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Live at the Lucas

This ain’t karaoke, people.

Savannah Danse Theatre performs The Nutcracker in Savannah this Saturday, with live orchestral accompaniment under the baton of Peter Shannon.

By jim Morekis | 22 photo from 2007 production by christina m. bunn

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R.I.P. Joe Cox, better known to generations of Savannahians as Captain Sandy | 9

Eat some cake and help send some talented Savannah Children’s Choir singers to England | 17

SCAD Gallery Hop this Friday offers fun and some cool gift ideas | 28

We spit on the recession!

Patronize your friendly local businesses | 21

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The Golden Pecan

A prequel to the Nutcracker, The Golden Pecan tells the story of a young Drosselmeyer and how his nephew was turned into a nutcracker.

When: Fri. Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn Street.

Cost: Free Info: lucastheatre.com

Wednesday The Journey

An interactive Christmas story that presents life as it was the night Christmas began, presented by Savannah Christian Church, 55 Al Henderson Blvd.

When: Wed. Dec. 10, Thu., Dec. 11, Fri. Dec. 12, Sat. Dec. 13 and Sun. Dec. 14.

Cost: $5/person, max of $20/family, children 5 and younger free, Info: www.savannahchristian.com

The Sounds of Winter

Savannah Arts Academy choral and orchestra students present a holiday concert.

When: Wed. Dec. 10, 7 p.m. and Thu., Dec. 11, 7 p.m.

Where: Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington Ave. Cost: $6 adults, $3 seniors/ students Info: 201-5000.

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Botanical Gardens Holiday Open House and Holiday Tea

The Savannah Area Council of Garden Clubs, will host this event at 1388 Eisenhower Dr. Tea from 2-4pm.

When: Thu., Dec. 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Info: 355 3883.

Freedom’s March Panel and Film

A panel discussion of “Legends of Savannah’s Civil Rights Movement and the CCCV” and a screening of

Messiah Singalong

The Journey continues at Savannah Christian Church the rare 1964 documentary film “Right Now.” When: Thu., Dec. 11, 6 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 York St. Cost: Free Info: www.telfair.org

Savannah Council on World Affairs

“A Look at Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s First Year in Office,” presented by Dr. Cristian Harris of North Georgia College and State University.

When: Thu., Dec. 11, 8 p.m.

Where: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street.

Cost: $5 Info: georgiasouthern.edu/

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Fort Pulaski Candlelantern Tours

Tours recreate the Confederate Nog Party of 1861.

Programs presented at 6, 6:20, 7, 7:20, 8 and 8:20pm.

Reservations required.

Freebie of the Week |

When: Fri. Dec. 12 and Sat.

Dec. 13.

Where: Fort Pulaski

National Monument, Cockspur Island.

Cost: $5 adults, 15 and under free Info: www.nps.gov/fopu/

9th Latin Festival of Our Lady Of Guadalupe

Enjoy Latin food, music, culture and folklore at the soccer field on GA 25 (Cantyre and Barnsley roads) in Port Wentworth.

When: Fri. Dec. 12, 11 a.m.10 p.m.

Info: 655-9007.

Skatefest 2008

Real ice skating.

When: Fri. Dec. 12, 4, 6, 8 & 10 p.m., Sat. Dec. 13, 10 a.m., 12, 2, 4, 6, 8 & 10 p.m., Sun. Dec. 14, 2, 4, 6 & 8 p.m., Mon. Dec. 15, 4, 6 & 8 p.m., Tue., Dec. 16, 4, 6 & 8 p.m. and Wed. Dec. 17, 4, 6 & 8 p.m.

Where: The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Avenue.

Cost: $7 Info: www.savannahcivic. com

Cardinal Rep: Doubt, A Parable

John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer and Tony Award winning drama.

When: Fri. Dec. 12, 8 p.m., Sat. Dec. 13, 8 p.m., Sun. Dec. 14, 3 p.m., Fri. Dec. 19, 8 p.m., Sat. Dec. 20, 8 p.m. and Sun. Dec. 21, 3 p.m.

Where: The Freight Station, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: $20; $15 military/senior/student Info: www.cardinalrep.org

The Savannah Orchestra performs at this traditional holiday concert.

When: Fri. Dec. 12, 8 p.m.

Where: Wesley Monumental UMC, 429 Abercorn St. Cost: $20 adults, $10 kids Info: www.savannahsinfonietta.org

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Lights on for Tybee

Children can make Christmas ornaments, dreidels for Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa wall hangings.

Fee includes all materials, snacks, and admission.

When: Sat. Dec. 13, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Where: Roundhouse Railroad Museum, 601 W Harris St. Cost: $5 Info: www.chsgeorgia.org

Mayor Jason Buelterman and Mayor pro tem Wanda Doyle will kick-off the event with the lighting of the Christmas tree. When: Fri. Dec. 12, 6:30 p.m.

Cost: Free

Savannah Children’s Theatre: Winnie-ThePooh

Three of Pooh’s greatest adventures.

When: Fri. Dec. 12, 7 p.m., Sat. Dec. 13, 3 p.m. and Sun. Dec. 14, 3 p.m.

Where: Savannah Children’s Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Drive.

Cost: $12 Info: www.savannahchildrenstheatre.org

Savannah Children’s Theatre: Thoroughly Modern Millie

A musical production suitable for the whole family.

When: Fri. Dec. 12, 7 p.m., Sat. Dec. 13, 7 p.m., Sun. Dec. 14, 3 p.m.

Where: Savannah Children’s Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Drive.

Cost: $12

Lecture by the Rev. Joseph Lowery

Lowery is often called the “Dean of the Civil Rights movement.”

When: Thu., Dec. 11, 6 p.m.

Where: Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. Cost: Free Info: www.trinitychurch1848.org/

Saturday

Events marked with this symbol are things we think are especially cool and unique.

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music

for a complete listing of this week’s music go to: soundboard.

Holiday Fun at the Roundhouse

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art

for a list of this weeks gallery + art shows: art patrol

Christmas for Kids & Holiday Open House

Cookie decorating, ornament making, cloggers, storytelling, photos with Father Christmas and more. Later in the day, see hundreds of lights and more than 500 luminaria in the courtyard.

When: Sat. Dec. 13, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Where: City Market.

Cost: Free Info: www.savannahcitymarket.com

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Movies

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34th Annual Holiday Tour of Homes Choose between an afternoon or evening walking tour of private homes downtown.

When: Sat. Dec. 13, 12-4 & 5-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $30 Info: www.dnaholidaytour.com

The Nutcracker in Savannah

A holiday favorite with a distinctly Savannah flair, presented by the Savannah Danse Theatre. The Candy Cane Matinee offers a chance to meet the cast, and the evening performance will be accompanied by a live orchestra under the direction of Peter Shannon.

When: Sat. Dec. 13, 2 & 8 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn Street.

Cost: $25, $30 and $35 Info: www.lucastheatre.com

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Ballet

A children’s ballet for children, presented by the Children’s Ballet Theatre of The Academy of Dance.

When: Sat. Dec. 13, 2 & 5 p.m.

Where: Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton Street.

Cost: $18 adults, $15 students over 12 and $10 children, military and seniors Info: www.academyofdancesav.com

Tybee Christmas Parade

The parade will travel down Tybrisa Street to Butler Avenue and end at the Tybee Gymnasium, where Santa will join the Tybee Island YMCA to

present children’s activities.

When: Sat. Dec. 13, 3 p.m.

Cost: Free

3rd Annual Southern Lights Gallery Hop

Travel via holiday trolley to various galleries in the Historic District. Participating galleries include the SCAD galleries, galleries of City Market, Chroma Gallery, the Telfair Museum of Art and Dimensions Gallery. The event will kick off with a reception in the Telfair Museum of Art. When: Sat. Dec. 13, 5 p.m.

Cost: Free Info: 644.6452.

A Colonial Christmas

Celebrate the holidays at Sunbury as it may have been done in the colonial period.

When: Sat. Dec. 13, 5-8 p.m.

Where: Fort Morris Historic Site, 2559 Fort Morris Road.

Cost: Free Info: 912/884-5999

Sacred Heart Folk Group Holiday Concert Joni Bishop of Nashville performs. Sacred Heart Folk Choir opens.

When: Sat. Dec. 13, 6 p.m.

Where: Sacred Heart Church, 1707 Bull St. Cost: $10 donation Info: www.jonibishop.com

City Market Open House

See holiday decorations, including more than 500 luminaries, and enjoy Christmas carols and a visit with Father Christmas.

When: Sat. Dec. 13, 6-9 p.m.

Where: City Market, Jefferson

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Ensemble Con Spirito performs works focusing on Mary.

When: Sun. Dec. 14, 3 p.m.

Where: Wesley Monumental UMC, 429 Abercorn St. Cost: Free Info: www.ensembleconspirito.org

Advent Festival of Lessons & Carols

The Music Ministry presents this holiday tradition from King’s College Cambridge.

When: Sun. Dec. 14, 10:30 a.m.

Where: Christ Church, 28 Bull St. Cost: Free Info: 232-4131.

‘On the River’ Brunch

Presented by Savannah Choral Society.

The Savannah Folk Music Society teams up with the Unitarian Universalist Church. Judy Williams leads and Kelli Blackmarr accompanies.

When: Sun. Dec. 14, 7-9 p.m.

Where: Unitarian Universalist Church, 313 Harris St. Cost: Free Info: savannahfolk.org Billy Joel and legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp join forces to create a musical that brings Joel’s classics to life.

When: Sun. Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Avenue.

Cost: $30-50 Info: www.savannahcivic.com

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Let Them Eat Cake

Fundraiser for Savannah Children’s Choir. Bobby Deen is guest cake judge.

When: Mon., Dec. 15, 6-8 p.m.

Where: Eckburg Auditorium on Savannah Tech’s White Bluff campus Cost: $10 Info: savannahchoir.org cs

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When: Sat. Dec. 13, 8 p.m.

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In a class(ical) by themselves

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

This weekend you have a chance, on successive evenings, to hear and experience the best classical music Savannah has to offer.

On Friday night at Wesley Monumental, the Savannah Orchestra performs its annual singalong to Handel’s immortal Messiah, guest-conducted by Timothy Hall. This is a beloved annual event, held in one of our most historic venues (and acoustically excellent venues as well, as anyone who attended the recent Savannah Orchestra Masterworks concert there will attest).

On Saturday night at the Lucas, Peter Shannon conducts members of his Savannah Philharmonic in Tchaikovksy’s Nutcracker score, which will be danced by Savannah Danse Theatre. This version of the ballet is fancifully set in Savannah in the 1940s, with special guests Stratton and Mary Leopold.

At a time when the Charleston Symphony Orchestra is reeling from financial difficulty, we are lucky indeed to be able to have two such fine classical music organizations here.

Now — it’s up to you to support them!

If you haven’t been to connectsavannah.com in awhile, you’ve missed a few things.

As I wrote in a previous Note, it’s mighty tempting for a weekly newspaper to also view the website as a weekly responsibility, rather

than a daily one.

But in an effort to freshen up our content from day-to-day rather than week-to-week, we’ve been ramping up our web-only content.

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve had internet-only stories such as: • A review of this past weekend’s Blind Boys of Alabama show at Cafe Loco; • Photos from the Sarah Palin rally in town; • Several breaking crime news updates; • A short piece on the New South Cafe relocating to the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum; • And a story and photos from the recent “Dancing with Savannah Stars” fundraiser at the Charles Morris Center.

Don’t miss any more! Make it a habit to refresh connectsavannah.com early and often.

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9 Remembering the

life and career of Joe Cox, aka “Captain Sandy.” by robin wright gunn

8 Health 10 Blotter 11 Straight Dope 12 News of the Weird 13 Earthweek

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Ho, ho... woe

National economy likely to affect 2009 city budget by linda sickler | linda@connectsavannah.com

City Council has turned its attention to that end-of-the-year grinch -- the annual city budget.

City Manager Michael Brown groused at the council’s Dec. 4 meeting that this is his least favorite time of the year. “But I don’t mean the holidays,” he quickly added.

Brown means the seemingly endless number-crunching that has gone into formulating the 2009 Service Program and Budget, which got its first public hearing at the meeting. He says the budget is a good one, but the national economic crisis will have to be considered. The $282 million budget, which runs Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2009, will be approved at the council’s Dec. 18 meeting.

Brown said the city is in better shape than most other cities. “We held city departments to 2008 funding levels,” he said. “We told them there would be zero new

programs.”

The largest slice of the pie, 38 percent, will go to water resources, with 34 percent going to public safety. Twenty percent of the budget is for transportation, and 8 percent for administration.

While the status of the nation’s economy is critical, Brown said the city is in a good position. “We do have time to look at revenues and expenditures and scrutinize each cost to assure the budget remains balanced,” he said.

The council also unanimously approved the Parental Support and Responsibility Ordinance, despite concerns raised at the previous meeting that there weren’t enough resources in the community to provide the necessary support.

Brown noted that most children in the community won’t be affected by the parental ordinance. “Eightyfive to 90 percent are successful,”

he said.

Brown again stressed that the ordinance is not intended to be punitive towards parents, but instead is designed to identify problems and provide parents with resources needed to deal with those children.

Residents have been calling for action by the council, Alderman Mary Osborne said. “Parents do have responsibility for their children,” she said. “We want to help them. If the parents don’t want to do what they should, there is an administrative court hearing.”

“Parents are looking for help with how to handle these children in certain instances,” Alderman Edna Jackson said. “When it gets to the administrative level, that’s a different picture.”

Alderman Jeff Felser said some parents are looking to the city government for help. “They’re wanting us to provide a process through legislation,” he said.

“That’s the best we can do as elected officials. The rest depends on cooperation between the schools, the DFACS, the courts and the police.

“We are doing and fulfilling what the public asked us to do,” Felser said. “We’re asking parents to step up to the plate. If they don’t, there is a process to take

them in another direction.”

“This council is saying ‘We heard you’,” Mayor Otis Johnson said. “As imperfect as this ordinance may be, it’s better than anything else we have because there is nothing else. It’s better than anything we have right now.”

In other action, the council discussed the staffing of the county’s Counter Narcotics Team. The Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department is required to provide 30 of the total 60 officers in the CNT, per the five-year merger agreement that united city and county police departments.

Under the original agreement, control of the CNT was supposed to pass to the city police and be supervised by Police Chief Michael Berkow. The county has refused to budge, leaving the unit under county control and the supervision of County Manager Russ Abolt.

So far, only 23 city officers are assigned to the CNT, raising concerns that the city wasn’t fulfilling its obligation because of the merger disagreement. But Brown assured the council the other seven officers would be provided.

Brown said the entire police force will be expanding, as per Berkow’s plan. He said he expects the department to be at full staff, about 600 officers, by June. cs

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Golden Pecan explains the story behind The Nutcracker. by jim morekis

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health

Code blue at the Health Department County services cut back in wake of state funding difficulties

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by linda sickler | linda@connectavannah.com

Erica Green just wanted to help. A senior at Beach High School, she was a teen peer counselor for the Chatham County Health Department’s Adolescent Health and Youth Development Program.

The peer counselors went to local churches and high schools to talk to other teens about health issues, including sexuality and protection against sexually transmitted diseases.

“We would have training twice a week and we would go into the community numerous times throughout the month,” Green says.

The voluntary position required a lot of work. ”We were always preparing ourselves, learning as much as we could, to be knowledgeable,” Green says.

Teens are much more likely to talk to other teens than adults, Green says.

When they have questions about sexuality, they don’t always get the best information from their friends.

“That was another reason we trained so often,” Green says.

“Teenagers get information that isn’t always correct and isn’t always from a reliable source. We were accurate. Our peers could come and talk to us and get the right information. If we didn’t know something, we’d go back and ask.”

All that ended in June when funding for the program vanished. Green says when she and the other counselors were told, they were upset. “A lot of people in the program said it helped them as much as it helped the ones they were helping,” she says.

“I think it was a great loss that was unexpected,” Green says. “Hopefully, something good can come from this so that teens will have someone to turn to. It seemed to me that this was something very important that needed to be done. It was something I wanted to be a part of.”

ZaDonna M. Slay, Program and Evaluation Manager with the ChathamSavannah Youth Futures Authority, echoes Green’s concerns. “Young people won’t have that professional safe haven now,” she says. “They will only have

their friends or someone they may see as a big brother or sister, who may not have correct information.”

The Chatham County Health Department has the most valid information about health issues, Slay says. “There are so many young ladies who don’t know about the HPV virus,” she says.

“The health department provides public awareness and advocacy.”

Some of Slay’s friends were teen peer counselors when they were in high school. “Peer counselors keep everything confidential,” Slay says. “A lot of teens said they considered it a job. They took it very seriously.”

Teens may worry about sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy and other issues that they aren’t willing to take to adults. “From the young people I work with now, I see the common theme is, ‘We don’t have anywhere to go’,” Slay says. “They don’t have a place where they can seek information and guidance.

“A program such as teen peer counseling helped provide that for them,” she says. “I really hope that even with the budget cuts, some entity will take it on, even if it’s on a smaller scale, so peer education will still exist.”

The teen peer counseling program isn’t the only one affected. The health department is facing budget cuts of almost $1 million, a whopping 10.5 percent of its total budget.

The decrease in revenue is a direct result of budget cuts at the state level and has already begun impacting programs at the health department, whose current fiscal year began in July and will continue through June. “These cutbacks are hitting us hard,” says Dr. Diane Weems, the Chatham County Health Department’s Chief Medical Officer. “We provide necessary services for the citizens of Chatham County, many of whom have limited means to

health care access.”

In addition to programs, some jobs are being lost. Two employees were terminated and eight open positions will not be filled.

Also lost was support funding for programs such as character education, nutrition and physical activity outreach. Reductions have been made in the Women, Infant, Children (WIC) program, which provides nutrition education and supplemental foods to low income families.

All after-hours clinics are gone.

Employees have been told there will be no salary increases this year, and furloughs for all clinical nurse practitioners have been eliminated.

However, the cuts haven’t slowed demand. So far this year, the health department has provided more than 74,000 clinical services to 40,043 patients. It operates the third largest HIV/ AIDS comprehensive care center in the state.

Many people know about the health department’s minination program, especially flu shots. This year, 31,270 immunizations were provided, although the successful drive-through flu-shot clinic conducted the last two years had to be discontinued because of the cuts.

In addition to providing health services, the department inspected more than 1,400 restaurants throughout Chatham County in 2008. The health department also is in charge of public records, and this year provided birth and death certificates to 18,270 clients Weems says the budget cuts are “unusually severe, there’s no question about that.”

“The hardest part with those cuts is that a lot of those were positions for support staff,” Weems says. “The impact of that is we are losing support staff at a time when we are seeing increased demand for some core services, such as WIC, immunizations, family planning and child health. We actually have fewer staff, including nursing hours, to provide those services.”

When taking a furlough, the clinical nurse practitioners worked in the com-

munity, dealing with women’s health and family planning. “Now 24 hours a month in family care is lost,” Weems says. “Somewhere between 25 to 45 patients have less capacity to see someone. It doesn’t sound like huge number, but cumulatively, it is a lot.”

Could the situation get even worse?

Yes. “That’s the message we’re getting from the state,” Weems says.

For now, the health department staff is coping by working more efficiently.

“Everyone is still working 40 hours a week and we’re always asking them to work more efficiently and effectively.

But we’ve reached the point where we’ve maximized that,” Weems says.

“I credit the staff with stepping up to the plate,” she says. “But if we have added budget cuts, we may be looking at more drastic measures.”

Health department funding comes from the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services. “When the legislature convenes after the first of the year, we’re hopeful they will look at approaches that make sense and offset some of these cuts,” Weems says.

