.

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Another officer arrived and interviewed the suspect, who said the man had just walked into his house and began demanding to know where his ex-girlfriend was.

The suspect said he told the man no one in the house knew what he was talking about.

He said the man then picked up a chair and began threatening him. He said he managed to push the man out the door, but the man returned with a stick and came after him. At that point, the suspect said he stabbed the man out of self defense.

• Two women reported that they have been receiving threatening phone calls from a third woman.

They told police they both have children by the suspect’s brother, who passed away in November. They said the suspect is angry over various items that belonged to her brother but were left to his children.

A recording of a message left on a cell phone was played for police. The suspect threatened to cut both women’s faces.

One of the women said the suspect had already called her twice in one day, making vicious threats. Both were advised of warrant procedures and given a case report number card.

• A woman who was in line at a Beach Street convenience store said there was a man standing behind her when she felt a pulling on the strap of the purse that was over her shoulder. She turned around and the suspect said, “I ain’t tryin’ to take your keys.” The woman replied, “I know. You’re trying to take my purse.”

The suspect left the store and stood by the side of the building. She said he stood there for a while, so she called police. When the officers pulled up, the suspect ran behind the building. The area was searched, but the suspect wasn’t located.

Store employees said the suspect had been recorded on video, but the manager would have to retrieve it when she arrived in the morning. The woman was given a case report number card. w

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The Litigious Society

Compelling Explanations

As the home-mortgage industry continued to reel in January from the Countrywide Financial Corp. debacle, a federal bank-

ruptcy judge learned that the company, in at least one case (with others suspected), had not only backdated crucial documents but fabricated them altogether and then told the judge the company was merely trying to be “efficient.� A court had approved the recasting of a client’s debt to Countrywide in March 2007, closing the case, but the next month, Countrywide “discovered� a way to get extra money and thus created three letters supposedly sent to that client before March 2007. However, Countrywide later acknowledged that the letters were actually written after March 2007 but that making up documents was merely “an efficient way to convey� information.

A prize-winning paper from a Hebrew University researcher, seeking to explain the paucity of rapes by Israeli soldiers of Palestinian women, concluded that the soldiers were merely using a “strategy� of non-rape, according to a December report on Arutz Sheva. Such a hands-off policy “strengthens the ethnic boundaries,� wrote Ms. Tal Nitzan, seemingly suggesting that Israeli soldiers primarily feared increasing the Palestinian population. Nowhere, critics pointed out, did Nitzan suggest that rape is rare because Israeli culture condemns it.

Ironies

California’s Solar Shade Control Act protects solar panels from obstructions from sunlight, and in January, Santa Clara County officials sought to enforce the law against homeowners who themselves are staunch environmentalists. Since the back yard of Prius-owners Richard Treanor and Carolynn Bissett contains lush redwood trees that block their neighbor’s panels, the county ordered that the trees be cut down.

Tolerance: (1) In November, 70 petitioning neighbors said they were fed up with the Museum of Tolerance in West Hollywood, Calif. The final straw was the museum’s application to expand its building, extend hours of operation until midnight, and reduce the buffer zone between it and nearby homes. (2) Officials of Hyde Park Baptist Church in Austin, Texas, initially agreed to host the annual multi-denominational Austin Area Interreligious Ministries Thanksgiving celebration last year, but abruptly canceled when they came

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In January, the Chinese retailers at Beijing’s Silk Street Market, which is a notorious supplier of knock-off merchandise such as Louis Vuitton, announced that they would begin creating clothing and other items under their own SilkStreet brand, and they naturally issued the warning, “Anyone using the brand (without permission) will be held liable.�

Creme de la Weird

Energetic Perverts: (1) Elementary school principal John Stelmack, 60, was arrested in Bartow, Fla., in December and accused by prosecutors of innocently photographing young girls but then using a computer software program to place their heads on photos of nude women (which may not even be illegal, according to a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision). (2) Kazuo Oshitani, 48, was arrested in Osaka, Japan, in December as the one who draped perhaps more than 170 items of women’s underwear over objects in his neighborhood (and who possessed at least 200 more such items in his home). He was charged with littering.

Least Competent People

It is apparently becoming more difficult to recruit competent suicide bombers in Afghanistan because twice in a two-day pe-

riod in January, clumsy bombers accidentally blew themselves up before they ever had the chance to take their targets out. One fell down a flight of stairs while on his way to an attack, and the other’s bomb accidentally exploded as he was getting dressed for an assignment (although the latter bomber did take three colleagues with him).

Recurring Themes

At least one collector spent the equivalent of $40 on an original “Freddie W.R. Linsky� abstract painting, praising its “flow� and “energy,� according to a December report in London’s Daily Mail, and a gallery in Berlin was said to have made an inquiry about Linsky’s other works. Linsky, as longtime News of the Weird readers might guess, is an enthusiastic 2-year-old, whose mother had him daub ketchup onto canvases and then uploaded the images to art patron Charles Saatchi’s online gallery. Among Mom’s captions: “The striking use of oriental calligraphy has the kenji-like characters stampeding from the page.�

Undignified Deaths

More Ironies: (1) A 66-year-old millionaire roofing company founder was killed at his home in Rock, Wis., in December when he accidentally fell through the roof of his garage. (2) An 18-year-old Amish man was killed in Hustisford, Wis., in October when, working on a construction crew, he came into contact with a high-voltage wire and was electrocuted. w

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In October, Korie Hoke filed a $1.6 million lawsuit against the Tempe, Ariz., police, claiming that it was actually an officer’s fault that she, after a New Year’s Eve bender, crashed into a cement wall and suffered serious injuries. Hoke had called police to a party, distraught that she had caught her boyfriend cheating on her, and the officer summoned her parents to pick her up.

(Hoke was cited only for underage drinking, but she later tested above the blood-alcohol legal limit.) The officer, after obtaining Hoke’s assurance that she would await her parents and after searching Hoke and her car and finding no car key (Hoke had hidden it), left the scene. Hoke then drove away and crashed, and now claims it was the officer’s fault for not staying with her.

Scott Anthony Gomez Jr. filed a lawsuit in January against jail officials in Pueblo County, Colo., alleging among other things that they failed to take security precautions to prevent him from escaping. He seriously injured himself last year when he fell 40 feet while scaling a wall in his second escape attempt. He said that, after his first escape, he had told then-sheriff Dan Corsentino how lax security was, but that no “improvements� had been made.

On Second Thought: (1) In August 2004, business executive Tomas Delgado, driving 100 mph in a 55 mph zone, fatally smashed into a 17-year-old bicyclist near Haro, Spain.

In 2006, Delgado sued the boy’s family for the equivalent of about $29,000 for damage to his car, and the lawsuit languished until January 2008, when, perhaps shamed by worldwide publicity, Delgado dropped it.

(2) In December, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority filed a lawsuit demanding payment from the families of four people killed by an out-of-control tractor-trailer in 2006 (presumably to recoup clean-up costs and damage to the roadway). However, after the New York Post asked NJTA lawyer William Ziff for a comment, he rushed to the Union County courthouse and withdrew the lawsuit.

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Rat Check

Fears that rats escaping a grounded fishing boat may have infested one of the United Kingdom’s most important bird sanctuaries sent officials scrambling to catch any potential rodent invaders.

The Spanish trawler Spinningdale ran aground on the remote archipelago of St. Kilda during a violent storm off the northwest Scottish mainland on Feb. 1. The group of rocky islands is home to 250,000 puffins, 30,000 pairs of gannets as well as large numbers of fulmar and storm petrels. A unique species of mouse also inhabits the outcroppings, which have remained free of groundbased predators since the human population left in 1930. Traps with bait made of chocolate-flavored candle wax were quickly dispatched to the affected island. Experts will examine teeth marks left in the bait to determine if any rats managed to escape the ship.

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ping lanes as it moved over the open waters of the central Indian Ocean.

Winter Twister Swarm

Dozens of tornadoes tore across five southern U.S. states, killing at least 56 people and leaving a trail of destroyed homes and other buildings. Thirty-one people were killed in Tennessee, 13 in Arkansas, seven in Kentucky and five in Alabama, according to state officials. A baby swept away by one of the tornadoes in Tennessee was found unscathed in a nearby field. Officials estimated that 67 twisters were spawned by a rapidly moving cold front. Not since April 1998, when tornadoes ripped through Alabama and Georgia and caused 48 fatalities, has a string of storms been as deadly. While tornado season in the United States generally starts in March and continues through the summer months, winter tornadoes have become an almost annual occurrence in recent decades.

Torrential downpours caused disastrous flooding across a wide area of South America from Ecuador to Brazil and northern Argentina, killing nearly 50 people and making thousands of others homeless. The worst-affected areas have been the Bolivian lowlands and Peru’s Ucayali Amazon rain forest area. Flooding has also destroyed vast tracts of crops, damaged bridges and washed out stretches of highway.

Andean Eruption

Tropical Cyclones

Earthquakes

Cyclone Gene lost force over cooler waters of the South Pacific after inflicting significant damage to Fiji and Vanuatu.

• Cyclone Hondo threatened ship-

Ecuadorian officials ordered 3,000 villagers to evacuate their homes near the slopes of Tungurahua volcano as the mountain shot columns of ash miles into the air, killing five people. The country’s Geophysics Institute warned that the recent intense activity shows no sign of abating. A massive eruption in 2006 buried entire villages in ash.

A series of strong earthquakes in East Africa’s Great Lakes Region killed 43 people and injured hundreds of others in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and western Rwanda. Quake damage left

about 4,500 people homeless.

• Earth movements were also felt in northern Algeria, western Greece, northeastern Indonesia, northern Chile and Puerto Rico.

Whaling Resumes

Japan resumed its slaughter of whales in the Southern Ocean after lack of funds for fuel forced Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd anti-whaling protest ships to stop their chase of the Japanese fleet. Whaling operations were suspended on Jan. 12 due to interference by both environmental groups. Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith expressed his outrage to Japanese officials over the resumption of whaling in the Australian Whale Sanctuary off Antarctica. “Our starting point and finishing point is that the Australian people want to see an end to the slaughter of whales,” Smith told reporters.

Winter Nurturing

A team of British researchers has found that feeding your backyard birds during winter not only helps them to survive the cold months, but also promotes more springtime breeding. The team from the University of Exeter and Queen’s University Belfast provided some birds with extra food, such as peanuts, over the winter while leaving other birds in the study group to fend for themselves. “The extra food we put out for birds contained fat, protein and carbohydrates, which may make the female bird stronger and more able to produce eggs,” said researcher Stuart Bearhop. The team speculates that providing extra food in backyard feeders year-round is also likely to be very beneficial to birds. It is estimated that Britons and Americans put out more than 500,000 tons of food for birds each year. w

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and all sorts of fun stuff for kids on their very own stage, while there’s plenty for adults to take in as well.”

The Vice Chairman —who’s served as an MC at the past few Savannah Irish Fests— cites the wide range of activities, such as live Irish and Irish-influenced music, ethnic food and drink, lectures and discussions on Irish history and art and authentic crafts and products from across the pond as examples of what’s in store for the public at the 2008 event.

“We’ll have almost 30 different vendors on hand, most of whom travel all the way from Ireland just to offer their wares at festivals like ours,” he offers, adding that many of their handicrafts are not easily found elsewhere in our country.

“We’ve also got quite a range of acts, from folk singers to traditional Irish balladeers to Celtic rock bands that blend in modern music styles.”

All food sold on site is prepared by members of ten local Irish organizations.

“The food is great,” says Hagan. “The cost ranges from about $5 to no more than $7. We’ll have Shepherd’s Pie, Irish Bangers (which are sausage dogs with peppers and onions) and Irish beef-and-vegetable stew. For dessert, we have one group that does Whiskey Cakes, but they’ll actually have nonalcoholic Whiskey Cakes as well. (Laughs) I don’t know how they do that, but they do.”

While the event is family-oriented, that’s not to say that those 21 and up can’t imbibe if they so choose.

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ately it seems (around town at least) that St. Patrick’s Day is on everyone’s mind.

With talk of our fabled festivities being further truncated in the name of “public safety,” it would be easy to think that all manner of Irish-themed celebrations in Savannah center around March 17.

And yet, for over a decade and a half, a small, hardworking group of local members of the Irish and Irish-American communities have thrown another annual event which easily boast much more, well, Irish-ness than either the city’s parade or River Street’s multi-day party zone.

Smaller in scale but larger in scope, this weekend’s 16th Annual Savannah Irish Festival (there’s a straightforward name for you) offers the widest array of cultural, educational and entertainment options for those interested in the Green Island.

“It’s come to be seen as the kickoff to all the Irish-related celebrations that take place from now till St. Patrick’s Day,” says Chris Hagan, Vice Chairman for this year’s festival (and, coincidentally, President of the Savannah division of The Ancient Order of the Hibernians).

“It always takes place the third weekend in February, and between now and St. Pat’s there’s some sort of Irish celebration taking place every weekend.”

Hagan, who’s attended and/or taken part in almost every one of the past 15 Irish Fests before finally accepting the role of Vice Chairman this year, says the focus on both Celtic heritage and the family unit is what sets this event apart.

“That was the original intent of the festival itself — to share the culture of the music and the dancing and to make it available to children as well as adults. We’ll have magicians

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and other types of adult beverages available,” cludes newspaper, radio and poster advertising, Hagan adds. and going after sponsorships — both from the corOne thing different than in recent years will porate side and from smaller businesses owned What: Four stages of continuous live entertainment plus Irish food, arts and crafts, be the actual layout of the event at the Savannah

by Irish families that have been involved all along dancing and vendors Civic Center’s MLK Jr. Arena (its location for the — like Jerry Hogan and Hogan’s Marina and John Where: Savannah Civic Center past five years or so, after stints at the National Coleman and his family’s company Bonitz of When: Friday, 6:30 - 9:30 pm; Saturday, 10 am - 8 pm; Sunday, noon - 7 pm Guard Armory, Grayson Stadium and Camp Georgia.”

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“Jimmy Buttimer, who served as Chairman for Cost: Friday: $5 donation; Saturday & Sunday: $11.50 per day or $20 for both Hagan explains these changes were made after Discounts: Kids 14 and under free w/paid parent; Sunday only, students, active-duty ages, stepped down this year, but he still helps with suggestions from both entertainers and audience booking the live entertainment, and of course our military and their families get in free with proper ID members alike, and are designed to increase evhardworking volunteers work alongside the Civic Noteworthy Acts: Jack Hardy & Band (acclaimed singer/songwriter), Roger Drawdy eryone’s enjoyment of the musical performances.

Center staff to keep everything running smoothly.” & The Firestarters, Brendan Nolan (Native Irish songwriter based in Fl.), Glor na “The main stage is being moved to create a Still, despite wearing many caps, Hagan most h’Eireann School of Irish Dancing, Harry O’Donoghue, Pat & Rosie Maloney (Az. duo of relishes his chance to perform in the festival himmore intimate feeling in that huge room. We’re contemporary Celtic folk), The St. Vincent’s Academy Chorale, Henri’s Notions (premier self. also going to drop the height of the stage a foot trad acoustic band from Al.), Rathkeltair (“Best Celtic Rock Band of 2006”) or more, so it’s not as though we’re trying to play “In fact,” he says, “what I’m most looking forComplete Schedule & Info: www.savannahirish.org to the whole arena. Now, all the food booths will ward to personally is the chance to play with some be directly across from the stage, with tables and of the talent that comes through town — especially chairs in the middle of the room. the very traditional acts. There’s one coming called “We’re keeping the vendors to the sides and Henri’s Notions that have played Irish music in several years. He’ll speak on his travels and experiences over the Cultural Stage has been moved to the second floor of the Alabama for about 30 years.” there.

