Connect Savannah, April 29, 2009

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Cracker Queen Former Savannah columnist Lauretta Hannon returns to her old stomping grounds to launch her new book, Cracker Queen: A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life, in a benefit for Live Oak Public Libraries at Blowin’ Smoke. Our chat is inside.

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SCAD prof Jim Abraham and his preservation students renovate the Kennedy Pharmacy on Broughton | 10

Five years of spittin’ fire are marked this weekend at the 5th Annual Spoken Word Festival | 16

Tim Rutherford, the Savannah Foodie himself, debuts his wine and food column in our paper | 19

AASU Masquers perform the classic A Raisin in the Sun | 29

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First Friday for Folk Music

What: Featuring Phil Minis-

sale, Bill & Kate Isles and the Muses.

When: Fri. May 1, 7:30 p.m.

Where: First Presbyterian Church , 520 Washington Ave. Cost: $2 Info: www.savannahfolk. org

Wednesday Free Week at the Telfair Academy

What: Free admission to

the Telfair Academy of the Arts.

When: Through May 3 Where: 121 Barnard St. Cost: Free Info: telfair.org

5th Annual Savannah Spoken Word Festival: Friday Nite Fix What: Activities for the

Market at Trustees Garden What: Events include a

farmer’s showcase and organic gardening presentations. The mid-week market is held inside.

When: Wed. April 29, 4-7 p.m., Wed. May 6, 4-7 p.m.

Where: Charles H. Morris Center, 10 E. Broad St., Cost: Free Info: www.trusteesmarket. com/

Mayor’s Town Hall Meeting

What: Mayor Otis Johnson

updates about priorities and services under present economic conditions.

Also up for discussion are truancy and expulsion.

When: Wed. April 29, 7 p.m.

Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre Cost: Free

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Team in Training Fund Raiser What: A fund raiser for the

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society featuring local blues band Bottles & Cans and Lark and the Owl. When: Thu. April 30, 6 p.m.

Where: The Distillery, 416

The Fifth Annual Spoken Word Festival takes place all weekend at various venues around town

whole family, including Open Mic, youth and adult poetry slams, and more. An open mic with Chiccy Baritone will be presented.

When: Fri. May 1, 8 p.m.

Where: Metro Coffeehouse, 402 MLK Blvd Cost: Free Info: www.savannahspokenwordfestival.com/

Cultural Arts Theatre: Pippin West Liberty St., Savannah Cost: Info: www.distillerysavan-

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Murder Afloat

What: Participate to solve a

murdery mystery, all while cruising on the Savannah River. Held every Thursday.

When: April 30, 9:30 p.m.

Where: River Street Riverboat Co., 9 W. River St., Cost: $27.95; children under 12, $19.95 Info: murderafloat.com

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Friday Tea in the Garden at the Davenport House

What: Experience an early

19th century tea in a courtyard garden.

When: Fri. May 1, 5:30 p.m.,

Freebie of the Week | What: Program

Sat. May 2, 5:30 p.m.

Where: Davenport House

Museum, 324 E. State St. Cost: $18 Info: www.davenporthousemuseum.org

Savannah Children’s Theatre: A Midsummer Nights Dream

What: One of Shakespeare’s

most popular romantic comedies presented by the theatre’s premier highschool troupe.

When: Fri. May 1, 7 p.m., Sat. May 2, 7 p.m., Sun. May 3, 3 p.m.

Where: Savannah Children’s Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Drive , Cost: $12 Info: www.savannahchildrenstheatre.org/

What: The musical follows

Pippin, son of Charlemagne, who longs to discover the secret of true happiness and find himself.

When: Fri. May 1, 8 p.m., Sat. May 2, 8 p.m., Sun. May 3, 3 p.m., Fri. May 8, 8 p.m., Sat. May 9, 8 p.m., Sun. May 10, 3 p.m., Sat. May 16, 8 p.m., Sun. May 17, 3 p.m.

Where: Black Box at S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St. , Savannah Cost: $10, $7 students Info: www.savannahga. gov/arts

Art for Art’s Sake Auction

What: Work by local and nationally-known artists, with all proceeds directly benefitting Desotorow Gallery.

When: Fri. May 1, 7 p.m.

Where: Desotorow Gallery, 2427 DeSoto Ave. Info: www.desotorow.org

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Saturday Yoga at the Telfair!

What: Practice the art of

movement and relaxation in the Telfair Academy galleries with Savannah Yoga Center director Kelley Boyd.

When: Sat. May 02, 10 a.m.

Where: Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard St., Savannah Cost: $14 Info: www.telfair.org/

Savannah Spoken Word Festival: All Slam Saturday Youth Poetry Slam

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What: Prize of $500 will be

awarded to the winner of the youth competition.

When: Sat. May 2, 10:30 a.m.

Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave., Savannah Cost: Free Info: www.savannahspokenwordfestival.com/

Cinco de Mayo Festival

What: A celebration of Latin

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When: Sat. May 2, 3 p.m.

Where: Oglethorpe Speedway, 200 Jesup Rd., Pooler Info: 354-3161.

Saturday Market at Trustees Garden What: Events include a

farmer’s showcase, organic gardening presentations, films and more. The Saturday version is held outside in a tent.

When: Sat. May 2, 9 a.m.noon Where: Trustees Garden, 10 E. Broad St., Savannah Cost: Free Info: www.trusteesmarket. com

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Evening Lecture by Jerome Meadows

begins at the Jepson Center with a video and lecture by Meadows, then he will answer questions in the Telfair Academy galleries.

When: Thu. April 30, 6 p.m.

Where: Jepson Center Cost: Free

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Tour de Kids

What: Bike ride fundraiser for the Interfaith Hospitality Network open to students preK-8.

Carnival after ride.

When: May 2, 9 a.m.noon Where: Daffin Park Cost: $10 registration Info: 790-9446

Savannah Derby Devils vs. Asheville’s Blue Ridge Rollergirls What: Frank the “Big

Guy” Sulkowski from WJCL and FOX28 will serve as guest emcee as fans get the chance to win door prizes, enjoy live music and witness plenty of brutal bodychecking.

No one younger than 18 on the front row.

When: Sat. May 2, 7 p.m.

Where: SuperGoose Sports, 3700 Wallin Rd., Cost: $12 door; $10 presale tickets, 8 and under Info: savannahderby. com/

Savannah Sand Gnats

What: The Gnats take on

the Asheville Tourists May 2, 3, 4 and 5 at 7pm.

Box, $10; reserved, $8; general admission, $7; seniors/military/children 4-12 $5.

Where: Grayson Stadium, 1401 E. Victory Dr., Info: www.sandgnats. com

Savannah Spoken Word Festival: All Slam Saturday Adult Poetry Slam

What: Adult competi-

tion hosted by Queen Sheba and like the youth competition, except there may be rough language.

Cash prize of $500 will be awarded to the winner.

When: Sat. May 02, 7:30 p.m.

Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $5 Info: www.savannahspokenwordfestival.com

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Monday Spring Farmto-Table Dinner

A Look at the Kennedy Pharmacy

What: As part of SCAD’s

Preservation Week 2009: a reception will be held at the newly restored Kennedy Pharmacy.

When: Sun. May 3, 3 p.m.

Where: Kennedy Pharmacy, 323 E. Broughton Cost: Free

Musical Month of May

What: A concert by the

Armstrong Vocal Chamber Ensemble. Proceeds will benefit the Armstrong scholarship fund.

When: Sun. May 3, 3 p.m.

Where: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th and Abercorn streets , Savannah Cost: $10 adults, $ Musical 5 students, free AASU studen Info: www.stpaulsavannah.org

Savannah Spoken Word Festival: So Long Sunday

What: Charlotte National

Slam Team, featuring Boris “Bluz” Rogers, Carlos Robson, Tavis Brunson and Mike Simms.

When: Sun. May 3, 7:30 p.m.

Where: International Longshoremen’s Association 2046, 191 Main St., Garden City Cost: $10 Info: www.savannahspokenwordfestival.com/

Preserving the World’s Great Cities What: Keynote speaker

Anthony Tung as part of SCAD’s Preservation Week 2009.

When: Sun. May 3, 7:30 p.m.

Where: The River Club, 3 MLK Jr. Blvd., Savannah Cost: Free

What: Featuring Chef Jeff

Rodgers and bio-dynamic farmer “Farmer D”.

When: Mon. May 4 Where: Local 11 Ten, 1110 Bull Street, Cost: $50 four-course dinner; $35 more for wine pairing Info: www.local11ten. com

Professor Primrose’s Guide to Finding Fairies

What: A new multi-media

show for the whole family written by and starring Christopher Soucy. Puppets and live characters give clues where to find fairies. Starts May 4 at noon, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm, and every day after.

Where: Bryson Hall, 5 E. Perry St. Cost: $10 per peson

Ruin and Resurrection in the Russian North

What: Lecture by William

Brumfield as part of Preservation Week.

When: May 4, 7:30 p.m.

Where: The River Club, 3 MLK Jr. Blvd., Savannah Cost: Free

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Tuesday Racism and Recent Memory in Georgia:

What: Lecture by Steven

Moffson as part of Preservation Week.

When: May 5, 7:30 p.m.

Where: The River Club, 3 MLK Jr. Blvd., Cost: Free

Savannah Urban Arts Festival Kickoff: What: The Savannah

Urban Arts Festival, today-May 9, kicks off with a hip-hop performance

by Dope Sandwich.

When: Tue. May 5, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Where: Tantra Lounge, 8 E. Broughton St. cs

The ‘Savannah Tax’: Why do you pay it?

Every now and then I ask myself the question, “Why do I stay in Savannah instead of moving to some other area of the country?”

You may not ever ask yourself that. Perhaps you just arrived here from some other place that you couldn’t wait to get away from, or perhaps you simply love it here, or both.

But for someone like me – born and raised here and still trying to figure out what makes it tick – the question of “why Savannah?” not only remains a pertinent one, it seems to increase in intensity and relevance with each year I grow older.

I’ve been inspired by a recent stimulating conversation with Tony and DaVena Jordan, organizers of the upcoming Savannah Urban Arts Festival, to go public with my theory.

I call it the “Savannah Tax.” It’s not about literal taxes per se, though certainly those factor into what makes up the Savannah Tax. Rather, the Savannah Tax is the price we all pay for the privilege of living here.

It’s the downside, the negative end of the ledger.

Simply, put, the Savannah Tax is the crap we have to put up with in order to call this place home.

I’m not talking about general modern ills, like the coarseness of society, political polarization, or the sad state of the media. Those are problems, but they’re not part of the Savannah Tax. And it’s not about regional issues, either, like backward state legislatures or racial segregation or low literacy or gnats or hurricanes.

I’m talking strictly about local phenomena, the things that, on a bad day, just make you shake your head and ask yourself why the hell you didn’t pack your bags and head west on I-16 or north on I-95 a long time ago.

The Savannah Tax includes: • A shockingly high level of violent crime.

• A shockingly high acceptance of the high level of violent crime.

• A city government that often seems to actively work against local small businesses.

•A school system that often seems more focused on redressing perceived racial grievances than in educating children.

• Highest gas prices in the state, mostly due to one company having a distribution monopoly.

• A maddening refusal to value or even acknowledge home-grown talent of any type or profession.

• Flip side of the above: A tendency to attract flawed divas who move here for employment because they couldn’t make it in larger markets — or were chased out of said larger markets.

• An arts community that’s largely financially dependent on patrons who live in a single exurban gated community.

• A torpid, pervasive civic apathy that crosses all racial and socioeconomic lines.

• And of course, taxes themselves. These include, but are not limited to, a county assessor’s office that insanely (fraudulently?) jacks up home values 40 or 50 percent in the middle of a depression, and public schools that deliver a frighteningly low quality of education in comparison to the huge tax burden they place on us (over 50 percent of the total local tax load).

In the end, each of us does his or her own personal calculus, a simple cost/benefit analysis, to determine whether to go or to stay.

Obviously, for me and for most of you reading this, the equation came out in favor of “Stay.” At least for now.

The clear question, then, is: What puts “Stay” over the top?

In my case, it’s largely due to having extended family here and a fairly well-paying job at a fairly successful newspaper at a time when that combination is almost impossible to find.

But in all candor, as great and important as those things are… many days “Stay” barely wins, and a few days out of the month “Go” is the clear victor.

How about you? Is it the water, the weather, the manners?

The history, the burgeoning arts scene, the relatively easy commutes?

The general laissez-faire live-and-let-live vibe?

SCAD? Armstrong?

The bars and St. Patrick’s Day? What makes you stay?

Why do you continue to pay the Savannah Tax? cs

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Open letter to Susu Cox Editor, This is an open letter to Savannah/Chatham County School Board member Susu Cox: Dear Mrs. Cox: I read with particular interest recent statement attributed to you from Connect Savannah and the Savannah Morning News. I will be citing both of them over the course of this letter.

First the quotes from you via the April 13 edition of the Savannah Morning News in an article entitled “New approach sought for

old school problems.” Statements tantamount to a brush–off of stakeholders in the community like “staff already has interventions a mile long” and “if anything this is old news, does any of your data look at the number of suspended black males who come from single–parent households? There’s a real lack of parents who make use of the many resources we already offer –– until it’s too late.”

Mrs. Cox, your jihad against single–parent families never ceases to amaze me, and I have heard several variations of it through the years from board meetings at 208 Bull Street up to the Whitney

Administrative building.

In Connect Savannah you are quoted this way: the group’s findings are “old news and the board already knew what the data shows.

What I have found is there’s a real lacking of parents taking advantage of the resources, it’s going to take the community as a whole to address the problem. This is just data. My plea is to the community to help us.”

More quotations I am going to reference: “Suspensions come at a cost, the children lose, the community loses, the district loses.”

“Parenting classes might help some parents guide their children

to do better in school.”

There were some other statements attributed to you, they will be addressed in a future letter.

If the Savannah/Chatham public school system was or is offering the “mile–long interventions,” the public relations department needs to be getting the information out there. I am not convinced the board is doing all it can on this matter.

When the board had the “old news” apparently it did not do a whole lot with it. The “old news” is probably tucked in a file cabinet or continues on p. 8

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on a bookshelf. I am also not convinced that the board means it –– let me amend that, you mean it when you say your plea to the community is to help us. You have been on the board over ten years; your track record indicates community help is the last thing you look for.

That’s it for now, Mrs. Cox. To be continued.

Ivan Cohen

On

the execution of Troy Davis

Editor, It is alarming that Georgia wants to execute Troy Davis, whose innocence of the crime of which he stands convicted, capital murder, is extremely probable.

To recap: Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail arrived at a Burger King location to break up a fight that was going on between that and the neighboring bus station. He was shot to death by someone at Burger King. Nine witnesses claimed to have seen Mr. Davis at the restaurant and seven of them claimed to have seen him shooting Officer MacPhail. The other two were most likely restaurant employees, one who took Mr. Davis’s order and one who took his payment for the food. Those seven have since recanted their claims, saying that the police pressured them into pointing a finger, and Mr. Davis was the man unluckily, and falsely, accused.

If the others were servers, they had no reason to lie, and obviously testified as to the time they had served Mr. Davis the night of the murder. Yes, that places him at the scene of the crime when it happpened. But that does not prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt; in fact, it doesn’t even mean anything but that he just happened to be a customer at the time.

What is abominable about this is that Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue believes that he has no power, according to Georgia law, to grant clemency to Mr. Davis, even if doing so would mean a retrial. The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (ncadp. org) refutes his claim and urges the governor do whatever it takes to stay the execution of Mr. Davis, pending a new trial at which those seven witnesses would testify to the truth, not only of anything they saw or did not see the night of the murder of police officer Mark MacPhail but also of how his fellow officers pressured them to point a finger at somebody.

One responsibility of the governor of any state is to do his best to see that true justice is administered in that state, which means punishing only those who are truly proven to be guilty, and Mr. Davis obviously has not been so proven. The faith the voters had that he would fulfill that, as well as any other, responsibility of the governor, is the reason they elected him.

The citizens of Georgia should let Governor Perdue know that if he does not take the action that is needed to save Troy Davis from execution immediately, whether it results in a retrial or not, then they will not vote for him if he runs for re–election. And if Perdue ever wishes to run for President, American voters should let him know the same thing.

Craig Plapinger

‘Communistic, ultraliberal reporting’ Editor, Just received my new Connect.

Opened to Movies and was greeted by a severe piece of ultraliberal trash.

It was not the Republicans who messed things up. It was the liberal members of both houses who failed to recognize the indicators that the crooks were running the asylum. Had they listened, we taxpayers would not be subjected to these outlandish bailouts.

Someone needs to rein in this writer or adjust his attitude. I know we have freedom of speech but this is very offensive journalism.

Michael Pilgrim

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Budgeting for Results teams report to city council

by Linda Sickler | linda@connectsavannah.com

It was a meeting so big that it started in one place and ended in another.

On April 23, the Savannah City Council met with representatives of the Budgeting for Results teams. The teams are made up of city employees who have volunteered to determine ways the city can cut costs yet continue to provide or even improve services.

“It’s a very exciting thing to proceed with this in a time of turmoil and stress,” Mayor Otis Johnson said to a crowd of employees. “If anybody tells you they know when we’ll come out of the recession, they’re lying. Other cities have had to cut staff, reduce staff or reduce programs. We haven’t had to do that.”

The use of teams is new for the city, Johnson said. “This is going to set Savannah ahead of a lot of communities,” he said. “Savannah has always won awards for its budget programs, and I think Savannah will win awards for this new practice.”

The meeting then moved from the council’s meeting room to its media room to meet with the teams one by one. Up first was the Health and Environment Team, headed by Heath Lloyd.

“What we’re trying to do is identify the services that matter most to citizens,” he said. “Our focus was to promote health and preserve the environment.”