“When the economy takes a downturn like this, there tends to be an increase in demand. That’s the hard part.”

The cuts weren’t entirely unexpected. “A travel freeze had been put in place several months ago,” Weems says. “We knew there would be no salary increases for the staff. Even so, the budget reductions we’ve seen have been much deeper than anticipated.”

State funding provides about 40 percent of the health department’s total budget. “The rest is a mix of money from the county, fees generated by services, Medicaid fees, federal aid and grants,” Weems says.

“One key message is we certainly don’t want this news to deter families from seeking services they need,” she says.

“We realize that with all the job losses, families who have never accessed Peach Care may need those services. They should seek the services they need to maintain their health.” cs

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The late, great Joe Cox, aka Capt.

Sandy, with sidekick Wilbur

of the tide report. To retrieve the data, Captain Sandy snatched the report from the snapping “mouth” of the clam.

Arthur Mometer, the captain’s other rival, was a temperamental thermometer — a thick red cord that tried to fool the weatherman that the next day’s temperature might be 95 degrees in January, or 35 degrees in July.

Even for the ‘60s it was cheesy and irresistible.

More than one person played Captain Sandy over the years, but the man who embodied the role was Joe Cox, who died Saturday at age 80. Cox stepped into the character in 1965, keeping the role until the late 1970s.

“We moved to Savannah in 1975,” says Pooler resident Katharine Harrington, who watched Captain Sandy every evening. “He was part of the Savannah legacy. I think he was the first one to reach out to younger viewers to make it interesting for them, so they would learn something.”

Even as a teenager I had trouble separating the character from the man. In 1979, during a year abroad, I watched a broadcast of Hurricane David making landfall on Tybee, with Joe Cox reporting. I remember thinking “Hey that’s Captain Sandy without his outfit,” while worrying about my family.

In Cox’s later years, as a WJCL “regular” meteorologist and radio announcer, and in retirement, he was recognized around town.

“I used to see him in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s at the bank where I worked,” says Harrington. “He was such a nice, approachable man. He never minded having people come up and say something. I think he’d just as soon answer to ‘Captain Sandy’ as ‘Joe.’ ” “I had the opportunity to work with Joe Cox for a short while during my time at WJCL,” writes Gusby. “He had a commanding voice and a gentle spirit.

No one knew weather or this community like Joe. He will be truly missed.” cs

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Yo ho, yo ho, what’s the weather going to be?

Here’s the man who knows, let’s take a look and see.

Here is Captain Sandy with the weather he has found For Savannah, and for Chatham, and the counties all around.

Two weeks ago at a neighborhood Thanksgiving supper, my friend Carmela and I sang this ditty to six amused and bewildered friends, all transplanted residents or out-of-town visitors.

Knowing this tune, the theme to WSAV-TV’s Captain Sandy nightly weather segment from the 1960’s and 70’s, serves as an alma mater for Savannahians of a certain age, and a litmus test to determine whether someone is a local or merely a new arrival—say from 1980 or so.

For me and other kids growing up in Savannah, Captain Sandy the weatherman was a fixture in our lives, beamed into our living rooms every weekday evening for nearly 20 years, a friendly, mellow-voiced man dressed for a day aboard ship in his zippered windbreaker and his signature white captain’s hat.

Though a fictional character, the captain breezily shared the facts of the local weather as part of the otherwise traditionally-announced local news show — making the weather the only interesting part of the nightly broadcast for most kids.

“As a child growing up in Savannah in the ‘70s, I rarely missed watching Captain Sandy,” emails Kim Gusby, Coastal Sunrise anchor for WSAV News 3. “In fact, no one was allowed to touch the television dial (we didn’t have remote controls back then) until after Captain Sandy’s weather report.”

Captain Sandy had a sidekick — Wilbur the Weather Bird, a stuffed pelican who descended from above the nautically themed set, suspended from a plainly visible cable. Wilbur’s wardrobe choice predicted the next day’s climate conditions. If the pelican wore a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses, the day would be hot and sunny. Rainy days ahead?

Wilbur was ready in full-body yellow “fowl” weather gear.

The captain also had his nemeses.

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Police were called to the King George Boulevard Waffle House on a complaint of a drunken man who’d become disorderly.

The cashier said the man began arguing with her over his change. She said the man had used foul language and “given her the bird.”

When the man was asked what he wanted to order, he threw a glass of milk all over the cash register. He was banned from the store, and agreed to go home.

The suspect asked the officer if he could go buy a pack of cigarettes but was told no, that he couldn’t go anywhere but home to sober up. The officer left to report to another call, but was called back to the Waffle House later because the suspect had refused to leave.

When the officer arrived, the man was sitting in back of the restaurant, near a service station. He was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and obstruction.

• An officer was dispatched to an apartment on East 35th Street because of a battery. The man who lives in the apartment told the officer that he was sitting in his living room when someone knocked at the door.

The man answered the door, and saw his ex-girlfriend’s son standing there. The son said, “You hit my mom” and hit the man, who fell down.

While the man was on the floor, the suspect hit him a few more times. As he left, he told the man, “I’m coming back with a gun.”

Earlier, the officer had been called to the area on a report of a man beating a woman, but it was unfounded. The man had a large knot above his left eye, which was bleeding.

• A woman called police and reported that her backpack, containing work clothing, work ID, glasses and two pairs of sneakers, was missing from her apartment on Grove Point Road. When she looked, the woman noticed that the screen had been removed from her bedroom window and someone had unlocked the window.

The officer saw no signs of forced entry

on the window or the front door. The woman said she’d been out of town but hadn’t noticed anything out of place when she returned home.

Some objects in the bedroom had been moved slightly, but there was no noticeable disarray. The woman’s work clothes were taken, but a flat-screen television, laptop, stereo and several pairs of brand-name shoes had been left behind.

• A mother and daughter who reside in an apartment on Kline Street told police that a maintenance worker has been harassing them. They said the man has accused them of breaking a washing machine in the community laundry room, and that he had threatened to take their clothes out of a dryer and throw them out.

They said the man tries to tell them how to live and who can visit their apartment, even though he is an employee and not the property manager.

The man told police that he had explained the laundry room rules to the

women. He said he was concerned because they were letting “outsiders” use the laundry room.

All three were advised to take their concerns to the property manager.

• An Ogeechee Road woman was the apparent victim of a flim flam. The woman told police she was approached by two elderly men who told her they had found a bag with “lots” of money. The men said the money was all in small bills, and they needed some money up front until they could get the money in the bag sorted out.

The woman took $540 out of her mother’s account and gave the money to the men. They told her to meet them “around the corner” after she waited a few minutes.

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Scientists haven’t given up hope of finding animals capable of this, with a view to figuring out how to do it themselves.

But so far it’s been a slow job.

The idea that animals act funny before an earthquake hits has been out there for thousands of years. However, we have to ask: How would this work?

Some possibilities, as discussed in a 2000 article in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America: • P-waves—the fast-traveling primary seismic waves that show up just before things start getting tossed around. Humans aren’t good at sensing these, but animals might be. “Numerous observations exist of animals displaying panic in the few seconds prior to the onset of strong ground shaking . . . including dogs barking, nervous cats jumping out of windows, birds screaming, rats running out of their holes, bees swarming, etc.,” we read.

• Ground tilt, which has been detected hours prior to some Asian quakes.

But the tilt angles are microscopic, and thus far there’s no evidence animals can perceive such tiny shifts.

• Humidity changes. Rising groundwater levels have been detected before some quakes, leading some to conjecture that more moisture would be forced into the air, where animals could notice it.

• Electromagnetic field fluctuations.

It’s been proven earthquakes can generate detectable electromagnetic activity right before they happen. (“Earthquake lights,” the creepy bluish-white flashes that sometimes appear over fault lines before a quake, may be a related phenomenon.) While land animals seem to be oblivious, fish can be attuned to it,

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Can animals sense earthquakes? I’ve heard stories about cats carrying their litter of kittens out of a building just prior to a quake. Is there any truth in it? We’ve had two quakes in the last three hours, and my goldfish didn’t do a thing.

—Nick E., Manchester, England

and magnetosensitive animals such as birds and bees could pick up on it too.

• Low-frequency sound. This one is easy to believe, given how much better animal hearing is than ours. One happenstance observation in the Mojave Desert showed dogs could detect lowfrequency “booms” from earthquake aftershocks that a seismometer registered but researchers didn’t notice.

Let’s say it’s possible for animals to detect quakes in advance. Do they actually ever do it? Some results: • A study of lost pet ads in the San Jose Mercury News showed no increase in runaway animals before Bay Area quakes, despite claims to the contrary.

• Researchers in the Mojave studying a colony of harvester ants during 1992’s Landers earthquake saw no change in the ants’ behavior before, during, or after the quake.

• A group of 1,200 observers in California who were supposed to report cases of strange animal behavior made no more calls than normal prior to the Coyote Lake earthquake in 1979, but a rush of calls right after, having apparently re-evaluated what they’d seen before the event.

The most widely cited claim of successful animal earthquake prediction is the Haicheng, China, quake of February 4, 1975. Official reports said snakes emerged from their winter burrows and froze to death, birds tried to carry eggs from their nests, cows broke their halters and fled, rats acted drunk, and police dogs howled and misbehaved.

Two problems: Numerous foreshocks a day in advance made it obvious something was brewing. More tellingly, the Tangshan earthquake that struck the same region the following year—killing perhaps 240,000 people—went unpredicted.

None of this has stopped people from trying to draw connections, of course. There’s even a Web site, petquake.org, where folks can report whatever batshit antics their pets are up to so anybody who’s interested can watch for the next big one. The rest of us will just keep an eye out for foreshocks, rising groundwater, and creepy blue lights. cs

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The Christmas Nativity scenes in northeast Spain’s Catalonia region have, for three centuries, featured not only Mary and the Three Wise Men but the ubiquitous “caganer” icon, always portrayed with pants down answering a call of nature (and often so obscured in the scene as to popularize Where’s-Waldotype guessing by children). The origin of the caganer (literally, “pooper”) is unclear, but some regard it merely as symbolic of equality (in that everyone has bowel movements). Catalonia is now home to artists who craft statuettes of religious figures poised to relieve themselves, and the franchise extends to renditions of sports figures and celebrities (and even a squatting President Bush). One family in Girona province sells about 25,000 a year, according to a November dispatch in Germany’s Der Spiegel.

People Different From Us

Larry and Diana Moyer set out in November from Beaver Dam, Wis., in their oversized RV to spend some warm days in St. Petersburg, Fla. Since they travel with their pets, Jack (Diana’s “service” kangaroo) and Edward (an elderly goat that uses a cart for mobility because of front-leg paralysis), their route south was circuitous because of some states’ restrictions on “exotic” pets. The RV broke down three times.

In Florida, Larry had a stroke and was hospitalized for two days. Then, a fuse box short-circuited, and the RV burned up, torching their money and ID. Diana was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. With Red Cross help, they found a motel that accepted goats (but not kangaroos, so Jack went overnight to a wildlife facility). At press time, according to a Tampa Tribune report, the couple had bought a junk car and were headed home, with Jack curled up in Diana’s lap.

Leading Economic Indicators

• Budget Relief for the California Government: A homeless transient, Steven Butcher, 50, was convicted of starting fires in the Los Padres National Forest near Santa Barbara in 2002 and 2006 (the latter which burned 163,000 acres) and in November was sentenced to nearly four years in prison. When Butcher gets out, he can work on the other part of his sentence, as he was also ordered to pay

back the state for the fires’ costs, in the amount of $101 million.

• When the Poway Unified School District near San Diego cut teachers’ printing budgets this year, some handout-intensive instructors had to dip into their own pockets to keep their students supplied. Calculus teacher Tom Farber decided in September to sell ad space on page one of his exams, at $10 for a quiz and up to $30 on the semester final. As of November, he told the San Diego Union-Tribune, only parent-sponsored inspirational messages have been bought, but he said he would welcome certain retailers’ ads.

• Economic Stimulus: A British surgeon will spend an estimated 250,000 pounds ($370,000) to equip her luxury home in Gloustershire with a state-of-the-art, three-room suite for her two Great Danes, including cameras so that she can monitor them via the Internet while she is away. Instead of an ordinary dog door, a retina scanner will control entry, and rather than rely on human stewards, the big darlings will be dispensed filtered water and dry food automatically in self-cleaning bowls.

A temperature-regulated saline spa is available for relaxing dips before turning in for the night on sheepskin-lined dog beds.

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• Latest Off-Label Uses of Viagra: Britain’s The Sun reported in November that Calvin Muteesa, 2, of South London has been forced to take Viagra four times a day since he was 3 months old to stave off a potentially fatal case of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

And Bentley, a 7-year-old springer spaniel, has apparently recovered from a potentially fatal lungworm attack on his chronically weak heart via a Viagra regimen at a clinic in Highgate, England. (And last year, Argentinean researchers discovered that hamsters fed Viagra endured the rigors of jet lag about 50 percent better than hamsters fed a placebo.)

• In October, ABC News proThe Juice filed a 6-year-old boy with a rare Got Canned coordination disorder called Angelman syndrome, which makes the afflicted seem stiff and jerky, but which also fosters a cheerful, gregarious (though non-verbal) personality, leading the disorder to be known as the “happy puppet syndrome.”

Seizures are a consequence, but so is excessive laughter, which is a major hindrance to early diagnosis,

according to a pediatrics professor.

• “This is a rare occurrence,” said a Loyola University (Chicago) neurology professor in September, describing to WebMD.com only the seventh reported case of someone’s suffering a stroke during orgasm. Several things must be present in series to create the condition, including having an unnatural opening between the two upper chambers of the heart (a “PFO”). Also, a blood clot must develop and break loose and then get sucked through the PFO at the moment of ecstasy, sending it directly to the brain.

Recurring Themes

More people who put their brains on “standby” while using satellite navigation systems: (1) In July, a group of 10 children and 16 adults from California were stranded in their cars in wilderness near cliffs close to the Grand Canyon, to which they had been misdirected by their navigation system. Rescuers were able to talk them back the next day on their cell phones. (2) Also in July, a truck driver hauling a 32-ton load from Turkey through several European countries headed for Gibraltar in the southern tip of Spain missed his destination by about 1,600 miles, winding up at a dead end in Skegness, England.

(Gibraltar is a British territory, though nowhere near the British Isles, but both places have a “Coral Road,” which was the destination.)

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Saskatchewan physician John Schneeberger, then 31, implanted a thin, 6inch tube of someone else’s blood in his own arm in order to beat a DNA test after two female patients had accused him of rape. He cut open his bicep, inserted the tube, and pushed it down to the crook of the arm from which blood is usually drawn. Thus, “his” DNA didn’t match the rapist’s, and the cases were closed. However, one victim later hired a private detective, who exposed the scam, and Schneeberger was convicted in 1999 (though he maintained that he was forced into the deception because someone had framed him by breaking into his house and stealing a used condom). (Update: Schneeberger served four years in prison and was deported to his native South Africa.) cs

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An outbreak of cholera has killed several hundred Zimbabweans and infected more than 10,000 others across a country now without an effective economic or health care system.

One politician in South Africa suggested that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe be removed from office by force due to policies that have led to millions in his country being at risk of contracting the potentially deadly disease. Cholera is curable with re-hydration therapy, but one in every 10 infected Zimbabweans has not survived since the outbreak began in August. The spiraling collapse of the country’s economy has left most doctors, nurses and other health personnel unpaid. The Red Cross is among several agencies that have begun delivering food to the health professionals, as well as distributing latrines, medicines and hygiene kits to mitigate the cholera crisis. Some patients were being treated outside beneath trees because all available hospital wards were full. In the capital of Harare, the public water supply was shut down after purification supplies ran out, forcing residents to drink contaminated water.

Caribbean Blast Montserrat’s Soufriere Hills volcano exploded with a blast of superheated debris that ignited fires in the Caribbean Island’s long-abandoned capital of Plymouth. The director of the

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Climate Challenges Representatives gathering in Poland for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) were told by three major international relief organizations that climate change is overwhelming their capacity to cope with people made sick or homeless by natural disasters. The agencies cautioned that devastating droughts and floods brought on by global warming are already causing a huge leap in the number of people who need natural disaster relief. “Over the past 20 years, the number of reported disasters has doubled from roughly 200 (per year) to 400,” said Kasidis Rochanakorn, head of the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Speaking on the sidelines of the UNFCCC, scientists from the World Wildlife Fund said climate change and its effects are occurring at a faster rate than climate models had earlier predicted.

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drenching southern India and parts of Sri Lanka with up to 27 inches of rainfall during a fourday period. Many of the fatalities occurred in India’s Tamil Nadu state, where the center of the storm left a trail of damage and millions of acres of crops submerged. The massive disaster was overshadowed by the concurrent terrorist attacks on Mumbai.

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A sharp quake centered just off Taiwan’s east coast caused buildings in the capital of Taipei

Record Brazilian Floods Weekend downpours in southern Brazil that brought as much rain

on Nov. 22-23 as normally falls over several months unleashed catastrophic flooding that has taken two weeks to subside. “This is the worst environmental calamity we have ever faced,” said Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva as he flew over the worst affected state of Santa Catarina. Nearly 100,000 people were driven from their homes by floods that stretched from Rio de Janeiro state to near the border with Uruguay. At least 117 people are confirmed to have died in the floods and mudslides. The destruction of bridges, roads and buildings in the disaster has crippled an already faltering economy in the region.

A Lethal Welcome An Icelandic commission has recommended that any polar bears that swim to the island

nation from Greenland should be shot because it’s too expensive to ship the dangerous animals back home or to a zoo. The commission was appointed last summer after two of the bears were shot dead. They had apparently managed to swim up to 200 miles after ice floes, which carried them part of the way from Greenland, melted beneath their feet. The killings sparked outrage from conservation groups that blamed authorities for not keeping the bears isolated until they could be safely relocated. Polar bear sightings had been rare in Iceland until this past June. The arrival of two bears within a two-week period could lend credence to warnings that global warming is melting the bears’ habitats. cs by steve newman, universal press syndicate

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Billy Joel & Twyla Tharpe’s Movin’ Out

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Old-school ‘60s British electric blues (think Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac or John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers) meets ‘70s Southern boogie (think the Allmans or any one of a number of littleknown or heralded roadhouse acts that tore shit up and faded away into the ether) head-on in this oddball amalgam of a band that actually hails from the wonderfully-named hamlet of Lizard Lick, N.C. Their latest 2-CD set was cut live with no overdubs or studio fixes, and showcases a tight and sympathetic combo combining classic rock drumming, syncopated guitar riffing and expressive, overdriven mouth harp. Listen & Learn: myspace.com/jubalkane.

Fri. - Sat., 10 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House (downtown).

Locks of Love Benefit w/Sol Driven Train, Mr. Wiley

This fundraiser for a worthy, unusual charity that creates custom-made human hairpieces for financially disadvantaged children who have lost their hair due to illness is being spearheaded (no pun intended) by Mr. Wiley, a locallybased rock-reggae-funk group known for their extended, improvheavy and vaguely psychedelic live shows. Reportedly, fans of the band will actually be shearing (and donating) their presumably long locks onstage while the group performs. S.C. buzz-band Sol Driven Train headlines with a set of infectious, sunny, upbeat pop tinged with world beat elements.

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While I can’t deny that Billy Joel certainly has a way with a melody, and —at times— a knack for penning lyrics that tap quite efficiently into the mood of his peer group (and, by extension, ancillary demographics), I’ve got to say that I’ve always found him to be sort of a pathetic character. I realize those are fightin’ words to 99% of the white residents of Long Island, but hey, this is Georgia, so I guess I’ll take my chances.