Civic Center to make room for replicas of the ‘Murals From “Sometimes, after the fest, there are gatherings —usually “And musician Harry O’Donoghue moderates a discusDerry,’ an exhibit that’s been on display at Georgia Southern at Kevin Barry’s or Murphy’s Law Pub— where you can sit sion in the round by several Irish singer/songwriters on how University.” and jam with some of the guest musicians.” they choose traditional tunes and how they compose their “There are 11 replicas of original murals found on three A former member of Celtic band The Terry Alts, Hagan own material.” to four story buildings in Derry in Ireland. The most recent — who sings, and plays both banjo and guitar— is now part With so much going on in a relatively short time period, one that’s been done was a peace mural, which is also being of the five-piece Savannah Ceili Band, who’ll play a few times one wonders whether or not Hagan realized just what he was used as the back design of our festival T-shirt. There will be during the festival as well as offer an instrument demonstragetting into by agreeing to become Vice Chairman of the fesdiscussions on these murals by folks from the University. tion for kids. tival. I ask if he was at all intimidated at stepping into that They were excited to bring them down and have them seen “We’re also doing a ceili on Friday night in the ballroom role. by a wider audience.” of the Civic Center,” Hagan adds. “We’ll have a caller from He laughs immediately.

“We also have the author of a book called Paddy On The the Irish Dancers of Savannah who’ll teach everyone tradi“Yes! It is overwhelming how many tasks are involved Hardwood. He’s a basketball coach from New Mexico State tional folk dances and then they can all can join in together.” to put this on. There’s really only a handful of folks who are who coached the semi-pro basketball team in Ireland for w doing it all. For example, I handle the marketing, which in-

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AmericAn bands to interpret other artists’ work on their LPs (as is still the case in the jazz, blues and country worlds), it’s a bit unusual these days. Still, he and his fellow Gunners weren’t too overly concerned with how such a move might look.

“We felt like we really made the songs our own,” he reckons. “‘Moonshiner’, being a traditional tune, isn’t so much a cover in our eyes, but there’s no hiding the fact that we love Uncle Tupelo’s version of it.”

It’s that sense of deep-seated familiarity with many different aspects of the rootsrock and alt.country genres that helps elevate American Gun beyond the rank and file cow-punks now crowding the marketplace. The band —whose instrumentation includes both acoustic and electric guitars, bass, drums, mandolin, harmonica and keys— seems quite capable of churning out no shortage of color-by-numbers rave-ups straight out of the Westerberg canon or bourbon-soaked ballads torn from Steve Earle’s chapbook. Yet, despite the unavoidable fact that American Gun don’t quite hold themselves in the cocksure manner befitting those elder statesmen of the form, they seem less interested in penning crowd-pleasing retreads than digging deep enough into their own bags to offer up something quite demonstrably their own.

They are, however, savvy enough to know a shrewd move when they see one. Case in point: convincing ex-db Chris Stamey (a cult star in the power-pop and indie.rock milieus) to mix their album in his N.C. studio after they produced and tracked it in their own hometown.

“Todd (Mathis, guitarist and AG songwriter) and I were familiar with Chris’ work with Whiskeytown but even more so with Mayflies USA,” says Merckle. “The further we dug for information, though, the more we realized he was the best man for the job. We sent him what we had and he immediately wanted to be a part of the process.

He almost instantly understood the direction this album needed to go. We were very lucky to have him aboard.”

The group also scored when esteemed pedal steel guitarist Al Perkins (who’s worked with such greats as The Flying Burrito Brothers, Michael Nesmith and Steven Stills’ band Manassas) signed on to add his own tasteful, soaring licks to four of the album’s cuts. His playing helps elevate the final product to a higher plane altogether.

For now, Merckle and company play road gigs about eight times a month, but with kudos rolling in and a promising deal with North Miss. All-Star Cody Dickinson’s new download-only record label Diamond D., they feel it is only a matter of time before their music reaches a significantly wider audience.

“We feel if you listen to our album and see our show we’ll have you hooked,” says Merckle. “We put a lot of work into every sweat-soaked performance, but it’s fun. We wouldn’t have it any other way.” w American Gun plays The Jinx Friday at 11 pm with The Train Wrecks. Sample their music at: www.americangun.net.

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hings seem to be moving in the right direction for Donald Merckle’s band American Gun. The critically-praised Columbia, S.C. roots-rock quintet celebrates the release of their latest indie CD this weekend with a local show, and is riding a wave of positive press that’s increasingly positing the band as one of the finest underground Americana groups in the Southeast.

Comparisons to such beloved stylistic predecessors as Son Volt and the long-gone Whiskeytown (featuring what many like to refer to these days as a “pre-annoying” Ryan Adams) abound in reviews of the group’s live shows — and their prior CD Dark Southern Hearts. That’s a fair cop, as the group is not afraid to wear its influences on its collective sleeve.

In fact, that’s almost a requirement for operating in the catchall Americana genre, where, unfortunately, it’s often less about what you actually create than how many lines you trace back to other respected artists through your songs. That’s a big part of the draw and charm of this most unabashedly reverent of rock and roll niches.

Some listeners want a few butterflies once they notice Merckle’s group covers the old Appalachian ballad “Moonshiner” on The Means & The Machine. Will their arrangement draw more from the earliest known archival recordings of the sad, bootleggers lament, or from Bob Dylan’s long-hidden ‘60s demo? Or will it incorporate the slightly more hopeful strains of Uncle Tupelo’s bittersweet 1992 version?

Waiting for that track to cue up near the end of this impressive record makes for a pleasant form of anticipation. Merckle acknowledges that while it was once commonplace for rock

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alinda Haslett’s radiant beauty is perhaps matched only by the grandeur and elegance of her voice. Audiences and critics alike from Mexico to Brussels have been enthralled by her operatic and concert performances. We caught up with the NYC-based singer by phone in advance of her —and husband Jonathan Boyd’s— upcoming two-night stand with the Savannah Sinfonietta. (Read the complete transcript at www.connectsavannah.com) Are any of the pieces you’ll be singing at these shows completely new to you?

Malinda Haslett: I’ve never sung the Sweeny Todd piece, but I thought it would be good to include because the movie is out. Jonathan and I will sing together as well.

When classically-trained vocalists have an argument is the shouting more pleasing to the ear than that of the average couple?

Malinda Haslett: (Laughs) We do try to minimize our shouting.

Normally, if we’re arguing, we’ll just

walk out of the room and slam the door! If you’re gonna argue with your spouse and you’re both singers, it’s a real concern. When we go to baseball or football games, we simply don’t yell.

What’s the most common misconception folks may have about classical vocalists?

Malinda Haslett: That we’re fat.

Are you serious?

Malinda Haslett: Oh, come on.

When most people think about opera, they envision a big fat lady with a breastplate and horns. Those days are over, honey! w Malinda Haslett and Jonathan Boyd join the Savannah Sinfonietta for their 2nd Annual Diva/Divo Gala.

Performances include 8 pm, Thursday at Trinity United Methodist Church and 8 pm, Friday at The Landings’ Plantation Club. Tickets range from $35 to $25 at the door, online at www.savannahorchestra.org or by calling (800) 514-3849. w

=Connect Recommends Aquariums, Midtown Dickens

At least one track on the debut CD by this low-key, Nashville-based ennui-rock act was written in Savannah (where frontman Martin Schneider’s brother resides), which may explain this local gig. A collection of languorous and often morose home-recorded ruminations on the tumult of lost innocence and spiritual skepticism (much of which is based on a haunting memoir detailing a North Korean child’s upbringing in a forced labor camp), Conceptual Realizations’ studied attempt to set a mood does —at times— overreach, but the result Aquariums is compelling nonetheless.

The night may well belong, however, to the Durham, N.C. female acoustic duo Midtown Dickens, which counts almost 20 instruments among its arsenal, and summons up a hybrid of old-time Americana and vintage dada-roots-weirdness reminiscent of the oddball upstarts found on old K Records cassette samplers. They’ve gigged with Kimya Dawson, and won over critics who know something unique and heartfelt when they hear it. Locally-based experimental electro/anti-folk trio Aux Arc round out this bill. Fri., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean Coffeehouse - ALL-AGES.

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advantage of all the Jepson’s delights (their collections are open for perusal during the gigs), this afternoon event in the expansive Eckburg Atrium features a live gig by the Grace Full Gospel Choir, preceded by a buffet lunch.

This atrium is pleasing to the eye but problematic for loud or amplified electric acts. That’s why exultant vocal music of this type seems suited to the venue. Organizers predict the sanctified singing will get the assembled crowd on their feet, and I must say that seems likely. Art, gospel and a buffet lunch on one of Savannah’s squares — who could ask for anything more? $10 for non-members with those 7 -12 half price and those 6 and under free. Brunch is optional at $15. Sun., 12:30 pm (brunch) & 1:30 pm (concert), Jepson Center for the Arts.

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19 His desultory days of drugs and drink behind him (he earned the moniker “No Show Jones” for a propensity to blow off gigs or sleepwalk through concerts during his roughest periods), he can now be counted on to reliably turn in strong, stable live performances, and expectations are high for this rare local appearance.

Brother and sister opening act The Roys are a “15year overnight sensation” from the Northeast who traded Nashville’s major label game to craft a truly beautiful, old-school country LP called Grandpa’s Barn that’s turning heads and earning airplay. Look for journeyman pedal steel guitarist Tommy Butler (who plays with local honky-tonker Chuck Courtenay during downtime between tours) as part of The Roys’ backing band. Rising independent vocalist Jason Byrd adds support. Reserved seats are $45 - $35 online at www.savannahcivic.com or call 651-6556. Sat., 7:30 pm, Johnny Mercer Theater.

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It’s something of a tradition for the rock-oriented acts that play the annual Savannah Irish Fest to make the trip to town doubly worth their while by also playing late-nights sets at this pub (which is also a major festival sponsor). This Fl.-based combo has brought the house down in this smallish room before, and this return engagement should find them doing so again.

With a lineup featuring former members of Seven Nations and Celtic Soul (not to mention an alumnus of late-’80s British alt.rock footnotes The Bolshoi), they make a forceful ruckus on traditional folk instruments as well as modern, electric gear — and it’s served them well, as they were recently named Best Celtic Rock Group of 2006 by a major website devoted to that increasingly popular crossover genre. Fri. - Sat., 10 pm, Murphy’s Law Irish Pub. w

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What can one say about The Possum that hasn’t already been said? The golden-throated icon of country music has enjoyed more chart hits than any other country singer in history (almost 150) and is an acknowlHoward Paul & Kirk Lee edged inspiration to and favorite of an incredibly Atlantic City, N.J. native Paul has been a leading diverse collection of contemporary vocalists figure on the area jazz scene for years now. As a and songwriters —many of which he has teen, he played alongside such legends as Roy collaborated with in one form or another— Ayers and Dizzy Gillespie, and for the past from Elvis Costello to Aaron Neville.

16 years, the guitarist (he specializes in the It’s been said that most anyone who asesoteric 7-string variety) has both led his own pires to sing Western pop or roots music combos and acted as an in-demand sideman on some level wishes they could sing like around these parts. When not contributing the man. With decades of hits ranging from articles to Just Jazz Guitar Magazine or holdthe forgotten 1958 classic “Color of the Blues” ing down a regular gig at the chi-chi Hilton Head to the rock and roll leanings of 1964’s supper club The Jazz Corner, he plays shoulGeorge Jones “The Race Is On” to 1974’s signature No. der-to-shoulder in a duo with jazz guitar 1 smash “The Grand Tour,” Jones, at 76 icons like Bucky Pizzarelli, Howard Alden years of age, is a living, breathing history of C & W. and Joe Beck.

Horn man Lee has called our area home since the ‘80s, and distinguished himself as a versatile musician with taste and chops to spare. Equally at home with straight-ahead/Big Band groups and Latin ensembles, he’s a notable member of the Savannah Jazz Orchestra and as such, has backed up more than his fair share of internationally-known headliners at our own annual Jazz Fest. You may have also caught him gigging on either trumpet or flugelhorn with Ben Tucker, The Equinox Jazz Orchestra and The Sapphire Bullets.

This gig at our only jazz-specific venue finds the pair abetted by the powerhouse rhythm section of trap drummer Billy Hoffman (something of a local legend in his own right) and killer, veteran bassist George Sheck. Dig it for only a $5 cover. Fri. - Sat., 8 pm, Kokopelli’s Jazz Club.

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New meaning to ‘intimate theater’ Production of Vagina Monologues benefits Rape Crisis, continues through March

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rish Sugarek has a theory.

“I believe every director has a short list of plays they’d really like to direct,” she says. “The Vagina Monologues is on my list.”

That wish is coming true. Sugarek’s theater company, the Rialto Actors Theatre Performing Arts Kompany, or RATPAK, will present The Vagina Monologues at the Bay Street Theatre at Club One beginning Feb. 15.

Sugarek, an actor, director and playwright, arrived in Savannah last September, bringing 30 years of theater experience with her.

She began acting in 1978 after two years of study at the prestigious, Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory Theatre in California. While in Los Angeles, she worked in theater and films, and later in New Orleans worked in television and radio.

She began writing plays in 1996 and has written 13 on subjects ranging from prison to children’s fables. Three of the plays have been published.

Directing was a natural progression of acting, Sugarek says, adding she loves all aspects of theater. “My way of giving back to the theater is by teaching,” she says. “I’ve taught classes in character development and scene study.

“My only downside with Savannah was the lack of community theater,” Sugarek says. “I was thrilled when I came back to Savannah and so many theater companies had opened. It was an answer to my prayers.”

Almost immediately after arriving in Savannah, Sugarek appeared in Savannah Community Theatre’s 84 Charing Cross Road. When the Rape Crisis Center began looking for someone to direct its annual production of The Vagina Monologues, Savannah Community Theatre’s director Tom Coleman recommended Sugarek.

“Every year, the Rape Crisis Center has done The Vagina Monologues as a fundraiser,” Sugarek says.

“Every dime from the performances on Feb. 15 and 16 will go to the Rape Crisis Center.”

But there are some major differences in this year’s production. It will continue through March 22, and it’s being produced as a full-fledged production with costumes and scenery.

The Vagina Monologues was written by Eve Ensler. “She interviewed more than 200 women and out of that came The Vagina Monologues,” Sugarek says.

“Some of the monologues are very heartbreaking, some are really funny. Every woman can relate to it.”

As Ensler traveled the word to present her play, women told her their own stories.

That led Ensler to found V-Day, which is dedicated to ending violence against women and girls throughout the world.

In addition to doing the monologues as they are published, theater companies are allowed to choose to do one of seven new monologues. Sugarek chose They Beat the Girl Out of my Boy…or so They Tried.

“It’s a transgender piece,” she says. “It’s the most poignant, beautiful piece.”

A new monologue is added every year, and this year’s addition is Welcome to the Wetlands: New Orleans is the Vagina of America. “It’s a tribute to the women of Hurricane Katrina,” Sugarek says.

The cast of 13 is truly diverse. “I had a ton of women turn out to audition,” Sugarek says. “Ethnicity is an exciting thing to me, and the cast includes Asian, Haitian, African American and one woman who is Korean and African American. They range in age from mid-20s to 67.”

The cast also contains three men in the roles of trangendered males to females.

Sugarek says the cast is working hard and she has no worries about the production.

“I’ve been in theater for 30 years and have directed for 10,” she says. “Nothing really ruffles me any more.”

Club One has donated use of the space for rehearsals and performances. “The Rape Crisis Center is thrilled because they want to do a better job serving the gay and lesbian community,” Sugarek says.

“Club One wants to develop the theater,” she says.

“We’re building a season.”

Club One’s acting manager Travis Coles is co-producing the show and playing a role.

“We want to expand the space and use it for more than drag shows,” he says.

“We can seat up to 200 to 210 people.

“For our first production, we wanted to do The Vagina Monologues,” Coles says. “If this production goes well, we’ll look at more productions.

“They had trouble casting the transgender roles,” he says. “A couple of them went to some of our entertainers here, and I kind of got suckered into doing the third one.”

Coles is not transgendered, so wearing women’s clothing onstage has been challenging. But he’s enjoying performing. “I’ve done a little acting,” he says. “My main interest is singing and playing the clarinet.”

The production could draw people who have never been to Club One before.

“Hopefully people who shy away from Club One will be enlightened and come out to see this,” Coles says.

Normally, Club One is closed to anyone under 21.

