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Pair of aces

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Wednesday

Chick Hatchery

What: Chatham County and

UGA Cooperative co-sponsor this event where families can go and watch baby chicks hatch. Volunteers will be on hand to answer questions.

When: Wed. March 31, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Thu. April 01, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Where: Macy’s at the Oglethorpe Mall, 7804 Abercorn St. Cost: Free

Film: Turkey Shoot (Australia, 1982)

What: This Australian cult

classic is set in a postapocalyptic 1995, a time when poor people are rounded up in herds and hunted by wealthy politicians and socialites. For mature audiences only.

When: Wed. March 31, 8 p.m.

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

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Thursday Film: La Graine et le Mulet What: An award-

winning French film about issues surrounding immigration, job insecurity and family. Part of AASU’s Francophone Film Festival.

When: Thu. April 01, 7 p.m.

Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium, 11935 Abercorn St. , Cost: Free

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An Evening with Dr. Cornel West

What: Scholar and activist speaks on societal issues.

When: April 1, 7pm Where: SSU Tiger Arena cost: $15 general admission (benefits MissSavannahState scholarship)

Saturday Board Game Fest 2010 What: Discover new board

games or enjoy old favorites while raising money for a worthy cause. All proceeds go toward Greenbriar Children’s Center.

When: Sat. April 3, 10 a.m.10 p.m.

Where: Morningstar Games, 30 W. Montgomery Crossroads Cost: $5 Info: 912-927-2770.

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Friday 2 Wheels 2 Work

What: A group ride where

free coffee from Jittery Joe’s and other refreshments will be served to all bicycle commuters.

When: 7:30 a.m. April 2 Where: Leaves from Habersham Village Shopping center and ends in Johnson Square Info: bicyclecampaign.org

For a complete list of concerts in the Savannah Music Festival, go to page 17; this is Bill Frisell

attendance, plus advisers to help with resume writing and more.

When: Fri. April 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Where: Eckburg Auditorium - Savannah Tech, 5717 White Bluff Rd., Cost: Free and open to the public

and watch the fireworks.

When: Fri. April 2, 7 p.m.

Where: Westin Savannah Harbor, Hutchinson Island

What: A French film set

during the Nazi Occupation of World War II. Part of the AASU Francophone Film Festival.

When: Fri. April 2, 6 p.m.

Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium, 11935 Abercorn St. , Cost: Free

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What: Fun activities,

First Friday Oyster Roast

Film: Un Secret

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What: Enjoy some oysters

Savannah Comedy Revue What: An evening of

comedy featuring a mix of local talent, including Phil Keeling, Tom Paris, Chris Soucy and Sarah Swafford and special guests.

When: Fri. April 2, 8 p.m.

Where: Bay St. Theater/ Club One, 1 Jefferson St. , Cost: $5

Theater: Twelve Angry Men What: The classic court-

room drama about a dissenting juror who tries to convince the others that the murder trial is not what it appears to be. Directed

by Chris Soucy.

When: Fri. April 2, 8 p.m.,

Sat. April 3, 8 p.m., Sun. April 4, 5 p.m.

Where: Indigo Arts Center, 703D Louisville Rd. Cost: $10/general admission

Film: Entre les Murs

What: A film about the dif-

ficulties of teaching French in post-colonial, multi-ethnic classrooms of modrn day France. Part of AASU’s Francophone Film Festival.

When: Fri. April 2, 8:30 p.m.

Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium, 11935 Abercorn St. , Cost: Free

First Friday Fireworks What: Celebrate the end of

the week with some pyrotechnics on the river.

When: Fri. April 2, 9:30 p.m.

Where: River Street Cost: Free Info: http://www.riverstreetsavannah.com/

stories, puppets, and an exciting Easter egg hunt.

When: Sat. April 3, 10 a.m.

Where: Roundhouse Railroad Museum, 601 W. Harris St. Cost: $6/child with paid adult admission Info: 912-651-6823. http:// www.chsgeorgia.org/

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

What: Featuring a variety

of arts, crafts and specialty foods vendors along with all the market’s usual produce and local goods.

When: Sat. April 3, 10 a.m.2 p.m.

Where: Polk’s Market, 530 E. Liberty St. Info: 912-238-3032. http:// polksfreshmarket.com/

Harley Demo Days

What: Test drive motor-

cycles. Free hot dogs and chips. Must have valid motorcycle license.

When: Sat. April 3, 11 a.m.2 p.m.

Where: Savannah Harley Davidson, Corner of I-95 and 204

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Spring Plant Swap

bi-annual plant swap event for everyone who is looking to freshen up their garden, whether you’re looking to give something away or find something new.

When: Sat. April 03, 8 a.m.-11 a.m.

Where: , 415 W. Boundary St. near Garrison Elementary, Cost:

What: Sample food,

dance and music from around the world without leaving Broughton Street.

Presented by SCAD with participation from several local businesses and cultural orgs.

When: Sat. April 3, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Where: In front of Jen Library, Broughton St. Between Lincoln and Abercorn Cost: Free

2nd Annual Egg Festival & Farm Tour

What: Celebrate local

farming with an egg hunt, quirky egg and chicken games, and impassioned farm tours.

When: Sat. April 3, 3 p.m.-6 p.m.

Where: Hope Grows Farms (formerly Adcote Acres), 284 Dover Rd, Sylvania Cost: $5 (RSVP required) Info: 912-863-6436.

Desoto Strut II What: Exhibits

with new work from local artists, open studios, live music and more in the Starland District.

When: Sat. April 3, 5 p.m.-10 p.m.

Where: Desoto Row, Desoto Ave between 40th and 41st Cost: Free

Dance: The Station

What: SCAD’s perform-

ing arts department presents this light-hearted dance production directed and choreographed by professor Vincent Brosseau.

When: Sat. April 3, 8 p.m., Sun. April 4, 3 p.m., Mon. April 5, 8 p.m.

Where: Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St. , Cost: $10/general, $5/ discounted Info: 912-525-5050.

Film: Les Amours d’Astree et de Celadon

What: A romantic drama

about a forbidden love affair between a shepherd and a shepherdess. Part of AASU’s Francophone Film Festival.

When: Sat. April 03, 8:30 p.m.

Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free

Easter Messiah Concert

What: Community chorus

performs.

When: April 3, 7 p.m.

Where: Hinesville Methodist Church Cost: Free

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Tuesday

CollegeFest 2010

What: The largest annual

inter-collegiate celebration in Coastal Georgia, including a battle of the bands, mechanical bull riding, swimsuit competition and more.

When: Sat. April 3, 6 p.m.

Where: Grayson Stadium Cost: $15 Info: http://www.savcollegefest.com/

Film: Azur et Asmar What: An animated fan-

tasy feature film about two boys raised together who later become bitter rivals. Part of the AASU Francophone Film Festival.

When: Sat. April 3, 6 p.m.

Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium, 11935 Abercorn St. , Cost: Free

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Lecture: Art & Archaeology at Grove’s

What: Ervan Garrison

highlights ongoing research at one of the more significant Native American and colonial archeological sites in Chatham County.

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

Where: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn St. Cost: Free

Toastmasters Seminar

What: A seminar discuss-

ing the importance of public speaking skills and how to combat fear.

When: Tue. April 6, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: Savannah Mall Community Room Cost: Free and open to the public

Skylite Jazz Band honors Ellington

What: The Savannah Arts

Academy Skylite Jazz Band is joined by a special guest to honor the legacy of Duke Ellington in music.

When: Tue. April 6, 7 p.m.

Where: Varnedoe Auditorium, 500 Washington Ave. Cost: $6

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Wednesday Film: Fortress of the Dead (Philippines, 1965)

What: Psychotronic Films

presents this Philipinomade, English language feature that is a Twilight Zone-esque tale of a deranged American GI who returns to a battlefield to confront the ghosts of his past.

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Let’s stop blaming teachers for everything

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

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Last week’s news that the entire staff of Beach High School will be out of a job at the end of the school year — principal, teachers, even the janitor — hit town like a thunderbolt.

While not entirely unexpected — the school was entering its eighth year on the “needs improvement” list, part of the No Child Left Behind Act’s Kafkaesque reforms — any time such drastic action is taken, it gets your attention.

The firing is not without national context: A high school in Rhode Island gained similar notoriety recently when all its teachers were terminated in similar fashion, as part of the socalled “turnaround model.” It’s all the rage.

In Beach High’s case, there’s the added creepiness factor of the quid pro quo the school received in exchange for firing the whole staff in one fell swoop: Instant qualification for $6 million in federal grants.

Basically, the government made Beach an offer it couldn’t refuse, a la Vito Corleone himself. What a shame our government stoops to Mafia tactics — but then again, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time.

It could very well be that every single teacher at Beach was subpar in some way and deserved to lose their jobs. Highly, highly unlikely, but possible.

But if so, why say that 49 percent of them can possibly be rehired, as is the case? Is that not the very definition of a bureaucratic dog–and– pony show designed to make people feel better rather than accomplish real change?

Accountability has to start at the top, not the bottom. I’d feel better about wholesale teacher firings if subpar administrators were likewise terminated with extreme prejudice.

I suspect even the fired teachers might feel just a little bit better, or at least not so uniquely persecuted.

This systematic bullying of teachers — who are still a pretty powerless group, despite political rhetoric to the contrary — smacks of blaming the victim. That always seems to be the easiest route, and an increasingly common aspect of American life and politics.

I don’t know how much longer politicians will be able to kick the can down the road by victimizing teachers while failing to address core issues. We are already at a crisis point.

The United States continues to plummet down the list of industrialized nations in terms of overall education, graduation rates, and particularly in math and science.

Our education crisis is nothing less than a national emergency, every bit on par with the threats of Islamic fundamentalism and nuclear proliferation. Perhaps even worse, because threats from within are always the most insidious and difficult to eradicate.

A teacher’s job would be hard enough even with full support from society: Long hours, dealing with problem students, dealing with problem parents, dealing with administrators, teaching for the test instead of the curriculum, saddled with textbooks that are tailored for the average school district in Texas.

But considering that teachers are rarely supported by society, and are instead generally blamed for society’s failures, I don’t know why teachers continue to do what they do.

But they do. Teachers voluntarily take up the profession knowing in advance that the pay is low, the hours long, and that they, not their superiors and not their elected school boards, will be held accountable for failings in the classroom — as well as outside the classroom!

Teachers in America, quite simply, are set up to fail.

This isn’t a hidden agenda, by the way, far from it. They know it, we know it, everyone knows it, but nothing’s ever done about it.

Like putting mercury in tooth fillings, it’s one of those obviously counterproductive things that makes no sense whatsoever, but that no one ever seems to argue with.

The clear alternative — holding parents accountable for students’ character and dedication — seems to be unthinkable.

It’s just so much easier to focus on teachers rather than on parents. You can fire teachers.

Let me be clear: I understand everyone’s gripes with teachers unions. There’s little doubt — and President Obama seems to agree on this point, by the way — that teachers unions in some cases act to shield subpar teachers from accountability.

But it’s important that we throw aside ideological blinders and look at the real issue: Students who for whatever reason refuse to learn are rarely held accountable. Their parents, who by definition have in some way fostered their children’s attitudes, are almost never held accountable.

Quite the opposite, in fact. In every school district all over the country, students with disciplinary problems — i.e., students who keep other students from learning — not only garner the bulk of teachers’ attention, they often indirectly garner the bulk of funding.

So how’s that workin’ out for ya?

In the case of Beach, things are working out to the tune of six million bucks. But after that money’s spent, then what?

Will the new teaching staff — presumably at least 51 percent all-new faces, as the law dictates — enjoy a higher level of support than the previous staff?

If not, then we may as well flush that $6 million down the toilet for all the good it will do.

(Meanwhile, students who actually want to learn are getting a hard-knocks education in how America really works: Do bad things, get attention and money. Do good things, and no one notices. Or in the Chatham County version, they’re often singled out and accused of being “elitist.” Hell of a lesson either way.)

What our politicians — and therefore the voters that put them in office — don’t seem to understand is that if our teachers fail, America fails. It really is that simple.

Everyone’s upset about health care reform.

But while Obama’s reforms are far from perfect, they can always be tweaked with subsequent legislation by subsequent congresses.

Everyone’s upset about the national debt.

But as President Clinton showed us, nations can cut deficits through wise policy, and we can sometimes even be left with a surplus.

But when you lose a generation of American children because of poor education, you lose them forever.

Game, set, match. No do–over.

Teachers are our last, best hope of fighting the destruction of society from within. Where the family fails, when home life isn’t what it needs to be, when the media peddles little else but sex and violence, teachers are the ones who can fill those gaps.

And on those wondrous occasions when parents and teachers are indeed working together — well, there’s literally no end to the good that can follow.

Our greatest asset as a country is not our guns or our bombs, not our money or our global influence, not our movies or our music.

It’s our people.

Education and character are what make people great. Parents and teachers are the ones best able to pass those lessons on.

Anyone who gets in the way of those lessons being passed on are the ones who are truly not doing their jobs. cs

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Blotter All cases from recent Savannah/Chatham Police Dept. incident reports

Stupid is as stupid does

A man was arrested for damaging the antique police cars parked outside police headquarters on Habersham Street.

Shortly after 3 a.m., detectives who were working late heard the sound of glass breaking outside.

They looked out a nearby window and saw a white male kicking the vehicles.

They went outside and the heavily inebriated suspect was detained. The driver’s side window was knocked out and both headlights were smashed. The vandal was from Arizona, so he may have been drunk enough to think he was just vandalizing antique cars parked on the sidewalk, not smashing cars right in front of the police station. This is probably one of the dumbest crimes of the year so far. He was charged with interfering with government

property and criminal trespass before being transported to CCDC. • Police were called in reference to an employee of a children’s store in the Oglethorpe Mall who had been caught processing fraudulent cash refunds and then taking the cash. She had done this 16 times in the past 2–3 weeks and racked up a total of $799.46 in illicit funds. The woman signed a written statement admitting to the crime. She was banned from the mall for five years, and a copy of the written statement was given to Precinct 4 detectives for followup.

• Shortly after 9 p.m. a 12–year old girl was struck by a vehicle while trying to cross the street. The girl had been walking home from the mall with two friends, ages 13 and 15, when she was hit by a northbound SUV on Hodgson Memorial.

The girls were not in the crosswalk. She suffered serious, but not life–threatening injuries, and was transported to the hospital for treatment. Forensics was called to the scene.

• While on patrol near Franklin Square an officer was stopped by a man who said that another man was threatening to hurt him. Man #1 stated that Man #2 had stored some possessions at his house and that he’d then come and taken away all of his stuff without any notice.

While in Franklin Square this morning, Man #2 began cursing and threatening him. Man #1 said that he was told by Man #2 that if he called the police he would kill him when he got out of jail.

The officer then spoke with Man #2 who said Man #1 was upset because he moved his stuff out of his house and that they’d argued, but nothing had happened. Both men were given CRN numbers.

• Shortly after 11 a.m., an officer spotted a man fitting the description of an earlier complaint. The officer stopped and asked the man if he had any weapons. The man said he did not. The officer then asked if she could search his person. He consented.

In his left coat pocket, the officer found a

small glass pipe “commonly used for smoking crack cocaine.” The man was arrested for possession of drug-related paraphernalia. The man said he had just finished smoking when the officer had approached him. The crack pipe was submitted to the evidence room.

• A woman called police shortly before 3 a.m. to report disorderly conduct and threat to injure. She told the officers that while discussing bills that needed to be paid with her daughter, the daughter’s boyfriend “Myron” interrupted the conversation and began yelling and cursing. He told the woman “I’ll beat you, you wouldn’t know what hit you.” She told him she was calling the police and he left. The woman doesn’t know his last name or his address, but she said they have ongoing issues. cs Give anonymous crime tips to Crimestoppers at 234-2020

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A friend recently told me about something called the Bohemian Grove where supposedly the leaders of our country meet annually to hold bizarre satanic rituals including burning things in front of a 40-foot statue of an owl. As proof she had me examine a dollar bill where in the corner there appears to be a tiny owl.

She went on to explain that if you look at the U.S. Capitol and grounds it looks like an owl. For the piece de resistance she sent me links to videos on YouTube â&#x20AC;&#x153;provingâ&#x20AC;? all this is true. What in the world is going on? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bill Leahy

This is the scene of an annual ceremony called the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cremation of Care,â&#x20AC;? where a â&#x20AC;&#x153;foul and pestilential demonâ&#x20AC;? (apparently sometimes a human effigy) is exorcised with fire by â&#x20AC;&#x153;the avenging power of goodness and light.â&#x20AC;? This was captured on video by an intrepid infiltrator; my assistant Una watched the footage on YouTube.

Her review: â&#x20AC;&#x153;High on stilted symbolism, low on human sacrifice, and less threatening than the last time I saw Kiss in concert.â&#x20AC;? However, once you realize those in attendance are largely Republicans, you can see where the timid might get the creeps.

As to the other claims: The club is a cabal of the rich and powerful. True, or at least truish. A 1991 study of members found 13 percent were on the boards of major companies.

Several U.S. presidents have been either members or guests, as have Supreme Court justices, Henry Kissinger, and other heavy hitters. Richard Nixon belonged but was caught on tape in 1971 saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time . . . it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.â&#x20AC;? Bill Clinton once said of the Grove, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where all those rich Republicans go up and stand naked against redwood trees, right?â&#x20AC;?

The club engages in drunken debauchery. We know they drink. And the Grove is near San Francisco. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m marking this one down as true too.

Owls hidden on the dollar bill and around the U.S. Capitol prove the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s influence. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposedly a microscopic owl is perched on the scroll framing the numeral 1 in the upper right corner of the billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obverseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; google â&#x20AC;&#x153;dollar bill Bohemian Groveâ&#x20AC;? for an enlarged view. The streets and paths surrounding the Capitol, meanwhile, form an arguably owl-like pattern when seen from above. Cynics point out that the grounds were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1874, a scant two years after the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founding.

But letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not get sidetracked. If you follow the news you know that any time the rich and powerful get together, chances are theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be up to no good.

And who knows, maybe the Bohemian Grove is one of the places where they hatch their nefarious schemes. But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget, to get any really serious dirty work done they have to fly back to D.C.

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• More Texas Justice: In March, juries in Smith County and Matagorda County sentenced Henry Wooten and Melvin Johnson III to 35 years and 60 years in prison, respectively, for possessing small amounts of drugs (but enough under Texas law to allow jurors to infer an intent to distribute). Wooten, 54, had 4.6 ounces of marijuana (same penalty as for 5 pounds), and Johnson had 1.3 grams of crack cocaine (about half the weight of a U.S. dime). (Wooten’s prosecutor actually had asked the jury for a sentence of 99 years.)

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a year plus health care (plus retirement benefits worth at least $82,000 a year). The New York Post reported that Rosenfeld reports to “the room” each day but works exclusively on his business affairs.

Inexplicable

• In January, Aretha Brown, 66, who has lived in the same house in Callahan, Fla., (pop. 962) for 30 years, suddenly became unable to leave her yard unless she crawled between CSX railroad cars blocking her access to the road.

Tracks had always been in place, but the railway only began storing train cars on them this year. CSX told The Florida Times-Union that it would soon build Brown an access road to the street.

• The entertainment manager at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England, announced in February a contest seeking foul-smelling urine. The park has introduced a live action horror maze based on scenes from the Saw movie series and decided that it was missing a “signature stench” to “really push the boundaries” of disgustingness. Manager Laura Sinclair suggested that submissions’ pungency would be enhanced after consumption of such foods as garlic and asparagus and offered a prize of the equivalent of about $750 for the winning urine.

• The Times of London reported in February that at least six local government councils have been so avid about enforcing street-parking rules that they have issued tickets to vehicles registered to their own governments. In at least two recent incidents (involving Islington and Kingston), the councils pursued collection all the way to traffic court (though only in the latter case did the adjudicator actually require the council to hand over a fine to itself).

• In February, the undergraduate dean’s office at Yale University disclosed that it was formally soliciting anonymous, first-person reports of student sexual experiences to publish on a school Web site, as “strategies for creatively navigating Yale’s sexual culture,” according to an advisor. “There is a real need for students to have space to think about what happens to them and what they want to have happen,” she said. “Sex@Yale” would contain “70 to 80” specific perspectives, she said, but critics suggested the anthology might grow to resemble Penthouse magazine’s often-ridiculed “Forum” section of lascivious fantasies.

• It’s Good to Be a British Welfare Mother: Under the government’s Local Housing Authority, Essma Marjam, age 34, unemployed and the mother of six, is entitled to rental assistance for a fivebedroom home, and the only suitable one she could find is in an exclusive London suburb in which her neighbor is Sir Paul McCartney. Luckily, the generous allowance (equivalent of more than $9,000 a month) covers the rent on the nearly $3 million (U.S. equivalent) mansion. (Additionally, according to Sub-Zero Tolerance the Daily Mail, Marjam’s non-housing • Seventh-grader Rachael Greer government benefits total the equivawas suspended from River Valley lent of about $22,000 a year.)

Middle School in Jefferson, Ind., • Alan Rosenfeld, 64, a New in February, even though she York City lawyer and real estate Fire The apparently did exactly what her Teachers, Then entrepreneur, is also a full-time parents and the school want kids No Child Will Be schoolteacher, although he has to do (“just say ‘no’” to drugs).

Left Behind been prohibited from teaching When a classmate handed since 2002 because of acher a prescription pill in gym cusations of leering at female class, she immediately handed students. He is thus a “rubber it right back. Nonetheless, an asroom” teacher whose union sistant principal, after investigatcontract requires full salary and ing the incident, suspended her for benefits even though the Schools five days because she had touched Chancellor has barred him from the pill. (He expressed regret but the classroom as a “danger” to said it is school policy.) students. The Department of Education pays him $100,000

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• A recent epiphany caused millionaire Austrian businessman Karl Rabeder, 47, to be depressed about his wealth, and by February, he was in the process of giving away an estate worth the equivalent of about $5 million. Two luxury properties are for sale, with proceeds going to charities he established in Central and South America, and he plans to move into a small hut in Innsbruck. “Money is counterproductive,” he told a reporter. “I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things that I did not wish or need.” (According to London’s Daily Telegraph, Rabeder’s wife was with him at the time of the epiphany, but curiously is silent about her view of his decision.)