The team has looked at citizen satisfaction with the city’s health and environmental services and examined the regulations that must be met. They’re also investigating the city’s capacity to provide those services.

“Savannah is continuing to expand,” Lloyd said. “Right now, we’re annexing areas. We’re going to have to take in consideration the impact that will have on the environment.”

The team has discussed strategies, including a plan to ensure the city provides safe drinking water. “We’re going to have to get the community involved if we’re going be successful at any of this,” Lloyd said. “Programs such

as conservation can help provide safe drinking water and protect the environment, as well.”

Other areas under consideration are rivers and streams, storm water and watershed management and management of waste treatment plants. Clean streets and neighborhoods mean the city must control vectors, or rodents, such as rats, Lloyd said.

Sanitation management also is critical. “If we don’t pick up trash, that is where the vectors are going to live,” Lloyd said. “Street sweeping is important to get litter off the streets. So is blight eradication. Abandoned homes are places where vectors are going to be populous.”

Marty Johnson, director of the Savannah Civic Center, represented the Culture and Recreation Team. Her team has been looking at other cities for comparison. “What makes our city different is the cultural and recreational opportunities,” she said.

“We want to stress that part of this is getting people up and moving, getting people active, whether they are taking art classes or after school computer classes,” Johnson said. “Our team had lofty goals. Our first recommendation

is to increase possibilities for adult and youth interaction.”

That could lead to improved promotion rates in schools, Johnson said. Also important is the maintenance of public facilities so residents will feel safer and more inclined to use them.

“We analyzed maps to show where they exist,” Johnson said. “A lot had residents living within one mile of the facility. We’d like to see that so that residents are within half to a quarter mile of a facility.”

Data indicates one in five 4–year– olds are obese. “We’re headed toward an epidemic,” Johnson said. “Our team felt if we did not address this crisis, this city is going to have a lot of problems.”

The team also looked a culture and recreation as a framework for education and enrichment. “It helps challenge racial, social, economic barriers,” Johnson said.

It’s common knowledge that Savannah has issues with some children, Johnson said. “It’s cheaper to keep children in recreational programs where they are supervised and monitored than in juvenile detention programs,” she said. “Programs help develop values, a sense of team and social bonds.” cs

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Some shots of the interior (Meaghan Walsh); a team from SCAD works inside (courtesy SCAD)

The Pharmacy is open

After renovation, Kennedy building on Broughton will open during Preservation Week

by Meaghan Walsh | meaghanwalsh81@gmail.com

Isaiah Davenport House Museum, Historic Savannah Foundation (HSF) and SCAD recently partnered to restore one of Broughton Street’s last wooden storefronts.

The Kennedy Pharmacy was built in 1890 and served as the neighborhood drugstore and apothecary.

Through the 1940s, at least, it remained a drugstore. As recently as about 10 years ago, it served as a tax preparation office.

The property, which sits behind the Davenport House, was donated anony-

the time, “was aware of the good work SCAD Historic Preservation Department had done with the Lucas and the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home.

He sought out Jim Abraham, professor of Historic Preservation at SCAD, and the partnership began,” Jamie Credle, Director of the Davenport House and HSF, recalls.

The project has taken a little over a year, with students working each quarter on the various phases. Under Abraham’s supervision, they did everything from pulling up old floor boards,

mously to the HSF in 1999 and the trustees began creating a workable plan for its restoration. In 2007 the endowment directors voted to begin the restoration project. Dale Critz, Sr., president of the Davenport House Committee at

repairing plaster, stripping and restoring mantle pieces, installing fixtures, and choosing paint colors.

Several students became so attached to the project that they took the class a second quarter, wanting to complete the work they began. Abraham remembers students telling him to “not do too much” while they were gone for the long holiday break.

Peter Sullivan is one of more than 80 students who gained practical knowledge working at the Kenndy Pharmacy.

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steadfast support and encouragement from President Paula S. Wallace, the administration, faculty and staff, these projects would not be possible.”

The restored building can now once again be an anchor for the east end of Broughton Street and will be showcased on May 3rd during the SCAD–hosted Preservation Week. This open house will serve as the first official public viewing and kick off a week of lectures that are all free and open to the public.

And the building’s calendar is already filling up. The open floor plan downstairs will be primarily used for HSF functions, but it has already been slated for use by several other organizations.

The local chapter of the American Institute of Architects and SCAD’s Metals and Jewelry Trunk Show have reserved the space.

Mari Carswell from the Blue Ocean Film Festival was captivated by the

restored Kennedy Pharmacy as well.

“The authenticity of Savannah is what attracted us, so we wanted to have all the activity for BLUE Ocean Film Festival in downtown Savannah,” she says.

In addition to being located in the downtown theatre district, “the Kennedy Pharmacy is a great venue for small gatherings as part of our larger event,” she says, “and will help us create a sense of place for our festival that will be memorable for those people who come from around the world.”

HSF and Abraham made sure that the space wasn’t just an attractive building, but that it was functional. Carswell adds, “The floor plan is open, giving us the opportunity to multipurpose it over our four day event. It is charming, versatile, has a stellar location and is already wired for technology. ” The Kennedy Pharmacy also sports a lovely, airy upstairs apartment. At 1200

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square feet, it has three original fireplaces and mantles, refinished wood floors, and transom windows throughout.

Not much is known about the former residents of the apartment. Robert Kennedy, the pharmacist, did reside there during his ownership of the store.

Abraham and the students were visited by an older man who lived there in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Ted Haviland was about 6 years old when they moved in and lived there with his parents for about 4 years.

He remembered the unusual half–bath, the corner where his father installed a (now missing) small wood stove, where they put the Christmas tree and listening to the pharmacist with the German accent answer the phone downstairs. The hope is that such a revitalization project will bring more stories like Mr. Haviland’s to light.

Preservation student Tiffany Miller notes, “After every day’s work, I felt like I was bringing a part of the building with me –– from gaining the knowledge of the structure to the history of wall marks to the plaster dust that fell upon my head. Now that the Kennedy Pharmacy Restoration is finished, the effort and compassion that was put forth is revealed.” cs

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to head in after graduation. Since the historic preservation field is so diverse, it was nice to see specifically what the processes are start to finish on a building,” he says.

“The partnership between Davenport House/HSF and SCAD’s Historic Preservation Department has been mutually beneficial,” Credle adds. “The work that has been done is first–rate and it has given new preservationists a terrific opportunity to work on something real and something that needed to be done.”

Even though the labor was provided by the students, there are still significant costs involved in restoring an old building. In addition to initial budget approval by the HSF and funding raised in the community, the project received a $50,000 grant from the 1772 Foundation, a granting organization that focuses on unique sites, especially those related to “farming, industrial development, and transportation.”

Other sites in Georgia that have been awarded their grants include the Lightkeeper’s Cottage on Tybee and the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace.

The project is the latest in dozens that have partnered SCAD and the Savannah community. “This work is a part of our community outreach program in which we endeavor to perform work that will enhance the social and cultural aspects of Savannah,” Abraham says, “as well as participate in assisting in saving and restoring the physical beauty of our historic structures, and the city as a whole.

The students and faculty are passionate about this work. And, without the

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Too tired to steal

Police responded to the scene of a burglary to find the suspect sleeping peacefully.

A worker at the New Beginnings Learning Center, arrived at work at 6 a.m. and went inside, only to see a man sleeping.

She backed out of the center and called 911. Police responded and took the man into custody. During a search, they found what is suspected to be cocaine.

Marlon Demetric Banks, 22, was arrested and charged with burglary and possession of a controlled substance. Police believe Banks also ate some of the Learning Center’s food before going to sleep.

• He may be just three, but LeBron Collins is being treated as a hero. The tot has been credited with saving his family on the morning of April 21 when a fire broke out in his bedroom at his Southside home in Dyches Trailer Park.

LeBron woke up and saw the flames and

quickly ran to wake his parents. All three escaped the fire without injury, and began putting it out with a garden hose.

By the time firefighters arrived at the scene, the fire was nearly out. They searched the mobile home, located at 10801 Middleground Rd., and learned that the fire was contained to Leon’s bedroom and an adjacent bathroom.

Although there were no injuries as a result of the fire, Southside EMS took Leon to St. Joseph’s Hospital for observation as a precaution. American Red Cross officials assisted the family with needs resulting from the fire.

Savannah Fire Chief Charles G. Middleton met with LeBron Friday morning at Fire Station No. 11 to present him with a safety certificate in honor of his quick thinking and brave response.

• Damont Dillard, 25, a LeGrand Street resident, was arrested and charged with first degree arson in connection with a fire on Reynolds Street. The fire was set on the porch of a vacant house in the 1600 block of Reynolds Street, and spread to adjacent houses on either side.

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were forced to flee their home at 1606 Reynolds.

Dillard has admitted that he set a telephone book on fire on the porch. The third house was also vacant.

• An officer responded to a domestic disturbance on Middleground Road, but the involved couple’s stories were so different he wasn’t able to establish an aggressor.

While en route, the officer was notified that a man was driving north on Middleground Road and stopped him. The man said he was coming from the apartment and was willing to go back for questioning.

The man said he was staying with his mother, but was contacted by his ex–girlfriend, who asked him to help her with a washer and dryer she had just purchased with his money. She also needed water for their baby.

When the man arrived, he said the woman didn’t have the appliances, so he asked her why. She just walked by him.

He said he asked what was wrong and she began raising her voice and insulting

him. He told her to give his money back, but she gave him just $10.

The man began screaming and said she pushed him, leaving a scratch under his left eye. He said he grabbed her to restrain her and she fell to the floor, where he held her until she calmed down.

When the woman told the man she was calling police, he left the scene. She said she hadn’t gotten the appliances because of the weather, and that the man became upset. She said he took her phone and threw it, which caused it to break in half.

She said the man grabbed her neck and pushed her backwards. She said she was holding their baby at the time, but the man got on top of her and she scratched him.

The man went back to his mother’s house and was told not to return to the apartment that night to let the situation de–escalate. cs Give anonymous crime tips to Crimestoppers at 234-2020

I keep hearing pit bull owners claim their dogs are no more dangerous than any other medium-size to large dog.

Are there any statistics that prove that they (the dogs, not the owners) are more dangerous or aggressive than other dogs?

—Decent Dog-Fearing American Not sure this is a distinction of importance. “Sir, my little Muffy is a docile creature who doesn’t know her own strength. Let me get a flashlight and we’ll see if we can find your arm.” So let’s skip the pit bull owners’ rationalizations and get to the gut question: How dangerous are these dogs?

Although there’s some argument over their origin, pit bulls were probably the result of crosses between bulldogs and working terriers to produce a new type of dog for, among other uses, pit fighting—hence the name. Despite the mental image of dogs tearing each other to pieces that the name evokes, pit bulls have a long history as family watchdogs and pets.

Today the term pit bull is commonly applied to three related but distinct breeds—the American Staffordshire terrier, the Staffordshire bull terrier, and the American pit bull terrier—as well as to any number of other dogs of similar appearance. An experienced breeder could undoubtedly tell all these animals apart; you or me, probably not.

Before we get into how dangerous pit bulls are, a more basic question: How dangerous are dogs? Answer: plenty.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs each year, with 885,000 needing medical attention. In 2006, more than 31,000 people underwent reconstructive surgery following dog bites.

Enough chatter. I reviewed more than 20 technical reports on dog attacks: Some common themes: • Identifying a biting dog’s breed is tough and often impossible. Several studies of dog attacks ended up

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with large numbers not assignable to a specific breed. Researchers in a 1997 Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh study could document breed in just 47 percent of cases. Identification is further complicated by crosses and mixes.

• Three breeds keep rising to the top of the Most Likely to Chomp list: German shepherds, rottweilers, and pit bulls. A 1993 Toronto study found pit bulls accounted for 1 percent of licensed dogs but 4 percent of bites.

More ominous is a 2000 study by the Centers for Disease Control looking at 20 years of fatal dog attacks in the U.S. Of 238 such incidents in which the breed of the attacking dog was reported, “pit bull-type dogs” were involved in 32 percent, versus 18 percent for rottweilers and rottweiler mixes and 11 percent for German shepherds and mixes. The authors caution that because there aren’t any reliable population figures for specific breeds of dog, we don’t know what percentage of each breed are fatal biters; there might just be more pit bull-type dogs out there.

• In fairness, some other studies haven’t found pit bulls to be conspicuously dangerous.

• Much, but not all, of what we know about dog bites is what you’d expect: In most attacks the victim knew the dog, which was often a family pet, and the attack was close to home. Male dogs were more likely to attack; unneutered males possibly even more so. A disproportionate percentage of dog bite victims are children. Most attacks are provoked, with young children doing most of the provoking.

Now for the outlying data point: one study found 94 percent of pit bull attacks on kids were unprovoked, as opposed to only 43 percent of attacks by other breeds.

Here’s what we know: (1) Research to date suggests pit bulls are near the top of the list of biters, and their bites are bad—and possibly unpredictable. (2) No, Mr. or Ms. Pit Bull Fancier, nobody has proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that they’re particularly violent.

(3) Some media claims about pit bulls are ridiculous, no question. Are they powerful beasts with strong jaws? Yes. Do they have “locking jaws”? Spare me.

So should you fear these dogs? Let’s not be alarmist. I’ll use my calmest voice-of-reason tone: especially when children are involved, caution (and maybe some canine-behavior homework) is advised. cs

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In April at a New York City gallery, the Australian performance artist Stelarc starred in a video of his surgery in which an ear is implanted into his left forearm (right now, just a prosthesis, but to which stem cells will be added), which will house an Internet-accessed, Bluetooth-capable microphone. “Postevolutionary strategies” are required, Stelarc told The New York Times, because the current state of the body is obsolete. Other exhibits at the “Corpus Extremus (LIFE+)” exhibit included a genetically modified goat that produces super-strong spider’s silk. In an earlier project, Stelarc wired half his muscles to computers in Paris, Helsinki and Amsterdam, to understand a semicontrollable “split-body experience.”

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Baltimore prosecutors were stuck in their case against cult leader “Queen Antoinette,” 40, whom they had charged in the starvation death of a young boy who was being punished for failing to say “Amen” at meal time. They would need the cooperation of the boy’s mother, cult member Ria Ramkissoon, 22, but she was refusing to flip on the Queen, whom she believed would eventually resurrect her son from the dead. Finally in March, the judge announced a breakthrough: Ramkissoon would cooperate, but prosecutors would promise in writing to drop all charges if the Queen eventually brings the boy back.

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• Italian researchers revealed in March that at least one method of increasing penis size actually works (but that it would take a highly motivated man to take advantage of it). Writing in the British Journal of Urology, a team from the University of Turin had volunteers attach weights of from 1.3 to 2.6 pounds for six hours a day for a six-month period and found that their flaccid-state lengths increased by an average of almost 1 inch.

• Retired rogue New York City police detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, who were convicted in 2006 of assisting the Mafia for many years (including with assassinations), were sentenced to life in prison plus 80 to 100 additional years. However, because the men retired from the force before they had been charged with crimes, they are entitled by law to their lifetime pensions of $5,313 a month and $3,896 a month, respectively.

• Army Sgt. Erik Roberts, 25, was injured in Baghdad in 2006 by a roadside bomb, and his leg required 12 surgeries before supposedly healing, but last year a life-threatening infection was discovered in the leg. Roberts underwent a 13th surgery that was covered by his private health insurance, but a costly, rigorous antibiotics regimen was subject to a $3,000 co-pay, which Roberts asked the Department of Veterans Affairs to take care of, but the agency repeatedly refused, in that Roberts had gone outside the “system” to save his war-ravaged leg. Only when a CNN reporter called the matter to the attention of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown in March did the agency relent.

• “You use the toilet every day. Imagine if you could start pouring a little gasoline into the toilet bowl and get 50 Unclear on the Concept cents a gallon (as a tax credit from IRS) • The Web site InformationAgeevery time you flushed.” According to Prayer.com offers, for people too busy a hedge fund analyst (quoted by The to speak to God themselves, a daily Nation magazine for an April service of invocations (using story), that’s the way Congress’ voice-synthesizing software) for 2005 legislation to encourage 100 Days Down, Catholics, Protestants, Jews or “alternative” fuels has been 3 1/2 + Years Muslims. Starting each day “reexploited by the paper industry.

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• A 2008 report on crime at U.S. colleges listed the University of California, Davis, as having the fifth-worst rate in the country, and among the University of California system, Davis’ rate of sexual assaults was higher than the other schools’ rates, combined. Nevertheless, in February, according to Sacramento’s KTXL-TV, the school’s Student Judicial Affairs organization boasted of the record, claiming that it demonstrates the “openness” of the campus, in that students feel “comfortable” enough to report sex crimes.

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• In April, sex offender Barry Whaley was under suspicion for failing to register his new address but made things much worse. Being questioned at a police station in Fairbanks, Alaska, he asked an officer to retrieve a laptop computer from his car so that it would not get stolen, and when the officer brought it to him, Whaley mentioned an “amazing” flight simulator program he had been using, which the officer asked to see. As Whaley powered up the computer, a video of child pornography appeared, and Whaley was arrested.

• In April, police in Copley Township, Ohio, were called to a restaurant where Erik Salmons, 39, was allegedly intoxicated and annoying customers.

Officers declined to arrest him but did insist that he call someone for a ride home, and Salmons complied. However, at home, Salmons decided that he was insulted at being thought of as intoxicated and so drove himself to the police station and demanded a breathalyzer test, which of course he failed, and he was arrested. cs

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Jan Spillane CD Release

Over the course of four independently released albums, this locally–based songwriter has honed a trademark blend of bluesy, soulful, country–influenced pop that some call “The Key of Jan.” With a powerful voice —that often nods to the jazzy conversations of her acknowledged influence Joni Mitchell— and a Willie Nelson– like knack for crafting lyrically touching (yet direct) odes to commonplace situations and emotions, her tastefully–appointed records are in marked contrast with the majority of locally produced discs.