This touring production of the smash “jukebox musical” which debuted to stellar reviews in 2002 combines around two-dozen of Joel’s best-loved pop tunes, love ballads and filmic rock anthems with a loosely conceptual narrative under the direction and choreography of the legendary Twyla Tharpe.

It proved to be just the ticket for breathing new life into Joel’s blowhard, populist shmaltz, and was so enormously successful on Broadway and in subsequent road companies that no less than Bob Dylan signed up with Tharpe for a similar repackaging of his back catalog. The result, 2006’s The Times They Are A-Changin’, was an abysmal flop that closed after less than a month.

Joel’s continues to do strong business, which may mrwileybandrocks, soldriventrain.com, locksoflove.org. Sat., 9 pm, LiveWire Music Hall.

The Jepson Live Series: The Brendan Polk Trio

For a city that has trouble keeping a dedicated jazz venue in business, we sure have been churning out some exceptional young jazz prodigies over the past few years. Along with trumpeter Alex Nguyen (who’s now plying

be a testament to the melodramatic and outsized nature of much of The Piano Man’s most enduring work. Fans of both Tharpe and Joel will likely find themselves engrossed in this dance-filled celebration of his alternately gruff and sentimental world view.

The rest of us will continue to be nonplussed/bemused at the travails of a guy who used to famously (and belligerently) exhort each and every one of his audiences to “never take any shit from anybody,” yet seemingly takes an awful lot of it himself from his ex-wives, his management, the penal system, etc...

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his trade and paying his dues on the NYC scene), this young pianist seems destined for much greater things, and perhaps a long-term career in the music biz. Already named an “Outstanding Jazz Performer” by the internationally acclaimed Downbeat Magazine, he’s got chops and taste way beyond his years and has been leading a trio featuring the seasoned rhythm section of bassist Willy Harvey and drummer Eric Vaughn for over a year now, despite still being in high school.

This featured slot at this modern art museum’s monthly concert showcase may be his highest profile local gig yet under his own name. All the museum’s galleries will be open during the show, and food and drinks will be available. Listen & Learn: myspace. com/brendanjazzpiano . $10 admission at the door, or free for Jepson/Telfair Museum Members. Fri., 5 pm, The Jepson Center for Contemporary Art - ALL-AGES.

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continues from p.14 Live Wire Music Hall Devon Allman’s Honeytribe; Phantom Wingo (Live Music) Rising, roots-oriented rock and soul power trio, led by the son of Allman Brothers Band leader Gregg Allman; Guitar-oriented, Southern jam-rock band influenced by the Allmans, Panic and Gov’t Mule. 9 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke (Karaoke) -9 p.m.

Mercury Lounge The Eric Culberson Blues Band (Live Music) Internationally-known electric blues trio (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Open Mic (Live Music) With Markus & Hudson. 10:30 p.m.

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

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

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

Savannah Arts Academy Savannah Arts Academy’s “The Sounds of Winter” (Live Music) Diane Stallings and Carl Polk direct a holiday-themed concert by the school’s chorus and orchestra students. Dec 10, 7 p.m. Dec 11, 7 p.m.

Savannah Smiles “Dueling PIanos” (Live Music) Two versatile and wisecracking keyboardists play a wide variety of audience requests. -8:30 p.m.

Scandals TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

The Sentient Bean Psychotronic Film: THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED (Other) Rare 1968 Spanish horror film that greatly influenced Argento’s SUSPIRIA. Uncut in English. Seating begins at 7:30 pm for ALL-AGES. 8 p.m.

Shoreline Ballroom The Misfits;The Independents; The 33s (Live Music) Infamous horrorpunk icons, sadly now a shell of their former selves with few key members intact; S.C.-based punks who’ve toured often with the modern-day Misfits. 8 p.m.

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

Steamer’s Five Point Productions’ Extreme Trivia w/Jeremy & Ben (Other) Live trivia game. 8 p.m.

Tommy’s Karaoke w/ Jeff & Rebecca (Karaoke) Venus De Milo Open DJ Night (DJ) 9 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon (Live Music) Solo pianist playing standards, Latin and jazz covers.

-noon -7 p.m.

American Legion Post 184 Rick Elvis (Undressed) (Live Music, Other) Locally-based Elvis impersonator, performing without his costume. 4 p.m. 8 p.m.

Augie’s Pub (Richmond Hill) TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

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

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

Benny’s Tybee Tavern Karaoke (Karaoke) w/DJ Levis 9:30 p.m.

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

Blaine’s Back Door #@*!

Karaoke (Karaoke) Bogey’s Five Points Productions’ Karaoke w/Keith (Karaoke) 10 p.m.

Club One Industrial Resurrection w/ DJ Shrapnel (DJ) 10 p.m.

Doc’s Bar Roy & the Circuit Breakers (Live Music) Fannie’s on the Beach “Georgia Kyle” Shiver & Fiddlin’ Scott Holton (Live Music) 7 p.m.

Fiddler’s Crab House The Eric Culberson Blues Band (Live Music) Internationally-known electric blues trio led by a charismatic singer/guitarist (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

Grapevine Gail Thurmond (Live Music) Local piano/vocal legend playing jazz, country, Latin and standards. 6:30 p.m.

Hang Fire DJ Skypager w/ Zone D (DJ) Dancehall tunes.

Hercules Bar and Grill TBA (Live Music) Rock, Blues, Soul and Pop 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Trae Gurley’s “Swoonatra” (Live Music) Singing thespian’s tribute to Ol Blue Eyes’ golden period. 7:30 p.m.

Jepson Center for the Arts Civil Rights Film Screening & Panel Discussion: RIGHT NOW (Other) Rare, 30-minute 1964 film about Chatham County’s Crusade for Voters.

The film includes civil rights legends “Big Lester” Hankerson, Hosea Williams and others. Followed by “Legends of Savannah’s Civil Rights Movement Remember the Chatham County Crusade for Voters” feat. panelists Frances Bright Johnson, Mamie Small Williams, Rev. Jimmie Lang and Vanda Patton. 6 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Tom O’Carroll (Live Music) Dublin born folklorist/instrumentalist known

for his wit and musicality - playing bodhran, acoustic guitar and tin whistle. Dec 10, 8:30 p.m., Dec 11, 8:30 p.m., Dec 12, 8:30 p.m., Dec 13, 8:30 p.m. Dec 14, 8:30 p.m.

Live Wire Music Hall Zach Deputy (Live Music) Relentlessly-touring S.C. feelgood singer/songwriter playing Calypso, soul and hip-hop-influenced acoustic guitar with organic human beat-boxing.

9 p.m.

Loco’s Deli & Pub (Southside) Five Points Productions’ Extreme Trivia w/ Kowboi (Other) Live trivia game. 8 p.m.

Mansion on Forsyth Park Silver Lining (Live Music) Jazzy local guitar/bass/drums trio (funk, blues, Latin, exotica) w/female vocals (covers & originals). 8:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke (Karaoke) -9 p.m.

Mercury Lounge Bottles & Cans (Live Music) Hardswinging, house rockin’ garage-blooze and old, weird, Americana (covers & originals). Dec 11, 10 p.m. Dec 12, 10 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) Karaoke (Karaoke) 10 p.m.

Moon River Brewing Co. Eric Britt (Live Music) Acoustic guitarist/singer playing alt. rock and pop 8:30 p.m.

Murphy’s Law “Live Jukebox” w/DJ Sweaty Sock (DJ) 11 p.m.

Myrtle’s Bar & Grill J. Howard Duff (Live Music) 7:30 p.m.

Night Lights “Rock Star Karaoke” (Live Music, Karaoke) Kraoke featuring a live band, rather than pre-recorded music. 11 p.m.

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

Pour Larry’s (formerly John’s Bar) Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Robin’s Nest Karaoke (Live Music, Karaoke) 8 p.m.

Savannah Arts Academy Savannah Arts Academy’s “The Sounds of Winter” (Live Music) Diane Stallings and Carl Polk direct a holiday-themed concert by the school’s chorus and orchestra students. Dec 10, 7 p.m. Dec 11, 7 p.m.

Savannah Smiles “Dueling PIanos” (Live Music) Two versatile and wisecracking keyboardists play a wide variety of audience requests.

-8:30 p.m.

The Sentient Bean Open Mic Comedy Night (Other) Local humor showcase. 8 p.m.

Slugger’s Trivia w/ Charles & Mikey (Other) 10 p.m.

Spanky’s TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

Tommy’s Karaoke w/ Jeff & Rebecca (Karaoke) Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Chuck Courtenay & Bucky Bryant (Live Music) Singing acoustic guitar duo known for their vocal harmonies, playing rock, pop and country hits. 6 p.m.

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

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

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A.J.’s Dockside “Georgia Kyle” Shiver (Live Music) American Legion Post 36 Karaoke (Karaoke) Baja Cantina TBA (Live Music) 7 p.m.

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

Bayou Cafe TBA (Live Music) Live rock, blues and Southern rock cover bands. 9 p.m.

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

Black Angus Steak House Karaoke with Butch (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.

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

Doubles Lounge “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond (DJ) El Picasso Karaoke (8 p.m.)

(Karaoke) Fiddler’s Crab House JubalKane (Live Music) High-energy N.C. blues/boogie band with a British revival influence and ace harp player (covers & originals). Dec 12, 10 p.m. Dec 13, 10 p.m.

Gayna’s Bar Karaoke (9 p.m.)

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

Jazz’d Tapas Bar David Lugo & Latin Jazz Motion (Live Music) Local Afro-Latin combo featuring veteran percussionist Lugo and many top area players (covers & standards).

9 p.m.

Jepson Center for the Arts Jepson Live Series: The continues on p. 19

Friday

continues from p.18 Brendan Polk Trio (Live Music) Special three-hour live performance by an awardwinning local teenage jazz pianist prodigy and his band.

All galleries at this contemporary art museum will be open during the show, and food and drinks will be available. 5 p.m.

The Jinx Karaoke (Karaoke) 11 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Tom O’Carroll (Live Music) Dublin born folklorist/instrumentalist known for his wit and musicality - playing bodhran, acoustic guitar and tin whistle. Dec 10, 8:30 p.m., Dec 11, 8:30 p.m., Dec 12, 8:30 p.m., Dec 13, 8:30 p.m. Dec 14, 8:30 p.m.

King’s Inn #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m., 9 p.m., 9 p.m. 9 p.m.

Live Wire Music Hall The Train Wrecks (Live Music)

of Silver Lining on bass and drums (covers & originals).

10 p.m.

Pepino’s #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) Planter’s Tavern TBA (Live Music) Piano Jazz -7 p.m.

Pour Larry’s (formerly John’s Bar) DJ Zodiac (DJ) Dec 12, 10 p.m. Dec 13, 10 p.m.

Savannah Smiles “Dueling PIanos” (Live Music) Two versatile and wisecracking keyboardists play a wide variety of audience requests.

-8:30 p.m.

The Sentient Bean Moira Nelligan (Live Music) Special Christmas show by an extremely talented Atlanta-based acoustic Celtic musician (fiddle, bodhran, recorder) and singer with strong ties to Savannah, playing both traditional tunes and modern folk-pop. 8 p.m.

Steed’s Tavern @#! Karaoke (Karaoke) 8 p.m.

Tantra Lounge A Nickel Bag of Funk (Live Music) Local, dance-oriented, femalefronted combo voted Best Local Funk/R&B Act in our latest Readers Poll (covers & originals). 9:30 p.m.

Venus De Milo DJ Moustache (DJ) 9 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon (Live Music) Solo pianist playing standards, Latin and jazz covers. -noon -7 p.m.

The Warehouse The Jeff Beasley Band (Live Music) Swinging R & B, old-time rock and roll, Cajun-tinged Americana and boogie-woogie feat. drums, sax, bass and guitar (covers & originals). 8 p.m.

Wasabi’s DJ Frankie -C Spins Hip-hop an Electric Fusion (8 p.m.) (DJ) Ways Station Tavern Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church The Savannah Orchestra: Third Annual Handel’s Messiah Sing-along (Live Music) Timothy Hall guest conducts this performance featuring Handel’s most famous work, including the Hallelujah Chorus.

Audience members are given scores and encouraged to join in as vocalists. 8 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Live DJ (DJ) 8 p.m.

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SATURDAY

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

Bayou Cafe TBA (Live Music) Live rock, blues and Southern rock cover bands. 9 p.m.

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

Black Angus Steak House David Flannery (Live Music) Acoustic guitarist offering rock, pop, blues and modern folk-oriented tunes (covers & originals).

Bogey’s Five Points Productions’ Karaoke w/Keith (Karaoke) 10 p.m.

Captain’s Lounge #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) Chuck’s Bar #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) Club One DJ Hancock (DJ) 10 p.m.

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

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Breakers (Live Music) Longrunning party band specializing in disco, 60s rock, Motown and vintage soul (covers).

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

Fiddler’s Crab House JubalKane (Live Music) High-energy N.C. blues/boogie band with a British revival influence and ace harp player (covers & originals). Dec 12, 10 p.m. Dec 13, 10 p.m.

Gayna’s Bar Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Grapevine Gail Thurmond (Live Music) Local piano/vocal legend playing jazz, country, Latin and standards. 6:30 p.m.

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

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

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Bottles & Cans (Live Music) Hardswinging, house rockin’ garage-blooze and old, weird, Americana (covers & originals). 9 p.m.

The Jinx Whiskey Dick (Live Music) Local acoustic

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Hard-rocking local roots-abilly and Americana act led by Texas-born songwriter Jason Bible (covers & originals). 9 p.m.

Loco’s Deli & Pub (Downtown) Turtle, Joe & Friends (Live Music) Side-project from popular locally-based rock/funk/jam act Turtle Folk.

11 p.m.

Lucas Theatre Savannah Danse Theatre’s “The Golden Pecan” (Live Music, Other) A prequel to the Nutcracker in Savannah, this free show (sponsored by the City of Savannah)is a fantastic fairy tale filled with dance and festive holiday music for allages. 7:30 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke (Karaoke) -9 p.m.

Mercury Lounge Bottles & Cans (Live Music) Hardswinging, house rockin’ garage-blooze and old, weird, Americana (covers & originals). Dec 11, 10 p.m. Dec 12, 10 p.m.

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

Murphy’s Law The Hitmen (Live Music) Brash local electric blues trio featuring Maggie Evans and Mark Cordray

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Jazz Night w/ Bobby Lee Rodgers

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continues from p.19 guitarist/singer whose band features pedal steel, drums and bass. They mix outlaw country covers with raw, ribald and sometimes X-Rated originals in the same vein. 11 p.m.

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

Kevin Barry’s Tom O’Carroll (Live Music) Dublin born folklorist/instrumentalist known for his wit and musicality - playing bodhran, acoustic guitar and tin whistle. Dec 10, 8:30 p.m., Dec 11, 8:30 p.m., Dec 12, 8:30 p.m., Dec 13, 8:30 p.m. Dec 14, 8:30 p.m.

King’s Inn #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m., 9 p.m., 9 p.m. 9 p.m.

Live Wire Music Hall Locks of Love Benefit w/Sol Driven Train; Mr. Wiley (Live Music) Charity concert helping an organization that makes wigs for children who lose their own due to illness, feat. an up-and-coming Charleston-based feel-good organic rock act known for high-energy live shows, plus a local rock, reggae and funk influenced jamband whose friends will cut and donate their hair onstage. 9 p.m.

Lucas Theatre Savannah Danse Theatre’s “The Nutcracker in Savannah” (Live Music, Other) Imaginative retelling of the classic Christmas story, set in 1945 Savannah - feat. a vengeful river rat, dancing snowflakes and Leopold’s Ice Cream - all choreographed to Tchaikovsky’s score! Live music conducted by The Savannah Philharmonic’s Peter Shannon. Dec 13, 2 & 8 p.m.

Mansion on Forsyth Park Silver Lining (Live Music) Jazzy local guitar/bass/ drums trio (funk, blues, Latin, exotica) w/female vocals (covers & originals).

8:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke (Karaoke) -9 p.m.

Mercury Lounge Bluesonics (Live Music) Longrunning, dance-oriented

local electric shuffle blues combo (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Kurtis & Kody (Live Music) Tybee-based acoustic pop-rock brother duo (by way of Nashville) that crafts catchy, emotional songs with infectious grooves. 10 p.m.

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

Murphy’s Law Seldom Sober (Live Music) Local male/female acoustic duo (fiddle, guitar and bodhran)playing trad Celtic folk and pop. 5 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.

Pour Larry’s (formerly John’s Bar) DJ Zodiac (DJ) Dec 12, 10 p.m. Dec 13, 10 p.m.

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

Savannah Smiles “Dueling PIanos” (Live Music) Two versatile and wisecracking keyboardists play a wide variety of audience requests. -8:30 p.m.

The Sentient Bean Matt Leach (Live Music, Karaoke) 8 p.m.

Steed’s Tavern #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) Hosted by Sam Johnson. 8 p.m.

Trustees Theater The Children’s Ballet Theatre of the Academy of Dance’s “Twas the Night Before Christmas” (Other) A children’s ballet for children! Dec 13, 2 & 5 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.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon (Live Music) Solo pianist playing standards, Latin and jazz covers.

-noon -7 p.m.

The Warehouse The Hitmen (Live Music) Brash local electric blues trio featuring Maggie Evans and Mark Cordray of Silver Lining on bass and drums (covers & originals). 8 p.m.

WG’s The Tenderloin Trio (Live Music) Local act playing hillbilly jazz, Old-Time country, rural blues and string band covers & originals on acoustic guitar and singing saw. 10:30 p.m.

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American Legion Post 184 Rick Elvis (Undressed) (Live Music, Other) Locally-based Elvis impersonator, performing without his costume. 4 p.m. 8 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) Bernie’s (Tybee) Karaoke w/DJ Levis (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Bogey’s Five Point Productions’ Karaoke w/Keith (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Daquiri Island Karaoke (Karaoke) Doc’s Bar Roy & The Circuit Breakers (Live Music) Singer/guitarist (with sequenced backing) plays pop/rock/soul/beach hits and originals.

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 Jazz Corner Deas Guyz (Live Music) Popular regional R&B/soul/funk combo (covers & originals). Dec 14, 8 p.m., Dec 21, 8 p.m. Dec 28, 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Annie Allman (Live Music) Versatile multi-instrumentalist playing a wide variety of instrumental pop, jazz and blues favorites on guitar.

7 p.m.

The Johnny Mercer Theatre “Movin’ Out” - The Billy Joel / Twyla Tharpe Sensation (Live Music, Other) Touring production of a famed Broadway musical that brings 24 Billy Joel pop and rock classics to life in a conceptual piece directed by a famed choreographer. 7:30 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Tom O’Carroll (Live Music) Dublin born folklorist/instrumentalist known for his continues on p. 35

continues from p.20 wit and musicality - playing bodhran, acoustic guitar and tin whistle. Dec 10, 8:30 p.m., Dec 11, 8:30 p.m., Dec 12, 8:30 p.m., Dec 13, 8:30 p.m.

Dec 14, 8:30 p.m.

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

McDonough’s Karaoke (Karaoke) -9 p.m.

Mercury Lounge Voodoo Soup (Live Music) Local hard-jamming funk/soul/rock/fusion group with a wide repertoire (feat. members of The Permanent Tourists & Phantom Wingo). Dec 14, 10 p.m. Dec 21, 10 p.m.

Murphy’s Law Irish Pub Session (Live Music) Local and regional Irish musicians playing both trad and contemporary Celtic music.

6 p.m. “Hitman Karaoke” (Karaoke) Standard Karaoke hosted by local blues guitarist and singer Brett “Hitman” Bernard. 9 p.m.

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

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

Savannah Smiles “PianoPalooza” (Live Music) Crowd members get a chance to add vocals to their favorite tunes - played live by professional pianists. 8:30 p.m.

