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Settling the score Peter Shannon, conductor and artistic director of the Savannah Philharmonic, goes on the record with a frank conversation about the state of classical music locally and the opening of the Phil’s season this weekend.

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A closer look at Step Up Savannah’s poverty simulation | 10

A rare in-depth interview with Congressman John Barrow on health care reform | 12

Our resident Beatles expert dissects the longawaited Fab Four re-releases | 26

Tim Rutherford visits Kayak Kafe and other purveyors of culinary pleasure | 30

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Wednesday

The Market at Trustees Garden What: Events include a

farmer’s showcase, organic gardening presentations, films and more.

When: Wed. Sept. 09, 4 p.m.-7 p.m., Wed. Sept. 16, 4 p.m.-7 p.m.

Where: Charles H. Morris Center, 10 E. Broad St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

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Lecture: The Iranian Election, Related Issues and the Future What: As part of The

Armstrong Center for Professional and Continuing Education Open House, AASU professor and author William Daugherty will present a lecture, “The Iranian Elections, Related Issues and the Future.”

Daugherty was one of 53 hostages kept in captivity during the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979-1980.

When: Wed. Sept. 9, 4:30 p.m.

Where: Armstrong Center for Professional and Continuing Education , 13040 Abercorn St. Cost: Free

Film: So Darling, So Deadly (Austria, 1966) What: Set in the exotic

location of Singapore, this campy secret agent flick (also known as “Kommissar X”) was cheaply and quickly made to capitalize on the success of the original wave of James Bond films. A highly entertaining, low-budget romp complete with sultry babes, maniacal villains, clever gadgets

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and a high-tech underground fortress. Dubbed in English.

When: Wed. Sept. 09, 8 p.m.

Where: The Sentient Bean Cost: $5

Saturday

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Low Cost Pet Clinic

What: TailsSpin teams up

with Coastal Pet Rescue, the Humane Society and Dr. J. Stanley Lester to bring an afternoon of quality pet care. Affordable microchipping and pet vaccines for students, seniors and military. Opportunities to adopt pets will also be available in the morning from 11am-2pm. Other services available from 2-4pm.

When: Sat. Sept. 12 Where: Habersham Village parking lot , Habersham between 61st and 63rd St., Info: http://www.tailsspin. com/

Thursday

Citizens Police Academy

What: a 13-week program designed to promote citizen interaction with Department members. Academy students discover how the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department is organized, how it interacts with city government and the criminal justice system, and how the Department and the community work together.

Graduates receive continuing education credits from Armstrong Atlantic State University, a certificate of graduation from the Department, and a class photo. The program is also recognized for training credits by the Chatham/Savannah Board of Education.

When: Classes are held Thursday evenings 6:309:30 p.m.

Where: Squad Room of Police Headquarters at 201 Habersham St. Cost: Free

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Scots-Irish History Symposium

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The satirical hit Tropic Thunder screens at the Lucas ent a two-day symposium about Scots-Irish heritage and culture, with a special focus on Scots-Irish experiences in many parts of the American South. Friday night @ 7pm acclaimed five-man Smokey’s Farmhouse Band will perform a concert of Scots-Irish Appalachian bluegrass music.

When: Fri. Sept. 11, Sat. Sept. 12 Where: Coastal Georgia Center Cost: $20/day or $30/both days Info: http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/irish/frontiers

Understanding and Dismantling Racism

What: A series of events in-

cluding a book signing and workshop with Rev. Joseph Barndt, former head of anti-racism training group Crossroads Ministries. Fri @ 6:30pm - reading and

signing with Rev. Barndt @ Holy Spirit Lutheran Church. Sat. 3-6pm workshop and discussion @ AASU University Hall. Sun. 11am - worship service @ Holy Spirit Lutheran Church.

When: Fri. Sept. 11, Sat. Sept. 12, Sun. Sept. 13 Cost: Free

Savannah Philharmonic: Fanfare for the Common Man

What: A musical tribute

to America featuring Copland’s striking “Fanfare for the Common Man”, the haunting “Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber and the rousing marches of John Philip Sousa.

When: Fri. Sept. 11, 8 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre Cost: $15-100 Info: 912-525-5050. http:// www.thesavphilharmonic. org/

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Forsyth Farmers’ Market

What: The Savannah Local

Food Collaborative has joined forces with Starland Farmers’ Market for an event that will be held weekly through Nov. 21 to feature regionally grown, fresh food and food products. Every second Saturday, a health pavilion with lectures and gardening information will be presented.

When: Sat. Sept. 12, 9 a.m.

Where: South end of Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Cost: Free

Butterfly Gardening and Bee Keeping

What: Enjoy the museum’s

beautiful butterfly garden and get practical tips on creating your own. Also learn about bee-keeping and harvesting honey.

When: Sat. Sept. 12, 10 a.m.

Where: Savannah Ogeechee Canal Museum & Nature

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art

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Movies

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Meditation Seminar

what meditation is, a few simple meditation techniques, and how to use meditation in daily life to decrease stress and increase peace of mind with teacher Gen Mondrub.

When: Fri. Sept. 11, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.

Where: Savannah Yoga Co-op, 2424 Drayton St. Cost: Free

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Healthcare for Kids Blooddrive

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help save a life. All who register to donate will receive a free t-shirt and be automatically entered to win tickets to the Florida vs. Georgia game.

When: Sat. Sept. 12, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Where: PSA Healthcare for Kids, 37 W. Fairmont Ave.,

Blood Drive at Wendy’s

What: Donate blood and

help save a life. All who register to donate will be automatically entered into win tickets to the Florida vs. Georgia game.

Also on site will be McGruff the Crime Dog. When: Sat. Sept. 12, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Where: Wendy’s on Wilmington Island, 7835 Hwy. 80 E,

Street Praise

What: A touring show

that began in Seattle in 2004 stops on River Street for the afternoon.

Local Christian music artists will share the stage in an array of musical performances ranging from gospel and worship to alternative rock, When: Sat. Sept. 12, 12 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Where: Rousakis Plaza, River St. Info: http://www.streetpraise.org/

Lucas Theatre Open House What: Tour the theater,

learn about its history, find out about the upcoming shows and have some popcorn.

When: Sat. Sept. 12, 5 p.m.-8 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre Cost: Free

Derby Devils Fresh Meat Scrimmage

What: Watch the Derby

Devils test out their new recruits in a brutal pre-season scrimmage.

Bring a lawn chair and prepare for blood, bruises and ladies on roller skates galore. Then stop by the afterparty at B&B Billiards on Congress.

When: Sat. Sept. 12, 7 p.m.

Where: Lake Mayer Outdoor Rink Cost: Free

Film: Tropic Thunder (2008) What: This satirical film

pokes fun at Hollywood’s obsession with action stars, blockbusters and “breaking the mold” of an actor’s range. A movie cast gets lost in the jungle while filming and ridiculousness ensues.

The all-star cast features Ben Stiller (who also directed), Robert Downey, Jr. (who earned an Oscar nomination), Jack Black, Brandon T. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise When: Sat. Sept. 12, 8 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre Cost: $8 Info: 912-525-5050.

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Jazz on the River Benefit

What: Local jazz icons Ben Tucker and Huxsie Scott join forces to help raise money for the Royce Learning Center, which offers adult literacy programs. Heavy hors d’oeuvres and cash bar.

When: Sun. Sept. 13, 5

p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Where: Savannah Riverfront Marriott Cost: $35 Info: 912-354-4047. http://www.roycelearningcenter.com/

Wine Dinner Benefit for Tibetan Monks What: Enjoy great food

paired with complimentary wine selections at a dinner to celebrate the intricate sand mandala that is being worked on at the restaurant by several of the monks who made an appearance at the Jepson earlier this summer. Proceeds will benefit the Drepong Loseling Monastery of Tibet.

When: Sun. Sept. 13, 7 p.m.

Where: Elizabeth’s on 37th Cost: $150/person Info: 912-356-5547 .

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Hurricane Preparedness Course What: Presented by

the Tourism Leadership Council and the Red Cross, this course will talk about the 3 actions that everyone can take that can make a difference and help you prepare for emergencies. For more info or to reserve space call 232-1223.

When: Tue. Sept. 15, 3 p.m.-4 p.m.

Where: Cost: Free

Important Bird Areas What: The Ogeechee

Audubon Chapter presents speaker Charlie Muise, coordinator for Georgia’s Important Bird Areas (IBA) Program, who will discuss sciencebased resources to “help the birds we all love so much.”

When: Tue. Sept. 15, 7 p.m.

Where: First Presbyterian Church, 520 E. Washington Ave., Cost: Free cs

One man’s scam is another man’s treasure

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

Everyone has a hobby. As longtime readers will know, mine is collecting Nigerian scam letters.

For those of you who’ve lived under a rock and/or had no internet access for the last 10 or 15 years, the fabled “Nigerian scam” involves an e–mail (a fax in the old days) soliciting help in moving a large sum of cash out of some African country, usually Nigeria.

You, dear reader, have your heartstrings tugged, as well as your wallet, in assisting to get the cash into the U.S. for a promised cut. If you take the bait, you’ll be asked to forward gradually increasing sums of cash to the writer, ostensibly to grease the wheels of corrupt bureaucracy.

It’s all quite illegal, of course, but my position is: If you’re stupid and greedy enough to fall for it — and there are no truly innocent parties on either side — then you deserve to be separated from your money.

I’ve collected Nigerian scam e–mails for years. I savor the best of them like fine wine.

For all their criminal intent, to me they represent something rare and beautiful in this world: True creative writing, with a dedication not only to craft but to effect — and all the more poignant because we will never know the writers’ true identities.

In the best examples one can sense the pride as these scrappy Third World hustlers fight through the cloak of anonymity to show the literary flair beneath. As an editor I must say it’s truly wonderful to behold, and my tongue is only partially in cheek when I say a lot of freelancers could learn something from them.

As with most things in our world, the golden age of scam letters is long past. After 9/11, the writers began relying more and more on lamely expressed televangelist sentiment and awkward references to Jesus.

Often this was coupled with a misguided attempt to change locale out of the presumably politically suspect continent of Africa. In some letters these days, the promised fortune is located — gasp! — within the U.S., a grotesque violation of scam letter tradition.

Another problem is the short length of most post–9/11 e–mails. Like a Russian novel, a true Nigerian scam letter takes time to develop and mature into a true work of the scammer’s art.

Thankfully, there is a literary renaissance of sorts going on in the world of the Nigerian scam. A few crafty writers have returned to their roots — colorfully embellished tales of exotic African intrigue, combined with a grifter’s ability to hook a sucker and never let go.

I received one the other day from my new BFF, Chief Abdullateef Alao. It’s far from the best I’ve ever read, but if his “TRUSTED PERSON NEEDED” is any indication, then a glorious new high period of Nigerian scam letters may be on the way. Be still my beating heart!

Like a Greek tragedy, a Shakespearean sonnet, or a blues song, a true Nigerian scam letter must follow a time–honored template. The opening is crucial. It sets the tone, combining both an introduction with a note of humility for being so direct. Here’s Chief Alao’s intro: You may be surprised to receive this letter from me since you do not know me personally.

My name is Abdullateef Alao, a close confidant of the acclaimed strong man of Ibadan politics and an industrialist, business mangul (sic) and government contractor in western part of Nigeria, Alhaji lamidi Adedibu.

Note the specificity, the finely honed attention to detail that is the mark of a careful writer.

It’s not just in Nigeria, but in the “western part.”

Everything in a Nigerian scam letter serves the narrative. Even the misspelling of “mogul” in this case serves a purpose: To humanize the writer and make him more believable.

After the intro comes the all–important portion I call the “habeas corpus,” i.e., a very specific reference to the exact amount of money and precisely where it is: Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu died on 11 June 2008, and as his closest confidant and accountant, I am aware of his financial dealings and account in some part of Europe and America. I am aware of a large sum deposited in a bank in Netherland which is USD$4.5 million (Four million, Five Hundred thousand United States dollars),which one of his children get to know recently, and my live have been threatened several times with that of my families asking me to go to the Netherland to withdraw their fathers money which I decline since I am the only signatory to the account/ funds, and he does not want the government of Nigeria to know about in case there is a probe.

I especially love the chief ’s signature manic run–on sentences, an almost stream-of consciousness technique that conveys his earnestness and quiet desperation.

Remember, without the habeas corpus, you don’t have a true Nigerian scam letter. Beware of cheap imitators!

The stage is now set for the section I call the “appeal to decency:” It is against this background that, I and my family fled Nigeria having escape so many attacks for fear of our lives and are currently staying in the Netherlands where we are seeking political asylum and more so have decided to transfer this money to a more reliable foreign account... As the signatory to the account, I am saddled with the responsibility of seeking a genuine foreign account where this money could be transferred without the knowledge of the Netherland authority as well as the children of the late chief... I must let you know that this transaction is risk free. If you accept to assist me and my family, all I want you to do for me, is to make an arrangements with the bank to clear the consignment(funds) to a partners account I can really depend on and trust.

The trick here is to take the high road by appealing to the reader’s sense of personal honor — in this case the opportunity to help a persecuted political refugee — while simultaneously taking the low road and stoking their innate greed.

This dual nature is the core of the Nigerian scam’s genius, and the main reason it has continued successfully for over thirty years.

Of course all this is a set–up for the “ask.”

Like Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross, the Nigerian scam writer lives by the principle of ABC — Always Be Closing: I have two options for you. Firstly you can choose to have certain percentage of the money for nominating your account for this transaction. Or you can go into partnership with me for the proper profitable investment of the money in your country... I have also mapped out 5% of this money for all kinds of expenses incurred in the process of this transaction. If you do not prefer a partnership I am willing to give you 10% of the money while the remaining 85% will be for my investment in your country. Contact me with the below E–mail addresse,while I implore you to maintain the absolute secrecy required in this transaction.

Again, note the humility and pragmatism.

If I want I can settle for just ten percent! He’s even “mapped out” five percent of the total for contingencies. Who could turn down such a well–thought out offer?

Who indeed? I’ll tell the Chief hello for you! cs

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Ellis Square nears completion. by patrick rodgers

lengthy interview with Savannah congressman John Barrow about health care reform.

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by patrick rodgers

09 Feedback / letters 10 Community 15 Hear & Now 16 Blotter 17 Straight Dope 18 News of the Weird

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A talk 32 books: with Rev. Joseph

Barndt on his new book and the ideas behind it. by jim morekis

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With the last two live oaks trees in place, Ellis Square is starting to come into focus, and according Dan Smirl, Senior Project Manager with Boykin International, construction on the square is on schedule to be complete Dec. 1.

Currently underway in the square is the construction of a hospitality center at the northwest corner, and the square’s centerpiece, an interactive fountain designed by Hobbs Architectural Fountains, the same company who created the Fountain of Rings in Atlanta’s Centennial Park.

The hospitality center, which will contain brochures and tourism info for downtown visitors, is currently just a large steel frame, but it should be nearing completion by mid–October, when its large glass panel walls will be installed.

“It’s a design element of the park, but it’s meant to be transparent,” Smirl explains. “It will mainly try to blend in, not compete.”

Because of concerns about high winds and the potential for storms, the floor to ceiling panels will contain what Smirl describes as “spider linkages,” aluminum fittings that will help support the glass, which would otherwise be to brittle to be exposed to the elements.

The delay in the installation of the final two live oak trees was in part because of the hospitality center construction — a certain amount of the steel structure needed to be in place before the trees could be brought in and planted without being disturbed.

The trees, which had been growing alongside a canal near the Truman Parkway, were originally planted in Savannah as part of the ’96 Olympic festivities, and were relocated to the canal shore, and now into Ellis Square.

The interactive fountain at the center of the park will include 34 adjustable heads with LED lights that will allow the flow of water to be controlled in different patterns and to change colors at night.

Similar to the design in Centennial Park, the Ellis Square fountain will be open, so that on hot days you’ll be able to frolic in the jets of water.

Since people will be able to enter the streams of water, according to health department standards, the water must be treated with the same precautions as a public pool, and must be filtered, treated and cycled through every 30 minutes.

This technicality created some challenges because treatment tanks usually

average about 10 feet in height, but the Ellis Square design only allows for three to four feet of depth because it rests atop the parking garage. The dilemma was solved with some “innovative design work,” according to Smirl, that will allow for water collection and filtration in such a shallow space.

Adjacent to the fountain will be a large patio area containing tables and seating that will maintain the continuity established by the eastern portion of City Market.

The next phase of the project will also include laying thousands of pre–cast paver bricks that will be the walking surfaces of the square.

Additionally, the statue of Johnny Mercer will be installed later this fall adjacent to the hospitality center.

The dedication of the statue will take place on Nov. 18, corresponding with Mercer’s 100th Birthday.

Although no date has been set for the ribbon-cutting and official opening of the square, Smirl expects contruction to be completed by Dec. 1, and that it should be ready for public use at about the same time. cs

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Editor, Regarding “Reviewing the drama of health care reform,” by Robin Wright Gunn: Certainly anyone who has paid attention to the health care debate has, at one time or another, wished it all to be done. As absurd as it may appear to Ms. Gunn and others, all the loud talking has prevented the even bigger headache of drive–by legislating.

Letting people debate the merits of HR 3200 has at least brought some of the more controvertial aspects of the bill into the light. Townhall meetings, critiqued by some as products of the “right–wing fringe,” have been the only arenas where consituents have been able to voice displeasure. This debate might go on for months; it needs to. Lest it turn into another less–than–adequately debated law such as the stimulus or Cap and Trade.

Finding info that explains HR 3200 is not hard. Keith Hennessey (www.

KeithHennessey.com) has provided a pretty thorough break down of things by sections. I encourage you to take a look.

J. Stevens

Fixing holes in Georgia’s water bucket Editor, For almost 20 years, the State of Georgia has battled Alabama and Florida in the courts for its share of Lake Lanier’s water supply. Georgia’s legal battle has already cost the taxpayers nearly $6.7 million with another $5 million spent by the Atlanta Regional Commission. The legal discord has sown distrust among the three states and now threatens to sow similar troubles here at home by pitting the water needs of metro–Atlanta against those of the rural regions of the state.

Such concerns are now magnified by the State’s stunning defeat in U.S. District Court this summer. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers has never had legal authority to allow Georgia to use Lake Lanier as a primary domestic water source or even to store water there in preparation for drought years.

Due to the uncertain outcome of Georgia either winning a court appeal or obtaining great favor from Washington within the court–imposed deadline of three years, state leaders must move forward on a package of legislative mea-

sures in the upcoming 2010 General Assembly showing that the State is serious about solving its water woes.

Since the metro area is ground zero, the State’s full effort must first focus on comprehensive water planning where it will have the greatest impact, show considerable results within three years, and be achieved with the least cost.

As the city of Atlanta has proven, fixing the “holes in the bucket” provides instant water savings. In 2003, the city lost 20 percent of its clean water to leaks and unmetered uses. Within the past five years, its leak detection and abatement program has reduced water loss by 1 percent each year, enough to supply 244,000 Atlanta residents with water. This program, if instituted throughout the 16–county region, could save 10 to 20 percent in total usage.

Secondly, retrofitting all outdated appliances and fixtures with water efficient models could provide an additional 35 percent savings in household consumption according to the Handbook of Water Use and Conservation. The State should initiate a proactive program, with emphasis on the metro region, which rewards home and business owners with tax credits upon the installation of water efficient fixtures. Along the same lines, the State should provide incentives for new development to include water efficient measures, such as designing homes and neighborhoods to capture and reuse stormwater.

The State also needs to survey existing reservoirs within the Apalachicola Chattahoochee Flint River (ACF) Basin to determine if water resources could increase if these were dredged or otherwise enlarged. Maximizing the potential of existing dams as a first step makes far better sense than pouring taxpayer dollars into new dam construction.

Old school thinking calls for building more dams, but, while this may become necessary, it is the most expensive and slowest approach. According to Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division, dams can cost $4000 per 1000 gallons of capacity, while efficiency measures range from $0.46 to $250 per 1000 gallons saved or new capacity.

By initiating this common–sense course of action, Georgia can secure a cost–effective water supply and help prevent water disputes between different regions of the state. Good faith efforts with results should also help Georgia win favor from Congress for a more generous solution regarding Atlanta’s water use from Lake Lanier.

Sen. Jeff Chapman (R–3rd District)

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Talking poverty with Step Up Director Daniel Dodd

by Patrick Rodgers | patrick@connectsavannah.com

Over the last four years, Step Up Savannah, the initiative to reduce our city’s stagnant poverty rate has used poverty simulations as one of the most effective tools in the fight to increase awareness. Regularly drawing participants from across the spectrum of city life, from students to business and community leaders, the simulations help illustrate the difficult choices faced everyday by families living below the poverty line, and how even highly motivated individuals can become trapped in the class of working poor.

On September 16, Step Up will be hosting a poverty simulation that will be open to the public, so Connect Savannah spoke with Step Up’s Director Daniel Dodd about their work with the simulations, which has received national recognition, and their progress in the war against poverty.

What was the inspiration behind starting something like the poverty simulations?