However, on Sunday, Feb. 24, all traces of alcohol will be removed from the third floor of Club One so younger students can attend a performance.

Theresa-Michelle Walker is a professor of theater at Savannah State University. “I’m also directing a show right now,” she says.

“Trish said, ‘I need you on board,” so we worked out a schedule so I could direct and still be in this.”

Walker is enjoying the differences in this production.

“The fact that we have guys in the show is totally different,” she says. “I’ve never even heard of it.

“Also, we have such a range of ages and professions,” Walker says. “I’ve always seen it at colleges where it was performed by women in their 20s, and having women from their 60s to their early 20s is wonderful. I hope everyone will look past the title and come see a good thing. Anyone who likes the performing arts will love it.”

Sugarek is already planning future productions and enjoying her experience with this one. “I’ve been wanting to direct The Vagina Monologues since it was written,” she says. “I’ve salivated over this show, and it just fell into my lap.

“I believe that every woman, not matter what age, 12 to 100, should see this, mainly because we all have vaginas,” Sugarek says.

“To quote one of the monologues, ‘Many women haven’t been ‘down there’ since 1953.” w Performances of The Vagina Monologues will be presented Feb. 15, 16, 21, 22, 29 and March 1, 7, 8, 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 24 and March 2 at 3 p.m. at the Bay Street Theatre, in Club One at the corner of Bay and Jefferson. The first two performances are presented as a fundraiser for the Rape Crisis Center of the Coastal Empire.

Admission for those is $25 for adults and $18 for seniors and students. Call 233-3000 or visit www.rccsav.org for reservations for the fundraiser. Admission for other performances is $20 adults and $15 seniors and students.

For reservations, call 232-0200 or 925-8590 or visit www.writeratplay.com and click on “Vagina Monolgues”.

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Sam’s the man

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A Lie of the Mind is yet another Shepard play about yet another dysfunctional family, but in his hands, it’s pure gold. The play is by turns funny, sad and always engaging.

The Savannah College of Art and Design School of Performing Arts will present A Lie of the Mind Feb. 14-17. Director Mark Tymchyshyn is delighted to be directing a Shepard play as his first production as a performing arts professor at SCAD. “Because it’s Sam Shepard, it’s a great opportunity for the kids here,” Tymchyshyn says. “The demands on actors in his plays is so difficult, they can only become better by doing it.”

The demands require the actors to get it all right, or the play doesn’t work, Tymchyshyn says. “It’s like riding a horse,” he says. “If you fall off, it’s almost impossible to get the play on track again.”

As an actor, Tymchyshyn is a fan of Shepard’s work, but says it is a challenge to direct it. “A lot of young actors learn to be naturalistic. You can’t be naturalistic in a Sam Shepard play. There are intense feelings and they’re not played by the rules. You have to commit to it 110 percent,” he says.

“There is a 60-year-old man, a 50year-old woman, all mothers and fathers,” Tymchyshyn says. “They’ve lived hard lives in a way these students can’t fully understand.”

After earning a graduate degree, Tymchyshyn fully intended to teach, but was offered so many roles, he became a television actor instead. He has appeared on episodes of series as varied as Seinfeld, ER, Ally McBeal, Reba, Boston Legal, Cold Case and many more.

Tymchyshyn has a recurring role as Mel

Powers on George Lopez. “I was lucky in television,” he says.

“But I was playing the same role over and over again. I wanted something challenging.”

So Tymchyshyn joined the SCAD faculty.

“I do feel reborn,” he says. “I feel I’m doing something more important than playing a part on George Lopez.”

At SCAD, Tymchyshyn teaches actingfor-the-camera classes. “Kudos to SCAD for having the class,” he says. “It’s so wonderful to see the students learning.

“Acting for the camera is much different than acting on stage,” Tymchyshyn says.

“The demands are so different.

“On stage, an actor must speak to everyone from the first row to the last,” he says.

“Everyone in the audience knows they’re not really King Lear.

“TV, as seen by the viewer, is real. They have to believe every word the actors say – unless it’s a sitcom.”

Tymchyshyn has been in Savannah since August and lives with his family on Wilmington Island. “Savannah has the most gorgeous setting I’ve ever seen,” he says.

“I liked the idea of an art school,” Tymchyshyn says. “They’ve hired so many people with such excellent credentials at SCAD. You’re going to see performers here who will knock your socks off.” w The Savannah College of Art and Design School of Performing Arts presents A Lie of the Mind Feb. 14, 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 17 at 3 p.m. at the Mondanaro Theater, 217 MLK Jr. Blvd. $10 general admission. $5 for seniors and students. SCAD students, faculty and staff free with a valid SCAD ID. Call 525-5050 or visit www.scadboxoffice.com.

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Nationally known screen presence Mark Tymchyshyn (Seinfeld, Boston Legal, George Lopez, etc.), now a SCAD prof, will direct this student production

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Joseph J. Baez and Christopher Heady rehearse a scene

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Savannah Actors Theatre presents dark thriller

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avannah Actor’s Theatre will open its 2008 main stage season on Feb. 14 with The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh. To say this play isn’t exactly light fare is an understatement.

“This is a very interesting play,” director Sheila Lynne says. “It’s theater at its darkest and most controversial. It’s certainly not warm and fuzzy.”

The play is about a writer living in a totalitarian state who is called in for questioning about his short stories. “We learn through the course of the play why he has been called in and why his brother is being held,” Lynne says.

The writer has written many short stories about child murders, and one has been published. The story mirrors an actual murder of a child in the community and the officers who interrogate the man want to know why.

“At the base of it is storytelling,” Lynne says. “It’s a very well-written play. It’s very sharp. There are moments of very dark humor and there are very heart-rending scenes and tragedy.”

This is Lynne’s second time directing a show at SAT. She also directed Marie and Bruce, a play about a marriage falling apart.

“I like to challenge the audience as opposed to being entertaining,” Lynne says.

“I really do love working with the Actor’s Theatre. We like to showcase plays that aren’t traditional musicals or happy comedies.”

In choosing plays, Lynne reaches into the darkest corners of her psyche. “The Pillowman will definitely challenge your expectations,” she says. “It’s not a children’s tale and is definitely for ages 18 and over.

“It’s also about parenting children,” Lynne says. “What scars are we left with after our parents unintentionally harm us?”

The play mirrors reality, Lynne says.

“There are bad things that happen to children,” she says. “In doing the research for this play, I started paying attention to head-

lines. Nothing in the play is more horrible than actual crimes that happen. The more I looked at this stuff, the more I saw that McDonagh didn’t have to look far for material.”

The play features guest artist Joseph J. Baez in the title role. Baez met SAT’s executive director Ryan McCurdy in Charlotte, N.C. “Charlotte is where my professional career started,” Baez says. “I’m primarily based in musical theater. For me to do a play, it has to be juicy.”

The Pillowman is that and more. “I’m very happy to come here,” Baez says. “I’m happy to take part in Ryan’s company that is growing so fast.

“Ryan has always done crazy, off-the-wall productions that actually require the audience to do some work,” he says. “I love that.”

McDonagh is an Irish playwright whose work is often dark and raw, Baez says. The Pillowman could take place in any city.

“There’s no period, no sense of place,” Baez says. “It could be in Savannah, it could be anyplace.

“The officers are trying to quash the author’s work,” he says. “The play also touches on religious tones. These are dark places we’re asking the audience to go to.”

There are touches of humor, and the play is well worth seeing, Baez says. “Embrace this and come out and have a thought-provoking evening,” he says. “We hope when the audience walks out, they’ll ask questions.” w The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh is presented Feb. 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23 and 24 at 8 p.m. at The Savannah Actors Theatre.

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ortraits painted sible forms and exfrom photopressions is met by the graphs, however the middle class purveyor artist applies the with condemnation as paint, always reveal elitist or pretentious. the same recognizThis is because if the able contradictions cultural doors were in time and space. smashed open and the The fleeting faidols broken, no one cial expression that knows what else would was caught by the be challenged, what camera in a fracnew forms our society tion of a second bemight take a liking to. comes strangely Hung Liu grew up frozen when worked in Communist China The artist works from photos on over time by and was trained in the the painter’s brush; the European tradition of small, intimate snapshot objective drawing and becomes an amorphous emotional demand painting, with its Socialist-Realist applicawhen blown up to larger than life size. tion, at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Hung Liu works from photographs, Beijing. She was a professor there from 1981 many of them archival snapshots of Chinese to 1984, before moving to the U.S. Socialist subjects from the early 20th century. They Realism had been the official art of all comhave been projected onto huge canvases, munist parties since it was adopted as the traced and worked on with oil paint, using line by the Russian Soviet Communist Party a combination of techniques: a thin wash in the early 1930s, bringing to an end a very that runs down the canvas in vertical drips, different painting tradition in China where most evident in the backgrounds; a loose, Western linear perspective had always been impressionist manipulation of thick paint on rejected. Hung Liu arrived in the U.S. in the faces; and a more graphic style of filled the 1980s, and studied for a master’s degree in outlines for the superimposed symbols in San Diego. This was a period of Western birds and flowers. art market growth, in commercialized verIn “Polly Bemis Idaho 1” the face of an sions of 1970s political art. Art schools were elderly, grey-haired Chinese immigrant expanding in size and turning away from woman wearing a battered hat has been enconceptualism and back to teaching tradilarged to fill a 66” x 66” canvas. She looks tional techniques. But most importantly, pleasantly out to us, as if to the camera. identity politics had come to dominate secThere are white flowers at the bottom left at tions of the art market, which opened a door her right shoulder, and a pink flower at the to the art world for women and all nonupper right. Circles have been placed at the European ethnicities; however, it restricted other two corners of the picture. The catatheir subject matter to their own particular log informs us that the white flowers are experience. Exploring the universal human syringa, the Idaho State flower. The pink condition was left to the European male, as flower is the lotus, a Buddhist symbol of pualways. rity; and the circles represent a continuous In “Refugee: Opera”, a woman is standcycle from Taoist philosophy. Without this ing breast feeding her baby and accompaknowledge, these motifs, however, would nied by a crowd of children. It is assumed seem to be arbitrary and decorative. from the imagery and the title that they are What we have here is a Chinese suball refugees. Such representations, whether ject painted in a 19th century European in the mainstream press or on a gallery wall, style, with embellishments; and this is are useful in a political context of mind conthe appeal of Hung Liu’s work. The facile trol, where sentimentality is used to block brushwork, craftsmanship and technique, the processes of critical thought about the combined with its realist representation is causes for wars and migrations. The indiprecisely what most people in the world viduals depicted are seen isolated and sufferconsider painting to be, or what it should ing in an unknown wilderness, always weak be. Paradoxically, under either a capitaland dependent, never in control of their ist or communist regime, in matters of own actions or having choices. And that’s art, the majority of citizens are restricted why, on this vacant ground between two to tastes similar to those of 19th century worlds, the contemporary Western art marEurope. And this applies not only to repreket and Socialist Realism with its Victorian sentational painting, but to the novel with origins, we can find an artist trained to sucits linear plot construction and the gratuceed in Communist China painting these itous melodic tune in music. Every attempt cautious and conformist works which have to push the general viewer/reader/listener nicely satisfied both political agendas. w beyond these single track and tidily acces-

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Hurn Museum of Contemporary Art — Italian folk artist Mario Caciotti portrays Tuscany’s people, landscape and God. The exhibit can be seen Jan. 26 through March 1 at the Hurn Museum Exhibition at Taylor

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Poetic Visions: Focus on Black Women Artists — The Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies and the SCAD Museum of Art will host this exhbition as part of the Savannah Black Heritage Festival. Feb. 1-14 on the third floor of Jen Library, 201 E. Broughton St.

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Last year it was Little Miss Sunshine. The year before that it was Crash. The year before that it was Finding Neverland.

I used to call these films “Chocolats,” after the utterly forgettable remake of Footloose that replaced dancing with candy.

These films earned their nominations not because they were good but because Harvey Weinstein handcrafted bland movies to appeal to elderly Oscar voters (see also: The Cider House Rules, Shakespeare In Love, etc.). The Chocolats died out when Harvey left Miramax a few years ago, but the unworthy nominees remain.

This year’s is unquestionably Juno.

It’s really a shame that Juno sullied an otherwise flawless list of Oscar nominees. There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men deservedly got the most nominations, fine performances from small films by people like Casey Affleck and Marion Cotillard were recognized and the heavenly “Falling Slowly” from Once is up for Best Song. Replace “Juno” with “Zodiac” whenever you see it on the list of nominations and you’ve got perhaps the best Oscar lineup since the 1970’s. But what’s done is done, and now we must hope against hope that this annoying, saccharine, terribly written, poorly directed, monumentally overrated film is completely shut out.

Juno went from indie comedy to Oscar contender because of Roger Ebert’s now legendary review, which is so hilariously over-the-top in its praise that I had to take a mental pause after every sentence to disagree with it in my head. “Jason Reitman’s Juno is just about the best movie of the year.”

I was pissed that I picked seeing this over Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which barely made my top ten.

“Has there been a better performance this year than Ellen Page’s creation of Juno?”

Hmm, how about pretty much every other performance that was nominated for an Oscar? I have nothing against Ellen Page, who is indeed a fine actress. But there’s no acting to be seen in this movie. Everyone is just reading self-consciously clever quips from an awful screenplay by a marketing creation known as Diablo Cody.

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h, no I’m not sure where you might have heard this before, but Ms. Cody used to be a stripper. Maybe you picked it up from her book A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, or her charming blog “The Pussy Ranch,” or her widely read New York Times profile “Off the Stripper Pole and Into the Movies.” The aforementioned NYT piece is a thousand times funnier, albeit unintentionally, than Juno.

The breathtakingly pervy writer, David Carr, simply cannot stop thinking about stripping. He imagines her former office as “a skeevy strip bar where desiccated women grind out a living a dollar at a time,” calls her life “a fairy tale…where the role of the glass slippers is played by a pair of stripper’s stilettos,” and, my personal favorite, describes her hair before noting “she may have once made a living letting it fall in the faces of her lap-dance clients.”

That’s why Juno has become a rip-roaring success: a rapturous but ridiculous review by America’s most famous critic and the image of a first-time writer cranking out pages between shifts at the strip club. Cody is not a writer. She’s a professional smartass, one of those irritating people who makes casual conversation like she’s in some middling Sundance movie.

She strung together a couple of lame catchphrases and called it Juno.

None of the characters are developed an iota beyond face value. There’s Vulnerable But Spunky Teenage Girl, Dumb Friend, Dad, Aged Hipster and so on. Add a painful soundtrack that plays as perhaps the worst indie rock mixtape in history and director Jason Reitman’s shameful cribbing of every trick in the Wes Anderson/Terry Zwigoff playbook and you’ve got yourself a bonafide piece of crap.

The fact is that nothing separates Juno from any number of other Anderson ripoffs like Napoleon Dynamite, or Igby Goes Down, or Tadpole, or Thumbsucker, except that all of those movies were much better. At least they were genuinely funny, or honest, or unfolded in a way that wasn’t completely obvious from the first frame.

Juno is a movie about hipsters that is exactly like a hipster: defined completely by style, not at all as clever or unique as it thinks it is, obsessed with music that sucks and pieced together from things it’s influenced by instead of weaving those influences into something new and worthwhile. w

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Augie’s Pub (Richmond Hill) David Harbuck (Live Music) Locally-based singer/songwriter/guitarist who’s released a handful of heartfelt DIY rock/pop/folk CDs (covers & originals). 8:30 p.m.

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Spanky’s TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Stages Music & More Angie Aparo; Grayson Hill (Live Music) Critically acclaimed singer songwriter wiht a loyal and rabid cult follwoing.

He’s recorded intense, emotional and passionate modern folk/pop/rock/grunge for indies as well as majors since getting his start on the Atlanta and Hilton Head club circuit, but his main claim to fame is as the composer of Faith Hill’s massive hit “Cry.” He puts on draining, memorable live shows; Songwriting duo from Statesboro that garnered a record deal based on their sizable grassroots following. They saw their cover of Paul Simon’s classic “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover” produced by the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA featured on the soundtrack of a major motion picture, and are on their way to becoming national college music sensations. 8 p.m.