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

Tantra Lounge Five Points Productions’ Karaoke (Karaoke) 10 p.m.

The Tailgate Five Points Productions’ Butt Naked Trvia w/Kowboi (Other) Live trivia game. 10:30 p.m.

Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House TBA (Live Music) Acoustic Blues, Country, Rock, Bluegrass & Pop acts Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah Savannah Folk Music Society’s Annual Holiday Caroling Party (Live Music) A long-standing local tradition, lead by Judy Williams and Kelli Blackmarr at the keyboard, including popular songs of the season followed by the a social hour with refreshments. Free admission with a suggested donation of some edible holiday treat to share. 7 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon (Live Music) Solo pianist playing standards,

15 MONDAY

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

Blueberry Hill Karaoke (Karaoke) Doubles Lounge Live DJ (DJ) Beach Music Fiddler’s Crab House Keith & Ross (Live Music) Local roots rock, southern rock and classic rock duo using acoustic guitar and banjo (covers/originals). 10 p.m.

Hang Fire DJ Kane (DJ) The Jinx DJ KZL’s Kaleidoscope (DJ) Wild mash-up of soul, garage rock, dub, psych, funk, electro, disco and punk from GAM frontman Keith Kozel. midnite Kevin Barry’s Danny Quinn (Live Music) Versatile Celtic singer/songwriter who’s released a dozen indie CDs, tours the East Coast and has gigged with everyone from John Prine to The Chieftains.

Dec 15, 8:30 p.m., Dec 16, 8:30 p.m., Dec 17, 8:30 p.m., Dec 18, 8:30 p.m., Dec 19, 8:30 p.m., Dec 20, 8:30 p.m.

Dec 21, 8:30 p.m.

King’s Inn #@*! Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m., 9 p.m., 9 p.m. 9 p.m.

Live Wire Music Hall TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke (Karaoke) -9 p.m.

Murphy’s Law Open Mic Night (Live Music) Hosted

by Markus from The Train Wrecks. 10:30 p.m.

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

Tantra Lounge Swing Dancing Lessons (Other) Just like it says... 10:30 p.m.

Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon (Live Music) Solo pianist playing standards, Latin and jazz covers. -noon -7 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke (Karaoke) 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.

Fiddler’s Crab House Nancy Witt (Live Music) Solo pianist (standards, showtunes & originals). 6:30 p.m.

Fiddler’s Crab House Open Jam Night hosted by Hazel Virtue (Live Music) Chance for pros and amateurs alike to sit in with an established regional alt.rock band. 10 p.m.

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

The Jazz Corner The Jazz Corner Trio feat. Bob Masteller (Live Music) Regional trio of veteran musicians playing the swinging music of Mercer, Armstrong, Jobim, Wallace, Gershwin and more.

Dec 16, 8 p.m., Dec 23, 8 p.m.

Dec 30, 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Jeff Beasley (Live Music) Savannah guitarist who doubles on percussion playing swinging R & B, old-time rock and roll and Cajun-tinged Americana (covers & originals). 7 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Danny Quinn (Live Music) Versatile Celtic singer/songwriter who’s released a dozen indie CDs, tours the East Coast and has gigged with everyone from John Prine to The Chieftains.

Dec 15, 8:30 p.m., Dec 16, 8:30 p.m., Dec 17, 8:30 p.m., Dec 18, 8:30 p.m., Dec 19, 8:30 p.m., Dec 20, 8:30 p.m.

Dec 21, 8:30 p.m.

Live Wire Music Hall Comedy Open Mic (Other) Chance for local standup comics to hone their stagecraft. 7 p.m. Open Jam Session (Live Music) Geared toward “all musicians”. Sign-up from 8 pm - 9 pm. 9 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke (Karaoke) -9 p.m.

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

Pour Larry’s (formerly John’s Bar) Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Roof Top Tavern Open Mic hosted by Markus & Hudson (Live Music) 10:30 p.m.

Saya Lounge DJ Blue Ice

(DJ) Spinning “one hit wonders” all night long. 9 p.m.

Tantra Lounge Salsa Dancing Lessons (Other) Just like it says... 9 p.m.

The Tailgate BN Trivia w/Artie & Brad (Other) 10 p.m.

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Savannah Orchestra performs Handel’s Messiah in singalong fashion for the third time

If there’s one thing Timothy Hall knows, it’s how to conduct Handel’s Messiah.

The former choral director of the Savannah Symphony, Hall was at the helm of that organization’s tradition of performing this classic piece as a community sing-along.

Since the dissolution of the Savannah Symphony, Hall has occupied the position of musical director and organist at Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church — a historic house of worship downtown on Calhoun Square that has frequently hosted a variety of musical events in addition to its services.

This Friday evening marks the third year in a row —after a lengthy break of several years— that the Savannah

Orchestra (formerly known as the Savannah Sinfonietta) has turned to his expertise in mounting such a production.

Hall, orchestra director Bill Keith and others involved in organizing and promoting this family-oriented event are hoping for their biggest turnout yet, and word on the street is that advance ticket sales are brisk.

Hall spoke with me at length regarding the importance of community events such as this, and why he draws particular personal joy from these concerts. Excerpts are below. For the entire interview, go to connectsavannah.com.

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Timothy Hall: There’s not a whole lot of difference between the way we used to do it in the Savannah Symphony. The orchestra is about the same size as the one we used before. The challenge is for me to try and make the whole thing seem fresh and not just the same old sing-along that a lot of folks have come to expect. I try to look at each year as a different event and change up the tempos and the accents so that it does not become predictable.

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What are the major differences between these productions of the Messiah and those you did with the old Savannah Symphony?

How much planning and rehearsal goes into mounting a production of this scope?

Timothy Hall: Well, the individual performers, myself included, have to do a lot of pre-rehearsal on our own. I have continues on p. 16

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to truly know the score and practice my conducting. Then we met for only one rehearsal to put it all together.

Except for the choir. For something like this, the choir is whoever happens to show up that night who wants to chime in and sing! Since so many of us have done this before, we pretty much know the basic music. We just have to make sure we’re all on the same page and have the same mind-set.

You really have no idea who might show up to sing from the crowd.

Timothy Hall: Exactly. We might get 50 sopranos and only three tenors! I have to be able to take what we’ve got to work with and hopefully turn it into something that works for everyone. I think that’s why some people frown upon or don’t take Messiah sing-alongs seriously. But I, on the other hand, think it’s a great chance for people of all types to come together. It introduces them to the orchestra in an extraordinary way. It also introduces them to a type of music they may have never really paid attention to before, and to Handel. We’ll ideally get people there from all walks of life — from all the way out in Effingham to right here in downtown Savannah. And they’ll all pitch in and make beautiful music together. It’s pretty much a one-of-a-kind show, because this exact group will never be together like this again.

I’m assuming that leading a performance such as this is a tremendous rush.

Timothy Hall: Well, it is a great rush.

And again, part of the rush is because there are so many people out there that I know and love. There’s something about them standing out there and singing and me making eye contact with them. It makes me so emotional that at times I can hardly conduct the piece without tearing up. My friends laugh at me because I tend to cry a lot, but it’s because of what we’re all doing together as a team. By the end, it’s all I can do to stay on the podium, because I feel like I could just ascend up into the air! It’s truly that exciting to me. By the time you get to the Hallelujah Chorus, when the trumpets and the drums come in, you can hardly stand it. cs The Savannah Orchestra presents: Handel’s Messiah Community Sing-along Where: Wesley Monumental United Methodist When: 8 pm, Friday Cost: $20 for adults & seniors, $10 for students in adv. or at door Info: savannahorchestra.org,

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Savannah Children’s Choir holds ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ fundraiser with Bobby Deen as celebrity judge In a world of declining standards — where a rap song without profanity is considered an artistic breakthrough — the Savannah Children’s Choir defies the trend.

The nonprofit performing group, which includes local schoolchildren from second through eighth grades, insists on at least a B average from its young singers, all of whom also have to pass a vocal audition. And if they have trouble keeping their grades up, the Choir provides free tutors.

“We’ve brought in people to work with them, and as long as kids make a commitment to us, we make a commitment to them,” says Roger Moss, Choir artistic director and one-time American Traditions finalist. “On a national level we’re one of the few choirs that has that requirement. Let’s put it this way: I couldn’t have been in this choir.”

But far from an elitist gathering of pampered kids, Savannah Children’s Choir recruits from across the community, regardless of background.

“The other thing that separates us from most childrens choirs we’ve seen is that ours is multicultural,” explains Moss. “Most choirs are white suburban choirs. But our kids come from every walk of life — we have public school kids, private school kids, home school kids.”

Savannah Children’s Choir Managing Director Cuffy Sullivan says that regardless of background, their singers are responding to what society has largely stopped doing: Holding them to a higher standard.

“We’ve found that kids rise to expectations,” says Sullivan. “And unfortunately, kids today don’t have very many expectations placed on them.”

“We set the bar so high and these kids have so much fun meeting it, it’s crazy,” echoes Moss.

The group’s emphasis on whole-child development, in academics as well as in music, has paid real-life dividends.

Both Sullivan and Moss point to the example of two members who made real life changes as a result of singing in the choir.

“For a couple of our girls this has been absolutely pivotal for them,” says

Sullivan. “They were at junctures where their lives could have gone on a very different path. Because of the confidence they gained and the success they experienced in the Choir, they’ve taken the positive path for their future.”

Moss describes the difficulties of teaching music to entire classes of Savannah schoolchildren who have grown up on a steady diet of hip hop.

“I was working with some middle school boys, and it was hard for them to match pitch. So I asked how many of them have heard real singers before, and it turned out that 90 percent of them had only heard rap,” says Moss in amazement.

“Hip-hop artists have a range of six notes at the most. So these kids have grown up literally deprived of music.”

The kids who show an aptitude for singing and the determination to keep their grades up go on to comprise the Savannah Children’s Choir.

And after that, singers can take that experience and make it work for them.

“So far, 100 percent of our singers who have tried out to get into the Savannah Arts Academy have made it in,” says Sullivan.

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“People pay $10 to come in, and they get to sample cakes from everywhere.

Places like Lulu’s, Baker’s Pride, it’s a very impressive list,” says Moss.

“Bobby Deen will be a celebrity judge,” says Moss. “I joke that all these ladies that want to marry a Deen need to bake a cake and send it in, because he’s the only single one left.” cs Let Them Eat Cake Fundraiser for Savannah Children’s Choir When: Mon., Dec. 15, 6-8 p.m.

Where: Eckburg Auditorium on Savannah Tech’s White Bluff campus Cost: $10 Info: savannahchoir.org

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Peter Shannon conducts the orchestra at Savannah Danse Theatre’s Nutcracker by jim morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

While Savannah Danse Theatre has been performing The Nutcracker in Savannah with a live orchestra for several years, this edition marks the first time the music will be under the baton of maestro Peter Shannon of the Savannah Philharmonic and Savannah Choral Society.

Shannon and company have made waves in the local arts scene the past year with a number of well-received and well-attended operas and concerts.

SDT’s Artistic Director Suzanne Braddy says the collaboration was a natural next step for both artists.

“I worked with Peter during the Savannah Choral Society’s production of La Traviata,” says Braddy. “We really worked well together and he was very supportive. I appreciate his ‘charge ahead’ attitude and I felt like he would be a great fit for our Nutcracker.”

Shannon is equally effusive in his praise for Braddy, who he praises as a key, but largely unsung, proponent of classical music in Savannah.

“I think what Sue Braddy has done, and this really should be acknowledged, is she’s the one who first brought orchestral music back to Savannah when the symphony went under,” Shannon maintains.

“She was the one who said, ‘I’m going to bring that orchestra back and I’m going to use it.’ So she gets a lot of credit for that, and if I can be involved and I can support that in some way, then I’m all on for it.”

Previous live orchestras at SDT Nutcrackers have been conducted by Mary Woodmansee-Green of the Hilton Head Orchestra. Shannon says despite his already-busy music season — the Philharmonic and Choral Society is performing The Merry Widow in January — he’s been able to find time to work with Braddy in bringing Tchaikovsky’s beloved Nutcracker score to life.

“For the last ten years with my orchestra in Heidelberg, doing a concert

once a month, or even more often, is what I’m used to,” says the gregarious Irishman.

“But this is really something I’m looking forward to doing. I’ve never done The Nutcracker before, and it’s actually quite a lot of music, which I’m starting to realize now (laughs). The logistics of putting this together are quite enormous,” he says.

Accompanied by what Shannon calls a “pick-up orchestra” of musicians largely drawn from the ranks of the Philharmonic — but not limited to them — Savannah Danse Theatre will perform a slightly more contemporary version, set in Savannah in 1945.

“Because I set the Nutcracker in Savannah, I wanted set it in a time that was distinctly American,” Braddy says.

“1945 was such a special in time this country — a time of celebration and homecoming with the end of World War II, and it seems like a time when Savannah thrived within its small community, with street cars buzzing, movie houses packed, Broughton Street bustling and Leopold’s Ice Cream as a joyous indulgence.”

Almost as if to answer the unspoken, ubiquitous question, “How is this Nutcracker different from all the rest?”

Shannon says it’s no contest.

“God, there’s a huge difference.

That other Nutcracker comes in from Columbia, but nobody mentions that it’s not with a live orchestra. It’s like the difference between singing with a live band onstage in a jazz club, or doing karaoke!” he says.

“There’s a great link when the whole orchestra is accompanying the dancers

onstage. There’s no divide where the stage meets that pit.

It’s linking that space. When you use playback music, you’re so regimented.”

Braddy agrees, saying “When we perform with a live orchestra, we all push ourselves further to produce the highest quality performance we can.”

Shannon says there’s no substitute for live music, especially in a world where artistic spontaneity is increasingly rare.

“Our ears are so adjusted to perfection through CDs, watching DVDs, everything is perfection, perfection, perfection. If something goes wrong, it’s ‘Aaaah! He played a wrong note!’”

Shannon says.

“I don’t know any brilliant musician who doesn’t screw up in a concert. It happens all the time,” he says. “But we’re so honed in on that sense of perfection that we end up letting a wrong note spoil a concert. And that’s just not the way it works.”

That said, Shannon is known for his notoriously high standards. While several principal dancers in SDT’s The Nutcracker in Savannah are professionals, the bulk of the dancers will be amateurs. How will Shannon react?

“When you’re working with amateurs in a sense you have to be more professional. The organization, everything has to be very, very tight. You give them very strict guidelines,” he says.

“I don’t have any say about what happens onstage, but I trust Sue, and I trust whatever she does, even if it’s not perfect. In some ways that’s part of my life too, because my chorus that sang the Mozart, they’re amateurs as well.

You have to trust them to do their best.”

Shannon says that despite a school of thought among some classical musicians that Tchaikovsky is somewhat ham-handed as a composer, he has a devoted and growing respect for the composer and his impact.

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“Tchaikovsky is a huge, huge influence in music. Maybe because he’s so popular people tend to frown on it. I certainly did when I was younger. I thought it was this sugary, sweet music, all nice flowing melodies and cool instrumentation,” recalls Shannon.

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There’s a lot of history too – he was homosexual, and couldn’t express that of course in Russia. So a lot of the man is reflected in his music. You really find a way into the soul of the composer,” he says.

“Tchaikovksy was someone who could wear his heart on his sleeve, and that’s something that I didn’t like as a young conductor. And now I have absolutely no problem with that at all,” says Shannon.

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The story in a nutshell

Rarely performed Golden Pecan is a ‘prequel’ of sorts to The Nutcracker by jim morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

Ever watched The Nutcracker and wondered what’s the deal with that Drosselmeyer dude? And for that matter, why everyone gets so worked up about the nutcracker itself? I mean, it’s just a nutcracker, right?

The answers to those age-old questions lie in a little-known “prequel” ballet which lays out the whole storyline for the famous holiday classic.

Known by various titles, such as “The Hard Nut” and “The Magic Nut,” the free performance this Friday night at the Lucas has been tweaked for a Georgia audience, going by the name The Golden Pecan in honor of our favorite native nut.

“This is a very original adaptation of a ballet that’s rarely done, and a story that’s rarely told,” says Sonja Wallen, administrative director of Savannah Danse The-

atre, which is staging the performance starring students from Shuman Middle School and Savannah Arts Academy.

“It really helps clear up a lot of things you see in The Nutcracker that don’t always make a lot of sense.”

The plot in a nutshell — ha, ha — involves a younger Drosselmeyer, who serves as the king’s inventor. The king, whose favorite food is sausage, wants to have a huge feast, so the queen organizes a sausage-making party.

But the night before the banquet, a resident rodent called Mrs. Mousericks

Suzanne Braddy, center in the photo on the left, works with Shuman Middle School students in preparation for the show

and her seven sons sneak in and eat all the sausage but a few little morsels.

“The king is infuriated, so he orders Drosselmeyer to invent a trap for the mice,” Wallen says. “He baits it with the few remaining crumbs of sausage, and all the mice go for it and are killed except Mrs. Mouserinks herself. She vows to get revenge on the king.”

Flash forward to the birth of Princess Perlipat, guarded from rodent revenge by seven nursemaids and seven tomcats, who — this being a ballet and all — promptly fall asleep, allowing Mrs.

Mouserinks to cast a spell on the young princess, giving her the face of a pig.

On orders of the king, Drosselmeyer tries to discover a way to break the spell.

“He figures out the only way is to find a special nut covered in gold, and a certain clean-shaven young man has to be one to crack open the nut,” Wallen says.

So who finds the nut, or in this case, the Golden Pecan? Who is that mysterious clean-shaven young man?

And will Princess Perlipat remain porcine, or will she get her human face back?

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We won’t give too much away here, but suffice it to say that the pecan is found and the spell is reversed. But the ever-mischievous Mrs. Mousericks helps to turn a handsome young man into a wooden nutcracker.

“And that’s why the nutcracker is so special,” Wallen concludes.

Savannah Danse Theatre Artistic Director Suzanne “Sue” Braddy got the idea from a recent Russian ballet of the legend of “The Hard Nut” and decided to fold this show into her usual annual effort to mount The Nutcracker, performed at the Lucas the day after (see story this issue).

“Sue thought it was interesting, so she did some research and adapted various pieces from different versions and made it into a version we could do,” Wallen says.

This show Friday night will be danced by performing arts students from Shuman Middle School and Savannah Arts Academy, with a couple of guest dancers from Braddy’s troupe.

“Sue had been teaching dance at Shuman and was familiar with the students, so she thought this was something they would really enjoy,” Wallen says, adding that Shuman’s head of performing arts, Christina Powell, also teaches at Savannah Danse Theatre. “It’s a natural fit.”

The Golden Pecan is funded through the Weave-a-Dream program of the city’s Cultural Affairs Department.

“This is the first time we’ve received money from the city, and we’re happy they have this program to help us get started. Everyone has been very helpful,” Wallen says. “Also Gulfstream Aerospace gave us a generous grant to help with set production.”

Wallen says though it’s a traditional tale, the dancing will all be contemporary in nature.

“We really encouraged everybody to have fun with this, that this doesn’t have to be as serious as the regular Nutcracker,” Wallen says. “We told the kids to be more creative, to take more liberties with the choreography.”

The production also includes drama students from Shuman.

“Some of the kids are really more actors than dancers, and we really wanted to play that up,” Wallen says. “They’re having a lot of fun with it.” cs

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Coastal Photos — An exhibition of photographs by former state photographer and current DNR Artist-inResidence, Diane Kirkland, through Feb. 6 at the Melon Bluff Nature Center, 2999 Islands Highway in Midway.