Like her last record, her latest, Thinking Out Loud, features a veritable who’s who of area heavy hitters, including (among others) the Sapphire Bullets’ bassist Phil McDonald and guitarist John Banks, Superhorse guitarist Kevin F. Rose, Silver Lining drummer Mark Cordray, violinist Ricardo Ochoa, cellist Annelise Nelson, former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Jack Sherman, drummer Eric Jones, Mary Davis & Co. guitarist Ben Wells and High Velocity’s Michael McDougald. Most of these folks will back her up (and replicate the sound of the new CD) at this special, free gig. There will be complimentary food and copies of Thinking Out Loud on sale for just $10. Listen & Learn: janspillane.com. Fri., 7 pm, Calibogue Cafe (Wilmington Isl.).

Patrick Williams Benefit

This massive —and I do mean massive— 14–hour concert event organized through the Help Save One of Our Own Foundation is designed to raise money for the costly special treatments this longtime fixture in the local music and restaurant communities is currently undergoing since being diagnosed with Alveolar Soft Parts Sarcoma (ASPS), a very rare

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SFMS presents: Richard Shindell

Ever since this internationally beloved singer–songwriter relocated to Buenos Aires from N.Y. nine years ago (he’s a native Jersey boy), his U.S. concert dates have become less frequent. His entire tour of this country to support Not Far Now, his first disc of new originals in half a decade spans only 14 shows. Luckily for us, the fourth gig is sponsored by the Savannah Folk Music Society.

With a voice that sometimes recalls his peer, the Americana stalwart James McMurtry, Shindell’s albums are almost uniformly transcendent pieces of recorded art. At once cryptic, straightforward, contemplative, humorous, spiritually aware and respectfully ambiguous —yet always passionate and committed— this guitarist and former Paris subway busker is a songwriter’s songwriter known for maintaining an unusually high bar when it comes to quality material. He’s toured with Joan form of cancer.

He currently travels to Houston for care and to Canada for clinical trials (which are not covered by his insurance). In addition to almost 20 different rock, bluegrass, pop, blues, country and jam acts playing on three stages (both indoors and out), attendees can also enjoy a continuous, all–you–can–eat buffet and —for premium ticket holders— an open bar.

Baez, and had an acclaimed album produced by Bob Dylan/Levon Helm/Emmylou Harris/Phil Lesh/Elvis Costello sideman Larry Campbell. Held rain–or–shine underneath a large tent in a beautiful, hidden courtyard just steps from River St., this is one not to miss. Listen & Learn: www.richardshindell. com, http://www.savannahfolk.org. $10 at the door ($8 for SFMS members, $5 for students/children).

Wed., May 6, 7:30 pm, Ships of the Sea Museum (41 MLK, Jr. Blvd.) – ALL–AGES.

Musical acts scheduled to appear include: Bucky & Barry, Thomas Claxton, Keith and Ross, Curbside, Eric Britt, Chief, The Jimmy Wolling Band, Chris Godfrey & Sammy Patrick, Joey Manning, The Train Wrecks, Absylom Rising, Jason Courtney, Jeff Beasley, Ralph Sampson’s Paper Jam, Stewart and Winfield, Junkyard Angel, Turtle Folk and WormsLoew.

Tix: $50 (admits one all day, including food) or $100 (admits one all day, including food and open bar) at 233–2633, or any locations of Tubby’s, Spanky’s, Fiddler’s or The River House restaurants. Learn More: caringbridge.com (password to enter: “patrickwilliams”). Sat., noon – last call, Tubby’s Tankhouse (Thunderbolt) – ALL–AGES. cs

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Bahama Bob’s (Pooler) Karaoke (Karaoke) Bayou Cafe Chief (Live Music) Legendary local guitarist/singer who knows literally thousands of rock, pop, blues and country hits. (covers & originals).

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Club 51 Degrees DJ Blue Ice (DJ) The Distillery Open Mic Night hosted by Greg Williams (Live Music) Opportunity for singer/songwriters and small acoustic combos to ply their wares in between sets by a prolific local blues/folk/rock vocalist/guitarist. 8 p.m.

Doubles Lounge DJ Sam Diamond (DJ) Driftaway Cafe Chuck Courtenay (Live Music) Pop, rock and country covers & originals sung and played on acoustic guitar.

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

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Jazz’d Tapas Bar Eddie Wilson (Live Music) Local keyboardist best known as the former Musical Director of the Savannah Theater (covers & origicontinues on p. 17

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Kevin Barry’s Harry O’Donoghue (Live Music) Acoustic Celtic troubadour known for his many indie CDs and for hosting the popular “Green Island” radio program on GPB. Apr 29, 8:30 p.m., Apr 30, 8:30 p.m., May 1, 8:30 p.m., May 2, 8:30 p.m. May 3, 8:30 p.m.

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Live Wire Music Hall Wagatail presents: Toubab Krewe; Kurtis & Kody (Live Music) Ashevillebased instrumental band fusing the ethnic music of Mali with that of the Southeastern USA. They’re a favorite at outdoor rock and jam fests like Bonarroo; Tybee-based acoustic pop-rock brother duo (by way of Nashville) that crafts catchy, emotional songs with infectious grooves (covers & originals). 10 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 Night (Live Music) 10 p.m.

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

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

AVIA Hotel Gail Thurmond (Live Music) Piano & vocal jazz, country, Latin and standards by a veteran songwriter and recording artist who’s entertained Savannahians for years, and is now back downtown after an extended absence (covers & originals).

-7 p.m.

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

Bayou Cafe Chief (Live Music) Legendary local guitarist/ singer who knows literally thousands of rock, pop, blues and country hits. (covers & originals). -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.

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Karaoke (Karaoke) Blowin’ Smoke BBQ The Sunday Project (Live Music) Folkrock quartet that recently relocated here from dDalton, Ga. (covers & originals)- out-

door ALL-AGES show. 6 p.m.

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

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

The Distillery Cancer Research Benefit w/Bottles & Cans; Lark and The Owl (Live Music) Hard-swinging, house rockin’ garage-blooze and old, weird, Americana (covers & originals); Impressive, Jacksonville, Fl.-based male/female acoustic duo playing original indie-rock and Americana. Proceeds benefit Lukemia and Lymphoma research - ALL-AGES. 6 p.m.

Doc’s Bar Roy & the Circuit Breakers (Live Music) Fiddler’s Crab House The Train Wrecks (Live Music) Hard-rocking local roots-abilly and Americana act led by Texas-born songwriter Jason Bible (covers & originals). Apr 30, 10 p.m.

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

Hang Fire “Attack of The Dance Party” w/DJ Bear Like Strong (DJ) 10 p.m.

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

The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head) The Lavon Stevens Quartet feat. Louise Spenser (Live Music) Jazz, Broadway & blues (covers & originals) with female vocals. 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Trae Gurley’s “Swoonatra” (Live Music) Local singer and thespian’s popular tribute show to Frank

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

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Kevin Barryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Harry Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donoghue (Live Music) Acoustic Celtic troubadour known for his many indie CDs and for hosting the popular â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Islandâ&#x20AC;? radio program on GPB. Apr 29, 8:30 p.m., Apr 30, 8:30 p.m., May 1, 8:30 p.m., May 2, 8:30 p.m. May 3, 8:30 p.m.

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Molly MacPhersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) Open Mic Night (Live Music, Karaoke) 9 p.m.

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

Murphyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Law â&#x20AC;&#x153;Live Jukeboxâ&#x20AC;? w/DJ Sweaty Sock (DJ) 11 p.m.

Myrtleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill J. Howard Duff (Live Music) 7:30 p.m.

Night Lights â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rock Star Karaokeâ&#x20AC;? (Live Music, Karaoke) Kraoke featuring a live band, rather than prerecorded music. 11 p.m.

Planterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern TBA (Live Music) Piano Jazz -7 p.m.

Quality Inn (Pooler) Thomas Claxton (Live Music) Intense, solo acoustic guitarist/singer playing rock and pop (covers & originals). 7 p.m.

Robinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest Karaoke (Live Music, Karaoke) 8 p.m.

Savannah Smiles â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dueling PIanosâ&#x20AC;? (Live Music) Two versatile and wisecracking keyboardists play a wide variety of audience requests. -8:30 p.m.

Savannah Theatre â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hooray For Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;? (Live Music, Other) A salute to 100 years of the greatest musical movie moments of

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Tommyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Karaoke w/ Jeff & Rebecca (Karaoke) Uncle Bubbaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oyster House TBA (Live Music) 7 p.m.

Venus De Milo DJ Americana (DJ) Vicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on The River Jimmy James (Live Music) Solo pianist playing standards, Latin and popular jazz favorites. -7 p.m.

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Wild Wing Cafe Brandi Thornton & Dawg Town Ramblers (Live Music) 10 p.m.

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A.J.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dockside â&#x20AC;&#x153;Georgia Kyleâ&#x20AC;? Shiver (Live Music) American Legion Post 36 Karaoke (Karaoke) AVIA Hotel Gail Thurmond (Live Music) Piano & vocal jazz, country, Latin and standards by a veteran songwriter and recording artist whoââ&#x201A;Źâ&#x201E;˘s entertained Savannahians for years, and is now back downtown after an extended absence (covers & originals). -7 p.m.

B & B Ale House â&#x20AC;&#x153;First Friday Fetish Partyâ&#x20AC;? (Other, DJ) Local theme party impresario Chris Cook throws these slightly debauched gatherings, with help from Award-winning local DJ Analog Kid and exhibitionist troupe The Hellcats. Fetish costumes encouraged.

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

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

Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton (Live Music) Intense, solo acoustic guitarist/ singer playing rock and pop (covers & originals).

9 p.m.

Bernieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on River Street Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Blowinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Smoke BBQ Eric

Britt (Live Music) Acoustic set from the frontman of regional alt.rockers Hazel Virtue (covers & originals)outdoor ALL-AGES show.

6 p.m.

Calibogue Cafe Jan Spillane & Friends - CD Release Party (Live Music) Local singer-songwriter celebrates her new CD with a special show feat. many of the musicians who played on the album, including members of The Sapphire Bullets, GAM, Silver Lining, Mary Dvais & Co., and a former member of John Hiattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band. 7 p.m.

Club One Local Cast, DJ Jason Hancock (Main Floor) (DJ) Coachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Corner Chief (Live Music) Rock, Pop, Country and Soul covers 8 p.m.

Daquiri Island Karaoke (Karaoke) The Distillery The Josh Maul Blues Band (Live Music) Funky and tight Richmond Hill-based electric blues trio influenced

by Albert Collins, SRV and Tab Benoit, led by a former member of Bluesonics (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

Doubles Lounge â&#x20AC;&#x153;World Famousâ&#x20AC;? DJ Sam Diamond (DJ) Driftaway Cafe TBA (Live Music) May 1, 7 p.m. May 2, 7 p.m.

El Picasso Karaoke (8 p.m.) (Karaoke) Fannieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the Beach Mary Davis & Co. (Live Music) Female-fronted acoustic cover combo featuring members of Band In The Park (rock/pop/soul/beach music). May 1, 8 p.m. May 29, 8 p.m.

Fiddlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crab House Absylom Rising (Live Music) Powerhouse funk-rock group from Al. known for vocal harmonies and highenergy improv (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

First Presbyterian Church First Friday for Folk Music w/Phil Minissale; Bill & Kate Isles (Live Music) Monthly coffeehouse-style showcase of local, regional and national acoustic acts sponsored by the Savannah Folk Music Society: Young, Long island, N.Y.-based traditional bluesman playing original tunes; Acclaimed Duluth, Minn. husband-and-wife singer-songwriter duo who recently began touring late in life. Smoke and alcohol free for ALL-AGES. 7:30 p.m.

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

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Eddie Wilson & Midnight Sun (Live Music) Versatile jazz, rock and standards band led by a singing keyboardist and former Music Director of the Savannah Theater. 9 p.m.

The Jinx Mr. Quintron & Miss Pussycat; Psychedelic Horseshit (Live Music) This semi-legendary cult duo from New Orleans is basically a one-man music show by Quintron, a German-born U.S. citizen with a mysterious past. He plays quirky, dance-oriented garage pop (think The Cramps meets ? & The Mysterians) on a handful of homemade or customized organ and percussion instruments (some of which are rather high/lowtech and ingenious), while Pussycat puts on bizarre puppet shows and such.

The house “band” at their own tiny Big Easy bar/ clubhouse, they are the real deal in several ways; Ohio quintet playing droning, bizarro psych-folk with a bit of a go-go influence (not the band, the genre).

11 p.m.

Kasey’s Gourmet Grille Greg & Dan (Live Music) Singing duo of acoustic guitarists playing folk, jam, blues and rock covers.

7:30 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Harry O’Donoghue (Live Music) Acoustic Celtic troubadour known for his many indie CDs and for hosting the popular “Green Island” radio program on GPB. Apr 29, 8:30 p.m., Apr 30, 8:30 p.m., May 1, 8:30 p.m., May 2, 8:30 p.m. May 3, 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 Turtle Folk (Live Music) Increasingly popular local rock and jam group once named Best Local Rock Band by our Readers (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

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

McDonough’s Karaoke (Karaoke) -9 p.m.

Mercury Lounge The Jimmy Wolling Band (Live Music) Local acoustic “hellgrass” combo known for both traditional and modern bluegrass, classic C&W and strong vocal harmonies (covers & originals). May 1, 10 p.m.

Jun 6, 10 p.m.

Metro Coffee House 5th Annual Savannah Spoken Word Fest: Friday Nite Fix (Open Mic) (Other) Presented in honor of National Poetry Month. Open Mic showcase feat. poet Chiccy Baritone - ALL-AGES. 8 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Jude (Live Music) Local singer/songwriter playing light pop, rock and blues-oriented tunes on acoustic guitar, cello and percussion (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) Greg Williams (Live Music) Prolific local singer/songwriter/guitarist playing a broad selection of original rock, modern pop, folk and blues tunes, as well as a few choice covers by the likes of Dylan, Hendrix and Muddy Waters. 8:30 p.m.

Mulberry Inn The Champagne Jazz Trio (Live Music) 8 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) May 1, 10 p.m. May 2, 10 p.m.

Randy Wood’s Concert Hall (Bloomingdale) Missy Raines & The New Hip (Live Music) Multiple award-winning bluegrass bassist/vocalist, touring behind a new album that finds her ace band leaning into more of a jazz vein than on previous albums - ALL-AGES. 8 p.m.

Ruth’s Chris Steak House Kim Michael Polote & Friends (Live Music) Award-winning area vocalist singing jazz and blues

standards backed by piano and bass in this eatery’s bar area. 7:30 p.m.

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

Savannah Theatre “Hooray For Hollywood” (Live Music, Other) A salute to 100 years of the greatest musical movie moments of all time., from the Golden Age of Hollywood as well as today’s Blockbusters, recreated on stage, Apr 29, 8 p.m., Apr 30, 8 p.m. May 1, 3 & 8 p.m.

Savannah Yoga Center Kirtan Artist Dave Stringer (Live Music) An evening of uplifting, ecstatic chants and music from this respected call-andresponse, mantra singer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist blending the mysticism of traditional Indian instruments the grooves of Southern gospel - ALL-AGES. 8 p.m.

Spanky’s Karaoke (9 p.m.)

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

Stingray’s TBA (Live Music) 6 p.m. 6 p.m.

The Tailgate (formerly Daiquiri Beach) TBA (Karaoke) 21+ only. 10:30 p.m.

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

The Warehouse Sunday Project (Live Music) Folkrock quartet originally from Dalton, Ga. (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.

Wet Willie’s Live DJ (DJ) 8 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Liquid Ginger (Live Music) Popular, female-fronted regional modern rock band with two catchy DIY CDs to their name that’s a repeat fave in our annual Readers Polls (covers & originals) - outdoor, ALL-AGES show. 6 p.m. Radio Cult (Live Music) Atlanta-based party band wearing spandex, playing ‘80s-style metal and dance (covers & originals) -i ndoor, 21+ show. 10 p.m.

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AVIA Hotel Gail Thurmond (Live Music) Piano & vocal jazz, country, Latin and standards by a veteran songwriter and recording artist who’s entertained Savannahians for years, and is now back downtown after an extended absence (covers & originals). -7 p.m.

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

Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton (Live Music) Intense, solo acoustic guitarist/singer playing rock and pop (covers & originals). 9 p.m.

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

Blowin’ Smoke BBQ The Josh Maul Blues Band (Live Music) Funky and tight Richmond Hill-based electric blues trio influenced by Albert Collins, SRV and Tab Benoit, led by a former member of Bluesonics (covers & originals) - outdoor ALL-AGES show. 6 p.m.

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

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

The Distillery The South Carolina Broadcasters (Live Music) Traditional music duo from Charleston. 10 p.m.

Doubles Lounge “World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond (DJ) Driftaway Cafe TBA (Live Music) May 1, 7 p.m. May 2, 7 p.m.

Fiddler’s Crab House TBA (Live Music) 10 p.m.

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

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The Jinx American Aquarium; Gabriel Kelly (Live Music) Killer Raleigh sextet that come off like Bruce Springsteen and The Silos funneled through Whiskeytown and Uncle Tupelo’s 2nd wave take on Americana; Rising alt. folker from Nashville/Athens with a serious Jayhawks vibe. 11 p.m.

The Johnny Mercer Theatre “The Blues Divas Tour” (Live Music) Performances by soul, R&B and blues vocalists Denise LaSalle, Gwen McCrae, Betty Padgett and DieDra. The show is hosted by Barbara Carlyle from DEF Comedy Jam and BET’s Comic View.