Steamer’s TBA (Live Music) Rock, Country and Pop covers 9 p.m.

Tommy’s Karaoke w/ Jeff & Rebecca (Karaoke) Trinity United Methodist Church The Savannah Sinfonietta’s 2nd Annual Diva/Divo Gala (Live Music) Orchestral program of light opera, showtunes and classical pieces, featuring a husband-and-wife duo of highly-acclaimed, NYCbased vocal soloists. 8 p.m.

Tropicana Night Club DJ Southstar Spins Top 40 (DJ) 10 p.m.

Tubby’s Tank House TBA (Live Music) 6 p.m.

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) TBA (Live Music) 6 p.m.

Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House TBA (Live Music) 7 p.m.

Venus De Milo DJ Nahah Mean (DJ) Wasabi’s Live DJ Frankie Spins Hip-hop & Electric Fusion (DJ) 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe A Nickel Bag of Funk (Live Music) Local, female-fronted funk/soul/R & B combo with a strong gospel influence (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

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B & D Burgers (Southside) Trivia w/ Artie & Brad (Other) Starts at 10 p.m.

Bahama Bob’s (Pooler) Karaoke (Karaoke) The Bamboo Room “Georgia Kyle” Shiver (Live Music) Bayou Cafe Chief (Live Music) Rock, Pop, Soul, Blues and Country covers -9 p.m.

Cafe Loco TBA (Live Music) 10 p.m.

Cheers to You Karaoke (Karaoke) 8 p.m.

Club One #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) Creekside Cafe TBA (Live Music) 10 p.m.

Daiquiri Beach Jeremy & Stephen of Argyle (Live Music) Acoustic duo set of classic rock, modern rock and reggae from two siblings in a popular local band (covers/originals) Doubles Lounge DJ Sam Diamond (DJ) Driftaway Cafe Chuck Courtenay & Bucky Bryant (Live Music) Acoustic guitar duo known for their tight vocal harmonies, playing pop, rock and country (covers/originals) 7 p.m.

Fiddler’s Crab House Hazel Virtue (Live Music) Regional alt.rock band with a grunge influence and a distinctly southern edge, fronted by singer/songwriter/guitarist Eric Britt and featuring members of The Train Wrecks (covers & orignals).

9:30 p.m.

Gilley’s High Velocity (Live Music) Popular roadhouse band playing hard, classic and southern rock hits as well as popular modern country numbers (covers & originals). Feb 13, 9 p.m., Feb 15, 9 p.m. Feb 16, 9 p.m.

Guitar Bar Open Mic night hosted by Caesura (Live Music) Open Mic Night led by a young local melodic metalcore/indie-rock combo. 10 p.m.

Hang Fire Karaoke (Karaoke) We don’t really

have to explain this, do we? 9 p.m.

Hercules Bar and Grill TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Jeff Beasley (Live Music) 7:30 p.m.

The Johnny Mercer Theatre Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Other) Rare local performance by this award-winning, African-American modern dance troupe. As of press time, all seats were taken, but there are frequently folks who do not show up, and those unused tickets will be given to the General Public on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 7:45 pm. 8 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Carroll Brown (Live Music) Charleston-based acoustic guitarist/singer/ songwriter who performs to sequenced backing and offers easygoing tunes in a style he terms “Coastal Country” as well as Celtic balads (covers & originals). Feb 13, 8:30 p.m., Feb 14, 8:30 p.m., Feb 15, 8:30 p.m., Feb 16, 8:30 p.m. Feb 17, 8:30 p.m.

King’s Inn Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Mercury Lounge The Eric Culberson Blues band (Live Music) Internationally-known electric blues trio led by a charismatic vocalist and fiery guitar player (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Open Mic Night (Live Music) Hosted by Hudson & Markus 8 p.m.

Murphy’s Law Celtic Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

One Hot Mama’s BBQ TBA (Live Music) Panini’s Cafe TBA (Live Music) Planter’s Tavern TBA (Live Music) Piano Jazz -7 p.m.

The Quarter Sports Bar TBA (Live Music) Rock, Folk and Blues 10 p.m.

Robin’s Nest Team Trivia (Other) 8 p.m.

Savannah Down Under DJ Blue Ice (DJ) Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos (Live Music) -8:30 p.m.

Scandals Roy & The Circuit Breakers (Live Music) Solo singer/guitarist with sequenced backing playing pop/rock/soul/beach hits and originals 8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean Psychotronic Film: THE LIBERATION OF L.B. JONES (1970, USA) (Other) This long-lost classic piece of Blaxploitation is an intense depiction of 1960s race relations in a small Tennessee town, based on a true story.

When a black undertaker’s wife has an affair with a white policeman, it sparks a deadly chain of events. The last film directed by the great William Wyler (BEN-HUR), and starring Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Hershey, Lee Majors, Yaphet Kotto and Lola Falana. Seating begins at 7:30 pm. 8 p.m.

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Armstrong Atlantic State University Boys Like Girls; Treaty of Paris (Live Music) Ever-so-trendy Boston-based pop-punk quartet fronted by a former member of The Drive; Chicago-based modern melodic power-pop-rock band with a strong emo and indie influence, despite overly commercial production and sheen. 7 p.m.

A.J.’s Dockside “Georgia Kyle” Shiver (Live Music) Alee Shriner’s Temple The Swinging Medallions (Live Music) Popular, glitzy, regional party band that started out as a beach music group in the ‘60s, but has since lost all its original members due to age and now concentrates on well-known covers of the day mixed in with updated versions of the hits that made a bunch of other guys (with the same name) famous. 8 p.m.

American Legion Post 36 Karaoke (Karaoke) The Apex TBA (Live Music) Augie’s Pub (Richmond Hill) The Josh Maul Blues Band (Live Music) Funky and tight Richmond Hill-based electric blues trio influenced by Albert Collins, SRV and Tab Benoit, led by a former member of Bluesonics (covers & originals). 8 p.m.

B & D Burgers (Southside) TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Bahama Bob’s (Pooler) The Jordan Ross Import (Live Music) Full-band effort from a young, Pooler-based modern acoustic-based rock singer/ songwriter (covers & originals). 9 p.m.

Baja Cantina TBA (Live Music) 7 p.m.

The Bamboo Room TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Bay Street Blues Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Benny’s Tybee Tavern TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Bernie’s on River Street Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Cafe Loco Sammy Patrick (Live Music) Jam-band, rock, folk and outlaw-country tunes sung and played on an electric/acoustic guitar (covers & originals). Feb 15, 10 p.m. Feb 22, 10 p.m.

Captain’s Lounge #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) Club One Local Cast, DJ Jason Hancock (Main Floor) (DJ) Coach’s Corner Chief (Live Music) Rock, Pop, Country and Soul covers 8 p.m.

Crystal Beer Parlor The Beer Parlor Ramblers (Live Music) Dixieland Jazz 7:30 p.m.

Daquiri Island Karaoke (Karaoke) Dewey’s Dockside Karaoke (Karaoke) 6 p.m.

Doc’s Bar Roy & the Circuit Breakers (Live Music) Rock, Pop, Beach, Shag and Soul covers 8 p.m.

Dolphin Reef Lounge & Ocean Plaza The Denny Phillips Duo (Live Music) Rock, Pop and Soul covers 8 p.m.

Doubles Lounge “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond (DJ) El Picasso Karaoke (8 p.m.) (Karaoke) Fannie’s on the Beach TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Fiddler’s Crab House Argyle (Live Music) Local indie-rock band known for mad chops, tight and complex arrangements and peculiar vocal harmonies. They blend a number of disparate influences from ska and reggae to punk, metal and jam, and have released two accomplished indie CDs (covers & originals). 9 p.m.

Friendly’s Tavern 2 #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) Gayna’s Bar Karaoke (9 p.m.) (Karaoke) Gilley’s High Velocity (Live Music) Popular roadhouse band playing hard, classic and southern rock hits as well as popular modern country numbers (covers & originals). Feb 13, 9 p.m., Feb 15, 9 p.m. Feb 16, 9 p.m.

Hang Fire Dope Sandwich Productions (Live Music, DJ) Live hip-hop and rap from a local collective with numerous DJs and MCs. 10 p.m.

Hercules Bar and Grill Chief (Live Music) Rock, Pop, Country and Soul covers 8 p.m.

Huck-A-Poo’s TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Hyatt Regency TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Isaac’s on Drayton G.E. Perry with James Gay (Live Music) Local veteran blues/jazz/rock guitarist and vocalist, accompanied by a harmonica player (covers & originals) 10 p.m.

The Island Grill TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Eat Mo’ Music (Live Music) Mostly instrumental soul-jazz combo of trumpet, drums, bass and wah guitar, anchored by several area music educators. It’s all funky and dance-oriented, but as the night goes on, they rock it up a little more (covers & originals). 9 p.m.

Jen’s & Friends TBA (Live Music) Acoustic Rock, Pop, Country and Soul covers/originals 10 p.m.

The Jinx American Gun: The Train Wrecks (Live

Music) Columbia, S.C. roots-rockers celebrating the release of their brand-new indie CD produced by power-pop and Americana semi-star Chris Stamey; Local, high-octane roots-a-billy quartet fronted by singer/songwriter Jason Bible. 11 p.m.

John’s & Friends Liquid Ginger (acoustic) (Live Music) Stripped-down, “unplugged” show by a popular, female-fronted local modern-rock and pop band wiht two indie CDs to its name (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

Jukebox Bar & Grill Rhythm Riot (Live Music) Kitschy local rock/country/pop/hip-hop cover band known for an eclectic setlist and a goofy stage demeanor that is striking a chord wiht local bar patrons. 9 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Carroll Brown (Live Music) Charleston-based acoustic guitarist/singer/ songwriter who performs to sequenced backing and offers easygoing tunes in a style he terms “Coastal Country” as well as Celtic balads (covers & originals). Feb 13, 8:30 p.m., Feb 14, 8:30 p.m., Feb 15, 8:30 p.m., Feb 16, 8:30 p.m. Feb 17, 8:30 p.m.

Kokopelli’s Jazz Club The Howard Paul & Kirk Lee Quartet (Live Music) Straight-ahead jazz featuring acclaimed 7-string guitarist Paul and veteran trumpeter Lee, backed by well-knwon bassist George Sheck and drummer Billy Hoffman.(covers & originals). Feb 15, 8 p.m. Feb 16, 8 p.m.

Loco’s Deli & Pub (Downtown) Widespread Panic New CD Listening Party w/Col. Bruce Hampton & The Quark Alliance (Live Music) Get a free sneak preview of the entire new Panic album at 9 pm over this restaurant’s PA system, and then enjoy a show by one of the elder statesmen of the progressive southern jam-band scene.

Unconventional guitarist and vocalist Col. Bruce Hampton is a founding member of the HamptonGrease Band, The Aquarium Rescue Unit, The Fiji Mariners and The Codetalkers. His latest band continues in the same jazzy/bluesy/avant-garde/ fusion vein. As per this venue’s new policies, after 10 pm, anyone admitted to see the 11 pm show must be 21+ wiht positive ID, and anyone underage must leave the premises by 10:30 pm. 9 p.m.

Luther’s Rare & Well Done TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Mansion on Forsyth Park Leif Ragnaldsen; Eat Mo’ Music (Live Music) Solo jazz pianist; Mostly instrumental soul-jazz combo of trumpet, drums, bass and wah guitar, anchored by several area music educators. Itâ€↢s all funky and dance-oriented, but as the night goes on, they rock it up a little more (covers & originals). Feb 15, 5 & 8 p.m.

Mercury Lounge The Eric Culberson Blues Band (Live Music) Internationally-acclaimed, Savannah-based electric blues guitarist and singer (memphis and Chicago-style), aided by a whip-tight rhythm section (covers/originals) Feb 15, 10 p.m. Feb 16, 10 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Jeff Beasley (Live Music) Solo set of R & B, old-time rock and roll, and Cajun-tinged Americana by this Savannah-based singing guitarist who accompanies himself on percussion (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) The Mike Schultz Trio (Live Music) Wellknown rock, pop and roadhouse-style covers.

8:30 p.m.

Moon River Brewing Co. TBA (Live Music) 7 p.m.

Mulberry Inn The Champagne Jazz Trio (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Murphy’s Law Rathkeltair (Live Music) Fl.-based group named Best Celtic Band of 2006 by an influential website-based magazine. They feature both traditional and current electric instruments and mix elements of Irish folk and modern rock.

The lineup features former members of Celtic Soul, Seven Nations and ‘80s British rockers The Bolshoi (covers & originals). Feb 15, 10 p.m. Feb 16, 10 p.m.

One Hot Mama’s BBQ TBA (Live Music) 10:30 p.m.

The Plantation Club (at The Landings) The Savannah Sinfonietta’s 2nd Annual Diva/Divo Gala (Live Music) Orchestral program of light opera, showtunes and classical pieces, featuring a husband-and-wife duo of highly-acclaimed, NYCbased vocal soloists. 8 p.m.

Planter’s Tavern TBA (Live Music) Piano Jazz -7 p.m.

Pogy’s TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

The Quarter Sports Bar TBA (Live Music) Rock, Folk and Blues 10 p.m.

Riders Lounge TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos (Live Music) -8:30 p.m.

Savannah State University “An Evening With Kem” plus Jay Lamont (Other) Special evening of music featuring award winning, Gold-record selling Motown recording artist Kem with special guest comedian Jay Lamont in the Tiger Arena. Kem is a Nigerian-American contemporary soul/jazz singer raised in Detroit who has collaborated wiht Stevie Wonder. 8 p.m.

Scandals TBA (Live Music) Rock, Pop, Blues and Country cover bands 9:30 p.m.

The Sentient Bean Aquariums: Midtown Dickens: Aux Arc (Live Music) Conceptual, East Nashvillebased low-fi indie-rock songwriter supporting a DIY album; Highly acclaimed Durham, N.C. female acoustic duo rooted in Old-Time Americana, with a quirky lyrical sensibility; Local, ultra-underground anti-folk combo utilizing standard instrumentation and synthesizers. 8 p.m.

Steamer’s TBA (Live Music) Acoustic Blues, Rock, Pop & Country covers/originals 9 p.m.

Stingray’s Randy “Hatman” Smith (Live Music) Solo guitarist/singer, who accompanies himself wiht sequenced backing tracks on a selection of beach, boogie and blues numbers he terms “Tybee Music” (covers & originals). Feb 15, 6:30 p.m. Feb 16, 6:30 p.m.

Stogie’s DJ Paynt & DJ Mself (DJ) Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) TBA (Live Music) Rock, Pop, Country and Blues covers/ originals 6 p.m.

Venus De Milo DJ Chad (DJ) Vic’s on The River Claire Frazier (Live Music) Talented jazz vocalist who spent several years on the L.A. scene 7 p.m.

The Warehouse Bottles & Cans (Live Music) Hardswinging, high-energy garage-blooze/alt.country/ whatever in the vein of Tom Waits, “Basement Tapes†-era Dylan and Hound Dog Taylor (covers & originals). 8 p.m.

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Ways Station Tavern Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Live DJ (DJ) 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Mary Davis & Co. (Live Music) Female-fronted acoustic lineup of the popular Wilmington Isl.-based party group Band In The Park, playing well-known pop, rock, soul and beach covers, from Buffet to Prine to Bonnie Raitt. 6 p.m.

Yong’s Country Club (formerly the Music Box) TBA (Live Music)

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Lucas Theatre The 27th Black Maria Film & Video Festival (Other) Traveling showcase tour of “fiercely independent†short films and videos, which circulates nationwide to over 50 host institutions. The Fest exhibits and reward compelling new independent media. Documentary films presented as part of the Black Maria film festival as eligible for Academy Award consideration in the short form and feature documentary categories. 8 p.m.

Luther’s Rare & Well Done TBA (Live Music) 10 p.m.

