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Beauty in chance Jack Metcalf’s whimsical, often Kafkaesque art combines illustration, collage, and found objects. His farewell show is set to hang at Oglethorpe Gallery.

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The party’s over: Chris Cook and company say goodbye to the First Friday Fetish | 20

Robert Harris leads the classical chamber choir I Cantori in concert | 22

A first look at Robert Redford’s Savannah-filmed The Conspirator | 26

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Wednesday Film: The Fool Killer (Mexico, 1963) What: An abused foster

child hops a train and hears the legend of a mythical boogeyman called “The Fool Killer”. Starring Anthony Perkins (Psycho).

When: Wed. May 5, 8 p.m.

Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. , Cost: $5

Film: Handmade Nation What: Artist and curator

Faythe Levine traveled around the country interviewing artists and crafters about DIY art and design.

When: Wed. May 5, 8 p.m.

Where: Pepe Hall, 212 W. Taylor St. Cost: Free & open to public

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Thursday Film: Autumn Sun What: A middle aged

woman tries to fool her brother into thinking she’s in a relationship by teaching a handsome stranger to pretend to be Jewish. JEA’s ‘Movie and a Beer Night’ When: Thu. May 6, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Cost: Free for JEA members, $7/non-members Info: 912-355-8111.

Theater: Enchanted April

What: Collective Face En-

semble joins with Epworth Players to present this award-winning theatrical adaptation of a story about

bored housewives rediscovering themselves. Friday night shows include dinner.

When: Thu. May 6, 8 p.m., Fri. May 7, 8 p.m., Sat. May 8, 8 p.m.

Where: New Covenant Church , 2201 Bull St. , Cost: $10/general, $5/student, $18/Friday dinner Info: 912-232-8511.

Airfield Info: savannahtreefoundation.com/

Forsyth Farmers’ Market

What: The Savannah Local

Food Collaborative hosts this weekly market featuring regionally grown, fresh food and food products.

When: Sat. May 8, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Where: South end of Forsyth Park, Corner of Park and Bull, Cost: Free

Panel: Rethinking the Future of the Past What: A diverse group of

panelists discuss how preservation efforts vary in different places and under different considerations such as tourism. Part of SCAD’s Preservation Week.

When: Thu. May 6, 7:30 p.m.

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

Cost: Free & open to public

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AASU Commencement What: Armstrong Atlantic

State University celebrates its new class of grads.

Commencement speaker is Arthur M. Gignilliat Jr. (Class of ’53).

When: Sat. May 8, 10 a.m.

Where: Civic Center Faythe Levine speaks as part of SCAD’s Style Week this Wednesday, May 5 at 8 p.m. at Pepe Hall

Friday Toastmasters Convention What: The group dedicated

to helping people be better public speakers holds its spring conference “Now You’re Talking” featuring speaker Les Brown.

When: Fri. May 7, Sat. May 8 Where: Hyatt Regency, 2 W. Bay St. Info: toastmasters.org/

SAA Film Festival

What: A silent auction,

red carpet event and film screenings, including selected student work from the Arts Academy Communications Department.

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

Where: Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington Ave. Cost: $10-5 Info: 912-201-4172

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

Spring Concert Series

What: Vocal ensemble I Cantori will perform as part of St. Paul’s spring concert series.

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

Where: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn St. , Cost: $15-10

Savannah Comedy Revue

What: Featuring headliner

Kim the Kidder along with guests Sara Swafford, Marvin Wells, Lee Keeler and Travis Sauter.

When: Fri. May 7, 8 p.m.

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

First Friday Fireworks What: Celebrate the end of

the week with pyrotechnics.

When: Fri. May 7, 9:30 p.m.

Where: River Street Cost: Free

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Saturday 34th Annual Scottish Games What: Strength competi-

tions, bagpipers, children’s activities, sheep herding demos and more.

When: May 8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Bethesda Home for Boys, 9520 Ferguson Ave., Cost: $10/adv, $12/gate, $5/youth, 10 and under free

Forest Keeper 2nd Saturday Event

What: Volunteers will help

plant and mulch trees on Hunter Army Airfield base.

For directions and base security requirements visit the STF website.

When: Sat. May 8, 9 a.m.