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• Embarrassing: (1) In March, on duty on opening day of the jail at the new Adair County judicial center in Columbia, Ky., sheriff ’s deputy Charles Wright accidentally locked himself in a cell and was fired after he tried to shoot open the lock. (2) A Collier County, Fla., sheriff ’s deputy suffered a broken ankle when he and a colleague accidentally locked wheels while patrolling in Naples on their Segways.

• It wasn’t pretty, but sheriff ’s deputies in Montcalm County, Mich., got their man on March 3. Mark McCuaig, in court on an earlier charge, became unruly and escaped from two different sets of officers (despite a Tasering).

Another court officer tried to stop him outside, but McCuaig got loose (despite being maced). He locked himself inside a van, but officers surrounded it, broke a window, and Tasered him again, yet couldn’t stop McCuaig from driving off.

After a high-speed chase, state troopers disabled his tires with “stop sticks” but couldn’t apprehend him before he reached his home, where he barricaded himself. Officers surrounded the house, and four of them (plus a police dog) entered, but McCuaig escaped and got into another vehicle. Finally, after another chase, he was forced off the road, Tasered a third time, and subdued.

A News of the Weird Classic (January 2001) • An inmate was arrested in November 2000 with $12,300 hidden inside his rectum (eighty $100 bills, two $50s, and money orders worth $4,200). CS

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meet our timeline for making more electricity for customers,” said Beth Thomas, a spokeswoman for Southern Nuclear, when asked why the AP1000 was chosen over other possible reactors.

“The AP1000 design received NRC certification.”

Although a version of the AP1000 had been certified several years ago, in 2007, several revisions were made to the design of the reactor, “modifications that will aid in reducing the cost, schedule and risks for utilities,” according to expert testimony from Dr. Bill Jacobs given during hearings at the Public Service Commission.

Since those revisions were requested, the new design has yet to meet the NRC’s standards, and no one is sure how long the process will actually take.

“The short answer to how long this is going to take is ‘it depends,’” says Scott Burrell, a Public Affairs Officer for the NRC. “The basic idea here is to set the design in stone before you start pouring concrete.”

Under the old system, companies received licenses to construct reactors while still negotiating aspects of the design, prior to receiving their operating license. The two–part licensing process led to situations where reactors were built, or partially finished, but then abandoned after failing to receive an operating license.

“It’s a completely different licensing scheme now for the applications that we currently have in house and are reviewing, including the ones for Vogtle,” explains Roger Hannah, a Senior Public Affairs Officer for the NRC in Atlanta.

Although the new licensing process was created to help streamline things for utilities and staff alike, this is the first time that a company has tried to certify a reactor design and apply for a COL at the same time, explains Burrell.

Even if the NRC approves the reactor design and the COL, there are more question marks lining the path to Vogtle’s expansion.

No one actually knows how long construction will take because no one has ever successfully built an AP1000 reactor that is operational. There are currently four under construction in China, using a different design (the one approved in ’06), but they won’t be completed for several more years at the earliest.

“It is likely that problems will be encountered during the construction process that will require redesign and rework,” said Dr. Jacobs during his testimony to the PSC in December 2008.

He went on to explain that although the expansion of Plant Vogtle is being carried out by a consortium of utility companies, he was uncertain about Georgia Power’s cost projections for the project.

“It is highly improbable that this very large and complicated project will be constructed with no additional cost to the company beyond the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract,” explained Jacobs.

The dilemma raised by an inflating price tag for construction is that Georgia Power’s shareholders have made it abundantly clear they will not pay for any overage of cost (For more on this, see Part One: “Nuclear Bailout”).

“It is my understanding that the company’s position is that, absent imprudence, all cost overruns will be allocated between the consortium and the ratepayer,” says Jacobs. “The company should be willing to bear a reasonable share of the risk of this project. To use a common phrase, the company should have ‘some skin in the game.’”

“We’ve said that we expect the project to be on schedule and on budget. That’s what we’ve been saying since the beginning,” says Jeff Wilson, a spokesman for Georgia Power.

But at the moment, the utility company seems to be the only one certain that this will be done on schedule and at the current budget.

In the EPC Contract , according to analysis by Jacobs, “the cost of certain materials and labors are indexed so that the final price of the units will not be known until they are completed.”

Quickly rising price tags for nuclear projects are no great surprise, even with the support of federal tax dollars.

Potential nuclear reactor construction in Texas and Florida has been delayed recently, or scrapped altogether, because of multi–billion dollar cost increases combined with a decreased likelihood of available funding from the feds and ratepayers.

Regardless of the status of the project, the monthly charge mandated to Georgia Power ratepayers (see Part Two: “The Price of Power”) starts in January 2011, and if the project is delayed or never completes the license process with the NRC, then there is no mechanism in place to return the money customers have been charged.

If the project goes over budget, then ratepayers will be stuck footing the bill for an indefinite sum of money - paid over an indefinite period of time - that they have no chance of getting back. CS

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While Savannah wears its history on its sleeve, there’s still a considerable amount of the city’s past that remains buried — not in cemeteries, per se — but all across the area.

At the Grove’s Creek site, on Skidaway Island, UGA professor Erv Garrison has spent the last 17 years helping to uncover the remains of a pre–European contact Native American village belonging to the Guale people (pronounced “Wally”).

Garrison will give a lecture on Tues., April 6 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church discussing recently unearthed discoveries that have helped change the understanding of how indigenous peoples lived in the region.

His appearance at SCAD is part of the annual lecture series presented by the Architectural History Department.

“There are all kinds of way that individuals perceive Savannah, that quintessential antebellum image of the community,” says Jeff Eley, Chair of SCAD’s Architectural History Department, “but the history of architecture and the history of building in this community goes much earlier.”

Of particular interest was the discovery that the Guale maintained yearround residence on Skidaway, including adjacent summer and winter dwellings, as well as agricultural sites. It was previously thought that they were more seasonal residents, like Late Pre–Historic snowbirds.

Although there are other sites in the area dating from around the same historical period, including a well–known site on St. Catherine’s Island, Garrison and his team of students and volunteers have been the most successful at uncovering two Guale residences.

“We’ve got two that basically burned and fell down, but you can sort of see how these things went together,” says Garrison.

Although excavation is currently on hold, Garrison is trying to secure grant funding to reconstruct a facsimile of the residences so visitors will be able to get a better understanding of native culture.

The Grove Creek site was first excavated back in the mid–1980s by then–AASU professor Dr. Larry Bab-

bitt, who handed it off to Garrison in 1993.

“Little did I know what I was getting into,” he says with a chuckle. “If you asked me in 1993 what was going on at Grove’s Creek, I probably would have looked at you like an owl.”

Although early America wasn’t his area of expertise (Garrison has spent more time on digs in Europe), he has grown fond of Grove Creek in the subsequent 17 years, particularly the pace of the work — even archaeology around Savannah moves a little more slowly.

“In today’s archaeology, most digs are done almost exclusively in relation to some sort of land clearance or road construction or the building of a mall,” Garrison explains. “They always have time pressure and very few excavations in today’s world are exempt from that.”

Because the Grove Creek site is on university property, it isn’t threatened by development. Research has continued undisturbed for more than two decades. That span of time has been significant because some of the most important discoveries have only come about in the last five or six years.

“We can do excavations where we can step back and think about it,” Garrison says. “A lot of my colleagues, if you ask them what they would want, it would be time to sit back and think and reflect.”

On the other side of the city, Rita Elliott, Curator of Exhibits and Archaeology for the Coastal Heritage Society is reflecting on all that their dig behind the Roundhouse Museum has uncovered in the past couple weeks.

“Savannah has an incredibly significant amount of archaeology beneath its feet ranging from 10,000 years of Native American sites to colonial, 19th and 20th century sites, and even underwater sites,” Elliott explains.

The CHS is conducting an archaeological survey of the area because they are about to run some water, sewer and electric lines to the future site of the Children’s Museum.

Digging in the dirt: Dr. Erv Garrison (above) has spent 17 years uncovering the history of the Grove Creek Site (bottom right). The CHS dig at the Roundhouse (left).

“CHS takes stewardship seriously and does archaeological investigations prior to ground-disturbing activities on the venues we manage,” says Elliott.

So far, they’ve uncovered what appears to be the original wheelhouse of the old depot, part of the transfer table, and another structure that might not have been previously recorded.

To the untrained eye, she’s standing next to a big hole in the ground, but with some explanation, a narrative emerges from the dirt. There are visible lines of different-colored dirt running across the walls of the hole. Each different color represents a different era of in–fill, spots where previous generations had covered old railroad construction.

“In 200 years, when someone comes along, they’ll find our trench,” she says, “although we’ll probably have a report they can read too.”

The excavation near the Roundhouse is just a warm-up for another round of digging that Elliott and her crew hope will begin in the next couple of weeks, searching for undiscovered remnants of

Revolutionary War sites around the city.

Savannah is no stranger to exploration, and several significant sites, including the Deptford sites (approximately 2500–100 BCE) and the Irene Mound, have become part of the canon of American archaeological study.

Even though there’ve been decades worth of digs here, a lot of history remains buried. As more of it is discovered, those pieces will help fill in the gaps of our knowledge about the past.

“An archaeologist is never given all the facts, so what you’re trying to do is fill those blanks in,” Garrison explains.

“Once you have some of the facts, you try to put it in a holistic picture of what actually went on at that time. When you think you understand that, it’s kind of fun.” cs Lecture by Dr. Ervan Garrison When: April 6, 6:30 p.m.

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JOE BUCK

With hillbilly teeth, an extremely weird haircut and music that sounds like blues, Appalachian, punk and metal when it’s all been mixed in a blender, Joe Buck – also known as Joe Buck Yourself – is certainly one of Nashville’s most original exports. He gained notoriety as Hank Williams III’s standup bass–playing foil in the Damn Band, and in Assjack (he was also the brains behind Tennessee’s snarling Legendary Shack Shakers). Buck is now a “bona fide evil motherfucking one man band” (his description) who plays guitar and drums, at the same time, sings and screams and glares maniacally.

Think of Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly Story, drop some acid in his java, and you get the idea. Listen & learn: www.joebuckyourself.com.

At 11 p.m. Friday, April 2 at the Jinx, 127 W. Congress St.

LUBRIPHONIC/YO MAMA’S BIG FAT BOOTY BAND

From the mean streets (and the blues clubs) of Chicago comes the mighty Lubriphonic, a funk/soul band with the combined chops of seven of the Windy City’s hottest young players. Band founder (and lead singer) Giles Corey is a smoking–hot guitarist whose shredding licks dive like kamikaze planes into the phat lines of the three–member Lubriphonic horn section – his work reminds me of the late Terry Kath, who worked wonders in another horn–based band from northern Illinois.

Maybe you remember them – Chicago Transit Authority? The rhythm section is unstoppable.

Lubriphonic opens this show for North Carolina’s delightfully– named Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, which – along with its own

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With a cult following as big as his adoptive home state of Colorado, singer/songwriter Jerry Joseph is one of those guys you’ve probably never heard of, but throw enough stones and you’ll hit someone who has.

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A marble–mouthed, guitar–wielding performer whose

rich, lyrical songs often invoke historical (and hysterical) figures, Joseph fronted the Rocky Mountain reggae band Little Women, and during his stay in Utah, he had a crunch/hardcore outfit called the Jackmormons. The band relocated to Oregon and (almost) conquered the world.

These days, he lives in New York City, tours in duos and trios, and as a solo (which is the way he’ll play this Live Wire show).

Conscious Contact, the Jackmormons’ 2002 release, was produced by Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools (Joseph and Schools did a brief tour of Europe together, calling themselves the Stockholm Syndrome). Joseph, and the still–gigging Jackmormons, are friendly with the Panic boys, and often appear on the same jam–band festival bills.

Joseph’s been around so long, he claims he doesn’t even know how many records he’s put out. What he does know, for sure, is that his records aren’t paying the bills – that’s why he tours, and tours constantly. “I’m also getting involved with stuff like MySpace and Facebook,” he told an interviewer. “All these tools I kind of avoided for a long time, because, well, I didn’t need to talk to someone I slept with in 1986.

“There’s got to be a way to navigate that effectively and still have a life. So many musicians seem to sit around and monitor their own shit; I’d rather monitor what TV On the Radio’s up to than my own shit.” Listen & learn: www. jerryjoseph.com.

At 10 p.m. Friday, April 2 at Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. Bret Mosley opens. $12.

fusion–inspired originals – makes a joyful, funky noise out of everyone from Miles Davis to Santana.

And, of course, they draw from the Parliament/Funkadelic well, the source from which all beautiful funk flows. Listen & learn: www. lubriphonic.com, www.bootyband. com.

At 9 p.m. Saturday, April 3 at Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $8.

RANDOM RABBIT

Follow Johnny Depp down the hole in Alice’s garden, and when you come out on the other side you may well find your psychedelic self whirling to a soundtrack by this Atlanta–based electronica band, with surreal soundscapes that swirl and ascend. Andrew Provine, Charles Pazinets and Adam Ryan Herbert don’t use laptops, as far as I can tell – it’s

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live, atmospheric electronica, created with synths, loops and real keyboards, with real guitars and – gasp! – real drums and percussion.

Far out. Listen & learn: www. myspace.com.1randomrabbit.

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Fiddler’s Crab House (River Street) Eric Culberson Blues Band (Live Music) Fuddrucker’s Liquid Ginger (Live Music) 9:30 p.m.

Jazz Corner (Hilton Head) Mose Allison (Live Music) The great blues/jazz singer/songwriter and pianist 8 p.m.

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Loco’s Grill & Pub Brock Butler (Live Music) A solo show from the Perpetual Groove guitarist Mercury Lounge Josh Maul Blues Band Molly McPherson’s Scottish Pub Georgia Kyle (Live Music) 10 p.m.

Molly McPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) Greg Williams (Live Music) 9 p.m.

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

Tantra Lounge Permanent Tourist (Live Music) 9:30 p.m.

Tortugas Island Grille Jan Spillane (Live Music) 8:30 p.m.

Warehouse Bottles & Cans (Live Music) 8 p.m.

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Emerson String Quartet. At 6:15 p.m., Telfair Academy. $47.

Dick Hyman, Howard Alden and Ken Peplowskli/Gerald Clayton Trio. At 8:30 p.m., Morris Center. $37.

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Ken Peplowski and Howard Alden.

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Ben Tucker & Friends: 80th Birthday Celebration. At 5:30 p.m., Charles H. Morris Center. $37.

Sensations 4: Forbidden Music. At 6:15 p.m., Temple Mickve Israel. $47.

Derek Trucks/Susan Tedeschi Band.

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Derek Trucks on music, magic, and his new project with Susan Tedeschi

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The buzz started circulating when Derek Trucks was 11 years old. He was the nephew of Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks, and he played incredibly, unbelievably soulful slide guitar.

Word was that this little tow–headed kid was the reincarnation of Uncle Butch’s late bandmate, Duane Allman.

Derek, in fact, was named for the band Allman and Eric Clapton had once formed, Derek and the Dominos, for the classic, one–off album Layla.

It turned out the rumors were true – at least the part about the kid’s name, and his mazing guitar work. He first sat in with the vaunted Allman band at the age of 15; a year later, he started the Derek Trucks Band, and although the lineup has shifted a bit over the years, it’s still a going concern.

Now 31, Trucks has been around longer than Duane Allman was, and his reputation has been set in the Grauman’s Chinese of rock legend: Rolling Stone named him 81st on its list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” he’s a full–fledged member of the Allman Brothers Band, and he’s recorded and toured with everyone from Buddy Guy to Bela Fleck.

In 2007, Clapton himself hired Trucks to play second guitar on a round–the–world tour. Featuring a Layla–heavy set, the concerts gave Clapton his best reviews in years – audiences swore that, indeed, Duane’s spirit was in the music, his smoking ring finger tucked inside Derek’s bottleneck slide.

Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi live in Jacksonville, Fla. (Trucks’ hometown) with their two young children.

The versatile Derek Trucks Band plays a heady mix of electric blues, steamrolling jazz/funk, and inspired cocktails of Latin, African and other styles. The band is, needless to say, a favorite among jam band aficionados, who can stand in fields, slack–jawed, and watch the phenomenal Trucks burn sonic holes in the universe.

Trucks is married to blues singer/ songwriter Susan Tedeschi, and although they’ve often performed onstage together, Thursday’s Savannah Music Festival show will mark the debut – the very first performance – of their new joint venture. A short tour will follow.

The couple and their two young children reside in Jacksonville, Fla., Trucks’ hometown. Trucks called from a New York hotel room the morning after playing a Jimmy Fallon Show with the Allmans.

Why this new co–project, and why now?

Derek Trucks: There’s a lot of reasons.

One, our kids are at an age now where they’re in school; they’re not able to just

hit the road with us, as before. It was easier for us in the past to just be on the move and on the road and take the kids with us. Meet up on the road and see each other. Not pulling them out of school, it’s a lot more difficult to keep the family as close as we want it to be.

When they were smaller, having two bands made more sense. It’s what we’ve been doing forever.

Also, we’ve been talking about really trying to do this for years. The timing just finally feels right. I had been hittin’ it with my band for 16 years, so I almost felt like I needed a little break from it anyways. I think we did our best record, and maybe our best tour, but sometimes when you’re hittin’ those peaks you almost feel like that’s a good time to step away. Rather than riding that peak back down. I think in a way we really got out on top of that cycle with the band.

And then things are changing with the Allman Brothers. Touring a lot less with them, and I really wanted to think a few years down the road and try to set something up with Susan so we could

kind of write our own story ... where we get to be home a lot more, and we get to record and write together. There’s a lot of reasons. Everything’s factored in.

When you and Susan met, obviously you hit it off personally, but was it musical, too?

Derek Trucks: Oh yeah, no doubt about it. Both of us, so much of our mental and emotional energy was invested in music – and almost music alone – that I think you need that connection. Music’s not really something you ever need to get away from. It’s not like working in an office, and when you get home you don’t want to talk about it. The part of the music business that’s a pain in the ass is the business side of it, and the traveling. But it’s not the music, so if you have that part in common, I think it only helps.

Tell me who’s in the band and what you’re going to be doing. Is it all new?

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The Derek Trucks Band has a live album, Roadsongs, coming out. Are you pleased with it?

Derek Trucks: I just got the masters from Sterling Sound up here in New York and I listened to it at 1:30 in the morning last night. It feels really good, man, I’m really excited. We did a bunch of shows last year, including two in Chicago. Both nights were great, but I remember the second night especially. I think a few people in the band independently made the comment that if we do a live record, that should be one of the first looks.

We compiled the live record from those two nights, with an emphasis on the second show. It turned out really great. I think it’s a great stamp on that last year, and on that phase of the band.

After this project, the Derek Trucks Band will come back, right?

Derek Trucks: There’s really no plans.

For the first time in my adult life, I wanted to kind of leave the door open

and not box myself in. But, you know, it’s 16 years with these guys, and there’s a huge amount of loyalty running both ways, so I’m sure we’ll do something down the road. But I didn’t want to give the project that we were jumping into a definite timeline before we started, you know? Like “Don’t invest too much of your heart in it, ‘cause we’re done in a year.”

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Once you started gigging at age 11 or 12, was there ever anything else for you?

Derek Trucks: Even if I couldn’t see the road or how it was gonna end up, there was always this feeling of “This is what you’re going to be doing.” It seemed inevitable, once it started. Not in a forboding way, like in a way where you’re almost willing it to happen.

Especially the early years, when we were trying to sign our first record deal.

When the band really came together. It wasn’t blues enough for the blues labels, it wasn’t jazz enough for the jazz labels.

It wasn’t pop enough for the major labels. It was one of those things where you really had to be stubborn and stick to what you believed in. And keep plugging away.

Looking back, I think I enjoyed those years as much as anything that’s happened since. You’re kind of on a mission as a group, and you don’t really care what people think. Especially labels and critics, and you’re just like “You know what, fuck it. We’re right.”

Without the connection to the Allman Brothers, do you think it would’ve been harder for you to achieve some kind of success? Wouldn’t you have been banging on a lot more doors?

Derek Trucks: I think it certainly factored in. I think it was a double–edge sword, especially when we started experimenting more. There were so many people that expected to hear an Allman Brothers–derived group. I think we had to maybe bang a little harder to write the story the way we wanted to write it.

Certainly in the early years it was something to write about, and it was something for promoters to talk about and put on flyers. But when you’re dealing with a 9– or 10–year–old kid, or even 14 or 15, just the novelty of that is enough to get people to look.

End of the day, you either keep doing it – and it’s worth doing and people come around – or it doesn’t happen for you. I think the story only gets you so far.

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in just for a little bit of continuity, and just because we haven’t played together with this group. But for the most part, we spent probably three–plus weeks just writing and hanging out and getting comfortable with different musicians.

We had a lot of people coming through and throwing in ideas.

The core of it is Oteil Burbridge and Kofi Burbridge, the two brothers, and me and Susan. Mike Mattison, the singer from the Derek Trucks Band, he’s doing some background stuff with another great singer from New York named Nigel Hall. Tyler Greenwell, who is Susan’s drummer from her band, and a drummer named J.J. Johnson, who was playing with Doyle Bramhall for a while. That’s the group that we’re going to take out.

But we really are just experimenting a lot this year with the songwriting, and the way the show feels. We’re really excited, because there’s a ton of new material. Just in the first three or four days we started writing, there was dozens of ideas. And I think about 20–something of those turned into finished songs.

There’s probably another 30 seeds of songs laying around. So it was a really productive time.

We want to make it, in the first few weeks of gigging, almost an all–original project. I still like interpreting covers. I think in blues and jazz, and the realm that we come from, it’s kind of the way you do things. You honor the past and you tip your hat to where it came from.

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easily, maybe the Allman Brothers factor would have been a bigger thing. But there was a solid 10 years of the group being in the red. So whatever it was, it wasn’t helping that much!

How much of an influence was Duane’s playing on what you did then, and how you do it now?

Derek Trucks: Early on, that was the first music I heard and really cared about. Where you dig in, and you feel like there’s more to the story, and it’s not entertainment at that point, it’s something you want to find out about.

It was really his playing as much as anything else in the band. I think your first influence sticks with you the hardest. It’s always there.

And then later, joining the band and then doing the Clapton tour and doing all the Dominos tunes, it gave me a chance later in life to re–visit that stuff – I didn’t lose any love for it, I just didn’t listen to it for years. Getting to dig back into it, and having to learn the tunes, was great. His playing is a huge part of me getting started, and essentially what I do.