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Daniel Dodd: First of all, we didn’t develop these. We borrowed these from the Missouri Association for Community Action, a non–profit in Missouri.

These things were developed by people in poverty, which is what’s really fascinating about them. One of the things in Savannah that the [poverty reduction

task force] discovered was that poverty had stayed the same for thirty years and was six points higher than the national average. Folks realized very quickly that a different approach was needed. They went looking for a way to tell the story of poverty and found these simulations through the University of Georgia who trained us how to use them.

What has the response been to the simulation program? Do you feel like the people who are taking part in it are leaving with a better understanding of the issue and a stronger commitment to reduce it?

Daniel Dodd: Without a doubt. We’ve had over 2,500 people that have gone through them...We’ve got a lot of people that are coming through the poverty simulations and they are changing the way they looked at poverty and they’re staying involved through the action teams.

If I look at any one on our board or on our action teams, I’d say there’s a 75 percent chance that they’ve already been through the simulation, or they came to us through the poverty simulation.

Having done 3 or 4 of these already this year, who is it that’s showing up and taking part in them?

Daniel Dodd: At the beginning we targeted business people. Generally, when we open it up to the public we get a mix of students, people that are interested from in town, and we have a fair amount of business people because they hear about it. It’s real experiential learning...these things have really helped to change a lot of mindsets about people in poverty.

The majority of people that are in poverty report wages, but they’re the working poor. The way we define poverty is with the poverty threshold, which is $20,000 for a family of four, but actually self–sufficiency is $40,000 for a family of four. There’s a huge gap between people that are in poverty, which is a very old way of calculating poverty, and what you need to be self–sufficient...If you get above $20,000 a year, until you get to $40,000 a year,

depending on family composition, you’re going to be in danger, even of being homeless.

That’s what the poverty simulations show to the business people. I’m not saying they come out completely changed, but they’re frame of reference has definitely been altered.

When was the last time that the federal poverty level was updated? $20,000 for a family of four seems preposterous based on cost of living and fair market rent and all that stuff.

Daniel Dodd: 1965 was the last time I saw it was updated. There are slight adjustments made every year, but nothing that takes into account all of these things.

Looking at the region, Savannah’s median income is considerably lower than Charleston or Jacksonville or other cities. Is part of what we’re trying to overcome something that is so fundamentally part of our economy, relying so heavily on low paying service industry jobs, for example, that until we see a further development of knowledge based businesses and similar initiatives through SEDA and the Creative Coast that we’re going to stay in this rut?

Daniel Dodd: I don’t believe that. The more we diversify the local economy the better off we’ll be, but if you look at the strides that we’ve made with the port, with the universities and the jobs that are there, and the building, there’s a lot of construction that’s still going on. I think you’ve hit on something, of course, initiatives like the Creative Coast are wonderful possibilities, but they’re always going to be very competitive possibilities as well, because what city in the nation doesn’t want to have more knowledge based jobs...

I think it would have to be a comprehensive push in a lot of different areas, because even if we have knowledge based businesses that come here, the fact is, we’re not going to have the workforce that’s ready for those jobs because we’ve got people that are not graduating from high school. We see people that come into our construction apprentice program that are testing at a 5th grade

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The simulations concentrate on dilemmas the working poor often face

reading level. It’s gonna take them a significant amount of time before they can find career level employment.

a little pressure on some of these hotels and tourism based industries to be more supportive?

Step Up and the City rolled out the Bank On Savannah program earlier this year. Is there any sense of how effective that’s been or is it still too early to tell?

Daniel Dodd: The hospitality industry needs to understand that the lifeforce of their industry is their workers...The City can help because it works closely with the CVB and the Tourism and Leadership Council, and they’ve got a lot of power in this community.

I understand what an important part of the economy and the community the hospitality industry is, but if you’ve got four children and you’re a housekeeper, you’re not going to be able to pay your bills on what a housekeeper makes.

We’re lucky in this community to have so many tourists that want to be here, but it can’t just be that we’re thinking about the guests that are coming here, we have to be thinking about the workers that are greeting those guests or cleaning the rooms of those guests. It can’t just be short term profitability. cs

Daniel Dodd: It’s one small part of all the different things we’re trying to do.

Let me say one more thing about the hospitality industry. We’ve got to look at ways to get the hospitality industry more engaged.

We’ve got organizations like the Hyatt that get it, and they’re saying ‘we want to provide child care for our employees.

We want to do more for our employees.’

But you’ve got a lot of other hotels that don’t get it.

There are very small steps that those employers could be doing to address the needs of their workforce that would make their bottom lines better, and make their employees pocketbooks and their households a little more secure.

Has there been any talk, since Step Up and the Convention and Visitors Bureau and Chamber of Commerce are all part of the same entity, creating an initiative whereby the CVB could put

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Talking healthcare reform with John Barrow

The inside scoop on the Blue Dog group and their fight for the middle ground in the healthcare debate

by Patrick Rodgers | patrick@connectsavannah.com

Democrat John Barrow has been Savannah’s congressman since 2004. Though an early supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential run, he has since become something of a thorn in the president’s side on the issue of health care reform.

As a member of the so–called “Blue Dog” coalition of conservative House Democrats, Barrow has been working to pare down the scope of the president’s proposal, especially in the area of a publicly–funded insurance option.

In the wake of increasingly heated public protests against health care reform, Barrow has kept a low profile that has displeased liberals and conservatives alike who want to know where he stands. However, last week Barrow agree to a lengthy interview with us to clarify his position.

The healthcare debate has gotten pretty heated, so as both houses of Congress return to DC after the summer recess and work begins on reconciling the House and Senate bills trying to find a middle ground, what would you like to see happen with healthcare reform?

John Barrow: First off, there’s an awful lot of middle ground out there, it’s just not very well reflected in the two camps that are dominating the debate in Washington. Back home I think most folks are coming around to the idea that there are a lot of things that need doing, that can be done and should be done to add great value to the insurance that folks currently pay for and can also cut into the number of uninsured a great deal.

If we had insurance regulation for the first time ever in this country that prevented health insurance companies from raising your premium after you get sick, or cutting you off after you make the first of a long series of claims as a result of a disease or injury, then you’re covered. In other words, if we made them behave like we make the property and casualty folks behave, if we made them compete like Coke and Pepsi have to do, we could stabilize and add value to the contracts of insured folks who are never making claims, we

could get a whole bunch of the uninsured into the pool of folks who can afford their own health insurance. We could make a lot of progress if we just treated the health insurance industry the way our free enterprise system treats the rest of big industry and commerce in this country.

What we’ve got right now, at the leadership level though, is two camps, one group of folks saying ‘hell no, we won’t go,’ and the other saying ‘my way or the highway.’ I think, and I hope, that this August recess has caused folks to on the left to reassess the importance of doing things we can all agree on, and caused folks on the right to have an increased appreciation of the things that need doing that can be done, that will not harm anybody, but help most everyone.

If that’s the result of the August recess, I think it might turn out a whole lot better than some folks expect.

Is the passing of Ted Kennedy going to change how this moves forward? Is that going to be used to politicize this? Or could it give everyone on both sides a moment to reflect why reform might be important?

John Barrow: I wouldn’t want to reflect on its impact because it might offend the sensibilities of folks on either side of the issue. The important thing is what’s in the best interest of the folks who are paying the bills in this country. What’s in the best interest of the people that are struggling right now under a health care system that has incredibly good service, but at an incredibly high cost, that actually makes the cost of healthcare more expensive than it has to be.

No legislator has to die or make his legacy around this issue. This is an issue that too many folks are living with day to day. It has to stand on its own merit, it’s not going to be a tribute to anybody.

What’s it going to take to get over some of this divisive rhetoric and get some of these solutions on the table and discussed? Is it just a matter of cooler heads prevailing? Or is there a way that this can be salvaged now?

John Barrow: There’s a lot of potential for that, but it all depends on the players, and whether or not the folks that have taken an extreme position on either side are willing to compromise. We don’t have to have compromise. The folks on the right don’t have to be willing to compromise if the folks on the left can do enough compromising with those of us in the middle.

If we’re gonna become the surrogates for those on the right, the public don’t care, they just want us to work on solutions that have broad bipartisan merit, whether they have

broad bi–partisan support or not.

Obviously the centerpiece has become these town hall meetings. Has there been any pressure for you to hold more public forums locally?

John Barrow: Naturally there are folks that like to get a crack at their hometown congressman, but I’ve gone to six counties so far in my district and had six town hall meetings, and I’ve got three more scheduled for this weekend.

Augusta and Savannah, the two biggest cities in my district, got prime spot in the town hall rotation list during the last break, when, you may remember, the energy bill was what was hanging fire.

There was an eerie precursor to this healthcare debate during that week, as members of congress were forced to vote on an issue that was jammed just before a break, and folks had to vote on things I don’t think they understood all that well. I voted against that bill because I thought it was unfair to Georgians, and it wasn’t going to work, but I’d had the benefit of studying work on this at the committee level because I was part of the committee that had jurisdiction over the bill.

But I had Augusta and Savannah at the head of the rotation list, and had four town hall meetings during that one week. I’m having nine town hall meetings during this August break, and I sort of figure that if I have to start in my hometown every time they change pitchers on us up in Washington, I’d never get around the bases, I’d never get to first base.

A group gathered at your office recently and dropped off a petition in support of health care reform. How will you reconcile your stance on the issue with the wants and needs of your constituency?

John Barrow: Of course I’m going to consider all points of view, and will obviously consider the depth and the volume of different points of view. But in the final analysis I think folks expect us to do things that will help the most number of people, not to respond to the volume of calls that might come from one side or the other.

John Barrow: It’s groaning under the inefficiencies and the unfairness of the current system, in which you basically have a bunch of people who are uninsured shifting the cost of their care onto those who are insured, a bunch of insurance companies are able to behave pretty much any way they want to because they dominate the marketplace and there’s no effective competition.

Where I’m having an ongoing debate with me in the center and folks on the left, is some folks sort of feel like we ought to give up on private enterprise altogether because it’s been tried and found wanting, and go straight to some public enterprise, some sort of medicare type program. My own feeling is that we’ve only given private enterprise a chance to fail in the healthcare industry.

We haven’t given it a chance to succeed.

It ought to be given a chance to work before it is tried and found wanting.

When I say it hasn’t been allowed to succeed, it’s because they are exempt

from the anti–trust laws. I mean, try and imagine what life would be like for the consumer if Georgia Power Company didn’t have to go to the Public Service Commission before they decided to change rates on you. That’s sort of what we’ve got in the health insurance industry.

Has the entire dialogue become derailed and what we need to be talking about is better regulation of insurance companies, which will then cause a trickledown of better, more affordable care?

John Barrow: I won’t say it’s been derailed, but right now it’s being dominated by proposals that seek to regulate insurance companies through the back door in an indirect manner by setting up a very large entitlement program and sort of a healthcare welfare program to lift the people from the ranks of the uninsured directly into the ranks of the insured, basically trying to close all the gaps, so there’s no gaps someone can fall between without there being some sort of a program to catch you. I think that’s going too far. I don’t think you have to do it that way.

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I think everyone recognizes the insurance industry has been unregulated so long now that they abuse their monopoly power so much that there’s a crying need for reform. Some folks want to use that as an occasion to launch a public enterprise that, in the opinion of some, could effectively takeover or run the private healthcare industry out of business. I feel like before we go that far, we ought to give the private enterprise the chance to succeed, whereas we’ve only given it the chance to fail.

Haven’t they, because of the free market, been given just as equal an opportunity to succeed without becoming an unwieldy beast?

John Barrow: There’s no free market that’s dominated by a monopoly or by the functional equivalent, which is a few people acting in concert with each other sort of dividing the market between them. That’s not a free market. That’s the exact opposite.

What you’ve got is essentially a market place where there is an inelastic demand for a very vital service. You’ve

got a private enterprise that is vested with a vital public interest. Everybody has a right and a need to get insurance, but they get it from folks who can charge whatever they want and there’s no effective competition. That’s not how we provide good services in any other sector of our economy.

Sure, but since they’ve been trusted with this vital public service, they have chosen their own path.

John Barrow: Of course. And my point is that because they’ve chosen unwisely doesn’t mean we should abandon the model that guides everything else in our society. We ought to give the rules and the laws that apply to everyone else a chance to operate in the healthcare sector before we go any further.

That’s the Blue Dog position. The position is that there shouldn’t be a public option. There shouldn’t be a publicly chartered, or publicly managed, or publicly accountable healthcare plan that’s launched until we first task the private healthcare industry with competing, giving them the legal mandate to do so continues on p. 14

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by removing the exemption from the anti–trust laws and the other circumstances that allow them to effectively evade any meaningful consumer regulation at the state level.

Basically to task these folks with doing right for a change and see how that works. If that fails, then we’re in a position to decide whether we need to go to the next step.

Have the various members of the Blue Dog group met during the recess to consolidate their position?

John Barrow: There’s been some contact, just comparing notes and seeing how things were going, but the point I just made about the Blue Dog position on the public option was a position we formally addressed during the run up to the recess a couple of months ago.

We set the bar pretty high for a policy position for the Blue Dogs. We have to have two–thirds support. We passed a resolution calling for a “trigger,” a term of ours used by most of the policy wonks to describe what I was just going through about a public option first being written in a fashion where it has to compete on a level playing field. You can’t give it the power to dip into the public till or leverage medicare or other finance programs to force providers to do what they don’t want to do, or take patients they don’t want to take.

In addition to that, the threshold position taken by the Blue Dogs is before we even do that, there should be a resetting of the clock on the rules, a repeal of the laws that exempt them from competition and there should be

an effective opportunity to measure how they perform, and if they fail to do that then, and only then, should we consider the necessity for a carefully, restrained and instructed public option of some sort that could not possibly drive the private, for–profit industry out of business, but could make it compete

the seven dwarves, it depends on your point of view, I guess. But I was one of the seven blue dogs that was forcing the Energy and Commerce Committee to do its homework and to wrestle with all of the issues that were presented by the leaderships draft bill. We were the only committee in the House to struggle and

“We don’t have to have compromise.

The folks on the right don’t have to be willing to compromise if the folks on the left can do enough compromising with those of us in the middle.” more effectively and cause competition to come into the market place.

This is the trigger that they’re talking about. There should be a public option with a trigger.

Have the Blue Dogs been able to grow their ranks at all over the recess? As folks have gone back to their hometowns and their districts, has anyone said, I was on the right or I was on the left, but I think your plan sounds best?

John Barrow: I’m not sure. It’s a little early to tell, but I can tell you in the run-up to the recess we were approached from all across the caucus privately, those of us who were the original seven Blue Dogs. I’m one of the so–called “magnificent seven.” I’m not sure if it’s the magnificent seven or

really mark this thing up in earnest. We were the only ones to do that and it was because of me and the other Blue Dogs on the committee did.

While that was going on we were approached by folks from all across the caucus, from the Progressive Caucus, from the New Democrat Coalition, from quite a few quarters of the caucus you might not expect, and we got private encouragement all across the board to hang tough on this, to have an opportunity to study this.

We got a lot of encouragement from folks who aren’t Blue Dogs publicly, but who saw it was bad policy to be jamming things to a vote just to put the cards into the hands of leadership, so they could go into the conference and do our job for us at that level. That’s not

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what we’re elected to do.

A couple of months ago, the Washington Post reported that several Blue Dogs had received campaign contributions from the health insurance lobby and several insurance companies. Has that affected how you have moved forward?

Is this part of that political process?

John Barrow: I don’t think so and I’ll tell you why. Something the stories don’t mention is that one of the things that makes a Blue Dog is that you come from a district that looks a little more like the country as a whole. You tend to represent districts that are more balanced in their composition, districts that are swing districts, districts that could go either way. That’s where Blue Dogs come from.

Guess what. Those are the only districts where there are strong and heavily financed challenges year-in and year-out. Myself for example. I’ve had five contested elections in four years.

Two primaries and three generals.

To put it in perpective, in my campaign, we raised and spent as much in the last five years as Jack Kingston spent in the last 18. That’s because he comes from a safe seat where there’s no real competition. I come from one those where the stakes are a little higher because the district looks a little more like the country as a whole. It’s more balanced. It can go either way.

Representatives come from districts like that, where the action is, so it’s not surprising that there’d be contributions from all across the political spectrum.

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called a street.) There are very few intersections, and almost no “blocks” compared to midtown or downtown Savannah.

When these three subdivisions were built, each was a remote destination– Home Sweet Suburban Home, after a day at work or school. Think Dick Van Dyke coming home to Laura and tripping into the sunken living room of his mid–century house.

Nearly 50 years after their construction, two of these former suburbs are now considered midtown Savannah, and all are surrounded by destinations that draw people from across the region–Oglethorpe Mall, the hospital district, and Armstrong Atlantic State University. All of these regional centers were built after the development of their nearby neighborhoods.

The Tuesday bus tour, despite being billed as a “walkability audit,” was really about traffic calming tools to put neighborhoods on “road diets”–engineering tools to slow down and redirect vehicle traffic. Neighborhood leaders on the tour mentioned high traffic volumes from cut–through traffic in Paradise Park and Kensington Park, speeding on Windsor Road and Althea Parkway.

Burden’s most often recommended traffic calming tool was the roundabout, or traffic circle. “Can everyone join me in the middle of the street?” he asked at our first tour stop in Paradise Park.

Tour participants hesitantly formed a human roundabout in the intersection, and then observed while two or three drivers drove around the group

at slow rates of speed. Who knows if they would have avoided running over us had they known we were mostly media representatives and government employees.

Rarely on the tour did the neighbors’ concerns seem to be about the inability to walk in the neighborhood, although it was sometimes mentioned as a seeming afterthought. And according to Pam Miller of Kensington Park, homeowners surveyed on one neighborhood street were 80 percent opposed to having sidewalks installed.

Besides, as a fellow tour participant pointed out, there aren’t too many places to walk to in any of these areas, probably another remnant of their origins as remote, Utopian residential enclaves. Even the schools in the neighborhood, no doubt once walked to by 1960’s era neighborhood children, now mostly draw from other parts of the city and are some of the biggest traffic problems cited by residents.

It would be nice for today’s neighborhood kids to be able to walk or bicycle to their friends’ houses in safety. But it appears that the idyllic, historic auto– oriented neighborhood designs of last century have come back to haunt the current residents of these subdivisions.

What was convenient for those remote, single–car–per–home families to drive around their neighborhoods is just as convenient now for everyone else.

Mangled it may be, but the Nancy Sinatra song prediction seems to be coming true: “One of these days these streets are gonna walk all over you.” cs

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Last Tuesday afternoon I took a bus tour of three of Savannah’s historic neighborhoods, courtesy of the City of Savannah.

Billed as a “walking audit” given by Dan Burden, (a “walkable communities” consultant) 17 people boarded a Leisure Services bus just south of DeRenne Avenue and for the next two hours, drove through Paradise Park, Windsor Forest and Kensington Park, with stops in each area.

For many in Savannah, the idea that these mid–20th century suburbs might be historic is a preposterous suggestion.

Yet, as we cruised along, I saw dozens of mid century modern single family homes, perhaps over a hundred or more, in each neighborhood.

For historic preservationists, a 50–year–old home or district can be considered eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, although it must also either have architectural significance or local or national historic importance. There’s a strong argument that all three districts and many of the homes in them meet the required architectural/urban design standard.

The three subdivisions were built as the suburbs, separate from the city. Now they are “three of the most popular neighborhoods, built and annexed at the same times,” said Alan Boulton, head of the Paradise Park neighborhood group. “The city hasn’t had to build anything here, only maintain what was built in the 1950’s” by the developers.

These three areas are among the best–preserved local examples of mid–century auto–oriented suburban development–built as the mid–century American Dream for Savannah’s lower– middle to upper–middle class families.

They owned one car per household, sometimes two. You can tell by the sizes of the driveways and the widths of the carports.

So what does all this have to do with walkability? Not much. To mangle a line from Nancy Sinatra, “these streets weren’t made for walking.”

None of the three neighborhoods was built with sidewalks, and all have long stretches of winding roads, drives, and parkways (according to the names on the street signs, rarely was anything

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Classic Blotter: A look back at some old favorites from the archives A 20–year–old man described by police as “a former student of a local college here” was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer “after darting an officer with a blow dart gun in the vicinity of Abercorn and Hull Streets.”

The officer had stopped a traffic violator in the 200 block of Abercorn Street where he began speaking with the violator.

“Moments into the stop, he was struck in the lower back with a four inch blow dart which forced him to abort the traffic encounter,” the police report says. After sending the red light violator away from the area with a warning, the officer called for assistance. Responding officers converged on an apartment at 219 Abercorn

Street, whereupon “the officers were greeted by a smoke filled room with a distinct odor of what appeared to marijuana.” They found “a blow dart gun and darts identical to the one that had pierced the back” of the officer. At police headquarters the man admitted to darting the officer from the window of the apartment. The officer’s injury was not life threatening.