Mansion on Forsyth Park Eric Jones; Tradewinds (Live Music) Solo pianist playing jazz and Latin tunes; Local sextet playing Motown, shag and other vintage dance-oriented soul and R & B hits (covers). Feb 16, 5 & 9 p.m.

Marlin Monroe’s Surfside Grill TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Mercury Lounge The Eric Culberson Blues Band (Live Music)

Internationally-acclaimed, Savannah-based electric blues guitarist and singer (memphis and Chicago-style), aided by a whip-tight rhythm section (covers/originals) Feb 15, 10 p.m.

Feb 16, 10 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Domino Effect (Live Music) 10 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) Jordan Ross (Live Music) Young, Pooler-based singer/songwriter wiht a contemporary, modern acoustic-pop feel (covers & originals).

8:30 p.m.

Moon River Brewing Co. TBA (Live Music) Blues, Jazz, Rock, Pop & Funk covers/originals 8 p.m.

Mulberry Inn The Champagne Jazz Trio (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Murphy’s Law Rathkeltair (Live Music) Fl.-based group named Best Celtic Band of 2006 by an influential website-based

magazine. They feature both traditional and current electric instruments and mix elements of Irish folk and modern rock. The lineup features former members of Celtic Soul, Seven Nations and ‘80s British rockers The Bolshoi (covers & originals). Feb 15, 10 p.m. Feb 16, 10 p.m.

One Hot Mama’s BBQ TBA (Live Music) 10 p.m.

Panini’s Cafe TBA (Live Music) 10 p.m.

Paradiso at Il Pasticcio DJ Matthew Gilbert & DJ Kwaku (DJ) House Music 11:30 p.m.

Planter’s Tavern TBA (Live Music) Piano Jazz -7 p.m.

Pogy’s TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Quality Inn American Pride Karaoke (Karaoke) 8 p.m.

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The Apex TBA (Live Music) Augie’s Pub (Pooler) Sullivan Street (Live Music) Acoustic guitar duo of singer/songwriters Paul Rader and David Flannery, playing pop, rock, blues and folk (covers & originals). 8 p.m.

The Bamboo Room TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Bay Street Blues Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe David Harbuck (Live Music) Locally-based singer/ songwriter/guitarist who’s released a handful of DIY rock/pop/folk CDs (covers & originals). 9 p.m.

Benny’s Tybee Tavern TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Bernie’s on River Street Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Cafe Ambrosia TBA (Live Music) 7 p.m.

Captain’s Lounge #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) Chuck’s Bar #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) City Market TBA (Live Music) 2 p.m.

Club One DJ Hancock (DJ) 10 p.m.

Creekside Cafe TBA (Live Music) 7 p.m.

Daquiri Island Karaoke (Karaoke) Dawg House Grill TBA (Live Music) 7 p.m.

DC2 Design DJ Kiah (DJ) 10 p.m.

Deb’s Pub & Grub Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Dewey’s Dockside TBA (Live Music) 6 p.m.

Doc’s Bar Roy & The Circuit Breakers (Live Music) Long-running party band specializing in disco, 60s rock, Motown and vintage soul (covers).

Dos Primos TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Doubles Lounge “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond (DJ) Fannie’s on the Beach Randy “Hatman” Smith (Live Music) Beach, Boogie & Blues from a solo guitarist “with the full band sound” 8 p.m.

Fiddler’s Crab House Hazy Nation (Live Music) 9 p.m.

French Quarter Cafe TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Gayna’s Bar Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Gilley’s High Velocity (Live Music) Popular roadhouse band playing hard, classic and southern rock hits as well as popular modern country numbers (covers & originals). Feb 13, 9 p.m., Feb 15, 9 p.m. Feb 16, 9 p.m.

Glazer’s Pub TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Grapevine Gail Thurmond (Live Music) Piano & vocal jazz, country, Latin and standards by a veteran songwriter and recording artist who’s entertained Savannahians for more than a decade 6:30 p.m.

Hang Fire DJ Jake The Snake and Danny Boy (DJ) 10 p.m.

Hercules Bar and Grill TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Hyatt Regency TBA (Live Music) Isaac’s on Drayton Eat Mo’ Music (Live Music) Mostly instrumental soul-jazz combo of trumpet, drums, bass and wah guitar, anchored by several area music educators. It’s all funky and dance-oriented, but as the night goes on, they rock it up a little more (covers & originals).

The Island Grill TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Bottles & Cans (Live Music) Hard-swinging, high-energy garage-blooze in the vein of Tom Waits, “Basement Tapes†-era Dylan and Hound Dog Taylor (covers & originals). 9 p.m.

Jen’s & Friends TBA (Live Music) Acoustic Pop, Rock, Country, Blues & Soul covers/originals 10 p.m.

The Jinx Creech Holler; Arum Rae (Live Music) This Tn.-based trio soaks old Harry Smith-caliber mountain ballads in a rotgut whiskey barrel before straining them out through electrified, house-rockin’ garage blues; Recently transplanted female singer/songwriter with a soothing voice that mellows down easy and a strong Delta blues influence (especially when it comes to frenetic slide guitar). Her affinity for the same swampy strangeness that binds Dylan to Jack Wjhite is refreshing for our area. 11 p.m.

The Johnny Mercer Theatre George Jones with The Roys & Jason Byrd (Live Music) Legendary, 76-year-old C & W vocalist and guitarist wiht more hits than you can shake a bottle of White Lightnin’ at. Opening act The Roys are a promising brother-andsister act from Mass. with a hit indie single and Jason Byrd is an up-and-coming young frontman who has has been taken under Jones’ wing. 7:30 p.m.

John’s & Friends Silver Lining (Live Music) Local jazz trio of guitar, bass and drums with female vocals. Their material draws on both funk and blues as well as some elements of exotica and light pop (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

Juarez Mexican Restaurant (Waters Ave.) Karaoke (Karaoke) Jukebox Bar & Grill TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Carroll Brown (Live Music) Charleston-based acoustic guitarist/singer/songwriter who performs to sequenced backing and offers easygoing tunes in a style he terms “Coastal Country” as well as Celtic balads (covers & originals). Feb 13, 8:30 p.m., Feb 14, 8:30 p.m., Feb 15, 8:30 p.m., Feb 16, 8:30 p.m. Feb 17, 8:30 p.m.

Kokopelli’s Jazz Club The Howard Paul & Kirk Lee Quartet (Live Music) Straight-ahead jazz featuring acclaimed 7-string guitarist Paul and veteran trumpeter Lee, backed by well-knwon bassist George Sheck and drummer Billy Hoffman.(covers & originals).

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The Savannah Civic Center 16th Annual Savannah Irish Festival (Live Music) Major cultural festival with live music by a variety of traditional and contemporary Celtic artists (from folk to rock), Irish dance troupes, ethnic food vendors, imported arts and crafts vendors, lectures, art exhibits and more.

Feb 16, 10:30 a.m. Feb 17, noon Savannah Jazz & Blues Bistro (Bluffton) TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos (Live Music) -8:30 p.m.

Scandals TBA (Live Music) Rock, Pop, Blues and Country cover bands 9:30 p.m.

The Sea Grill TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean “Valentine’s Day Sock Hop Benefit” (DJ) Fundraiser for [nine.one.two], a non-profit arts and social service organization, hosted by spoken word artist Rushelle Frazier and DJ Keith Kozel (spinning an eclectic mix of electro, funk, soul, garage, dub rock, R & B and exotica). Costumes suggested but not required (prizes awarded for most unique dress). Numerous dancing contests and Gift Certificates to be given away. 8 p.m.

Stingray’s Randy “Hatman” Smith (Live Music) Solo guitarist/singer, who accompanies himself wiht sequenced backing tracks on a selection of beach, boogie and blues numbers he terms “Tybee Music” (covers & originals). Feb 15, 6:30 p.m. Feb 16, 6:30 p.m.

Stogie’s DJ Aushee Knights (DJ) House Music & ‘80s hits 10 p.m.

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) TBA (Live Music) 6 p.m.

Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House TBA (Live Music) 7 p.m.

Venus De Milo DJ Nick (DJ) 10 p.m.

VFW Club (Hinesville) TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Claire Frazier (Live Music) Talented jazz vocalist who spent several years on the L.A. scene 7 p.m.

The Warehouse The Magic Rocks (Live Music) Eclectic local party band spun off from The 8-tracks, playing an oddball selection of rock, alternative, pop, vintage country and soul covers (featuring members of GAM, Superhorse and Hot Pink Interior). 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Bluffton) TBA (Live Music) 10 p.m.

The Wind Rose Cafe TBA (Live Music) 10 p.m.

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A.J.’s Dockside Joey Manning (Live Music) Singing keyboardist/guitarist offering popular hits 7 p.m.

Aqua Star Restaurant (Westin Harbor Hotel) Ben Tucker & Bob Alberti (Live Music) Veteran Jazz Duo (piano & bass) playing standards 11:30 a.m.

Bahama Bob’s (Pooler) Karaoke (Karaoke) Belford’s TBA (Live Music) 6 p.m.

Benny’s Tybee Tavern Roy & the Circuit Breakers (Live Music) Solo singer/ guitarist with sequenced backing playing pop/rock/soul/beach hits and originals 5 p.m.

Bernie’s (Tybee) Karaoke w/DJ Levis (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Captain’s Lounge #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) Daquiri Island Karaoke (Karaoke) Dewey’s Dockside Roy & The Circuit Breakers (Live Music) Rock, Pop, Shag, Blues & Soul hits 5 p.m.

Doc’s Bar TBA (Live Music) Beach, Shag, Soul, Pop, Rock, Boogie, Country & Blues Doubles Lounge “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond (DJ) Driftaway Cafe TBA (Live Music) Acoustic Rock, Pop, Country, Blues & Soul covers El Potro Mexican Restaurant Karaoke w/Michael (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

The Flying Fish Barry Johnson (Live Music) Acoustic Rock, Country, Blues & Pop covers 6 p.m.

The Island Grill TBA (Live Music) 5 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Annie Allman (Live

Music) Solo set of electric jazz and blues guitar set to sequenced backing from a talented multi-instrumentalist and member of the femad family that gave us The Allman Brothers Band (covers and standards). 7 p.m.

The Johnny Mercer Theatre “The Essence of Love” (Other) An evening of Male Lead Entertainment and Female Impersonation as contestants from all over the country battle for the title of Mr & Miss Sweetheart International.

Featuring Sophia McIntosh from Atlanta’s V103 Morning Show. 7 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Carroll Brown (Live Music) Charleston-based acoustic guitarist/ singer/songwriter who performs to sequenced backing and offers easygoing tunes in a style he terms “Coastal Country” as well as Celtic balads (covers & originals). Feb 13, 8:30 p.m., Feb 14, 8:30 p.m., Feb 15, 8:30 p.m., Feb 16, 8:30 p.m. Feb 17, 8:30 p.m.

Marlin Monroe’s Surfside Grill TBA (Live Music) 7 p.m.

Mercury Lounge The Train Wrecks (Live Music) Hard-rockin’ roots-abilly quartet blending bluegrass, classic rock, Americana, folk and blues. Playing originals from their debut CD as well as covers (Johnny Cash, Dylan, Petty, Springsteen, etc...) 10 p.m.

Metro Coffee House Benyaro (Live Music) Up-and-coming Brooklyn-based acoustic folk/rock/Americana act featuring a real-life brother and sister that’s drawing comparisons to - get this - Three Dog Night and Poco, as well as CSN&Y. 8 p.m.

Murphy’s Law Irish Pub Acoustic Session, Celtic Karaoke (Live Music) Traditional Celtic acoustic jam session for pros and amateurs alike, followed by Karaoke 7 & 9 p.m.

One Hot Mama’s BBQ TBA (Live Music) 6 p.m.

Planter’s Tavern TBA (Live Music) Piano Jazz -7 p.m.

Red Leg Saloon Karaoke w/Frank Nelson (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

The Savannah Civic Center 16th Annual Savannah Irish Festival (Live Music) Major cultural festival with live music by a variety of traditional and contemporary Celtic artists (from folk to rock), Irish dance troupes, ethnic food vendors, imported arts and crafts vendors, lectures, art exhibits and more.

Feb 16, 10:30 a.m. Feb 17, noon Savannah Smiles “Piano-Palooza” (Live Music) Sea Dawgs TBA (Live Music) 1 p.m.

The Sentient Bean A.W.O.L. (Other) Regular spoken word event sponsored

by A.W.O.L Inc., an organization of poets, hip-hop artists, and performers whcih promotes self-awareness to people of all ages within the community.

6 p.m.

Slugger’s 5 Point Productions Karaoke (Karaoke) 10 p.m.

Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House TBA (Live Music) Acoustic Blues, Country, Rock, Bluegrass & Pop acts The Warehouse Thomas Claxton (Live Music) Acoustic guitarist/singer playing Rock & Pop covers/originals 7:30 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Bluffton) TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Hilton Head) TBA (Live Music) 11 p.m.

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Bayou Cafe Chief (Live Music) Rock, Pop, Soul, Blues and Country covers -9 p.m.

Blueberry Hill Karaoke (Karaoke) The Boathouse The Eric Culberson Blues Band (Live Music) Internationallyknown electric blues trio led by an ace guitarist/singer 6 p.m.

Doubles Lounge Live DJ (DJ) Beach Music Driftaway Cafe TBA (Live Music) 7 p.m.

Fiddler’s Crab House All-Star Super Jam (Live Music) Your guess is as good as ours... 9 p.m.

The Grill Beachside TBA (Live Music) 7 p.m.

The Jinx DJ KZL’s Kaleidoscope (DJ) wild mash-up of garage rock, vintage soul, punk, psychedelic, modern electro, glam and psychedelia spun by Superhorse frontman Keith Kozel (10 pm) Kevin Barry’s Frank Emerson (Live Music) Veteran touring acoustic guitarist/singer who’s an award-winning favorite on the Celtic pub circuit (covers & originals). Feb 18, 8:30 p.m. Feb 19, 8:30 p.m.

King’s Inn Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Murphy’s Law Open Mic Night (Live Music) 7:30 p.m.

Scandals DJ Marty Corley (Karaoke) 9:30 p.m.

The Sentient Bean Old-Time Music Jam Session (Live Music) Local Old-Time enthusiast and string-band member Joe Nelson (guitar, bass, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, ukulele, etc...) hosts this free class/jam session in which he shares his knowledge of pre-recording industry mountain music and early C & W, and demonstrates playing techniques.

Beginners and experienced pickers are encouraged to attend and join in. 6 p.m.

Tantra Lounge DJ In Coma (DJ) 10:30 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe (Hilton Head) TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

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Bay Street Blues Live Trivia (Other) 10 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Chief (Live Music) Rock, Pop, Soul, Blues and Country covers -9 p.m.

Blaine’s Back Door #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) Buffalo’s Cafe Karaoke (Karaoke) 7 p.m.

Daiquiri Beach BN Trivia w/Artie & Brad (Other) 10 p.m.

Deb’s Pub & Grub #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) 10:30 p.m.

Driftaway Cafe TBA (Live Music) 6 p.m.

Hang Fire Pub Quiz with TTL (Other) Live pop culture team trivia game. 9:30 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Diana Rogers (Live Music) Longtime solo pianist playing Jazz, Showtunes & Standards 7 p.m.

The Jinx Alternative Hip-hop Night w/DJ D-Frost & Basik Lee of Dope Sandwich Productions (Live Music, DJ) In addition to the usual underground rap and Top 40 hip-hop, plus late-night Freestyle and Breakdancing battles, this night also marks local rapper Life’s mix-tape release party, wiht special appearanaces from Zone D and Lyrix, both locals as well. 11 p.m.

The Johnny Mercer Theatre “Souls of Our Music” (Live Music) The City’s Leisure Services, Recreation Services Department presents its annual Black History program depicting messages to impart behavioral guidelines for youth and adults through appreciation of things past. 6 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Frank Emerson (Live Music) Veteran touring acoustic guitarist/singer who’s an award-winning favorite on the Celtic pub circuit (covers & originals). Feb 18, 8:30 p.m. Feb 19, 8:30 p.m.