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Jukebox Bar & Grill TBA (Live Music) 9 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Harry O’Donoghue (Live Music) Acoustic Celtic troubadour known for his many indie CDs and for hosting the popular “Green Island” radio program on GPB. Apr 29, 8:30 p.m., Apr 30, 8:30 p.m., May 1, 8:30 p.m., May 2, 8:30 p.m. May 3, 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 Behind The Sun: A Red Hot Chili PeppersTribute (Live Music) Touring tribute act that dresses up and salutes Anthony Keidis and his Cali cohorts.

10 p.m.

Mansion on Forsyth Park Hear & Now (Live Music) New local smooth jazz group feat. members of Eat Mo’ Music and Silver Lining (covers & originals). 8:30 p.m.

McDonough’s Karaoke (Karaoke) -9 p.m.

Mercury Lounge The Josh Maul Blues Band (Live Music) Funky and tight Richmond Hill-based electric blues trio influenced

by Albert Collins, SRV and Tab Benoit, led by a former member of Bluesonics (covers & originals).

10 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Jordan Ross (Live Music) Young, Pooler-based singer/songwriter with a contemporary, modern acoustic-pop feel (covers & originals). 10 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) Jude (Live Music) Local singer/songwriter playing light pop, rock and blues-oriented tunes on acoustic guitar, cello and percussion (covers & originals).

8:30 p.m.

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

buffet. $100 tix add open bar for those 21+. Indoors and out, rain or shine - ALL-AGES. noon Venus De Milo DJ Nick (DJ) 10 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.

Wild Wing Cafe Bucky Bryant & Jason Courtenay (Live Music) Singing acoustic guitar duo playing and singing popular rock, country and pop hits - outdoor, ALL-AGES gig.

Liquid Ginger (Live Music) Popular, female-fronted regional modern rock band with two catchy DIY CDs to their name that’s a repeat fave in our annual Readers Polls (covers & originals)- indoor, 21+ show. 10 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.

International Longshoremen’s Association 2046 5th Annual Savannah Spoken

Word Festival: “So Long Sunday” w/the Charlotte National Poetry Slam Team (Other) This family-oriented poetry and music event includes local dance troupes and vocalists, plus a special headlining appearance by the Charlotte National Slam Team, featuring Boris “Bluz” Rogers, Carlos Robson, Tavis Brunson and Mike Simms - ALL-AGES. 7:30 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Ray & Mike from Bottles & Cans (Live Music) Duo of the singing guitarist and bassist from a popular local blues/Americana combo (covers & originals). 7 p.m.

Kevin Barry’s Harry O’Donoghue (Live Music) Acoustic Celtic troubadour known for his many indie CDs and for hosting the popular “Green Island” radio program on GPB. Apr 29, 8:30 p.m., Apr 30, 8:30 p.m., May 1, 8:30 p.m., May 2, 8:30 p.m. May 3, 8:30 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). May 3, 10 p.m., May 10, 10 p.m., May 24, 10 p.m., May 31, 10 p.m., Jun 21, 10 p.m. Jun 28, 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.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church “Musical Month of May” w/the Armstrong Vocal Chamber Ensemble (Live Music) Proceeds from this concert will benefit the AASU scholarship fund. 3 p.m.

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

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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) May 1, 10 p.m. May 2, 10 p.m.

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

Ruth’s Chris Steak House Kim Michael Polote & Friends (Live Music) Award-winning area vocalist singing jazz and blues standards backed by piano and bass in this eatery’s bar area. 7:30 p.m.

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

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The Sentient Bean 5th Annual Sav. Spoken Word Fest: Spitfire Youth Poetry Slam (Other) A cash prize of $500 will be awarded to the winner of this youth poetry competition.

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

Stingray’s TBA (Live Music) 6 p.m. 6 p.m.

The Tailgate (formerly Daiquiri Beach) TBA (Karaoke) 21+ only. 10:30 p.m.

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) “Patrick Williams Cancer Benefit” (Live Music) Massive, 14-hour concert feat. the following regional blues, jam, rock, country and bluegrass acts: Bucky & Barry, Thomas Claxton, Keith and Ross, Curbside, Eric Britt, Chief, The Jimmy Wolling Band, Chris Godfrey & Sammy Patrick, Joey Manning, The Train Wrecks, Absylom Rising, Jason Courtney, Jeff Beasley, Ralph Sampson’s Paper Jam, Stewart and Winfield, Junkyard Angel, Turtle Folk and WormsLoew. All proceeds help allay treatment costs for a young local musician suffering from a rare form of cancer. $50 tix include a full day of music and a continuous

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May 3, 7:30 p.m., May 10, 7:30 p.m., May 17, 7:30 p.m., May 24, 7:30 p.m.

May 31, 7:30 p.m.

Wild Wing Cafe Eric & Kris (Live Music) Acoustic duo (covers & originals) - Free outdoor ALL-AGES show. 1 p.m. Bucky & Barry (Live Music) Veteran local duo playing popular rock, country and pop hits on acoustic guitar, with accomplished vocal harmonies - outdoor ALLAGES show. 6 p.m.

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MONDAY Bayou Cafe Chief (Live Music) Legendary local guitarist/singer who knows literally thousands of rock, pop, blues and country hits. (covers & originals). -9 p.m.

Blueberry Hill Karaoke (Karaoke) Doubles Lounge Live DJ (DJ) Beach Music Fiddler’s Crab House Eric Britt (Live Music) Solo set from the guitarist and frontman of alt.rockers

Hazel Virtue (covers & originals). May 4, 10 p.m.

May 25, 10 p.m.

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

Live Wire Music Hall Open Mic & Recording Session (Live Music) Participants can choose to have their Open Mic set professionally recorded for a $40 fee.

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.

Pour Larry’s (formerly John’s Bar) Karaoke w/ Kowboi (Karaoke) 8 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 James (Live Music) Solo pianist playing standards, Latin and popular jazz favorites. -7 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

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Bayou Cafe Chief (Live Music) Legendary local guitarist/singer who knows literally thousands of rock, pop, blues and country hits. (covers & originals). -9 p.m.

Blaine’s Back Door #@*!

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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 All-Star Jam w/Voodoo Soup (Live Music) Standout local players sit in with a local hard-grooving classic rock/funk/soul/blues group (covers & originals).

10 p.m.

Hang Fire Caliente Latino Night (DJ) 10 p.m.

The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head) The Jazz Corner Quartet feat. Bob Masteller (Live Music) New Orleansstyle “Hot Jazz” (covers & originals). 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.

The Jinx Bottles & Cans (Live Music) Hardswinging, house rockin’ garage-blooze and old, weird, Americana (covers & originals). 11 p.m.

Live Wire Music Hall 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) Open Mic Night w/Eric Britt (Live Music) Amateur and pro talent showcase hosted by a singer-songwriter and member of regional alt.rockers Hazel Virtue.

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

Tommy’s Karaoke w/Jeff & Rebecca (Karaoke) Vic’s on The River Jimmy James (Live Music) Solo pianist playing standards, Latin and popular jazz favorites. -7 p.m.

Wet Willie’s Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

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Bahama Bob’s (Pooler) Karaoke (Karaoke) Bayou Cafe Chief (Live Music) Legendary local guitarist/singer who knows literally thousands of rock, pop, blues and country hits. (covers & originals). -9 p.m.

The Boathouse TBA (Live Music) 6 p.m.

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

Club 51 Degrees DJ Blue Ice (DJ) The Distillery Open Mic Night hosted by Greg Williams (Live Music) Opportunity for singer/songwriters and small acoustic combos to ply their wares in between sets by a prolific local blues/folk/rock vocalist/guitarist. 8 p.m.

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

AVIA Hotel Gail Thurmond (Live Music) Piano & vocal jazz, country, Latin and standards by a veteran songwriter and recording artist who’s entertained Savannahians for years, and is now back downtown after an extended absence (covers & originals). -7 p.m.

Barnes & Noble Open Mic (8 p.m.) (Live Music) Bay Street Blues Karaoke (Karaoke) 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Chief (Live Music) Legendary local guitarist/singer who knows literally thousands of rock, pop, blues and country hits. (covers & originals). -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.

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

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

The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head) The Lavon Stevens Quartet feat. Louise Spenser (Live Music) Jazz, Broadway & blues (covers & originals) with female vocals. 8 p.m.

Jazz’d Tapas Bar Trae Gurley’s “Swoonatra” (Live Music) Local singer and thespian’s popular tribute show to Frank Sinatra’s Golden Age Big Band period. 7:30 p.m.

The Jinx Fever! Dance Party w/DJ D-Frost & Friends (DJ) 9 p.m.

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

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

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

The Jinx Rock & Roll Bingo w/DJ DrunkTank Soundsystem (Other, DJ) Just what it sounds like: Bingo plus a wild mix of punk. soul, rock and ska tunes. 10 p.m.

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

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

Pour Larry’s (formerly John’s Bar) Live Trivia with Marcia (Other) Live Team Trivia Game. 9 p.m.

Robin’s Nest Team Trivia (Other) 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.

Scandals TBA (Live Music) 8 p.m.

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

Tantra Lounge Open Mic Night (Live Music) Weekly showcase for singer/songwriters, both amateur and pro. 10 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 James (Live Music) Solo pianist playing standards, Latin and popular jazz favorites. -7 p.m.

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Five years of spitting fire

5th Annual Savannah Poetry Fest welcomes National Slam Champions

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Towards the end of a lengthy chat about the upcoming 5th Annual Savannah Spoken Word Festival with Spitfire Poetry Group co–founder Clinton Powell, I ask the dedicated local booster of performed poetry a hypothetical question.

If, I say, you could be granted any one wish for next year’s 6th Annual Spoken Word Fest, what would it be?

The willowy, reserved —but driven— Powell seems taken aback for a moment. “One wish?” he muses with a slightly incredulous look.

Sure, I say. Anything at all. What one change would you make to this, one of the smaller —but more unique— annual cultural events in the area?

“Well,” he begins, hesitantly. “I’d want to make sure that everyone in Savannah and the surrounding areas knew all about our event far in advance. And I’d also want to be able to hire (poet, writer, actor and musician) Saul Williams.”

“And, I’d want an unlimited budget,” he adds.

No fair, I say, pointing out that he’s now moved on to a second and arguably a third wish. Then again, I note, an unlimited budget could pay for tons of advertising, and cover the cost of hiring the star of the Sundance and Cannes Film Fest award–winning 1998 indie feature Slam.

“Well,” says Powell with a sly laugh, “then let’s just make it an unlimited budget. Start the donations now!”

This award–winning playwright’s education–oriented community organization will need a lot of generous patrons if its Annual Spoken Word Festival is to realize his ambitious dream: namely, that it grow to become one of the highest profile cultural events in a city increasingly crowded with such things.

“Five years ago, I wasn’t sure this Fest would continue and still be going now,” he admits. “But Savannah has always shown us a lot of support and a lot of love. We do hope we’ll become as big as the Savannah Music Festival or at least comparable, you know? We’d like to be as accepted as some of the bigger festivals one day.”

Powell says that for him, the beneficial aspect of putting one’s innermost thoughts to paper and then speaking them aloud for all to hear is what first captivated him about the spoken word movement.

“This goes back to me being an educator and an artist,” he explains. “The therapeutic part of the performing arts cannot be underestimated. Being able to write something down and then release it in front of other people is extremely beneficial. It helps heal you. Then, after you have healed yourself, you can use the very same piece of art to make people laugh and love.”

Powell expects there will be plenty of laughter, positive feedback, contemplation and excitement stirred up by the events contained in Spitfire’s three–day–long showcase, which takes place this year in downtown Savannah at The Sentient Bean, the Metro Coffee House and at the lodge of the International Longshoremen Association 2046 in Garden City.

These events include two competitive Poetry Slams (one for kids and one strictly for adults), an Open Mic showcase hosted by Ms. A.T.M. of W.O.R.D and Marquise Williams of Spitfire’s Junior Company, and a highly anticipated closing night revue of local dance groups and musical artists, featuring a special headlining appearance by the Charlotte National Slam Team of Tavis Brunson, Carlos Robson, Boris “Bluz” Rogers and Mike Simms.

“Those guys are just hot, man,” offers Powell. “Every year there is a slam competition across the country, and it’s usually done by cities. Last year a team from Charlotte competed against about 30 other teams and they won.”

“It’s like the Superbowl of performed poetry and right now, they’re the champions.”

Powell laments that more folks in

our immediate area aren’t hip to what’s going on in the local spoken word community, which he notes “used to be a really hot place for poets,” but whose profile has decreased somewhat since many of the better known and rising stars on the national scene who used to reside here have since moved on.

“Some people don’t really understand the terminology, either. Take the word ‘slam,’ for instance. That can mean a lot of things, but in the poetry world, a slam is a competition. The term ‘spitting’ —or ‘spitting fire,’ that we adapted for our organization— is a positive.

Someone who spits fire is someone who’s a hot poet on stage,” he says.

“It’s also important for folks to know that the world of poetry encompasses so many different kinds of people. You have text poets who just concentrate on the written word, and then there are others who are more of performing artists. I’m a poet. You’re a musician.

We both want to be able to share our art with others.

“Spitfire does a lot of educational work in the schools with young people, and I’ve seen the act of sharing poetry bring kids together. We’ll have kids from Savannah Christian and Mercer Middle School do their own poetry in front of each other, and they wind up getting closer through these Open Mics.

Sometimes it’s not till they get up and spit that they truly see just how similar and how different they are.”

For those curious about a spoken word show like the ones Spitfire puts on but don’t know quite what to expect, Powell says it’s nothing like the stereotypical image of a Maynard G. Krebs–era beatnik slacker reciting dour couplets on a dimly–lit speakeasy stage.

If anything, the atmosphere is more closely akin to HBO’s well–known Def Poetry Jam series: feisty, intense, soul–baring, occasionally raunchy and relatively unpredictable.

“I always say it’s like

Kool–Aid with a whole lotta sugar,” he chuckles. “It’s like having seven or eight espressos. It’s off the chain. This isn’t like reading normal poetry. It’s gonna take you to the tenth level and then beyond!”

After a few years of concentrating so much on outreach to youngsters, Powell says he hopes his organization will be able to focus on mounting more adult–oriented poetry events over the next 12 months. He does note, though, that the preparation and skills exhibited by many of Spitfire’s student participants can only bode well for the future of not only his organization, but of the local spoken word scene in general.

“The ones who are coming up behind us now are great,” he avows, nodding his head. “They’ve learned a lot from us and coupled it with their own styles.

These little jokers are hot.” cs 5th Annual Savannah Spoken Word Festival Friday–Sunday See Week at a Glance for individual events Info: savannahspokenwordfestival.com

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Rediscovering Rosé Really learning to love wine is, well, a journey.

I know how clichéd that sounds, but it’s true. We begin with simple wines from wineries that are as accessible in our stores as they are to our wallets.

Somewhere along the way, our tastes change, our interests shift, we wake up and — while we find pleasure in those simpler wines — our palates now demand something with more elegance.

In this column, we’ll take the journey together, tasting wines, meeting wine industry folks and even sampling an occasional distilled spirit or great beer.

My journey began in the mid–1970s, when California wines were just finding shelf space in Eastern markets and accessible wines came from France and Italy. Among those early California wines were limited examples of fruity, sweet Rosé.

They were the wines many of us honed our palates on, and today, remember those tastes with less-than-fond memories.

However, I’m jumping on the soapbox to declare this the summer of Rosé; new, bright, dry Rosé that is refreshing, elegant and as easy to quaff as it is to pair with summer foods.

Here’s a trio of suggestions: • Turkey Flat Vineyards 2007 Rosé : This top–notch Barossa Valley wine maker shows off the brilliant color of its Rosé in a custom bottle that, despite its 750 ml standard size, feels and looks much smaller – and much more elegant. But this Rosé doesn’t stop with good looks – it’s got the legs to compete in the flavor race as well. The wine, a blend of Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz and Dolcetto, delivers big aromatics that lead into a dry–style Rosé packed with savory character and a very sophisticated finish. I adore Barossa Valley wines – and this Rosé is no exception.

• Routas 2007 Rosé Rouviere: Wanna sip what all the best families in Provence are tasting during the summer?

Try this French blend of Grenache, Syrah and Cinsault (a blending grape known for its added aromatics). The bright red fruit flavors of this Rosé get an added bonus from partial aging in oak. All of the Syrah and half of the Grenache are fermented in neutral oak barrels; the remainder ferments in stainless steel. The remarriage of these two fermentations creates a refreshingly crisp Rosé that is pairable with a variety of foods – like my favorite choices of grilled chicken, fish or pork.

• Copain 2008 Anderson Valley Rosé: This Healdsburg, Calif., winery delivers a blend of 95 percent Pinot Noir and 5 percent Grenache in this lively, dry–styled Rosé. Up-front aromas of wild cherry, strawberry, and watermelon rind brace the palate for a hint of unexpected smokiness. I tasted this against two other Rosés – and Copain walked away a clear-cut winner. It’s equally good as a drinker or paired with food.

I recently poured one of these wines for 15 casual wine drinkers, all of whom told me they did not like Rosé. They all left the tasting as converts, with half saying that Rosé would be their favorite summer wine versus a Pinot Gris or a Gruner Veltliner.

This summer, give Rosé a chance – I think it’s a wine you’ll return to time and time again.

Until next week, cheers! cs E–mail Tim at savannahfoodie@comcast.net

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‘Odd Bodies’ at S.P.A.C.E.

Drawings, prints and mixed media by Jennifer Jenkins

by Bertha Husband | b.husband-coyne@comcast.net

A contour line around a figure will show no internal details, nothing that is overlapping or hidden inside the overall shape. It is a mystery with few clues. To put it another way, if you take a photographic image of, say, a figure kneeling, with arms crossed, and draw an outline around the form, you will be left with a blob with a smaller blob extending from the top.