Clapton is iconic, of course, but how much of an intuitive musician is he?

Were you able to draw him out? Is he still a great player?

Derek Trucks: He’s one of those guys ... he came out of the gate so burnin’ and then kind of changed his focus from that to songwriting. I think the Dominos was that transition. That’s why I love those records so much, ‘cause he was still completely on fire. But the songs were better than anything he had done before. I think it’s that perfect crossroads in his career.

He’s gone through so many stages.

Being around him, I really learned to appreciate that more, thinking about guys like Miles Davis and other people

“Music’s not something you ever really need to get away from,” says Trucks about blending home and work with his wife.

that kind of refused to be boxed in. Just keep rolling, no matter what people expect of you.

But at the end of the day, there was a handful of shows on that tour where he would reach into his back pocket and break out that knife. And deliver.

He always played way above average.

He’s a consummate professional; he always delivers.

He’s one of those guys that doesn’t show his whole bag of tricks every night. That’s something that I enjoy as a musician. There’s some nights where you just want to feel like you’ve been taken to the cleaners, and you’re just dead after the show. Because somebody just whooped your ass. And other

nights it was nice that not everything was said.

There was a few nights on that tour where I’d almost forgotten that he could really dig super–deep and do it. There’d be a night where halfway through the show you’re like “Oh yeah – that’s Eric Clapton! Jesus Christ!”

What’s up with the Allman Brothers Band? Where are we?

Derek Trucks: Last year, the 40th anniversary, especially the Beacon Theatre run, was the greatest I’ve ever seen the band play in my lifetime. I saw them for years before I was in the band. But I think last year there was a really magical peak at the Beacon.

As far as hittin’ the road heavily, or doing that, I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen again. I feel like it’s really kind of the natural winding down of things with the band. It’s a natural thing.

And I think as long as it’s done right, and as long as every show the band plays now is up to its standards, then it’s gonna keep rolling as long as it can. CS Derek Trucks/Susan Tedeschi Savannah Music Festival Where: Johnny Mercer Theatre, Savannah Civic Center, 301 W. Oglethorpe Ave. When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1 Tickets: $27–$73 Online: www.savannahmusicfestival.org

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Like son, like father

A conversation with mandolinist Ronnie McCoury of bluegrass’ Del McCoury Band

by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

Not only is he one of the most revered figures in bluegrass, Del McCoury is considered the genre’s most progressive old pro; the Del McCoury Band is known for its innovative song choices and arrangements, and for pushing the proverbial envelope, tradition–wise.

Still, for that Appalachian “high lonesome” sound, he is the vocalist to beat.

McCoury, a banjo player who made his Big Time debut as a member of Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys in 1964, has few, if any, equals.

The Del McCoury Band performs Saturday, April 3, the last show in the 2010 Savannah Music Festival’s Con-

nect Americana series.

While Del was away dealing with a family emergency, his son Ronnie took a few minutes to talk to us. A member of the Del McCoury Band since 1981 (when it was still the Dixie Pals) Ronnie McCoury is a mandolin player and harmony vocalist who’s made several solo recordings, including a children’s bluegrass album, Little Mo’ McCoury.

The band also includes Ronnie’s brother Robbie on banjo, fiddler Jason Carter and bassist Alan Bartram.

Together, these four sometimes tour and record (without Daddy Del) as the Travelin’ McCourys. Shortly after the full band’s Savannah gig, the Travelin’ McCourys will embark on a monthlong national tour backing country superstar Dierks Bentley.

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Ronnie McCoury: When I started with my dad’s band, I’d just turned 14. I’m 43 now. I never thought anything else. And when I got older, and into high school and all my buddies were talking college, I just wasn’t thinking that way.

I didn’t know what we’d be able to do. My dad always had a side job – he worked in the timber business. He was a logging man. About the time I graduated school, in 1985, he had decided he was doing it enough, that he didn’t have to have a day job. I guess he knew he had at least the core of a band, and he had the time.

My dad was a weekend warrior. He could make some trips, though. The northeast, you know – in 400 miles you could be everywhere in the northeast from where we were at in Pennsylvania.

Then he started going out west – they’d go play in, say, Oklahoma. He did that all through the ‘70s.

All the band members in the Dixie Pals had day jobs. That’s just what you did. You worked hard and you played on the weekends.

I always thought it was interesting that the band was called the Dixie Pals when you were based in Pennsylvania, pretty far from Dixie.

Ronnie McCoury: (laughing) Yeah, but I think most of those guys had roots in the south. One of the guys in the band, way back, had said “You’ve got to have a band name. The Dixie Pals!” My dad’s easygoing and he just stuck with it. In a way I wish we’d kept it, I really do.

Do you remember thinking “OK, I can do this and make a living”?

Ronnie McCoury: Sure, because we had been around David Grisman. Here’s a guy that was very successful, making a living playing the mandolin. Not even being a vocalist but playing the

mandolin. And that kind of stuff hit me because he wasn’t just a bluegrass mandolin player. He was a mandolin player’s mandolin player.

I was 18, 19 and we went to his house. He was somebody I looked up to. Besides all of my heroes, from Bill Monroe to whatever. Bill Monroe’s just on a whole other level than everybody, to me.

I guess if there was a kind of epiphany or anything, it would have been in my early 20s, when we decided to make the Nashville move. We came down thinking well, if we do it and it works, good. If not, my parents kept their house up north. That’s when we all started really trying to do it. Because of that, we all focused more, I think. And then we started getting some accolades.

Does it help you to draw from outside the well, as it were, and bring other musical styles and influences into what you do with the Del McCoury Band?

Ronnie McCoury: I think so, and I think Dad would say that too. My brother and myself, we listened to all kinds of music that every teenager listens to – in the ‘70s and ’80s, classic rock and Southern rock. And realizing that there’s a lot of elements of what we do in that kind of music.

I read one time where Carl Perkins said “All we were trying to do in Memphis was trying to put rhythm ‘n’ blues and bluegrass together.” Things like that kind of stick with you.

We worked with Jerry Douglas when I was in my 20s, and he kinda made us think a little outside the box in some way.

A lot of people say “We like the traditional better.” They call us a traditional bluegrass band, but we have been able to step outside that box, in and out.

My dad’s voice is what it is – it’s high,

and it’s lonesome. Whatever he sings, he just puts his mark on it. He’s like a lot of great singers – when they sing it, it don’t seem like the same song. It’s their song.

You made a record, The Mountain, with Steve Earle. That’s outside the box.

How did that come about?

Ronnie McCoury: My dad cut one of his songs called “Call Me If You Need a Fool.” It was kind of a short song, and the record company called Steve up and asked if he would write another verse.

This was in 1990. And I think that was the first thing Steve wrote in four years; he was in a real downward spiral there for a while. And it lifted him up.

He wrote it and faxed it to the studio.

Later on, we were in Nashville. We didn’t know each other. We were playing, and he came to us – he wanted to make a bluegrass record and would like for us to back him up. In a month or two, he had it written; we got into it and made it. It’s all very, very live. We did it in one room, just like you’d be standing in front of a microphone, you know?

Tell me about the Travelin’ McCourys.

Ronnie McCoury: Basically, my dad wants us to get out and get our feet wet and be prepared for the future. So we do that, and we have a rotating guitar player. We do all the singing. It’s kind of taken off.

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The master from Mali

Bassekou Kouyate makes magic on an African folk instrument Let me get right to the point: Bassekou Kouyate is one of the best musicians in the world today. But you don’t have to take my word for it.

Then there is the special voice of the n’goni which can slide around the main notes, and is not fixed to specific notes like many other instruments. In short it is just like the human voice and can adapt to any musical style.

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Check him out on YouTube, whether in concert or just in his living room with a few friends, tearing it up on his n’goni, an African lute–like instrument that is an ancestor to the banjo. His fingers move in a blur, playing complex, lilting runs up and down the neck of this deceptively simple yet amazingly versatile instrument.

You can see Bassekou Kouyate this Friday and Saturday at the Charles H. Morris Center as part of the Savannah Music Festival. For this gig he is traveling with his backing band, N’Goni Ba, which I’m told simply means “n’goni band.” Like I said, deceptively simple.

He’ll be sharing a double bill with another musician who’s not too shabby, jazz/prog/folk guitar whiz Bill Frisell.

Some people will know Kouyate from his collaborations with the U.S. banjo master Bela Fleck, who performed at the Savannah Music Festival last year with a group of African traditional musicians. We recently had an e–mail interview with Kouyate, who is actually the son of the great Malian n’goni master Moustapha Kouyate.

The younger Mr. Kouyate’s English is not the best — then again, it’s a lot better than my Fula, the main language in his part of Mali, his home country in Africa. So translator Violet Diallo kindly helped us out.

How did your father teach you to play the n’goni ? Have you learned anything about the instrument that your father didn’t know?

Bassekou Kouyate: The traditional way of learning to play an instrument, or singing, is to listen to a master player or a vocalist, and try to imitate until you can do it too. I am still learning from my father and my grandfather through very old recordings (my father’s was made without his knowledge – he was against anything electric). I keep the CDs in my car in Bamako and listen to them often driving on the road to my village.

No, I don’t know anything new about the instrument that my father played: I’m still his student, but I do know some things he never suspected about how you can make n’gonis of different sizes with different sounds, and you can play types of music my father never heard, but I think he’d have liked them.

What makes the n’goni such a special instrument?

Unfortunately most Americans are not familiar with Mali and its musical tradition. Please describe what makes your home country so unique and why the music there is so influential.

Bassekou Kouyate: First of all it has a history — one of the longest in Africa.

Next, it is adaptable and has changed over the centuries from being based on a calabash, which was fragile, to being made of wood like mine today.

It also has a lot of music composed for it by master players over the century and this has inspired each one to elaborate on the music he was taught in the family, and to compose his own – both the music and lyrics: you have to know how to do both.

Bassekou Kouyate: Mali is a huge county, like the United States, but until quite recently people in the country lived a very traditional life: and even in town it is usual to find families of around 50 people all living around one yard, and of all different ages.

Each area is home to a mixed population, but has one ethnic group that is recognized as really belonging there: the Bamana in Segou, the Fula in Mopti, the Sonink in Kayes, the Touareg in Timbuktou and Gao.

The adaptable n’goni, says Bassekou Kouyate, is ‘just like the human voice.’

Each of these groups preferred their own language, their special food, ways of dressing, kinds of work, and of course their own music. It is because the modern ways came quite late to Mali that people are still close to all these things from their own ethnic groups.

With independence (we are celebrating our 50th anniversary this year) we began to take a real pride in our regional types of music that the first government encouraged. Between the local orchestras that were encouraged in every town and village, the start of the national radio, and national competitions for the arts, there was a great swell of interest in a whole variety of types of music, and this has carried on to this day: it is why Mali is so rich in music and you are all welcome to come from North America to come and hear it for yourselves.

Just take a walk in the streets on a Friday or Saturday night, or call at a wedding party on Thursday or Sunday What can African music teach musicians from other genres? What have you learned from other genres?

Bassekou Kouyate: I think we can learn a lot from listening to wonderful masters of music, just like my father. Then we can see how inventive Americans are and how much they love to dance. We can learn a lot from their generosity and willingness to listen to other people’s music, even if it seems a bit strange to

them at first. I don’t think we are always very good at that – we always want to stay with our own regional music.

What can Americans learn from us?

Well I hope they know from all the Malians that come to North America that we have a real culture of music, and that we too like to get people to dance and are sensitive to their reactions: I hope they feel and hear that.

What has your friendship with Bela Fleck meant to you personally and to your career?

Bassekou Kouyate: From the time he came to see me in Bamako and began to record he sessions we played together, Bela is like a real brother. I have never known anyone so quick to pick up other people’s music — he’s extraordinary. I am really grateful to him for the opportunity to play this year’s tour with him.

Can you imagine what it means that we have been introduced all over the US

by Bela, and immediately after he won his two Grammys – we are so lucky!

And it has been so good to tour with his entire group. What an experience. CS Bassekou Kouyate When: April 2 & 3, each day at 6:30 and 9 p.m.

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by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

Seconds before Wilco opened its show this past Thursday night with the self–titled opening song “Wilco” from their newest album, the sell–out crowd at the Johnny Mercer Theatre stood up.

And stood. And stood. And stood some more.

While my understanding is that Wilco audiences are “supposed” to stand at the band’s shows (haven’t rock ‘n’ roll audiences always stood at really good concerts? When did this become unusual?), this audience would have taken to its collective feet regardless of hipster protocol.

The audience remainded standing, in fact, for pretty much the entire three– hour marathon concert (no opening band!). This rowdy yet ultimately respectful behavior reminded me just how starved Savannah is for full-on, honest-to-God rock ‘n’ roll shows with stage rigs and lighting displays.

Old–timers among us remember when big–time rock acts were constantly in and out of the Civic Center. In the ‘70s and ’80s, this place was Rock ’N’ Roll Central, believe it or not. But by the 1990s that had almost all dried up for a variety of reasons, leaving local rock fans with little alternative but to drive to Charleston or Jacksonville or Atlanta.

So when the Savannah Music Festival announced it was bringing in Wilco — the so–called “American Radiohead” — it was no surprise that it was the first sellout and by far most high–profile show of the Festival.

Ah, but what about the music, you ask? Well, come on, it was Wilco. They have one of the most unimpeachable pedigrees of any active American band (though frontman Jeff Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt are the only remaining founding members of the 15–year–old ensemble).

Interestingly, the setlist avoided overindulgence in the band’s most well–known but perhaps weakest effort, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, instead concentrating on more soulful, less forward– focused music such as the wonderful “California Stars,” with lyrics by Woody Guthrie and music by Tweedy.

Then again, we’re talking a three– hour show here (at a bargain price, by the way — no one can complain they didn’t get their money’s worth!). So it’s safe to say the band played a wide range of material.

Tweedy himself, not communicating directly with the audience until a good

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seven or eight songs in, was nonetheless in his usual shaggy–dog good humor, at one point saying, “You have a lovely city ­ ­ ­ — thanks for inviting us.”

Particularly impressive — even given the venue’s typically muddy acoustics — was the band’s lush instrumentation, even more apparent live than on the band’s multilayered albums. While the sextet’s usual breakdown was two guitars/two keys/bass & drums, occasionally there would be a three–guitar lineup, which sounded particularly full.

(At one point, amazing lead guitarist Nels Cline — who is almost impossible to overpraise — had a steel guitar in his lap and an electronic mandolin around his neck.) — Jim Morekis

She & Him @ Trustees Theatre For the curious who didn’t make Saturday night’s She & Him concert, let’s start with the answers to your FAQs about Zooey Deschanel’s musical side project at the Trustees Theater.

1) She was wearing a pretty, red party dress. Her hair was long, with those trademark bangs combed coquettishly down her forehead. Yes, she looks just like she does in the movies.

2) She spoke to the audience two or three times, on one occasion complimenting Savannah for the Spanish moss that hangs omnipresent in our trees.

3) Yes, she can sing, though not spectacularly.

4) Yes, the sold–out show was good — pleasant and entertaining, if not earth–shattering.

Zooey Deschanel at the Trustees

Deschanel is the songwriter and singer for She & Him; Matt Ward, a.k.a.

Him, arranges and produces the records, plays guitar and – at least onstage – runs the show. There were five others in Saturday night’s band, including two backup singers who shook tambourines and traded off on one–handed synthesizer chords.

It was all about Zooey, though. In fact, for the first three minutes of the first song, “Sentimental Heart,” she sang alone, playing electric piano. Then the band kicked in; four chords and 60 seconds later the song was over.

In fact, very few if any of her songs have structures that could be called complex – most of them are doo–wop cakewalks with little in the way of dynamics. Think sock hop music played with Roy Orbison’s sense of drama, and a lot of tight little “shoo–be–do–wah” background vocals with Beach Boys shadings and Link Wray guitar runs.

Ward’s purpose in all this seems to be fleshing out the actress’ thin compositions with fat layers of sound, like Brian Wilson’s “teenage hymns to God” on a weird old jukebox alongside old Crystals and Ronettes records.

What’s cool is that, while they’re obviously retro–sounding on purpose, Ward has disguised the sometimes twee words and images with dicey and unusual arrangements. This is a trick that Sufjan Stevens, among many others, also uses. Quirkiness as a tool.

Ward kept mostly to himself downstage right, throwing in surf licks on his electric guitar (curiously, his guitar was somewhat buried in the sound mix), singing the occasional harmony and

keeping an eye on the band. For the first 20 minutes of the 80–minute show, the guy sitting behind me kept asking his buddy who on the stage was “Him.” Ward seemed content to keep the spotlight firmly on Deschanel.

When she wasn’t standing at the electric piano and singing — one couldn’t help but get an image of Linda McCartney — Deschanel stood alone at the centerstage microphone, her hands folded in front of her, sometimes rattling a tambourine. On Skeeter Davis’ “Gonna Get Along Without You Now,” she strummed a ukulele.

During a short acoustic set, when the rumbling din of the band was on pause, Deschanel suddenly showed an impressive vocal range. As Ward played guitar, she sang her own “Brand New Shoes” (from She and Him’s Volume Two album) and the Miracles’ “You Really Got a Hold on Me” (from Volume One).

— Bill DeYoung

Sarah Jarosz @ Morris Center Every so often you encounter a young performer who displays an uncanny onstage maturity in stark contrast to their bubbly personality offstage. Sarah Jarosz, only 18 years old and looking even younger than that, displayed just such intense musical gravitas March 22 at the Morris Center as part of the Savannah Music Festival.

As young as she is, the Austin native and Grammy nominee was actually the oldest performer onstage during her all–too–brief set. Accompanied by

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Raw young talent: Sarah Jarosz and Alex Hargreaves at the Morris Center

Oregon fiddle prodigy Alex Hargreaves, freshly 18 as of a few days ago, and 16–year–old (!) cellist Nathaniel Smith, Jarosz’s already richly multilayered voice became even more evocative surrounded by the dark and lush instrumentation.

Being equally adept at mandolin, clawhammer banjo, and guitar would seem to be enough for anyone, and even a purely instrumental set by Jarosz would in and of itself be a fantastic show (indeed, her Grammy nod was for an instrumental, the intense and rollicking “Mansinneedof,” which garnered its own standing ovation this night).

But the aspect of the concert that had the packed audience rapturously appreciative was the killer combination of Jarosz’s robust blues–and–bluegrass tinged voice — filling every nook and rafter of the Morris Center — and her nimble, gripping songwriting, which conjures as many images from ’60s and indie rock as it does of the Appalachian backcountry.

Performing a series of originals from her debut CD Song Up in Her Head — the only covers of the evening were a Tom Waits and a Bob Dylan tune — Jarosz showed an almost preternatural gift for transporting the audience, through timbre, dynamics, lyrics and creative arrangements, to a completely different place and time.

Such a gift makes you feel lucky enough when you have the opportunity to experience it from an old master. But coming from one so young — Jarosz had to fit this gig in around her college spring break — makes the experience doubly uplifting. — Jim Morekis

Shannon Whitworth @ Morris Center One of the thrills of the Savannah Music Festival is discovering an artist you had no idea existed. And other performances make you realize you’ve just seen and heard something extraordinary.

Friday’s Shannon Whitworth show fell squarely in the latter category. A North Carolina singer/songwriter whose songs are strictly Americana, but whose voice brings a sexy, sultry Peggy Lee to mind, Whitworth captivated the (relatively small) Morris Center audience from the moment she stepped onstage, wearing a short, simple blue dress and black cowgirl boots.

Alternating between acoustic guitar and clawhammer banjo, Whitworth led her four–man combo through an hour’s worth of original tunes whose lyrics featured strong women, hurt women, adventuresome women and women who ought to know better.

Her songs, from the luxuriant “No Expectations” to the bluesy, uptempo “Here But Never Home,” covered the gamut of emotions but never relied on cheap emotionalism or cliches. Whitworth’s understated vocals, delivered in a wistful purr, were always front and center, and demanded the audience’s attention.

Matthew Smith’s high lonesome pedal steel guitar provided color and atmosphere, and the guitar of John Stickley (both acoustic and electric) gave Whitworth’s words and melodies exquisite counterpoint. — Bill DeYoung

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Dance

Dancing into The Station

SCAD stages ambitious modern ballet

by Augusta Statz

SCAD presents its world premiere of the dance performance The Station this weekend at the Trustees Theater.

The light–hearted show brings together a total of 30 dancers and is the brainchild of SCAD performing arts professor Vincent Brosseau.

As the title indicates, much of the action takes place at a train station.

“Originally, I came up with this idea of how can I do something that gives a sense of progression? It started with this idea of a place where people can meet, the train station,” he says. “I thought it would be wonderful because you can see where they are in their life because of the way they behave in the train station. Then, they leave, and you see them later on,” he says.

“Maybe three months later, a year later, many years later, and they have actually changed. What was very appealing to me was the fact that you could understand the story only by the beginning and the end. The audience has to fill in the middle, but it’s quite clear.”

Brosseau, who has an extensive dance background, also has an interesting story to tell about how he began his career in the arts: “I studied in France, where I’m from, and I started dancing there when I was nine years old. I started dancing simply because I was a very active boy,” he says.

“I had two choices of activities in my small town in France – one was judo,

embody the essence of characters,” she says.

“Vincent is a very sensitive person, and I think that because of that he is able to embody the essence of characters within the dance. His work does have a sense of familiarity, a sense of connection, and a sense of intimacy that is deeply woven throughout the storyline. That’s a common element in his work, his ability to put characterization into dance and to allow the body to speak text,” Tolbert says.

Jake Dupree plays the roles of the young lover and the soldier. Dupree dances with Brosseau’s 6–year–old daughter, Jolie–Anne Brosseau, who is featured in the performance. She plays the role of the daughter of the young lovers in Act II. Dupree has worked with Brosseau three times, including this production.

Dupree explains his dance background: “I actually never danced at all until I got to college. I’ve been a gymnast since I was 4, and I competed for six or seven years,” he says. “One of my friends introduced me to dance. Vincent had just taken me under his wing and really helped me grow.”

Dupree says, “I am so excited for people to see The Station. It’s different for Vincent; it’s a lot more light–hearted. His past two dance shows have been pretty intense, but this one is definitely a lot lighter, and I’m anxious to see how people react to it. I think it’s going to turn out really well. It’s light–hearted in the sense that it’s about everyday people.