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Earth Talks -- The Singles — Large format photographs by Imke Lass, who will give a gallery talk on Thursday, Dec. 11, 7:309pm. Indigo Sky Community Gallery, 915 Waters Ave. Earth, Water, Air — Paintings by Elena Madden, Tracy Jefferies and Daniel Smith on view at 2CarGarage, 30 W. Broughton, thru Jan. 14.

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ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love — The creators will autograph copies of the book Dec. 11-12, 1-3 p.m. at Ex Libris, 228 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Fresh Paint — Nov. 26-Dec. 31 at Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St., the SCAD exhibitions department presents its annual juried show.

Hospice Savannah Art Gallery — Contemporary water media and collage by abstract artist Sally Clark through Dec. 31 at Hospice House, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. Jenkins Faculty and Staff Art Exhibit — All HVJ Faculty and Staff members who paint, sketch, photograph or otherwise create visual art are exhibiting their work.

Through Dec. 27. Metro Coffee House, 402 MLK, Jr. Blvd.

Landscape of the Spirit — Paintings by Richard Mayhew through Jan. 5 at Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 York St. Little Gems for the Holiday Season — Chroma Gallery’s small works exhibit will be on display through December, with work by Lori Keith Robinson, Jan Clayton Pagratis, Ikeda Lowe, Laura DiNello, Kate Greene Gray, and more.

Master Eye II: 19th- and 20th-Century Photography — includes iconic examples from Mathew Brady, Eadweard Muybridge, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Annie Leibovitz, and others. SCAD Museum of Art, 227 MLK Jr. Blvd.

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National Arts Program — The City’s second annual exhibition of employee artwork in conjunction with the National Arts Program Foundation, Nov. 3–Dec. 12 at S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St.

Photos by Meaghan Walsh at Lulu’s; reception Thu. Nullarbor Crossing — Paintings by Adin Murray at Alexander Hall, 668 Indian St. Reception Dec. 13, 6-8pm.

Palliser — Work by this noted European portraitist and part-time Savannah resident at the Jepson Center.

Panhandle Slim — Folk art at Hang Fire, 37 Whitaker St., Sat. Dec. 13, 6 p.m.-until.

Ray Ellis Gallery — New prints, “Marsh Clouds” and “Gathering Clouds.” 205 W. Congress St. SCAD Holiday Gallery Hop — Fri. Dec. 12, 6-8 p.m. Refreshments will be provided at Red Gallery and Pei Ling Chan Gallery, and shuttles will run between all stops.

Highlights include: “Small Works” at Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St.; “Wet Ink” at Pei Ling Chan Gallery, 322 MLK Jr. Blvd.; “Fresh Paint” at Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St.; shopSCAD 340 Bull St.; and Working Class Studio Open House, Old Arch Hall, 235 W. Boundary St. SCAD Museum of Art Holiday Open House — “Town and Country: British Taste in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries,” an exhibit featuring work by several of the great English masters, Dec. 17, 1-6 pm, 227 MLK Jr. Blvd.

Self-Made — Self portraits by tattoo artists thru Dec. 31 at Black Orchid Gallery, 131 Drayton St. Small Works — Nov. 26-Dec. 31, Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. SCAD presents its annual holiday

show by students, faculty, staff and alumni at $500 or less and up to 18 inches.

Southern Lights Gallery Hop — Travel via holiday trolley to various galleries in the Historic District. Participating galleries include SCAD galleries, galleries of City Market, Chroma Gallery, the Telfair and Dimensions Gallery. The event will kick off with a reception in the Telfair Museum of Art. Sat. Dec. 13, 5 p.m., Free Spiritual Rhythms — Paintings by Danny Simmons, Def Jam poet, author, philanthropist and painter, Oct. 10Dec. 12 at Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St. Town & Country —Meaghan Walsh’s new photos are on display at Lulu’s Chocolate Bar, 42 MLK Blvd., through Jan. 13. Reception Thu. Dec. 11, 7-10 p.m.

Works of Maxwell Taylor — Woodcut prints by a noted Bahamian artist that focus on the themes of slavery and the Middle Passage Nov. 9Jan. 4 at the Beach Institute.

Wet Ink — Work by SCAD printmaking faculty and staff through Jan. 4 at Pei Ling Chan Gallery, 322 MLK Jr. Blvd. Reception Dec. 12, 6-8 pm.

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Before you get caught up in the whirlwind of holiday traveling and partying, treat yourself to an evening of art and a chance to see what SCAD has been up to. For one evening this Friday, the school is hosting a holiday gallery hop featuring five stops with shuttles running between each destination. This event is free to the public and offers the chance to mingle with SCADerati.

“Fresh Paint” is a show featured at the Pinnacle Gallery at 320 E. Liberty Street. Artist here are BFA students that minor in painting. The participants were selected by a panel of faculty and include work from a range of media like painting, drawing, and digital exploration.

“Small Works” will be at the Red Gallery at 201 E. Broughton Street and features art by SCAD students, faculty, staff, and alumni. This stop offers the public a great opportunity to buy a piece of art without breaking the bank.

All pieces are 18 inches or less in each direction and are priced at $500 or less.

Artist Jen Jenkins has work up at both “Fresh Paint” and “Small Works,” and is really looking forward to showing in Savannah again.

“This is my community of artists,” says Jenkins, ”so I enjoy the dialogue and getting the chance to see what other artists are up to.”

Jenkins is showing 18 India art sketches based on a familiar domestic

Work from Working Class Studio

friend. “It’s mostly fat cats,” laughs Jenkins. “They have these beautiful, odd-bodied forms.”

Aside from the two galleries Jenkins is showing at, Jenkins is excited about another stop, shopSCAD at 340 Bull Street. It’s a delightful store where you can find the expected art pieces and jewelry and the unexpected tea cup chandeliers and fleece buck mount.

“ShopSCAD is a wonderful support for SCAD artists,” explains Jenkins. “It gives people the chance to see all the kinds of things SCAD students and faculty produce.”

Working Class Studio at 235 W. Boundary St. is a great stop on the hop to see where the magic can start.

Headed by Jonathan Osborne, Working Class includes interns from all SCAD

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you so rarely get to see the artist when they’re still struggling with it and working through their process.”

Gallery curator Erin Dziedzic explains that while the gallery’s goal is always to meet the needs of the school and to entertain and engage the community, this hop especially does so with its accessibility. “You really get to see the results of what the SCAD community is working on and meet the artists, which is usually so rare,” says Dziedzic.

“This round really has something for everybody.”

When asked why people should take a break from their busy plans and holiday melee to experience the Gallery Hop, Jenkins answers succinctly by saying, “For me, art and enjoying art is a break from the commercial engine, a refreshing break from the mundane.” cs

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majors and focuses on the creative process, from conception to production and distribution.

Specifically for this open house, the Studio will be doing a screen-printing demonstration. “This is a cool way to see how it gets from the computer screen to the finished product,” says Osborne.

Working Class is unique in that it is the only university that takes the designer and gives them a start to finish experience in the business. The interns aren’t working alone, but rather banding together to bring a concept to life.

“Wet Ink,” housed at Pei Ling Chan Gallery at 322 MLK Jr. Blvd., includes art from Savannah’s printmaking faculty and staff. Traditional intaglio and lithography as well as photo-computeraided printmaking processes are among the featured work.

Eun Lee embraces the opportunity to show her work essentially while the ink is still drying. “It’s a wonderful experience to show your work while it’s current, fresh, and still evolving,” says Lee. “With finished, polished work

SCAD Holiday Gallery Hop Shuttles run between all stops and refreshments are provided at Wet Ink and Fresh Paint.

When: Friday, December 12, 6-8pm.

Cost: Free

Featuring the Brendan Polk Trio Friday, December 12, 5-8pm Telfair’s Jepson Center for the Arts, Eckburg Atrium $10 General public / Free to museum members / Food and drink available for purchase All galleries will be open for viewing during the evening’s festivities.

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Seeds of Doubt

Award-winning play thrives on tension, perceptions by ashley jensen | yelsha24_7@yahoo.com

Coming to Cardinal Rep’s Freight Station stage is the Pulitzer and Tony Award winning Doubt, A Parable.

Written by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Sheila Lynne, this play features minimalistic sets, costumes, and dialogue to focus the audience’s attention on the acting.

“The play embodies an ongoing struggle between Victorianism and modernism,” says Lynne. “The Sister embodies remnants of tradition and propriety and a clash of wills ensues.”

Doubt shows a Catholic Church in 1964 struggling between the old ways of Latin masses and stern ministries and the Vatican II efforts to convert to English services and more-friendly church officials.

Sister Aloysius, principal of the church’s school, clings to the old was and strives to take down the church’s new priest, Father Flynn, who embraces the reforms.

Sister Aloysius accuses him of having an improper relationship with a male student, but bases her accusations on suspicions and her own convictions rather than on the basis of evidence or any solid proof. Lines are drawn and sides are chosen based upon who one doubts, the Sister or the Father.

“It makes you look at yourself and your ideas,” says Lakesha Green, who plays Mrs. Muller. “Everyone one has their reasons of their own convictions, and that’s ultimately what it comes down to.”

Green plays Mrs. Muller, the mother of the school’s first African American student and subject of the play’s scandal.

“I had to do a lot of research and talk to different family members from that time period to see the different restrictions and expectations put on an African American woman and her family in 1964,” she explains.

“I really had to remove myself from it and strip down the independence I feel as a woman today.”

Dandy Barrett, playing Sister Aloysius, feels the chief challenge of her character is the perception and layers involved.

“She’s a contrast, very much beholden of tradition, rules, and discipline,” says Barrett, ”but you can also see in her wisps of rebellion to being dominated by men even though she’s in a position of power.”

Barrett also explains that people’s view of Sister Aloysius as an unbending taskmaster and rigid figurehead is integral to her authority, but that there is genuine concern behind her demeanor.

“She rules through fear, but truly believes that being tough is the best way to protect her students, which is her only concern,“ notes Barrett.

Valerie Lavelle plays Sister James, who unwittingly lights the fuse to the entire situation. Lavelle is used to the comedic genre of theatre, but says she couldn’t pass this production up.

“There’s something so strikingly natural about this show, yet the script is so precise,” she explains. “Everything is pertinent to the plot and provides keys to the characters’ personalities.”

In the end it’s still a complicated case of he said-she said with little concrete evidence and even less of a chance of either side backing down.

“I read that the playwright said the final act of the play occurs in the audience’s living rooms,” muses Mark Rand, who plays Father Flynn.

“With all the different ideas and perceptions, it’s ultimately up to the audience to decide for themselves who’s right and wrong.” cs Doubt, a Parable When: Dec. 12, 13, 19, & 20 at 8 p.m., Dec. 14 & 21 at 3 p.m.

Where: Freight Station, 703 Louisville Rd. Cost: General admission is $20, military/ students/seniors are $15 Info: cardinalrep.org or 912/631-3773

My life with Reilly

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Charles Nelson Reilly is focus of touching, funny film at the JEA Dec. 18 by bill deyoung | bdy22@hotmail.com

My mom likes the Game Show Network.

She can sit for hours in front of the TV with 1970s episodes of “The Match Game,” watching Bert Convy and Zsa Zsa Gabor trade quips with Bret Sommers and Charles Nelson Reilly.

Reilly has always been her favorite.

Campy and acerbic, on those ancient shows he’s the go-to guy for laughs.

I always smile when I see him appear on the screen.

In March, 2004, Reilly came to Stuart, Florida, where I lived, with his one-man show Save it For the Stage: The Life of Reilly.

It wasn’t about “The Match Game,” and it wasn’t about “Lidsville,” the old live-action kids’ comedy on which he’d played a lisping, limp-wristed “wizard” chasing after a bunch of talking hats.

The Life of Reilly was about years spent in New York, studying the craft of stage acting, about winning a Tony Award, and four Emmy nominations. It was about teaching all he knew about stage-work to generations of eager young students. And directing 10,000 plays in 10,000 cities.

It was also about the pain of growing up gay in the Bronx, about broken dreams and a dysfunctional family, about alcoholism, suicide and lobotomies, about being in the audience at the Hartford, Conn., circus fire in 1944 when 200 people died in a matter of seconds.

I spent quite a bit of time with Reilly over the three days he was in Stuart. As the local newspaper’s entertainment editor, it was my job to talk with him as much as he’d have me.

And even at 73, he never seemed to tire of talking.

“When I die - what time is it now? – it’s going to be ‘Game Show Fixture Passes Away,’” he said to me. “Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn’t bother me.”

What did bother him, he explained, was being part of an audience. Ever since the circus disaster – he was 13 at time – he hadn’t been able to bring himself to

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sit in a theater seat.

He loved to talk about his old pal Burt Reynolds, who’d started a dinner theater in 1978 in Jupiter, about 30 miles from Stuart.

Reilly had taught acting for many years at the Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training.

“Reynolds has always been the same person as I knew in the ‘50s,” he said. “He became so famous, and he was always the same guy.”

One of the funniest bits in The Life of Reilly involved Reynolds’ father — a nononsense good old boy — telling his son “OK, you can build a theater, but if you bring one of those sissies around here, I’ll shoot him dead right in front of your mother!”

Reilly, of course, moved right in and became a de facto member of the Reynolds family. He and Burt Sr. would drink and laugh and talk the night away.

After the opening night performance of The Life of Reilly, I was invited to dinner with the star and members of the theater staff.

Reilly insisted on being seated next to me, and solicited my opinion on virtually everything he’d included in his stage monologues. We talked through much of the dinner.

I remember telling him that his show, although it was peppered with hilarious bits – his celebrity impersonations were priceless – was more serious than I’d expected.

“People think it’s going to be silly,” he said. “But I think it’s rather a thick play.”

After the meal, as we were all standing up and saying our goodbyes, he leaned in close and kissed me on the cheek.

I’ve never forgotten that.

Nor have I forgotten the afternoon I went into theater while he was doing a soundcheck. He motioned me up onto the Life of Reilly set and invited me to sit down. We chatted quietly for a few minutes.

On the spur of the moment, I produced my cell phone, flipped it open and dialed my mother. She answered on the first ring, and I told her somebody wanted to talk with her.

Reilly seemed to understand. Handing him the phone, I whispered “This is my mom, Jeanette.”

“Hello, Jeannette!” he said in that trombone-blast voice he used on TV. “It’s Charles!”

They talked for 15 minutes. About game shows, mostly. cs Psychotronic Film: The Life of Reilly A 2007 film adaptation of Charles Nelson Reilly’s stage show, presented by the Psychotronic Film Society, Jewish Education Alliance and Connect Savannah.

When: 7:30 p.m. Thu. Dec. 18.

Where: JEA Auditorium, 5111 Abercorn St. Cost: $7 at the Sentient Bean, Wright Square Café and at the door.

Info: myspace.com/psychotronicfilms

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Slumdog Millionaire

I’m not entirely sure how a film in which a small boy gets permanently blinded by someone deliberately pouring hot liquid onto his eyeballs while he’s unconscious ends up being hyped (by critics and audiences alike) as the “feel-good” movie of the year, but that’s the strange case with Slumdog Millionaire, the latest from director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting).

The modern-day sequences find lanky, likable Jamal (Dev Patel) working his way through the questions on India’s version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Jamal is a struggling kid who’s coped with poverty all of his life -- a “slumdog” -- and it’s his unlikely ascension that has the entire nation rooting for him to win it all. But Jamal isn’t doing this for money; he’s doing it for love -- namely, for the beautiful Latika (Freida Pinto), who, as we see in the film’s ample flashbacks, grew up on the streets alongside Jamal and his hotheaded brother Salim (Madhur Mittal). Initially, the movie’s structure is ingenious in how it feeds on incidents from Jamal’s past to allow him to get the right answers on the TV game show, in effect suggesting that what’s most important in this

life is what we learn firsthand. As for the sequences revolving around the characters’ rough childhoods, they’re refreshingly raw and uncompromising, a cross between Charles Dickens and City of God. It’s a shame, then, that Boyle and scripter Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty, and no surprise there) toss aside all innovation in order to bind the final half-hour into a straightjacket of rigid formula plotting. The boy-findsgirl, boy-loses-girl, boy-tries-to-save-girl angle is flaccid enough, although it’s the arc involving bad bro Salim that’s especially groan-worthy. Still, three-quarters of a stellar movie is nothing to sneer at, meaning that those who take a chance on Slumdog Millionaire will get their money’s worth.

The purpose of theatrical trailers, as I (and the rest of the universe) understand it, is to showcase many of the film’s best scenes in an effort to get folks to crowd the box office during opening week and beyond. The trailer for Four Christmases fails this test, as it focuses almost exclusively on barf gags, pratfalls and other broad, physical comedy sure to draw the yahoo crowd but not necessarily anyone else. A more representative trailer, on the other hand, would have revealed a movie that’s actually worth seeing -- a smart, tart and even sexy (love that opening gag) confection whose observations about family dysfunction will make audience members squirm in their seats even as the laughs pour off the screen.

Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon headline as Brad and Kate, a deeplyin-love couple who always bypass their families at Christmastime in order to take overseas vacations. But complications force the pair to visit their relatives after all, and since both sets of parents (Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek are his, Jon Voight and Mary Steenburgen are hers) are divorced, that means four familial gatherings in one day. It proves to be a grueling endurance test for both of them, as each is humiliated in turn by parents, siblings and other assorted in-laws.

twilight

Working from the first novel in Stephenie Meyer’s literary franchise. director Catherine Hardwicke and scripter Melissa Rosenberg have made Twilight a love story first and a vampire tale second. Kristen Stewart stars as Bella, who moves to the small town of Forks, Washington, to spend time with her police-chief father (Billie Burke).

Before long, she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Edward (Robert Pattinson), who, like all his siblings, sports a pasty-white complexion and avoids the company of the other high school kids.

But he soon discovers that he is likewise drawn to Bella, and as their relationship grows, he eventually exposes his true nature to her. Twilight is occasionally overwrought, yet Hardwicke turns that into a blessing rather than a curse. The astute director, who previously helmed the raw and uncompromising Thirteen, understands her teen protagonists well, and rather than speak down to them (and, by extension, to the film’s youthful viewers), she allows their angst-filled behavior, their oversized

emotionalism, to register as the most important thing in the world (because, to a teenager caught up in the moment, that’s exactly what it is). This ripeness in the movie’s form and content fuels the heated romance between Edward, who worries that he can’t control his bloodlust around his beloved, and Bella, who eventually declares that she wants him to lose control. The romantic sessions between Stewart and Pattinson have an aching sweetness to them, marred only by an obtrusively florid score (by the usually reliable Carter Burwell) that threatens to turn these sequences into Viagra for Teens commercials. The movie has fun dabbling in the clichés of the high school flick, although it saves most of its innovation for bending the rules of the vampire game: Twilight’s bloodsuckers can move about during the daytime (albeit only on cloudy, overcast days), and especially interesting is that this particular clique considers itself vegetarian because its members only eat animals, not humans.

There’s some late-inning action when Edward and his family must stop a “bad” vampire (Cam Gigandet) who’s determined to snack on Bella’s blood, but this part of the film feels rushed and tacked-on. Clearly, Hardwicke’s interest remains firmly on matters of the heart -- a heart unencumbered by the traditional wooden stake, of course.

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Given the promise of the love storycum-historical epic-cum-adventure yarn Australia, I unexpectedly felt an urge to hoof it to my car during the torturous opening scenes of this big-budget spectacle. Director Baz Luhrmann’s frenzied approach, which worked perfectly for the musical genre in Moulin Rouge! and for teen angst in Romeo & Juliet, is grotesquely out of place, while Nicole Kidman, as the prim and trim Englishwoman newly arrived to this savage land, manages (for the first 20 minutes, at least) to turn in the worst performance of her career. After this migraine-inducing opening, the movie settles down and begins to find its stride. Unfortunately, that stride is only occasionally graceful, resulting in a mishmash of a film marked by infuriating ups and downs. As Sarah Ashley, who journeys to Australia and ends up trying to protect her late husband’s cattle ranch from being taken over by rival businessman King Carney (a welcome Bryan Brown, little seen since his brief heyday during the 1980s), Kidman never fully immerses herself in the role

The AASU Irish Studies Club will present the film Nora, the inside story of the love between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, in Gamble Hall, Room 103. Out of this relationship came the inspiration for Joyce’s controversial masterpiece, Ulysses. For mature audiences only.