• An officer was working off–duty at a West Broughton Street bar when the bar owner brought a woman in the bar to the officer’s attention. In her purse in plain view was a clear plastic baggie of marijuana. She was placed under arrest for possession. Signs are posted in the bar stating clearly that drugs are not allowed. Persons must consent to be searched for drugs to gain entry to the bar.

• A man at the bus station on Oglethorpe Avenue kept getting on buses, even though he didn’t have a ticket. He refused to leave the area. When confronted by a security officer, he threatened to “bust” the man’s head, so police were called. When an officer arrived on the scene, the man was asleep on a bench. He was belligerent when

awakened and threatened to “bust” the officer’s head.

The man refused to leave or identify himself, so he was placed under arrest. When the officer attempted to handcuff him, the man pulled away roughly. He was handcuffed and placed on the ground in a seated position, then taken to jail.

• A woman who owed $70 to a man tried to pay the money by visiting his workplace, a fast–food restaurant on Mall Boulevard. She said the man told her to bring the money to the restaurant. She told police she gave the man $100 and asked for change.

He got another employee to get change, then told the woman she owed him $30 more. She asked him for what, and he began cursing at another employee who was listening to the conversation. The woman told the man not to yell at others when he was mad at her.

She said he pushed her and told her to bring the money by his house and never

return to his workplace.

The man had minor scratches from the altercation. The police advised both of warrant procedures.

• A Chevis Road resident called police to report someone may have entered her residence when she was not at home.

The woman said she left the door open for about 45 minutes so her daughter could get inside the house.

When the daughter arrived she noticed that “the family dogs were acting strange” and that certain lights were left on that were not on before. The woman said that some doors were open inside the house that were closed before.

No items were reported missing.

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Clarence Darrow, as everybody ought to know but probably doesn’t, was the most famous defense attorney in America a century ago. Quick-witted and eloquent, he was renowned for his impassioned arguments on behalf of unpopular figures. His clients ranged from pioneering labor leader Eugene Debs to thrill killers Leopold and Loeb.

Darrow is perhaps best remembered for his unsuccessful defense of schoolteacher John Scopes, and by extension the theory of evolution, in the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. (Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee law by teaching evolution.) Some say this was the trial at which Darrow, described by the New York Times as a man of “wicked zest and mordant humor,” employed the cigar-ash trick. Other accounts merely say it was a favorite tactic, without citing a particular case.

But Darrow, not a reticent fellow, mentions nothing along these lines in his autobiography. Newspaperman H.L. Mencken, who covered the Scopes trial extensively in his columns, never said anything about it either. So for now we’d better chalk this story up as: coulda happened, probably didn’t.

The sad fact is, cherished though the notion may be, I haven’t found reliable evidence that any lawyer ever tried the cigar-ash trick in a courtroom. A 1980 article in a lawyers’ magazine claims it had recently been ventured in a Dallas administrative hearing, but there’s no cite. Cigar Aficionado magazine quotes federal judge Loren Smith as saying he once slipped a straightened-out paper clip into an eight-inch stogie, which he then calmly smoked in a white-carpeted

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I’m sure you’re familiar with the tale of Clarence Darrow hiding a wire in his cigar to keep the ash from falling and thus distracting the jury during the DA’s closing statement. Do you have any thoughts on what type of wire (gauge, material, etc) was or would be used?

—John Kregel, Santa Cruz

meeting room, declining an ashtray until he had seven inches of ash. Not a trial, no jury. Still, not bad.

We do have corroboration for one impressive essay at jury bamboozlement. A 1963 Time article relates the story of high-profile attorney Melvin Belli arguing a personal-injury case for a plaintiff who’d lost her leg. At the beginning of the trial, Belli brought a large L-shaped package wrapped in butcher paper into the courtroom and let it sit for days on the counsel’s table, tantalizing the jurors. Finally, while making his closing argument, he slowly unwrapped the package to reveal a prosthetic leg.

You might say this lacks the subtlety of the cigar trick, but you’d have to agree it’s in the same league.

You wanted practical advice, though.

I volunteered Una to discover what she could. She acquired six cigars and five short pieces of piano wire ranging in diameter from 0.062 inches down to 0.015 inches (about nine times the diameter of a human hair); she also straightened out a standard paper clip. She then carefully fed each wire into the center of a cigar and set up an elegant apparatus of metal clamps inside a box to allow the cigars to burn undisturbed.

Needless to say this accomplished nothing, since the cigars needed air passing through them to keep them lit, which, as a nonsmoker, Una was disinclined to supply. She next tried rigging up a hand-pumped bladder to draw air through the cigars. This plan was also a failure. Finally, sacrificing herself for science, she sat on her patio and gingerly puffed away. The results: • Each of the wires worked well for keeping the ash together on the cigar.

Typically, the ash reached 4 to 4.5 inches before Una extinguished the cigar.

• The finer-gauge wires worked best—the thicker ones tended to shed bits of ash around the middle. Possibly the thin wire penetrated more cleanly and didn’t chew up the guts of the cigar.

The finest wire was able to endure a modest amount of hand movement without dropping any ash.

So there you have it, John—finegauge piano wire is all you need, plus of course a cigar. Now, what you’re going to do with this knowledge I can’t say.

Smoking is verboten in courtrooms these days, and I doubt a cigar would go over too well in most indoor meetings.

But that’s hardly my problem. All I do is provide the facts. cs

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Breakthroughs in Eye Hair: The pharmaceutical company Allergan has introduced eyelash-thickener Latisse, a $120 per month prescription “medication” to help a woman overcome feelings of inadequacy if she suffers from scrawny lashes. Alternatively, eyelash transplants are now available in the U.S. and Britain, originally developed to restore lashes for burn victims, but, according to the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, now to market to women dissatisfied with their own (at about $6,000). And in May, Washington, D.C., resident Brian Peterkin-Vertanesian petitioned the Guinness Book to recognize “Wally,” his 6 3/8-inch eyebrow hair as the world’s longest, beating the current record by almost an inch.

The Continuing Crisis

the New York City school system is forced to keep about 1,600 teachers on full salary and benefits (costing about $100 million per year) even though they cannot be required to work. Six hundred are in a multiyear arbitration process for terminable misconduct or incompetence, and 1,000 are long-term layoffs from shuttered schools but whom principals continually pass over for transfer.

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• The New Torture: (1) In August, Glasgow hosted the sixth annual World Pipe Band Championship, with 200 bagpipe bands competing. (Professional piping often hits a sound level of 100 decibels and can go to 120, which is louder than a pneumatic drill.) (2) Two musician-beggars in the village of Moseley, England, were banned from performing in the area in August after a magistrate court heard complaints by desperate residents that the pair played only two songs (Oasis’ “Wonderwall” and George Michael’s “Faith”) over and over and over.

• Animals Gone Wild: (1) In July, scuba divers around San Diego were forced out of the water by the estimated 1 million human-sized Humboldt squid that infested the area. Usually deepwater dwellers, they swarmed near the shore for several weeks, flashing their “razorsharp beaks and toothy tentacles,” according to a KABC-TV report. (2) In June, in Ana Lee Spray’s garage in Riverside County, Calif., a full-grown mountain lion was cornered and held at bay for 45 minutes by Spray’s three Chihuahuas, yapping at it relentlessly.

Eventually, animal control officers arrived and removed the grateful lion.

• Juvenile disruptions by “Girls Gone Wild” video producer Joe Francis in two recent federal lawsuit depositions have apparently backfired on him.

Under questioning by plaintiffs’ lawyers, Francis had persistently and solemnly claimed not to understand common words and, during one session, repeatedly passed gas. At another deposition, he appeared indignant when asked if he had paid two teenage girls to fondle him (“disgusting allegations (against) a man of my integrity”). One judge summarily ruled against him on a $3 million Las Vegas gambling debt, and the other judge was considering a similar course in a class-action lawsuit by some of Francis’ allegedly underage “models.”

• With no help from Verizon Wireless, law enforcement agencies managed to hunt down a disturbed, 62-year-old man sought in an 11-hour manhunt following a domestic violence call in Oops!

Carrollton, Ohio, in May. Deputies had • Agile Athletes: (1) Chicago Cubs’ wanted to use the man’s cell phone sigpitcher Ryan Dempster missed a month nal to locate him, but the company had with a broken toe suffered in July when shut off his service over an unpaid he tripped on a railing while leav$20 bill and refused to turn it on, ing the dugout to celebrate a viceven for a few minutes, unless tory over the Milwaukee Brewdeputies paid the $20. The sherHeck of a ers. (2) Kansas City Royals’ Jose iff was reluctantly about to pay party you put Guillen missed over a month when deputies found the man. on Frank after tearing a ligament in his • Union Rules: (1) One knee while leaning over to subway line in Boston is still put on a shin guard before his forced to employ two drivers turn to bat in a July game. (3) per train when the other BosAppalachian State quarterback ton lines, and most all subway Armanti Edwards, a three-time systems worldwide, use only one.

All-American, was to miss the first A June Boston Globe analysis month of the season after injuring estimated that the second driver, his foot in August while mowing his doing virtually nothing useful, lawn. costs the government $30 million annually. (2) At any one time,

• In August, Democrat Michael Heagerty failed by one name to meet the ballot requirements to run for reelection to the city council in Syracuse, N.Y. He was credited with 334 of the 335 necessary signatures, but realized too late that he had forgotten to list his own name. (He said he would run for re-election, anyway, as an independent.)

People With Worse Sex Lives Than You

Danny Brawner, 46, was indicted in Albuquerque, N.M., in August for aggravated indecent exposure. A police officer and his 10-year-old son had seen Brawner with his pants down around his ankles, performing simulated sexual intercourse against the trunk of his car. The officer also said Brawner was shouting and swinging his arms, as if enjoying the real thing.

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Two home invaders in East St. Louis, Ill., holding 11 people hostage as police surrounded the house, were eventually tricked outside by the captives and arrested. The hostages, borrowing an idea from several movie scripts, convinced the invaders that their only shot at freedom was to change clothes to look less conspicuous and then to release everyone. The two would appear to be part of the hostage group, and the hostages “promised” to tell police that the home invaders had already escaped earlier. However, as everyone walked out, the captives merely pointed out to police the two invaders.

Recurring Themes

For at least the third time in eight years, geography-challenged vacationers bought airline tickets for an Australian holiday but failed to notice (until they landed in “Sydney”) that their tickets took them to Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Dutch man Joannes Rutten and his grandson appeared shocked when they de-planed in Canada, even though they had boarded an earlier connecting flight in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In December 2008, an Argentine woman made a similar mistake, and in August 2002, a young British couple, after realizing their error, decided to spend their holiday in Nova Scotia, after all. cs

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As documented in Connect two or three issues ago, Savannah’s nationally–known reggae rockers have a new CD coming out.

Saturday’s show at the Live Wire is the band’s official release party for Everyone is Everynight, a melodically strong and wholly satisfying collection of locally–written originals. “We put a whole year and a half touring behind us before we started writing it,” singer/guitarist Ted Bowne told us, “so we all had a different perspective on all different kinds of things.” Listen & learn: http://www.passafiretheband.com/. At 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12 at Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $10 advance, $12 day of show.

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40 oz. to Freedom

“We do Sublime with a twist,” says Dane Scott of 40 oz. to Freedom, playing Friday at Loco’s. Scott is the lead singer for the San Diego–based quartet – his job is to channel Sublime’s poly–energetic vocalist Bradley Nowell. He’s also the tribute band’s guitarist.

“We play a lot of the specific guitar solos and bass lines the same, but we also like to improvise on top and add our own arrangements of some songs we don’t try to look like Sublime, although the drummer and I have both been tattooed by one of Bradley’s longtime buddies.”

A powerhouse band that blended (well, super–collided) ska, reggae, punk and rock ‘n’ roll, Sublime’s was a short but sweet success story, from headlining the Vans Warped Tour (then getting kicked off, then getting re–instated) to placing their agro–skater rock musicians, including Sapphire Bullets’ Phil McDonald and John Banks, guitarist Kevin Rose, violinist Ricardo Ochoa, cellist

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And it’s been a long road – Nowell died of a heroin overdose in 1996, thus ending the band. So what we have is 40 oz. to Freedom, named for the very first Sublime album.

“The hardest part about being in a Sublime tribute band,” Scott said, “is remembering all the lyrics.

Sometimes Bradley rapped so fast, it’s hard to even tell what he’s saying.” Listen & learn: http://www. myspace.com/40ouncestofreedomband.com. Friday, Sept. 11 at Loco’s Grill & Pub, 301 W. Broughton St.

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Cue the orchestra

Peter Shannon and the Savannah Philharmonic open a new season

by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

There’s a new sheriff in town, but he’s packing a skinny little baton instead of a six–shooter. With the apparent demise of the Savannah Orchestra, the big man at the podium is Savannah Philharmonic conductor Peter Shannon.

Shannon was hired two years ago by the Savannah Choral Society, and he came with impeccable credentials: Ten years conducting the Collegium Musicum Orchestra in Heidelberg, Germany, after years of study at the Franz Liszt Hochschule fur Music, one of only two German schools which hold the title of “elite university.”

The native Irishman came to Savannah brimming with enthusiasm and new ideas about organization, fundraising, outreach, presentation — and, most especially, about music.

“Passion” is a word he uses often.

As the Philharmonic’s Artistic Director, he not only chooses the programs for each concert, he is responsible for hiring the very best musicians (many of the players in the Philharmonic come from Charleston, Atlanta and other up–the–road metro areas, just as they did for Savannah’s previous classical aggregate).

Friday’s season–opener at the Lucas Theatre spotlights Copland’s Fanfare For the Common Man, as well as Barber’s Adagio For Strings, a collection of Sousa marches and other “patriotic” selections (note that the date is Sept. 11). There’ll be about 55 musicians in the orchestra, along with a good chunk of the chorus on some of the pieces.

Shannon, 40, admits it’s been something of a bumpy ride so far. Although attendance is up, helped by positive reviews for his high–energy approach to classical music, certain local and regional musicians — veterans of the Savannah Orchestra — remain wary and are hesitant to play with the Philharmonic.

There’s been a smattering of bad blood between the sides — Shannon says he’s offered the olive branch several times — and when everything is settled, Savannah’s classical music environment can only get healthier.

After all, the music is the only thing that really matters.

Two years in, the Philharmonic is a relatively new orchestra. Is it still an uphill climb?

Peter Shannon: Definitely, no doubt about it. You would imagine it’s very fertile earth, the situation we’re in, because there is no orchestra. It’s not like we’re in Washington or London where we’re competing with 15 different orchestras. But I think the fertile earth is burned earth, too, because so many people have been disappointed, and they’re wary about a new symphony orchestra coming back.

In fact, many of the big philanthropists in town have made no bones about it. They’ve screwed this thing up so many times, and so many other groups trying to do something have screwed up, too. So it’s “What’s different with you?”

How do you change that?

Peter Shannon: Well, you do it differently. I think we have a different road map, a different modus operandi. And I’ve done this before, that’s the good thing. You just have to be very creative and find ways to involve the community in the orchestra, to make it work. And to communicate to the orchestra the import of their role in all this.

Music, in Europe, doesn’t have this “aesthetic differentiation” – it’s part of the culture. In America – and in Savannah at the moment – it’s not. People go to the opera, or to the symphony, just to be part of the crowd. As they do in a lot

of places in America. They don’t go like they were going to an Elton John concert: “Oh my God, I can’t wait to hear the third movement of Brahms’ second symphony.” They just go and hope that they’re going to enjoy it.

That’s got to be frustrating.

Peter Shannon: It is and it isn’t, because you’ve got people there that are just like open books. You can write whatever you want on them. It’s like jumping into a swimming pool when there’s no one else around. You get to make the waves.

God knows Americans want to be knocked off their feet. They’re very emotional people, and they’re very honest in their emotions, which is very refreshing after coming from Germany, I can tell you.

If the concert doesn’t have the emotion that the music demands and should have, I think it’s my job to impart that to the audience. If you’re not knocked out by this, if you don’t hear something in this that gives you goose pimples or makes you shudder, or cry, then you don’t need it. And don’t go.

That’s something I think I’m qualified to do. And I think it’s important, in Savannah, that we really make the musicians responsible for the sound and the communication.

Ultimately, the Savannah Orchestra sputtered and failed, like so many regional orchestras. Did that leave a bad taste in people’s mouths?

Peter Shannon: I think (Savannah Orchestra artistic director) Bill Keith did an incredible job of rallying the people that were left in town, getting them together. He was very creative with his programming and did a fantastic job.

I’ve been studying this for 15 years, and doing it for 10, and you’re being tested every concert. It’s not enough just to play the notes.

Conducting is an art that really needs to be studied. You need to have somebody standing at the podium who’s as good at his instrument – that’s playing, or channeling the orchestra — as the best player in his orchestra.

In a nutshell, other orchestras have tried, and it’s up to us to see if we can fill

The chorus still exists. Are you sort of hamstrung by that? Are you thinking “Well, I’d like to have a really nice orchestra, but I have to use the chorus too”?

Peter Shannon: Not at all. All my training, up to when I studied orchestral conducting, was in choral music. I was a professional singer in Ireland in the Radio Symphony Choir, which is our chamber choir — 16 solo singers. And I sang as a choirboy in Cork Cathedral.

A lot of conductors are at home with an orchestra, and then not at home with a chorus at all. Because it’s a completely different thing. Or it’s the other way around — they’re very good choral conductors but they don’t have the technique or the understanding of the technique of the individual players.

Which you really need to have to be a good orchestral conductor. For me, I really have that luck that I was able to separate them both completely.

In my orchestral conducting, there’s a certain singing style that I’m expecting from the orchestra. In a lot of ways, it’s very, very strongly influenced by my background in singing. And I think that helps the sound.

Will the chorus be part of the Sept. 11 concert?

Peter Shannon: Yes, they’ll be there for “Shenandoah,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and some small pieces like that.

But the Verdi Requiem that we’re doing less than a month later, we can’t do that without an incredible chorus.

And it’s important for me to build something here, too. The chorus is a large group of musicians — it’s almost 90 people — and I think of them as my children. That’s what I call them, too.

I really feel very responsible for their music–making.

It would be a chore if they weren’t incredibly motivated. That’s all I really need. Not too long ago, maybe five or six years ago, I realized that all I really wanted to do was make music with people who really wanted to make music. At whatever level.

Do you feel that you’re connecting with the musicians?

Peter Shannon: In any group you’re working with, you have a mental picture of how the sound should be. At least I do. And I think a lot of conductors do. I know how it has to sound; I can hear it. And your job is to impart that sound with gesture.

A lot of people say conducting is the art of suggestion. You’re so intimate with your musicians that vocal language becomes unnecessary, or even a barrier.

The only thing that works is this (raises his hands in a conducting gesture).And if you’re able to make music at that level, you’ve arrived. You know you’ve got them. They’re on your hand; they’re on your stick. And I’ve got that feeling with the Savannah Philharmonic.

At the end of the day, do you still feel as if the orchestra’s got something to prove?

Peter Shannon: I think the problem that the musicians had before was this standard repartee of “Savannah’s loaded, it’s got a lot of money, and history needs that symphony orchestra.” Bollocks, as we say in Ireland.

If you can’t prove your worth in so many different ways – especially in the financial climate we’re in at the moment – you really shouldn’t succeed.

That’s the wonderful thing about America – if it’s not good, hit the road. cs

Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus: ‘A Celebration of the American Patriot’ Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. When: At 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11 Tickets: $15–$35 ($100 VIP tickets include a contribution to the 200 Club) Students and children under $12: $5 off Online: thesavphilharmonic.org

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North Carolina’s Jubal Kane to record live in Savannah

by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

Ace Andersson is a native Swede – he’s been in the States for 10 years – who wears a blonde beard so long he could pass for a member of ZZ Top. And he lives in a North Carolina town called Lizard Lick, which got its first traffic light in 1997.

All well and good, you might say with a dismissive smirk, but what has Ace Andersson done for me lately?

Andersson is a ferocious blues harp player with a red–hot band called Jubal Kane. He and his bandmates have chosen Savannah to record their fourth CD. There’s sure to be sweat dripping from the walls when Jubal Kane takes over the Mercury Lounge Friday and Saturday. Each night, the band – using different drummers – will play for four hours without a break.

“You can never get the same energy as you do in front of people, when you’re standing around in a studio,” Andersson explains. “And there’s nobody really recording a hundred percent live any more. That art form is pretty much dead with Pro Tools. There’s always an overdub on a record, whether it’s a clinker, or they think they can make the solo better, or the vocals. We’re just a

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Jubal Kane plays gutbucket Chicago electric blues. Andersson’s harp honks and Otis Thomas’ snarling guitar bring to mind the classic interplay between Paul Butterfield and Michael Bloomfield.

Although they write a lot of their own songs, they draw from a trunk– load of smoking cover versions, too (including Tony Joe White’s “Polk Salad Annie”!)

“When me, Buckwheat (the bassist) and Otis started the band, our philosophy was that if we’re going to play covers, we’re going to play obscure covers,” says Andersson. “And we’re going to do them our way.

For the original material, “I might come up with a riff and I’ll say ‘Can we do something with this?’ I’ll play the riff, and they just fill in the holes. We have this ESP where it just works when

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we play together.”