“The stories are being told through the dancers, and you know the people they represent; you’ve seen these people.

It’s going to be recognizable and easy to relate to. I hope a lot of people come to see it.” CS The Station When: April 3, 8 p.m., April 4, 3 p.m., and April 5, 8 p.m.

Where: Trustees Theatre, 216 E. Broughton St. Cost: $10 general public, $5 students.

Monday show free for SCAD students with valid ID. Info: scad.edu

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the other was ballet. My mother asked me what I wanted to do; I said, ‘Judo,’ and she said, ‘Fine, you’ll do ballet.’

That’s how it started.”

In France, he went to a conservatory, worked with dance companies throughout Europe. In the U.S., he graduated from the prestigious Juilliard School.

In his four years with SCAD, Brosseau has choreographed Guys and Dolls and Carousel, and created the dance pieces “Silence,” “Ripping Souls,” “The Crossing,” and others.

LaTonya Tolbert, dancing the role of the den keeper, Miss Anna, explains the amount of work involved in the production of the performance: “We’ve been rehearsing since January, about a 10–12 week rehearsal process.

Of course, it began initially with the audition,” she says. “Then, once casting was done, Vincent takes the time to explain the concept and how everyone’s role relates and connects to the overall storyline,” she says.

At ensemble rehearsals, the dancers work in groups of 5 to 20. Then, there are separate rehearsals for soloists and duos working together with the choreographer.

“It comes to a unified whole where we start to run the show, in sequence, from beginning to end,” says Tolbert.

“It takes a lot of independent work. It takes a lot of rehearsal on your own.

It’s a rehearsal process, not a training process, although, there are times where we are supportive of each other in terms of making sure that the technique is in place and that the movements exist and have the proper shape. It’s a performance, and with a performance, there is a certain level of technique and training that has to be in place in order for the action to move forward.”

Tolbert has worked with Brosseau before in one of his previous productions.

“Vincent’s work is ingenious,” she comments. “Many choreographers create movements, but few choreographers embody the essence of characterization in the movements, making the body actually speak text. It’s easy for the body to speak movement; it requires more of a mastery and an understanding to

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Dead in the water

The interactive murder mystery Murder Afloat enters its 21st season on the Savannah River

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by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

There’s something foul on the Savannah River. And it’s not the stinking remnants of last week’s diesel spill.

As sure as there’s green beer on St. Paddy’s Day, a homicide will be committed aboard a Riverboat Cruise vessel every Thursday night — right under the noses of the passengers, who will then try and point a collective finger at the perpetrator.

Murder Afloat, the comic mystery that’s been a tourist staple on the river for 21 years, is setting sail once again beginning April 1.

During the 90–minute cruise, a troupe of actors — dressed as normal folk, and mingling inconspiculously with the paying customers — will spring to thespian life and perform an interactive story of sin and suspicion Only one thing’s for certain — somebody in the cast is going to die, and die before the boat is a mile from its River Street moorings.

“It’s a floating stage, basically,” says Murder Afloat playwright, producer and performer Jack North. “What I like about doing it on the boat, you are

Above: The 2009 cast of riverboat crazies for Murder Afloat (don’t worry; you won’t recognize most of them this year). Right: Playwright and producer Jack North.

isolated, even though you’re right there on the river, not out on the ocean.

“So if anything happens on the boat — like oh, say, a murder? — we have to deal with it before we get back to the dock. Or ... we’ll all be arrested?”

A resident of Savannah for 34 years, North was in radio and television before he got interested in acting. Stints in local productions with City Lights and the old Savannah Theatre led him to take a role in an interactive murder mystery in Hilton Head.

“I wasn’t particularly impressed with the show, but I was intrigued by the idea,” North recalls. “I told the owner, you should come over to Savannah and do these on a regular basis, because Savannah’s tourist industry is growing.

I said you could probably do a weekly show and get 100 people each time.

That show was playing to 30, 40 people.”

But South Carolina’s loss was Georgia’s gain — the owner wasn’t interested.

So North decided to bring the idea to Savannah, using his actor friends from community theater.

“I like mysteries, but I’m not a mystery buff,” he says. “I mean, I like Sherlock Holmes as much as anybody else. I’d never written a script before, but I wrote a script. I knew what I didn’t want to do from having done the one in Hilton Head.”

Murder Afloat was a success from the first time it shoved off.

“With other murder mysteries, I hated the real hokeyness of the setup.

They have the stereotypical characters, like the rich widow with the feather boa and the cigarette holder. Or they’ve got the Great White Hunter with the pith helmet. Those stock Clue characters.

“And it’s not that my show isn’t necessarily hokey. I think it’s a couple of steps up from that.”

At the end of each cruise, the first audience member to correctly guess the killer wins a prize (the script changes every season, so repeat visitors generally get a fresh scenario).

Murder Afloat When: 9:30–11 p.m. Thursdays Where: Boards on River Street, next to the Hyatt (looks for the signs) Tickets: Adults $27.95; under 12 $19.95 Phone: (912) 232–6404 Online: www.murderafloat.com

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North refuses to make his perpetrator “the person you’d least expect.” He wants his audience to have a shot at figuring things out.

“I like to play fair,” he explains.

“Through the show, there are clues — verbal clues, sometimes visual clues — that really do lead to one person.

“A lot of people say ‘You know, you could change this up every week and make the killer a different person.’ Yeah, I could do that, but that’s not really playing fair.”

Murder Afloat isn’t a dinner cruise — there’s a cash bar, and snacks. And the stage isn’t fixed — it’s the entire boat.

“It’s a fully scripted show,” North says, “but between scenes, as we’re going from one deck up or down to another, people from the audience ask questions.

They’ll say ‘What were you arguing about?’ or ‘What did you mean when you said blah–blah–blah?’ So you stay in character. You gotta think on your feet.”

Improvising is also a key component of North’s other gig. He’s been a horse–and–carriage tour guide, trotting tourists up and down the city’s historic streets, since 1998.

“The one cool thing about carriage driving here, as opposed to say Charleston, is that there’s no set route,” he says. “There are certain streets we’re not supposed to go on, like Bay Street obviously, but we can mix it up.

“That keeps it fresh, and it keeps the horses from getting bored going the same way all the time.

“It’s kind of hard to avoid something interesting in the Historic District, because no matter where you go, there’s something to talk about.”

For Jack North, there’s no business like show business. “Each tour,” he says, “is like a little performance.

“Once a ham, always a ham.” CS

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The cast of Twelve Angry Men, the first full-length show to be produced at the new Indigo Arts Station on Louisville Road west of downtown Savannah

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Twelve Angry Men is one of the original courtroom dramas

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

In an unusual twist, the stage production of Twelve Angry Men began life as a TV screenplay for the CBS series Studio One. Written in 1954 by Reginald Rose as the golden age of American TV drama kicked off, the narrative is typical of that tense but hopeful time, innocent compared to today’s usual blend of voyeurism and cynicism.

Though probably best known as a 1957 Henry Fonda vehicle directed by Sidney Lumet, the core of the narrative is tailor–made for the stage. Various adaptations exist, including mixed–gender productions, all–female productions, and even an all–Lebanese production in 2009 dealing with political issues in Lebanon.

The storyline’s simple: A jury of men (women didn’t serve on juries in the 1950s) is about to judge a man guilty of homicide. But there’s one holdout....

Christopher Soucy directs this production, the first full–length play to be performed at the new Indigo Arts space on Louisville Road, itself a project spearheaded by his sister JinHi Soucy

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Rand. We spoke to Chris, who has an extensive local acting and directing portfolio, last week.

So why are they so freakin’ angry?

Christopher Soucy: (laughs) If I had to come up with a reason why they’re angry, I’d say it was the judicial process.

And no air conditioning! That would definitely add to it. They’re in a pressure cooker. You’ve got a fairly open-andshut case in the eyes of 11 men, and one man throws a wrench in the gears. The anger derives from that conflict.

Safe to assume there’s an overarching metaphor here?

Christopher Soucy: It is definitely about persecution, it’s definitely about having a system that allows for reasonable doubt. That’s kind of the catchphrase of the entire play, is that our judicial system bases itself on the idea that a person has to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. And they examine very closely what is a reasonable doubt and how you come to that.

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This play is set in a time where if you were found guilty of first degree murder and you lived in a state that has the death penalty, you went straight to the death penalty. You went straight to the arraignment. Now if you’re found guilty there’s another trial, a sentencing trial, another step.

So this jury is actually deciding beyond a reasonable doubt whether this person should live or die. And that’s pretty heavy stuff.

Since this was written, the courtroom drama has become its own, some would say cliched, genre. Did you specifically try to make sure this production didn’t trade too much in cliche?

Christopher Soucy: That’s an interesting point, in that this was actually written prior to the glut of courtroom dramas, and therefore it may have built–in cliches. But you want to honor the fact that if it came first, and these were the situations that were put forth, the fact that these became cliches is because they were solid and good. Cliches

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There’s sort of a new syndrome where juries are refusing to convict unless there’s DNA evidence, which is actually pretty hard to get.

Christopher Soucy: That’s the problem: We’ve come to a place where these key pieces of evidence become the only things that people will believe.

A lot of the classic dramas from the ’50s and ’60s are informed with a sort of old–school liberal sensibility that can seem quaint today. Is this one of those?

Christopher Soucy: It’s a part of this courtroom storytelling in which we’re dealing with the defendant who all the odds are against, who’s the underdog.

It seems like where the turnaround came is through us becoming used to

courtroom dramas where the defendant is a corporation, like in Philadelphia or most of John Grisham’s courtroom novels. The defendants are sinister organizations that one person is standing up to fight against.

The story used to be that the defense attorney was a noble and good person protecting the innocent. But in time we started to realize that we soured against defense attorneys. They became ambulance chasers and people who represented criminals, people they knew were guilty. It’s fascinating to watch the dynamic change, and see our disillusionment with how the system works.

This was still in the era where people were like, “look at what our courts can do — the fairness of what’s happening.”

This is one of those plays that sat right on the edge of that, because they do discuss innocent people going to jail and guilty people being let free. But in the context of the play it still holds to the principle that the system works because you can reasonably doubt.

Did you flirt with the idea of alternative casting, or did you always want to keep it an all–male cast?

Christopher Soucy: The general consensus was that this is a play set in the ‘50s. Its sensibilities are ‘50s sensibilities.

To update it — because women were not allowed on juries at that time — is to add an informed behavior. The language of it is inherently male, mid–’50s dominated. I wanted to keep it that way.

It’s not that I wouldn’t do alternative casting if the fallout was I didn’t have the 12 angry men (laughs). The option was there to pursue 12 angry people, 12 angry jurors. They even have scripts where you can do that. They have scripts specifically for multiple genders.

I feel the dialogue is so of that era, it was best represented as being in that time.

Not that there’s a big calendar on the wall (laughs).

So you’re a dude directing 12 other dudes. What’s that like?

Christopher Soucy: It’s not like a big locker room, swapping war stories and poking each other in the eye. The coolest part about this particular production is the wide age range and the wide range of experience levels. As a director I love bringing people who have little or no

experience into the fold because it kind of gives everybody points of reference and everybody moves together. There’s a lot of camaraderie.

I guess this is the first Indigo Arts Center production.

Christopher Soucy: Actually this isn’t an Indigo Arts production. It’s actually Fair Weather Productions saying we want to do a play, and everybody rallying around that idea.

The interesting thing about Twelve Angry Men is the reason Indigo Arts exists: To be a venue that someone could just say let’s do a play, let’s put on a show because we love theatre, and to have a place that could have us. There’s a place to present art and perform what you want. It’s tangible, it’s within grasp, and the great thing is if you love to create, there’s now a place you can do it. cs Twelve Angry Men When: April 2-3 and April 9-10 at 8pm, April 4 and 11 at 5 p.m.

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only come about because something is viable.

The thought, views and opinions are definitely derived from that period. And I dare say it’s because by now we’ve seen these things and they’ve been discussed.

Juries who are called today, they watch Law & Order and every procedural crime drama.

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Seductive Saracina The label “Saracina” may not be a household name, but if I mention “Fetzer,” most wine drinkers would recognize the name. But the Fetzer family, particularly former CEO John Fetzer, has not been involved with their namesake since selling the brand to beverage giant Brown–Forman in 1992.

The brand is a New World success story.

Fetzer was named CEO in 1981 and immediately pushed the 1,000–acre property into monumental production – from 200,000 cases in 1981 to more than 2.5 million cases in 1992.

Wine and Spirits magazine named it “Winery of the Year” five consecutive years.

A lengthy non–compete clause kept Fetzer sidelined for nearly a decade, but he spent those years tending remaining vineyards and assembling what would become his new project – Saracina – launching in 2001.

Now, along with his wife, Patty Rock, he guides a project that is in many ways the antithesis of what Fetzer wines became. With more than 6oo acres teeming with wildlife and enjoying footage on the famed Russian river, Fetzer nurtures only 300 acres of prime Mendocino County land that is either certified organic or grown bio–dynamically.

He spent two years having the county’s first wine caves carved from native rock. And, he says, he has boxed himself into a project where production can never exceed a few thousand cases.

I met the couple in the very casual setting of Sugar Daddy’s Wine Bar, joining them, wine merchant Tom Huffstedler, and bar manager Brian Torres for my first ever sip of the wines.

This is where wine maker Alex MacGregor gets to show his skills. Additionally, Fetzer tapped MacGregor’s mentor, David Ramey – a pioneer in the art of crafting California Char-

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donnay and Cabernet Sauvignon – to help give Saracina an edge.

An edge was exactly what I found in 2007 Saracina Sauvignon Blanc Mendocino County.

This bright, citrusy wine kicks the grassy New Zealand counterparts to the curb. Balance is the watchword here: fruit, minerality and acidity walk hand–in–hand. It’s luscious and refreshing.

2007 Saracina Pinot Noir Anderson Valley is so silky that even a newbie would distinguish it as something of importance. Careful handling of sensitive Pinot grapes is evident in this nuanced wine. Spicy notes of fruit and oak rise to the nose, then that wonderful mouth feel gets a boost from flavors of fresh fruit and perfectly balanced tannins and acidity. It’s great alone and will shine as a food wine.

A Zin, Syrah and Petite Sirah were delicious, but I gravitated to what Rock calls Saracina’s “bistro wine,” 2006 Atrea “Old Soul Red.” The tiny splash of Malbec in this blend of Zin, Syrah and Petite Sirah caught my nose first, but quickly gave way to a market basket of dark plums, blackberry and just a teasing hint of oak. This may be Saracina’s lowest cost red, but it drinks big and luscious. I suspect it may even stand a few years in the bottle with this classic combination of grapes. CS

I have high expectations when I see Cajun food on a menu,.

After all, it’s a cuisine built around integrity, tradition and freshness.

That’s not what I found at Bayou Cafe.

I do enjoy the exposed brick and dark wood funkiness – and the awesome, open–window view of the river. I arrived early for lunch, but placated myself with a very nicely made Bloody Mary to await the chef. I chose a sampler platter: seafood gumbo, crawfish etouffee and jambalaya. The accompanying salad was indeed fresh, crisp and tasty, despite its simplicity of torn greens, some carrot shreds and tomato. When my sampler plate arrived, I was greeted with three coffee mugs filled with equally unintelligible dishes. Picking my way through, I did figure out what was what, but it was too late. At this point, I had discovered that each mug o’ chow was barely warm, the few rice kernels at the bottom of each mug were tasteless and the main dishes were warmed over, pasty versions of what could have been an awesome experience. Sausage in the jambalaya was tasty and plentiful, tiny bits of crawfish were equally enjoyable and the shrimp in the seafood gumbo was sweet. Sadly, the pasty roux and bad temps ruined the meal. If you can’t make it fresh, stick with wings and other convenience apps and play up the fact that Bayou Cafe is probably best known as a late night hangout with live music and good drinks in a funky Southern atmosphere.

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I stopped in at the ribbon cutting of The Mirage on Broughton Street, a Mediterranean restaurant and hookah bar with some promise. A sampler buffet revealed nicely made stuffed grape leaves, naturally spicy hummus and other goodies all concocted in-house. Chef Kenneth will have his hands full keeping up with hungry diners. Congrats to Tony and Red Marsid on their opening – I’ll be back!

While trolling the streets, I also noticed that Cilantro’s next to Ruth’s Chris is now open. Expect the usual comforting Mexican–inspired food in a beautifully appointed space. The location in Garden City is a favorite – and I welcome the chance to visit the downtown location. CS

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The second Desoto Strut of the year features work by Rachel Raab, Mark Hebermehl and Kellie Walker, as well as refreshments and entertainment Aldwyth: Work v./Work n.

— Collage and assemblage 1991-2009 by this reclusive Hilton Head artist, now in her 70s. Jepson Center for the Arts through 5/17 Call for instructors — The City’s Department of Cultural Affairs is accepting resumes for visual art and performing art instructors for Summer Break Art Camp June 7-August 27 at studio S.P.A.C.E., 9 West Henry St. Painting, ceramics, metalwork, mixed media and performing arts. Applications deadline is Friday, April 2, 2010 at 5 pm. Send resume to lbradley@savannahga. gov. For more information contact Lisa Bradley at (912)651-6783.

Desoto Strut II — Open Studio with Raabstract, Matt Hebermehl, and Kellie Walker, drinks with Gauge Interactive, music by Insomniacts Entertainment, live screenprinting with Wabco.

April 3, 5-10 p.m. Desoto Row Gallery, Desoto Ave. between 40 and 41st Street in Starland Design District.

Hank Weisman — This local woodturner is Artist of the Month for April 2010 at River Street’s Gallery 209, at 209 E. River St. Hard Time, Long Time — An exhibit of original tattoo designs by local artist Kenny Ward. Runs through 4/30.

Opening reception: 4/4, 6pm.

Stranded Tattoo Studios, 131 Drayton St.

Minimalish: Recent Paintings — Solo exhibition by Jason Hoelscher whose vibrant, abstract paintings are influenced by modernist abstraction as well as graphic novels, pop and punk culture. Through April 6. Pinnacle Gallery , New paintings of the South — Ray Ellis unveils a collection of paintings inspired by the greater Savannah area.

Ray Ellis Gallery , 205 W. Congress St. , One for the Row — The invitational show features a dozen artists, and is a celebration of the anniversary of the gallery’s re-opening.

Desotorow Gallery , http:// www.desotorow.org/ Painters’ Reel: Contemporary Painters of Georgia — The exhibition features 11 contemporary painters from across the state, representing a cross-section of Georgia’s vibrant visual art scene. Organized by the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon. Runs thru May 17.

Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. , http://www.telfair.org/ Rules of Play — Exhibition

by Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea who depicts seemingly impractical objects that belie complex, thought-provoking and clever observations about the constructs of power in our globalizing society. Gallery talk and reception: 4/30, 5-8pm.

Gutstein Gallery , 201 E. Broughton St.

Savannah Sightings — New work by Lind Hollingsworth, explores the line between organic and industrial subjects, and Robert Isley, who does plein-air scenes in oil and charcoal. Opening reception: 3/11, 5:30-7:30pm.

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Selected Work by Robert Friedman — A local artist who made a name for himself with ceramics, exhibits a collection of work including sculpture and primal acrylic paintings. Runs through April 30. Opening Reception 4/18, 5-7pm. JEA Art Gallery, 5111 Abercorn St. , Work by Jeff Zeigler — A collection of folk and abstract paintings by local artist Jeff Zeigler. Opening Reception: 4/1, 7pm. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. , http://www.jeffzeiglerart.com/

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Extra, extra: Are you in this photo from The Last Song?

Tybee goes Hollywood Now that all the brouhaha about Miley Cyrus’ extended stay in town is a distant memory, it’s time to check out the final results: The Last Song opens in theaters everywhere, including Savannah, Wednesday, March 31.

Disney’ Touchstone Pictures showed no interest whatsoever in premiering the film on (or around) Tybee Island – believe me, attempts were made to get some sort of special, studio–sanctioned event here – and so Tybee’s Tourism Council is doing what it can.

More than 500 people, so far, have signed up to attend Wednesday’s “Flip Flop Red Carpet Party,” kicking off at 4:30 p.m. at the Tybee Gym (at Memorial Park). The ultimate party favor, of course, is a ticket to the evening show of The Last Song at the Victory Square 9 moviehouse in Savannah.

Your $18 admission also includes food, a cash cocktail bar, live music from local favorite Randy “Hatman” Smith, and a Tybee Island “goodie bag.” After the film, the party moves to Huc–a–Poos.

If you buy the $18 ticket, you’ll need to ferry yourself to the movie screening.

The $30 package includes all of the above, plus a round–trip ride to Victory Square on a trolley provided by Old Savannah Tours.

Proceeds will go to the Tybee Island Marine Science Center.

The Tybee Gym is a new location for this event; it started out smaller, but so many residents signed on, the Council was forced to bump things up. Tickets are still going at a pretty brisk clip

– perhaps you’ll be the one to purchase The Last Ticket?

At press time, the movie was to be screened in at least three Victory Square theaters to accommodate everyone. This could still change, too. Call (912) 786– 9216 to get in on things; the Tourism Council’s number is (912) 786–5444.

Still no conspiracy

A release date for The Conspirator has yet to be announced. The Robert Redford–directed historical drama, filmed in Savannah during the waning months of 2009, is in post–production, meaning all the little bits and pieces captured on film and tape are being assembled in a Hollywood studio.

Here’s an interesting note, though: Greg Shapiro, one of the producers of The Conspirator, won an Academy Award two weeks ago as a co–producer of The Hurt Locker.

This, that, the other ... The Savannah Folk Music Society’s First Friday concert for April is being held on the second Friday ... well, whatever. Vocalist Nikki Talley and the French–American acoustic duo Jean–Paul and Dominque Carton will perform at the 7:30 p.m. event April 9, at First Presbyterian Church on Wasington Avenue ... ... Tickets are available now for the next Gainesville Community Playhouse, the urbane comedy Luv, presented Saturday and Sunday, May 8 and 9 at the Landings. See www.savannahcommuniththeatre.com. CS

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Hot Tub Time Machine Viewers wary of getting burned in Be Kind Rewind fashion (clever premise, tepid results) would be well–advised to approach Hot Tub Time Machine in a cautious manner. That isn’t to say the movie doesn’t deserve its solid endorsement; it’s merely to point out that, despite its irresistible hook, this isn’t the ultimate 1980s tribute film that the world – well, OK, the ’80s generation – has eagerly been anticipating.