Fill in this shape with ink or graphite and what you have might be something like a shadow. But a shadow of what, exactly?

It took me a while as I took my first walk around Jennifer Jenkins’ exhibition to come to the conclusion that probably what I was looking at was the shadows of cats.

And this cat imagery struck me as an interesting connection between these two exhibitions. And I also remembered when I noted the works made with machine embroidery, that I had reviewed a previous exhibition by Jenkins the same year that I reviewed the first Indian print exhibition.

Jenkins makes these simple shadow– like cat shapes that she refers to as “lay forms,” in several different media: with intense graphite and ink cross–hatching

Sample works

in “Lay Form (Arc),” “Lay Form (Cower)” and “Lay Form (Flip)”; and in India ink in a series of 16 smaller works. There is also a series of very small intaglio prints, and one of these “Lay Form (Flip 2 Stages)” shows two tiny images that may be read as the way cats shift their position when they sleep. In these prints, Jenkins

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The final media is machine embroidery employed as a method of shading the form with irregular colored lines.

“Lay Form (Tiptoe)” is a large machine embroidery work in which the cat shape is arched with two extensions that read as front and back legs stretching to two points.

These “lay forms” could seem benign if they were alone. But there are a few

representational works in the show that suggest a more sinister reading. “Portrait Series 1–6” consists of six intaglio prints of realistic and rendered in detail faces of cats, each wearing different headgear, from rabbit ears to a witch’s hat. “Squirrel Doily,” is a large crocheted 8–pointed star on the floor and at each of the 8 points lays an identical black squirrel.

These life–size sculptures would appear to be casts of a taxidermy squirrel. “Lay Form (Hang II)” is a small intaglio print in two sections. The top image is of silhouette shapes hanging from a tree.

The bottom image is of the head and front legs of three cats hanging down as if from their tails.

Seen in this context the “lay forms” cease to be read as decorative silhouettes and become profoundly disturbing. The word “lay” as meaning beaten down or spread on a surface suggests the flattened shapes of road–kill. Or perhaps we are at the scene of a crime where the victim is having its fallen outline drawn by an indifferent police inspector. cs ’Odd Bodies’ Drawings, prints and mixed media by Jennifer Jenkins at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, 9 W. Henry St. through May 8

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Back when I was editor of Creative Loafing here, one of our most popular columnists was the wickedly funny Lauretta Hannon. Then working in PR at Armstrong Atlantic State University, her acerbic, lively writing hilariously and accurately described both the good and the bad about Savannah life.

The Georgia native soon moved to Atlanta and became known for her comedic radio commentaries on Georgia Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now compiled a book â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including versions of some of those old Creative Loafing columns â&#x20AC;&#x201C; entitled Cracker Queen: A Memoir of a Joyous, Jagged Life (Gotham). Not just a memoir, this delightful book includes a manifesto of how to live life like a true â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cracker Queen.â&#x20AC;? An excerpt: â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the nuclear button is pushed, you want a Cracker Queen in your fallout shelter. If on the battlefield, you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find a better warrior than the Cracker Queen. And if your car is broken down on the side of the road, pray that one of your passengers is a Cracker Queen. Why? Because no one can touch the resourcefulness of a Cracker Queen.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll put her â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cocolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on the battery terminal and get the car going again.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll outsmart any foe because she has had so much practice with the govern-

ment. And she will make the canned goods in the shelter last twice as long.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy for someone who figured out how to feed four hungry mouths on less than three dollars a day.â&#x20AC;?

I spoke to Lauretta last week while she was in Oxford, Miss., on the first leg of her book tour.

Lauretta, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met quite a few crackers in my time, and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem like one.

For starters, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not on meth and you still have your driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license.

Lauretta Hannon: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not the first one to say that (laughs). People say â&#x20AC;&#x153;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re too niceâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look bad.â&#x20AC;? I called the book Cracker Queen because I noticed that the women on my momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side of the family are strong and resilient and all these other things that Cracker Queens are. They all grew up very poor and went through hard times. For those of us who selfâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;identify as crackers it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean anything negative. Hell, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a cracker (laughs).

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve embraced the cracker within.

We live in a time of increased acceptance of diversity. Are crackers included in this new appreciation, or are they still as marginalized as ever?

The middle section of your book is about your time in Savannah living in a sketchy neighborhood on East 40th Street. Though you eventually left, it seemed like a real turning point for you.

Lauretta Hannon: Living in the parts of Savannah where we lived — they were called “transitional neighborhoods,” which really just means they had nowhere to go but up — it was seeing so many people simmering and suffering and bringing suffering upon themselves and others, it was the whole environment of living day to day in that part of Savannah that the tourists never ever see. I started looking at things there and a lot of them really reminded me of things I grew up with in my family.

I needed to make some sense of it, find some meaning out of it.

Among all the bad stuff going on in those neighborhoods there are also some amazing people. I still miss my neighborhood on East 40th Street. On that block we were tight. We looked out for each other, nothing was ever stolen from anybody. But I’ll tell you by the time I left Savannah I was finished being an urban warrior (laughs).

When I moved to the Atlanta suburbs, my God, did I miss Savannah.

There was a lot of bad stuff in Savannah but at least stuff was happenin’. The ‘burbs are so bland and so identical to every other suburb. Now we live in Powder Springs, which is a suburb, but what’s cool is we live in a house that’s’ over 100 years old and we’re in the old downtown part. There’s some charm and some life there still.

You’ve been working in public relations at Atlanta Technical College. Where do you see this writer thing going?

Lauretta Hannon: I quit my day job two weeks ago. My good state job with benefits! (laughs) In the middle of this recession I quit so that I could be a fulltime writer, so I’m taking a very big leap here.

I hope that this book will be the first of more to come. I’ll spend the next year promoting the hell out of this one and writing my second one. I know I have several more books in me at least, so I really want to pursue that.

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Lauretta Hannon: Miley Cyrus just wrote her memoir, Jim. I’m more than twice her age! (laughs) I’m going to do a followup book to this one.

With a family like mine the material really is unending.

Up until this point in my life the writing was always sort of the sideline, the hobby. But it kept nagging at me, and I realized to be able to do it properly I’d have to shut the door on my day job so this door would open. And certainly I made a complete shift toward the creative life now. Pretty crazy, huh?

But that’s fine, it’s worth it to me. This has really been my dream all along.

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It was nice to see me credited in the back of the book, only a few paragraphs away from Van Gogh and T.S. Eliot.

Lauretta Hannon: I put you in your proper place. That’s not bad is it?

Your book launch here is at Blowin’ Smoke on the first Saturday in May, which you call “Cracker Queen Day.” Why that day?

Lauretta Hannon: With the book coming out in mid–April and that being the weekend before Mothers Day, and also because I think this is a real strong mother–daughter story in the book — I just thought it was an appropriate time.

Everybody in Atlanta is telling me, “Why the heck aren’t you doing your book party up here where we all are?” And I just tell ‘em, “Because it’s Savannah.” cs Cracker Queen Book Party and Signing Benefits Live Oak Public Libraries.

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Lauretta Hannon: They’re still very marginalized. Really it’s an issue of class, not of race. Poor people are always marginalized. Crackers are just one group of poor folk. There’s nothing racial about my book, it’s mostly about class.

A lot of times when I’ll tell a story, so many times it will be the African Americans in the audience who really get it. They’ll come up afterward and say, yeah, we had that happen in our family. If everyone could break down some of the things that are dividing them, they’d see a whole lot of similarities in their situations.

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Cultural Arts Theatre presents beloved musical

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It’s a true play–within–a– play.

The musical Pippin follows the son of Charlemagne as he heads out to discover the secret of true happiness and find himself. Along the way, he is led by a chorus of medieval masquers, including the pivotal Lead Player.

Pippin looks for happiness in war, pleasure and power, but finds none of them are for him. Can the young prince find happiness simply by leading an ordinary life?

The musical was first staged in 1972.

While set in the Middle Ages, it has a pop–influenced score. Pippin is being presented in Savannah by the city’s Cultural Arts Theatre May 1–17.

The show is directed by Bridget Tunstall, and stars Corey Green as Pippin and Faith Boles as the Leading Player.

Ryan McCurdy is the musical director, and Karen Burns in the choreographer.

“This is the first time in a long time Pippin has been done in Savannah,” Tunstall says. “It is a very, very diverse cast. We have people who have never done shows, people with backgrounds at SCAD, Cardinal Rep and Little Theater of Savannah.”

The cast and crew have been working hard. “We’ve been doing intensive rehearsals,” Tunstall says. “We’re integrating a lot of Fosse–style dancing.

“The entire concept of the show is a young man’s journey to discover himself,” she says. “He does many different things to find his purpose in life. There is audience interaction with the actors and music, and it is a very inclusive show.”

This is Tunstall’s professional directing debut in Savannah. In all, she’s directed a dozen shows and was the assistant director for the Savannah Philharmonic’s The Merry Widow, but this is her first major musical.

Tunstall is a graduate of SCAD. “Directing really allows me to be part of everything I enjoy in theater. It helps me help people find their characters. It gives me access, so I’m plugged into all worlds of theater.”

Pippin is suitable for everyone,

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Tunstall says. “This is probably one of the most fun shows you’ll see in Savannah,” she says. “It’s family friendly, light–hearted, and it has magic tricks and music. The story is valuable to every patron of every age.”

Boles has prepared for her role as the Leading Player by watching the 1981 Broadway production of Pippin that starred Ben Vereen as the Leading Player. “His natural dance ability and devilish character choices were some of the many things that made his performance flawless,” Boles says. “With the help of our choreographer and my own flair, I can safely say I have found my ‘inner Ben Vereen.’”

He may be a prince, but Pippin is also a lot like the boy next door. “Pippin is the story of young man who’s trying to find the meaning of life,” Boles says.

“I’m sure we can all relate to this scenario in one way or another.

“But I’ll bet your version doesn’t include crazy costumes, fun dancing, and powerful singing,” she says. “This show will have you on the edge of your seat, for sure.” cs Cultural Arts Theatre: Pippin When: May 1, 2, 8, 9 and 16 at 8pm and May 3, 10 and 17 at 3pm.

Where: Black Box at S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St. Cost: $10 general admission, $7 seniors/ students.

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A Raisin in the Sun opens at AASU

by Ashley Jensen | yelsha24_7@yahoo.com

There are few things in history that actually change. Mothers want to be strong for their families, fathers want to build good examples for their sons to follow, and every generation strives to improve circumstances to allow progress for those who follow.

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is a shining example of a family trying to fulfill these goals, and will open this week at AASU’s Jenkins Theatre.

These performances will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the play’s Broadway opening and are a nod to our country’s efforts to move forward.

“I feel that this play embodies the hope we need as a nation to recapture the American dream,” says the play’s director, Dr. Elizabeth Desnoyers–Colas.

A Raisin in the Sun, set in Chicago during the 1950’s, opens with the discovery that Lena Younger (Mama) will receive insurance money from the death of her husband. Mama decides to use half to buy a home in a white neighborhood, and gives the rest to her son Walter to split between himself and his sister.

In the meantime Walter’s wife Ruth discovers she’s pregnant, but is unsure whether she wishes to bring another child into their struggling family. A gentleman tries to buy back the home Mama bought, as the neighborhood residents aren’t interested in having them live there.

In staying true to the writing, this production will feature one role

originally cut from the Broadway performance and will alternate the use of two young men in the role of Travis.

Another special treat will be the Sunday matinee which will offer the show’s understudies an opportunity to perform.

This play is a model of people taking the roles they’re given and doing the best they can with it. Alfred Pierce tries to explain his character’s actions, saying that “People always try to write him off as the antagonist, but he’s just a regular guy trying to live up to all the expectations people have of him.”

T“It’s a challenge getting into the mindset of a mother in the 1950s,” explains Lakeisha Williams, who plays Lena Younger. “It would be easy to just show people the hardcore single parent side of Mama, but I really want them to see the emotional side of this woman.”

There are many themes in this play that reverberate even now. “I believe people need to grab a message of hope wherever they can find one and pass it along, ”says Dr. Desnoyers–Colas.

“This show ends on a high ray of hope and celebrates the dreamer can–do spirit. I want the audience to leave with the message ‘we can do this’ going through their head.” cs A Raisin in the Sun When: April 30, May 1–2, 8–9 at 7:30p.m. and May 3 at 3p.m.

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THE SOLOIST

Director Joe Wright is the British chap behind Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, so maybe placing him in charge of the decidedly American concoction The Soloist was an attempt to show that he’s able to bust some Ang Lee moves by leaping over diverse genres in a single bound.

Maybe he can –– I’ve never been in favor of placing anyone in an artistic straightjacket that limits their choice of material –– but in this instance, the overwhelmed Wright can’t do much to bring any sense of style or substance to yet another film that comes off as little more than a liberal screed. By no means is The Soloist a painful watch, and it has its merits scattered about, like so many chocolate sprinkles adorning a scoop of ice cream. But for a movie that’s about compassion and understanding, it makes for a shockingly indifferent experience, filled with too many calculated homilies to allow for much more than superficial connections. It may be based on a true story, but it feels synthetic all the way. The heart of the story –– the central relationship between Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.), a Los Angeles newspaper columnist, and Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a homeless man who was once a Julliard–approved musician –– actually feels like the picture’s most artificial component. Perhaps that’s due to its similarities to Resurrecting the Champ, another recent film about the friendship between a white journalist (Josh Hartnett) and a black homeless man prone to delusional behavior (Samuel L. Jackson). Or maybe it’s because of its greater role as yet another picture that tries to assuage middle–class guilt by using a proxy to allow moviegoers insight into the travails of the most unfortunate among us. But the problem with The Soloist is that it usually only skirts the issues it raises (homelessness, lack of health care, mental illness, etc.), with the genuinely raw scenes –– Nathaniel’s physical assault of Steve, Steve’s ex–wife and editor (Catherine Keener) drunkenly taking him to task –– too few and far between. Foxx and Downey do what they can to keep the story prickly, but when they have to contend with scenes as offensive and patronizing as the one that ends the film, even they can’t prevent The Soloist from frequently hitting the wrong keys.

The inevitable American adaptation of the six–hour BBC–TV miniseries that aired back in 2003, State of Play is a movie that effectively operates on two levels. On one hand, it’s the latest addition to the “conspiracy theory” sub–genre, a proud movie tradition that houses such dynamic entries as The Manchurian Candidate, Three Days of the Condor and The Constant Gardener. Yet on the other, it’s a representative of the type of film that might eventually go the way of the dodo: the newspaper yarn.As a thriller, State of Play is crackling entertainment, even if its pieces don’t always fit together after all is said and done. Russell Crowe, in his best performance since A Beautiful Mind, stars as Cal McAffrey, an old–school news reporter for the Washington Globe. Once the roommate of rising Senator Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) back in their college years, Cal is disturbed when he learns that his friend’s comely assistant, who died after falling in front of a subway car, was also his mistress, a fact that threatens to derail Collins’ political career. The story is assigned to the paper’s political blogger, Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), while Cal is ordered to investigate a pair of late–night shootings that left one man dead and another in a coma. But once it turns out that both stories are tied together, Cal and Della pool their resources to research what eventually turns out to be a coverup with far–reaching implications. Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) directs crisply and efficiently, wringing real suspense out of Cal’s confrontations with a seasoned killer (most notably in a superbly edited sequence set inside a park-

ing garage). As for the screenplay, I’m not sure what co–writer Matthew Michael Carnahan (Lions for Lambs) brought to the party, but I assume that the conspiracy material arrived courtesy of Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton) while Billy Ray (Shattered Glass) boned up the journalism aspects. At any rate, the sharp script is also often humorous, providing Crowe the opportunity to fire off some choice quips. He’s in top form here, and he’s backed by an exemplary cast.

Even recent Doubt Oscar nominee Viola Davis turns up in one scene (as a nervous coroner), although it’s Jason Bateman who really gooses the proceedings with his key late–inning appearance as a playful PR suit. For all its success in the thriller arena, State of Play’s real worth can be found in its attitude toward the newspaper industry. In an era in which any basement–dwelling hack with a keyboard and Web site can call himself a “journalist”, and in which profit–driven publishers serve their shareholders rather than their readers, it’s invigorating to see a motion picture that recalls the importance of the ink–stained newspaper as a tireless watchdog and champions the dedication of its honest reporters to relay all the news that’s fit to print. Fit to print, people, not fit to Twitter.

THE INFORMERS 1987’s ragged Less Than Zero remains the best Bret Easton Ellis adaptation simply by virtue of compelling work by Robert Downey Jr. and James Spader, while 2000’s torturous American Psycho at least manages to make a couple of salient points about misguided machismo. 2002’s The Rules of Attraction, on the other hand, is

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BATTLE FOR TERRA Battle for Terra is a new animated effort in which alien forces invade a planet, and it turns out that the invaders are, in fact, us –– that is to say, astronauts from the planet Earth. It sounds rather novel until one recalls that The Twilight Zone tackled this notion in one third the amount of time as this ambitious

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completely unwatchable, a designation it now shares with this latest atrocity.