Mercury Lounge Open Jam Night w/The Eric Culberson Blues Band (Live Music) Amateurs & Pros alike can sit in and jam along with a well-known, touring blues trio 10 p.m.

Planter’s Tavern TBA (Live Music) Piano Jazz -7 p.m.

Stogie’s Two Originals (Live Music) Acoustic guitar duo playing Blues, Rock and Jam originals, plus Grateful Dead covers 10 p.m.

Tommy’s Karaoke w/Jeff & Rebecca (Karaoke) Wet Willie’s Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Chuck Courtenay, Team Trivia w/The Mayor (Live Music) Solo acoustic guitarist/singer playing Pop, Country & Rock hits, followed by a live trivia match 6 p.m. w

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Fool’s Gold 1/2 Lord, what fools these Hollywood mortals be! Here they further denigrate the standing of the romantic comedy by presenting this waterlogged flick about bickering ex-spouses on the prowl for sunken treasure off the Florida Keys. In a reunion that no one was exactly clamoring for, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days co-stars Matthew McConaughney and Kate Hudson play Finn and Tess; he’s an irresponsible beach bum who’s skilled at running up debts, while she’s a level-headed lass who’s forced to take a job on the yacht of millionaire Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland). Despite finalizing their divorce mere hours earlier, Finn talks Tess into joining him once again on his never-ending quest for 18th century Spanish booty; they persuade Honeycutt to finance their endeavor, but they’re working against the clock since murderous rapper-turnedmobster Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart) also has designs on the riches. Eye

The Savages 

How interesting that 2007 produced two pictures about Alzheimer’s that approached the subject from diametrically opposite points. (It’s also interesting that these two movies, both involving caregivers, were written and directed by women, usually deemed the primary caregivers in our society.) Sarah Polley’s Away From Her was about a man who dearly loved his wife and was devastated as the disease created an unbreachable gap between them. Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages (finally reaching town) is about siblings who dislike their dad and are upset that circumstances dictate they be responsible for his well-being. Away From Her was a straightforward drama, but The Savages is a black comedy that frequently goes down like the most bitter coffee imaginable. Philip Bosco plays the father figure around which the action stirs: Found

candy abounds in Fool’s Gold: Many women will enjoy the sight of McConaughney taking off his shirt at regular intervals, some men will gaze at the bronzed Hudson sporting teeny bikinis, and ocean lovers (that would include me) can ignore the lame plot at the forefront in favor of concentrating on the shimmering beauty of the water (a modest saving grace also found in After the Sunset and Into the Blue). But the direction (by Hitch’s Andy Tennant) is uninspired, the script is bubbleheaded, and the bland leads continue to disprove the notion that some measure of movie-star charisma is required to make it as a romantic draw. Old pro Sutherland provides some lift, but the real spark comes from Alexis Dziena as Honeycutt’s trustfund daughter; she takes the tired character of the young ditz and miraculously makes her funny.

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smearing his own excrement on the bathroom walls of his Arizona residence, he’s eventually placed into the hands of his distant — both geographically and emotionally — offspring, Jon and Wendy Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney). Jon’s a college professor in Buffalo, while Wendy’s an aspiring writer in New York City; neither one has the time nor the inclination to take care of the old man — more so since by all accounts he made their childhoods miserable — but they do their best to find him suitable lodging in an “assisted living” facility. But Wendy’s definition of suitable is different than Jon’s, and the siblings end up squabbling about his living arrangements, a discussion that opens up a can of worms regarding their relationships not only with their father but with each other. Overall, The Savages is a keenly observed study offering believably bruised people making the best out of their rickety lives. As for the two

leads, they’re equally superb. Linney turns every one of Wendy’s foibles and insecurities into a mountain that the character must scale before she can come to acceptance with herself, and the actress keeps us firmly in her corner. As for Hoffman, this is his third great performance of 2007 — he’s also aces in Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and Charlie Wilson’s War — and thanks to a smashing sequence in which he describes the brutal realities of growing old, it’s also his best.

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ing behemoth (and its even more terrifying sidekicks, vicious arachnoid creatures) as it destroys Manhattan with single-minded determination. Past films that employed this trick often seemed silly — what sane person wouldn’t drop the camera in the face of real danger? — yet in our modern-day, technocrazed world, the need to capture everything on film (as if to validate its authenticity, not to mention provide the shooter with a fleeting 15 minutes of fame) is such a built-in instinct for many people that the actions of the protagonists in this film rarely come into question. Director Matt Reeves and writer Drew Goddard also effectively tap into post9/11 anxieties: It’s hard to witness collapsing skyscrapers and the resultant deadly debris hurtling down New York City streets and not be reminded of that fateful day. While some might consider such a tactic to be in extremely poor taste, there’s no denying its potency when viewed through fictional horror-film lens — for all its newfangled innovations, the movie shares DNA with similarly themed sci-fi yarns from the 1950s.

And like many fantasy flicks, this one also contains a defining “money shot” (a la the exploding White House in Independence Day); in this case, it’s the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty, forlornly resting on a city street. Heads roll in Cloverfield, and none more startlingly than this one.

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A thoughtful, heartfelt drama that can’t quite get past the conventions of its plot mechanics, How She Move is the latest dance flick in which motion trumps emotion. That’s not to say there isn’t a certain amount of poignancy in the central plotline of a young teen hoping to break free of her dire surroundings — it’s just that this picture only truly comes alive when its talented young cast is strutting its stuff in rhythm to the music. How She Move focuses on African-American teenager Raya (Rutina Wesley), a student at a private school who’s forced to move back to her impoverished neighborhood after her parents spend all the family funds trying (and failing) to save Raya’s drug-addicted sister. Deemed stuck-up by Michelle (Tre Armstrong), a sullen classmate with a perpetual chip on her shoulder, Raya tries to keep her head down and solely concentrate on her studies, but she ends up getting drawn back into the world of stepping, a high-energy form of dancing practiced by both Michelle and Bishop (Dwain Murphy), a charismatic guy who hesitantly allows Raya to join his dance team just in time for the annual Step Monster competition. The screenplay

by Annmarie Morais saddles the characters with too many scenes revolving around tired dialogue, but director Ian Iqbal Rashid compensates by staging the vigorous dance scenes as if his life — or at least his career — depended on it.

There Will Be Blood

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I’m not sure Daniel Day-Lewis’ performance in There Will Be Blood represents the best acting of 2007 (as various critics’ groups have declared), but it certainly represents the most acting of the past year. His performance here as Daniel Plainview, a prospector who strikes it rich in turn-of-the-century California, basically comes across as Bill the Butcher (his character in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York) turned up a couple of notches. Then again, Day-Lewis’ oversized turn is right in line with Paul Thomas Anderson’s oversized ambitions in creating a modern-day masterpiece, a movie so audacious that it flagrantly apes Citizen Kane during its final half-hour and recalls The Treasure of the Sierra Madre at regular intervals. That so many critics are indeed calling this an instant classic isn’t surprising, but if the No Country for Old Men vs. There Will Be Blood grudge match continues to gain traction, I’m afraid I’ll have to pledge my allegiance to the Coen Brothers’ equally brutal, equally risky but ultimately more satisfying drama. Anderson’s latest film isn’t even up to the standards of what I consider his real masterpiece, Boogie Nights, though there’s enough here to please hardcore cineasts as well as more adventurous moviegoers. Based on Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil! the movie opens with a superb 12-minute sequence with no dialogue — perhaps a nod to Erich Von Stroheim’s silent milestone, Greed, also about the destructive power of accumulated wealth? During this sequence, we’re introduced to Plainview, a determined prospector who over time strikes it rich and becomes one of the nation’s most powerful oilmen. Plainview has an adopted son in young H.W. (Dillon Freasier), who ends up going deaf after sitting next to an oil rig that explodes as it brings up black riches from beneath the surface. Plainview tries to be an acceptable parent to the boy, but he’s hardly a social creature, intolerant of those around him and not one to extend trust or affection easily. His greatest adversary as he tries to milk the land dry is Eli Sunday, an unctuous preacher who’s as much the conniving showman as Daniel Plainview. The picture is a beauty to behold (Oscar nods for technical achievements should breed like rabbits), and there are individual sequences so staggering that a second viewing will hardly be a chore. But those planning to check it out should be sure to bring an umbrella, Rocky Horror Picture Show-style, just in case DayLewis’ juicy lip-smacking manages to break through that fourth wall.

27 Dresses 

The filmic equivalent of a baby: cute, pampered, craving attention, and somewhat smelly thanks to all the formula passing through it. Katherine Heigl is Jane, a perpetual bridesmaid who (as the title hints) has attended 27 weddings in that capacity. Jane feels that it’s payback time from the gods —

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An interminable film about terminal patients who learn important life lessons before, yes, kicking the bucket.

Morgan Freeman plays Carter Chambers, an auto mechanic with an IQ equal to that of Stephen Hawking. Dying of cancer, he shares a hospital room with the filthy rich Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson), who’s beginning to realize that money can buy everything except an extended lease on life.

With each man facing less than a year to live, they both elect to go out in a blaze (or at least daze) of glory, by dutifully performing tasks on their self-penned “bucket list” of activities they’ve always wanted to do. The list includes such items as “go skydiving” and “laugh until I cry”; unfortunately, “entertain audiences who pay to see this Bucket of s***” is nowhere to be found. A lazy and condescending package from top to bottom (with uninspired efforts put forth by Nicholson, Freeman, director Rob Reiner and especially scripter Justin Zackham), The Bucket List isn’t nearly as torturous as the similar, “laughing in the face of death” Patch Adams; then again, neither is a broken back.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Given the emphasis on history in the National Treasure franchise, this followup to the 2004 original reminded me of a line from the Herman’s Hermits tune about that jolly historical figure Henry the Eighth: “Second verse, same as the first.” In other words, NT2 is essentially the same movie as its blockbuster predecessor, meaning it’s a draggy combination of The Da Vinci Code and old-style serials. Only Nicolas Cage’s Benjamin Franklin Gates is no Indiana Jones, and (like the first flick) this isn’t Raiders of the Lost Ark. Moving ahead at breakneck speed and with no time for rhyme or reason, it’s a disjointed yarn in which Gates, in an effort to prove that his

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Tennessee town, based on a true story. period pieces like Sense Practically the enWhen a black undertaker’s wife has an and Sensibility and tire principal cast affair with a white policeman, it sparks The Remains of the returns from the a deadly chain of events. The last film Day with their enduroriginal film -- Jon directed by the great William Wyler (Ben- ing resonance. If a finVoight as Gates’ dad, Hur) and starring Roscoe Lee Browne, ger must be pointed, it Diane Kruger as his Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Hershey, Lee Majors, would most likely fall in girlfriend, Justin Yaphet Kotto and Lola Falana! Where: the direction of director Bartha as his sideThe Sentient Bean Coffeehouse When.

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by Dangerous Liaisons seeker and a slumReel Savannah: Before the adapter Christopher ming Helen Mirren Devil Knows You’re Dead Hampton. Knightley esas Gates’ feisty What: Sidney Lumet directs this thriller. says the role of Cecilia, mother. It should be Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a broker who finds herself atnoted that this marks who lures his younger brother, played by tracted to the family Mirren’s first screen Ethan Hawke, into a scheme to rob a jewservant’s upwardly moappearance since elry store that seems to be an easy target. bile son Robbie (James winning an Oscar for Cast includes Marisa Tomei and Albert McAvoy). But Cecilia’s The Queen. Granted, Finney. When: Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. Where: precocious younger that’s not nearly as Victory Square Stadium 9 theaters. Cost: sister Briony (Saoirse shocking as Shirley $8.

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4032 or heather.holloway@ppfa.org. Second Thurs. of every month. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. 912-232-4447. www.sentientbean.com Savannah for Obama Obama for America has opened a local office at 1501 Abercorn St. at the corner of 31st St. There are volunteer opportunities.

The group meets the second Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. 233-3345 or savannah. barackobama@gmail.com. Second Thurs. of every month.

Skidaway Island Democrats Call Tom Oxnard at 598-4290 or send email to oxhouse@aol.com.

Auditions, Calls for Entries

Art in Opposition All artists are welcome to submit entries for the upcoming show, “Art in Oppositions,” which will open March 15. Submissions must reflect the given theme. All mediums and sizes will be accepted. Submissions are due by Feb. 18 at Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave. Please submit in digital (via CD) or 35mm slide format.

Four to 12 images are required for an entry.

Through Feb. 18. Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave. 912/233-7659.

Clue the Musical Auditions Auditions for 5 males and 3 females will be held 3:30-5:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 16 at the Savannah Community Theatre for the musical comedy “Clue: The Musical” based on the popular board game. Performances March 21-April 13. Auditions by appointment only. Call (912) 898-9021 to schedule audition appointment.

Epworth Players Auditions for the Epworth Player’s production of “The Farmer’s Daughter” by F. Andrew Leslie will be held Friday, Feb. 29 from 7-9 pm, Saturday, March 1 from 10 am to noon and Sunday, March 2 from 24pm in the Social Hall at Epworth United Methodist Church, 2201 Bull St. Cast needed: 8 men ages 20s to 40s, 1 man 50-70,

2 women ages 20s to 40s) and 1 woman 6070. Tech crew: lights, sound and stage manager. For further information, please call Richard Seng at 313-4004 Through March 2.

Vanities Auditions Auditions for 3 females will be held Monday, February 18 & Tuesday, February, 19 at the Savannah Community Theatre for the comedy “Vanities”. Performances March 28April 20. Auditions by appointment only.

Call (912) 898-9021 to schedule audition appointment.

Classes & Workshops

700 Kitchen Cooking School will offer hands-on educational/entertaining cooking classes at the Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St. The cost of each class is $90 per person. Call 238-5158 or visit http://www.700kitchen.com.

Art, Music and Tutoring for the Inner Child Beginning piano and voice lessons are taught by Linda Luke, who also tutors students in reading. Creative dance and a snack are included in the lessons, and special education students are welcome. Sculpture, painting and drawing are taught by Jerry Luke. Private and small group lessons are availble and open to adults, teens and younger children. The lessons last an hour and the cost is $80 a month. The address is 5225 Skidaway Rd. Call 349-0521 or 843496-0651 for info.

Be Mine: Cooking Your Way to Love Demonstration, tasting and presentation will be held Saturday, Feb. 16 from 3-5 p.m. in the Viennese Ballroom of the Mansion on Forsyth Park. The cost is $65 per person.

Copies of the cookbook “Be Mine: Cooking Your Way to Love and InterCourses: An Aphrodisiac Cookbook” will be on sale for $24.95. The author will sign books following the presentation. Reservations are required.

Call 721-5006. Through Feb. 16. Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton Street. 912-2385158. www.mansiononforsythpark.com

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Beading Classes Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced at Bead Dreamer Studio, 407A E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 9206659. Bead Dreamer Studio, 407 A East Montgomery Crossroads. 912-920-6659. www.beaddreamer.com Brush with Clay Classes in Raku, brush work, relief work, surface decoration, figurative and more in clay with individual attention are offered at CarosArt Studio by professional artist/clay sculptor Carolyne Graham. Costs $100 for 6 classes, or $30 per class. Clay supplies are extra. Call 925-7393 to register.

Business Seminar VCL Consulting Group, Inc. presents “How To Facilitate Precise, Productive, Powerful Meetinga” in two sessons on Monday, Feb. 18 at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn, Savannah Airport. The seminar will allow participants to achieve skills such as: creating clear agendas, learning highparticipation techniques, understanding empowerment zones and more. Registration is $59.99 per person. Call 265-4200 or visit www.vclinc.com. Through Feb. 18. Hilton Garden Inn Savannah Midtown, 6711 Abercorn St. Construction Apprentice Program is a free 16-week training program for men and women interested in gaining construction skills for career level jobs in construction. Earn a technical certificate of credit with no cost for trainingk, books or tools. Provided t hrough a collaboration of Chatham County, the Homebuilders Association of Savannah, Savannah Technical Eollege and Step Up Savannah’s Poverty Reduction Initiative. To apply, call Tara H. Sinclair at 604-9574.