The band’s name comes, in a manner of speaking, from the Book of Genesis: “He was,” says Andersson, “the first musician ever referenced in any kind of writing, as far as we know. He’s part of that Cain and Abel clan, that whole family. His brothers were doing weapons of war, and he felt like he should do something else. And God told him, you can be a musician. He was actually the first harp player, but not the mouth harp, the stringed harp.”

The band is hoping to cut a live DVD

at the Mercury Lounge shows, although details are still being worked out. Ultimately, the recordings will be a two–CD package, with one disc of original songs, the other of covers.

“Savannah’s always been good to us,” Andersson says. “I think it’s one of the coolest towns on the planet.” cs Jubal Kane Where: Mercury Lounge, 125 W. Congress St. When: 10 p.m. Sept. 11 and 12 Artist’s Web site: http://www.jubal–kane. com/

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The Beatles in 1967, for the gatefold of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Ringo Starr, left, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison.

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The all-important Beatles catalog gets a much-needed facelift by bill deyoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

In the liner notes for a Beatles record released in 1963, publicist Tony Barrow challenged the reader to check back with him in a decade: “Exhume it from your collection somewhere around the middle of 1973, and write me a very nasty letter if the pop people of the’70s aren’t talking with respect about at least two of these titles as early examples of modern beat standards taken from The Lennon & McCartney Songbook.”

Of course, the Beatles went on until the early days of 1970, making increasingly more sophisticated recordings, and all these years later the songs written and recorded by John Lennon and Paul McCartney – with, of course, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – are beloved and considered the foundation

and firmament of popular music.

This week, EMI Records is re–releasing all 12 of the original Beatles albums on CD, plus the compilations Magical Mystery Tour and Past Masters – in re–mastered audio (downloading of the music is still in the future).

The process of re–mastering involves going back to the first–generation tapes – not the original, multi–track tapes from Abbey Road Studios, but the mixed and sequenced ones used to press LPs and later, CDs – and sending them through sophisticated equipment that reproduces the recorded music extremely faithfully.

This Beatles catalog first appeared on compact disc in 1987, when the format was young and the mastering process not nearly as exact, or detailed, as it exists in 2009.

For the better part of two decades, fans have complained that the ’87 Beatles CDs were flat and somewhat lifeless when compared to their vinyl

counterparts from the 1960s.

Add to that the fact that the catalogs of the other key artists from that pivotal decade – Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones – had undergone extensive re–mastering as the technology was invented to make better–sounding CDs (and the Stones’ albums have been re–mastered four separate times).

A team of Abbey Road engineers spent four years on the re–mastering project. The “restoration” was limited to repairing electrical clicks, microphone vocal pops, tape noise and bad edits – wherever possible – as long as it didn’t interfere with the original integrity of the songs.

The new CDs come in fold–out “eco–friendly” (meaning cardboard) sleeves, with extensive use of period photographs, thick booklets with historical and recording notes, and a five–minute QuickTime documentary about the album in question.

And then there’s the sound ...

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Imagine the Sistine Chapel, slowly faded by the sun, with eons of dust and grime all but obscuring Michaelangelo’s original brushstrokes. It still looks like the Sistine Chapel, but take the right kind of scrub brush, and suddenly the color is more vibrant, the faces come alive, and you get that indescribable shiver when you realize you’re seeing the masterwork the same way the master saw it.

That’s exactly what experiencing the Beatles re–masters is like. It’s still A Hard Day’s Night, it’s still the White Album, but a velvet power–wash has been carefully applied.

They don’t sound different - just better.

The most obvious change is a wider palette of sound, as if there’s more space between the guitars, bass, drums, pianos and whatever else is on the record.

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things. I noticed, for example, that good these guys were, and how much there’s an organ on “Sexy Sadie,” bongos they meant to us. on “You’re Going to Lose That Girl” and a sweet little McCartney high note as Frequently Asked “Chains” fades out. I had never detected Questions these elements, in 40–some years of listening with pleasure.

Should I sell or trade off my old Beatles The horns on “Got to Get You Into CDs and get these?

My Life” jump out of the speakers and With any upgrade, the new pretty demand your attention. much trumps the old, but as always it’s The acoustic guitars and plaintive in the eye (and ear) of the beholder. If vocals on “Mother Nature’s Son” and you don’t care about greatly improved “Long Long Long” make you feel as if sound, and packaging that goes way McCartney and Harrison are right there beyond the bare–bones, hang onto your in your living room; old CDs. They Lennon’s still play, don’t throat–shredthey? ding vocals on “When I Did they change Get Home,” anything?

“Money,” “You This isn’t a Can’t Do That,” re–mix, like “Twist and Yellow SubmaShout” and rine Soundtrack “Yer Blues” are or Let it Be .. astonishingly Naked, nor is it a raw. “re–imagining” “Tomorrow like Love, where Never Knows,” individual songs “Being For the were taken apart Benefit of Mr. and stitched Kite” and “I Am together with the Walrus” are pieces of other somehow more songs to create complex and the soundtrack more accessible, for Cirque du Soat the same leil’s stage show. time.

The box set of the stereo re-masters The engineers Starr’s drumutilized a very ming gets its small amount of focus here, noise reduction, and limiting, but the especially on the mid–period stuff Beatles’ music – the way it was recorded (Rubber Soul, Revolver); you’ll come and mixed in the 1960s – is untouched. to understand that he was every much a key to that tight, innovative Beatles Will I be bowled over by the sound? sound as the others. Likewise, McCartThat depends on how familiar you are ney’s sturdy, innovative bass work is with the catalog. If you’re a die–hard much more defined in the aural picture. and have worn out your 1987 Rubber There’s a fresh presence in these CDs Soul CD yes, you’ll notice the increased that wasn’t even in the grooves of the presence in the bass, the crispness of old vinyl. We always knew how great the acoustic guitars, the warmth of the Lennon, McCartney and Harrison vocals. For the most part, though, it’s a were at singing harmony, but this time matter of subtle differences. The casual – from “Hold Me Tight” to “Because” Beatles fan won’t notice a thing, and – the effect is staggering, in–your–face, these songs will sound pretty much the like you were sitting there in the studio same on the radio. listening to them sing for you.

As each new generation discovers Any bonus tracks? the Beatles and their music, this body No. The idea seems to be that the “core of work becomes more and more imcatalog,” as Apple calls it, is sacrosanct. portant. For new listeners, these songs So even though the earlier albums are – just under 300 of them, in total – are pretty short – the CDs could fit quite a new, and vivid, and just as powerful as few more tracks – they start and end as they were when they were recorded. the original albums start and end.

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mixes. However, stereo gives you a much wider audio picture. The stereo albums will be sold individually and as a box set. If you’re into minutiae, the mono box might be the way to go. It’ll keep you busy.

Many of the early recordings were mixed into stereo with vocals on one side, instruments on the other. Surely these have been re–mixed to bring things into the center?

Nope. It’s still good, old–fashioned 1960s stereo. By Revolver (1966), the stereo mixes were becoming more sophisticated, and the separation isn’t as jarring. On the early ones (especially Please Please Me and With the Beatles), it takes a little getting used to.

Why do I keep seeing flea market and Craigslist vendors asking exorbitant amounts for old Beatles records? Are they really that valuable?

The re–masters are in stereo. Should I check out the Beatles in Mono box set that’s coming out at the same time?

For all the group’s records before Abbey Road, stereo was an afterthought – the songs were mixed into mono, to come out of a single car (or record player) speaker. Truthfully, some of the singles – “Day Tripper,” “I Feel Fine” and “Paperback Writer,” to name a few – have more muscle in mono, and that left channel/right channel thing (see previous question) isn’t an issue. Both Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the White Album have subtle (but noticeable) differences in their mono

In late ‘64, clockwise from upper left: McCartney, Starr, Lennon and Harrison.

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In 99 percent of the cases, no. They’re essentially worthless. There are a few rare – and thus, extremely valued by collectors – original Beatles albums out there. But they’re scarcer than hen’s teeth. Meet the Beatles, Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road – all the common Beatles albums, in fact – sold millions of copies in the 1960s. If you’re really interested in the vinyl, you can find good copies on eBay and the like for a couple of bucks. Still–sealed copies (i.e. in the best possible condition) might fetch decent bucks from collectors. But a beat–up Beatles 65 with an asking price of $50? Some people see the B–word and think it must be rare, and therefore worth big bucks. Don’t be taken in. cs

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Go for White4 I enjoy spreading the love around.

There’s so much great juice out there to tell stories about, so I make sure I move from distributor to distributor, winery to winery and varietal to varietal.

Still, at the end of 2008 I reviewed all of my past year’s columns, all 52 of ’em.

What I found out was that I wrote about Paso Robles region wines about 60 percent of the time. And, of those roughly 30 columns, on four occasions I referenced wines form Vina Robles winery.

Why? First of all, their sales director keeps me in the loop on new vintages, new products and offers easily accessible information.

Moreover, I really, really like the wines of this region, whether they come from Vina Robles or not.

It’s a fairly new AVA (American Viticultural Area) –– earning its designation in 1983 (with expansion in 1997 and 2009).

To my eclectic but fairly narrow palate, the wineries of this area are churning out beautiful wines at moderate prices –– and giving the 500–pound gorilla in Napa a run for its money.

The remarkable terroir sits nearly dead center between LA and Napa –– call it up on Google Earth to get a feel for the landscape. This is sweet turf, ranging from rolling pasture lands to low hills to mountains.

Widely divergent daily temperature swings aid in creating a unique terroir that has not gone unnoticed by wine makers: The AVA hosts 26,000 vineyard acres and more than 180 wineries.

With distinct microclimates, diverse soils and a long growing season, Paso Robles is a unique wine region blessed with growing conditions for producing premium and ultra premium wines. More than 40 wine grape varieties are grown in Paso Robles, ranging from Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, to Syrah, Viognier and Roussanne, to Zinfandel, the area’s heritage wine varietal.

Vina Robles’ wine maker capitalizes on the opportunity. As a wine

Tim’s restaurant hopping turns up intriguing and satisfying meals. He picks three experiences every week to share: drinker, I further capitalize on his skills Whether I’m sipping the velvety decadent Petite Syrah or Signature, a blend of Petit Verdot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah that smells of fresh dark fruit and spice, I know when I pull the cork on wine from Vina Robles that it will be a keeper.

One of their most quaffable wines (only behind the crisply fresh Rose, dubbed Roseum) is the blend labeled Red4.

With grapes drawn from California’s central coast, Red4 builds its formidable structure from Petite Sirah (53 percent) and showcases the spice and cherry qualities of Syrah (38 percent). Traces of Touriga and Tannat grapes add scents of violet and additional character.

This young wine is fresh and fruity with blackberry and ripe cherry.

I really want to draw your attention to its new partner, White4.

At a time of year when ABC zealots (Anything But Chardonnay) are abandoning grassy Sauvignon Blanc and flowery Pinot Grigio, White4 could fill the void.

Crafted with a predominance of Verdelho and Vermentino for beautiful stone fruit characteristics and sweetness, the wine delivers quite enough citrus and floral notes from a balance of Sauvignon Blanc and Viognier.

It’s a delicious refresher standing alone, but, like its Red4 cousin, shines admirably with food, in this case fish like grouper or halibut to shellfish and pasta dishes rich with butter or olive oil.

It’s an outstanding value at around $15, and wine you’ll return to time and again. cs

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• Watch for subtle menu changes and some reworks at Jazz’d Tapas Bar. • Chef Erik Thoreson from Sapphire Grill is filling in during Sunday brunch at Lulu’s Chocolate Bar. (Former Chef Troy Desjean recently moved to New York.) Brunch hours are 11 a.m.–3 p.m.

• On Saturday, Sept. 12, from 4–7 p.m. is the 7th annual Savannah International Food and Wine Festival uncorks at the Greek Orthodox Hellenic Center. More than 50 wines from around the world will complement signature dishes from some of Savannah’s finest restaurants. $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets are available at area package stores. For more information, a list of participating restaurants or to buy tickets online, go online to /savannahfoodwine.bbnow.org/. cs

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Bobby Lee Rodgers, Savannah’s multi–talented sep rock ‘n’ roll wunderkind, will make a special appearance with Atlanta’s blues–rocking Donna Hopkins Band at the Sept. 26 Tybee Island Americana Music Festival.

It’s a big ole bash on the Tybee Lighthouse grounds, starting at 6 p.m.

And dig this: It’s going to be wind– and solar–powered.

A portion of the proceeds will go to Friends of the Tybee Post Theater, a group that’s trying to restore the vintage movie theater on the island back to its World War II–era glory (read more about their efforts in Connect in just a few weeks).

Here’s the lineup for the Americana Music Festival: 6:20, 7:45 and 9:15 p.m., Dodd Ferrelle (from Savannah); 6:45 p.m., Packway Handle Band (Athens); 8 p.m., Boo Ray (Athens); 9:30 p.m. (until 11), The Donna Hopkins Band.

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Tickets go on sale Thursday, Sept. 10 for pianist Jim dec Brickman’s Dec. 11 date in the Johnny Mercer Theatre.

It’s Jimbo’s Beautiful World Christmas tour, with his trademark blend of solo, New Agey piano, band music with vocals and wacky humor. Tickets are $42 and $32 through etix.com Finger–picking guitar master Wayne Henderson will take the Pickin’ Parlor stage Sept. 26 at Randy Wood Guitars in Bloomingdale. Henderson is, like Randy Wood, one of the nation’s most respected luthiers (guitar makers) cs

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Dismantling racism Noted author holds book signing, workshop

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Rev. Joseph Barndt is a longtime soldier on the front lines of civil rights and a published author since the early ’70s.

Brought in town by the local nonprofit Interracial Interfaith Community, he’ll be on hand for a signing at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church (where he’ll give the sermon this Sunday as well) of his new book Understanding and Dismantling Racism and an anti–racism workshop at Armstrong Atlantic on Saturday afternoon.

His work is controversial in that his central premise — Barndt is white, by the way — is that all white people are inherently racist in the abstract sense, if not personally so, because whether they like it or not they benefit from an inherently racist system.

Have you tweaked your theories in the wake of the election of the first African American president?

Joseph Barndt: One of the ways that got answered was just last week when Attorney General Eric Holder announced the redefining of the Civil Rights Commission to its original purpose, to do systemic change. What that affirms is despite all the good and excellent changes in the last 50 years, including the possibility of individual elections and achievement as high as the presidency and the Supreme Court, that the systems that run this nation

— everything from law enforcement to retail and wholesale and health care — are still basically run by white people, mostly white men, and function to serve white people better than people of color. And that’s not a matter of accusing white people of being bigots, because the definition of racism I use is not individuals being bigoted, but rather systems that are distorting the weighting the structure of their service and power in favor of white people.

You say your goal is an “anti–racist” sociey. Yet you also say all white people are racist, not necessarily intentionally but because the system is designed to benefit them. In effect aren’t you really calling for an “anti–white” society?

Joseph Barndt: Not in that sense. It’s against the racialization of society and against the concept of a society being structured around race. So that means anti–white, anti–black, anti–Latino, anti–everything that says you’re identified by your race and served on the basis of your race. An anti–racist is not against white people — it’s against racism’s captivity of white people.

White people are as captive to racism as

people of color. It’s really interesting to note how many times Dr. King talked about that — that the warden is also a prisoner and that white people won’t be free until black people are free.

You maintain that the whole notion of “diversity” is something of a crock.

Joseph Barndt: Again it comes back to how you change systems, design and structure. How do you change the decision–making process so that a board of 20 people might have seven people of color, but the white people can still outvote them all the time? To me it’s the front line question: How does power get defined differently than who can outvote who? How do you be democratic without letting democracy maintain racism? cs Understanding and Dismantling Racism, sponsored by the Interracial Interfaith Community Joseph Barndt will speak and sign books Sept. 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 622 37th St. He holds a free workshop Sept. 12, 3–6 p.m. at University Hall at AASU. He will give the sermon Sunday Sept. 13 at Holy Spirit Lutheran, with services beginning at 11 a.m.

A Study in Transfers — Local artist/photographer displays 17 photos focusing on polaroid transfers. It will be the first exhibition in the newly renovated gallery, and the first of series of local artists exhibiting there through early next year.

Social Sciences Building Gallery @ Savannah State Adaptations of Equanimity — Savannah Artists Natalie von Loewenfeldt and Paul Scibilia join forces for a unique pairing of contrasting painting styles. Starlander Coffee Shop, 11 E. 41st St. Beyond Reconstitution 2009 — Morgan Santander’s paintings and giclees now through Oct. 1 at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Reception Thursday Sept. 24., 6-9 p.m.

Constructs and Inventions — The etchings of Erik Desmazieres. Jepson Center for the Arts.

Gallery 209 — Artist of the Month is Tal Willis. 209 E. River St. Gallery in City Market — The artists of The Gallery in the heart of City Market invite you Sat., Sept. 12, at 5 pm to meet and greet our two new artists: Bobby Bagley and Sue Nichols.

Going Against the Grain: Color on Wood — Exhibition by local veterinarian Buck Drummond, who utilizes natural wood forms as both canvas and design inspiration. Sept. 15–Nov. 7 at Smitten Studio with opening reception Sept. 24 6-9 p.m.

Smitten is at 345 Abercorn Street.

International Aerospace Art Exhibit — Over 50 paintings by artists from around the world who specialize in aerospace subjects. Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Ave., Pooler Knot By Chance — Weaver and bead artist Carrol Kay creates delicate, handmade wearable art that incorporates a variety of styles. Her work will be featured all month. Gallery 209, 209 E. River St. Melange D’Art Select: Recent Aquisitions at the SCAD Museum of Art — A new exhibit featuring a selection of newly acquired items at the museum, including new and vintage couture from several legendary designers as well as paintings by Surrealist Joan Miro and pop artist Jim Dine, among others. SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, New Artist Reception — The Gallery at City Market holds an opening reception for its two newest artists, Bobby Bagley and Sue Nichols.

Bobby Bagley’s oil paintings depict scenes of southern life using rich color and pattern. Sue Nichols’ vibrantly colored and textured oils depict the southern landscape.

Sept. 12 @ 5pm.

Noteworthy Art — A fundraiser for the Savannah Folk Music Society. Local artists transform Gretsch Guitars into individual works of art.

They will be on display for the whole month of September, then auctioned during the two festival events: Friday, Oct. 9, in City Market (7–11 PM) and Sunday, Oct. 11 in Grayson Stadium (2–7:30 PM). Lobby Gallery, City Market

Printmaking Exhibition — Recent work on display from artists Jen Jenkin and Nicholas Silberg. Opening reception is 9/17 from 79pm with Markus Kuhlmann of the Trainwrecks providing music. Lulu’s Chocolate Bar, MLK Jr. Blvd.

Small Works/Big Talent — Month-long exhibit featuring fourteen artists from The Gallery presenting small works in a variety of media: oil, acrylic, watercolor, printmaking, and mixed media collage. The Gallery at City Market Stacey Brown: Shards — New, Savannah-inspired works by Atlanta artist Stacey Brown. Brown’s unique technique includes painting glass, shattering it, then reconstructing the pieces into strong, colorful compositions. His work has been featured in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Decor Magazine, and on BET. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. Stained Glass: Beyond the Traditional — Glass artist Erica Rollings exhibits over 50 glass panels showcasing anatomical and botanical themes, game boards and more. S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, 9 W. Heny St. Walter MacEwen: An American Expatriate Revisited — Through Oct. 10 at

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Inglourious Basterds Once upon a time, Hollywood used to believe less in the adage “War Is Hell” and more in its own bastardization, “War Is Swell.” For over five decades, war was treated as a boys’ adventure story, with the occasional sobering drama (e.g. All Quiet on the Western Front) the odd film out among countless movies that made viewers take delight in the wartime exploits of our fighting men (The Dirty Dozen, The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, and on and on and on). The Vietnam War changed all that forever, with such titles as The Deer Hunter and Platoon putting a kibosh on matinee thrills and heralding in a new era of humorless (anti–)war flicks.

Even the World War II yarn, the most action–packed of all fightin’ film genres, has been forced to go down this path, resulting in works as varied as the superb Saving Private Ryan and the doddering Valkyrie.

If someone were to even think about making an old–school war film, complete with all the trimmings of fun and excitement and amazing feats of derring–do, it would immediately be shot down in today’s culture as being in poor taste.

Now here comes Quentin Tarantino, who not only thought about making such a film (he’s been thinking about it for at least a decade) but has followed through by actually bringing his vision to the big screen. And for all its freewheeling exploits and liberties with historical veracity, Inglourious Basterds is most decidedly not an exercise in poor taste or moral decay or what–have–you, but instead a celebration of film as its own entity, beholden to nothing but its own creative impulses. And by playing loose with history, it even provides a catharsis of sorts, the likes of which past WWII tales have never even attempted (not even Marvel Comics’ wild and woolly series Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos).