Director Steve Pink and his trio of writers create four distinct individuals to head up the picture: Adam (’80s player John Cusack), nursing a broken heart after his girlfriend leaves him; Lou (Rob Corddry), so obnoxious that even his few friends can’t stand being around him; Nick (Craig Robinson), who suspects his wife is having an affair; and the much younger Jacob (Clark Duke), Adam’s nerdy, couch–potato nephew. With Jacob in tow, the three 40–somethings return to the resort that figured prominently in their youth, only to discover that it’s now a dilapidated establishment surrounded by a ruined town.

Their room’s hot tub initially appears to be broken, but by nightfall, it’s working fine, and the four men enjoy its comforts while getting hammered. When they wake up the next morning, they discover they’re no longer in 2010; instead, they’ve been magically transported back to 1986, part of an era in which leg warmers were the norm, C. Thomas Howell was a movie star and – kids, you may want to sit down for this one – MTV actually played music videos.

Looking like their younger selves to everyone except each other (and those of us in the audience), Adam, Lou and Nick decide that

they have to repeat all their actions just as they did the first time around, lest they accidentally alter the future – a possibility signaled by the fact that Jacob, who wasn’t even born yet, keeps flickering in and out of sight. Pink and his team could have coasted with this premise, but once viewers get past the obligatory raunch (a necessary salute, I suppose, to such atrocious 80s comedies as Private School and Porky’s Revenge), they might be surprised to discover the level of genuine wit on display.

The reason for the hot tub malfunction that thrusts them into the past is nicely bookended with scenes involving the era’s Commie paranoia, and the mystery surrounding a bellboy’s right arm – and the scenario’s ultimate resolution – proves to be a running gag that never flags. Incidentally, that bellboy is played by Back to the Future’s Crispin Glover, which makes the eventual shout–out to “McFly” all the more sweet.

As far as the ’80s research goes, some sloppiness is definitely on view – one character makes a reference to 21 Jump Street even though that show didn’t premiere until April 1987. And some of the missed opportunities are too glaring to ignore: Given the abundance of youth flicks during that decade (the Brat Pack and beyond), didn’t anyone think to ring up Anthony Michael Hall or Judd Nelson with the offer of a cameo appearance? (At least Chevy Chase is on hand to represent the SNL–schooled stars, playing a mystical repairman, while perennial ’80s villain William Zabka also drops by.)

Admittedly, Hot Tub Time Machine might play better to those with more than a passing familiarity with the era. More specifically,

its target audience might best be summed up by this statement uttered by Lou after making a new friend: “We actually have a lot in common: We both love tits and Motley Crue.”

Chloe Most films populated by Hollywood stars are generally launched stateside, but it nevertheless should come as no surprise that Chloe, opening in the U.S. during the final week in March (and limited, at that), has already been making the European rounds (the U.K., the Netherlands and France, among other nations) since the beginning of the month. After all, American moviegoers aren’t accustomed to seeing films in which the subject of sex is treated in an adult manner, so perhaps the studio determined that Yank audiences needed a few extra weeks to prepare for the experience. Chloe is still a tame affair compared to its counterparts over on the Continent, but at least it’s neither juvenile nor prudish, two qualities that taint the vast majority of homegrown flicks.

Director Atom Egoyan (Exotica) and scripter Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary) are no strangers to combining carnal encounters with cerebral ruminations, and here their starting point is the longtime marriage of gynecologist Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore) and professor David Stewart (Liam Neeson). With the passion and excitement long drained from their relationship, Catherine starts to wonder if David is having an affair with one of his students – the signs are certainly there. To that end, she hires a wide–eyed escort named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried, a long way from singing ABBA continues on p. 36

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tunes in Mamma Mia!) to seduce her spouse and report back to her. Chloe dutifully carries out her assignment, but the good doctor is surprised to learn that the girl’s graphic descriptions of their trysts are sexually arousing her. Is she excited by David’s illicit activities, or is she turned on by Chloe herself? For a good while, Chloe hums along on the strength of its weighty themes, including the difficulties inherent in keeping a marriage invigorated, the ability of intelligent people to use words to blur others’ perceptions of reality, and the manner in which pent–up desire can manifest itself in unexpected ways.

It’s a shame, then, that the film utterly collapses as it rounds third base. Chloe is a remake of the 2003 French flick Nathalie; I’ve never seen that picture, so I can’t say whether the crippling choices presented here were made by Wilson or carried over from the source material.

At any rate, what had worked as a bracing character study of an aging woman afraid of losing everything (Seyfried may essay the title role, but this is Moore’s show all the way) lamentably turns into a mopey melodrama with an obvious plot twist, as well as a second– rate thriller in which complicated people suddenly become one–dimensional and the spirit of Fatal Attraction hovers over the entire production. But hey, at least we’re spared the boiled bunny.

Repo Men

Not to be confused with 1984’s dissimilar Repo Man but easily able to be mixed up with 2008’s identically plotted Repo! The Genetic Opera, Repo Men mostly plays like an uninspired rip–off of Logan’s Run plus Brazil plus Total Recall plus Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life plus ... well, I could do this all day. Suffice it to say that there’s little here to excite anyone except maybe the gorehounds. A futuristic saga with more blood than brains, this centers on Remy (Jude Law), whose career as a repo man for a company called The Union means that whenever someone falls behind on their payments for the mechanical organs keeping them healthy, it’s his job to track the person down and forcibly remove the expensive piece of hardware by any means necessary (as expected, the client often doesn’t survive the procedure). Like any good citizen of this country, Remy only cares about things that directly affect him, so it’s only after he’s injured and subsequently outfitted with a new heart he can’t afford that he thinks, “Hey, maybe what I’ve been do-

ing to people isn’t so nice!” No kidding. Now equipped with a self–serving conscience, he finds himself on the run, being chased by his partner and best friend, Jake (Forest Whitaker). Whitaker’s inventive performance is an asset, but Repo Men, based on Eric Garcia’s novel The Repossession Mambo, isn’t able to take its potentially provocative storyline past the alternately silly, lazy and illogical scripting by Garrett Lerner and Garcia himself. To be sure, there are moments of inspiration (the child surgeon, for example), but for the most part, here’s another piece of clunky sci–fi hardware that could use an overhaul.

THE BOUNTY HUNTER

The Oscars for Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing frequently go to war movies or science fiction films – this year, for example, The Hurt Locker beat out such competitors as Avatar, Inglourious Basterds and Star Trek for both statues. Frankly, I think the criteria regarding these categories should be modified so that the winner doesn’t necessarily have to promote technical innovation or seat–rattling verisimilitude, but can instead simply make a torturous viewing experience more tolerable by including some aural pleasures certain to ease the suffering of moviegoers. By that token, I nominate The Bounty Hunter as an early contender for the next round of annual awards. If nothing else, the soundtrack contains a delightfully eclectic mix of songs, from The Rolling Stones’ “Hang Fire” and Run–D.M.C.’s “It’s Tricky” to Frank Sinatra’s “This Town” and Jerry Reed’s “She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft).” Whenever these tunes (and others) floated through the auditorium speakers, it was possible to shut my eyes and pretend I was back home, peacefully sitting on the couch with beer or wine in hand. But then the music would subside and somebody on screen, usually Jennifer Aniston or Gerard Butler, would start speaking again, and I was cruelly snapped back to reality. Honestly, what’s there to say about a romantic comedy so generic that it might as well have been called Generic Romantic Comedy? As the title character, a slob who’s been hired to find his ex–wife and haul her to jail for missing a court date, Butler builds on The Ugly Truth by playing another boorish chauvinist, once again demonstrating that his comedic instincts are roughly on par with those of a great white shark. And as the angry ex, a reporter who’s on the

Remember Me

I’m not saying it’s impossible for the surprise ending of Remember Me to work (not to worry; no spoilers here); however, it needs to be attached to a project a lot more distinguished than the one on display here. But because the bulk of Remember Me is clumsy, mawkish and marked by some truly heinous dialogue, the conclusion proves to be staggering in its tastelessness, and one gets the impression that scripter Will Fetters came up with this “gotcha!” moment first and then banged out enough drivel leading up to it in order to have a completed screenplay to shop around. Twilight’s Robert Pattinson maintains his gloomy ‘tude here as well: He’s cast as Tyler Hawkins, who loves his precocious little sister (bright Ruby Jerins), runs afoul of his distant dad (Pierce Brosnan), and still misses the older brother who committed suicide six years earlier. Through labored screenwriting, Tyler meets and falls for Ally Craig (Emilie de Ravin), who’s also been touched by a death in her immediate family. Most of Remember Me is banal and insipid, conditions brought on as much by director Allen Coulter’s inability to stage a scene as by Fetters’ cringe–worthy lines. Pattinson and de Ravin are earnest but never quite connect as screen lovers, while Tate Ellington’s character of Aidan Hall, Tyler’s roomie and best bud, is the most obnoxious sidekick/comic relief seen in many a new moon: The character’s description of his penchant for bedding women of all nationalities – “I’ve planted my flag in every country!” – is particularly gag–inducing. Nothing, however, is more retch–worthy than that ill–conceived climax, which will strike the easily manipulated as deep but will cause most discerning viewers to recognize it for a cheap trick that should come with some sort of trigger warning before it unfolds.

Green Zone The popular notion that goldfish only have a memory span of roughly three seconds has long been denounced by many as a myth, but that length of time sounds about right for the significant portion of the American population that hides under the bed fretting over fictional “death panels.” To these folks, I present Green Zone, which comes across like a Young Readers version of the superb Iraq War documentary No End In Sight. Unfortunately, these folks are unlikely to expose themselves to anything that doesn’t get the Glenn Beck Seal of Approval, meaning that we’re left with yet another product that will only preach to the choir. But there’s nothing here that will surprise anyone who’s been paying the least bit of attention. Set in 2003, this stars Matt Damon as conscientious Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller, who eventually realizes that there are no WMDs in Iraq – that the whole war is based on a lie – and does his best to expose the truth. Damon’s intensity and Brian Helgeland’s incident–packed script compensate for Paul Greengrass’ panicky direction – the action–packed final half–hour is especially messy, with no clarity of character or situation – but the whole enterprise is rather simplistic in its moralizing.

Green Zone basically plays like Iraq War for Dummies.

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Alice in Wonderland Here’s the problem with the vast majority of movies based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking–Glass: They’re too tame, too hesitant and too conventional to really tap into the more unsettling aspects of an immortal fantasy that provides as much satisfaction for adults as for children.

The most disappointing adaptation is arguably 1951’s Alice in Wonderland, the animated Disney version that misinterpreted the tale as merely a merry romp for small tykes. The best version remains Jan Svankmajer’s 1988 Czech import Alice, which employed stop– motion animation to create a creepy masterpiece. And now, falling down the rabbit hole of good intentions, is Tim Burton’s new take on the classic, a visually stimulating rendition that nevertheless comes off as lamentably timid.

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heroine (played by Mia Wasikowska), who escapes from a dull Victorian–era garden party only to find herself tumbling into the strange world known as “Underland.” She quickly comes to learn that this mysterious place is ruled by the wicked Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), who has usurped the throne from her saintly sister, the now–banished White Queen (Anne Hathaway).

Convinced that it’s all only a dream, Alice largely stumbles from one incident to the next; her strongest ally proves to be The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), who lost his marbles at the same time the White Queen lost her empire. Providing unnecessary backstory to an established character like the Hatter is the sort of boxed–in thinking that often torpedoes the picture. Scripter Linda Woolverton has some exemplary credits to her name (including Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King), but her talent for classically structured narratives gets in the way here, since Carroll’s surreal saga is anything but streamlined. The changes made to the source material are, almost without exception, devoid of true vision or imagination, meaning that the most demented moments –– such as the floating heads in the castle’s moat, or the sudden appearances by the Cheshire Cat (still the story’s coolest character) – need to be embraced whenever they sporadically appear. As Alice, Wasikowska is rather listless, while Depp seems to be on board only as a favor to his friend and frequent collaborator Burton – in other words, he brings nothing special to the role. The only cast member who truly excels is Bonham Carter, whose performance is outrageous enough to meet the demands of the Red Queen’s excesses yet also allows a smidgen of pity to be applied toward the character’s resigned awareness of her own deformity. The actress clearly holds the winning hand here, trumping all other players in this house of cards.

BROOKLYN’S FINEST Brooklyn’s Finest certainly isn’t Hollywood’s finest. This tired police actioner admittedly picks up during its second half, but by then, patrons may be too deep in slumber to be woken even by the constant gunplay, shouted profanity or blaring coincidences that clang against each other with Crash–like precision. Speaking of Crash, that film’s Don Cheadle shows up for ensemble duty here as well, playing one of three NYC police officers whose lives will intersect at various points during this

pedestrian picture’s running time. He plays Tango, an undercover cop who isn’t sure if he can betray the powerful crime lord (Wesley Snipes) who trusts him like a brother. Meanwhile, Sal (Ethan Hawke) is tired of trying to support his large family on his measly salary, so he figures there’s no harm in pocketing the cash found in the drug dens he helps bust. Finally, there’s Eddie (one–note Richard Gere), a surly loner who has only one week to go before his retirement. Antoine Fuqua previously directed Training Day (for which Denzel Washington won his second Oscar), but here he’s tackling a script with training wheels, as Michael C. Martin (making his feature–film writing debut) can’t escape from the ghosts of cop flicks past.

The Crazies Subsequently re–released as Code Name: Trixie, writer–director George Romero’s 1973 version of The Crazies feels like a cross between Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain and Romero’s own Night of the Living Dead, with plenty of the auteur’s sociopolitical observations to juice the proceedings.

After a government–sanctioned virus is accidentally unleashed on a small Pennsylvania town and turns many of its inhabitants insane, the military arrives to quarantine the area and contain the threat. But it soon becomes clear that, to the unaffected humans, the incompetent, trigger–happy soldiers are as hazardous to their health as their crazed neighbors. This time, the leading characters are the town sheriff (Timothy Olyphant) and his doctor wife (Radha Mitchell), and they’re the ones who eventually attempt to lead a small band of survivors out of the infected area, doing their best to sidestep both the local loonies and the marauding military.

Yet while this version is more smoothly realized than Romero’s choppy original, it’s also been streamlined for mass consumption, removing all thorny subtext, avoiding a cruelly ironic conclusion (arguably the high point of the ’73 model), and throwing in far too many cheap scares. CS

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Activism & Politics Chatham County Democratic Party

For info, contact Tony Center at 912-2339696 or TonyCenter@comcast.net Chatham County Democratic Headquarters, 313 W. York St. , Savannah http://www.chathamdems.net/

Drinking Liberally

An informal gathering of left-leaners. Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month at Moon River Brewing Company. For more info: 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

National Council of Negro Women

meets the first Saturday of the month at 10 a.m. in the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum. Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, 460 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. ,

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Purrs 4 Peace

Three minutes of simultaneous purring by cats (and honorary cats) around the world, conducted online (Facebook & Twitter) each Sunday at 3 p.m. by Savannah residents Confucius Cat and his human Staff. Details at www.ConfuciusCat.blogspot.com. Contact @ConfuciusCat (Twitter) or Acolytes of Confucius Cat (Facebook).

Savannah Area Young Republicans

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

Benefits 3rd I-D Adopt-a-Soldier Program

The Adopt-a-Solider Program currently has several projects underway, including sending care packages to troops who will be stationed in Haiti for the next 6-12 months, as well as supplies being sent to medics in Afghanistan. If you are interested in donating, or more info, contact: carol.megathlin@ comcast.net

An Evening in Sherwood Forest

927-2770 for more information.

Bargains for Bethesda

Saturday, 4/10 from 10am-7pm at the Squadron’s Coffee Bluff facility (end of White Bluff on the Forrest River). Dinners are $7 each and include cue, slaw, Brunswick stew and a roll. Last year they served over 3,000 lbs of pork.

The Richmond Hill Rotary Club hosts a Robin Hood-themed gala at the new Richmond Hill City Center on 4/10 at 7pm. Food, wine and live music. Proceeds benefit local and international charities. Tickets $65/person. For info: Tina Eberlein 912-884-3726 via email at themidwaygallery@yahoo.com The Women’s Board of Bethesda is sponsoring “Bargains for Bethesda” on Saturday, April 10th from 9am-1pm at the Bethesda Gym 9520 Ferguson Ave. All proceeds from this cash only sale will go toward the renovation of residential campus cottages.

Fabulous merchandise includes furniture, silver, toys, lawn & garden,and decorative items.

Board Game Fest 2010

All-day family event. Discover new board games or enjoy old favorites while raising money for a worthy cause. There will also be raffle tickets, pizza-by-the-slice and soft drinks. All proceeds go toward Greenbriar Children’s Center. $5 will get you all the gaming you can handle Saturday, April 3, 10 a.m - 10 p.m. at Morningstar Games, 30 W. Montgomery Crossroads, Savannah. Call

Coffee Bluff Marine Squadron BBQ Fundraiser

GHS Needs Your Used Books

The Georgia Historical Society needs donations of used books for its annual book sale fundraiser on 4/23-24. All sorts of books are accepted, but no magazines/journals, obsolete audio/video or games will be. Donations are tax deductible. For more info, contact GHS at 912-651-2128, library@georgiahistory.com.

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4th Annual Scavenger Hunt / Pub Crawl.

April 17th, 12pm. A benefit for Memorial Health Foundation; Prostate Cancer Support Fund. Starts at Pour Larry’s in City Market. Live music, raffle and more.

For info or to register go to www.savannahphc.com or e-mail savannah_phc@ yahoo.com. Register by 4/1 to guarantee an event t-shirt.

Rhythm and Style

The Savannah Friends of Music host their annual fashion show fundraiser. 4/6, 11am at the Hyatt Regency, 2 W. Bay St. Tickets: $50. The event benefits the group’s educational programs. For reservations, please contact Phyllis Albertson at 598-7216.

Savannah Care Center’s Walk for Life

Sat. 4/10 at Forsyth Park. For 25 years, we have been dedicated to helping women, teens, and their families facing the difficulties of unplanned pregnancies. For more information on how you can participate in Savannah Care Center’s Walk for Life, call Michelle Sparks at 912-547-5800 or go to www.savannahcarecenter.org

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Smiles for Life

Godley Station Dental offers custom whitening kits with all proceeds benefiting two children’s charities. Have your teeth whitened for a tax deductible donation.

Offer runs through June 1. Call for more info: 912-748-8585.

African-American, Asian and Caucasian Actors wanted, ages 25 and up, for a comedy mockumentary independent feature film in the style of Spinal Tap. Improvisational skills a must. For one role, psychology or medical knowledge a plus. Call Antonio at 813-901-5614. Email with experience and photo to niconline@ inbox.com

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Crafters Flea Market

Crafts people of all kinds are invited to sell crafts or supplies at this one-day event on 4/10 from 8:30am-2:30pm. $10/ table. Set up starts at 7:30am. White Bluff United Methodist Church. 11911 White Bluff Rd. To reserve your table contact Lisa Hom at 912-596-2766 or gelhom@ comcast.net

Reality show seeks family for “Fresh Start”

Original Productions, makers of The Deadliest Catch, are seeking a family to star in a docu-drama style show tentatively titled “Fresh Start.” Casting directors are accepting applications from adventurous families who can adapt to new surroundings and are eager to start over. Families must have at least two children over the age of 5. The entire family must be willing to commit fully. To apply, email freshstartcasting@gmail.com or call 323.785.2500.

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First City Films, an independent local film company, is hosting a battle of the bands on 4/17 at Livewire to help raise money for its next production. The winning band will receive a spot on the film soundtrack and more. For more info, www.TheFilmUntouched.com

Hope House and Savannah State University are providing an after-school program for youth and young adults ages 12 to 29.

Program activities last for about 2 hours every Wednesday at SSU. Transportation is provided. Snacks, field trips and supportive services are provided at no charge.

236-5310. Savannah http://www.savstate. edu/

Art,-Music, Piano and Voice-coaching

For all age groups, beginners through advanced, classic, modern, jazz improvisation and theory. Serious inquiries only.

961-7021 or 667-1056.

Beading Classes

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

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Blacksmith Workshop

A 2-day workshop for beginners who wish to learn the skills necessary to conduct interpretive programs on the history and techniques of blacksmithing. April 16-17.

Participants may sleep at the fort. 2 meals included. $125/person. Call 912-437-4770 for info or to reserve space. Fort King George Historic Site, Darien http://www. gastateparks.org/fortkinggeorge

Children’s Choir Summer Camp

The Savannah Children’s Choir hosts this two-week, full day camp offers daily lessons in sight singing and music reading, music history, theory and more. July 19-30. Open to kids 2nd-8th grades interested in music.

There is also a mini-camp for 4-7 year olds.

Registration materials are now available on the Choir’s website, www.savannahchoir.org.

For more info: 912-228-4758

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

Conversational Spanish Group

Want to improve your Spanish skills? Meet at the Sentient Bean every Monday, 5:00pm.

Group focuses on increasing vocabulary, grammar, and conversational confidence!

Free and open to all levels of experience.

Call Ronnie at 912-257-0333, or email dvorakquartet12@yahoo.com for more info.

Dating With Success

Discuss strategies to feel great dating and enjoy dating. Improve your dating skills. This is for people of all cultures, colors races and ages. For more info, call: 912-604 3281

DUI Prevention Group

Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, DWI, offenders, and anyone seeking to gain knowledge about the dangers of driving impaired. A must see for teenage drivers seeking a drivers license for the first time or teenage drivers who already received a license. The group meets once a month and the cost is $30.00. For more info: 912-443-0410.

English as a Second Language

We are tiny groups, 2-4 students. Learn English in a fun, relaxed way. We meet when you have time in a coffee shop downtown Savannah. Single meetings are available too. There is a small fee per class. call: 912604-3281

Expectant Couples Weekend Class

For expectant couples with busy schedules or time constraints on April 24 & 25. Classes will be held at Candler Hospital. A $70 fee is charged. For more information and to register, call CareCall at 819-3368 or 800-5014054 or use our website, www.sjchs.org.

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

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

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Presented by Step Up Savannah and its partners. Classes on basic budgeting, managing credit, understanding credit scores, and building savings for emergencies.