Set in 1983 (good research, guys, by playing Wang Chung’s 1984 release “Dance Hall Days” in one scene), this follows the (mis)fortunes of various Los Angelenos whose paths keep crossing. William (Billy Bob Thornton) is a movie executive who has returned to his emotionally fragile wife (Kim Basinger) even though he still carries a torch for his newscaster mistress (Winona Ryder). Bryan Metro (Mel Raido) is a coked–up rock star who’s constantly sleeping with jailbait (both male and female); his one adult tryst, with a sweet prostitute, ends with him punching her in the face. Peter (Mickey Rourke) is a career criminal who kidnaps a young boy off a suburban street and plans to sell him to the highest bidder (read: wealthiest sexual predator), much to the dismay of his cowardly nephew (the late Brad Renfro). Les Price (Chris Isaak) is a perpetually grinning father who takes his disgusted son (Lou Taylor Pucci) on vacation to Hawaii, hoping they can tag–team available young hotties . And William’s son Graham (Jon Foster) engages in threesomes with his girlfriend Christie (Amber Heard) and best friend Martin (Austin Nichols), although he worries once Christie gets deathly ill in about the time it takes to tie one’s shoes (it couldn’t possibly have anything to do with that mysterious new disease being discussed on TV, could it?). Director Gregor Jordan attempts to establish the time frame by occasionally showing 80s–era music videos in the background, but overall, the picture rarely exudes the aura of that past period (unlike, say, Boogie Nights). The screenplay,

by Nicholas Jarecki and Ellis himself, is equally clubfooted, filled with narcissistic twits who never say or do anything of consequence or interest. As for the actors, Thornton and Basinger appear as bored as their characters, while it’s regretful to see Rourke, coming off The Wrestler (although this was reportedly filmed first), slipping back into the sort of mumbling, sleazy character type that killed off his career in the first place.

James Brown: Live at the Olympia Theatre, Paris (1971) What: Two screenings of this rare live

concert movie, never before seen in the U.S., as part of the Savannah Urban Arts Festival.

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but ultimately disappointing feature.

Assembling the sort of all–star cast that nobody ever thinks to unite in live–action movies –– at least not since the “disaster flick” went out with the 1970s –– Battle for Terra finds James Garner, Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Mark Hamill and many others lending their vocal chords to this sci–fi saga in which the peaceful Terrians find their planet under attack from a spaceship that harbors the only survivors of our long–destroyed Earth. Young Mala (Evan Rachel Wood), a Terrian with a rebellious streak, watches helplessly as her father (Quaid) gets abducted by the marauders; she eventually saves a human soldier named Jim (Luke Wilson), and together they work to rescue Mala’s dad.

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17 AGAIN Zac Efron, the reigning Ken to Miley Cyrus’ Barbie, may not be around for the long haul, but he’s presently making his case for career longevity by headlining the comedy 17 Again. He’s appealing within the confines of his limited range, but like the film itself, a severe case of blandness puts a lid on any breakout potential. The first half–hour of the film is simply atrocious, lazily cobbling together pieces from Back to the Future, Big and all those forgettable ’80s body–switch comedies in an effort to jump–start its tale. Efron plays Mike O’Donnell, a high school basketball star who, two decades later, has transformed into a depressed doormat whose teenage children Maggie and Alex (Michelle Trachtenberg and Sterling Knight) hate him and whose wife Scarlett (Leslie Mann) is divorcing him. (The middle–aged Mike/Zac is played by a suitably pudgy Matthew Perry.) In the blink of an eye, Mike is suddenly 17 again, retaining his adult mindset but trolling the halls of his school looking like one of the gang. Armed with this opportunity, Mike hopes to set things right, first by helping out his two children (Maggie’s romantically involved with the school bully while Alex is the

perpetual target of said thug) and then by convincing Scarlett to give him (or, rather, his older self) a second chance.

Mann (aka Mrs. Judd Apatow) provides 17 Again with its heart, and she proves once again that she deserves a shot or two at more substantial roles. Beyond her, the film is completely disposable.

Fast & Furious All four stars of 2001’s The Fast and the Furious — Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster — have reunited for this fourth entry in the series (only Walker appeared in 2003’s 2 Fast 2 Furious, and all were AWOL for 2006’s The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift). Unfortunately, this is one star vehicle that seems permanently stuck in “reverse.” The best performer of the quartet, Rodriguez, disappears from the proceedings fairly early, as director Justin Lin and writer Chris Morgan apparently decided to make this even more of a Toys for Boys romp than its predecessors. That leaves more time for Diesel (as outlaw hot–rodder Dominic Toretto) and Walker (as lawman hot–rodder Brian O’Conner) to engage in competitive bouts of piston envy, each trying to prove to the other that only he has a crankshaft large enough to take down the drug kingpin responsible for the murder of a close friend.

OBSERVE AND REPORT Observe and Report, writer–director Jody Hill’s sophomore effort following the no–budget, no–laughs farce The

Foot Fist Way, valiantly tries to combine the twisted trappings of a black comedy with the more accepted slapstick shenanigans of a mainstream outing.

It’s extremely difficult to synchronize these approaches into one fluid viewing experience –– Terry Zwigoff largely pulled it off with Bad Santa, but Hill never locates the proper balance that would make this more than just a hit–and–miss curio. Seth Rogen, no stranger to controversial comedies, stars as Paul Blart –– excuse me, Ronnie Barnhardt, a schlub who takes great pride in his work as the head of security at a popular mall. Unlike the congenial Blart, however, Ronnie is a disturbed individual, required to remain on his medication lest his destructive tendencies take over.

SUNSHINE CLEANING Sunshine Cleaning’s ads trumpet that it’s “from the producers of Little Miss Sunshine,” and like that Oscar–winning hit, it often belies its cheery title. Yet while it may not be as sharply written as its predecessor, it contains enough fine moments –– to say nothing of a strong central performance by Amy Adams –– to make it a worthwhile endeavor.

Adams stars as Rose Lorkowski, once a popular high school cheerleader with a quarterback boyfriend, now a struggling maid–for–hire with a troublesome son (Jason Spevack). When her married lover Mac (Steve Zahn), the former QB who’s now a police detective, suggests that more money can be made by providing cleanup services at crime scenes,

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DUPLICITY Duplicity is a jet–setting romp that proves to be as bright as it is brainy.

Writer–director Tony Gilroy, flush from his Michael Clayton success, retains that film’s examination of corporate malfeasance yet replaces the sense of dread with a sense of style. Indeed, the leads are played by Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, the sort of high–wattage movie stars so glamorous that it’s easy to believe even their bath tissues are Armani–designed. She’s former CIA agent Claire Stenwick; he’s ex–MI6 operative Ray Koval. Having both left their jobs to take lucrative assignments with rival corporations, both Claire and Ray end up pooling their talents in order to swindle both companies and steal the formula for a new cosmetic product that will revolutionize the industry. cs

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Activism & Politics AMBUCS

is dedicated to creating mobility and independence of the disabled. Meets first and third Monday at noon. Ann Johnson, 897-4818. Hilton Garden Inn Savannah Midtown, 6711 Abercorn St. , Savannah

Coastal Democrats

Contact Maxine Harris at 352-0470 or R1999MHAR@aol.com. Chatham County Democratic Headquarters, 109 W. Victory Dr. , Savannah http://www.chathamdems.com/

Art, Music and Tutoring for the Inner Child Beginning piano and voice lessons are taught by Linda Luke, who also tutors students in reading.

Creative dance and a snack are included in the lessons, and special education students are welcome. Sculpture, painting and drawing are taught by Jerry Luke. Private and small group lessons are 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. Classes, 5225 Skidaway Rd. , Savannah

Artist’s Way Workshop

League of Women Voters

Explore your creativity Tuesdays 5-6:30pm in a 12-week program. Ongoing Enrollment.

236-3660 International Center for Leadership & Coaching, 236-3660 , Savannah http://www. internationalcoach.org/

National Council of Negro Women

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 Crossroads , Savannah http://www.beaddreamer.com

meets first Monday of the month at 5 p.m. in Room 3, Candler Heart and Lung Building. Must be 18 or older. Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah http://www.sjchs. org meets the first Saturday of the month at 10 a.m. at the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum.

Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, 460 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. , Savannah http:// www.sip.armstrong.edu/CivilRightsMuseum/ Civilindex.html

Call for Entries MTV Casting Call

MTV is looking for “extremely Southern” families to feature in an upcoming reality TV show. Sirens Media in Washington, DC is casting this new series for MTV and wants to know why America would love to watch your Southern family on TV. Please send an email describing your family, a family photo, and your contact information to: Jenny at Sirens Media For MTV at famcasting@gmail.com.

Savannah Adult Coed Kickball League

Old school style kickball for adults to have fun and get some exercise. League starts March 29, 4pm. $300/team or $25/person, 220 3474 Scarborough Fields, Bacon Park ,

Classes & Workshops 700 Kitchen Cooking School

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

Abstinence Education

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 , Savannah http://www.savstate. edu/

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. Rhythms of West Africa, 607 W. 37th St. , Savannah

Beading Classes

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. , Savannah http://www. sentientbean.com

Credit and Money Management 12 Hour Seminar

This ongoing course is held every month at the Effingham YMCA in Rincon. This seminar is the first standardized credit education program in the nation. Topics covered are the steps to improve your credit rating and raise your credit scores, budgeting, managing your debt, what lenders require when you borrow money, how to spot looming money problems and how to deal with them before it’s too late. The fee is $99 per person or $169 per couple. Space is limited and registration is required in advance. Contact Carmen at 826-6263 or 484-1266. Effingham YMCA, 1224 Patriot Dr. , Rincon

Early Childhood Development Symposium

Hosted by the Chatham-Savannah Youth Futures Authority to focus on the need for a county-wide Early Childhood Initiative, a comprehensive plan to support children from infancy and serve diverse family needs in the areas of childcare, education, health and parenting. Geoffrey Canada from the Harlem Children’s Zone is the keynote speaker. Childhood educators, healthcare providers, parents, policy makers, and others working with children and families are invited to attend.

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. , Savannah

German Lessons

Individual, conversational, beginning and advanced lessons offered. Easy and fun. 845-7647045. Students talk about different topics which are chosen by the class members. Everybody who likes to train or brush up German is welcome. Meets on Monday from 7-8pm in Downtown Savannah on Park street close to Bull.

Cost is $15. Reduced cost negotiable if you are a student or retired. If you sign up for 10 times you only pay $130. Class for beginners and individual training are available too. Call 845-764-7045 and

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Don’t let the recession get you down. Meet with others from all industries, to learn & implement a 28-day marketing program. Tuesdays 7:30-8:30am or 4:30-5:30pm. $25 per week. 1st meeting free. RSVP 912-236-3660. International Center for Leadership & Coaching, 236-3660 , Savannah http://www.internationalcoach.org/

Lost Ancient Art of Essential Oils, Aromatherapy and Plant Medicines

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

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 , Savannah http:// www.oatlandisland.org/

Porcelain Painting

Ongoing beginner, intermediate and advanced 4-day class. $250 includes supplies, brushes, porcelain and firing of art. 706-495-6724, www.

GaSeminarsbytheSea.com. Internationally renowned teachers. Tybee Island, Tybee Island , Tybee Island

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. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www. sjchs.org/1844.cfm

Savannah Conservatory for the Performing Arts

Low cost instruction in a group lesson format.

Classes in drama, dance, percussion, woodwinds, brass, strings, piano, vocals, guitar, visual arts and music theory Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:30, 6:30 or 7:30pm. $60 per quarter. 352-8366, tsaconservatory@bellsouth.net. Salvation Army Community Center, 3000 Bee Rd. , Savannah

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 , Savannah

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. , Savannah

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 , Savannah http://www.thestarfishcafe. org/

Summer Art Camp

The City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs will begin accepting registrations on April 20. Art Camp runs June 8 through Aug. 28

at S.P.A.C.E. studios, located at 9 W. Henry St. Registration forms are available online at www. savannahga.gov/arts or by calling 651-6783.

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. Small Business Assistance Center, 111 E Liberty Street , Savannah http://www.sbacsav.com/

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 , Tybee Island http://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. Overcoming by Faith Ministries, 9700 Middleground Rd. , Savannah

Volunteer 101

A 30-minute course that covers issues to help volunteers get started is held the first and third Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. The first Thursday, the class is at Savannah State University, and the third Thursday, at United Way, 428 Bull St. Register by calling Summer at 651-7725 or visit www.HandsOnSavannah.org. United Way of Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St , Savannah http:// www.uwce.org/

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. The Freight Station, 703 Louisville Rd. , Savannah

Wicca 101

An introductory class every Thurday at 7pm at Southern Hemisphere Metaphysical Books, Gifts & More, 41 Habersham St. $15. 234-6371.

Southern Hemisphere, 41 Habersham St.

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. Rhythms of West Africa, 607 W. 37th St. , Savannah

Beginners Belly Dance Class

Classes are ongoing and all ages and skill levels welcome. Sunday. 11:40-12:40am. $10 per class, walk-ins welcome. Nicole Edge, kleokatt@gmail. com or 596-0889. Tantra Lounge, 8 East Broughton Street , Savannah

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.. Life Moves Dance Studio, 10747 Ford Ave , Richmond Hill http://lifemovesdancestudio.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.

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Everybody Can Dance

The Highest Praise School of the Arts presents a workshop every 3rd Saturday at 10am for all ages. Free. 927-8601, overcomingbyfaith.org.

Overcoming by Faith Ministries, 9700 Middleground Rd. , Savannah

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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 , Savannah

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 Collier at 748-0731. Nassau Woods Recreation Building, Dean Forest Road , Savannah

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1 Dungeons & Dragons game runners, for short 4 Donkey’s ancestors 13 Gets ready 15 Enter nonchalantly 17 Amassed, as a bar tab 18 Offshore company, financially speaking 19 Old Roman local levy (not derived from “eight”) 21 Court request to the press 22 Springy sound effect in comics 24 Marlin searched for him 25 “I’ll take that as ___” 26 Filled in for an author 32 Bulk food aisle container 33 March 28, 2009 event that made many homes go dark 34 Back muscle, for short 35 Least likely to rain 36 Mean Amin 39 “No Line on the Horizon” coproducer Brian 40 Copy down to the last detail 41 “Hey ___” (recurring “In Living Color” skit) 42 Literal translation of “Adirondack” that evokes trees 43 Peruvian singer Sumac 44 Journalists who write heart-tugging stories, slangily 45 Sue Grafton’s “___ for Outlaw” 46 Sam & Dave’s longtime record label 48 Home of the Great Dark Spot 50 That Suzanne Vega song with the “doo doo doo doo” chorus 56 “The Wrestler” director Aronofsky 57 Stadium section with cheaper tickets, usually 59 Kennel structures 60 Mississippi university that’s home to the Fighting Okra 61 Accustom 62 Cleaned up a microscopic specimen, e.g.

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1 Overly harsh 2 Pass along a bit of info 3 Reject 4 Pro league sometimes called the “Dream Tour of Surfing” 5 Nation with a Supreme Leader 6 “___ Jr.” (Pixar’s first film whose lamps are used in their logo) 7 Frisbee, e.g.

8 “Brimful of ___” (Cornershop hit of 1997) 9 Come across as 10 What February might have, depending on the region 11 Biggest section of a TV dinner 12 Prepare cauliflower, say 13 Like some causes 14 Crustacean that fashions homes from a porous animal 16 “___ it seems” 20 Asthma sufferers’ needs 23 Contemporary classical composer Henryk 27 Rubbernecks 28 Intent to harm, for one 29 Soft-Coated ___ Terrier (breed named for its grainlike color) 30 On a list, in olden times 31 Star’s locale 36 Friend-in-need’s helpful response 37 Acts like a control freak 38 Somehow 42 CD anthologies, often 44 Store handout 46 Poker variety 47 Drank until stinking drunk 49 Fat introduction?

51 “Curses!”

52 Rick’s “Casablanca” love 53 ___ pot (sinus-cleaning apparatus) 54 Politico Bayh 55 Anatomical nerve network 58 Had the most points

Adult Ballet technique class, Thursday 1011:30am. $15 a class or $95 for 8 classes. Men’s technique ballet class ages 12 and up, Fridays 4-5:30pm. $15 a class. Scholarships available.

Partnering class Friday 5:30-6:30pm, free for men who take the technique class. Adult Beginner- Intermediate Ballet, 7:30-8:30pm Monday and Thursday; Adult Hip-Hop in 6 wk sessions.

Youth Ballet, tap and jazz classes run during school year. Call 897-2102 for more information.

Islands Dance Academy, 115 Charlotte Rd.

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 off is your shoes.

Classes are held Wendesdays at 7:30pm and on Fridays by request. Private parties available.

Space is limited call in advance to make your reservation. $70 per month or $22 per class.

Please call for further details 912-224-9667 or visit www.fitnessbodybalance.com. Fitness Body & Balance Personal Training Studio, 2209 Rowland Ave, Suite 2 , Savannah

Savannah Shag Club

offers shag music every Wednesday and Friday at 7 p.m. at American Legion Post 36 on Victory Drive. American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr , Thunderbolt http://www.legion.org/

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 Mon-

days and free shag lessons are offered. The lesson schedule is posted at www.shagbeachbop. com and announced each Monday. The dance lessons are held 6:30-7:30 p.m. Special cocktail prices are from 6:30-10 p.m. and their are hors d’ouerves. There is no cover charge. Everyone is invited and welcomed into club membership.

Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop.com. Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn Street , Savannah

Summer Dance Intensive

An opportunity to refine technique, develop your strength and learn some innovative new dances.June 15-19 Ages 8-11yrs -- Instructors: Amy Auhl, Suzanne Braddy, and John Cronin.

Program: Ballet Variations, Character, Mime and Broadway Dance. Time: 9:30 a.m.- 1:00 - With performance on Friday. Fee: $150.00. June 22-26 Ages 12yrs - Adult; Instructors: Joulia Moiseeva, John Cronin, and Brittany Lynch Morse.

Program: Ballet Technique, Pointe, Variations, Partnering, Character & Broadway Dance. Time: 9:30 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.- With performance on Friday. Fee: $150.00. Registration Deadline for both: Friday, May 29, 2009.For more information or to download a registration form go to www. savannahdansetheatre.org or call 897-2102 or email islandsdanceacademy@yahoo.com.