One would be correct in assuming that Inglourious Basterds is a remake of 1978’s international production Inglorious Bastards, but except for the similar title, the films have nothing in common. The joke is that Tarantino’s film isn’t even primarily about the Basterds; their significance as a fighting unit is so minimal that we never learn all their names, see each one’s special skills or even know (unless

you’re sharp–eyed during the long shots) the total number of soldiers.

Rather, Tarantino pulls his story this way and that, to the point that marquee star Brad Pitt, as Basterds leader Aldo Raine, is MIA for long stretches at a time.

In screen minutes, I would venture to guess that he places third under Melanie Laurent as Shosanna, the lone survivor of a massacre that left her family members dead, and Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa, the so–called “Jew hunter” responsible for the aforementioned slaughter. Pitt is fun to watch as he slurs his words all over the theater as the Basterds’ Southern–fried top dog, but it’s no great loss relegating him to the show position, with Waltz and Laurent occupying the win and place positions respectively. Waltz is especially memorable as the silky, brainy Landa; it’s easy to see why he won a Best Actor award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Tarantino has long considered Howard Hawks (Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday) one of this country’s greatest directors (I won’t argue with that assertion), and like Hawks, he has a special appreciation for the beauty and power of dialogue. Inglourious Basterds is more talk than action, which means many will doubtless be disappointed by the final product (by Tarantino standards, it’s not nearly as gruesome as one might imagine, one baseball–bat–to–the–head sequence notwithstanding). But Tarantino has always been a master of the written word, and the two talkiest segments here –– one set on a farm, one in a cellar –– are simply mesmerizing, with the suspense mounting with every spoken utterance.

Tarantino also continues to be as big a film fan as he is a film-

maker, and the movie is marinated in an unequivocal admiration for cinema. Dimitri Tiomkin’s theme music from The Alamo (“The Green Leaves of Summer”) opens the picture with suitable fanfare, while David Bowie’s theme song from the Cat People remake figures in a surprising music video–like scene. One character ends up owning a movie theater (which serves as a climactic setting) while another major player, a heroic British officer (Michael Fassbinder), reveals that he was a film critic before the war broke out. There are even shout–outs to Hawks’ Sergeant York and director G.W. Pabst, among others.

For all its attributes, Tarantino does make a couple of serious miscalculations. The stunt casting –– exploitation director Eli Roth as Raines’ right–hand man, Mike Myers as a British officer –– doesn’t work at all. And after 2–1/2 hours of leisurely storytelling, the ending feels disappointingly rushed, the sort of abrupt conclusion sure to leave a bad taste in the mouths of countless moviegoers. Truth be told, another half–hour wouldn’t have damaged Inglourious Basterds; it moves so quickly anyway that it’s (to quote a famous line about another movie) “history written with lightning” –– even if these particular chapters exist only in Quentin Tarantino’s feverish imagination.

Taking Woodstock A major disappointment from director Ang Lee, Taking Woodstock purports to tell the true story of how the legendary youth festival came together in time for a few blissful days of peace and music during the summer of ’69.

Forget, for a moment, that Michael

Time Traveler’s Wife Movies involving time travel are so difficult to script that it’s a wonder anybody even bothers to make them. Good

ones like Back to the Future are calibrated well enough to allow audiences to understand and accept the ripples in the space–time continuum, but most trip over themselves as the filmmakers try to establish knotty rules they hope won’t leave audiences so immersed in untangling the hows and whys that they forget to involve themselves in the characters and events. I suspect that many crucial details found in Audrey Niffenegger’s best–selling novel failed to make it into Bruce Joel Rubin’s script, meaning that some nagging questions –– combined with Robert Schwentke’s aloof direction –– frequently keep us at arm’s length. Nevertheless, Eric Bana as the man who travels back and forth through time and especially Rachel McAdams as the long–suffering woman who loves him bring enough heat to this up–and–down affair that it qualifies as an agreeable timefiller but not much more.

PONYO Compared to past Hayao Miyazaki titles like Castle in the Sky and the Oscar–winning Spirited Away, the Japanese import Ponyo is minor–league stuff. But compared to the animated garbage that typically passes through stateside theaters, it’s practically a godsend. This tale about a goldfish (voiced

by Noah Cyrus) who longs to be human is a bit on the elementary side, and the translated dialogue (shaped by E.T. scribe Melissa Mathison) isn’t up to snuff for a Miyazaki feature. But as always, Miyazaki fills the screen with so many wondrous images that viewers are immediately swept up in his fantastic universe. Tina Fey, Matt Damon and Cate Blanchett are among the name actors voicing various characters, although I was especially fascinated by the nautical wizard who spoke with the voice of Liam Neeson but looked less like Schindler and more like David Bowie in his Labyrinth garb.

District 9 District 9 is Independence Day for the art–house set. And although it’s already being hailed in many quarters as a model of originality, the truth of the matter is that the film follows genre conventions just as often as it heads off in its own direction. Like Independence Day, it treats the cinema of science fiction as its own buffet table, picking and continues on p. 36

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Wadleigh’s Oscar–winning 1970 documentary Woodstock basically functions as the beginning, middle and end of the event’s filmic chronicle; on its own terms, Taking Woodstock is a dramatically shaky work, misguided in some spots and misleading in others.

Lacking the narrative clarity of Almost Famous and the visual ecstasy of Across the Universe, Taking Woodstock rarely comes into focus on any level. At its center is the dull character of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), a New Yorker who’s trying to help his parents (Imelda Staunton and Henry Goodman) save their ramshackle motel at the same time he learns about an upcoming music festival that’s just been banned by a neighboring town. Working in sync with the concert’s promoters as well as a neighboring farmer (Eugene Levy) with plenty of prime real estate on which to host a major event, Elliot makes the prospect of the “Woodstock Music & Art Fair” a reality. But first, there are myriad problems to confront, including disapproving townsfolk, building codes, a sudden influx of hippies (lots of hippies), and, perhaps most harrowing of all, a mother whose behavior is overbearing at best and monstrous at worst.

Staunton’s generally a hoot when she’s in ham mode, but she tests viewer patience here with a performance as an abrasive Jewish mom that borders on caricature. She’s hardly alone with her “off ” performance, though: Martin never makes Elliot an interesting protagonist, while Emile Hirsch grows tiresome as a hyperactive Vietnam vet.

Faring best by far is Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff, who in his film debut plays beatific festival organizer Michael Lang with the right mix of savvy and sensitivity.

The screenplay by Lee’s frequent collaborator James Schamus fails to follow through on many plot threads. It took me half the movie to be certain that Elliot is gay, and the scenes in which that’s established are timidly presented –– a curious stance coming from the guys who made Brokeback Mountain.

Other storylines are similarly introduced and then abandoned, meaning that while many of the characters are getting satisfactorily high, audiences are unfortunately left with a movie that’s only half-baked. cs

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A private company named Multi–National United is hired to take care of the migration, but it’s more interested in discovering how all that complicated alien weaponry works. It’s left to a corporate wonk named Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley) to go shack to shack and get the indignant e.t.’s to move, and it’s during his field work that an unexpected incident forces him to partner –– if perhaps only temporarily –– with these illegal aliens.

The specter of apartheid is never far removed from the actions occurring throughout District 9, but writer–director Neill Blomkamp and co–scripter Terri Tatchell never turn this into a heavy–handed screed. Instead, they approach the issues of racism and xenophobia mindful of their knotty ramifications. The blacks in the picture are as prejudiced against the “prawns” as much as the Afrikaners were as prejudiced against the blacks during the days of apartheid, aptly demonstrating how those without power will often lash out against others they view as even weaker rather than band together in an effort to topple the ruling class.

And while Wikus might be an unlikely movie protagonist, he’s a believably flawed Everyman, accepting the casual bigotry that defines him but never really exploring its cancerous effect until it’s almost too late.

Imagination runs a bit short toward the end, as District 9 largely turns into a standard chase thriller and viewers are asked to swallow a bit more than even their disbelief–suspending minds might accept. But in a nice twist from the standard Hollywood blockbuster, this Australian import employs its special effects to save the day rather

than ruin it, using superb CGI wizardry (from the same outfit that brought us The Lord of the Rings) to draw us into the final battles instead of relying on obvious fakery to distance us from the proceedings. Over 200 people are listed in the credits as having worked on the film’s effects, and while this may not match Old Hollywood’s proverbial “cast of thousands” on the other side of the camera, it is reassuring to see all these artists plying their trade on something so worthwhile.

G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA Certainly, the fact that Paramount Pictures didn’t screen G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra in advance for critics prevented the nation’s scribes from weighing in on the merits of the last of the summer ‘09 blockbusters on opening day. Yet while it’s accepted that Paramount kept the movie quarantined from the legitimate press (some whorish fanboy bloggers were allowed to screen it early and predictably reacted like 14–year–olds discovering porn) because the studio suits themselves knew that the film stunk on ice, I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt. I believe they kept it from the critics as an act of mercy.,Of course, the studio’s benevolent gesture was in vain, since several critics felt it their patriotic duty to check it out anyway. This is the second film this summer to be based on a line of Hasbro toys, and the good news is that it’s better than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Of course, then comes the sobering afterthought: Pretty much every movie this summer has been better than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. At any rate, this isn’t G.I. Joe so much as it’s C.G.I. Joe, a nonstop orgy of computer imagery and pretty much what we’d expect from the director of the execrable Van Helsing and two dopey Mummy movies. Tatum Channing, certainly more plastic than any of the G.I. Joe action figures I owned as a child, plays Duke, a dedicated soldier who, along with best bud Ripcord (Marlon Wayans), joins the elite commando squad in order to help take down a megalomaniac (Christopher Eccleston) bent on ruling the world. Duke’s particularly perturbed because his former girlfriend Ana (Sienna Miller) is now an enemy agent, but both actors are so dull that they seem to have wandered in straight from the set of a soap opera. Wayans tries to provide some pep, but because his contract specifically states that the actor receive the lion’s share of the script’s

Julie & Julia No question about it: Nora Ephron gets a bum rap from both critics and moviegoers, who often disparage her as if she were Hollywood’s female equivalent of Michael Bay (and Bay at least has the sizable fanboy demographic in his corner). Certainly, she deserves a lot of heat for foisting such turkeys as Mixed Nuts, Lucky Numbers and that lamentable big–screen Bewitched on our unprotected heads, but geez, let’s not forget that she’s also the writer of such accomplished pictures as Silkwood and When Harry Met Sally... Of course, it can be argued that all of her best work is well over a decade old, and what has she done for us lately?Julie & Julia, that’s what she’s done. Working overtime as writer, director and producer, Ephron has taken a pair of books –– My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme, and Julie & Julia, by Julie Powell –– and combined them into one irresistible motion picture.

It’s a film that rises two stories, on one hand focusing on the legendary Julia Child (Meryl Streep) as she begins her journey toward becoming one of America’s greatest chefs, and on the other following Julie Powell (Amy Adams) as her idea for a blog –– cook all 524 recipes in Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 365 days –– eventually leads to fame and fortune.

The Julia Child segments of the film are magnificent. As the towering, exuberant Child, Streep delivers another astonishing performance, never lapsing into

mere caricature but steadfastly making sure to capture all facets of the woman’s personality. The movie is so reverential toward Child –– and Child herself is easily able to laugh at her own flaws –– that when a clip of Dan Aykroyd parodying Child on Saturday Night Live is shown being watched by Julie and her husband (Chris Messina), it actually takes on the stance of a homage rather than a spoof.

The best parts of the Child sequences focus on the marriage between Julia and her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci, reuniting with Streep on the high heels of The Devil Wears Prada). A mild–mannered diplomat, Paul encourages and supports Julia’s culinary aspirations and is always happy to remain out of the spotlight even as his wife’s fame takes hold. Movies aren’t normally where we turn to watch happily married couples in action, but the Julia–Paul relationship is one of the most blissful seen in years, and Streep and Tucci dance through their interpretations with the grace and ease of an Astaire–Rogers routine.

When compared to the Julia Child portions, the Julie Powell chapters aren’t nearly as compelling, but they’re far from the drag that others have suggested. Admittedly, the more I read about Powell, the less I like her (she seems like little more than a publicity hound with some highly dubious notions on how to advance her career), but at the time when I had screened the movie, I knew next to nothing about her, and it seems unfair to penalize the portrayal after the fact. So within the context of the picture, Julie’s tale is charming, and it’s aided immeasurably by Adams’ typically likable performance in the role.

Two–time Oscar nominee Stephen Goldblatt (Batman Forever) was brought on board to shoot the picture, and while most of the film looks good, it can be assumed that the photography of the food probably took precedence even over the actors. As in Babette’s Feast, Eat Drink Man Woman and Big Night (another foodie flick with Tucci), the camera gazes so lovingly on each prepared dish (even the burnt ones!) that it’s virtually impossible to exit the theater without wanting to head immediately to a gourmet restaurant.

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truly atrocious lines, he’s rendered ineffectual every time he opens his mouth.

Nobody’s going to this film looking for quality acting, which makes the presence of several capable performers all the more perfunctory: Among those cashing checks are Dennis Quaid as the heroes’ commanding officer and Jonathan Pryce as an ineffectual U.S. president. But those who claim that action yarns don’t even need sound actors or competent direction or compelling storylines are either not thinking or have become too shell–shocked to note the obvious differences between, say, Van Helsing and The Dark Knight, between Transformers: ROTF and District 9. Yes, there are a few rousing set–pieces in G.I. Joe, but for the most part, the action is unfocused, the effects are iffy, and the thrills are fleeting.

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Coastal Democrats

Drinking Liberally

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

League of Women Voters

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

National Council of Negro Women

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

Planned Parenthood

meets the second Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Heather Holloway, 352-4052 or heather.holloway@ppfa.org. The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. , Savannah http://www.sentientbean.com

Progressive Action for Savannah

Group interested in progressive politics in Savannah. If you’re interested in joining the cause, contact Claudia Collier 912-748-0731 or ccollier376@yahoo.com.

Purrs 4 Peace

Three minutes of simultaneous purring by cats (and honorary cats) around the world, conducted online (Facebook & Twitter) each Sunday by Sa-

Benefits Dinner, live entertainment, a silent auction and the popular “Dancing with the Docs” competition. Local physicians have agreed to dance and compete to help raise money for The Coastal Empire R.O.C.K. (Raising Our Children Kindly) Group. R.O.C.K. is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse through volunteer, communitybased programs and public awareness activities.

October 17. Savannah Marriott Riverfront, http://www.coastalrockgroup.com/

All-Day Shag-a-thon

The Savannah Shag Club is having an all day dance and party October 10 from 11am-midnight. This is a celebration of 21 years of shagging in Savannah. Music will be by a host of DJ’s.

A dance workshop will be held and 2 meals will be served. Safe Shelter of Savannah will be the beneficiary of the money raised by this event.

Visit the website or call for more info. American Legion Post 135, http://www.savannahshagclub. com/

Home and Heart Warming Program

The United Way of the Coastal Empire is taking applications for this Atlanta Gas Light Co. program. United Way was given a grant to be used to help low-income homeowners with free repair or replacement of gas appliances, such as hot water heaters, furnaces, space heaters and stoves. Qualified customers also can apply for free weatherization of their homes. The program is open to residents of Chatham, Bryan, Effingham, Liberty and Glynn counties. Call 6517730. United Way of Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St , Savannah http://www.uwce.org/

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4700 E. Hwy 80 Whitemarsh Island • Pizzeria: 897.1938 • Tavern: 879.2715 Visit us on the web at www.sicilianospizza.com

Hope House of Savannah

A nonprofit housing program for homeless women and their children. Hope House is requesting donation of new or gently used furniture for its transitional housing program, Peeler House. Pick-up can be arranged and a tax deductible letter will be provided. Call 236-5310.

Items for Silent Auction

Coastal Pet Rescue is looking for items to include in it’s Yappy Hour Blue Jeans Ball on November 14. Please contact Erika@coastalpetrescue.org if you have an item or gift certificate to donate.

Operation Christmas Child

The group encourages volunteers to fill simple shoe box gifts with toys, necessity items, school supplies, candy and often hand-written notes of encouragement. The gifts are then hand-delivered to children worldwide who are suffering because of natural disaster, disease, war, terrorism, famine and poverty. http://www. samaritanspurse.org/

Sugar Refinery Family Support Fund

Donations can be made to the United Way of the Coastal Empire. All proceeds will go to affected victims and their families. Credit-card donations may be made calling 651-7701, and checks and money orders made payable to the United Way of the Coastal Empire, with “Sugar Refinery Family Support Fund” written in the memo line, can be mailed to: United Way of the Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St., Savannah, 31401. United Way of Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St , Savannah http://www.uwce. org/

Call for Entries Busy Woman of the Year Award

In 250 words of less, say why your nominee should be given this award. Nominations can be submitted online at www.verveffect.com/busywoman or by mail at 648 Henry St., Savannah, 31401. For info, visit Savannah.EveryBusyWoman.com.

Creative Flag Design Competition

Artists will be able to choose a specific art period on which to base their designs. Materials will be provided, or you may provide your own.

Maximum 2 entries per artist. Deadline for submissions is September 14th. Winners will be announced September 18th. Cash prizes.

Horizon Gallery, 206 E. Bay St. ,

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Home and Heart Warming Program

The United Way of the Coastal Empire is taking applications for this Atlanta Gas Light Co. program. United Way was given a grant to be used to help low-income homeowners with free repair or replacement of gas appliances, such as hot water heaters, furnaces, space heaters and stoves. Qualified customers also can apply for free weatherization of their homes. The program is open to residents of Chatham, Bryan, Effingham, Liberty and Glynn counties. Call 651-7730.

Juried Exhibit: Show and Tell

Desotorow Gallery seeks submissions for a juried exhibition that explores the use of narrative in a variety of media. Submission deadline: 10/09/09. Email info@desotorow.org for more info.

Register for the Savannah Bridge Run

The Enmark Savannah River Bridge Run is an annual event attracting thousands of participants, race enthusiasts and fun-seekers from Savannah, the Lowcountry and across the U.S. each year. Cost of registration includes a t-shirt and refreshments. Participants cannot register on the day of the race. http://www.SavannahRiverBridgeRun.com/

Vendors Wanted

The St. Francis Cabrini Church is holding its Annual Fall Festival on Saturday, Sept. 19. They are looking for people interested in selling crafts and treasures during their Craft Sale. Tables are available for $30, and a limited number of covered booths are available for $45. Call 912925-4725 to reserve a spot. St. Frances Cabrini Church, 11500 Middleground Road ,

Classes, Camps & Workshops AASU Flex-Term Courses

Allows students to complete under-grad and grad level courses in 7 weeks. Term begins October 14. Application deadline for new and returning students is October 7. To apply and register visit Victor Hall on the AASU campus.

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Allows students to complete under-grad and grad level courses in 7 weeks. Term begins October 14. Application deadline for new and returning students is October 7. To apply and register visit Victor Hall on the AASU campus.

For further information, contact Brian Dawsey at 912-344-3098 or brian.dawsey@armstrong.edu http://www.armstrong.edu/

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 http://www. savstate.edu/

Adult Painting Classes

Savannah Art and Clay Studio offers classes in painting techniques with studies in light and shadow to understanding color, and more.

Carolyne Graham is the instructor. Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30 pm. 925-7393, carolynegraham@ yahoo.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

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Artist’s Way Workshop

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/

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Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced at Bead Dreamer Studio, 407A E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 920-6659. Bead Dreamer Studio, Savannah http://www.beaddreamer.com/

Children’s Art Classes

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

Coastal Non-Profit Professionals Meeting This short program will provide information on services available to help local non-profits, and will be a preview to other topics that will be discussed at an event the following week.

Happy hour pricing on cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres will be available. Sept. 16, 4:306:30pm. Billy’s Place, Above McDonough’s , http://www.gcn.org/

Construction Apprentice Program

Free 16-week training program for men and women interested in gaining construction skills for career level jobs in construction. Earn a technical certificate of credit with no cost for trainingk, books or tools. To apply, call Tara H. Sinclair at 604-9574.

Conversational Spanish

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

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

Savannah

Free swimming lessons

The Savannah Storm Swim Team is giving free swim lessons to any child between the ages 7 to 18. An adult must accompany any child or children under 10. Send e-mail with contact info to: thesavannahstorm@gmail. com.

Garbage, Goo, Recycling and YOU

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

Georgetown Playgroup

Meet the first and third Thursday of the month from 9:30-11am at the Northside clubhouse in Georgetown. Free.

German Language Classes

Two ongoing classes for beginners and experienced adults. We read, learn and talk.

Everybody who likes to learn German or likes to brush up German is welcome and will learn with a lot of fun. Beginners meet on Monday from 6-7pm, advanced from 7-8pm. 845-7647045. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave ,

Get Clients Now!

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 912-2363660. International Center for Leadership & Coaching, 236-3660 , Savannah http://www. internationalcoach.org/

Grant Writing Workshop

Learn how to turn organizational needs into fundable ideas and then present them in competitive proposals to foundations, government agencies and corporations. Topics will include locating sources, organizing information, identifying funders’ needs, and much more. Recommended for those with minimal experience in writing proposals. For more information at 234-9688 or jyawn@gcn.org.