Banking Basics: 1/4, 2pm & 1/25, 6pm at the Bull St. Library; 1/11, 6pm at the Carnegie Library (537 E. Henry). Managing Credit: 2/1, 2pm & 2/22, 6pm at the Bull St. Library; 2/8, 6pm at the Carnegie Library. Credit Report and Scores: 3/1, 2pm & 3/22, 6pm at Bull St.; 3/8, 6pm at Carnegie. Savings: 4/5, 2pm & 4/26, 6pm at Bull St.; 4/12, 6pm at Carnegie.

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German Language Classes

Have fun learning German with small groups of 3-6 students. Classes meet Monday & Thursday evening at the Sentient Bean. The choices are Beginners I or II, or advanced Conversational class. There is a small fee per class. I am a native professor from Switzerland. For more info: (912) 604 3281 The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave ,

Grants Management

The Georgia Center for Nonprofits hosts a workshop on effective grants management to help nonprofits evaluate their project progress, assess their resources, and recognize possible audit risks. Thurs. 4/15, 9am-4pm, United Way Building, 428 Bull St. Advance registration reqd and attendance fees apply. Call 912-234-9688.

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Resource Center

The Housing Authority of Savannah hosts a series of regular classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. 1407 Wheaton Street.

Adult literacy/GED prep: Mon-Thurs, 9am12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri of month, 9-11am. Basic Computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1-3pm. Community Computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3-4:30pm. For more info: 912-232-4232 x115 or www.savannahpha.com

Knitting Class

Knit your own scarf, hand-warmer or blanket. You choose your colors and what you like to knit. I teach you how to do it. We meet in small groups downtown Savannah.

Meeting in a coffee shop.

There is a small fee per class. Please call my cell: 912-604-3281

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“21st-century Learners: Strategies for Artful Engagement” - a professional event hosted by SCAD on April 10 at the Jepson Center from 8:30am-3:30pm. The cost is $25 for general admission, $15 for students.

Educators of all levels and disciplines, students, and prospective candidates are encouraged to participate. For more info, email mat@scad.edu

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

Retirement Seminar

Georgia Heritage Federal Credit Union hosts a presentation “New Retirement: Myths, Facts and Half Truths” on April 13, 6-7:30pm. Dennis Davis of CUNA Mutual Group will discuss wise investment choices, stock market timing and planning for retirement. Free, with meal provided. Please call 236-4400 to reserve a spot. 1085 W. Lathrop Ave. , http://www.gaheritagefcu.org/

Savannah Conservatory for the Performing Arts

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

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center

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. e-mail savannahlatina@yahoo.com or visit www.savannahlatina.com. Free folklore classes also are offered on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Savannah Learning Center, 7160 Hodgson Memorial Dr. , Savannah

Small Business SMART Lunch Series

The Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council hosts a lunch presentation from Chris Cree titled “Social Media Basics for Small Business”, an entry level look at social media and business. April 6, 11:30am. Savannah Morning News Auditorium. $10. RSVP by 4/1. Call 912.644.6434.

Starfish Cafe Culinary Arts Training Program

This 14-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 Ms. Musheerah Owens 912234-0525 ext.1506 The Starfish Cafe, 711 East Broad Street , Savannah http://www. thestarfishcafe.org/

Volunteer 101

A 30-minute course that covers issues to help volunteers get started is held the first and third Thursday of the month at 6 p.m.

The first Thursday, the class is at Savannah State University, and the third Thursday, at United Way, 428 Bull St. Register by calling Summer at 651-7725 or visit www.HandsOnSavannah.org. United Way of Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St , Savannah http://www. uwce.org/

Weather Spotter Training

CEMA and Natl Weather Service offer this class. Weather spotters have served as the “eyes” of the National Weather Service.

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Clubs & Organizations 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 driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license is eligible to participate. Visit http://buccaneerregion. org/solo.html.

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Coffee & Conversation

Held every Tuesday at 8am by Creative Coast as a networking event. http://links. thecreativecoast.org/conversation. Cafe Ambrosia, 202 E. Broughton St. , Savannah

Fibers Guild

The next Fibers Guild meeting will be held April 10 in the Fine Arts Building at AASU. 2nd floor in the weaving room.

Mary Mistak will instruct the group on making beaded button pins. All who are interested may attend. For more info, call Phillippa Paddison: 912-355-2985.

Geechee Sailing Club

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

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. Tubbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr ,

Meets monthly on the first Monday. Visit www.cleancoast.org for event schedule.

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

Historic Savannah Chapter of ABWA

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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.

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Georgetown Playgroup

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

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.

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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/

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For anybody, every age, every race and nation. We chat, hang out, go to movies and more. Meet in a coffee shop downtown Savannah. A small fee covers the efforts of the organizer, a well educated, “out of the box” woman, who lived in New York and Europe. Call 912-604-3281.

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 9:15-11:30 am Call 8980869 and 897-6167 or visit www.mops.org.

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Join Savannah’s only social club for people without children! No membership fees, meet great new friends, enjoy a wide variety of activities and events. For more info, visit http://savannahnokidding. angelfire.com/ or e-mail: savannahnokidding@gmail.com

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International fan and research group devoted to preserving and distributing oldtime radio broadcasts from 1926 to 1962.

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The Coastal Georgia–Carolina Assoc. of Phi Beta Kappa invites members and their guests to its Spring Meeting on Sun., April 11 at The Landings’ Plantation Club.

Meet&Greet at 4pm followed by special guest presentation and buffet dinner. $25.

Advance reservations required. Call Kelly Applegate at 912-233-6408.

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

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

The non-for profit art association, the Southeast’s oldest, is currently taking applications for membership. The SAA offers workshops, community programs, exhibition opportunities, and an artistic community full of diverse and creative people from all ages, mediums, and skill levels. Please call 912-232-7731 for more info.

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 Council, Navy League of the United States

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/

Savannah Fencing Club

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.

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

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 Wendy Wilson at Wendyq1053@yahoo. com.

Savannah Storytellers

Aspring storytellers are invited to meet on April 8 at 5pm in the River’s Edge retirement community on Waters Ave. Please call 912-354-7688 or email Savteller@aol.

236-8566.

Telfair Academy Guild

Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

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

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. 484-6710.

Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah

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 Group

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. Contact Carol North, 912-9208891. 8108 Abercorn St , Savannah

Son-shine Hour

The April TAG meeting takes place 4/12 at 10:30am. Program: Holly McCullough presents “The History & Importance of Photography” at the Jepson Center.

The Armstrong Center

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

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Theremin/Electronic Music Enthusiasts 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.

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A literary society for bibliophiles and writers. Monthly meetings for the Writer’s Salon are held on first Tuesday and the Book Club meets on the third Tuesday.

All meetings start at 7:30 p.m. at meet at 207 E. Charlton St (Flannery O’Connor’s Childhood Home). Call 233-6014, facebook Peacock Guild or email peacockguild@ googlegroups.com for more info.

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 www.southernwingz. com Knitting, spinning and crocheting Monday and Tuesday from 5-8pm and occasional Sunday 2-4pm at wild fibre, 409 E. Liberty.

Jennifer Harey, 238-0514. wild fibre, 409 E. Liberty , Savannah

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The Peacock Guild

Meets every Wednesday, 6:30pm at Seaside Surf Coffee Shop. All levels welcome. For more info, call Will Strong, 912-604-8667. Seaside Surf Coffeeshop, Tybee Island

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Meets at the Savannah Mall at the Soft Play Mondays from 11-12 and Thursdays from 10-11. Activities include songs, stories, crafts, and games for young children and their caregivers. Free, no registration, drop-ins welcome. Call Trinity Lutheran Church for details 912-925-3940 or email KellyBringman@gmail.com Savannah Mall,

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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 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. Vu Lounge at the Hyatt, 2 W. Bay St. , Savannah

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Meets the second Tues. of every month at 6:00 p.m. American Legion, Post 135. 1108 Bull St. For more info about the VNA visit: www.vna.club.officelive.com or e-mail: Robert_vna@live.com

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Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671 Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 927-3356. Savannah

Dance Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes

Classes for multiple ages in the art of performance dance and Adult fitness dance.

Styles include African, Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, & Gospel. Classes are held Monday through Friday at the St. Pius X Family Resource Center. Classes start at $25.00 per month. For more information call 912-631-3452 or 912-272-2797. Ask for Muriel or Darowe. E-mail: abeniculturalarts@ gmail.com St. Pius Family Resource Center,

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 ,

Ballroom Dance Party

Saturday, April 17. Waltz lesson starts at 7 PM. Social dance from 8:00- 10:30 PM. Cost: $8 for members and $12 for non-members.

Beginners and singles are welcome. Moon River Dancers. Call 604-0966 for more info.

Frank G. Murray Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd.

Ballroom Dance Party

Saturday, April 17. Waltz lesson starts at 7 PM. Social dance from 8:00- 10:30 PM. Cost: $8 for members and $12 for non-members.

Beginners and singles are welcome. Moon River Dancers. Call 604-0966 for more info.

Frank G. Murray Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd.

Basic Ballroom Dancing Class

The Moon River Dancers will teach you to waltz, foxtrot and more. April 10, 1-3pm. $5.

Beginners and singles are welcome. Call 604-0966 for more info. St. Frances Cabrini Church. 11500 Middleground Rd.

Beginners Fusion Belly Dance

Every Tuesday, 6-7pm. If you have never danced before or have limited dance experience, this is the class for you. Cybelle, a formal bellydancer for over 10 years will

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Beginners Salsa Lessons

Offered Wednesday evenings 5:30pm & Saturdays 11:30am. $10.00 per class. Packages prices also available. Contact Kelly 912-3984776 or Austin 912-704-8726

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. Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Savannah

Ceili Club

Experience Irish Culture thru Irish social dancing. No partner or experience needed.

Learn the basics of Irish Ceili dancing. 7176 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Mondays at 7:30 p.m. For more info email PrideofIrelandGA@ gmail.com.

Chicago Step Classes

Coastal Georgia Steppers is offering adult Chicago-style steppin dance classes every Sunday from 4:00â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6:30pm at the Tominac Gym on Hunter Army Airfield. All are welcome. Free admission; no partner required.

For more info, send email to Robert.neal75@ yahoo.com.

Flamenco Enthusiasts

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

Free Swing Lessons

Every Thursday at Doubles Night Club (7100 Abercorn St.) Join the SwingCats for a free lesson at 7:30pm, followed by dancing from 8-10pm. No partner required. Drink specials.

Home Cookinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cloggers

Meet every Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at Nassau Woods Recreation Building on Dean Forest Road. No beginner classes are being held at this time, however help will be available for those interested in learning. Call Claudia Collier at 748-0731. Nassau Woods Recreation Building, Savannah

Irish Dance Classes

Glor na hâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Eireann cultural arts studio is offering beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up, Adult Step & Ceili, Strength & Flexibility, non-competitive and competition programs, workshops and camps. TCRG certified. For more info contact PrideofIrelandGA@gmail.com or 912-7042052.

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.

Modern Dance Class

For beginners/intermediate. Tuesdays 10-11:15am. Doris Martin Dance Studio.

7360 Skidaway Rd. For info, call Elizabeth at 912-354-5586.

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!

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Classes every Wed. at 7:30pm. Call for details 912-398-4776 or visit www.fitnessbodybalance.com. Fitness Body & Balance Studio, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. ,

Salsa Classes

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Salsa Lessons

Wednesdays @ 7pm. No partner required.

Tantra Lounge, 8 East Broughton St. Contact: salsasavannah@gmail.com, or call 856-7323. www.salsasavannah.com Tantra Lounge, 8 E. Broughton St. ,

Savannah Shag Club

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Early Bird Preservation Walking Tour

Take an early morning walk through one of the oldest and most varied neighborhoods to learn how historic preservation has revitalized downtown Savannah. Tours led by the Davenport House director. April 2, 3, 6, 13, 16, 17, 27, 30 at 7:30am. $20.

Spring Steam Days

3/19-4/18 - Take a ride on the passenger car powered by steam engine and experience a treasure from the past. $10. Runs Tues thru Sun. 11am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm. Sunday rides at 1pm, 2pm. Roundhouse Railroad Museum.

601 W. Harris. St. www.chsgeorgia.org.

Film & Video AASU Francophone Film Festival

Sponsored by AASU French Club and the French American Cultural Exchange. 4/1, 7pm: “La Graine et le Mulet” 4/2, 6pm: “Un Secret” 4/2, 8:30pm: “Entre les Murs” 4/3, 6pm: “Azur et Asmar” 4/3, 8:30pm: “Les

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Film: “Fish Tank” (UK/Scotland, 2009)

Winner of a jury prize at Cannes, among other accolades, Fish Tank is a film about a teenage girl who finds a creative outlet through dance, and becomes tangled in a confusing relationship with her mother’s boyfriend. Presented by Reel Savannah.

April 11, 7pm. $8. Victory Square Cinema. www.reelsavannah.org.

Fitness Bellydancing for fun and fitness

The most fun class you’ve ever taken to get you in the best shape in the least amount of time. We provide bright colorful veils, jangling coin hip scarves, and exotic music.

Every Thursday at 7:30pm. $15 drop-in or $40 for four if you pay in advance. Call 912-660-7399 or email ConsistentIntegrity@ yahoo.com

Bellydrills

2 hour dance workout utilizing basic bellydance moves. This is geared to all levels of ability. Dance your way towards a better sense of well being. Bring water bottle. $25/ class. 912-414-1091 http://cybellefusionbellydance.wordpress.com/

Cardiorespiratory Endurance 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.

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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

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30 minute Core and ABs concentration class. Offered 11:30am & 12:15pm Mon, Wed & Fri @ Fitness Body & Balance 2127 1/2 East Victory Dr. www.fitnessbodybalance. com 912-398-4776.

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

Hatha Yoga classes

Every Monday and Wednesday from 5:306:30 p.m. Pre-register by calling 819-6463.

St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for Well Being, Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

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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

Mommy and Baby Yoga Classes

Mondays, 10-11am (crawlers and toddlers) and 11:30-12:45 (infants and pre-crawlers) at the Savannah Yoga Center. The cost is $14 per class. Multi-class discounts are available. Walk-ins welcome. Call 232-2994 or visit www.savannahyoga.com. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. , Savannah http://www.savannahyoga.com/

Pilates Mat Classes

Mat classes are held Tues & Thurs 7:30am8:30am, Mon 1:30pm-2:30pm, Mon & Wed 5:30pm-6:30pm, Thurs 12:30pm-1:30pm, & Sat 9:30am-10:30am. All levels welcome!

Private and Semi-Private classes are by appointment only. Carol Daly-Wilder, Certified Pilates Instructor. Call 912.238-0018 Momentum Pilates Studio, 310 E. 41st St , http://savannahpilates.com/

Qi Gong

Ancient Chinese “energy work” that is the precursor to Tai Chi. Gentle exercises that relax and energize. Sundays. 4pm. Ashram Savannah 2424 Drayton St. http://www. ashramsavannah.com/

Reiki Treatments

Reiki master Dante Santiago is trained in Usui Reiki Ryoho. Fifty-minute sessions are $60 and 50-minute in-studio sessions are $45. Call 660-1863 for times and appointments.

Rolf Method Bodywork

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

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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,

Tai Chi Classes

From 10:30-11:30am every Mon and Fri, and from 5:30-6:30pm every Tues and Thurs. Tai Chi is an exercise derived from the ancient Chinese martial arts. Call to pre-register. 912-819-6463 St. Joseph’s/ Candler Center for Well Being,

The Yoga Room

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

The Rehabilitation Institute at MUMC holds weekly wheelchair tennis practice at the tennis courts at Lake Mayer.

Mondays 6:30-8:30pm. We provide trained instructors, specialized wheelchairs, and racquets. Anybody interested in volunteering or playing, contact Corie Turley at 3507128 or turleco1@memorialhealth.com.

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Health Bariatric Surgery Information Sessions

Sessions provide information about bariatric surgery and the program at Memorial Health Bariatrics. Learn about the surgical procedures we offer, the support and education programs involved.

For more info: 912-350-DIET (3438), or bariatrics.memorialhealth.com. April 7, 6pm. Memorial Education Auditorium,

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

All levels welcome. Improve your range of motion and energy levels. Small groups and private lessons available. Historic District studio. Please call to set up your first class. Times are flexible to suit your needs. 912-232-4490 or email blh63@ hotmail.com

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

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. All ages and shapes are encouraged to attend. $7 per class. For location and info, contact Carmen at 484-1266 or calexe@ comcast.net.

Conducted at three locations. From 8:30a.m.-12:30p.m. and 5:15p.m.-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at the SJ/C African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605 for appt. Every Monday from 10a.m.-12p.m. at the Smart Senior office, No. 8 Medical Arts Center. No appt necessary. Every Monday-Friday from 10a. m.-2p.m. at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578. Savannah

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Gay & Lesbian First City Network Board Meeting

Meets the first Monday at 6:30 p.m. at FCNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor.

236-CITY or www.firstcitynetwork.org. 307 E Harris St , Savannah

Gay AA Meeting

meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 311 E. Macon St. Savannah The local chapter of Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 944-0996.

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Savannah Pride, Inc.

Meets first Tues of every month at 7 p.m. at the FCN office located at 307 E. Harris St. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Without the GLBT community, there wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a need for Pride. Call Christina Focht at 663-5087 or email christina@ savpride.com. First City Network, Savannah http://www.firstcitynetwork.net/

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No appointment is necessary; the screenings are free and open to the public. For more information, call (912) 352-4405.

Healthcare for the Uninsured

St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Center is open for health needs of uninsured residents of Chatham County. Open Monday through Friday from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM. For information or to make an appointment, call 443-9409. St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. ,

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A fundraiser party for the Savannah Pride Festival. April 10 at Club One, following the production of Sordid Lives in the Bay Street Theatre that evening at 8pm.

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.

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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/

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Hypnobirthing Childbirth Classes

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 843683-8750 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.

I am your ‘live’ coach

You like to be happy, healthy and successful? I am your coach, helping you to life your live to your fullest potential in all fields. I help you to expand your talents. I offer small groups or one person appts. Please call: 912-604-3281

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, Savannah

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

Memorial Health blood pressure check

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

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

Memorial Health CPR training

FitnessOne provides American Heart Association courses each month to certify individuals in infant, child and adult CPR. The cost is $30. Call 350-4030 or visit www. memorialhealth.com. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah

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St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Mobile Mammography Unit will be performing mammograms in several locations during April. Appointments are required and can be made by calling 819-6800. (Please specify that you are calling for the Mobile unit.) 4/13: Hardeeville.

4/14: Richmond Hill. 4/15: Bluffton. 4/19: Savannah. 4/21: Pembroke. 4/27: Pooler.

Planned Parenthood Hotline

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

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

The Quit Line

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

Weight Loss Through Hypnosis

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

Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors

This yoga class is free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. Learn to increase your strength and flexibility and improve your overall well-being. For more information, call 912-350-9031.

FitnessOne @ Memorial Health,

Nature and Environment Bi-annual Plant Swap

A bi-annual plant swap event for everyone who is looking to freshen up their garden, whether you’re looking to give something away or find something new. April 3, 8-11am at 415 W. Boundary St. Call 912-484-3045 for more info.

Birding with an expert

Wilderness Southeast is offering a series of birding trips with local expert Diana Churchill. Trips include the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, Tybee Island, Wassaw Island and Webb Wildlife Management Area.

For more info, call 912-236-8115 or visit www.wilderness-southeast.org

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.

Earth, Fire, Air, Water: Vital Elements of

Comprehensive Water Policy

Coastal issues forum on Saturday, April 10 at the John W. Stevens Wetlands Education Center in Richmond Hill. Expert speakers address green infrastructure, sea-level rise, multi-state river basin management, energy production, and an integrated approach to environmental stewardship. 9am-4pm.

Fort Pulaski Trail Adventures

Every Wed. at 10am join a park volunteer for a walk along different trails around Cockspur Island. Walks will go along a different trail every week. Check out great coastal views and over 5,000 acres of natural beauty. Bring binoculars and bottled water. $3/person (park fee), age 15 and under free.

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Tybee Community Garden

A Tybee community project with both individual plots and communal shared space. Plots are $50.00 for a 4x8 ft space.

To participate please contact Karen Kelly at karenontybee@aol.com or call 786-9719.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

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

Walk on the Wild Side

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.

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Wilderness Southeast

Offers a variety of programs every month including guided trips with naturalists, canoe rides and more. Their mission is to develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world. For more information: 912-236-8115 or sign-up on our website www.wilderness-southeast. org.

Wilderness Southeast

A group dedicated developing appreciation, stewardship and enjoyment of the natural world hosts a variety of programs during the month of April, including a canoe trip, Earth

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Day celebration and birding expedition. www. wilderness-southeast.org or call 912-2368115 for more info.

Pets & Animals A Walk in the Park

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

Every first Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. in Forsyth Park. The cost is a $10 donation, with all donations given to Save-ALife. Bring a mat or blanket and a sense of humor. Yoga for dogs is a fun way to relax and bond with your four-legged pet. Great for all levels and all sizes. 898-0361 or www. thesavannahyogaroom.com. Savannah

Professional Pet Sitting and Dog Walking

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

Rabies Clinic

SCMPD Animal Control Unit hosts this opportunity for low-cost rabies vaccinations.

Pets must be on leashes or in kennels/carriers. $6/inoculation. Micro-chipping will also be available for an additional fee. April 17, 9am-5pm. Berwick Animal Hospital. 5733 Ogeechee Rd.

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 info 234-3336. Savannah http://www.caninepalacesavannah.com/

Readings & Signings Author: Christopher Scott

Scott, a native-Brit who now calls Savannah home, is the author of the novel “Choke Point.” He will discuss adapting life experience for fiction among other things during a presentation to the Savannah Writer’s Group. April 13, 7pm. Books-a-Million. 8108 Abercorn St. Free and open to the public.

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. Savannah

Spring Lecture Series

The Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home is hosting a series of lectures and discussions covering creative writing, southern literature, and Savannah-born writer Flannery O’Connor. On Sundays at 3pm during March and April. 207 E. Charlton St. For more info, visit www.flanneryoconnorhome.org or call 912.233.6014.

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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/

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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

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

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/

Free Easter Concert

Liberty County Community and Area Mass Choir performs a free community concert.

4/3, 7pm. First United Methodist Church. 100 Memorial Dr. Hinesville, GA.