When: Mon. Dec. 15, 12 p.m.

Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: 912-927-5277

Psychotronic Film Society: If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?

Based on the preachings of Rev. Estus W. Pirkle, this 1971 fundamentalist scare film warns what will happen to America if the citizens do not give up their “depraved ways” and turn to God and Jesus for salvation. Communist infiltrators, the “footmen,” will pave the way for an all-out invasion by weakening our will through TV, dancing, rock music and alcohol.

When: Wed. Dec. 17, 8 p.m.

Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Cost: $5 Info: www.myspace.com/psychotronicfilms

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“Black Ops,” by W. E. B. Griffin “The Book of Unholy Mischief,” by Elle Newmark “The Centurion’s Wife,” by T. Davis Bunn “The Devil’s Punchbowl,” by Greg Iles “Eclipse,” by Richard North Patterson “Fire and Ice,” by Julie Garwood “The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet,” by Colleen McCullough “Murder Game,” by Christine Feehan “Plum Spooky,” by Janet Evanovich “Running Hot,” by Jayne Ann Krentz “Show No Fear,” by Perri O'Shaughnessy “Your Heart Belongs to Me,” by Dean R. Koontz

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“The Best Life Diet Cookbook,” by Bob Greene “Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide,” by Dave Zinczenko “The Essential Green You,” by Dierdre Imus “Food Matters,” by Mark Bittman “The Great Depression of 2010-2012,” by Harry S. Dent “Great Eight,” by Scott Hamilton “Heroes Among Us,” by John Quinones “The New Codependency,” by Melody Beattie “No Limits: The Will to Succeed,” by Michael Phelps “Things I've Been Silent about: Memories,” by Azar Nafisi “The Ultra-Mind Solution,” by Mark Hyman List compiled by by Diane Bronson, Collection Development Coordinator. To reserve a copy of any of these books or many other bestsellers, visit www.liveoakpl.org.

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Shot not long before his untimely death, it captures the final performance of Tony Award-winner Charlson Nelson Reilly’s smash one-man show.

When: Thu. Dec. 18, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Cost: $7 Info: www.myspace.com/psychotronicfilms

-- too many actorly tics spoil the broth.

As Drover, the hunky cattle driver who agrees to help Sarah in her quest to save the business, Hugh Jackman fares better, choosing to play most emotions close to the vest -- make that close to the bare chest -- and thereby emerging as an oasis of calm amidst so much rampant scenery-chewing. The worst culprit of overacting is David Wenham, whose dastardly henchman Fletcher ends up being perhaps the most risible movie villain since Billy Zane’s Cal Hockley took shots at Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack Dawson as the Titanic sank into the chilly depths.

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In recent years, Disney plus Pixar has led to some terrific animated features, but Disney minus Pixar has led to yearnings to locate the nearest auditorium exit. Bolt is straight-up Disney, which would be worrisome if it wasn’t for the fact that Pixar guru John Lasseter has been handed the keys to the studio’s entire animation department.

So while Bolt isn’t a Pixar production, it falls under the auspices of Lasseter (billed as executive producer), and that might be why this is better than such studio sourballs as Chicken Little and Treasure Planet. It mixes the speed of a Nickelodeon toon project with narrative elements from The Incredible Journey, as Bolt (voiced by John Travolta), a canine who believes he really possesses the superpowers he employs on his hit TV series, gets separated from his owner/co-star Penny (Miley Cyrus) and ends up crossing the country in search of her. It’s entertaining while it lasts but dissipates from memory the moment it’s over, a condition predicated on the fact that neither the noble, stiff Bolt

nor the typical toon preteen Penny are especially dynamic characters.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Anyone who thinks that the Madagascar franchise is all about the Benjamin (Stiller, that is) has seriously overrated the importance of marquee names to animated flicks. With rare exception (say, Eddie Murphy in the Shrek works), the most memorable cartoon characters have nothing to do with Alist casting (who even remembers that Bruce Willis starred in Over the Hedge?) and everything to do with matching the tone with the toon (I ask you, what superstar could have done better than relatively unknown Patton Oswalt as Ratatouille’s Remy?). So while the cast of Madagascar and its new sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, is headed

by Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith, it’s really all about the penguins, baby. Certainly, Stiller (as Alex the lion), Schwimmer (Melman the giraffe), Pinkett Smith (Gloria the hippo) and especially Rock

(Marty the zebra) do their part to make these movies two of the few tolerable non-Pixar/non-Miyazaki toon tales of recent times, but what truly blesses the pair is the presence of the flightless fowl. Led by Skipper (voiced by Tom McGrath, co-director of both films), these penguins are among the least sentimental of all animated characters in the history of the film medium.

Quantum of Solace Casino Royale, the 2006 revamp of the hallowed 007 film franchise, turned out to be the best Bond outing since Reagan’s first term in office, so expecting Quantum of Solace to surpass it was probably asking too much. Fortunately, it isn’t long before we’re again immersed in the Bond mystique. Half gentleman, half bruiser, Daniel Craig’s Bond is still learning the ropes of his new status as a field operative, and it’s up to his superior, M (again played by Judi Dench with the right mix of exasperation at the monster she helped create and barely concealed pride at the confident, competent male she’s released to the world), to try -- usually with little success -- to keep him in line. In a first for the 46year-old series, Quantum of Solace isn’t loosely connected to past pictures but is instead a direct sequel to its predecessor: To watch it without having seen Casino Royale would be akin to viewing The Empire Strikes Back without having seen Star Wars. The villainous organization in the previous picture is still full speed ahead, and revenge for the death of a loved one remains foremost on the mind of our hero. M is worried that this will cloud Bond’s judgment, but 007 is nothing if not effective at multitasking. And does he have his hands full, whether tangling with the dastardly Dominic Greene (The Diving Bell

and the Butterfly’s Mathieu Amalric), forming a partnership with the lovely Camille (Olga Kurylenko), or seeking help from coolly distant allies Felix Leiter and Mathis (returning co-stars Jeffrey Wright and Giancarlo Giannini).

Continually getting better as it charges along, Quantum of Solace turns out to be a successful second entry in the Craig/007 canon. If I rated with numbers instead of stars, it would merit -- dare I type it? -- a 007 out of 10.

boy in the striped pajamas Movies about the Holocaust seem to automatically earn R ratings, yet The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, perhaps because it’s based on a novel (by John Boyne) originally targeted to teen readers, escapes with a PG-13. That’s appropriate, since children who can handle (and learn from) the material should not be denied the opportunity to see it.

The film is fairly original in that it’s told from the viewpoint of a young German lad who has a front-row seat to the horrors of the Nazi regime. Eight-year-old Bruno (Asa Butterfield, just perfect) is saddened when his father, a Nazi officer (David Thewlis), moves the family from Berlin to a remote country estate. Once there, Bruno’s sister (Amber Beattie) is obsessed with Adolf Hitler, and his mother (Vera Farmiga) does little more than deflect his questions about the farm across the field, a mysterious place where all the prisoners wear pajamas and billowing smoke from the chimneys constantly blackens the sky. Bored, Bruno eventually defies his parents’ orders and checks out the farm, where he strikes up a friendship with Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish boy on the other side of the barbed wire. cs

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Activism & Politics

Savannah Area Young Republicans

For information, visit www.savannahyoungrepublican.com or call Allison Quinn at 308-3020.

Classes & Workshops

AMBUCS

is dedicated to creating mobility and independence of the disabled. Meets first and third Monday at noon at the Hilton Garden Inn - Midtown.

Ann Johnson, 897-4818. Third and First Mon. of every month.

700 Kitchen Cooking School

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

Abstinence Education

Coastal Democrats Drinking Liberally

An informal gathering of left-leaners. august1494@excite.com or www.DrinkingLiberally. org.

Planned Parenthood

meets the second Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Heather Holloway, 352-4052 or heather.holloway@ppfa.org. Second Thurs. of every month.

The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. 912-2324447. www.sentientbean.com

Recyclable Collection/ Drop-off

The SCAD women’s lacrosse team is sponsoring this event Dec. 13 from 9am to noon at a booth in the south end of Forstyh Park. Through Dec. 13.

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.

Hope House and Savannah State University are providing an after-school program for youth and young adults ages 12 to 29. Program activities last for about 2 hours every Wednesday at SSU. Transportation is provided. Snacks, field trips and supportive services are provided at no charge. 236-5310. Savannah State University, 3219 College St. 912-356-2181. www.savstate. edu/

Adult Painting, Drawing and Clay Classes

Ongoing beginner, intermediate and open studio classes are offered Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 6-8 p.m. or Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to noon. All levels welcome, with encouragement to expand your skills. Clay classes are $100 per 10-hour session plus $30 for clay and kiln usage. Painting and drawing classes are $85

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per 10-hour session and a basic art supply fee, if needed. The instructor is Carolyne Graham, a sculptor, artist and certified art teacher. Call 925-7393 or 925-5465.

African Dance & Drum

Learn the rhythms of West Africa with instructor Aisha Rivers. Classes are held every Sunday - drums at 4pm, dance at 5pm at 607 W. 37th St. $10/class. ayoluwa.org, 844-2582.

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 available 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 843-496-0651 for info.

Art,-Music, Piano and Voice-coaching

for all age groups, beginners through advanced, classic, modern, jazz improvisation and theory.

Serious inquiries only. 961-7021 or 667-1056.

Beading Classes

Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced at Bead Dreamer Studio, 407A E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 920-6659. Bead Dreamer Studio, 407 A East Montgomery Cross-

roads. 912-920-6659. www.beaddreamer.com

Children’s Art Classes

for grades 1-5 offer basic art, clay and mixed media on Wednesdays from 4-5:30 p.m. Cost is $65 per 5 weeks, basics supplied. Teen Class meets Thursday 4-6 p.m. Cost is $75 per 5 weeks, most supplies furnished. Savannah Art and Clay Creations, contact carolynegraham@ aol.com or 925-7393.

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.

Conversational Spanish

Do you want to practice your Spanish? Come to the mesa de espanol the second Thursday and last Friday of the month at 4:30 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. For information, send e-mail to cafecontigo@gmail.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. 912-232-4447. www.sentientbean.com

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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 484-1266.

English as a Second Language

Free ESL classes will be offered. Must attend both registration days and stay three hours each day. Registration will be held Dec. 18-19, 9am, and Dec. 17-18, 6pm. Pauline Goodman, 443-5448, pgoodman@savannahtech.edu.

Through Dec. 18. Savannah Technical College, 5717 White Bluff Rd. 912-443-5700. www. savannahtech.edu/

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 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.

Call 352-3862 or visit www.libertytax.com.

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.

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 (Vipassana) Mindfulness Meditation

An ongoing class for beginners and experienced practitioners that offers a weekly interactive talk on the foundations of the practice of Mindfulness Meditation, followed by a period of meditation. Mondays 6-7:30pm.

307 E. Harris St. Drop-ins, $14, 8-week package $80. Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach. 429-7265 or cindy@alwaysoptions.com.

Lost Ancient Art of Essential Oils, Aromatherapy and Plant Medicines

will be held at Southern Hemisphere, 41 Habersham St. Donation. meetup.com/SavannahEnergyHealers/.

Mrs. Claus

A retired school teacher, Mrs. Claus is available for the holidays to all retirement centers, hospitals, day-care centers, churches, schools and private parties. Linda Luke, 349-0521.

Oatland Island Wildlife Center

Oatland island Wildlife Center has a new name, but still offers 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 Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. 912-898-3980. www.oatlandisland.org/

Personal Money Management

BOAN Consults, LLC sponsors monthly workshops. Call 398-8148 or email info@ boanconsults.com. BOAN Consults, LLC sponsors monthly workshops. Call 398-8148 or email info@boanconsults.com.

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 Art & Clay Creations

Classes in Raku, brush work, relief work, surface decoration, figurative and more in clay with individual attention are offered by professional artist/clay sculptor Carolyne Graham. Costs $100 for 6 classes, or $30 per class. Clay supplies are extra. Call 9257393 to register. Fall classes begin Sept. 30.

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the school year. Teen Art Studio begins Sept. 30 and meets Tuesdays 5-6:30pm. $75 for 4 weeks, plus one-time suppy fee of $35 for the school year. Adult classes begin Sept. 30. Hands of Clay meets Wednesdays from 2-4pm or 6-8pm. $100 for 10 hours of lessons, plus $35 supply fee. The Art of Painting will meet Tuesdays from 10am to noon or Wednesday from 6-8pm. $85 per 10 hours of lessons. 925-7393 or carolynegraham@ aol.com.

ARIES

(March 21-April 19) It’s an ideal time for you to throw a party for all the people you’ve ever been and all the different selves who live within you now. Invite the teenager who once seethed with frustrated potential and the four-year-old who loved nothing more than to play. Include the hopeful complainer who stands in the shadows and dares you to ask for more, as well as the brave hero who comes out every now and then to attempt seemingly impossible feats of happiness. Don’t forget any of the various personalities who have contributed to making you who you are. Celebrate your internal diversity. Marvel at how good you are at changing.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20) Novelists and actors make a living by using their imaginations to create fictional stories. In recent years there has emerged a new group of workers whose pretending skills also earn them money. They make imaginary weapons, armor, potions, and other computer-generated gear to sell to people who play online role- playing games like World of Warcraft. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because you’re in a favorable phase to put your imagination to work in practical ways that increase your prosperity and security. As soon as you’re finished reading this horoscope, start brainstorming about specific things you could do to convert fantasies into real-world wealth.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20) I’m pleased to be able to offer you a Zen riddle that will prepare you well for the immediate future.

Study it, meditate on it, and refer back to it often when dealing with upcoming challenges. *Question: What did the big chimney say to the little chimney?Answer: nothing. Chimneys can’t talk.* I don’t want to explain all the nuances of this helpful conundrum, Gemini, because it’ll serve you better if you come to your own conclusions.

But I’ll get you started with this hint: Be vigilant for trick questions, and don’t let those trick questions frame the debates you engage in.

Do you know what red herrings and straw men are? Don’t get

distracted by them.

who we are.”

CANCER

LIBRA

I’ve got three related questions for you, Cancerian. 1. Are there any roles you play in which your selfish and unselfish tendencies overlap?

2. What situations allow you to be most completely yourself as you provide a fine service to others?

3. Which of your skills generate the most blessings and gifts? The next 12 months will be a favorable time for you to identify these roles, situations, and skills, and cultivate them to the max. You’ll have prime opportunities to express your special genius while doing good deeds.

“I was walking down the street agonizing over what to do about a particularly troublesome person in my life,” writes Tai Moses in her blog (aerophant.com), “when I saw a playing card laying facedown on the sidewalk. I turned it over.”

It was a joker. Her thoughts immediately turned to the words of the philosopher Alan Watts: “When you get the message, hang up the phone.” I hope you’ll be inspired by Moses’ experience, Libra. For now, the best approach to take with your knotty dilemmas is to welcome them as wild cards and X-factors that will bring you interesting experiences and valuable lessons -- and just stop worrying about them.

(June 21-July 22)

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22) What country has more sand than any other? With its vast deserts, Saudi Arabia has got to be near the top of the list. Nevertheless, the Saudi government forbids the export of sand, worrying that it might eventually run out due to its construction industry’s demands for the stuff. This irrational fear reminds me of you, Leo. You, too, have a certain bountiful resource that will never be depleted -- and yet you’re chronically worried that it will.

Please adjust your thinking. It’s an excellent time to get more realistic about the true nature of your abundance.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22) After meditating on how best to energize your love life, I decided to direct you to this passage from John Welwood’s book *Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart*: “Everyone knows perfect love in their heart, for the human heart is a direct channel through which absolute love pours into this world.

At the same time, human relationships are imperfect expressions of that love. This creates a painful gap between the perfect love we know in our hearts and the imperfect, incomplete ways it is expressed in our relationships. When we imagine that relative human love should be something it is not -- absolutely unconditional -- we suffer disappointment and wind up distrusting love itself. We also hold grievances against others for not loving us rightly or against ourselves for not having won that love. This gives rise to a universal human wound -- the sense of not feeling loved for

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In one episode of the TV show “Seinfeld,” Elaine couldn’t get her favorite Chinese restaurant to deliver take- out food to her apartment. The manager said her neighborhood was just beyond the boundary of where his drivers were authorized to travel. But Elaine was determined. She went over to the apartment building across the street, which *was* within the restaurant’s delivery zone, and set up an alternate home for herself in a janitor’s closet. I suggest you adopt a similar strategy, Scorpio.

If you can’t get what you want in the place where you are, shift your location.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

There are 300,000 surveillance cameras set up all over the city of Beijing, spying constantly on its citizens. London, a supposed bastion of democracy, has 500,000 such cameras. I highly recommend you don’t visit either place in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It’s crucial for you to avoid influences that make you feel self-conscious or guilty. You’ve got to hang out in spots where you’re not being watched, scrutinized, and evaluated. While you’re at it, you might also want to tell your Inner Critic to shut the hell up. You need wideopen, judgment-free spaces, both without and within.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

In California’s recent election, citizens voted to liberate poultry.

Proposition 2 passed, mandating that from now on farmers cannot confine chickens in cages where they’re unable to spread their wings. Meanwhile, in the same election, voters decided to make it illegal for gay people to be married, a right that had previously been granted by the California Supreme Court. How odd is it that chickens got a measure of freedom while gays had one of their precious freedoms cut away? I’m warning you to be wary of a metaphorically similar scenario looming in your personal life, Capricorn: in which one liberty is upgraded while another is sacrificed. Fight to make sure there’s no net loss.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Would you like to consistently be in the right place at the right time in the coming weeks? Personally, I’d love you to have that knack. It would make my job more enjoyable, since I could fall asleep each night with the comforting thought that you are meeting your dates with destiny while you’re at the height of your powers. So what IS the best way to ensure that you will have impeccable intuition and a great sense of timing? Here’s what I say: Set aside all expectations about what the past implies and what the future may bring. Instead, cultivate a desire to recognize and respond to the raw truth of each new moment.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20) There’s a new elective surgery that makes it impossible to ever blush again. It’s an expensive procedure that involves boring a hole in your armpit and cutting the nerve endings that are responsible.

I wouldn’t recommend it for you, even though you’re entering a phase when you’ll be more prone than usual to blushing. Why? Because, according to my projections, your main reason for blushing in the coming days will be due to receiving sudden, unexpected, or long-withheld praise. I believe it’ll be a time when you’re acknowledged for the good things you do.

Blush away!

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 3083561. 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.

Spanish Basic Classes

Overcoming by Faith Ministries offers 6-week classes open to all ages. Classes fill fast so register at www.overcomingbyfaith.org or call 927-8601.

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. 912-234-0525. www.thestarfishcafe.org/

Studio Space as Needed

for teachers, instructors, trainers, body-work therapists or organizations. Available by the class/session, day, week or Tony, 655-4591.

Teen Art & Clay Classes

Explore a variety of materials in this class specifically designed for teenage art students, taught by former middle school art teacher Carolyne Graham Thursdays from 3:30-5:30 p.m.

The cost is $75 for 5 weeks of instruction. Call 925-7393 or 925-5465.

The Care and Companionship of Pets

Nancy Richards, assistant executive director of the Humane Society, Savannah\Chatham, will speak. Hug-A-Pet volunteer Carol Rosentrator and her certified therapy dogs also will appear.