Sept. 16. United Way Building, 428 Bull St , http://www.gcn.org/

Housing Authority of Savannah Classes

Free classes will be offered at the Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. Some classes are on-going. Adult Literacy is offered every Monday and Wednesday from 4-6 p.m. Homework Help is offered every Tuesday and Thursday from 3-4:30 p.m. The Community Computer Lab is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

GED/adult literacy education is being offered Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon or 1-4 p.m.

Learn Spanish

Classes are on Tues and Thurs every week.

Call for more info. Savannah Learning Center, 7160 Hodgson Memorial Dr. ,

Youth art classes and private lessons both after school and on the weekends. 14-week fall class schedule starts September 14 and is open to students ages 5-12. Class fees include instruction and all materials and tools required. Advance registration is encouraged.

For more info, contact Asa: www.asachibas. com/art.html or (917)439-1401.

Happy HouR Mon–Sat 4pm–8pm $2.50 house liquor – $2.50 house wine $2.50 dom. bottles – $1 16oz. dom. draughts $1 off micro & imported draughts

mon sep 14 – 7pm, FREE

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Mixed Media/Collage Workshop

ChupaCabra featuring Ted bowne & will Kubley of passafire .75¢ Yuengling draft 4-9pm

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Oatland Island Wildlife Center

thurs sep 10 – 8:30pm, FREE

tues sep 15 – 8pm, FREE

Open to the public. Facilitated by Zora Delburn. Fridays @ 3-6pm. nineonetwo art space.

114 E. 40th. http://www.nineonetwo.org/ 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/

Open Studio Process Group

A directed art process lead by Karen Abato designed to increase self-awareness. Open to the public. Thursdays from 7-8:30pm. nineonetwo art space. 114 E. 40th St. http://www. nineonetwo.org/

Porcelain Painting

Ongoing beginner, intermediate and advanced 4-day class. $250 includes supplies, brushes, porcelain and firing of art. 706-4956724, www.GaSeminarsbytheSea.com. Internationally renowned teachers. Tybee Island, Tybee Island , Tybee Island

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Puppet Shows

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

Registration for Virtual Middle School Classes

Middle school students can now register for online, fall quarter, core academic and elective courses through the Georgia Virtual School division of the state Department of Education. Courses for enrichment, remediation, or acceleration are 9 weeks in length. http://www.gavirtualschool.org/

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Learn what meditation is, a few simple meditation techniques, and how to use meditation in daily life to decrease stress and increase peace of mind with teacher Gen Mondrub. The Yoga Co-Op, 2424 Drayton St. , http://www. yogacoopsavannah.com/

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Meditation 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

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Performing Arts Classes

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Savannah Conservatory for the Performing Arts

Watercolor Painting Workshops

Registration is now open for the Fall series of workshops. visual arts sessions include ceramics, printmaking, fibers, metalsmithing, painting and more. Performing arts sessions include playwriting, acting, special effects make-up and more. For info vist www.savannahga.gov/arts or call 912-651-6783 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, 9 W. Heny St. ,

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/

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

Learn the art of watercolor painting from award winning landscape watercolorist Dennis Roth. Classes available Sept - Dec. Call for info. Class size is small, so reserve space early. Studio Phase 3, City Market , http:// studiophase3.com/

Offering a variety of business classes. Call 652-3582. Savannah Entrepreneurial Center, 801 E. Gwinnett Street , Savannah

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Savannah Learning Center Spanish Classes

Be bilingual. Call 272-4579 or 308-3561. email 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

Sewing classes

Fabrika offers several sewing classes including intro to sewing, garment construction, quilting and several special topics classes.

Classes scheduled weekly! Call for more info.

236-1122 140 Abercorn street , savannah http://fabrikaofsavannah.wordpress.com/

Starfish Cafe Culinary Arts Training Program

This 12-week full-time program is designed to provide work training and employment opportunities in the food service industry, including food preparation, food safety and sanitation training, customer service training and job search and placement assistance. Call Mindy Saunders at 234-0525. The Starfish Cafe, 711 East Broad Street , Savannah http:// www.thestarfishcafe.org/

The Art of Clay

Classes in pottery and sculpting will start this fall. Call Carolyn Graham for more info: 912-925-7393

Clubs & Organizations Every Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Half of the proceeds of a 50/50 drawing go to the military for phone cards and other items. The Red Zone Bar and Grill, 3975 Highway 17 , Richmond Hill

Buccaneer Region SCCA

is the local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America. It hosts monthly solo/autocross driving events in the Savannah area. Anyone with a safe car, insurance and a valid driver’s license is eligible to participate. Visit http:// buccaneerregion.org/solo.html.

Chihuahua Club of Savannah

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

Civil Air Patrol

Aerospace education programs and activities for adults and teens ages 12-18. Meets every Thursday from 7-9 p.m. Visit www.gawg.cap. gov, send e-mail to N303WR@aol.com, or call Capt. Jim Phillips at 412-4410. Savannah Flying Tiger Composite Squadron, Savannah International Airport , Savannah

Clean Coast

Meets monthly on the first Monday. Visit www.cleancoast.org for event schedule. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www.savj.org/

MOROCCAN RESTAURANT & BAZAAR

Voted Best Exotic Restaurant 2006 Also voted Best International Ethnic Cuisine 2002

by Savannah Morning News Delicious Moroccan Cuisine! Authentic ceremonial atmosphere!

Belly dancing shows nightly! Fun & memorable dining experience!

We specialize in birthday parties!

234-6168 118 East Broughton St. Downtown Savannah Reservations Suggested. 5:30 to 10:30pm nightly www.casbahrestaurant.com

Old Time Radio Researcher’s Group

Coffee & Conversation

Philosophy Reading Group

Local MINI Cooper owners and enthusiasts who gather on the first Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. to go on motoring adventures together. Visit coastalminis.com. Starbucks, Victory Drive and Skidaway Road , Savannah Held every Tuesday at 8am by Creative Coast as a networking event. http://links.thecreativecoast.org/conversation. Cafe Ambrosia, 202 E. Broughton St. , Savannah

Derby Devil Jeerleaders

Do you like roller derby? Want to wear fun costumes and cheer for your team? Enjoy all the punk rock roller derby attitude without the threat of injury and support our local rollergirls as part of the Jeerleader Squad.

Email fromamonkey@yahoo.com for more info. http://www.savannahderby.com/

Fibers Guild

Meets on the second Saturday of the month to explore techniques and creative aspects of fiber arts, including weaving, spinning, knitting, crochet and more. Call 355-2985 or 927-8706 for info.

Fibers Guild

Meets on the second Saturday of the month to explore techniques and creative aspects of fiber arts, including weaving, spinning, knitting, crochet and more. Call 355-2985 or 927-8706 for info.

Geechee Sailing Club

Meets the second Monday of the month (except for November) at 6:30pm. Open to all interested in boating and related activities. www.geecheesailingclub.org. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr ,

Historic Savannah Chapter of ABWA

Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6-7:30 p.m. The cost is the price of the meal. RSVP to 660-8257. Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Dr , Thunderbolt

Historic Victorian Neighborhood Association

Meets the second Wed. of every month at 6:30 p.m. Call 236-8546. American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. , Savannah

Low Country Turners

This is a club for wood-turning enthusiasts.

Call Hank Weisman at 786-6953.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary

Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1 p.m. Call 786-4508. American Legion Post 184, 1 Legion Dr. , Savannah

Monthly USGBC Meeting

On Sept. 22 David Pope and Catherine Wannamaker of the Southern Environmental Law Center will speak to the Savannah chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council about “Protecting Coastal Treasures.” They will discuss the unique and important resources on the Georgia coast, the threats those resources face, and what SELC is doing to protect them.

Free, but RSVP by Sept. 18. Wild Wing Cafe, http://www.usgbcga.org/

Moon River Chorus

Ladies’ barbershop chorus. Rehearsals are Thursdays from 7-9 p.m. Visitors are welcome. Call Sylvia at 927-2651 or sylviapf@ aol.com. Whitefield United Methodist Church, 728 E. 55th Street , Savannah http://www. whitefieldumc.com/

Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS)

Join other moms for fun, inspiration, guest speakers, food and creative activities while children ages birth to 5 are cared for in a preschool-like setting. Meets the second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 9:1511:30 am Call 898-8316 or 898-5086 or visit www.mops.org. First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd , Savannah http://www.fbcislands.com/

International fan and research group devoted to preserving and distributing old-time radio broadcasts from 1926 to 1962. Send e-mail to Jim Beshires at beshiresjim@yahoo.com or visit www.otrr.org.

This group will focus on various philosophical themes and texts, culminating in facilitated discussions with an open exchange of ideas within a community of inquiry. Meeting locations will change to reflect the current issue. Contact Kristina at 407-443-1571 or ktina697@hotmail.com.

Richmond Hill Roadies Running Club

A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America. For a nominal annual fee, members will receive monthly training sessions and seminars and have weekly runs of various distances. Kathy Ackerman,756-5865 or Billy Tomlinson 596-5965.

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet twice a month, on the first Sunday at 4 pm. at 5429 LaRoche Ave and the third Tuesday at Chen’s Chinese Restaurant at 20 E. Derenne Ave. at 7:30 p.m.

Call 308-2094, email kasak@comcast.net or visit www.roguephoenix.org. Savannah

Savannah Adventure Club

Dedicated to pursuing adventures, both indoors and outdoors, throughout the Low country and beyond. Activities include sailing, camping, skydiving, kayaking, hiking, tennis, volleyball, and skiing, in addition to regular social gatherings. Free to join. Email savannahadventureclub@gmail.com or visit www. savannahadventureclub.com

Lunch Monday - Friday All New Southern Buffet 11:30 am - 3:00 pm Dinner 7 Days a Week 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Happy Hour Mon-Fri 5-7pm 307 E. President St. 912.236.7122 www.17hundred90.com

Savannah Area Landlord & Real Estate Investors Association

Learn to be a real estate investor or landlord.

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

Savannah Area Sacred Harp Singers

The public is invited to come and sing early American music and folk hymns from the shape note tradition. This non-denominational community musical activity emphasizes participation, not performance. Songs are from The Sacred Harp, an oblong songbook first published in 1844. Call 655-0994.

Savannah Art Association

Enjoy classes, informal “playshops” and shows on River Street and area businesses.

Now accepting applications for new members.

232-7731. . Senior Citizens Inc., 3025 Bull St. , Savannah

Savannah Brewers’ League

Meets the first Wednesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. Call 447-0943 or visit www.hdb.org and click on Clubs, then Savannah Brewers League. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 W. Bay St. , Savannah

Savannah Browns Backers

This is an official fan club recognized by the Cleveland Browns NFL football team. Meet with Browns fans to watch the football games and support your favorite team Sundays at game time at Tubby’s Tank House in Thunderbolt. The group holds raffles and trips and is looking into having tailgate parties in the future. Call Kathy Dust at 373-5571 or send e-mail to KMDUST4@hotmail.com or Dave Armstrong at Darmst0817@comcast.net or 925-4709. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr , Thunderbolt

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Savannah Fencing Club

TriUnity Opportunity Meeting

A dinner meeting held the fourth Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6 p.m. at the Hunter Club. Call John Findeis at 748-7020.

Hunter Army Airfield, 525 Leonard Neat St , Savannah http://www.stewart.army.mil/ Beginner classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. Fees are $40. Some equipment is provided. After completing the class, you may become a member of the Savannah Fencing Club for $5 per month. Experienced fencers are welcome to join. Call 429-6918 or send email to savannahfencing@aol.com.

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Savannah Jaycees

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

Call 961-9913 or visit www.savannahjaycees. com. Jaycee Building, 101 Atlas St. , Savannah

Savannah Newcomers Club

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Open to all women who have been in the Savannah area for less than two years. Membership includes a monthly luncheon and program and, in addition, the club hosts a variety of activities, tours and events that will assist you in learning about Savannah and making new friends. Call 351-3171.

Savannah Parrot Head Club

Love a laid-back lifestyle? Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check out savannahphc.com for the events calendar or e-mail mickie_ragsdale@ comcast.net.

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

Meets Thursdays from 7:30-8:30 a.m. at the First City Club. 32 Bull St , Savannah http://www. firstcityclub.com/

Savannah Toastmasters

helps you improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment on Mondays at 6:15 p.m. at Memorial Health University Medical Center, Conference Room C. 352-1935. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http:// www.memorialhealth.com/

Savannah Wine Lovers

A sometimes formal group that also sometimes just gets together to drink wine. Visit http:// groups.google.com/group/savannah-wine-lovers.

Savannah Writers Network

meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 7pm at Books a Million to discuss, share and critique writing of fiction or non-fiction novels, essays or short stories. A meet-and-greet precedes the meeting at 6:30pm. Melissa Sanso, 441-0030.

8108 Abercorn St , Savannah

Southern Wings

Local chapter of Women in Aviation International. It is open to men and women in the region who are interested in supporting women in aviation. Regular meetings are held once a month and new members are welcome. Visit http://southernwingswai.com.

Stitch-N’s

Knitting, spinning and crocheting Monday and Tuesday from 5-8pm and occasional Sunday 24pm at wild fibre, 409 E. Liberty. Jennifer Harey, 238-0514. wild fibre, 409 E. Liberty , Savannah

Sweet Adeline Chorus

rehearses weekly on Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. in St. Joseph’s Hopsital’s meeting rooms.

Contact vicky.mckinley1@comcast.net. Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Tarde en Espanol

Meets the last Wednesday orf every month at 6:30pm in different locations to practice spoken Spanish in a casual environment. 236-8566.

The Cinemophiles

An eclectic bunch that enjoys all kinds of movies. Visit http://groups.google.com/group/cinemophiles.

A club for enthusiasts of electronic music and instruments, including the theremin, synths, Mooger Foogers, jam sessions, playing techniques, compositions, gigs, etc. Philip Neidlinger, theremin@neidlinger.us. meets the first and third Thursdays of each month at 7 p.m. at the Best Western at I-95 and 204. Learn how to start a business from home.

Free. Ask for Chris and Sandy Benton. Best Western, I-95 and Highway 204 , Savannah

Tybee Performing Arts Society

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

Urban Professionals

Meets first Fridays at 7:30 p.m. at Vu at the Hyatt on Bay Street. If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right. Call 272-9830 or send e-mail to spannangela@hotmail.com. 2 W. Bay St. , Savannah

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671 Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 9273356. Savannah

Want to make friends in Savannah?

We chat, play games, have fun and do what the group wishes to do. Led by a well educated, experienced woman. Meetings will be held in a coffee shop Downtown Savannah, GA. For more information please call (845) 764 7045 or e-mail: ifly6000@aol.com

Dance Adult Intermediate Ballet

Mondays & Wednesdays, 7 - 8pm, $12 per class or 8 classes for $90. Class meets year round.

(912) 921-2190 The Academy of Dance, 74 West Montgomery Crossroads ,

African Dance & Drum

Learn the rhythms of West Africa with instructor Aisha Rivers. Classes are held every Sunday - drums at 4pm, dance at 5pm Rhythms of West Africa, 607 W. 37th St. , Savannah http://www. ayoluwa.org/

Argentine Tango

Lessons Sundays 1:30-3:30. Open to the public.

Cost $2.00 per person. Wear closed toe leather soled shoes if available. For more information call 912-925-7416 or email savh_tango@yahoo. com. Doris Martin Dance Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd ,

Argentine Tango Classes with Dave Allen

Argentine Tango continuing series Thursday’s @ 7:30PM. Call David Allen @ 912-401-2280 for information and enrollment. The STUDIO, 2805b Roger Lacey Ave. ,

Beginner’s Belly Dance Class

Classes teaching the basics of belly dancing.

Walk-ins welcome. Sundays 11:40am-12:40pm.

Contact Nicole Edge: 912-596-0889. kleokatt@ gmail.com Tantra Lounge, 8 E. Broughton St. ,

Belly Dance Classes

Taught by Nocturnelle. Contact Maya,313-1619, nocturnellegbd@yahoo.com or www.nocturnelle. org.

Breffni Academy of Irish Dance

Currently 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.. 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.

Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731. Savannah

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

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

Flamenco Enthusiasts

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

Gretchen Greene School of Dance

Register for fall classes in tap, ballet, lyrical, acrobatics, jazz and hip-hop for ages 3 and up.

Adult tap classes are held Tuesday from 7:308:15 for beginners and Monday from 7:15-8 p.m. for intermediate. Call 897-4235.

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. Savannah

Mahogany Shades of Beauty Inc.

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

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

Pole Dancing Class

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 Wednesdays at 7:30pm and on Fridays by request. Private parties available with reservation. $70 per month or $22 per class. Call for details 912-224-9667 or visit www.fitnessbodybalance.com. 2209 Rowland Ave, Suite 2 , 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. Savannah

Savannah Shag Club

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

2309 E. Victory Dr , Thunderbolt

Shag & Beach Bop

The Savannah Dance Club hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:30-11 p.m. Free basic shag, swing, salsa, cha cha, line dance and others are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered last two Monday’s.

The lesson schedule is posted at www.shagbeachbop.com. Lessons are held 6:30-7:30 p.m. Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn St. ,

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.

Savannah

The STUDIO

Ballet, Pointe, Contemporary, Jazz - The most comprehensive dance training in Savannah.

Auditioning for Ensemble program. Registering and accepting new students. 912-695-9149 the STUDIO, 2805-b Roger Lacey Ave ,

Youth Dance Program

The West Broad Street YMCA, Inc. presents its Instructional DanceProgram in jazz and ballet for kids 4 to 18. $30 per month for one

class and $35 per month for both classes. Call 233-1951. 1110 May St , Savannah

Events Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times

A national traveling exhibition that examines Abraham Lincoln’s life, accomplishments and legacy including speeches, letters and proclamations by the 16th president. For specific information about the exhibit, contact Barbara tenBroek in the Gordon Library: 912356-2692 or tenbroek@savannahstate.edu Gordon Library at SSU,

Bon Appetit Y’All Book Dinner with Virginia Willis

Chef Rodgers crafts a seasonal menu based on recipes from Virginia Willis’ acclaimed book “Bon Appétit, Y’all! Three Generations of Southern Cooking”. Includes items such as Savannah River catfish stew, tipsy watermelon, and mustard crusted pork loin. Sept 23rd at 6:30 p.m. Call for reservations. Local 11ten,

Market at Trustees Garden

A weekly event serving up fresh, local produce, gardening showcases and much more. www.trusteesmarket.com Charles H. Morris Center, 10 E. Broad St. , http://www. charleshmorriscenter.com/

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Nightly Live Music 9/09-9/13: Pat Garvey @8:30pm Nightly Live Music 9/14-9/20: Frank Emerson @8:30pm

Tacos on Tuesdays

Live Music 7 Nights A Week • 117 West RiveR st • 233-9626 Full Irish & American Menus Serving Until 2am Nightly NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH AT 11AM DAILY!

Step into the past with jazz pianist Diana Rogers for an intimate view of Victorian life in Savannah. An afternoon of music, history and refreshments. Reservations required: 912-236-2866.

All you can eat tacos for $5 every Tuesday, 6-9pm. Bar available. Open to everyone. 3986732 or 354-5515. American Legion Post 184, 1 Legion Dr. , Savannah

Film & Video Film: Tropic Thunder (2008)

This satirical film pokes fun at Hollywood’s obsession with action stars, blockbusters and “breaking the mold” of an actor’s range. A movie cast gets lost in the jungle while filming and ridiculousness ensues. The all-star cast features Ben Stiller (who also directed), Robert Downey, Jr. (who earned an Oscar nomination), Jack Black, Brandon T. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise The Lucas Theatre,

So Darling, So Deadly (Austria, 1966)

Set in the exotic location of Singapore, this campy secret agent flick (also known as “Kommissar X”) was cheaply and quickly made to capitalize on the success of the original wave of James Bond films. A highly entertaining, low-budget romp complete with sultry babes, maniacal villains, clever gadgets and a high-tech underground fortress.

Dubbed in English. Wed. Sept. 9, 8pm. The Sentient Bean,

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Fitness A balanced life

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

Acupuncture for Health

Available Monday thru Saturday at Hidden Well Acupuncture Center downtown.

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Start your day with some yoga by the water. Isle of Hope Marina’s Pavillion by the Water, http:// www.twistedwarrior.com/

Basic & Beyond Yoga Classes

Whether you’re just learning yoga, or you’ve had some experience, but are looking for some more. This class is for you. Visit website or call for more info. Ashram Yoga, http://www.twistedwarrior.com/

Belly Dancing for Fun and Fitness

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

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

Cardiorespiratory Endurence Training

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. U.S. Highway 80 West , Pooler

Children’s Yoga

Introduce your child to the art of yoga. Ages 3-7.

For more info visit website or call. Ashram Yoga, http://www.twistedwarrior.com/

Crossfit Hyperformance

Meets mormings at 6:30am at Crossfit Hyperformance. Visit www.crossfithyperformance. com. or call Jennifer at 224-0406 or Drew at 541-0530. 904 E 70th Street , Savannah

Fit Lunch

Join us for a 30-40 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 will utilize a variety of training techniques.