Swing Dancing by Savannah Swing Catz

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

Swing Dancing by Savannah Swing Catz

Free lesson and dance every Monday, 7:30-8pm lesson, 8-10pm open dancing. Tantra Lounge. 220-8096, info@SavannahSwingcatz.com. Tantra Lounge, 8 East Broughton Street , Savannah

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. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Avenue , Savannah http://www. thestudiosav.com/

Two to Tango - Savannah Tango Group

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 9257416. Doris Martin Dance Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd , Savannah

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

Asbury Memorial’s 100th Birthday! 1909-2009 Join us Sunday, May 3rd as we celebrate 100 years of ministry.

11:15 A.M. Worship Service Corner of Henry St. & Waters Ave • (912)233-4352 For more info, check out our website at www.asburymemorial.org This worship service will be the last service in the sanctuary before it undergoes a 6 month renovation.

$35 per month for both classes. Call 233-1951.

YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St , Savannah

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ARIES

Fitness

(March 21–April 19)

A balanced life

Student massage is offered at the Savannah School of Massage Therapy, Inc. Cost ranges from $30 to $40 for a one-hour massage and sessions are instructor supervised. Call 3553011 for an appointment. The school is located at 6413B Waters Ave. www.ssomt.com. Savannah School of Massage Therapy, Inc, 6413 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://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.hiddenwellacupuncturecenter.com or hiddenwellacupuncture@ gmail.com. Hidden Well Acupuncture Center, 318 East Huntingdon Street , Savannah

Ashram Savannah Yoga Co Op

Discounted class prices, open studio time and special events. www.ashramsavannah.com.

Ashram Savannah, 2424 Drayton St. , Savannah

Belly Dance for Fitness

Every Sunday from 12:50-1:50pm. $10 per classe, walk-ins welcome. Nicole Edge 5960889, kleokatt@gmail.com Tantra Lounge, 8 East Broughton Street , Savannah

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 , Pooler

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. , Savannah http://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. Crossfit Hyperformance, 904 E 70th Street , Savannah

Fit Lunch

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

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New Game for Beginning Players Thurs. May 7, 1pm

Fall Classes

BB1: Intro to Bridge Mon. Sept. 21, 10am Tues. Sept. 22, 7pm Improving Your Judgment 1: Opening the Bidding Fri. Sept. 25, 10am BB4: Play of the Hand Sat. Sept. 26, 10am

Savannah Bridge Center

77 w. Fairmont ave • Unit 77-B • 228-4838

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little,” said the writer Sydney Smith. While this is always good advice, it’s especially apt for you right now. You’re in a phase when giant leaps of faith are irrelevant, and fast, massive accomplishments are impossible. This is the season of incremental progress; a time when painstaking attention to detail is your best strategy. Inch by inch, Aries. Hour by hour.

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) An engineering company has plans to grow flowers on the moon. Paragon Space Development intends to land mustard seeds inside a small greenhouse dome on the lunar surface by 2011. If all goes well, they will bloom within two weeks, and, thanks to the marvels of communications technology, we earthlings will soon thereafter view one of the most iconic photographs ever seen. Paragon hopes the inspiring image of yellow blossoms on the lunar landscape will incite a new wave of space exploration.

Take your cue from this vignette, Taurus. Come up with a riveting new personal symbol: some photo or image or object that thrills your imagination and inspires you to outdo all your previous efforts in pursuit of an ambitious future goal.

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) “A Pain in the Ash: Volcano Irritates Alaskans.” That was the headline of a news story about how the people of Anchorage, Alaska are dealing with the erratic behavior of nearby Mount Redoubt. As of this writing, the volcano hasn’t exploded yet, but it keeps hinting that it might. Meanwhile, it regularly burps clouds of ash that float around and wreak a lot of inconvenience. “I would like it to have a big boom and get it over with,” said one native. In accordance with your astrological omens, Gemini, let’s use this situation as a metaphor for your life. The fact is, there’s no sense in getting irritated or impatient with the primal force in your vicinity. Doing so would be a waste of your precious emotional energy.

Besides, cultivating calm equanimity is the best way to acquire the grace you’ll need to respond appropriately when the primal force

does go boom.

CANCER

(June 21–July 22) If His Holiness the Dalai Lama (like you, born under the sign of the Crab) had a Twitter account, I bet that this week he’d tweet something like this: “Nothing’s permanent and we should never be attached to anything, but wow!

–– the goodness rising up now may send ripples through eternity!”

What he’d mean is that while reality is always in continual flux, and it’s wise not to cling obsessively to either its pleasures or sadnesses, the powerfully healing mojo that’s moving through Cancerians’ lives these days could have long–term positive consequences.

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) America’s Republican Party has lost a lot of style points lately. Its national committee chairman Michael Steele even went so far as to say, “We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one–armed midgets.” Your reputation isn’t anywhere near as in need of rehabilitation, Leo –– in part because you don’t make references about one–armed midgets –– but it could still use some work.

Fortunately, the coming weeks will be an excellent time, astrologically speaking, for you to not only tidy up your stature, but also to actually enhance your respectability and increase your influence. Take advantage!

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) The coming weeks would be an excellent time to devote extra care and attention to your home–away– from–home –– you know, the place that’s second–best at making you feel like you truly belong here on this earth. Enhance the ambiance in this alternate power spot, Virgo.

Add beauty to the decor. Let the people who hang out there know how much they mean to you. And if you don’t yet have such a sanctuary, then I suggest you hunt one down. You need to experience more of the pleasurable stimulation that comes from going back and forth between two different comfort zones.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22) You may not literally have X–ray vision right now, but you certainly have a metaphorical version of it.

With a little concentration, I bet you could peer beneath the surface of anything you want to. My analysis of the omens suggests that you have the power to see hidden agendas, invisible frameworks, and maneuverings that are unfolding behind the scenes. Please keep in mind that not all of the secret stuff is corrupt or insidious. Some of it is quite beautiful, even elevating.

Don’t push your enhanced perceptiveness to search exclusively for the worst in human nature.

gamble on unlikely odds. 2. Love shouldn’t be a power struggle, so try to purge any unconscious yearnings you might have to control people you care for. 3. Love can’t be a self– sustaining perpetual motion machine, so I hope you work on it at least as hard as you do at your job. 4. Love isn’t an endless vacation in the promised land, but neither is it a wrestling match with a three–legged pit bull from hell, so don’t you dare indulge in all–or–nothing fantasies.

SCORPIO

AQUARIUS

According to the legends of the Scottish Highlanders, this is the anniversary of the fallen angels’ expulsion from paradise. That’s why, they said, it was so crucial for humans to be well–behaved at this time. To blindly indulge in sin and error would set up a resonance with the malevolent exiles, making oneself vulnerable to being preyed on by them. While you and I can chuckle at this quaint superstition, it does have a grain or truth for you to meditate on. At this juncture in your yearly cycle, you tend to be more receptive to bad influences than usual. That’s why you should do everything you can imagine to attract good influences and cultivate experiences that give you the feeling that this world is a paradise.

The kitchen table will be a power spot for you in the coming weeks.

Your own table will be a supreme vortex for visionary brainstorming, but even those in other households could be epicenters for brilliant planning, crucial shifts in attitude, and increased solidarity among allies. To encourage eruptions of creative behavior, make sure the tables are nice and clean. Try to have good food and drink on hand.

I also suggest you keep at least one notebook and pen lying around.

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

An Arizona woman was jogging in the woods when a fox ran out of nowhere, leaped up, and clamped down on her arm with its teeth. Unable to pry it loose, the woman ran back to her car, which was a mile away, with the fox hanging on. She drove herself to the hospital, where doctors removed the creature and treated her successfully. I imagine that right about now you might feel a bit like she did, Sagittarius: bustling along energetically, in a state of alert, as some nagging vexation clings to you parasitically. Now here’s the good news: I predict that you will get rid of the pest, and will ever thereafter enjoy an enhanced confidence in your ability to function well under pressure.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19)

Since it’s the Capricornian season of romance, I thought I’d give you some tips on how to thrive in the mysterious, paradoxical, crazy–making game of love. 1. Love shouldn’t be a lottery, so don’t

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18)

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) In April I was grateful whenever you obeyed all the signs, stuck to the beaten paths, worked a little harder than usual, and averted your eyes from the places where “interesting” bursts of chaos were unfolding. In May I’d appreciate it if you did pretty much the opposite: Question authority rigorously, wander off into less–traveled regions, play harder than usual, and tune in to commotions that could be productive learning experiences.

In the past month, Pisces, I was hopeful that you’d pay your debts to society before society’s collection agency started making harassing calls. In the coming month, I invite you to ask everyone to do you extra favors. cs

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Fitness Classes at the JEA

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Spin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, Zumba and Krav Maga. Prices vary. Call for days and times.

355-8111. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www.savj.org/

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. , Savannah http://www.uusavannah.org

Hip Hop Cardio

Monday and Thursday from 5:30-6:30pm.

Taught by Mahogany. Registration is $40. $20 per month for members and $30 per month for non-members. West Broad Street YMCA, 1110 May St. , Savannah

Kidz Fitness

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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. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Krav Maga –

Israeli Defensive Tactics and Hand-To-Hand Combat taught. Krav Maga is the official system for the Israeli Defense Forces and all the techniques focus on maximum efficiency in real-life conditions. Mon, Tues, Thurs 7:30pm & Tues, Thurs 11:45am. $90/month unlimited classes, discount for students, military, L.E., F.D. 308 7109, roger@ccs-savannah.com.

Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www.savj.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 , Savannah http://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.” The Temple of Martial Arts, 407 E Montgomery Cross Rd, Ste B , Savannah

Martial Arts

For ages 7 to adult, taught by S.T. Morgan Wednesday and Friday 5:30-6:30pm and 6:307:30pm. Registration, $40. $20 per month for members and $30 per month for non-members. West Broad Street YMCA, 1110 May St. , Savannah

http://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, pre-crawling. The cost is $13 per class. Multiclass discounts are available. The instructor is Betsy Boyd Strong. Walk-ins are welcome.

Call 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga. com. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St , Savannah http://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. , Savannah http://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 8196463. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://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” . The Temple of Martial Arts, 407 E Montgomery Cross Rd, Ste B , Savannah

Qi Gong

Ancient Chinese “energy work,” the precursor of Tai Chi. Gentle exercises that relax and energize. Good for seniors or any age group.

Sundays. 4pm. Ashram Savannah, 2424 Drayton St. , Savannah http://www.ashramsavannah.com/

Reiki Level II Training

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. Southern Hemisphere, 41 Habersham St. , Savannah

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. Island Somatherapy, 127 Abercorn Street , Savannah

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. Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. , Savannah

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 , Savannah http://www. savannahyoga.com/

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. , Savannah http://www. sjchs.org

The Yoga Room

Designed for those who want to work out in a group setting with family and friends. For pricing call 898-7714. Spine & Sport, 22 West Oglethorpe Ave , Savannah

Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom.com or call 898-0361 for a schedule of classes, times and fees. Savannah Yoga Room, 115 Charlotte Dr , Savannah http://www.thesavannahyogaroom. com/

$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. , Savannah

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

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Tybee Island Sunrise Boot Camp

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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.”

The Temple of Martial Arts, 407 E Montgomery Cross Rd, Ste B , Savannah

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

232-6624. Community Cardiovascular Council, 1900 Abercorn St. , Savannah

Wing Chun Kung Fu

Yoga at the Telfair!

will begin Jan. 17. Savannah Yoga Center director Kelley Boyd will guide the class through beginner and intermediate yoga positions while incorporating various aspects of the artwork on display. Bring a yoga mat and towel, and dress appropriately. Saturdays at 9:45am. Drop-ins welcome. $14 per session. 790-8823. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 York St , Savannah http://www.telfair.org/

Yoga at the Telfair!

will begin Jan. 17. Savannah Yoga Center director Kelley Boyd will guide the class through beginner and intermediate yoga positions while incorporating various aspects of the artwork on display. Bring a yoga mat and towel, and dress appropriately. Saturdays at 9:45am. Drop-ins welcome. $14 per session. 790-8823. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 York St , Savannah http://www.telfair.org/

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 , Savannah http://www.savannahyoga. com/

Yogalates Classes

are offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing on Thursdays from 5:45-6:45 p.m. in Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. The cost is $30 for four sessions or $50 for eight sessions. Call 819-6463. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Gay & Lesbian First City Network Board Meeting

Meets the first Monday at 6:30 p.m. at FCN’s office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. 236-CITY or www.firstcitynetwork.org. First City Network, 307 E Harris St , Savannah http://www.firstcitynetwork.net/

Gay AA Meeting

meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 311 E. Macon St. For information, contact Ken at 398-8969. Gay AA, 311 E. Macon St. , Savannah

Georgia Equality Savannah

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

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 2243238. First City Network, 307 E Harris St , Savannah http://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 , Savannah http://www.firstcitynetwork.net/

Community Cardiovascular Council, Inc.

Community HealthCare Center

is a non-profit organization that provides free medical care for uninsured individuals who work or live in Chatham County and do not qualify for Medicare or Medicaid. All patients receive free examinations, medicine through the patient assistance program and free lab work. Women receive free pap tests and mammograms.

Call 692-1451 to see if you qualify for services.

Located at 310 Eisenhower Dr., No. 5, Medical Center. Community Health Mission, Inc, 310 Eisenhower Dr., Suite 6 , Savannah

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings

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

No appointment is necessary. Checks will be offered Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578. African-American Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/1844.cfm

La Leche League of Savannah

Mothers wishing to find out more about breastfeeding are invited to attend a meeting on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 pm. La Leche League of Savannah is a breastfeeding support group for new and expectant mothers.

La Leche League Leaders of Savannah are also available by phone or email for anyone who needs more information. 897-9261, www.lllusa. org/web/SavannahGA.html. Family Health and Birth Center, 1692 Chatham Parkway , Savannah

Living Smart with Diabetes Expo

Free eye and feet exams, blood sugar and blood pressure screenings and more. RSVP to set up a time. Savannah Baptist Center, 704 Wheaton St. , Savannah

Mammograms

St. Joseph’s/Candler will be performing mammograms to screen for breast cancer in its mobile screening unit Feb. 10 at Largo-Tibet Elementary School;Feb. 11 at the Bryan Counth Health Dept., Richmond Hill; and Feb. 17 at SJC Medical Group, Rincon. For appointments, call 819-6800. SJ/C accepts most insurance plans.

Financial assistance is available to women who qualify. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Man to Man Prostate Cancer Support Group

meets the second Wednesday of the month at 6pm on the 2nd floor of the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion. 355-5196. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah

Meditation for Relaxation and Stress

Relief

Learn to relax through non-religious meditation.

Instruction and practice followed by Q&A. Thursdays, 6-7pm. $5. Small World Therapeutic Massage on Whitemarsh Island (next to Jalapeno’s).

897-7979. Small World Therapeutic Massage, 115 Charlotte Dr , Savannah

Memorial Health blood pressure check

are offered free every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at GenerationOne. 350-7587.

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Memorial Health CPR training

FitnessOne provides American Heart Association courses each month to certify individuals in infant, child and adult CPR. The cost is $30.

Call 350-4030 or visit www.memorialhealth.com.

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Pregnancy Yoga

Eight week sessions held on Tuesdays from 6-7:15pm. Helps pregnant women prepare for labor and delivery. $100. Ann Carroll, 704-7650 or ann@aikyayoga.com. Office Building, 7116 Hodgson Memorial Dr. ,

Smoke Stoppers

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

Call 819-6718. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

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Free hearing & speech screening

Every Thursday morning from 9-11 a.m. at the Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St , Savannah http://www.savannahspeechandhearing.org/

Free Vision Screenings

are offered to the public Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Sam’s Club Optical-Savannah. No membership is required.

Call 352-2844. Sam’s Club Optical, 1975 E. Montgomery Cross Rd. , Savannah

HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training

My Brothaz Home, Inc., a local nonprofit HIV/AIDS organization, offers free HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training, risk reduction counseling and prevention case management to individual males and groups of males. Upon completion of the training, a monetary incentive and educational materials will be given to each participant. Call 231-8727. My Brothaz H.O.M.E., 211 Price St , Savannah http://www. mybrothazhome.org/Welcome.html

Hypnobirthing Childbirth Classes

are being offered at the Family Health and Birth Center in Rincon. The group classes offer an opportunity for couples to learn the child birthing process together, while providing a very integral role to the companion participating. Classes provide specialized breathing and guided imagery techniques designed to reduce stress during labor. All types of births are welcome. Classes run monthly, meeting Saturdays for three consecutive weeks. To register, call The Birth Connection at 843-6838750 or e-mail Birththroughlove@yahoo.com.

Family Health & Birth Center, 119 Chimney Rd , Rincon http://www.themidwifegroup.com/

Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Clinic

is offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler and Emory.

Patients can receive pre and post-operative care at the clinic rather than travel to Atlanta.

Call Karen Traver, R.N. Transplant Coordinator, at 819-8350. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

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Team Savannah Wellness

A group dedicated to imrpoving the quality of lives in the Five Pillars of Health: mind, body, family, society and finances. Meets every second and fourth Tuesday at 5:30pm in the meeting room of The Woods Complex on Hodgson Memorial Drive. 656-2952, www.chaienergy@ bellsouth.net. The Woods Complex, Hodgson Memorial Drive , Savannah

Nature and Environment Forestkeeper 1st Saturdays

Volunteers will help evaluate canopy trees in Chatham County. Feb. 7, 10am-noon and every first Saturday of the month. L. Scott Stell Community Park. Free. 233-TREE or www.savannahtreefoundation.com. L. Scott Stell Community Park, 195 L. Scott Stell Road , Savannah

Religious & Spiritual Calling All Christians

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

Chanted Office of Compline

The Service of Compline, ”Saying good night to God,” is chanted Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. by the Compline Choir of Christ Church Savannah, located on Johnson Square. Christ Church, 28 Bull St. ,

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.