Where: Hunter Army

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music

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

Akonting Workshop

What: Learn to make a simple version of the Senegambian ancestor of the banjo. Registration required.

When: May 8, 10 a.m.

Where: Ships of the Sea Museum, 41 MLK Jr. Blvd., Cost: $8 (includes materials for class) Info: shipsofthesea.org/

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art

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

Polk’s Saturday Market What: Featuring a variety

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

When: May 8, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Where: Polk’s Market, 530 E. Liberty St., Info: polksfreshmarket. com/

Savannah State Commencement What: SSU celebrates its

new class of graduates.

Speaker will be Supreme

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Movies

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Jim Leach and the ‘Civility Tour’

What: SCAD hosts the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities as he continues his American Civility Tour.

When: May 10, noon.

Where: Arnold Hall Auditorium, 1810 Bull St. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Spring Festival

What: Celebrate the

arrival of spring with variety of authentic Indian food, sweets, cultural dances, games and more. Presented

by Indian Association of Savannah.

When: May 8, noon-4 p.m.

Where: Garden City Recreation Center, 160B Wheathill Rd. Cost: $2 Info: 912-856-7968.

Garden Stroll

What: Stroll with a

licensed guide to learn more about plants and people that make downtown Savannah unique.

Reservations required.

When: Sat. May 8, 4 p.m.

Where: Meet at Forsyth Park Cost: $20/person Info: www.wildernesssoutheast.org/

Lyra

What: Ensemble

from St. Petersburg, Russia performing chants and folk songs.

Preceded by silent auction 5-6:30pm and BBQ dinner.

When: Sat. May 8, 7 p.m.

Where: Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Wilmington Island Cost: Donations (for performance), $7/plate BBQ Info: 912-897-1133.

Concert: I Cantori What: 24-voice choir

performs a program of musical selections from around the world.

When: May 8, 7:30 p.m.

Where: St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 3 West Ridge Rd. , Skidaway Island Cost: $15-$10

Theater: Luv

What: Savannah Com-

munity Theatre presents this quirky comedy about a wife who won’t grant her husband the divorce he desires.

When: May 8, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Plantation Clubhouse at the Landings Cost: $17-27 Info: 912-247-4644.

Old Time Country Dance

What: Join the Folk Music

Society and the Glow in the Dark String Band.

When: Sat. May 08, 8 p.m.

Where: Notre Dame Academy Gym, 1709 Bull St. Cost: $6/members, $8/public

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Sunday Film: The Prophet (Fra/Ital, 2009)

What: The gripping tale

of a young convict who develops a secret plan while carrying out jobs for a gang. This film was won major awards at numerous European festivals. French w English subtitles.

When: May 9, 7 p.m.

Where: Victory Square Theater, 1901 E. Victory Dr. Cost: $8, cash only

Lecture: Was Churchill right about democracy?

What: The JEA presents a

talk by David Lowe, Vice President for Governmental Relations at the National Endowment for Democracy.

When: May 9, 7:30 p.m.

Where: JEA, 5111 Abercorn St. Cost: $10/non-members, $6/members

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Basics of Building Research

What: Professor Steven

Hartley offers instructions on how to research the history of buildings.

Part of STC’s Preservation Week.

When: Tue. May 11, 6 p.m.

Where: Savannah Tech - Industrial Tech Center, 5717 White Bluff Rd., Cost: Free

Lecture: A History of Savannah at the Cutting Edge What: Robin Williams,

chair of architectural history at SCAD, dis-

cusses the myriad ways Savannah has been at the forefront of various technological and architectural developments in the last 200 years.

When: May 11, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Arnold Hall Auditorium, 1810 Bull St. , Cost: Free Info: scad.edu/

Reading: Bruce Feiler

What: Feiler, a NYT best-

selling author, discusses his new book “Council of Dads,” about friends he chose to help raise his daughters after his cancer diagnosis.

When: Tue. May 11, 7 p.m.

Where: Hoskins Center at Memorial Health Cost: Free Info:www.memorialhealth.com/

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Wednesday Story Time at the Roundhouse

What: Fun crafts and sto-

ries for kids with a theme related to the season.

When: May 12, 10 a.m.

Where: Roundhouse Railroad Museum, 601 W. Harris St. Cost: $4/child with regular adult admission Info: chsgeorgia.org/

Reading: Bruce Feiler

What: Feiler, a NYT bestselling author, hosts a lecture and a signing for his new book “Council of Dads.”