Advanced booking required. Call for details 912398-4776 or 912-224-9667. www.bodybalance. com. 2209 Rowland Ave, Suite 2 , Savannah

Fitness Classes at the JEA

Spin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary.

Call for days and times. 355-8111. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St , Savannah http://www.savj.org/

Gentle Yoga

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 2340980. Held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah upstairs in Phillippa’s Place. 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://www.uusavannah. org/

Candler Wellness Center. 819-8800. Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

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.

407 E Montgomery Cross Rd, Ste B , Savannah

Men On Weights

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

Mommy and Baby Yoga Classes

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. Multi-class discounts are available. Walk-ins are welcome. Call 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com. Savannah

Moms in Motion

St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Center for WellBeing is offering a pre- and post-natal exercise program, on July 1 and every Wednesday at 5:30 PM. The class, which is led by an Exercise Specialist certified in maternity fitness, will highlight specific exercises that will improve a mother-to-be’s balance, functional strength and flexibility. Each one hour session will conclude with a stressrelieving cool down and relaxation component.

For more information and to pre-register, call 819-MIND (6463). St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Well Being,

Pilates Class

This exercise program strengthens and revitalizes without building bulk. Call to pre-register 912-819-6463. St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Well Being,

Reiki Treatments

Reiki master Dante Santiago is trained in Usui Reiki Ryoho. Fifty-minute sessions are $60 and 50-minute in-studio sessions are $45. Call 6601863 for times and appointments.

Senior Power Hour

A program for people over 55. Health and wellness professionals help reach fitness goals.

The program may include, but isn’t limited to, strength training, cardio for the heart, flexibility, balance, basic healthy nutrition and posture concerns. Call 898-7714.

Squats N’ Tots

This class will help you stretch and strengthen overused body parts, as well as focus on muscle endurance, low impact aerobics, and abdominal work. Your baby (age 6 weeks to one year) can get in on the fun, or simply stay close to you on your mat. Call to pre-register 912-819-6463. St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Well Being,

against strong or aggressive attackers. Temple of Martial Arts, $75 a month for 12 sessions.

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Yoga and Pilates Classes

Yoga: Tues 8am & 5:45pm, Thurs at 8am & 5:30pm Pilates: Mon at 7pm, Sat at 8am. Class sizes are small, so please RSVP: 912-341-9477 or brandon@pro-fitpersonaltraining.com Pro-Fit Personal Training, 18 E. Broughton St. 2nd Floor

Yoga Classes

Yoga for all levels facilitated by Ky Baylis. Bring your own mat if you can. Every Wednesday at 6pm at the nineonetwo art space. 114 E. 40th St.

Tai Chi Classes

Yoga In the Park

The Yoga Room

Zumba Fitness

St. Joseph’s/Candler offers Tai Chi classes in the evenings every Tuesday and Thursday.

Tai Chi is an exercise derived from the ancient Chinese martial arts. Call to pre-register. St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Well Being, Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom.com or call 898-0361 for a schedule of classes, times and fees. Savannah Yoga Room, 115 Charlotte Dr , Savannah

Tybee Island Sunrise Boot Camp

is held Monday – Friday from 6-7am. Park at North Beach parking lot and go over first crossover. Bring a mat. Three days of strength training and two days of cardio. Vicki Lyn, 596-3009. No prices at this time, but contributions accepted.

Tybee Island

Wing Chun Kung Fu

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

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

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

Classes are being held every week in the Pooler and Rincon areas. Zumba is a fusion of Latin and international music, dance themes that create a dynamic, exciting and effective fitness system.

No dance partner is required. Participants of all ages and shapes are encouraged to attend. The cost is $7 per class. For location and info, contact Carmen at 484-1266 or calexe@comcast.net.

Gay & Lesbian First City Network Board Meeting

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

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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

Savannah Yoga Center

Located at 1321 Bull St. Call 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com for schedule of classes, times and fees. Savannah

Savannah Yoga Co Op

Discounted class prices, open studio time and special events. Ashram Savannah, 2424 Drayton St. , Savannah http://www.yogacoopsavannah.com/

Hatha Yoga classes

Every Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Pre-register by calling 819-6463. St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Well Being, Savannah http://www.sjchs.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

Jivamukti Yoga Workshop

Join Andrea Boyd for an inspirational Jivamukti Yoga Workshop. Andrea will just be returning from her trip to Mysore, India and will share the fruits of her experiences with you in this workshop. Savannah Yoga Co-op, 2424 Drayton St. , http://www.yogacoopsavannah.com/

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March 21–April 19 I don’t think I’m being unduly optimistic when I speculate that you’re on the verge of achieving a ringing victory over your bad self. What makes me so confident that this development is in the works? Well, in recent weeks you have been dealing more forthrightly and intelligently with the lowest aspects of your character. You have also become more fully aware of the difference between your out–and–out unregenerate qualities and the unripe aspects of your character that may someday become very beautiful. There’s a second sign that you’re close to transforming one of the most negative things about you: You have almost figured out the truth about a murky curse that you internalized some time ago. When you finally identify it, you will know intuitively how to banish it forever.

TAURUS

April 20–May 20 I expect that you’ll be a force of nature in the coming days, the human equivalent of a divine intervention.

In fact, you might want to give fair warning to friends and loved ones who assume that you have always been and will always be steady, placid, and mild. Otherwise they may be unduly freaked out when your intelligence explodes like a double rainbow or when you start emoting like a waterfall. They might accuse you of “not being yourself” when your laughter turns volcanic or your decisions hit with the force of the aurora borealis. It’ll be interesting for you to notice which of your close cohorts responds most favorably to this outbreak of your elemental gifts.

GEMINI

May 21–June 20 “Here’s what I did not do this summer,” begins the testimony of one of my Gemini readers, Beth Hylton.

“Not once did I swing on a tire swing over the river, watching the pink shimmery reflection of myself in a wet suit on a tire swing. I did not take a day off work to sneak out alone to Jones Beach with a book and a beer in a ginger ale bottle. I did not eat outside at a red– checkered–tablecloth–and–too–much–

cheese–on–the–pasta Italian restaurant, sucking back carafes of Gallo like Kool–Aid. I did not catch fireflies for the satisfaction of setting them free, and I did not nap in the noontime sun. Where are all the ’I dids’?” I’m happy to inform Beth, as well as any of her fellow Geminis who might have been remiss in doing the kinds of activities she named, that the next three weeks will be a very favorable period to make up for lost time.

CANCER

June 21–July 22 Murmurs and whispers will have more clout than clamors and shouts. A candle in the dark will provide more illumination than a bonfire at high noon. Short jaunts could transform everything permanently; long trips might only shift things slightly and temporarily.

Forceful confrontations may lead to a muddle; feints and tricks and bluffs could spark crafty solutions.

The “simple facts” will probably be tainted by lies of omission; the messy contradictions are likely to be eminently trustworthy.

LEO

July 23–Aug. 22 KFC is test–marketing a flamboyant new menu item at selected restaurants in the U.S. This remarkable delicacy is an exotic sandwich that consists of bacon, two servings of cheese, and special sauce, all held together not by bread but by two slabs of fried chicken. I nominate this spectacular creation to be your earthy metaphor of the week.

In accordance with the astrological omens, I hope it inspires you to head out to the frontiers of extravagance in both your spiritual affairs and your romantic life. The coming days will be an ideal time to pray to both Christ and the Goddess while making love, for example, or to get sandwiched between two delicious devotees while meditating naked, or to perform a boisterous ritual to invoke emotional riches with the help of a genius of love.

VIRGO

Aug. 23–Sept. 22 It’s Build Up Your Confidence by Any Means Possible Week –– for Virgos only. During this holiday, you have an astrological mandate as well as a poetic license to pluck

the easy victories. So go ahead and solve the kinds of riddles that are your specialty. Arrange to be in situations where your perspective is desperately needed. Put yourself in the presence of people who think you’re a gift to the human race, and subtly encourage your secret admirers to be less secretive. If you have any trophies or awards, make them more visible. There’s no shame in bragging this week, Virgo, but for best results do it with your best understated elegance.

LIBRA

Sept. 23–Oct. 22 My first demand is that you weed out the wishy–washy wishes and lukewarm longings that keep you distracted from your burning desires. My second demand is that you refuse to think that anyone else knows better than you what dreams will keep your life energy humming with maximum efficiency and beauty. Now please repeat the following assertions about 20 times: “I know exactly what I want.

I know exactly what I don’t want.

I know exactly what I kind of want but I won’t waste my time on it any more because it sidetracks me from working on what I really really want.”

SCORPIO

Oct. 23–Nov. 21 Ants may literally be crawling in your pants as you pull off a savvy coup or a brilliant stroke. An annoying pest may try to distract you at about the same time that movers and shakers are tuning in to your magnificence. But I don’t mean to imply that minor irritants will undermine your victories. I think you’re too unbeatable for that to happen. At worst, you’ll have a mild headache as you receive your reward or stumble slightly as you stride into the spotlight.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22–Dec. 21

“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be,” wrote author P. C. Hodgell. I wish there were a gentler way to articulate that wisdom, but I can’t think of one.

Instead I’ll suggest a way to apply it so as to make the end result more graceful than shocking: Don’t pour out the whole truth all at once in one big dramatic gesture. Do it

gradually and tenderly. As you do, keep in mind that when the truth has finally dismantled the thing that could not endure the truth, you may be able to use the debris as raw material to build something new that the truth will feel right at home in.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22–Jan. 19

What if a billion Chinese people jumped up into the air at the same exact moment? Would they create, at the moment they landed, a shockwave that would cause an earthquake on the opposite side of the world, in Chile and Argentina?

No one knows. I’d like to propose a not unsimilar but more interesting experiment. What if every Capricorn who reads this horoscope reserves one minute at exactly 1 pm EDT on September 12, and during that time you all meditate intently on a single glowing thought, which is this: All of you Capricorns deserve an act of uncanny grace that will help free you from one of your most oppressive beliefs.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20–Feb. 18

Some rare people, through heroic acts of will and the help of a really good imagination, manage to free themselves pretty thoroughly from the inertia of their past. This accomplishment is more possible for you right now than it has been in a long time. In fact, you could even overcome a negative legacy that made some of your ancestors crazy and sick. For maybe just the third time ever, you’re in a position to escape the sins of the fathers and the flaws of the mothers!

PISCES

Feb. 19–March 20 If you build it, they will probably come. If you just pretend to build it, they may come anyway, and end up sticking around because of your charming attunement to life’s deeper rhythms. If, as you build it or pretend to build it, you act manic or send out mixed messages, they may be intrigued and attracted, but they definitely won’t come. So my advice, Pisces, is to suppress your mood swings as you at least start pretending to build the thing in earnest.

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

Georgia Equality Savannah

The local chapter of Georgia’s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 944-0996. 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. Without the GLBT community, there wouldn’t be a need for Pride. Call Patrick Mobley at 224-3238. First City Network, Savannah http://www.firstcitynetwork.net/

Stand Out Youth

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, Savannah http://www. firstcitynetwork.net/

What Makes A Family

A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Groups range in age from 10 to 18 and are held twice a month. Call 352-2611.

Health Better Breathers of Savannah

Meets to discuss and share information on C.O.P.D. and how people live with the disease.

For info, call Dicky at 665-4488 or dickyt1954@ yahoo.com.

Community Cardiovascular Health

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.

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Community HealthCare Center

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. Savannah

E-Z Imagery Weight Loss

A holistic approach to weight loss. Free introductory session. Michael J. 704-5902 or 354-6223.

Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group

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

Every Step Counts Survivor Walk

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

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings

Conducted at three locations. From 8:30a. m.-12:30p.m. and 5:15p.m.-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605 to make an appointment. Every Monday from 10a.m.-12p. m. at the Smart Senior office, No. 8 Medical Arts Center. No appointment is necessary. Every Monday through Friday from 10a.m.-2p.m. at St. Mary’s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578. Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/1844. cfm

Free Chair Massages

Free 10 minute chair massages. First come, first serve. Mon, Wed & Fri from 5-7pm. Therapeutic Massage Specialists, 18 E. Broughton St.

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. 1206 E 66th St , Savannah http://www.savannahspeechandhearing.org/

Free Vision Screenings

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. 115 Charlotte Dr , Savannah

Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 11a.m.5p.m. at Sam’s Club Optical-Savannah. No membership is required. Call 352-2844. 1975 E. Montgomery Cross Rd. , Savannah

Memorial Health blood pressure check

The Coastal Health District’s Universal Newborn Hearing and Screening Initiative has funds available for the purchase of hearing aid devices for infants and children 3 and under who qualify and live in Bryan, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long and McIntosh Counties. For info, contact Jackie King at 691-6882 or toll-free at 1-866-6470010.

Memorial Health CPR training

Hearing Aid Funds Available for Infants and Children

Help for Iraq War Veterans

A method used at Fort Campbell to treat lack of sleep, anger, flashbacks, nightmares and emotional numbness in veterans is available in Savannah. 927-3432.

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. 211 Price St , Savannah http://www.mybrothazhome.org/

Hypnobirthing Childbirth Classes

The group classes offer an opportunity for couples to learn the child birthing process together. Classes provide specialized breathing and guided imagery techniques designed to reduce stress during labor. Classes run monthly, meeting Saturdays for three consecutive weeks. To register, call 843-6838750 or e-mail Birththroughlove@yahoo.com.

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

HypnoBirthing Classes

Learn to birth in a calm and gentle environment without fear. Uses relaxation, meditation and guided imagery to achieve the birthing experience you desire. Tiffany, tiffany@savannahdoula.com.

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. 897-9261, www.lllusa.org/web/SavannahGA.html. Family Health and Birth Center, 1692 Chatham Parkway , Savannah

Ladies Living Smart Fitness Club

Providing nutritional education and an exercise program to encourage lifestyle changes for women. Call for more info. St. Joseph’s/ Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. ,

Massage

Charles Dane, twice voted: ‘the best massage therapist in Savannah,’ is offering an ‘Introductory Special’ of $45.00 hour! For the month of September. (Regularly $65.00 hour) Call 231-9298 for questions or to schedule your appointment. http://www.savannahmassage.com/

Meditation and Energy Flow Group

Meet with others who practice meditation or want to learn how, discuss techniques, & related areas of holistic health, healing, Reiki, Energy Medicine, CAM. Reduce stress, increase peace & health! www.ellenfarrell. com, http://meditation.meetup.com/490

“Kaidoku” Each of the 26 letters of the alphabet is represented in this grid by a number between 1 and 26. Using letter frequency, word-pattern recognition, and the numbers as your guides, fill in the grid with wellknown English words. Only lowercase, unhyphenated words are allowed in kaidoku, so you won’t see anything like STOCKHOLM or LONG-LOST in here (but you might see AFGHAN, since it has an uncapitalized meaning, too). Now stop wasting my precious time and SOLVE!! psychosudoku@hotmail.com

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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

Narcotics Anonymous

Call 238-5925 for the Savannah Lowcountry Area Narcotics Anonymous meeting schedule.

Smoke Stoppers

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/

Stop Smoking Through Hypnosis

No pills, patches, gum, lasers, weight gain, withdrawal or side effects. 15 years experience. 927-3432.

Team Savannah Wellness

A group dedicated to improving the quality of life through 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. Savannah

The Quit Line

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

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Weight Loss Through Hypnosis

Lose weight with Guided Imagery and Hypnosis. No pills, diets or surgery. 927-3432.

Nature and Environment Dolphin Project of Georgia

Boat owners, photographers and other volunteers are needed to help conduct scientific research. Must be at least 18 years old. Call 727-3177, visit www.TheDolphinProject.org.or e-mail gadolphin@comcast.net.

Important Bird Areas

The Ogeechee Audubon Chapter presents speaker Charlie Muise, coordinator for Georgia’s Important Bird Areas (IBA) Program, who will discuss science-based resources to “help the birds we all love so much.” First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Sept. 15, 7pm.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

Exhibits and aquariums are home to more than 100 species of fish, reptiles, amphibians, corals and other interesting sea creatures.

The 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. Call 786-5917 or visit www.tybeemsc.org. 1510 Strand , Tybee Island

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The Oatland Island Wildlife Center offers a 2-mile Native Animal Nature Trail that winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland and salt marsh habitats, and features live native animal exhibits. Open daily from 10-4 except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. 898-3980, www.oatlandisland.org. 711 Sandtown Rd , Savannah

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Professional pet sitting, boarding, dog walking and house sitting services offered in downtown Savannah and the nearby islands.

All jobs accepted are performed by the owner to ensure the safety of your pets. Local references available. Please call 401.2211 or email lesleycastle@gmail.com to make a reservation.

Dog Yoga

Class is held every first Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. at Forsyth Park. The cost is a $10 donation, with all donations given to Save-A-Life.

Bring a mat or blanket and a sense of humor.

Yoga for dogs is a fun way to relax and bond with your four-legged pet. Great for all levels and all sizes. 898-0361 or www.thesavannahyogaroom.com. Savannah

Feral Cat Program Needs Supplies

The Milton Project is seeking supplies, including small spice containers (plastic only), medium-sized gloves, batteries and flashlights with hook-on belt loops, hand-held can openers, puppy training pads, canned tuna and mackeral, bath sheets and beach towels, blankets and buckets to hold supplies for trappers. Contact Sherry Montgomery at 351-4151 or sherry@coastalpetrescue.org.

Feral Cat Trap Loan Program

The Milton Project is starting this program so that feral cats can be spayed or neutered.

The deposit for the trap is $25 and is refunded at the time of return if the trap is cleaned and in good working condition. If the trap is damaged, replacement value is $65. The traps will be loaned out for 1 week at a time. Traps cannot be used for capturing feral cats for Animal Control or any other entity that may destroy them. Persons using the traps are responsible for the spay/neuter costs. Call 351-4151 or email traploan@coastalpetrescue.org.

Halloween Pet Costume Contest

Case Veterinary Hospital presents this contest for the best pet costumes on Oct. 17.

Prizes for best cat, dog, kitten, puppy, and owner/pet combo. $5 entry fee. $100 Grand prize. All proceeds benefit Friends of Animals Inc. Registration at 1pm, judging at 2pm. 111 Eisenhower Dr. ,

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Professional Pet Sitting and Dog Walking

Insured, bonded, certified in pet first aid and CPR. 355-9656, www.athomepetsitters.net.

Recycle, Reduce and Reuse for Coastal Pet Rescue

Coastal Pet Rescue is asking area businesses to collect ink and toner cartridges at their offices. This fund-raiser will help with regular vet care for rescued pets. Contact Christy at 354-3021 or ecycle@coastalpetrescue.org to arrange for cartridge pickup.

Savannah Kennel Club

The club meets monthly on the fourth Monday at 7 p.m. from September through May at Ryan’s restaurant on Stephenson Avenue.

Those who wish to eat before the meeting are encouraged to come earlier. Call 656-2410 or visit www.savannahkennelclub.org. 209 Stephenson Ave , Savannah

St. Almo

The name stands for Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks are held Sundays (weather permitting). Meet at 5 p.m. at Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. Time changes with season. Call for time change. Call 234-3336. Savannah http://www. caninepalacesavannah.com/

Readings & Signings Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

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

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Tea time at Ola’s

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

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.

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Celtic Evening Eucharist

Deeply rooted in Celtic spirituality and hospitality. Find a welcoming space, a sense of belonging, a loving encounter with God where everyone has a place at the table. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 34th and Abercorn ,

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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 8983477. Savannah

DrUUming Circle

9-10:30am which includes a Dharma talk.

Donations accepted. Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach, cindy@alwaysoptions.com. The Savannah Zen Center, 2424 Drayton 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 7866075, e-mail UUBC2@aol.com. Celebrating diversity. Working for justice. Savannah

First Saturday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah on Troup Square at Habersham and Macon streets. Drummers, dancers and the drumcurious are welcome. Call 234-0980 or visit uusavannah.org. 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://www.uusavannah.org/

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

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

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/

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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. Savannah

Midweek Bible Study

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

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

Nicodemus by Night

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

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) Meets Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church. Call Janet Pence at 2474903. 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. 619 W 37th St. , Savannah

Soka Gakkai of America

SGI-USA is an American Buddhist movement for world peace that practices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting. For information, call SGI-USA at 232-9121.

Stand for Peace

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

Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Social Justice and Action Committee. 224-7456, 231-2252, 234-0980, uusavannah.org Johnson Square, Bull & Abercorn Sts. , Savannah

The Savannah Zen Center

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

Liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. Sunday, 11 am, Troup Square Sanctuary.

234-0980, admin@uusavannah.org or www. uusavannah.org. 313 Harris St. , Savannah

Unity of Savannah

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Women’s Bible Study

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

Sports & Games Lowcountry Arena Polo

Lessons and games every Saturday, 10am in Bluffton, SC. Horses and all equipment provided. $75. Bryce Gill, 843-442-7963.

Win Savannah Disc Golf Club

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

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

Support Groups Abstinence Program

Hope House of Savannah provides support for students between the ages of 13 to 19. Snacks and transportation provided. Call 236-5310.