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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. , Savannah http://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.

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Live Web-streaming

Attend church from home Sundays at 9 and 11am with Pastor Ricky Temple and Overcoming

by Faith Ministries. Log onto www.overcomingbyfaith.org, click ’Watch Now’. 927-8601. Overcoming by Faith Ministries, 9700 Middleground Rd. , Savannah

Metaphysics For Everyday Self-Mastery

A series of metaphysical/New Thought classes at The Freedom Path Science of Life Center, 619 W 37th St., Mondays 8pm, with Adeeb Shabazz. $10 suggested donation, 1-877-494-8629, www. freedompathonline.org, freedompath@yshoo. com. The Freedom Path Science of Life Center, 619 W 37th St. , Savannah

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 , Savannah http://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 , Savannah http:// www.wbumc.org/

Nicodemus by Night

An open forum is held every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at 223 E. Gwinnett St. Nicodemus by Night, 223 E. Gwinnett St. , Savannah

Noonday Downtown Bible Study

with Pastor Ricky Temple every Wednesday at noon. Free lunch provided. 927-8601, www. overcomingbyfaith.org. 927-8601 , Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull Street , Savannah http://www. savannahtheatre.com

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 , Savannah http://www.trinitychurch1848.org/

Realizing The God Within

A series of Metaphysical/New Thought classes presented by The Freedom Path Science of Life Center, featuring metaphysical minister and local author Adeeb Shabazz. Mondays at 8pm.

The Freedom Path Science of Life Center, 619 W 37th St. , Savannah

Soka Gakkai of America (SGI-USA)

SGI-USA is an international movement for individual happiness and world peace. The group preactices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO. Meetings are held at three locations in Savannah and Hinesville. Guests are welcome. 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, 231-2252, 234-0980, uusavannah.org Johnson Square, Bull & Abercorn Sts. , Savannah

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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. The Savannah Zen Center, 307 E. Harris St. , Savannah

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 Beloved Community Church, 707 Harmon St. , Savannah

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

Liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith.

Sunday, 11 am, Troup Square Sanctuary. 2340980, admin@uusavannah.org or www.uusavannah.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://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 a group. Refreshments or dinner is served at each meeting. Visit http://men.meetup.com/46/ or contact Mike Freeman at 441-0328 or Dicky Trotter at 665-4488. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://www. uusavannah.org

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 , Savannah http://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.

Southern Hemisphere, 41 Habersham St.

Women’s Bible Study

at the Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers. Call 447-5711 or Wesley Community Center, 1601 Drayton St , Savannah http://www. wesleyctrs-savh.org/ cs

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2 Gunpowder Ct. 3BR, 2BA, LR/DR combo, furnished eat-in kitchen, bonus room, garage $1100/month.

210 Windsor Rd. 3BR, 2BA, LR, dining area, furnished kitchen, den, game room, office, CH/A, fenced yard $1075/month.

605 Dyches Drive 3BR, 2BA, LR, furnished eat-in kitchen, CHA, W/D conn, fenced yard $875/month.

1507 E. 48th St. 2BR, 1BA, LR, DR, furnished kitchen, sunroom, screened porch, CHA, W/D conn $850/month.

401 N .Baldwin Cir.

3BR, 1BA, LR, DR, furnished kitchen, laundry room, carport $775/month.

426 Screven Ave.

2BR, 1BA, LR, furnished eatin kitchen, carport, fresh paint, CH/A $750/month.

5105-A LaRoche Ave

2BR, 2BA, LR, furnished eatin kitchen, CHA, laundry room $750/mo.

639 E. 39th St.

APARTMENT FOR RENT 2BR/1BA, Great midtown neighborhood, central heat & air, newly remodeled. $685/monthly.

Call 484-3700, days, 353-9757, nights.

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2BR, 2BA, LR, DR, furnished kitchen, sunroom, office, porch, CH/A $775/month.

2216 Capital St.

2BR, 1BA, furnished kitchen, LR, large den, laundry room, workshop $695/month.

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for rent 855 CAROLINE DRIVE: 2BR/1BA Unfurnished Apartment. Kitchen furnished w/washer and dryer connections, newly renovated. $695/month. Call 897-6789 or 344-4164

DAVIS RENTALS

MOVE-IN SPECIAL 11515 WHITE BLUFF RD. 1BR, walk-in closet, laundry room, bath $575/month.

NEAR MEMORIAL 2BR/2BA, walk-in closets, laundry room $725/month.

TOWNHOUSE 1812 N. Avalon Avenue. 2BR/1-1/2BA $675/month.

SOUTHSIDE 207 Edgewater Rd. 2BR/2BA, Large $750/month.

211 Edgewater Rd. Gated 2BR/2BA $825/month.

310 E. Montgomery X-Roads 912-354-4011

EASTSIDE

15 Helmken Street. 3Bedrooms, 1-Bath, CH&A, hardwood floors, washer/dryer connection, newly painted, new kitchen countertop/cabinets, walk-in closet, backyard. Pets Allowed. $750/month plus deposit.

Call 912-353-8895

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Section 8 Accepted 2234 Mason Drive Near Bible Baptist.

Renovated 3BR/2BA, Approx. 1700sqft, LR/DR, eat-in kitchen, den w/fireplace, play room, sun room, carport, large fenced backyard, inside laundry. $1050/month + Dep. $900.

4904 Jasmine Avenue Brick 3BR, 1.5BA w/lots of closets. Formal LR, separate DR, on huge lot, 2,438 Sqft, sunroom, privacy fe n c e. $1,100/month + Dep $900.

Pets OK with Approval.

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898-4135

FURNISHED EFFICIENCY Apt. Great for retired person or single mature adult. Utilities included. No pets, no smoking. $200/week, $200/dep.

912-236-1952.

GARRARD AVENUE

Secluded 3BR/1BA, hardwood floors & carpet w/hobby shop. Large yard for garden. $895/month plus dep.

Taking applications 912-234-0548 GREAT APARTMENT! Ardsley Park/Baldwin Park 1BR/1BA with separate living and dining rooms. $650/month.

Call: 912-659-6206.

HOUSE FOR RENT: on Ebenezer Creek, Rincon.

2BR/1BA, washer/dryer included. $550/month, $550/deposit.

Call 912-657-0224.

HOUSE, Private: 844 Staley Ave. 2-Bedrooms, no appliances $575/month, 2 month’s rent.

APT: 818B W. 47th 2-Bedrooms, appliances $550/month, 2 month’s rent.

820-1/2B W. 47th 2-Bedrooms, recently renovated, total electric $500/month. Call 236-5032. No-pets.

for rent 855 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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NICELY FURNISHED APARTMENT on bus line, private entrance, adjoining bathroom, mini-kitchen, phone, cable, internet, washer & dryer. $145/week $522/month.

Other Rooms and Apartments available.

Mon-Sat. 912-231-9464.

OGLETHORPE PLACE: 2/bedroom, 1.5/bath townhome. Washer & dryer. $800/month + deposit.

2/bedroom, 2.5/bath townhome, washer & dryer $850/month + deposit.

912-355-8999 or 912-663-3799.

ONE ROOM EFFICIENCY, Furnished. $550/month, $400/deposit.

Utilities included. Call 234-5876 or 596-0670.

ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE Bedroom Apt’s. and Houses available For Rent.

Central heat/air, some with 1-1/2 bath. Call 912-412-0178.

QUIET COUNTRY LIVING - MIDWAY

20 minutes to Savannah. Newly renovated. Quiet community, 3BR MH, large yard. $650/month.

No-Pets.

912-695-2305.

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2401 BONAVENTURE 2BR, 2.5BA brick townhouse $2250/down, $750/rent.

2407 TENNESSEE AVE Large lot, new roof, CH&A $2250/down, $725/rent.

930 SEILER AVE 3BR/2BA, corner lot, all electric $2400/down, $800/rent.

STAY MANAGEMENT 352-7829

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SECTION 8 WELCOME

2612 MISSISSIPPI: Large 3BR, den $845/month 2405 TENNESSEE 3BR/1.5BA, $925/month.

24A MASTICK: Small 3BR, water included $630/month.

Call 912-257-6181

SOUTHSIDE 2BR DUPLEX

51 E. Fairmont, 2BR/1BA, central heat/air, washer/dryer hook-up, fenced yard, new carpet, freshly painted. Good neighborhood, good schools, next to malls, close to everything! $695/month $650/security deposit.

Section 8 Welcome.

Chip, 912-665-2300, Dawn, 661-0409

SOUTHSIDE

3BR/2BA, great room w/fireplace, TV room/enclosed garage, fenced backyard. $1000/month, $1000/deposit. Call 844-1825 or 844-1812.

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12409 LARGO DRIVE

1BR $609/month 2BR $709/month

Plus one month free rent.

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925-4811 or Email windsorarmskmc@comcast.net

THUNDERBOLT

**1-Bedroom apt, deck, nice, utilities included. Near marina. $675/month **ALSO Efficiency, small but nice $575/month. **3BR, Price Street, $600/month. **1BR, Whitaker Street $500/month.

Call 912-691-2368

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TOWNHOME: 1600 Habersham St. between 32nd & 33rd St., Savannah. Thomas Square area. Spacious 2BR/1BA, kitchen and living room. $575/month plus $575/deposit. Virtual tour at www.habershamplace.com. Call Adam @ 234-2726.

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TYBEE: NEW 3 Bedroom House, 2 baths, all hardwood floors!

4 parking spaces underneath, quiet street! $1,500/month, $1,500 deposit.

912-507-4637.

VARNEDOE DRIVE: Off Skidaway. 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath, kitchen furnished. $625/month.

Call 912-897-6789 or 344-4164

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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 Seagate Subdivision 3BR/2BA, 2-car garage, fenced. Walking distance to Marshpoint & Islands Elementary. Close to Coastal Middle School. Small pets ok.

Clean, quiet neighborhood. $995/month, 912-663-9941.

WINDSOR CROSSING

2BR/2 Bath, trash & water included. $500/deposit, $675/rent.

GEORGETOWN CONDO

2BR/2 Bath, breakfast area, fireplace, W/D included. $500/deposit, $795/rent.

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VICTORIAN DISTRICT: 527 E. Park Ave. Renovated 1900’s house, 3BR/2BA, offstreet parking, central heat/air, deck, washer/dryer & dishwasher. $950/monthly. 912-507-4637.

2BR/1 Bath, furnished kitchen $500/deposit, $550/month.

Zeno Moore Construction 409 E. Mont. Xrds.

927-4383

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ROOMS FOR RENT

$79-$99 MOVE IN SPECIAL SOUTHSIDE-EASTSIDE - WESTSIDE New Large Clean Carpeted Rooms, only 2-4 rooms per guest house. Quiet Areas, Bus line. Free HBO. Furnished or Unfurnished. Rooms with PRIVATE BATHROOMS available. $95-$140/Week.

Discount for Food Service and Hotel Employees EFFICIENCY APTS 2BR/1BA APTS. w/Living room, refrigerator & stove, all utilities included. No sharing.

Weekly $225 with utilities.

Monthly $625 no utilities included.

912-472-0628/3416122

BLOOMINGDALENO DEPOSIT Furnished room in quiet area. Includes utilities, television, washer and dryer, stove, refrigerator, highspeed internet, Comcast cable.

Near Gulfstream, I-16 and airport. Shared kitchen and bath.

Call 912-210-0181 or 912-210-0144 CLEAN, FURNISHED Room, on busline, $85-$115/week plus deposit. Call 210-1327 or 236-1952

$125/week furnished rooms w/cable tv,wi-fi, free laundry & off street parking. All utilities included.

See online at: http://savannahrooms.cjb.net CALL 912-220-8691

EFFICIENCY ROOMS

Includes stove, refrigerator, private bath. Furnished! $180/week + deposit.

Call 912-844-5995

LEGAL Rooming House in business

over 20 yrs. Freshly painted Apts $150/wk.

Rooms $70-80/wk. Furnished and utilities included. Call 234-9779 NEAR MEMORIAL East Savannah.

Furnished, includes utilities, central heat/air, Comcast cable, high-speed internet, television, washer/dryer.

Hardwood floors, ceramic tile in kitchen and bath. Shared Kitchen & Shared bath.

5 minutes to Memorial Hospital.

Call 912-210-0181.

ROOM FOR RENT, $100 WEEKLY. plus deposit.

755 E Waldburg. Free cable, central heat/air.

Call 912-657-0458.

ROOMMATE WANTED. Mature professional for 3BR/2BA home. Cable.

W/D, Utilities included Berwick Cottonvale area. $395 monthly. Call Ed at 912-234-0854

ROOMS FOR RENT

$95 to $165 PER WEEK. Refrigerator, Microwave, Cable, TV, Telephone, Central Heat/Air, Washer/Dryer, on the Bus line. 912-272-0285.

ROOMS FOR RENT

Nice/clean, furnished rooms, CH&A, kitchen furnished, washer/dryer, cable. Located on busline. $110-$125 weekly.

Call 912-401-1116

ROOMS FOR RENT

Westside. $85-$130/weekly, Utilities and cable included.

Call 844-5655.

2008 CHRYSLER 300C

Steel blue metallic.

8,000 miles. $26,000.

Call 912-658-4329 Safe, quiet, Christian environment in new home.

Utilities included. On busline. $135/wkly, $75/deposit. Male Preferred Call:912-484-1347

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Looking to share home.

2 furnished bedrooms.

Each with tv, cable, phone and use of amenities. $150/week.

No deposit or lease, no pets or smoking. Call for appt. 234-6892

transportation 900

cars 910 1985 HONDA GOLDWING motorcycle. Runs good $2500 OBO. 2006 METROPOLITAN HONDA scooter $1500 OBO. Call 912-349-5526.

1988 BMW 735i, dove grey, over $8000 in repairs done in last 12mos.

Very good condition. $5000. Ask for Mr. Dan, 964-1421.

1988 Mercedes Benz 420 SEL. For sale as is, $850.

Call 912-312-9293 1988 Nissan 300 ZX, automatic , 2 + 2, t-tops, low miles, $2450 OBO. 912-441-2150 1992 CHEVY VAN, $1800.

1990 300ZX, Automatic $3000. 1999 EXPEDITION, V8, Triton motor $3800.

Call 912-323-9797 or 404-552-6543.

1995 Dodge Caravan, automatic, cold A/C, low miles. $1950 OBO. 441-2150 1998 MITSUBISHI MONTERO SPORT LS, 79,900 miles, original owner, KBB value $3885, will take best offer. Call before 8pm, 912-234-5800.

1999 CHEVY VENTURE MINIVAN, 7-passenger, w/48K miles on rebuilt engine, fully loaded, very clean $2750.

Call 352-2281 or 604-4353.

2003 EXPEDITION XLT 31, 000 miles. Leather, 6-disc changer, 3rd-row seat, AC front/rear, rear volume control. Excellent Condition! $13,500.

(912)659-9892

2005 FORD TAURUS

In Excellent condition, AC, AM/FM/cassette.

Fully loaded. Asking $5500.

Call 912-598-1750.

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‘92 Ranger Super cab, • ‘92 Civic • 96 Altima and more...

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‘91 Camry 93 Sable 96 Oldsmobile. and more...

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Alero For Sale For sale low mileage, great starter car, new tires in 08. Great condition. Maintenance kept up with as scheduled.

CHEVY CORVETTE

2001 Convertible roadster. under 35K miles, silver w/ tan top. Showroom condition. $22,500. 912-856-7564 FENDER BENDER? Paint & Body Work.

Reasonably Priced.

Insurance Claims.

We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

Honda Pilot EX-L, 2004, 4wd, loaded, 8 passenger, 22 miles per gallon, one owner, non smoking, garage, all records, excellent condition, new timing belt, water pump, & brakes. $11,900 233-2409 or 547-1503 POLICE IMPOUNDS! Cars from $500! For listings 1-800-536-8309 x4647.

SKY BLUE 2007 MUSTANG, 2-door coupe, 6 cylinder, fuel injected, asking $13,000. Call 904-334-2457.

SUVS 930 2000 DODGE DURANGO Leather interior, 3rd row seat, rear air, power everything, 170K miles, 5.9L 360 V8. 4 New Tires.

This is solid truck with a near perfect interior.

Runs great and drives solid. All reasonable offers will be entertained.

912-660-3951 Boats & accessories 950 YAMAHA WAVERUNNER FOR SALE: $4000 OBO. Only 15 hrs. of use, runs like new. Call 224-3999.

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TYBEE - 2BR/1BA Apt., central-heat/air. Walk to beach, 1 block f ro m A J ’s. $850/month, $850/deposit.

912-507-4637.

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CommerCial ProPerty For rent 890

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TWO & THREE Bedroom Apartments for rent. 656 East 36th & 623 West 48th Street. Call 912-232-3355.

References and Credit Check required. Call 351-0500 for showing.

WINDSOR FOREST: 3BR/2BA, quiet residential neighborhood. One block from high school. $900/month plus dep. No pets. Call 912-832-6970 leave message.

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Two 4 bedroom homes for rent. One located Southside/Georgetown, other located in Cloverdale, both have 4 bedrooms, 2 baths.

Rent ranges from $975 -$1150, section 8 welcome.

Call 927-0671 or 656-1310

WE BUY HOUSES 2139 Causton Bluff 3BR/2BA, central heat/air $950/month, $850/deposit.

818 Dyches Drive 1BR/1BA Cottage. $560/month, $460/deposit.

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TWO 2BR APARTMENTS, One & 1-1/2BA $875/month.

ONE 3BR HOUSE, 2BA, LR, Dining, Breakfast Room. Lots of storage. $985/month.

Available May. Call Teresa, 596-4954, Otis 695-2880.

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