Live Web-streaming

Attend church from home Sundays at 9 and 11am with Pastor Ricky Temple and Overcoming by Faith Ministries. Log onto www. overcomingbyfaith.org, click ’Watch Now’.

927-8601. Overcoming by Faith Ministries, 9700 Middleground Rd. , Savannah

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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

The Community Chorus of the Liberty County Community and Area Mass Choir will be presenting a special presentation of MESSIAH: FOR EASTER on Saturday evening, April 3rd at the First United Methodist Church in Hinesville beginning at 7:00 PM. This is a free concert for the area and community.

SGI is an international Buddhist movement for world peace and individual happiness.

The group practices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. Introductory meetings are held the third Sunday of the month.

For further information, call 232-9121.

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, 1877-494-8629, www.freedompathonline.org, freedompath@yahoo.com. Savannah

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

Metaphysics For Everyday Self-Mastery

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.

6-6:30pm. Sundays from 9-10:30am which includes a Dharma talk. Donations accepted.

Rev. Fugon Cindy Beach, cindy@alwaysoptions.com. The Savannah Zen Center, 505 Blair 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 2336284 or 786-6075, e-mail UUBC2@aol.com.

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Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah

Liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. Sunday, 11 am, Troup Square Sanctuary. 234-0980, admin@uusavannah. org or www.uusavannah.org. 313 Harris St. , Savannah

Unity of Savannah

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

2320 Sunset Blvd. Spiritual Tapas offers something different every Saturday at 6:15 p.m.: spiritual movies, discussion groups, guided meditations, great music and all things metaphysical. www.unitysavannah. org Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd , Savannah http://www.unityofsavannah.org/

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 Savannah Area Tennis Association

Savannah Bike Polo

Like regular polo, but with bikes instead of horses. Meets weekly. Check out www. facebook.com/savannahbikepolo for more information.

Texas Hold ’Em Poker League

Free Texas Hold Em poker league is available to the public. Teaches new players how to play and advanced players can come and work on their skills. Prize tournaments for season points leaders. www.series7pokerleague.com for more info.

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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/

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Al-Anon Meetings

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/

Alcoholics Anonymous

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.

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

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group

Senior Citizens, Inc. hosts a Caregiver’s support group for individuals caring for Alzheimer’s and dementia family members.

The group meets every second Monday at the Wilmington Island United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Road. For more information, call 236.0363, ext. 143.

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Amputee Support Group

Open to all patients who have had a limb amputated and their families or caregivers. Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

Cancer support group

Meets the first Wednesday of the month from 11am-12pm. 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 819-8784. Savannah

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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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.

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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 3551221; or visit www.coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org. 5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah

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

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

“Strip Sudoku” No, you don’t have to take your clothes off to play Strip Sudoku (but I won’t stop you). Just fill each square in this grid with a digit from 1 to 9 so that, as in a standard sudoku, no digit is repeated in any row, column, or 3x3 box (as marked off by shading in the grid). Each three-square strip (as marked off by heavy black lines) contains an S, M, and L-marked square, which stand for small, medium, and large. The S will be the smallest of the three digits in its strip, the M will be the middle digit, and the L will be the largest digit. Now solve!! psychosudoku@hotmail.com

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at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. at 1501 Eisenhower Dr. and Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Goodwill on Sallie Mood Drive. Call 5989860 or visit http://al_anon_savannah. freeservers.com. Savannah

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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

Grief Support Group

6:00 p.m. Tues. at Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 450 Mall Blvd. Seven-week support groups for children and adults are offered by the bereavement counselors at no charge as a complementary service of Hospice Savannah. For information call 912.303.9442 or visit www.HospiceSavannahHelps.org. Savannah

Heartbeats for Life

A free support and education group for those who have suffered or want to prevent or reverse Heart Disease, and/or Diabetes problems. Contact, Jeff: 912598-8457; email: jeff@heartbeatsforlifega.org

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Hope House

Provides housing and support services such as life skills, resources and referrals, follow-up 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

KidsNet Savannah Parent Support Group

meets on the first Thursday of the month at 4:30 p.m. at the Department of Juvenile Justice Multi-Purpose Center, 1149 Cornell Ave. Call Carole Kaczorowski at 598-7001, Lorr Elias at 351-6375 or Bruce Elias at 644-5916. Department of Juvenile Justice Multi-Purpose Center, 1149 Cornell Ave , Savannah

Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group

For patients with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Call Jennifer Currin, 350-7845. Memorial Health University Medical Center, Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Living without Violence

The SAFE Shelter offers free drop-in counseling to anyone who is in an abusive relationship. Meets every Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church Education Building at Whitaker & McDonough St. 234-9999. First Baptist continues on p. 54

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Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Safe Shelter Outreach Program

Memorial Health Bleeding Disorders Support Group

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Church of Savannah, 223 Bull St. , Savannah

Memorial Health Focus

Providing services for survivors of domestic violence. All services are confidential and free. 3025 Bull St. 651-0004. Safe Shelter Outreach Program, 3025 Bull St. , Savannah

Multiple Sclerosis support group

For families of persons suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia. Second Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Ruth Byck Adult Day Care facility, 64 Jasper St. Call ahead to reserve a seat. Call Stacey Floyd at 236-0363. 3025 Bull St , Savannah

Focus is a program to encourage Sickle Cell patients ages 11 to 18 and their parents and caregivers to learn more about Sickle Cell disease. For information, call Saundra at 350-3396. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/ discusses topics that are relevant to anyone with a debilitating disease every fourth Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at St. James Catholic Church, 8412 Whitfield Ave. at Montgomery Cross Roads. 355-1523. St James Catholic Church, 8412 Whitfield Ave , Savannah

Narcotics Anonymous

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

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1 Word after rubber or brass 5 They eject matter, theoretically 15 Sunburn remedy 16 Make all the same, to a Brit 17 City in central Arizona 18 Reconciliations 19 Canned 20 Gets comfy, perhaps 21 Spanish equivalent of Mmes.

23 Amtrak stop: abbr.

24 Hwy. 25 Doofuses 28 Circus precaution 29 From Sumatra or Timor, old-style 34 Leather shoe, for short 35 “In that case...”

36 As predicted 37 Coup d’___ 39 Athletic supporter?

40 Isolated places 42 Crafty 43 Designation for driver’s licenses 44 Like dog kisses 45 Opposite of NNE 48 Israeli singer Naim with the 2008 hit “New Soul” 49 Skating show 52 Long stare 56 Logical philosopher 57 Finito 58 Type of job that pays the lowest, usually 59 Cartoon explorer 60 2000 Sting duet with Cheb Mami 61 Spoiled kid

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1 Rose Bowl champs 2 Sean’s foil on “Celebrity Jeopardy!”

3 Deviated septum site 4 Unstoppable regarding 5 Comment about the pretentious 6 “It’s ___ hell in here” 7 “Everything’s fine” 8 Vocal qualities 9 Discharge 10 Masters of the Universe leader 11 Cash for strippers 12 They may include lyrics 13 Station wagons, in England 14 Part of a sonnet 22 Diamond stat 25 Opus ___ 26 Ice cream shop option 27 Writing for grades 30 “Fingerprinting” sample 31 Netherlands-based tribunal, for short 32 Black and white bird 33 English city known for coal and beer 34 Hard rock guitar legends, to some 38 Airport screening org.

41 The A of IPA 42 Ran a check card 45 Mythical horn-dog 46 Tipped over 47 Go back and forth 48 Survey answers, sometimes 50 Wax, in French 51 Il ___ (operatic pop group) 53 Company that comes a-calling 54 Number in the Cookie Monster song “They Not Take That Away From Me” 55 Part of QED

A fellowship for families and friends of sexaholics. For information, call 663-2565.

National Alliance on Mental Illness

A recovery support group for people living with mental illness. Meets at several location throughout the week. Tuesdays: 6:308pm, Trinity Lutheran Church, 12391 Mercy Blvd. Thursdays: 6:30-8pm, Pine Woods Retreat, 1149 Cornell Ave. Suite 3A. Saturdays: 1:30-3:30pm, Candler Heart & Lung Building (2nd Floor). Call 912-353-7143 for more info.

Overeaters Anonymous

Meets weekly at several locations. Please visit www.oa.org to locate a meeting.

Pancreatic Cancer Support Group

Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Parkinson’s Support Group

Meets the first Thursday of the month from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Marsh Auditorium. Call 355-6347 or 238-4666. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://www. sjchs.org/

Senior Citizen’s Inc. Alzheimer’s Support Group

Sexaholics Anonymous

A fellowship of men and women whose purpose is to help those with sexual addictions.

351-7440.

Smoking Cessation Support Group

is open to anyone who has stopped smoking and needs additional support or to those who are considering trying to stop smoking.

Call 819-8032 or 819-3361.

Spinal Injury Support Group

Meets every third Thursday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial Health. For information, call Jami Murray at 350-8900. Savannah http://www. memorialhealth.com/

Support Group for Parents of Ill Children

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

Call Donna at 350-5616. Backus Children’s Hospital, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/backus

Teens nurturing teens

Meets the third Sunday of the month at 3 PM on the 2nd floor of the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion. This group is for teens who have a family member or loved one impacted by cancer. For more information, call 819-5704.

The Parents of Difficult Teens Group

PRIDE Support Group

for parents having problems with their teens and pre-teens. 353-7699.

Rape Crisis Center

Meets on the 3rd Saturday of every month.

For more information contact. Michelle McGee 912-224-9201 or sign up on the Facebook page Tourette’s Community of Savannah. Call for meeting place and times

This is a support group for parents of children with bleeding disorders. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Avenue , Savannah http://www.memorialhealth.com/

Tourette’s Community of Savannah (TiCS)

assists survivors of rape and sexual assault.

The Rape Crisis Line is active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 233-7273. The center offers free, confidential counseling for victims and their families.

Transgender Support Group

Rape Crisis Center Incest Survivor’s Group

As part of its ongoing work with incest survivors, the Rape Crisis Center has built a cinder-block wall where incest survivors can throw plates as an anger management technique. In order to continue, donations of china are needed. Call 233-3000 to make a donation.

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Support Group

The group welcomes anyone suffering with this disorder, and family members or caregivers interested in learning more about it. For information, call Martyn Hills at 651-4094.

My Brothaz Home, Inc. is sponsoring this support group. For information, call Lady Maverick or George at 231-8727.

Troup Square Al-Anon Family Group

A support group for friends and family of alcoholics, with special attention to issues of adult children of alcoholics. 495-9758 or www.al-anon.alateen.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. , Savannah http://www.uusavannah.org/

Wheeze busters

is an asthma support group for children that meets in the Rainbow Room at The Children’s Place at Candler Hospital. Call 921-3368. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Women who love too much

meets Fridays from noon to 1 p.m. Call Maureen Wozniak at 355-4987.

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America’s Second Harvest Food Bank needs volunteers

To help with various tasks around food bank and warehouse. Apply as soon as possible.

912-236-6750 ext 109. America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, 2501 E. President St , Savannah http://www.helpendhunger.org/

CASA needs volunteers

to speak up for abused children in court for their best interests and to help ensure they are placed in safe and permanent homes.

Call 447-8908.

First Steps

Become a volunteer with First Steps and provide support, education and community resources to help parents of newborns establish healthy and positive relationships with their babies. Call 819-6910. St. Joseph’s Hospital, 11705 Mercy Blvd. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

Good Samaratin Clinic Needs Volunteers St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Good Samaritan Clinic in Garden City needs stellar souls to volunteer as nurses, physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, Spanish interpreters and clerical staff. The Good Samaritan Clinic opened two years ago to serve people without insurance and whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line. To volunteer call Greta Tholstrup at 429-1502.

Literacy volunteers needed

Project READ, an adult literacy program, is in need of volunteer tutors who can commit to 2 or 4 hours each week. Call Jodi at Royce Learning Center at 354-4047. Royce Learning Center, 4 Oglethorpe Professional Blvd , Savannah http://www.roycelearningcenter.com/

Live Oak Regional Public Libraries

needs volunteers to assist in a variety of ways at its branches in Chatham, Effingham and Liberty counties. Call 652-3661.

Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St , Savannah http://www.liveoakpl.org/

Oatland Island Education Center

Oatland Island Wildlife Center often needs volunteers. Call 898-3980. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd , Savannah http://www.oatlandisland.org/

Photographer Needed

The ScoutReach Division of the Coastal Empire Boy Scouts of America is looking a photographer. Roundtable Staff meets on the 2nd Tues of each month from 7-9 PM at Cokesbury United Methodist Church on the corner of Skidaway Rd and DeRenne Ave. We have been asked to have photographs taken of our monthly Roundtable program to be put in the Council Newsletter. This is a volunteer position. Contact Joe Hiott, 912-4410942 or Richard Hasbrouck, 912-429-1055 or richard_and_shannon@peoplepc.com

Rebuilding Together Savannah

Volunteer organization in partnership with the community that rehabilitates houses of low-income homeowners, particularly the elderly, disabled and families with children.

Visit www.rebuildingtogethersavannah.org.

Riverview Health and Rehabilitation Center

is looking for volunteers to assist residents in activities or just come and visit. For information, call Rhonda Sheffield, volunteer coordinator, at 354-8225, Ext. 243. Riverview continues on p. 56

ARIES

(March 21–April 19) I’m worried about your ability to sneak and fake and dissemble. These skills seem to have atrophied in you. To quote Homer Simpson, “You couldn’t fool your own mother on the foolingest day of your life with an electrified fooling machine!” Please, Aries, jump back into the game–playing, BS–dispensing routine the rest of us are caught up in. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just said was a filthy lie. In fact, I admire the candor and straightforwardness you’ve been cultivating. My only critique is that maybe you could take some of the edge off it. Try telling the raw truth with more relaxed grace.

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) You’ll probably dream of falling off a cliff, or plunging out of a hot–air balloon, or skydiving without a parachute. I’m very disappointed in your unconscious mind’s decision to expose yourself to such unpleasant experiences, even if they are pretend. APRIL FOOL! I told you a half–truth. While it is likely that you will dream of diving off a mountaintop or tumbling out of a hot– air balloon or flying through the big sky without a parachute, your unconscious mind has arranged it so that you will land softly and safely in a giant pile of foam padding and feathers next to a waterfall whose roaring flow is singing your name. Despite the apparent inconvenience in the first part of the dream, you will be taken care of by the end.

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) On the *Ghost Hunters* TV program, paranormal researchers investigate places that are thought to be haunted by supernatural entities. One commercial for the show urges us, the viewers, to “Get fluent in fear!”

That exhortation happens to be perfect advice for you, Gemini.

APRIL FOOL! I lied. This is not at all a good time for you to get fluent in fear. But more than that.

It’s actually a momentous time to get un–fluent in fear. You have an unprecedented opportunity to stop casually exposing yourself to anxiety–inducing influences.

You have amazing power to shut

down that place in your imagination where you generate your scary fantasies. The conquest of your fears could be at hand!

CANCER

(June 21–July 22) Your gambling chakra is conspiring with your inner roughneck to pull a fast one on your dignity chakra and your inner wuss. If they get away with their scheme you may find yourself having ridiculous yet holy fun in high places. And I wouldn’t be surprised if in the course of these hijinks, your spirit guides channeled some holistic karma into the part of your psychic anatomy that we in the consciousness business call your “spiritual orgy button.” APRIL FOOL! Sorry if that sounded a bit esoteric. I was invoking some faux shamanic jargon in the hope of bypassing your rational mind and tricking you into experiencing a fizzy, buoyant altered state, which would be an excellent tonic for both your mental and physical health.

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) “I eat pressure for breakfast,” says Leo–born James Cameron, director of *Avatar* and *Titanic,* the two highest grossing films ever made. Like many in your tribe, he has a very high opinion of himself. “Anybody can be a father or a husband,” he told his fourth wife Linda Hamilton. “There are only five people in the world who can do what I do, and I’m going for that.” He’s your role model. APRIL FOOL! I lied. While I do urge you to focus intensely on the quality or talent that’s most special about you, I strongly discourage you from neglecting your more ordinary roles. In Cameron’s case, I’d advise him to start working on his next project but also spiff up his skills as husband and father.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Do NOT, under any circumstances, express your anger at the mainstream media by taking a baseball bat into a superstore full of electronic gear and smashing 32 TV sets.

Keep it to a minimum of 15 sets, please! APRIL FOOL! I lied. I definitely don’t recommend that you smash any TVs with a base-

ball bat. However, you do have permission to bash and smash things in your imagination. In fact I encourage it. Engaging in a fantasy of breaking inanimate objects that symbolize what oppresses you will shatter a certain mental block that desperately needs shattering.

benefit from getting more control over your instinctual energy.

I’d love to see your libidinous power be more thoroughly harnessed in behalf of your creative expression.

LIBRA

Supermodel Selita Ebanks is your role model. In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend that you arrange for the kind of special treatment she enjoys as she’s preparing for a runway show. That means getting five stylists to work for hours every day perfecting every aspect of your physical appearance. Please make sure they apply no less than 20 layers of makeup to your butt. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The omens say this is not a good time to obsess on your outer beauty. They do suggest, however, that attending to your inner beauty would be smart. So do the equivalent of getting 20 layers of makeup applied to your soul’s butt.

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22) As I studied your astrological data, a curious vision popped into my mind’s eye. I saw a scene of a perky possum in a superhero costume giving you a tray of red jello covered with marshmallows, gumdrops, and chocolate kisses. And I knew immediately that it was a prime metaphor for your destiny right now. APRIL FOOL! I lied, sort of. Your imminent future may feature an unlikely offering from an unexpected source, but that offering will simply be like red jello from a possum –– with no superhero costume, and no marshmallows, gumdrops, or chocolate kisses.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) I sincerely hope that 2010 will be the year you stop worshiping Satan for good. Luckily, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to get that worthy project in gear. Despite the odd pleasures your twisted devotion to the Evil One seems to bring you, it actually undermines your ability to get what you want. The ironic fact of the matter is that pure unrepentant selfishness –– the kind that Satan celebrates –– is the worst possible way to achieve your selfish goals.

APRIL FOOL! I know you don’t really worship Satan. I was just hoping to jolt you into considering my real desire for you, which is to achieve your selfish goals by cultivating unselfishness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

According to Uncyclopedia.com, *Riding the Snake* is a book co–authored by Oscar Wilde and Jesus Christ in 1429 B.C. If you can find a copy, I strongly suggest you read it. You could really use some help in taming the unruly kundalini that has been whipping you around. APRIL FOOL! I lied. There is no such ancient book. But that doesn’t change the fact that you’d really

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22–Jan. 19)

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) Would it be a wise idea for you to stage your own kidnapping and demand ransom money for your release? Should you appear on a reality TV show that will expose your intimate secrets to millions of viewers? Could you get your spiritual evolution back on track by joining a religious cult?

APRIL FOOL! The questions I just posed were terrible! They were irrelevant to the destiny you should be shaping for yourself. But they were provocative, and may therefore be the nudge you need to get smarter about formulating your choices. It has never been more important than it is right now for you to ask yourself good questions.

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) It’s an excellent time to demonstrate how strong and brave and indomitable you are. I suggest you carry out some heroic feat, like lying on a bed of nails while someone puts heavy concrete blocks all over your body, then uses a sledgehammer to smash those blocks. APRIL FOOL! What I just said is only half true.

While it’s an excellent time to prove your mettle, there are far more constructive ways to do it than lying on a bed of nails.

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Help in the “home away from home” for the families of hospitalized children.

Volunteers also are needed to provide home-cooked meals for families staying at the house. Volunteer internships also available for college students. Nikole Layton, 356-5520. Ronald McDonald House, 4710 Waters Avenue , http://www. rmhccoastalempire.org/

Savannah Garden Expo

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Telfair Docent Program

The Telfair Museum of Art is accepting applications for its volunteer docent program. After completing training, docents will be responsible for leading tours in the Telfair Academy and Jepson Center. Call Sarah Ward, 790-8827. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard Street , Savannah http://www.tefair.org/

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Share your time and talents with others.

Through RSVP seniors 55 and older serve at various community organizations from 1 to 40 hours per week. Call 234-7842 or Linda Fields at 238-2960, Ext. 123.

The Volunteer Center

is a service of the United Way of the Coastal Empire. Call 2-1-1 or 651-7726 between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, or send e-mail to volunteer@uwce.org. United Way of Coastal Empire, 428 Bull St , Savannah http:// www.uwce.org/

The Women’s Center

Volunteers are needed to teach Basic Literacy Skills and Basic Computer Skills.

Call Rhonda Anderson at 236-4226 or 447-5711. Wesley Community Center, 1601 Drayton St , Savannah http://www. wesleyctrs-savh.org/

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Tutoring Volunteers Needed

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3br/2ba MODEL HOME w/ many extras in desirable Effingham County. Ebenezer School District, beautiful brick/siding combo, single owner occupied only 2.5 years, 1166 sq. ft. living area, wood flooring throughout, all window treatments in place, single car garage w/ electric door opener, situated on picturesque .56 acre lot surrounded w/ trees for privacy, mature landscaping, well water source, home owner’s warranty $124,500. w/o Realtor. For appt please call Gerhard at 704-2085 FSBO-1818 & 1820 East 39th Street. 1BR/1BA Duplex, central heat/air, both rented. $900/month income; $85,000 OBO. Will contribute to closing.

748-4182,272-0408

Liberty City New Construction, 3bed/2bath, huge master bedroom, livingroom, dining-room, large-kitchen, located on great block. $125,000.

Barry Koncul ERA Kelly & Fischer 695-6850

•REDUCED WATERFRONT!! 530 Wilmington Island Rd.- 1.7 ac with 140’ on Turner’s Creek just off Wilmington River. Dock/Floating dock. 2BR/2B cottage.

Detached garage/workshop. $849,900.

•WILMINGTON: Woodridge.

12 Moss Ct- 3BR/2B. Great room with f/p.

Screened porch.

Garage.

Quiet cul-de-sac. $219,900.

•Georgetown: Better than new.

46 King Henry CtRemodeled 3BR/2 ½B townhome. $110,000. Owner financing possible.

Conv to Armstrong & HAAF. •COLONIAL VILLAGE: 10602 Sugar Bush- All brick.

Upgraded 3BR/2B on large corner lot. Only $169,900.

JAN LYNES 912-898-1600 or 912-508-2001 for rent 855 •100 Lewis Dr. apt 7-C, 2br/1.5ba, CH&A, $600/month, $600/deposit.

•East 54th- 2BR/1BA $475/month $475/deposit.