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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 Ann Johnson at 897-4818. First and Third Mon. of every month. Fire Mountain Restaurant, 209 Stephenson Ave. (912) 354-5595. www. ryansrg.com/ Chatham County Young Democrats is dedicated to getting young people ages 14 to 39 active in governmental affairs and to encourage their involvement at all levels of the Democratic party. Contact Rakhsheim Wright at 604-7319 or chathamcountyyds@ yahoo.com or visit www.org.

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

Citizens Advisory Committee Meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 21 at 5 p.m. in the MPC Arthur Mendonsa Hearing Room, 112 E. State St. A Policy Comittee Meeting will be held Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 10 a.m.

Call Wykoda Wang at 651-1452. Through Feb. 27.

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

Drinking Liberally Promoting democracy one pint at a time -share politics while sharing a pitcher. This is an informal gathering of like-minded, leftleaners who may want to trade ideas, get more involved and just enjoy each other’s company. For information on times and location, visit www.DrinkingLiberally.org or send email to august1494@excite.com.

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

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East Park Ave. 912-232-4447. www.sentientbean.com Credit and Money Management 12 Hour Seminar This ongoing course is held every month at the Effingham YMCA in Rincon. This seminar is the first standardized credit education program in the nation. Topics covered are the steps to improve your credit rating and raise your credit scores, budgeting, managing your debt, what lenders require when you borrow money, how to spot looming money problems and how to deal with them before it’s too late. The fee is $99 per person or $169 per couple. Space is limited and registration is required in advance. Contact Carmen at 826-6263 or 4841266. will be held at the Effingham YMCA in Rincon. Registration is Monday, Feb. 11 from 6-7 p.m. Classes will be held Feb. 16 and 17 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fee is $99 per person or $169 per couple. Space is limited and registration is required in advance.

Contact Carmen at 826-6263 or 484-1266.

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Drawing the Human Figure with instructor Jeff Markowsky, a SCAD professor and working artist, will be held Feb. 29 and March 1 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Savannah Actor’s Theatre on Louisville Rd. The cost is $185 and advance registration is required. Contact Judy Mooney at 443-8313 or judymooney@bellsouth.net.

Through Feb. 29. Savannah Actor’s Theatre, 703D Louisville Rd. 912-232-6080. www.savannahactorstheatre.org Fany’s Spanish/English Institute 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. Fany’s Spanish/English Institute, 15 E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Free Spanish Classes Overcoming by Faith Ministries is offering free Beginners Spanish classes on Wednesdays from 6-6:45 p.m. at Overcoming by Faith - 9700 Middleground Rd. This 6-week course is open to all ages.

For more info and to sign-up, call 927-8601.

Free Tax School Earn extra income after taking this course.

Flexible schedules, convenient locations. The class is free but there is a small fee for books.

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Garbage, Goo, Recycling and YOU The Chatham County Department of Public Works is sponsoring this show by the Puppet People, which will tour elementary schools to teach students the importance of learning to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. For bookings, call 355-3366.

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

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

Adult Literacy is offered every Monday and Wednesday from 4-6 p.m. Homework Help is offered every Tuesday and Thursday from 3-4:30 p.m. The Community Computer Lab is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. GED/adult literacy education is being offered Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon or 1-4 p.m.

Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation A meditation period will be followed by instruction in the application of the foundations of Mindfulness practice to daily life. Beginner’s and experienced practitioners welcome. Ongoing weekly sessions held Monday from 6-7:30 p.m. at 313 E. Harris St. Call Cindy Beach, Buddhist nun, at 429-7265 or cindy@alwaysoptions.com.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. 912-234-0980. www.uusavannah.org Oatland Island Wildlife Center has a new name, but still offcers environmental education programs and weekend events. It is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed only on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. www.oatlandisland.org. Oatland Island Education

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Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. 912-898-3980. www.oatlandisland.org/ Overcoming by Faith Art Classes The Winter Quarter classes are held every Tuesday & Thursday at 5 p.m. through March 13. Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Percussions, Dance classes are open to all ages (Pre-k - Adult). For more information call 927-8601 or visit overcomingbyfaith. org. Through March 13.

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

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center offers a variety of business classes. It is located at 801 E. Gwinnett St. Call 652-3582.

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center, 801 E. Gwinnett Street. 912-652-3582.

Savannah Learning Center Spanish Classes Be bilingual. The center is located at 7160 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Call 272-4579 or 308-3561. e-mail savannahlatina@yahoo. com or visit www.savannahlatina.com. Free folklore classes also are offered on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Savannah Learning Center, 7160 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Sewing Lessons Fabrika at 140 Abercorn St. offers adult classes in: Beginner Sewing: Using a Pattern -- Skirt or Totebag; Intro to Kids’ Clothing; and Drafting Your Own Skirt or Totebag.

Group classes start in September. Private lessons are available. Visit www.fabrikasavannah.com or call 236-1122. Fabrika, 140 Abercorn St. 912-236-1122. www.fabrikasavannah.com Starfish Cafe Culinary Arts Training Program This 12-week full-time program is designed to provide work training and employment opportunities in the food service industry, including food preparation, food safety and sanitation training, customer service training and job search and placement assistance.

Call Mindy Saunders at 234-0525. The Starfish Cafe, 711 East Broad Street. 912234-0525. www.thestarfishcafe.org/ Studio or Space by the Hour Space is available for coaches, teachers, instructors, trainers, therapists or organizations that require a studio or space by the hour. Contact Tony at 655-4591 for an appointment.

The Artist/Teacher Conundrum The Savannah College of Art and Design Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning will present Susan Zwirn, a fine arts education coordinator at Hofstra University, as part of the Innovative Teaching and Learning Symposium series. She will appear April 23 from 6-7 p.m. at Alexander Hall, 668 Indian St., to present a lecture about how artists who teach face dual roles and how many of them experience contradictions in their career development that impact both those roles. A reception will follow. This event is free and open to the public. Through April 23.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center offers Beach Discovery and marsh walks.

Aquarium hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Monday, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday. Admission is $4 for adults and $3 for children, ages 3016.

Senior, military and AAA discounts are available. Call 786-5917 or visit www.tybeemsc.org. Tybee Island Marine Science Center, 1510 Strand. 912-786-5917. www. tybeemsc.org/ Volunteer 101 A 30-minute course that covers issues to help volunteers get started is held the first and third Thursday of the month at 6 p.m.

The first Thursday, the class is at Savannah State University, and the third Thursday, at United Way, 428 Bull St. Register by calling Summer at 651-7725 or visit www.

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Cardiorespiratory Endurence Training will be offered by Chatham County Park Services for persons 18 and up at Tom Triplett Park on Tuesdays from 5:306:30 p.m. and Thursdays from 8-9 a.m.

Participants should wear comfortable clothing and will be required to sign a waiver form before participating. All classes are free. Call 652-6780 or 965-9629. Tom Triplett Community Park, U.S. Highway 80 West. 912-652-6780.

Center for Wellbeing Hatha Yoga classes are offered Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Pre-register by calling 8196463. Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5354 Reynolds Ave. 912- 819-6000. www. sjchs.org Detox and De-Stress Easy and simple yoga followed by meditation, helping the body to throww off toxins and stress. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. at Yoga Hause, 1203 E. 72nd St. Suggested donation $5. Yoga Hause, 1203 E. 72nd St. Dog Yoga The Yoga Room will hold a dog yoga class every first Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. at Forsyth Park. The cost is a $10 donation, with all donations given to Save-ALife. Bring a mat or blanket and a sense of humor. Yoga for dogs is a fun way to relax and bond with your four-legged pet. Great for all levels and all sizes. 898-0361 or www. thesavannahyogaroom.com. Forsyth Park,

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Energy Share every first and third Friday of the month at a new integrated healing center located at 72nd and Sanders streets. Call Kylene at 713-3879.

Fitness Body & Balance Get fit on your lunch hour Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. Each session is 30 to 40 minutes and uses training techniques that may include strength training, interval and cardio, core, balance and flexibitiliy. Call 398-4776 or 224-9667. Located at 2209 Rowland Suite B in thunderbolt. Also offering running and swimming classes, and for ladies only pole dancing. fitnessconnection1@yahoo.com.

Fountain of Youth Tibetan rites taught free every Tuesday and Friday at 7:30 a.m. at Yoga Hause, 1203 E. 72nd St. Yoga Hause, 1203 E. 72nd St. Gentle Yoga Gentle Yoga with Mary Ann is offered Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. Participants must be 18 or older. Mat and blanket are required.

Limited to 12 participants. Pre-register at adultenrichment@uusavanah.org or call 234-0980. Held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah upstairs in Phillippa’s Place. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. 912-234-0980. www.uusavannah.org Ladies Livin Smart fitness club provides nutritional education and exercise to encourage lifestyle changes at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health

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Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. 912447-6605. www.sjchs.org/1844.cfm Learn to Run and Swim This class is offered Tuesdays from 5-7 p.m. at Lake Mayer for all levels of fitness, beginners to advance. Running is offered from 5-6 p.m. at Lake Mayer and swimming is held from 6-7 p.m. at the Aquatic Center.

Sessions are organized and led by a certified personal trainer and triathlete. Choose one or participate in both. Call 675-1104 or visit coastaltriathlon.com.

Mindful Fitness Membership Price Plan $25 per month includes entry into all the Center for WellBeing classes. Pre-register in Suite 120 in the Candler Heart & Lung building. 819-6463. Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5354 Reynolds Ave. 912819-6000. www.sjchs.org Mommy and Baby Yoga Classes are held Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. at the Savannah Yoga Center, 25 E. 40th St. Infants must be 6 weeks to 6 months, pre-crawling. The cost is $13 per class. Multi-class discounts are available. The instructor is Betsy Boyd Strong. Walk-ins are welcome. Call 441-6653 or visit www. savannahyoga.com. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. 912-232-2994. www.savannahyoga.com/

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A balanced life Student massage is offered at the Savannah School of Massage Therapy, Inc. Cost ranges from $30 to $40 for a one-hour massage and sessions are instructor supervised. Call 3553011 for an appointment. The school is located at 6413B Waters Ave. www.ssomt.com.

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Moms in Motion A pre and post-natal exercise program is offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing. The cost is $30 per month. Call 819-6463. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. 912-819-6000. www.sjchs.org/ National Gymnastics Day Whitemarsh Island YMCA will host a free gymnastics open house on Saturday, Aug. 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 66 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Appropriate for children 2 and up.

YMCA Whitemarsh Island, 135 Whitemarsh Island Rd. 912-897-6158.

Overcoming by Faith Ministries Aerobics and Exercise Classes Free classes are offered every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 p.m. at 9700 Middleground Rd. in Savannah. All classes are open to the public. For more information, call 927-8601.

Pilates Classes are offered every Tuesday and Thursday from 6-7 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing. Pre-register by calling 819-6463. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. 912-819-6000. www.sjchs.org/ Savannah Yoga Center Located at 1321 Bull St. Call 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com for schedule of classes, times and fees. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. 912-232-2994. www.savannahyoga.com/ Senior Power Hour is a program for people over 55. Health and wellness professionals help reach fitness goals. The program may include, but isn’t limited to, strength training, cardio for the heart, flexibility, balance, basic healthy nutrition and posture concerns. Call 898-7714.

Structure Fitness Bootcamp Monday, Wednesday, Friday 6 a.m clases at Forsyth Park to get you into the best shape of your life. Classes differ daily and challenge you with cardio and strength building intervals to build stamina, strength, power, agility and coordination. You should be able to maintain a light jog for 10 minutes as a participant. 4 week commitment required. Visit www.structurefitness.net or call Jennifer at 224-0406. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. 912-233-6800.

Sunrise Boot Camp at Tybee Island will be held Monday through Friday from 6-7 a.m. Park in the North Beach parking lot and go over the first crossover. Bring a mat. Conducted by Paul Butrym, certified personal trainer and ex-Marine. Three days of strength training and two days of cardio each week. The cost is $10 per class, $40 for the week or $75 for a four-week session. Call 604-0611 or email pbutrym@comcast.net.

Tai Chi Classes St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Wellbeing offers classes Mondays and Fridays from 10:30-11:30 a.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Pre-register by calling 819-6463. Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5354 Reynolds Ave. 912819-6000. www.sjchs.org Tai Chi Relaxation Class is held Sundays from 3-4:30 p.m. at The Yoga Room, 115 Charlotte Rd., Whitemarsh Center. 898-0361 or www.thesavannahyogaroomm.com. Ancient Chinese exercises that were specifically developed to

heal body, mind and spirit together. Held Saturdays from 3-4:30 p.m. at The Yoga Room, 115 Charlotte Rd. Call 898-0351.

Tai Chi Yang Style Short Form Slow and relaxed for all ages. 6-week introductory class begins Thursday, Jan. 24 from 7-8:30 p.m. at Southern Hemisphere Books, 41 Habersham. $10 per session. Instructor is Tom Wilke. Call 707-616-1200 after 7 p.m. or e-mail jwilke56@sprintpcs.com.

The Yoga Room Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom.com or call 898-0361 for a schedule of classes, times and fees. Savannah Yoga Room, 115 Charlotte Dr. 912-898-0361. www.thesavannahyogaroom.com/ Women on Weights Spine & Sports Personal Training offers the Women on Weights (WOW) Program. The WOW Program is designed to meet the specific needs of women. It is a series of one hour training sessions led by a Certified Personal Trainer who develops different routines throughout the month. The routines may include but are not limited to, Strength Training, Cardio Training for the Heart, Flexibility, Balance and Weight Management. The group meets two times a week for one hour each session. For pricing call 898-7714.

Yoga Teacher Training Institute A 200-hour Basic Yoga Teacher Training program is offered at Savannah Yoga Center.

It meets Yoga Alliance standards, and graduates will receive a certificate and be eligible for certification by the alliance. The cost for the entire course is $1,500. Call 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. 912-232-2994. www.savannahyoga.com/ Yogalates Classes are offered by St. Joseph’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. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. 912-819-6000. www.sjchs. org/

Gay & Lesbian

First City Network Board Meeting Meets the first Monday at 6:30 p.m. at FCN’s office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. 236-CITY or www.firstcitynetwork.org. First City Network, 307 E Harris St. 912-236-CITY. www.firstcitynetwork.org/ Gay AA Meeting meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 311 E. Macon St. For information, contact Ken at 398-8969.

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

Savannah Pride, Inc. meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the FCN office located at 307 E. Harris St. Everyone is encouraged to attend, for without the GLBT community, there wouldn’t be a need for Pride.

Call Patrick Mobley at 224-3238. First City Network, 307 E Harris St. 912-236-CITY. www.firstcitynetwork.org/

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Stand Out Youth -- Savannah A Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7 p.m. at the FCN building located at 307 E. Harris St. Call 657-1966, email info@standoutyouth.org or visit www. standoutyouth.org. First City Network, 307 E Harris St. 912-236-CITY. www.firstcitynetwork.org/ What Makes A Family is a children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Groups range in age from 10 to 18 and are held twice a month. Call 3522611.

Health

Better Breathers of Savannah meets to discuss and share information on C.O.P.D. and how people live with the disease. For info, call Dicky at 665-4488 or dickyt1954@yahoo.com.

Community Cardiovascular Council, Inc. Control your high blood pressure. Free blood pressure checks and information at the Community Cardiovascular Council at 1900 Abercorn St. Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 232-6624.

Community HealthCare Center is a non-profit organization that provides free medical care for uninsured individuals who work or live in Chatham County and

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Happy Valentine

Daze, Aries! After meditating about what advice would be most useful for your love life during the rest of 2008, I decided on this observation from 17th-century philosopher Sir Francis Bacon: “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” In other words, you should raise your appreciation for interesting idiosyncrasies and cute “flaws” and odd proportions.