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ADD and Behavior Support Group

Meets the third Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Mindspring Center in the Ranicki Chiropractic Complex, 1147 W. Highway 80 in Pooler. RSVP is requested. Call 748-6463 or frontdesk@mindspringcenter. com. Pooler

Al Anon Family Groups

A fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics meets Monday at 12:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. at 1501 Eisenhower Dr. and Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Goodwill on Sallie Mood Drive. Call 598-9860 or visit http://al_ anon_savannah.freeservers.com. Savannah

Al-Anon Meetings

Meetings for families and friends of alcoholics are held every Monday at 5:30pm and Saturday at 11am. Melissa, 844-4524. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave , Savannah http://www.fpc.presbychurch.net/

Alcoholics Anonymous

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

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Meets every second Monday at 10am at the Wilmington Island United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Rd. Call Tara Redd and Lauren Dutko at 631-0675. Savannah

Amputee Support Group

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

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Bariatric Surgery Support Group

For past and potential obesity surgery patients and their families. Call 350-3438 or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth.com.

Bipolar Support Group

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

Cancer support group

Meets every third Tuesday of the month from 6-7 p.m. at the Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion on Reynolds Street across from Candler Hospital. The group is open to anyone who is living with, through or beyond a diagnosis of cancer. Call 819-3360.

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Caring for Us

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

CASA Support Group

For parents and caregivers of children who have been involved with DFCS and/or returned to your custody after being in foster care.

The group meets the first Thursday of the month from 6-7 p.m. at Youth Futures Family Resource Center at 705 Anderson St. For information, call Madison at CASA at 447-8908 or send email to madison@savannahcasa.org.

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Celiac Support Group

For anyone with celiac disease who is allergic to products containing gluten, their family or friends. For information, call 507-2592.

Children’s Grief Groups

Open, drop-in support groups for children ages 6-17 who have experienced a loss by death. Meets Tuesdays 6-7pm at Full Circle, a Center for Education and Grief Support, 7212 Seawright Dr. 303-9442. Savannah

Citizens With Retarded Citizens

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

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association

Meets the fourth Saturday of the month at 10:30 a.m. at the Candler Heart and Lung Building, second floor, Room 2. Call 355-1221 or visit www.coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org.

5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah

Compassionate Friends Support Group

Offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents. It meets the first Thursday of the month from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Candler Heart & Lung Building, Conference Room 2, 5356 Reynolds St. 925-5195. Savannah http:// www.sjchs.org/

Couples Struggling with Fertility Challenges

Meets every Saturday at 6:45 p.m. at Savannah Christian Church, Room 250. This is a group for couples struggling with primary or secondary infertility, whether they have been on this journey for one year or many years.

Call Kelly at 596-0852 or email emptycradle_savannah@hotmail.com. 55 Al Henderson B;vd. , Savannah

Debtors Anonymous

Meets Mondays at 5:30 p.m. at Trinity Church, 225 W. President St. in the third floor New Beginnings Room. Enter on President Street through the left-hand set of glass doors between Whitaker and Barnard streets. Arrive

early, as the entry doors are locked promptly at 5:30 p.m. For information, e-mail DAsavannah@yahoo.com. Savannah http://www. trinitychurch1848.org/

Depressive/Manic support group

Open to persons diagnosed with depression. Meetings are held in classroom B in the Surgery Center Building of Memorial Hospital every Tuesday at 7 p.m. 920-0153 or 927-2064.

4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Divorce Recovery Group

For men and women dealing with the pain and shock of divorce. For more information or to sign up, call Paula Morris, 353-2808. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave , Savannah http://www.fpc.presbychurch.net/

Domestic violence support group

SAFE Shelter provides a domestic violence support group every Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Inc. Building at 3205 Bull St. Call Brenda Edwards, 629-8888.

Savannah

Fecal Urinary Diversion Support Group

The group is for patients who have had a colostomy, deostomy, urostomy (ileoconduit) and continent fecal or urinary diversion surgery. Call 819-3466.

Fibromyalgia support group

meets the second Thursday from 5:306:30 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St..

819-6743. 5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Fibromyalgia Support Group

A support group for sufferers of fibromyalgia.

Meets the 2nd Thursday of every month. Candler Heart & Lung Bldg., Conference Room 3,

First Line

An after-hours referral and information line to talk confidentially about birth control, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy options. A free service from Planned Parenthood, available nightly from 7 to 11 p.m. at 1-800-264-7154.

Gray Matters Brain Injury Support Group

For traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. Meets the third Thursday at 5 p.m. in the gym at The Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial University Medical Center. 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/

Grief 101

A 7-week educational group offering support and coping tools for adults who have experienced a loss by death. Meets Tuesdays 6-7pm at Full Circle, a Center for Education and Grief Support, 7212 Seawright Dr. RSVP to 303-9442. Savannah

Heart Beats for Life

A free support and education group for those who have suffered, or want to prevent, Heart, and/or Diabetes problems, everything from heart attacks, strokes, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, excess weight. Please contact :Jeff@ heartbeatsforlife-ga.org (912) 598-8457.

HIV/AIDS: My Brothaz Home

A support group for men meets every Thursday of the month. Come on out and meet other brothaz. 231-8727.

Hope House

Provides housing and support services such as life skills, resources and referrals, followup care and parent-child activities funded by DHR Promoting Safe and Stable Families.

Please call 236-5310 for information. Hope House of Savannah, 214 E. 34th St. , Savannah

Huntington Disease Support Group

Meets the last Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. in the Heart and Lung Building at Candler Hospital, second floor, Room 2. Call Sandra at 964-0455. Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/ cs

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108 N. CIRCLE DRIVE

Off Hwy. 17. 3BR, 2 Baths, Living/Dining/Den, HVAC. $750/month.

Call Helen Miltiades Realty, 231-1981 1104 EAST 31ST STREET Large 3BR/1BA, separate LR, separate DR, large upstairs apt $625.

1305 EAST 56TH STREET 2BR house, single car carport, fenced backyard $675.

216-1/2 SCREVEN AVENUE One large bedroom, 1BA, separate LR & kitchen, hardwood floors and new carpet $550.

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1200 EAST BOLTON Street: 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, downstairs apt., central heat/air, $525/month + deposit.

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3BR, 1 Bath, Living/Dining Room, porch, HVAC. $950/month.

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16 S. STILLWOOD CT.

Berkshire West. 3BR, 2 Baths, Living/Dining, fireplace, courtyard, double garage. $1100/month. Helen Miltiades Realty, 231-1981

1BR/1BA Studio. 250 Ferrill

St. West side Savannah near Bay st.

New carpet, new kitchen, new bath, partiallyfurnished, Utilities included. $165/per week.

Deposit waived.

CALL TODAY! 912-247-5150.

220 East 65th

3BR/1BA living/dining room, new paint, screened-porch, CH&A, lots of storage, no pets, $900/month, $900/deposit. 441-9637 matsonn@comcast.net Art PAtrol for the Latest Openings & Exhibits connectsavannah.com

2212 Mississippi Avenue: 3BR/1BA, central heat/air, hardwood floors, fenced yard. $775/month.

Call 844-0694 or 508-2397 2/3 BEDROOMS, CH&A, furnished kitchen, washer/dryer connection, carpet. $650/month, $500/deposit. Section 8 Welcome. 354-1453.

2414 EAST 37TH STREET

2BR, 1 Bath, LR, DR, fenced yard. Pets ok with approval. References/Credit check required. $735/month, $700/deposit.

898-0078 2Bedroom 1Bath apartment, $350 move-in special. 790 East Gwinnett Street.

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204 Carolan Street, (Bay View) West Savannah. $500/month, $300 deposit. Call 912-754-7923.

2BR/1BA MOBILE HOME Enclosed porch, private lot, private-paved-drive, across from new Kroger on Hwy17. $600/month includes water. Available Sept. 236-7581

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LR, DR, breakfast room, kitchen equipped, sun room, laundry room, one small CH&A. $775/month plus dep. Please ask about Move in Specials with one year lease. Call 596-4954.

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3222 BEE ROAD

2BR/1BA, kitchen furnished $600/month. Call 897-6789 or 344-4164.

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37 WARREN DRIVE

Port Wentworth.

3BR, 1 Bath, Living/Dining Room, Detached 2-car garage. $895/month.

Helen Miltiades Realty, 231-1981

for rent 855 418 E 61st. studio apt. completely renovated, $650/month included utilities.

912-658-2422 or 912-658-3763 4BR/2BA House for Rent.

2-story, 1123 East 32nd Street. $700/month, $700/deposit, Call Tammy a ny t i m e, 912-224-0985.

507 KENTUCKY AVENUE

3BR/1BA, washer/dryer, refrigerator, stove, fenced backyard, 1305 East 57th St. $800/month. Pet deposit required.

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3BR/1BA CH&A, hardwood floors, deck & porch, quiet neighborhood, $750/month, $750/deposit. No pets.

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3BR,1 Bath, LR, den w/fireplace, eat-in kitchen, laundry, fenced yard, carport. Pets ok with approval. References/credit check required. $875/month, $850/deposit. 898-0078

9306 LEACH DRIVE

Paradise Park.

3BR/1.5BA, Living/Dining Room, new kitchen. $995/month.

Call Helen Miltiades Realty, 231-1981 Apartment: 1115 E. 32nd St. $625/$625dep, 2BR/1BA, upstairs, beautiful hardwood, covered porch, washer/dryer hook-ups, water, sewage, trash included.

313-2571

for rent 855 AVAILABLE NOW! Three Bedroom Houses 14 Jamaica Run $1400 132 E. 48th St. $1350 11501 Willis Dr. $1100 111 Ventura Blvd. $900 3618 Oakland Ct. $895 2231 N. Fernwood $850 21 Arthur Cir. $850 Two Bedroom Houses 6 Seneca Rd. $785 639 E. 39th St. $695 APARTMENTS 1 Bedroom 740 E. 45th St. #3 $725 1408-1/2 E. 49th St. $475 2 Bedrooms Windsor Crossing $725 5608-B Jasmine Ave. $675 1210 E. 54th St. $600 1132 E. 53rd St $575 1203 E. 54th St. $595 2126 Clars Ave. $495 Commercial 11202 White Bluff Rd. $2000 offices, kitchen, bathroom FOR DETAILS & PICTURES VISIT OUR WEB PAGE WWW.PAMTPROPERTY.COM Pam T Property 692-0038 Happenings

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Bnet Management Inc. Savannah Southside 9 Lands End Circle $915. Off Abercorn, Lewis Drive.

3BR/2BA, fenced yard, storage shed, fireplace, laundry room, CH&A. Savannah West 718 West 38th Street $745.

3BR/2BA, 2-Story, fenced yard, new CH&A, LR, DR, laundry room, hardwood floors & carpet, 1400sqft.

Savannah East 2304 Shirley Drive $875.

3BR/1BA, 1700sqft, with large garage, LR, DR, laundry hookup, large fenced yard.

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Rent-to-Own or Section 8. 3BR/1BA, central heat/air, good condition. $750 plus security deposit.

507-7875 or 660-4296

EFFICIENCY APT. $160/WEEK & UP. NO DEP. REQUIRED

Nicely furnished. All utilities and cable furnished.

Call 912-695-7889.

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Section 8 Accepted 1305 East 39th St. 3BR, 1BA, LR/DR, kitchen w/range & refrigerator. $775/month w/$725/deposit.

Pets OK with Approval.

References & Credit Check Required on Rentals

898-4135

FOR RENT! Section-8 accepted, 1804 Staley Ave. 3BR/2BA, living/dining room, den, breakfast room, kitchen w. range, refrigerator & microwave. Very Spacious! $900/month $850/deposit.

770-653-7618 770-65 3-7618 FURNISHED EFFICIENCY Apt. Great for retired person or single mature adult. Utilities included. No pets, no smoking. $200/week, $200/dep.

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GARAGE APARTMENT Fo r Rent. $650/month + $650 Deposit ($975 w/a pet). 1208 E. 70th St. in Savannah, GA, within walking distance of Memorial Hospital. Contact Coral McKinney at 912-756-6726 to see.

GEORGETOWN CONDO

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

OAK FOREST DRIVE

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

1st month RENT FREE with qualifying credit!

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GORGEOUS GATED Condo. ICW Thunderbolt Harbour. Fireplace, 3-bedrooms, deck, pool, 2-car garage, storage room, boatslip. $2000/monthly.

912-661-4814

HALCYON BLUFF SUBDIVISION -Available Now!

Unique executive style 3 bedroom/2 bath home with sunken living room, wood floors, dishwasher, ceiling fans, garage, Central H & A/C. $1149/per month, $1399/security deposit. Military & Police discounts available.

No indoor pets. No smoking. 920-1936

HIGHLAND WOODS 800 QUACCO ROAD 925-9673

Mobile Home lots for rent. First month rent free! Wooden deck, curbside garbage collection twice weekly, swimming pool and playground included.

Cable TV available.

HISTORIC DISTRICT-Apt. $775/month. 2BR/1BA, full kitchen with dishwasher, security system, shared patio, washer/dryer in apt. Call 912-398-2028

for rent 855 HOUSE FOR RENT 115 Forrest Avenue (Eastside, btwn Pennsylvania & Goebel, south of Capital Street).

Available now. 1-year lease. Section 8 welcome. New renovation.

3BR/2 full baths, total electric, new-CH&A, furnished kitchen, laundry area w/washer/dryer hookup. Large-LR area, new-ceramic tile, newly refinished-hardwood floors, fresh-paint and light-fixtures, large fenced side and backyard w/security lighting, rear storage shed, quiet neighborhood. $875/month, $850/security deposit. Call Chip, 912-665-2300 or Dawn, 912-661-0409.

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Bloomingdale, 2 & 3 Bedrooms. $450-$875.

Hassell Realt y Co. 912-234-1291

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This Spacious facility comes with 6-1/2BA. Can house 12 comfortably. Located within 5-min. from Downtown Savannah, 15-min. from Tybee Beach. Only interested in long-term lease (5yrs.+). 912-663-2574 LARGE 1BR: Whitaker Street. High ceilings, hardwood floors, fireplace, A/C, furnished kitchen, off-street parking. Clean, Antique, Nice neighborhood. *ALSO 2BR House trailer, Isle of Hope area, large fenced yard. $575/month plus deposit.

691-2368.

LEASE OPTION OR RENT: 3 or 4BR, 2.5BA, 3yr. old 2-story sitting on 3/4 acre. Includes stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, washer/dryer, central HVAC, 1-car attached garage, fireplace, newly painted. In quiet residential, very desired Effingham school district. Bus picks up children in front of house. Section 8 Welcome.

Call Jim, 912-661-3331

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897-1984, 8am-7pm Westside, Lamarville **1919 Cowan Ave: 4BR/1BA Duplex $775/month, $775/dep. **1927 Fenwick 3BR/1BA, $750/month, $750/deposit **1921-B Fenwick 2BR Duplex, 1BA deposit *All above have carpet, A/C, washer/dryer hookup, fenced yard. References, application. Oneyear lease minimum.

None total electric, No smoking, pets negotiable.

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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One, two and three bedroom apt & houses, located throughout Savannah.

Monthly special. Section 8 welcome.

272-6820

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CAROLINE DRIVE: 2BR/1BA Unfurnished Apartment.

Kitchen furnished w/washer and dryer connections, newly renovated. $675/month.

Call 897-6789 or 344-4164

MOVING SPECIAL! *1/2 OFF DEPOSIT

595 WEST 54th STREET: 2 Bedroom Apartments/1.5 baths, washer/dryer connection/total electric, deposit *$315, $630 monthly.

Section 8 Welcome.

Call 912-232-7659.

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MUST SEE! 2BR apt.

LR, DR, hardwood floors, lots of closets.

Quiet neighborhood near Candler.

19 Berkeley Place. $595/month.

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Off Tibet: lovely brick 2BR 1.5 bath townhome, kitchen furnished, CH&A , washer/dryer connections, $640.

No pets.

355-6077

for rent 855 One and Two Bedroom Apartments.

Midtown, Southside, & Islands. $390-$725.

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Southside Apt. only $585 per month! Small, quiet complex in a great location between the malls.

Moss Gate Apts., 10600 Abercorn St. Call Jeanette at 920-8005 RENT: 1218 E. 53RD ST. Garage Apt. upstairs, behind duplex. 1BR, 1BA $595/month, utilities paid by landlord, plus $595/deposit. CALL ADAM @ 912-234-2726

RENT: DUPLEX 1117 E. 53rd

2BR/1BA $475/month plus $475/deposit. Two blocks off Waters Ave, close to Daffin Park.

CALL ADAM @ 912-234-2726 DAYS/NIGHTS/WEEK ENDS RENT-TO-OWN: 3yr. option to buy. Large 3BR/2BA all brick home, 2-car garage. Desirable location.

Call 404-826-0345 for appt.

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SOUTHSIDEHampstead Oaks

Two bedroom, 1.5 bath townhouse apt, total electric, $600/month with washer & dryer $625.

Call Debra at 912-356-5656 SPECIAL TYBEE STUDIO Apartment Living room/Bedroom space, separate kitchen, yard. Quiet neighborhood. Utilities included, $650/month.

Call 786-4114

UPCHURCH ENTERPRISES 912-354-7737

HUNTER’S CHASE SUBDIVISION 3BR/2BA, single car garage, fenced backyard. Military Discount. $950/month, $950/deposit.

1210 STILES AVENUE 4BR/1.5BA $800/month, $800/deposit.

for rent 855 VERY NICE DUPLEX near Memorial Hospital. 2BR/1BA, newly renovated, wood floors, new cabinets.

Section 8 accepted. $695/month.

398-6007 or 658-5608.

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WINDSOR CROSSING Condo Total electric, 2BR, 2BA, water & trash included $675.

OAK FOREST Renovated, 2BR/1BA Apt, furnished kitchen $525.

DUANE CT. Nice 2BR/1BA Apt, furnished kitchen $610.

WILMINGTON ISLAND 2BR/1BA, furnished kitchen $685.

LOUISIANA AVE. Spacious 3BR/1BA, LR, den, 2 screened porches $725.

MOHAWK TRAIL 2BR/2BA, furnished kitchen, garage, gated location, near AASU, St. Joseph’s $875.

Frank Moore & Co. 920-8560 FrankMooreCo.com rooms for rent 895

CHRISTIAN PROFESSIONAL

has lovely room.

Large, clean, quiet, separate bath, free cable& utilities, internet, CH&A. Verifiable income required. $450/month.

912-344-5884 CLEAN, FURNISHED Room, on busline, $90-$120/week plus deposit. Call 210-1327 or 236-1952

DOWNTOWN & SOUTHSIDE:

1st week $100. 2nd week until starting at $125/week. Furnished rooms w/cable tv,wi-fi, free laundry & off street parking. All utilities included. Minimum deposit $50 required.

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rooms for rent 895

EFFICIENCY ROOMS

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

Call 912-844-5995 HUGE FURNISHED room with private bath.

Includes: TV (cable), internet/Comcast, washer/dryer, utilities. Extremely nice! $565/month.

Call 912-988-3220 LARGE VICTORIAN with windows on two sides, across from library, nicely furnished, all utilities.

TV/cable/internet, washer/dryer, $160/week. $576/month.

912-231-9464

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/ DELESSEPS East Savannah.

Furnished, includes utilities, central heat and air, Comcast cable, television, internet, washer/dryer. Hardwood floors, ceramic tile in kitchen and bath.

Shared Kitchen & Shared bath.

5 minutes to Memorial Hospital. **ALSO PLACES AVAILABLE IN WEST CHATHAM! Call 912-210-0144.

NO DEPOSIT, REDUCED RENT!

Room for rent in Bloomingdale. All utilities, CH&A, Comcast cable, TV, internet, washer/dryer, furnished kitchen, shared kitchen and bath, stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, microwave. Near Gulfstream, I-16 & airport. Minutes to Savannah. Call 912-210-0144 ROOM FOR RENT: Safe Environment.

Central heat/air, cable, telephone service. $400/$500 monthly, $125/security deposit, no lease. Immediate occupancy. Call Mr. Brown: 912-663-2574 or 912-234-9177.

transportation 900

cars 910 2001 Silver Honda Passport. 142K miles, power locks/windows/seats.

Leather interior, 4-speed, automatic, tires & breaks in good shape. $4200.

925-7099

2006 COROLLA

4-Door, Power windows, locks, CD player, cruise. 20,500 miles. Excellent condition. $11,500.

Call 912-272-1837 BUY POLICE IMPOUNDS! Cars from $500! For listings 1-800-536-8309 x4647

Cash Cars or Finance $2950 or less...

• ‘96 Cadillac • ‘89 Mercedes 300SE • ‘98 Pontiac Bonneville and more... $1950 or less...

• ‘94 Camry LE • ‘95 Mercury Tracer and more... $1450 or less • ‘93 Corolla and more...

Call:912-964-2440 FENDER BENDER? Paint & Body Work.

Reasonably Priced.

Insurance Claims.

We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

Motorcycles/ AtVs 940 For Sale, 2003 Harley Davidson 100th Anniversary Electra Glide Classic 22k miles, AM/FM/CD, $12,900 (912) 210-2144

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