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1 & 2 bedroom apartments. $450-$600 per month. Available now.

On the busline, Anderson @ Waters. 604-9997 Homefinders Realty.

10 PEARL STREET. 4BR/1 bath Apt, appliances included. Dining area, LR. $600/month. Deposit negotiable.

Call 450-6517 or 272-3101 1106 E 33rd Street, downstairs.

3BR/1BA, CH&A, Washer/dryer conn, $600/month, call Daryl: 655-3637 •1 & 2 bedroom apartments, furnished kitchen, $390- $425/month.

•2 bedroom apartments & houses. $425-$750/month.

Hassell Realty Company.

234-1291 16 Lanvale Pt. Wentworth 3bed 2bath $975mth Lease-Purchase Available Available April 1st 912-823-3302 www.mtpisgahproperties.com 1944 Capital St. 2BR/ 1BA, LR, DR, Kitchen, CH&A, Section 8 or Rent $750/mo.

Call 912-356-5384 or 660-4297 19 ROPEMAKER COURT: 3/4 Bedrooms, 3 Baths.

No pets. Credit check. $1200/monthly.

Call 912-897-6646 or 912-547-7130

for rent 855 1-room efficiency carriage house apt at E. 45th St btw Reynolds & Battey Circle. Access to beautiful garden, nonsmoker, references required, $500/month, 1-month security.

912-231-0243 or 912-368-5971

•2018 Live Oak St: 3BR large upstairs apt. $650/mo+security •FOR SALE- 122 Mapmaker Lane, 2000sq.ft., 3br/2 full baths. Priced for quick sale!!!

LANDLORDS: If you are in need of a good Property Manager, CALL US. Managing property is what we do best!

Call Lester 912-234-5650 or 912-313-8261 •208 Deer Road: Springfield GA, 3BR/2BA, $900/month •11405 Willis Drive: 3BR/2BA, $925/month •1914 E 50th St: 2BR/ 1BA large home. $825/mo •1222 E. 54th St2BR/1BA $450/month. +DEPOSIT, NO-PETS NO-SMOKING. Call Bill:656-4111

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2113 East 58th St, 2 bedroom, 1 bath, new furnished kitchen & new bath, total electric, CH&A, $700/mo, $700/deposit. 727-3106 2124 Florida Ave. 3BR/1BA house w/central heat/ac, washer/dryer, large fenced yard, screened in porch, $900/m.

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(912)925-4815 Spacious 2 Bedroom/2 Bath Apartments for only $600 monthly. Limited number available. Call or come in today!

2BR/1.5BA APARTMENT, Largo/Tibet area $625/month plus $625/deposit.

Call 704-3662 or 656-7842 2BR/1BA 17 W. 45th St. central heat/ac, washer/dryer connections, updated appliances, $500/m Call Rose Simmons 912-233-3125.

Happy Easter from all of your friends at River Crossing Apartments 2 BR’s only $770 and 3 BR’s starting at only $870 Beautiful intracoastal waterway view Great location! Minutes from everything

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2BR/1BA Apt., furnished kitchen, Midtown location. $675/month.

3BR/1BA house, LR/DR combo, furnished kitchen, den, Midtown location, CH&A $800/month.

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308 E. HWY 80 Bloomingdale 2Bd, 1 Bath $650/Month, $650/Deposit. Now Available 912-823-3302 www.mtpisgahproperties.com

3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, located in Berwick Plantation, LR, DR, 2-car garage. $1150/m, $1150/deposit. no smoking. 912-495-0581.

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3BR/1.5BA House 1108 E58th St. Fenced in yard, carport, pets negotiable. $799/month.

Call 912-660-1045

3BR/2BA NICE House, nice area.

3yr. option. Call 404-826-0345 3BR/3BA, patio, 1-car garage, Great Coffee Bluff Location! $1000/month plus deposit. Available Immediately. Call 844-0248 or 308-6691 54 ASHLEIGH LANE: Godley Park, Pooler.

2BR/2.5BA Townhome.

New paint, carpet and flooring. New 6’ privacy fenced in backyard. Gated community w/pool, fitness center, 2-acre park, 2-acre fishing pond, volleyball court.

Call for 1yr & 2yr lease amounts. 912-507-1615 595 WEST 54th STREET: 2Bedroom Apartments/1.5baths, washer/dryer connection/total e l e c t r i c, deposit/$660, $660/monthly.

Section-8 Welcome. Call 912-232-7659.

for rent 855 APT/CONDO FOR RENT: GROVE STREET-1BR, 1BA Apt, furnished kitchen, $525.

DUANE COURT-2BR, 1BA Apt, furnished kitchen, $650.

WINDSOR CROSSING CONDO-total electric, 2BR, 2BA, $650 + $25/water.

LEHIGH DRIVE-2BR, 1BA, furnished kitchen $675.

FLOWERING PEACH CT.-Quiet location, near Sav’h Mall, 2BR, 2BA, furnished kitchen $775.

GEORGETOWN-2BR, 2BA, furnished kitchen $795.

HOMES FOR RENT 232 DYCHES DR-3BR, 2BA home, furnished kitchen $900.

RICHMOND HILLPiercefield, 3BR/2BA, furnished kitchen $925.

POOLER-WILLOW LAKES, 3BR/2BA, furnished kitchen $950.

PT. WENTWORTH-3BR, 2BA, furnished kitchen $925.

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79 BELMONT STREET 3BR/1 Bath, large backyard. $800 per month.

Pets welcome. Section 8 Approved.

Call 912-210-9545 89 Stubbs Court 3bed 2bath doublewide $750mth. Available April 1st Lease-Purchase Available 912-823-3302 www.mtpisgahproperties.com

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AVAILABLE NOW: 3BR/1.5BA on dead-end street. Carport, washer/dryer hookup, new interior/exterior paint, new wood laminate floors throughout, DR, LR, AC. Near schools and HAAF. $869/month. No section 8; No smoking.

920-1936.

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for rent 855 AVAILABLE NOW! FOUR BEDROOM HOUSES 10804 White Bluff Rd-$1400 5757 Ogeechee Rd. $1200 THREE BEDROOM HOUSES 620 E. 60th St-$925 302 E 65th St-$850 2 Soling Ave. $850 2310 Pinetree Rd $850 2127 Glynnwood Ave. $825 1734 E.33rd St. $825 1702 E. 35th St. $800 2330 Camelia Ct. $795 1919 Causton Bluff $750 2012 Nash St. $795 TWO BEDROOM HOUSES 1507 E. 48th St. $850 122 Inglewood Dr$750 APT/TOWNHOUSE Three Bedrooms 303 Gallery Way $1050 Two Bedrooms124 Hidden Lake $900 6301 Walden Park $900 1107 E. 57th St. $575 1130 E. 53rd St. $550 FOR DETAILS & PICTURES VISIT OUR WEB PAGE WWW.PAMTPROPERTY.COM Pam T Property 692-0038 ConneCtsavannah.Com Online listings & cOntent

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HALCYON BLUFF. Unique executive-style 3-bedroom/2-bath home on quiet street.

Sunken LR, wood floors, dishwasher, ceiling fans, garage, CH&A, fenced yard w/pretty shrubbery. $1069/month, $1399/security deposit.

Military & Police discounts available. No indoor pets. No smoking.

920-1936.

Bloomingdale house for rent 2BR/1BA, central heat/ac, total electric, fenced yard $625/m + deposit. Avail. Now! Call 748-0025, leave message.

CLEAN 2BR/2.5BA Condo, ideal location. $800/month plus deposit. Call 912-354-1475 COASTAL PLACE @ Tibet.

2BR/2BA Apt. Eat-in kitchen, large LR, washer/dryer connections, new carpet, 6 closets, all electric. $725/month.

912-655-4303.

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DAVIS RENTALS 11515 WHITE BLUFF RD. 1BR, LR, walk-in closet, laundry room, bath $575/month. _________________ NEAR MEMORIAL: 1308 E. 67th Street 2BR/1BA, walk-in closets, laundry room $695/month. _________________ TOWNHOUSE 1812 N. Avalon Avenue. 2BR/1-1/2BA $675/month. _________________ SOUTHSIDE 127 Edgewater Rd. 2BR/2BA, walk-in closets, $715/month.

SOUTHSIDE 1159 Mohawk St. 3BR/3BA, garage. New townhouses.

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•Duane Court & Caroline Drive: 2BR/1BA, large living room, furnished kitchen, total electric. $675/month.

•Varnedoe Drive: 2BR/1BA, furnished, kitchen, $625month.

912-897-6789 or 344-4164

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Eastside-Area: 2118 New Mexico-3BR/1BA, new CH&A, remod., furnished-kitchen, LR, laundry-room, carport, fenced yard/outside pets OK. $800/m $775/dep.

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•GEORGETOWN: 15 Barrington Cr3BR, 2BA. Garage.

Fenced yard. $1,000 mo •ARDSLEY PARK: 430 E 54th- 3BR, 2½BA. HDWD floors. F/P,. Sep dining. Screened porch.

Privacy fenced. $1,375 mo. includes yard maint.

•3705 Atlanticstudio apartment with washer/dryer $475. mo.

•KENSINGTON PARK: 317 KensingtonLarge 3BR, 2BA. Living/dining. Eat in kitchen. Den & bonus room. $1,295 mo.

•Wilmington Island: G-10 Tabby Lane- Renovated, 2BR/2BA condo, pool, tennis, $875/month JAN LYNES 912-898-1600 or 912-508-2001 Happenings

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2BR/2BA Condo, furnished kitchen including washer/dryer. Fireplace, breakfast nook and many more extras. $795/rent, $500/deposit.

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3BR, 1 & 2 BA, monthly rent $725 & Up. STAY MANAGEMENT 352-7829

for rent 855 Heritage Place/Corner & Row Apartment Homes SPRING SENSATION SPECIAL! 1st MONTH FREE!!!

SPRING SENSATIONAL Closeout at Heritage Place/ Corner & Row Apartment Homes, located at 1901 Florence St., Savannah, GA 31415. BLOOMING Prices starting at $474.00! Call us t o d ay at 912-234-8420 and apply for your new home today. Pamper yourself with our affordable city living and enjoy a spacious 2 Bedroom with Controlled Access, Media Center & Fitness Center, Centrally located and CAT Accessible, Resident Services, After School Program, Playground, Washer Dryer Connections, 24 Hour Maintenance and Clothes Care Center. Affordable Style, Perfect Location. Hurry, we’re almost FULL.

HOLLAND PARK/Southside Townhouse. 3BR, 2.5BA w/fireplace & attached garage. $750/month plus deposit. Checking Account & 2yrs employment required. Call 912-596-7858.

Kensington Park- 3BR brick home, large fenced backyard, big utility room, carpor t, $900/month, $800 deposit. Call for appt.

912-897-5570.

912-441-4109.

LARGE 1 BEDROOM 740 E. 45th St. #3 $675.

Hardwood floors & newly painted. CHA, DR, LR, bath. Near Daffin Park.

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Large Furnished Efficiency. Very nice, includes utilities, cable, washer & dryer. $200/week. $200/deposit.

912-236-1952

Lease w/ Option 3 Houses, 3BR/1BA LR, DR, Kitchen, CH&A $550850. 912-507-7875 or 356-5384.

897-1984, 8am-7pm WESTSIDE, Lamarville **1921-B Fenwick Ave. 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath, carpet, A/C, washer/dryer hookup, fenced-yard.

References, application.

1-yr lease minimum. No smoking, pets negotiable. $500/month $500/deposit.

NEAR SAVANNAH STATE 2BR/1BA, separate LR & DR, furnished kitchen w/d hook-ups, oversized rooms, $625/mo, +deposit. 912.398.6038 ONE BEDROOM: Stately apartment, hardwood floors, ceramic kitchen and bath, washer/dryer hookups. Beautiful and quiet Baldwin Park neighborhood.

Rents very quickly. Must react fast! 537 Maupas Ave. $575/month. Leave message, 912-441-3087.

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RENT: DUPLEX 1110 E. 53rd. 2-bedroom, 1-bath $550/month plus deposit $550. One block off Waters Ave., close to Daffin Park.

Call Alex, 912-401-5710, Days/Nights/Weekends, email:alexcerbone@gmail.com RENT: DUPLEX 1510 E. 53rd. 3-bedroom, 2-bath house. $895/month plus deposit $895. Call Alex @ 912-401-5710, Days/Nights/Weekends, email: alexcerbone@gmail.com SANGRENA WOODS-POOLER: Completely renovated 3BR/2BA, new appliances, inground pool, screened porch, garage,workshop, privacy fenced-in yard. $1275/month. 748-8493, 660-3277 or 660-7852.

SOUTHSIDE- Hampstead Oaks Two bedroom, 1.5bath townhouse apt, total electric, $600/month with washer & dryer $625.

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kitchen furnished.

Country atmosphere. 3BR/1BA, $785/month plus deposit.

4BR/2BA $895/month plus deposit. No section 8. 234-0548 Springfield- Forest Hills 3BR/2BA mobile home w/ washer/dryer hookup, fridge, stove, dishwasher, LR, DR, nice big yard & porch $750/m + $750 deposit.

Call 912-495-1889 or 912-657-4583

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2 & 3 bedrooom apartments & houses. All appliances furnished, hardwood floors, tile, Section-8 Welcome.

912-844-5996 TWO 2BR APTS. FOR RENT 1511 East 33rd: 2BR w/ceiling fans, window AC, washer/dryer, stove, refrigerator. $525/month, $525/deposit.

1408-1/2, upper, E.38th.

2BR, eat-in kitchen, ceiling fan, window AC $725/month, $725/deposit. We pay all utilities.Serious inquiries only. 234-6150

UPCHURCH ENTERPRISES 912-354-7737

32 GOEBEL Avenue: 3BR/1.5BA garage apt. $800/month.

1 REDDING Court off Hwy. 17 on private culdesac. 3BR/2BA duplex$1200/month.

VERY NICE •3BR/1BA, furnished kitchen, central heat/air, all new.

5637 Emory Drive. $795/monthly.

Call 912-507-7934 or 912-927-2853

CommerCial ProPerty For rent 890 WAREHOUSE/OFFICE Centrally Located, Easy Access, Parking, Hassell Realty Company.

234-1291

rooms for rent 895 EFFICIENCY ROOMS Includes stove, refrigerator, private bath. Furnished! $180/week + deposit.

Call 912-844-5995.

FURNISHED EFFICIENCY: 1510 Lincoln St. $135/week or $145/week for double occupancy, Includes microwave, refrigerator, stove, & utilities! Call 912-231-0240 FURNISHED rooms and efficiencies for rent. All utilities included. Westside and Liberty City.

Range from $60-$175/weekly. Contact 631-2151.

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124 Wassaw, newly renovated home, 4BR/1.5BA, thermal windows, ceiling fans, ceramic tile, laminate wood flooring, fenced yard, shed. $975/mo.

References and credit check. 912-429-7876 or 484-4070 Art PAtrol for the Latest Openings & Exhibits connectsavannah.com

Utilities & Cable Included Rent can be paid weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly.

Disability, Unemployment, & Government checks accepted. Call for prices.

912-308-3806

WILMINGTON ISLAND: 2bedroom, 2-bath, pool, tennis. Immaculate condition. $750/month, $750/deposit.

Call 912-398-5018.

Wilmington Island Duplex: 3BR/2BA, Water included, $895/month, 912-897-6789 or 912-344-4164.

CommerCial ProPerty For rent 890 116 Randolph St. 6,000 sq. ft. at the end of Broughton St. showroom + warehouse + sign.

8400 Abercorn St. between Fairmont & Montgomery Crossroads, retail/office, 1900 sq. ft. up to 3000 sq. ft.

rooms for rent 895 NEAR MEMORIAL/ W. CHATHAM East Savannah •ROOMS $100 & UP• Furnished, includes utilities, central heat and air, Comcast cable, television, washer/dryer. Hardwood floors, ceramic tile in kitchen and bath. Shared Kitchen & Shared bath. 5 minutes to Memorial Hospital.

Call 912-210-0181.

Room for Rent Safe, Quiet environment in new home. Utilities & cable included. On busline. $120/wkly, $50/deposit. Call 912-484-1347

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$99 MOVE IN SPECIAL SOUTHSIDEEASTSIDE - WESTSIDE New Large Clean Carpeted Rooms, only 2-4 rooms per guest house. Quiet Areas, Busline.

Cable, Fridge, TV, utilities, furnished rooms.

Rooms with PRIVATE BATHROOMS available. $99-$159/Week.

DISCOUNT FOR FOOD SERVICE AND HOTEL EMPLOYEES EFFICIENCY APTS 2BR/1BA, 1BR/1BA APTS. LR, refrigerator, stove, all utilities & cable included.

Weekly $179 & $225.

No sharing. Monthly rates available. No Credit check.

912-472-0628/3416122

LARGE VICTORIAN with windows on two sides, across from library, nicely furnished, all utilities.

TV/cable/internet, washer/dryer, $140/week. $504/month.

912-231-9464 Other apts. avail.

LEGAL Rooming House in business

Call E.C. Realty Co. 912-441-2649

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

Rooms $70-80/wk. Furnished and utilities included. Call 234-9779

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Central heat and air.

Conveniently located on busline. $130 per week.

Call 912-844-5995.

MidtownAvailable Now! Furnished master bedroom with private bath, small refrigerator, and use of full kitchen & laundry room. $150/wk no pets, 1 week deposit.

912-657-5511 Roommate Wanted: 130 Alpine Drive. $480/mo. or $150/week. $250/deposit. Near Hunter AAF. share 1/2 electric.

Available Now. 912-272-8020

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Seeking a Roommate2BR, shared bath, full kitchen, central heat/ac, cable, near downtown, safe environment. $500/m, no smoking/pets. 912-236-9013

Dodge Dakota SLT 1999 Ext. Cab, Auto, 4x4, Power Everything! Low miles, NEW TIRES/BRAKES, More Options! Hurry! $4200obo.

386-490-6125

OLDSMOBILE Eightyeight, 1995- good condition, runs great, AC, CD player, all pwr, $1500 or best offer.

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Excellent Condition CHEVROLET Aveo, 2007- auto, cold a/c, great gas mileage, can asst in financing with stng dwn pymt $7,995.00 (912)313-9360

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1984 BUICK HEARSE. Good condition. New paint. Best Offer. Please call Steve at 1-912-396-1247

$3500 OBO

LINCOLN TOWNCAR, 1998. Fully loaded, AC/heat, strong V8 engine, stereo sound, alarm system, keyless entry, CC, tilt, leather interior. Very well maintained. For more info, 912-323-1673.

ACURA Legend, 1994black, 2 door, sunroof, runs good, AC, etc. 186k miles, $2500.

Call 912-695-2116 CADILLAC Seville, 1970Classic Sedan (4 door), transmission and engine good condition, need to be restored, project car $1500 John 912-346-0733.

CADILLAC Seville, 1994STS 126k miles, runs good, has rims and tires, $3500.

Call David: 912-429-1685 CHEVROLET 4x4 Pickup, 1987 Collectors Item! low mileage, new transmission, new rear-end, new paint, new tires, Candy Apple Red! $8000o.b.o. 437-5256 or 275-3639 CHEVROLET Cavalier LS, 1997-4-door, runs & drives great!

Clean,AC,CD, new brakes, water pump, belt & plug-wires, oil changed. $2400.

912-312-3853 CHEVROLET EL CAMINO 1985- Nice Classic! Auto, V8, Conquista, NO RUST! New tires, many more options. PRICED ONLY $3800obo.

386-490-6125 CHEVROLET Van, 1999F.S.B.O., custom, blue, high top, 350cui, good condition, $6500. Call 927-2880

Excellent Condition TOYOTA Corolla, 2006- fully equiped, auto, pwr wndw, pwr lcks, tilt, cruise a/c, am/fm/cd much more $8,995.00 (912)313-9360 FENDER BENDER? Paint & Body Work.

Reasonably Priced.

Insurance Claims.

We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

FORD Escort LX, 1998130K, clean in & out, runs and drives great.

Gas saver! $2400 OBO. Call 912-484-2127 GMC Freightliner, 1996- Tractor truck for sale, good condition, asking $5900. Call 272-1472 HONDA Hatchback SI, 1991- Lowered suspension, intake exhaust & headers, CD player, brand new tires, very clean $3100 OBO. 912-312-2849 JAGUAR S-Type, 2003$6900 automatic, all power, low miles, leather seats, campaign gold, very good cond. Call 912-323-9797 JEEP Cherokee, 19984WD, black, good cond., 150k miles, asking $2500.

Call 912-318-8148 or 912-659-1640 or 912-925-2404 KAWASAKI Bayou 300, 1996 ATV / 4-Wheeler good condition, $1000 obo. Call 912-437-5256 or 912-275-3639 MAZDA MIATA MX-5, 1992, 4cyl. 5-speed, new paint & spoiler. Good top & interior. Great mechanical condition. $4000.

OBO. 912-659-0097 MITSUBISHI Diamonte, 1998- chrome rims, runs, good, sunroof, new motor, $2000 or best offer, call 912-695-2116

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PONTIAC Firebird Trans Am, 1976 Classic Car for sale, (2-door), need to be restored, project car, (must sell). $1500 John 912-346-0733.

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PONTIAC Grand Prix, 1999- V6, auto, PW, PL, Alloy wheels, $5995- We Finance, Mike Hudson Motors 912-234-1883 Toyota Corolla, 2006not on recall list! 45k miles, automatic, very clean, in good cond. $10,900. 912-507-9463 SUVS 930 CADILLAC Escalade, 1999 - 4WD, 140K, Bose sound system, excellent condition $9300. Call 912-443-5004

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Call 912-687-2753 Motorcycles/ AtVs 940 HARLEY DAVIDSON Heritage, 2003. Black & silver, 100yr. anniversary edition. Excellent condition, garage kept, Vance & Hines, extras. $14,000. 912-663-2445 HONDA 70 Mini Bike, 2002- Like New $700.

Mike Hudson Motors 912-234-1883

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Call 912-687-2753 Boats & accessories 950

Boston Whaler 2004

130 Sport Package, 40 HP Mercury, S.S. Prop. low hours, like new, extras, kept covered $7550.

912-658-1738 Campers/rVs 960

1997 Shasta 5th Wheel

Fully equipped, Excellent condition, $8500 OBO. Moving so must sell.

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