They are not inconvenient imperfections that mar the beauty you need in your life. They are the very essence of it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Happy Valentine

Daze, Taurus! After extensive meditation about what advice would be most useful for your love life in the coming months, I decided on this observation from the Dutch priest and writer Henri Nouwen: “Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body’s deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body’s superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Happy Valentine

Daze, Gemini! During my search for the spark that would be most likely to energize your love life, I found this dose of truth from novelist Tom Robbins: “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” I hope that quote inspires you to shed any tendency you might have to wait for the ideal romantic situation to find its way to you. Instead, establish a habit of visualizing in precise detail the kind of love you want to give and receive. Then work on patiently materializing it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s my

Valentine message for you, Cancerian: The sea inside of you is not just at high tide, it’s at the highest tide possible -- like what happens when the moon is full at the same time that it’s at its closest approach to Earth. To

do not qualify for Medicare or Medicaid. All patients receive free examinations, medicine through the patient assistance program and free lab work. Women receive free pap tests and mammograms. Call 692-1451 to see if you qualify for services. Located at 310 Eisenhower Dr., No. 5, Medical Center.

Community Health Mission, Inc, 310 Eisenhower Dr., Suite 6.

Current Concepts in Foot and Ankle Care A free community health forum with Dr. Chris Nicholson will be held Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. in the Marsh Auditorium of Candler Hospital. To register, call 819-3368.

Through Feb. 19. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. 912-819-6000. www.sjchs.org/

Diabetic Nutrition will be presented by the National Diabetes Education Program on Feb. 14 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. 4476605. Through Feb. 14. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. 912-447-6605. www.sjchs. org/1844.cfm Dual Recovery Anonymous This 12-step program addresses all addictions and mental health recovery. Persons who are recovering from an addiction and a mental health problem can send e-mail to katkope@netscape.com for information.

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intensify the drama, the sea inside of you is stormy, with torrential rains pouring down from the heaven inside of you as winds bluster and lightning cracks. There are even water spouts rising up now and then. Yet from my perspective, it’s all gorgeous and majestic, a marvelous spectacle worthy of celebration.

And since I’m confident no harm will come to you during this elemental interlude, I advise you to just enjoy the ride.

about what advice would be most likely to energize your love life, I decided on this edgy wisdom from writer Charles Caleb Colton: “If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.”

(Substitute “man” for “woman” and “him” for “her” if that makes the message work best for you.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Scholar Suzanne

Daze, Scorpio! After extensive meditation about what advice would be most useful for your love life in the coming months, I decided on this gentle rant from the South African poet Shabbir Banoobhai: “Love is a mystery. And the reason why it is a mystery and should remain a mystery is that knowledge of it would give us mastery over it -would enable us to manipulate it -- and love, truth, God, cannot be manipulated. Hence the Prophet exclaimed, ‘My Lord, increase my bewilderment in Thee.’”

Juhasz says that Emily Dickinson’s eroticism “inflects and charges” most of her poems.

“Erotic desire -- sensuous, nuanced, flagrant, extreme, outlandish, and profound -- is her way of interacting with the world.”

From an astrological perspective, it would make perfect sense if you experimented with a similar predilection in the coming days, Leo. During the superheated grace period you’ll be enjoying, interesting things are likely to happen if you basically make love to the whole world. The urge to merge shouldn’t just be the icing on the cake. It should be the icing, the cake, the plate it’s on, your eating of the cake, your feeding of the cake to others, and all the stories you tell about your encounter with the cake. Happy Valentine Daze, Leo! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The Eskimos had

52 names for snow because it was important to them,” wrote novelist Margaret Atwood.

“There ought to be as many for love.” Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to coin at least nine of those 52 new names between now and January 1, 2009. Of course that means you will have to discover or create nine alternate states of love that have previously been unnamed. And to do that, you’ll have to put aside your habitual expectations and standard definitions of what constitutes love so that you can explore an amazing array of nuances, including varieties you never imagined existed. Start now, Virgo. Happy Valentine’s Daze!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Happy Valentine

Daze, Libra! After strenuous meditation

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Happy Valentine

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): After medi-

tating on how to energize your love life this Valentine season, I decided to encourage you to bring the spirits of sampling and the mash-up into your relationship life.

Sampling is what happens when a musician openly lifts a riff out of an existing song and inserts it into his or her own composition. In a mash-up, a producer takes parts from two different songs to assemble a new song that has elements of both originals but is an entirely new creation. I encourage you to apply these approaches to your collaborations with intimate allies. For example, “sample” a close friend’s favorite catchphrases or clothes, and use them as your own. Or tell that person a story from his or her own past, but recount it as if it happened to you. The two of you could also write a journal entry together, taking turns spinning out each new line. You might even switch roles for a day, trying out what it actually feels like to be the other person.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Happy

Valentine Daze, Capricorn! The astrological omens suggest that you should liberate your

wild heart from its hiding place, maybe even experiment with extravagant expressions of love. To get yourself worked up into a proper state of fertile agitation, read aloud from Pablo Neruda’s book *100 Love Sonnets* (translated by Stephen Tapscott), starting with “Love Sonnet XI”: “I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps . . . [I] hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond . . . I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes. And I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens . . . .”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Happy

Valentine Daze, Aquarius! Want to make your love life better? Then purify your motivations for seeking love. For at least three weeks, be impossibly honest and noble and righteous in your dealings with intimate allies. You might even consider approaching romance with the same reverence a monk summons in his spiritual quest for divine communion. Fast, pray, meditate, dance holy dances, wander into the wilderness and cry out for a vision -- all in the name of deepening your capacity for the transformative power of human relationships.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Happy Valentine

Daze, Pisces! Here are the words of wisdom I think will be most useful as you shape the future of collaboration and togetherness. They come to you courtesy of writer Marnie Reed Crowell. “To keep a fire burning brightly,” she says, “Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart -- about a finger’s breadth -- for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.” Even if you’re not married and don’t plan to be anytime soon, this is an excellent guideline for any intimate connection you want to see thrive in 2008. Cultivate spacious closeness. w

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Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group A 12-step group for people with eating disorders and self-harm disorders. For information, call Brandon Lee at 927-1324.

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

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

Free Car Seat Checks Certified child passenger safety technicians will examine child safety seats for recalls and to insure correct installation Saturday, Feb. 16 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the parking lot of the Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 25 Candler Dr. Call 3533148. Through Feb. 16.

Free hearing & speech screening Every Thursday morning from 9-11 a.m. at the Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601.

Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St. 912-355-4601. www.savannahspeechandhearing.org/ 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. My Brothaz H.O.M.E., 211 Price St. 912-231-8727. www.mybrothazhome. org/Welcome.html Hypnobirthing Childbirth Classes are being offered at the Family Health and Birth Center in Rincon. The group classes offer an opportunity for couples to learn the child birthing process together, while providing a very integral role to the companion participating. Classes provide specialized breathing and guided imagery techniques designed to reduce stress during labor. All types of births are welcome.

Classes run monthly, meeting Saturdays for three consecutive weeks. To register, call The Birth Connection at 843-683-8750 or email Birththroughlove@yahoo.com. Family Health & Birth Center, 119 Chimney Rd. 912-826-4155. www.themidwifegroup.com/ Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Clinic is offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler and Emory.

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

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

Meditation and Energy Flow Group Meet with others who practice meditation or want to learn how. Discuss techniques and related areas of holistic health and healing, Reiki and CAM. Reduce stress and increase peace and health. Call Ellen at 247-4263 or RSVP at http://meditation.meetup.com/490.

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.

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.

Smoke Stoppers St. Joseph’s/Candler group-facilitated smoking cessation program offers an intensive class in 7 sessions over 3 weeks featuring a wide range of proven-effective strategies to help smokers control their urges, manage nicotine withdrawal and stress and avoid weight gain. The cost is $100. Call 819-6718.

Stress Reduction Individual introductory session to The Work of Byron Katie includes a short DVD, several handouts and trying these tools out.

Introductory fee is $40. Contact Ursula Sterling at 598-2821 or sterlingu@bellsouth. net for an appointment.

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

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Harbor to Refuge Enjoy a journey back in time aboard a 45foot pontooon boat, accompanied by a Wilderness Southeast naturalist, on Feb. 17 from 1-5 p.m. Beginning amidst the bustle of the harbor, you’ll proceed upriver, looking for wildlife at historic Mulberry Grove Plantation and the serene expance of the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. $49 per person. Meet at Savannah’s River Street public pier. Call 236-8115 for reservations.

Through Feb. 17.

Religious & Spiritual

Blue Jeans for the Soul Each Saturday service will be at 5:30 p.m. and will feature just three things, music with guest musicians, a meditation and an affirmative message. Casual dress welcome.

Located at 2320 Sunset Blvd. off of Skidaway Road just south of Victory Drive. Call 3554704. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. 912-355-4704. www.unityofsavannah.org/

Calling All Christians Open prayer will be held the second Thursday of the month from 4-4:20 p.m. at the Forsyth Park fountain. Call Suzanne at 232-3830. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. 912-233-6800.

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, located on Johnson Square.

Christian Businessmen’s Committee meets for a prayer breakfast every Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. at Piccadilly Cafeteria in the Oglethorpe Mall, 7804 Abercorn St. Call 898-3477. Oglethorpe Mall, 7804 Abercorn Ext. 912-354-7038. www.oglethorpemall. com/ 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.

Handbell Choir Anyone interested in starting/leading or joining/participating in a handbell choir can contact the Rev. Arlene Meyer at 355-4704.

Unity of Savannah at 2320 Sunset Blvd. has the bells and a few interested people without a leader. Visit www.unityofsavannah.org.

Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. 912-355-4704. www.unityofsavannah. org/ Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation A meditation period will be followed by instruction in the application of the foundations of Mindfulness practice to daily life. Beginner’s and experienced practitioners welcome. Ongoing weekly sessions are Mondays from 6-7:30 p.m. at 313 E. Harris St. Call Cindy Beach, Buddhist nun, at 429-7265 or cindy@alwaysoptions.com.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. 912-234-0980. www.uusavannah.org Meditation and Energy Flow Meetup Group First meeting Jan. 6 at 1 p.m. Meets once a month. Meet others to practice meditation and discuss spirituality, metaphysics and related topics of Reiki, energy work, etc. www. ellenfarrell.com or 247-4263.

Meditators Unite!

Beginner and advanced meditators unite to practice meditation and discuss spirituality, metaphysics, holistic approach to healing, Reiki, energy work. Call 247-4264 or visit see_the_light@ellenfarrell.com or read more at http://meditation.meetup.com/490.

Music Ministry for Children & Youth at White Bluff United Methodist Church is now known as Pneuma, the Greek work for breath. “Every breath we take is the breath of God.” The children’s choir for 3 years through second grade will be known as Joyful Noise and the youth choir grades 3-5 will be known as Youth Praise. Joyful Noise will meet Sundays from 4-5 p.m. and Youth Praise will meet Sundays from 5-6 p.m.

Call Ronn Alford at 925-9524 or visit www. wbumc.org. White Bluff United Methodist

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2320 Sunset Blvd. Call 355-4704 or visit www.unityofsavannah.org. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.

Women’s Bible Study at the Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers. Call 447-5711 or Wesley Community Center, 1601 Drayton St. 912-232-0965. www.wesleyctrs-savh.org/

Sports & Games

No Boundaries 5K training program for beginners Fleet Feet Sports is offering a 12-week training program for beginners hoping to run or walk their first 5K race. A $75 registration fee will cover all aspects of the program, which will begin Feb. 16. Sessions and seminars will be offered Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 10 a.m. for 12 weeks. Visit www.fleetfeetsavannah.com.

Through Feb. 16.

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 a Tom Triplett Community Park, U.S. Highway 80 West.

912-652-6780.

Support Groups

ADD and Behavior Support Group meets the third Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Mindspring Center in the Ranicki Chiropractic Complex, 1147 W. Highway 80 in Pooler. RSVP is requested.

Call 748-6463 or frontdesk@mindspringcenter.com.

African-American Women Overcoming Depression and Bi-Polar Disease meets the third Thursday of the month at the Bull Street Library. For information, call JoAnne Wright at 236-0027. Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St. 912-652-3600. www. liveoakpl.org Al Anon Family Groups A fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics meets Monday at 12:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. at 1501 Eisenhower Dr. and Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Goodwill on Sallie Mood Drive. Call 598-

9860 or visit http://al_anon_savannah. freeservers.com.

Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous If you or someone you know has a problem with alcohol, call 354-0993.

Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Support Group The group is for caregivers, family members and friends of persons affected by Alzheimer’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 Children’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 Children’s Hospital, 4700 Waters Avenue. 912-3501KID. www.memorialhealth.com/backus Backus Children’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. Backus Children’s Hospital, 4700 Waters Avenue. 912-3501KID. www.memorialhealth.com/backus Bariatric/Gastric Bypass Support Group for past and potential obesity surgery patients and their families. For information, call Cheryl Brown at 350-3644. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue. 912-350-8000. www.memorialhealth.com/ Better Breathers support group meets to discuss and share information on C.O.P.D. and how people live with this disease. Contact Dicky at 665-4488 or dickyt1954@yahoo.com.

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Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. 912-233-4766. www.trinitychurch1848.org/ Savannah Buddhist Sitting Group meets Sundays from 9-10:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, on Habersham Street at East Harris and East Macon Streets, on Troup Square. Please arrive and be seated no later than 8:55 a.m.

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

Newcomers should contact Cindy Beach, lay ordained Soto Zen Buddhist, at 429-7265 for sitting instruction. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. 912234-0980. www.uusavannah.org Soka Gakkai of America (SGI-USA) SGI-USA is an American Buddhist movement for world peace that practices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO. For information, call SGIUSA at 232-9121.

Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community Church Services begin Sunday at 11 a.m. at 707 Harmon St. Coffee and discussion follow each service. Religious education for grades 1-8 is offered. For information, call 2336284 or 786-6075, e-mail UUBC2@aol.com.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah A liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. On Feb. 17, the Rev. Joan Schneider will present “Humanism As I Understand It.” The service will be held Sunday at 11 a.m. in the Troup Square Sanctuary. For information, call 234-0980, or send e-mail to admin@uusavannah.org or visit the web site at www.uusavannah.org.

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PORT WENTWORTH THE COVE - brand new townhouse! 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, washer/dryer included. Next to I-95 & Airport. $800/month, $800/deposit.

212 EAST 40th ST. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, washer and dryer included. $800/month.

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Historic District, 349 Tattnall.

Luxury 2BR/1.5 ba, Central AC, Washer/Dryer, 4 FP’s, deck/courtyard, No Pets. Available Now. $1800/mo includes some utilities. 912-604-2485 or jrkenney@hotmail.com

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Great location near Forsyth Park, SCAD buildings and Kroger.

Newly renovated duplex, 3 BR, 2 BA, LR, large kitchen, W/ D, hardwood floors, C H/A, two fireplaces, large back porch, courtyard and off-st. pkg. $1,200/mo.

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29 East 34th Street Spacious 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment in the Thomas Square District. Separate ding area, W/ D connections, hardwood floors, window H/A, kitchen furnished with stove and refrigerator.

Just a few blocks from Forsyth Park. Visit sicaymanagement. com AVAILABLE NOW. Pet friendly $750/mo.

538 East 49th Street Charming and spacious 2 BR, 1 Bath apartment in Ardsley Park with hardwood floors, central H/A, W/D connections, offstreet parking. Upper half of Duplex.AVAILABLE NOW. Pet Friendly. $775/mo.

18 West 40th Street Beautifully renovated 2 BR, 1BA lower half of duplex in the Starland District. Features include formal LR, , formal DR, refinished heart pine floors, ceiling fans, bathroom and kitchen with ceramic tile floors, separate laundry room with washer/dryer, private courtyard.

C H/A, total electric and paid security system. AVAILABLE NOW. Pet Friendly. $1,000/mo.

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21 West 50th Street Over 1500 sq. ft. of spacious living. 3 bedroom, 1 bath apartment formal dining room, sun room, kitchen furnished with stove and refrigerator, offstreet parking, central H/A, W/ D connections. AVAILABLE NOW. Pet friendly $900/mo.

320 East Victory Drive Over 2000 sq. ft. of spacious living. 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment with fireplace in formal living room. Formal dining room, sun room, b r e a k f a s t n o o k , b u t l e r ’s p a n t r y, k i t c h e n f u rn i s h e d with stove and refrigerator, central H/A, W/D included.

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