Continental breakfast provided. Saturday, Dec. 13, 10am-noon, Hospice Savannah’s Community Education Room, Hospice House, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. Mioshei Mobley, 355-2289. Through Dec. 13.

Thinking of Starting a Small Business

is a course offered twice a month atthe Small Business Assistance Center, 111 E. Liberty St. $50 in advance or $60 at the door. 651-3200, www.savannahabdc.org.

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/

Vocal Classes

The Highest Praise School of the Arts is accepting applicants for the 2008 Vocal Basics Classes.

To register visit overcomingbyfaith.org or call 927-8601 for more info.

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,

Wednesday Figure Drawing Group

Work from a live model. Open to artists with some experience - no instruction offered. $60 a month. Judy Mooney. 443-9313 or judymooney@bellsouth.net. Cardinal Rep, 703D Louisville Rd. 912-232-6080. www.savannahactorstheatre.org

Wicca 101

An introductory class every Thurday at 7pm at Southern Hemisphere Metaphysical Books, Gifts & More, 41 Habersham St. $15. 2346371.

Youth Art & Clay Classes

Held Tuesdays from 4-5:30 p.m. The cost is $65 per 5 weeks of instruction. Call Carolyne Graham at 925-7393 or 925-5465.

Dance African Dance & Drum

Learn the rhythms of West Africa with instructor Aisha Rivers. Classes are held every Sunday - drums at 4pm, dance at 5pm at 607 W. 37th St. $10/class. ayoluwa.org, 844-2582.

Ballroom Dance Party

Saturday, Dec. 13, 8-10:30pm. A lesson on the waltz will be presented at 7pm. Frank G. Murray Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd., $12. Beginners and singles are welcome. 655-4985, 961-9960. Through Dec. 13.

Beginners Belly Dance Class

at the Aikido Center of Savannah, 102 W. Broughton St. Classes are ongoing and all ages and skill levels welcome. Sunday.

10:30-11:30am. $10 per class. Nicole Edge, kleokatt@gmail.com or 596-0889

Belly Dance Classes

Taught by Nocturnelle. Contact Maya,3131619, nocturnellegbd@yahoo.com or www. nocturnelle.org.

Breffni Academy of Irish Dance

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

C.C. Express Dance Team

meets every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Windsor Forest Recreation Building. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary for this group. Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731.

Chicago-Style Steppin’ Lessons

Every Thursday from 7-9 p.m. Also learn new line dances. Contact Tunya Coleman at 631-6700.

Flamenco Enthusiasts

Dance or learn flamenco in Savannah with the Flamenco Cooperative. Meetings are held on Saturdays from 1 to 2:30 or 3 p.m. at the Maxine Patterson School of Dance. Any level welcome. If you would like to dance, accompany or sing, contact Laura Chason at laura_chason@yahoo.com. Maxine Patterson School of Dance, 2212 Lincoln St. 912-234-8745.

Gretchen Greene School of Dance

is accepting registration for fall classes in tap, ballet, lyrical, acrobatics, jazz and hip-hop for ages 3 and up. Adult tap classes are held Tuesday from 7:30-8:15 for beginners and Monday from 7:15-8 p.m. for intermediate.

Call 897-4235 or email ggsod.com.

Home Cookin’ Cloggers

meet every Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at Nassau Woods Recreation Building on Dean Forest Road. No beginner classes are being held at this time, however help will be available for those interested in learning. Call Claudia Col-

lier at 748-0731.

Kelly/Creek Studio

Ballet, pointe, tap, hip hop, jazz, lyrical, musical theater, partnering, and contemporary movement. Offering classes to all, ages 3 and up. 756.7426. kellycreekstudios.com

Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc.

offers dance classes, including hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step, as well as modeling and acting classes.

All ages and all levels are welcome. Call Mahogany B. at 272-8329.

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Old Time Country Dance

Presented by the Savannah Folk Music Society and featuring the Glow in the Dark String Band. Through Dec. 13. $7. Notre Dame Academy, 1709 Bull St. 786-6953. www.savannahfolk.org

Pole Dancing Class

POLE DANCING...for exercise. Learn dance moves and spins while working your abs, tone your legs and arms,a total body workout.

Ladies Only! The only thing that comes of is your shoes. Classes begin Friday February 15th from 7:30 to 9:30. Space is limited call in advance to make your reservation $70 per month or $22 per class. Please call for further details 912-398-4776 or email fitnessconnection1@yahoo.com

Savannah Shag Club

offers shag music every Wednesday and Friday at 7 p.m. at American Legion Post 36 on Victory Drive.

Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah

hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:30-11 p.m. at Double’s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. Free basic shag, swing, salsa, cha cha, line dance and others are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered. The lesson schedule is posted at www.shagbeachbop.com and announced each Monday. The dance lessons are held 6:30-7:30 p.m. Special cocktail prices are from 6:30-10 p.m. and their are hors d’ouerves. There is no cover charge. Everyone is invited and welcomed into club membership. Call 9274784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop. com. Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn Street.

912-352-7100.

Swing Dancing by Savannah Swing Catz

Free lesson and dance every Monday, 7:308pm lesson, 8-10pm open dancing. Tantra Lounge. 220-8096, info@SavannahSwingcatz. com. Free swing dance lesson and dance every Monday, 7:30-8pm, dancing from 810pm. Tantra Lounge 8 E. Broughton St. Free.

220-8096, info@SavannahSwingcatz.com.

The Golden Pecan

A prequel to “Nutcracker in Savannah,” “The Golden Pecan” tells the story of a young Drosselmeyer, his challenges with the Mouse Queen, and how his dear nephew was turned into a wooden nutcracker. Dec. 12, 7:30pm, Lucas Theatre for the Arts, free, 525-5050.

Through Dec. 12.

The Nutcracker in Savannah

A holiday favorite with a distinctly Savannah flair, presented by the Savannah Danse Theatre. The afternoon Candy Cane Matinee will offer a chance to meet the cast, and the evening performance will be accompanied by a live orchestra under the direction of Peter Shannon. Dec. 13, 2pm and 8pm, Lucas Theatre for the Arts. Tickets are $25, $30 and $35.

525-5050. Through Dec. 13.

The STUDIO

offers Ballet, Pointe, Modern, Jazz, Tap and Contemporary. Now accepting applications.

Ages 7 and up must arrange a placement audition class. Adult Ballet with Karen Burns is Mon.Thurs. at 11 a.m. and Thursday at 5:30 p.m. and Adult Tap with Pat Alley is now signing up. Veronica Niebuhr, 695-9149, www. thestudiosav.com or thestudidosav@aol.com.

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Adopt a Book!

Live Oak Public Libraries' Adopt a Book program is a wonderful way to honor or remember someone special in your life.

With your Adopt a Book donation of $25, the library will buy a book to be placed in a branch of your choice, with a book plate indicating both donor and honoree. z With each $25 contribution, a gift plate will be placed in a book in honor of the person you designate. A Gift Card will be sent to the person being honored.

For information: Christy Divine, 912-652-3605 divinec@liveoakpl.org

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The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Avenue. 912-3568383. www.thestudiosav.com/

921-2190, www.academyofdancesav.com.

Through Dec. 13.

puncturecenter.com or hiddenwellacupuncture@ gmail.com.

Learn the dance while having fun Sundays from 1:30-3:30 at the Doris Martine Dance Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. $2 per person. Call 925-7416.

Doris Martin Dance Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. 912-354-8089.

Yoga classes offered in different traditions for all levels of students. Classes 7 days a week, 2424 Drayton St. www.ashramsavannah.com.

Energy Share

Fitness

Colorful veils, jangling coin hip scarves, jingly rattling bracelets, exotic music are provided.

Held Tuesdays at 1 pm and Saturdays at 3pm, cost is $20 per class. consistantintegrity@yahoo. com.

Fit Lunch

Two to Tango - Savannah Tango Group

Youth Dance Program

The West Broad Street YMCA, Inc. presents its Instructional DanceProgram in jazz and ballet for kids 4 to 18. $30 per month for one class and $35 per month for both classes. Call 233-1951.

YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. 912-2331951.

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Ballet

A children’s ballet for children, presented by the Children’s Ballet Theatre of The Academy of Dance, Dec. 13, 2 and 5pm, at Trustees Theatre.

Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for students over 12 and $10 for children, military and seniors.

A balanced life

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

Savannah School of Massage Therapy, Inc, 6413 Waters Avenue. 912-355-3011. www.ssomt.com/

Acupuncture for Health

is available Monday thru Saturday at Hidden Well Acupuncture Center downtown. Traditional Chinese medical consultations and treatments are available with Fawn Smiley and Nicole Coughlin Ware. 233-9123, www.hiddenwellacu-

Ashram Savannah - Yoga

pet. Great for all levels and all sizes. 898-0361 or www.thesavannahyogaroom.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. 912-233-6800.

Belly Dancing for Fun and Fitness

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.

Cardiorespiratory Endurence Training

will be offered by Chatham County Park Services for persons 18 and up at Tom Triplett Park on Tuesdays from 5:30-6:30 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. 912652-6780.

Center for Wellbeing Hatha Yoga classes

are offered Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Pre-register by calling 819-6463.

Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5354 Reynolds Ave. 912- 819-6000. www.sjchs.org

Crossfit Hyperformance

meets mormings at 6:30am at Crossfit Hyperformance. Visit www.crossfirhyperformance.com. or call Jennifer at 224-0406 or Drew at 541-0530.

Dog Yoga

The Yoga Room will hold a dog yoga class every first Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. at Forsyth Park. The cost is a $10 donation, with all donations given to Save-A-Life. Bring a mat or blanket and a sense of humor. Yoga for dogs is a fun way to relax and bond with your four-legged

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FIT LUNCH - Join us for a 30 to 40 Minute workout on your lunch hour. Classes offered Monday, Wednesday & Friday from 10:45am until 2:00pm

by Fitness Body & Balance Personal Training Studio. Classes are organized and led by 2 Certified Personal Trainers and will utilize a variety of training techniques which may include strength training, interval and cardio as well as core, balance and flexibility. Advanced booking required.

Please call for further details 912-398-4776 or 912-224-9667. www.bodybalance.com.

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

Kidz Fitness

an ongoing aerobic fitness class for children 6-13 with weight concerns. Meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-5:45 p.m. at the Candler Hospital Wellness Center. Children must be members of the Candler Wellness Center.

819-8800. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. 912-819-6000. www.sjchs.org/

Ladies Livin Smart fitness club

provides nutritional education and exercise to encourage lifestyle changes at the St. Joseph’s/ Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. at 5:30 p.m. Call 447-6605. Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. 912-447-6605. www.sjchs.org/1844.cfm

Learn Kung Fu Today

The Temple of Martial Arts is a Kung Fu school where men and women of all levels of martial arts experience come together to learn the art of Wing Chun and Tai Chi. SiFu Michael, 429-9241, youtube.com “Kung Fu in Savannah.”

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$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. 912- 819-6000. 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, 1321 Bull St. Infants must be 6 weeks to 6 months, precrawling. The cost is $13 per class. Multi-class discounts are available. The instructor is Betsy Boyd Strong. Walk-ins are welcome. Call 4416653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. 912-232-2994. www. savannahyoga.com/

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/

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. 912-8196000. www.sjchs.org/

Private Kung Fu Classes

offered at the Temple of Martial Arts, Savannah’sonly Wing Chun and Tai Chi Kung Fu School. SiFu Michael,429-9241, www.youtube. com “Kung Fu in Savannah” .

Reiki can assist in healing the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual bodies, increase connection and awareness with the higher self and the universe. Classes are 1-6 pm at Southern Hemisphere, 41 Habersham St. $200.00. 234-6371.

Reiki Treatments

Reiki master Dante Santiago is trained in Usui Reiki Ryoho. Fifty-minute sessions are $60 and 50-minute in-studio sessions are $45.

Call 660-1863 for times and appointments.

Rolf Method Bodywork

for posture, chronic pain and alignment of body/mind/spirit. Jeannie Kelley, LMT, certified advanced Rolf practitioner. www. islandsomatherapy.com, 843-422-2900.

Salsa Classes

Learn Salsa “Rueda de Casino” style every Wednesday, from 6-7pm Beginner, 7-8pm Intermediate, at the Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. Grace, 234-6183 or Juan, 330-5421.

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.

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. 912- 819-6000. 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.

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/

Tybee Island Sunrise Boot Camp

is held Monday – Friday from 6-7am. Park at North Beach parking lot and go over first crossover. Bring a mat. Three days of strength training and two days of cardio. Vicki Lyn, 5963009. No prices at this time, but contributions accepted.

Wing Chun Kung Fu

Effective for everyone, regardless of size, strength or gender. Developed by women, for women, and geared for smaller or weaker individuals to enable themselves to defend against strong or aggressive attackers.

Temple of Martial Arts, $75 a month for 12 sessions. 429-9241. youtube.com “Kung Fu in Savannah.”

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 In the Park

Presented by the Savannah Food Coop, a paywhat-you-can yoga class in the south field of Forsyth Park. Bring a large towel or yoga mat.

Wednesdays 9:30-10:45am. Pay-what-youcan/$12 suggested, www.savannahcoop.com.

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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/

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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/

Zumba Fitness

Classes are being held every week in the Pooler and Rincon areas. Zumba is a fusion of Latin and international music, dance themes that create a dynamic, exciting and effective fitness system. No dance partner is required. Participants of all ages and shapes are encouraged to attend. The cost is $7 per class. For location and info, contact Carmen at 484-1266 or calexe@comcast.net.

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.net/

Gay AA Meeting

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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.net/

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. 912236-CITY. www.firstcitynetwork.net/

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 352-2611.

Readings & Signings Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

meets the last Sunday at 4 p.m. at the African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. 912-447-6605.

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ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love

The creators of “ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love,” will autograph copies of the book Dec. 11-12, 1-3 pm at Ex Libris, 228 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Sandra Brown, 525-7550.

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is a new book discussion group that meets the fourth Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E. Bay St. Call Beatrice Wright at 652-3660. Bring your ideas and lunches. Tea will be provided. 232-5488 or 652-3660. Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E Bay St. 912-232-5488. www. liveoakpl.org/

Religious & Spiritual Advent Festival of Lessons & Carols

The Music Ministry of Christ Church (Anglican) will present this holiday tradition from King’s College Cambridge. Carols will be sung and rung by the church’s choirs and bell choir.

Through Dec. 14. Free and open to the public.

Christ Church, 28 Bull St. 232-4131.

Calling All Christians

“Circular Logic”--we keep going around and around.

Chanted Office of Compline

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1 He played the grandfather in “Little Miss Sunshine” 10 ___ avis (unusual species) 14 One who doesn’t mind feeling the pinch 15 Planet inhabitants?

16 Mark Morrison R&B hit of 1997 18 Cube in a container of pork and beans 19 ___ amis 20 “Un momento, ___ favor” 21 Had more than a feeling 23 Herb used in Mexican cuisine 28 Home of d’Artagnan in “The Three Musketeers” 32 Qatari ruler 33 Breakfast mishap 36 Mazda Raceway Laguna ___ (Monterey racetrack in operation since 1957) 37 Genetic messenger material 38 “The Pillars of the Earth” novelist Ken 40 “___ blu dipinto di blu” (“Volare” alternate title) 41 “___ not have sexual relations with that woman” 43 Bucket at the theater 45 “Don’t ___ me, bro!” (2007 catchphrase) 46 Sean Preston’s mother 47 February birthstone 49 Use as a quote 53 Yahoo’s Jerry Yang, until late 2008 54 Dorm supervisors, for short 57 Public regard 58 Movies like “Star Wars,” e.g.

64 Fix some paragraphs 65 TV title sung after “Ain’t we lucky we got ‘em” 66 Food bank containers 67 Youthful status

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1 “That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays ___ pinball!” (“Tommy” lyric) 2 It may be ordered with extra foam 3 Sch. that’s home to the Sun Devils 4 “Cheers” exclamation 5 Spotty problem

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.

6 Greek letters that look like P’s 7 Zapp Brannigan’s assistant, on “Futurama” 8 “Was ___ das?”

9 Degree in math?

10 “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” band, with “the” 11 Rented pad 12 DVR remote button 13 Pose a question 16 John-John’s uncle 17 Smog watchers: abbr.

22 Chicago-based cable superstation 23 Fuel mining site 24 Bee or beetle, e.g.

25 Bulwer-___ Fiction Contest (yearly contest involving deliberately awful opening sentences to novels) 26 Sch. with a Houston campus 27 Dental hygiene brand 29 Grp. that oversees liquor and Lugers 30 Visit 31 Fireworks attraction, perhaps 33 Water filter brand name 34 Free up a river’s flow, maybe 35 Go wild 39 Three, in Torino 42 Picks up on 44 “The city that never sleeps,” for short 48 Tilling tool 50 Like some verbs: abbr.

51 See 62-down 52 Pre-album samplers: abbr.

54 Foxx who played Sanford 55 Blue chip, perhaps 56 Make Kool-Aid 58 Triple ___ (liqueur variety) 59 BlackBerry, e.g.

60 Insurance worker: abbr.

61 Anonymous surname 62 With 51-down, burlesque dancer and Marilyn Manson ex Dita 63 John’s “Pulp Fiction” costar

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. 912-3547038. www.oglethorpemall.com/

Circle of Light

A night of touching the invisible and making Spirit tangible. Christia Cummings-Slack will construct a crystal grid matrix along with healing visionary art and feathers to anchor the energy of the evening, then lead a healing guided meditation to ground and clear away stress and energy blocks, and to introduce Spirit Helpers. Each participant will receive an individual message from Spirit and is encouraged to bring questions that might be weighing on their heart and mind. Oct. 15 and 22, Nov. 5 and 19 and Dec. 10, 7pm , Southern Hemispheres Bookstore, 41 Habersham St. $30. 234-6371, www.christiacummings.com. Through Dec. 10.

DrUUming Circle

is held the first Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah on Troup Square at Habersham and Macon streets.

Drummers, dancers and the drum-curious are welcome. Call 234-0980 or visit uusavannah.org.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. 912-234-0980. www.uusavannah.org

Introduction to (Vipassana) Mindfulness Meditation

An ongoing class for beginners and experienced practitioners that offers a weekly interactive talk on the foundations of the practice of Mindfulness Meditation, followed by a period of meditation.

Mondays 6-7:30pm. 307 E. Harris St. Drop-ins, $14, 8-week package $80. Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach. 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 o advanced meditators unite to practice meditation and discuss metaphysics, holistic approach to healing, Reiki, Chakras, energy work and Spirit Connection. www.meditation. meetup.com/490.

Midweek Bible Study

Midweek Bible Study is offered every Wednesday at noon at Montgomery Presbyterian Church.

Bring your lunch and your Bible. 352-4400 or mpcsavannah.com. Montgomery Presbyterian Church, 10192 Ferguson Avenue. 912-352-4400. www.montgomerypresbyterian.com/

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 Church, 11911 White Bluff Rd. 912-925-5924. www.wbumc.org/

Nicodemus by Night

An open forum is held every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at 223 E. Gwinnett St.

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) meet Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 W. President St., Savannah. Call Janet Pence at 247-4903. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. 912-233-4766. www.trinitychurch1848.org/

Recruiting Church Launch Team

If you are interested in becoming part of an innovative multi-cultural church startup in West Chatham, contact Steve at 748-6439 or see www. ekklesiasavannah.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 SGI-USA at 232-9121.

Stand for Peace

A sllent witness for peace that will be held in Johnson Square the fourth Sunday of every month from 1-2pm until the occupation ends.

Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Social Justice and Action Committee. 224-7456, 2312252, 234-0980, uusavannah.org

The Savannah Zen Center

Located at 307 E. Harris St. Soto Zen Meditation offered weekday mornings 7:30-8:30am; Tuesday evenings 6-6:30pm with Study Group following from 6:30-7:30pm; Friday evenings from 6-6:30pm. Sundays from 9-10:30am which includes a Dharma talk. Donations accepted.

Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach, 429-7265, cindy@ alwaysoptions.com.

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 233-6284 or 786-6075, e-mail UUBC2@aol.com. Celebrating diversity. Working for justice.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

Liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. Sunday, 11 am, Troup Square Sanctuary.

234-0980, admin@uusavannah.org or www. uusavannah.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. 912-234-0980. www. uusavannah.org

Unitarian Universalist Men’s Group

An opportunity to meet with men and as a group explore men’s spirituality while offering social support in a safe atmosphere. Meets weekly to discuss a predetermined topic. Also plans outside activities or participates in activities as

Unity of Savannah

A church of unconditional love and acceptance.

Sunday service is at 11 a.m. Youth church and childcare also are at 11 a.m. 2320 Sunset Blvd.

Spiritual Tapas offers something different every Saturday at 6:15 p.m.: spiritual movies, discussion groups, guided meditations, great music and all things metaphysical. www.unitysavannah.org Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. 912-355-4704. www.unityofsavannah.org/

Wicca 101

An introductory class every Thurday at 7pm at Southern Hemisphere Metaphysical Books, Gifts & More, 41 Habersham St. $15. 234-6371.

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/

You Are All That: Discovering The God Within

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.

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.

Al-Anon Meetings

Meetings for families and friends of alcoholics are held every Monday and Wednesday at 5:30pm and Sunday at 11am. Melissa, 844-4524.

First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. 912-354-7615. www.fpc.presbychurch.net

Alcoholics Anonymous

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

Alzheimer’s Association Support Group

A series of metaphysical/New Thought classes at The FreedomPath Science of Life Center, 1204 MLK, Mondays 8pm, with Adeeb Shabazz. $10, 1-877-494-8629, www.freedompathonline.org.

Support Groups Abstinence Program

ADD and Behavior Support Group

Hope House of Savannah provides support for students between the ages of 13 to 19. Snacks and transportation provided. Call 236-5310.

meets every second Monday at 10am at the Wilmington Island United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Rd. Call Tara Redd and Lauren Dutko at 631-0675.

Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Support Group

The group is for caregivers, family members and friends of persons affected by Alzheimer’s Disease or other dementia-causing 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.

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Bipolar Support Group

Backus Children’s Hospital Support Group for Parents

Cancer support group

Open to all patients who have had a limb amputated and their families or caregivers. Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

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 3505616. Backus Children’s Hospital, 4700 Waters Avenue. 912-350-1KID. 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. 912-350-1KID. www.memorialhealth.com/backus

Bariatric Surgery Post-Operative Band Support Group

Call 350-3438 or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth. com.

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. 912-3508000. 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.

John J. Dunn, Ph.D., is interested in hearing from people who want to participate in a bipolar support group. Call 692-1230 after 6 p.m. meets every third Tuesday of the month from 6-7 p.m. at the Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion on Reynolds Street across from Candler Hospital. The group is open to anyone who is living with, through or beyond a diagnosis of cancer. Call 819-3360.

Caring for Us

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

CASA Support Group

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

Celiac Support Group

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

Children’s Grief Groups

Open, drop-in support groups for children ages 6-17 who have experienced a loss by death.

Meets Tuesdays 6-7pm at Full Circle, a Center for Education and Grief Support, 7212 Seawright Dr. 303-9442. cs

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1201 E. 54th St. 2BR, 1BA, furnished kitchen, hardwood floors, CH/A, all electric $550/month.

1130 E. 53rd St. 2BR, 1BA, LR, furnished kitchen, fenced yard, CH/A $525/month.

730-1/2 E. Anderson St. 2BR, 1BA, LR, furnished kitchen, CH&A $475/month.

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1401 E. 38th Street Large 2BR brick duplex $650.

4907 Montgomery Street 2BR house $650.

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1012 Hearn St. 2BR, 1BA, LR, furnished kitchen, CH/A, all electric $575/month.

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7206 VAN BUREN AVE. Off Waters & Eisenhower. 3BR/1BA, LR, DR, Den, fireplace. $875/month, $875/deposit.

2218 E. 60TH STREET 2BR/1BA, with room that could be 3rd BR or den. No pets. $825/month, $825/deposit.

13 W. 60TH STREET 3BR/1BA, no pets. $725/month, $725/deposit.

15B W. 61ST STREET 1BR Apt, utilities furnished, no pets. $725/month, $725/deposit.

6-1/2 W. 61ST STREET 1BR Apt, no pets. $450/month, $450/deposit.

CALL 355-6803 8 CROW’S NEST Executive home, Forest Cove. 3BR/2BA, 15ft. ceilings, rosewood floors. Bonus room tennis/pool included. fireplace, wooded-view $1600/month.

45 HAWSER WAY Port Wentworth. Large 3BR, 2BA, garage, $1050/month, $1050 deposit.

306 SAN ANTON DR. near St. Joseph’s 3/br 2ba separate lr/dr. 2 car garage. $975/month.

5500 MONTGOMERY ST. APT D 2BR/1BA $550/mo plus deposit.

1401 SE 36TH ST. 2BR/1BA, Nice lot. $675/month.

6954 DAMASCUS 3BR/1.5BA with garage. $950/month.

1222 EAST 54TH ST 2BR/1BA, $475/month + deposit.

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8 EAST 38th St. next to Bull Street, lower 2-3BR, 2BA Apt, DR $600/month.

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Call: Mr. Shavers at 232-7965 BURNSIDE ISLAND Deepwater-9 Amanda Drive: floating dock, 3BR, 2BA, LR, large eat-in kitchen w/dishwasher, large fenced yard, garage, C H/A, near ICW, outdoor kitchen. No pets or s m o k i n g. $1800/month.

3 Pemberton Ct. 4BR or 3BR w/office, 2BA, LR, DR, furnished eat-in kitchen, sunroom, garage, fenced yard $1500.

10804 White Bluff Rd. 4BR, 3BA, LR, DR, den, furnished eat-in kitchen, workshop, large lot $1600/month.

26 Full Sweep Dr. 3BR, 2BA, DR, LR, furnished eat-in kitchen, gated comm. w/pool & tennis $1475/month.

136 Runner Road Wilmington Island-3BR, 3BA, LR, DR, in-law suite, furnished eat-in kitchen, garage $1400/month.

317 Oxford Dr. 3BR, 2BA, LR, DR, furnished kitchen, CH/A, washer/dryer connection $1125/month.

201 Ridgecrest St. Pooler 3BR, 2BA, LR, DR, furnished eat-in kitchen, garage $975/month.

1107 Debbie St. Whitemarsh Island 3BR, 1BA, LR/DR combo, eatin kitchen, garage & workshop $950/month.

101 Pleasant Dr. Pt. Wentworth-3BR, 2BA, furnished kitchen, wood floors, fenced yard, CH/A $895/mo.

605 Dyches Dr. 3BR, 2BA, LR, furnished eat-in kitchen, fenced yard, washer/dryer connection, CH&A $875/month.

1408 E. 56th St. 3BR, 1BA, LR, furnished kitchen, washer/dryer connection, CH/A, fenced yard $750/mo.

118 W. 56th St. 2BR, 1BA, LR, DR, furnished kitchen, CH&A, washer/dryer connection $600/month.

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14 Hanging Moss: 3BR/2 Bath, 2-car garage, freshly painted interior. $1275/month.

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COTTAGE FOR RENT 416 E. 62nd St. Ardsley Park area, 1BR/1BA, Appliances Included. Indoor pet welcome, $650/mo.

No Section 8 call 912-323-2530/912-352-3 118.

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Nice one bedroom furnished efficiency apt.

Utilities included, cable, central air and heat, full size refrigerator, private bath, coin operated washer/dryer, very secure. $160/week. No Pets.Call 507-4595, 695-7889, or 355-2831 Eastside AREA -2118 New Mexico.

3BR/1-1/2BA, new central heat/air, remodeled & furnished kitchen, laundry room, carport, fenced yard. Outside pet ok. $850/month, $850/deposit.

Available Nov 1st. No Section 8.

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Executive lg townhome in Henderson FOR RENT. 4/3 w/office!

Only $1250 mo. Owner lic GA RE Broker 920-3338.

For Rent: 2309 Texas Avenue.

3bedroom/1bath. $800 per month, $400 Security Deposit. 912-429-6690

GEORGETOWN (Forest Cove)

2BR/2BA, 2-car garage $1195/month plus security.

Micro wave/washer/dryer/refrig erator/stove/amenities & lawncare included.

912-927-6577 for details.

HALCYON BLUFF: 9231 Garland Drive.

3BR/1.5BA, large eat-in kitchen, LR, DR, fenced yard w/ large deck. Excellent condition. Hesse School District. $975/month, $975/deposit.

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667-7175 or 912-598-8880.

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3BR/2BA house. $800/month. $500/security deposit. Duplex 2BR/1BA. $400/month, $300/security deposit.

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HOUSE FOR RENT: 2BR, LR, Bath, Kitchen/Dining and Fenced-in backyard.

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Drive $750/month.

All have furnished kitchens, fenced yards, wall-to-wall carpet, CH&A, lots more.

Library, Bus Line $130 weekly, Utilities included. NO A.D.S. 2 Cute cats on premises.

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CLEAN, FURNISHED Room, on busline, $85-$115/week plus deposit. Call 210-1327 or 236-1952 CLEAN FURNISHED ROOMS for rent for mature adults. Utilities included $140/week, no deposit.

Skidaway/Thunderbolt area. Call 352-4484 or 308-5455 CLEAN SUPER Nice Furnished Rooms. Refrigerator in room. Central heat/air, HBO, Washer and Dryer. $100-$150 weekly. No deposit. Call 912-507-8733.

912-507-8733 Comfortable Fully Furnished Rooms starting $100/wk. Privacy, Full kitchen, Cable tv, WIFI, free laundry, off-street parking, security system.

Utilities incl.

Small pets ok.

Refundable dep. Habicorp Mngmnt 912-220-8691 or savannahrooms@yahoo.com 912--220-8691

LOVELY HOME in quiet area. 3BR, 2BA, Living room, Dining room, large fenced yard. $850/deposit. $985/month. Section 8 welcomed. Please call 912-398-6900.

MOBILE HOMES: Available for rent. Located in mobile home park.

Starting at $450 per month and up.

912-658-4462 or 925-1831.

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NICE BRICK HOME, Ardsley area. 3BR/2 full baths, furnished kitchen, washer/dryer, wood floors and tile. $1075/month, water and garbage included.

105 East 64th & Abercorn 912-210-0126 PARADISE PARK AREAAvailable Now! Conveniently located 3 bedroom/2 bath home with lot of closets - living room, dining room, eat-in kitchen, laundry room, garage, and utility room. Newly painted, new wood floors, plus ceiling fans and Central Heat & A/C. $949/per month, $989/security deposit.

Min. 1yr lease required.

Military or police discounts available. Near schools & HAAF. No indoor pets. No smoking.

920-1936 Queen Anne Victorian House, large 12 br apt, living room with fireplace, bonus room with bay window. Hardwood floors. Tall ceilings with fans.

Water included. washer/dryer, ch&a, call 233-5246 leave message. $725/month.

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4 Bedroom/2 Bath. *621 Kline Street. *1022 West 37th Street. $89,900 or $750/month.

912-224-7172 RICHMOND HILL: 314 Rice Gate Drive.

3BR/2BA, 1-car garage, new carpet, fresh paint. $1050/month plus dep.

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IN POOLER: Completely renovated 3BR/2BA, new appliances, inground

SECTION 8 WELCOME: Reduced 2140 Alaska 3BR $775. 2403 New York $750. 2001 E. 51st, 3BR/2BA $900, Ready in 1wk. Call 912-257-6181.

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SOUTHSIDE CONDO 60 HIDDEN LAKE: 2bedrooms, 1.5-baths $775.

POOLER-Springlake 103 LAKEPOINTE DR.: 4-Bedrooms, 2-Baths, Garage $1,100.

12 WINTERLAKE CIRCLE: 2-Bedrooms, 2.5Bath Condo $850.

POOLER-Hampton Pl. 174 AQUINNAH DR.: 3-Bedrooms, 2-Baths, Garage $1,100.

MILITARY DISCOUNT! JEAN WALKER REALTY llc912-898-4134 THE BRANNEN COMPANY 311 East 57th Street 2BR/1BA, hardwoods, new kitchen, new bath, fireplace, new HVAC. $990/month.

1217 East Henry St. 1BR Apt. New carpet, new paint, appliances, LR $500/month.

Call 912-844-6294 TOWNHOUSE: 100 Lewis Drive. 2-bedroom, 1.5bath two-story townhome.

Washer/dryer connections, all appliances.

No pets. $600/month, $600/deposit. 912-663-0177 or 912-663-5368.

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TYBEE - 2BR/1BA Apt., central-heat/air, d/w.

Walk to beach, 1 block from AJ’s. $800/month, $800/deposit.

912-507-4637.

UPCHURCH ENTERPRISES 912-354-7737

MOVE-IN SPECIAL 2145 Cullman 3BR/1BA, freshly painted, new carpet. $650/month, $650/deposit.

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VERY NICE HOMES

3BR/1BA. 221 Croatan Street. $795/month.

3BR/2BA, 301 Forest Avenue $785/month.

3BR/1BA, 5637 Emory

Call 507-7934/927-2853

VICTORIAN DISTRICT: 527 E. Park Ave. Renovated 1900’s house, 3BR/2BA, off-street parking, central heat/air, deck, washer/dryer & dishwasher. $950/monthly.

912-507-4637.

WEEKLY AND MONTHLY Properties Available.

Peaceful atmosphere.

WEEKLY Units: Furnished, Private entrance, No sharing, living quarters, utilities included.

From $175-$200/wk, $100-$150/deposit.

MONTHLY Properties: 3BR/2BA, Appliances included. Properties located in Pooler & Savannah. $700-$800/month plus deposit same as rent.

No Section 8. Interested parties call 441-5468

WILMINGTON ISLAND

2BR/2BA 1200sqft. Condo. $850/month.

1BR/1BA waterfront garage apt. $850/month includes utilities. Owner/Agent 897-3109 or 658-3584 CommerCial ProPerty For rent 890 PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE available immediately. 1295sqft. w/reception area, 3 offices and conference room.

Partially furnished $1400/month.

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ROOMS FOR RENT

Southside-Eastside Westside New Large Clean Carpeted Rooms, Quiet Areas, Bus line. Free HBO. Furnished or Unfurnished. Rooms with PRIVATE BATHROOMS available. $115/Week & Up. 1BR/1Bth EFFICIENCY APTS No sharing, own bath & kitchen. All Utilities included, Cable (MB).

Furnished or Unfurnished. $159/Week & Up.

EAST SAVANNAH:

ROOM FOR RENT: Clean w/central heat/air, stove, refrigerator, cable, washer/dryer. On busline. Starting @ $125/week.

Call 912-272-7510.

FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT On the East&West sides. $125/weekly.

All utilities included.

Basic Cable, Washer, Dryer.

Queen/Full Call: 695-2669 Male/female furnished bedroom w/private bath, tv, washer/dryer, house sharing, all utilities paid except food. $500/month. Call 912-897-0905

MOVING SPECIAL

ROOM FOR RENT: All utilities included with cable, microwave, minirefrigerators. $100-$150/weekly. Call 912-507-7174 or 912-844-7274.

NO DEPOSIT

Rooms and apartments $50,$60,$70,$80,$90 & $150/week. Furnished, utilities included, 234-9779, Corner of 38th & Drayton.

912-507-1489

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2 ROOMS in Private Restored Victorian Homes Satellite T.V, W/D Kitchen Privileges Near Public

ROOM FOR RENT Nice Quiet Area. All utilities included. Large & small

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rooms available. $100 & up/weekly.

Monthly rates available.

Call Doug, 912-704-8665.

ROOM FOR RENT SOUTHSIDE HOME has room for rent. $150/week. $300/deposit.

Non-smoking.

Call 912-507-5614.

507-5614 ROOMS AND UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS for RENT at Waters and Anderson St. (1024 Anderson) Call 912-944-0105

ROOMS FOR RENT: $125/weekly. Washer/dryer, cable, central heat/air.

Call 912-596-0847 ROOMS FOR RENT: 1604 Reynolds. Furnished, Cable, Stove, Refrigerator, Central Heat/Air. $130-$140/weekly. Call 313-0227

ROOMS FOR RENT

Central heat/air, cable, washer/dryer, furnished, located on busline, $130 weekly- no deposit. Call 344-7623

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Completely furnished.

Central heat and air.

Conveniently located on busline. $120/week.

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CASH CARS $950 or less!

• ‘97 Mazda Pro1978 Oldsmobile ‘98, 77K miles, 403 c.i., Immaculate condition.

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V-6, 2-Door. White w/tan leather interior with sunroof and Bose sound system. Asking $6200. Must see! Call 598-0781 1998 VOLVO S70, great car for 16yr old! Very good condition, stereo w/CD, AC, PW, PL. Asking $4800. Call 232-1001.

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2002 Chevy Silverado Only 30K, excellent condition, loaded. $13,000. 912-655-2120 before 9PM.

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• ‘96 Nissan Altima

• ‘97 Chrysler Concord

• ‘96 Aerostar van • ‘92 Infiniti G-20 And much more... $550 or less

• ‘01 Hyundai Accent

• ‘93 Aerostar van • ‘97 Kia Sephia • ‘92 Park Avenue.

• And much more…

Call:912-964-2440 FENDER BENDER? Paint & Body Work.

Reasonably Priced.

Insurance Claims. We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

FENDER BENDER? Paint & Body Work.

Reasonably Priced.

Insurance Claims. We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

Motorcycles/ AtVs 940 ‘03 SUZUKI GSXR 1000, black w/chrome wheels, air shifter, NOS, 12” swingarm, lots of extras $7500. Call 704-5807

Includes stove, refrigerator, private bath. Furnished! $180/week + deposit.

Call 912-844-5995

2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse.

Fully loaded. 56,900 miles. Tinted windows, Excellent condition. Asking $12,900 OBO. Dana, 704-3925

SOUTHSIDE & EASTSIDE home weekly rentals. $175 and up, deposit required. Very clean. washer dryer, cable, lounging area, and big kitchen! Call 631-1458 or 927-7644

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1991 Coachman Class-C Ford van. Self contained, 82,541 miles, 18’11””, ac.

Refrigerator, stove, shower, bathroom , couch/bed, bunk bed, microwave, good condition $5000.

912-925-1805

4 RUNNER SR5 TOYOTA

For Sale: Outback ‘04 27ft self contained travel trailer w/ tv, lots of storage area, 2 axels w/ spare tires, Heat/AC, queen size bed. Sleeps 6. Fully equipped kitchen. $13,995.

912-897-1899

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cars 910 ‘03 DODGE RAM 1500, black w/20” chrome wheels, dual exhaust, cold-air intake, leather, 82K miles, new motor at 70K miles. $12,000.

704-5807

04 Chevrolet Avalanche Victory red, 20’’ chrome rims, professional sound system, clean, in great condition. $11,000 OBO. Statesboro (912)682-3116

1996 Toyota 4 Runner SR5. Moonroof, leather seats, keyless entry, CD player, cold A/C, towing package, roof package, private window. Mechanical in perfect condition. Gets 29MPG on highway. Huge rear storage space, Approx. 135K miles. $4800.

Call 912-704-9303.

AUTO REPAIRS Need service but low on cash?

Call 912-441-2150 for details.

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