When: May 12, 7 p.m.

Where: Trinity United Methodist Church, Telfair Square Cost: Free

Film: The Stranger in Japan (Italy, 1968) What: Also known as

“The Silent Stranger”, this is an early attempt to merge Samurais with Spaghetti Westerns. A cocky outlaw travels from the wild west to Japan in order to claim a large bounty reward.

When: May 12, 8 p.m.

Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. , Cost: $5 cs

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Court Justice and Pinpoint, GA native Clarence Thomas.

When: Sat. May 8, 10 a.m.

Where: Tiger Arena Info: savannahstate.edu/

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Unprecedented

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12 Coastal Heritage

Society brings a dig to Thomas Square Park next to the library. by jim morekis

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Every @##hole who ever chanted ‘Drill baby drill’ should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty. — Comedian Bill Maher via Twitter I confess I’ve been distracting myself from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The apocalyptic images onscreen are disturbing enough now, but the inevitable images to come — as millions of animals on land, sea and air are killed or injured by the spill — are probably beyond what I’m going to be able to stand and still sleep at night.

The fact that some of us have warned of things like this happening is surely no solace.

While the damage to the economies of the Gulf states — and the resulting effect on na-

tional food and oil prices, and therefore on the economy as a whole — will be drastic, it could literally hit home. The oil slick might grow and follow prevailing currents all the way around

Florida and on up the east coast. (There’s a reason it’s called the Gulf Stream.)

It seems far away now, but the BP oil rig disaster — which the president calls “unprecedented,” in a world that has already experienced Chernobyl — could have clear and present negative effects on the economy and ecosystem of the Georgia coast.

In sadly ironic coincidence, we have a story

by Patrick Rodgers this issue about the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography’s new research into pollution monitoring in our marshes.

None too soon. Originally envisioned as a response to radiation from the Savannah River Site upriver, it seems the real threat might come from the sea instead. cs

hear and now by robin wright gunn | rgunnsav@bellsouth.net

preservation:

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nah Tech both celebrate Preservation Week with slate of free events. by jim morekis

Savan18 theatre: nah Community

Theatre says all you need is Luv at the Landings Club. by bill deyoung

14 Art 19 Music 25 Foodie 29 movies

Michael Brown: Futurist, wonk, nice guy Fifteen years after Michael Brown took on the job of Savannah’s City Manager, it’s hard to imagine the version of our city that greeted him on his arrival.

Long stretches of unpaved streets threaded the central city. Whole blocks routinely filled with several feet of water during rainstorms. Broughton Street and its side streets were remarkable for their mostly vacant buildings. Hutchinson Island was a weedy, neglected sand pile.

MLK, Jr. Boulevard? Forget about it.

In early 1995 the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was less than a year old, and was beginning to increase tourist attention. SCAD had about 3,000 students, less than half their current local enrollment.

And a single mother named Paula Deen, with help from her two sons, was planning to move her restaurant from the Best Western on Eisenhower Drive to Congress Street.

That’s also the version of Savannah I found, when I moved back to my hometown and joined city staff as a neighborhood planner in October 1994. For five years I worked in city government—two months under City Manager Don Mendonsa’s leadership and the rest in Michael Brown’s.

Brown worked here before. In 1980 at age 29, he was hired by Mendonsa as Savannah’s Assistant City Manager for Financial Ser-

vices. For six years he led the city’s budgets, purchasing, revenue, hiring, info systems, and fleet maintenance — the unnoticed underpinnings of government. A job only a wonk could love.

As City Manager, Michael Brown the futurist emerged, and applied those wonky tendencies to a long list of civic improvements. He responded to the visions of three mayors with three unique perspectives (Susan Weiner, Floyd Adams and Otis Johnson) while giving equal attention to the input of almost two dozen other council members, and attending to concerns of business, neighborhoods and individuals.

In this way, Brown carried on a legacy established by Mendonsa, who was favorably regarded by Savannah’s civic leadership and by the communities he worked to improve.

But Brown also listened to ideas from a key group that Mendonsa ignored—the employees of the City of Savannah organization. The shift in attitude toward staff was palpable.

One lunchtime a few days after Brown became manager, his receptionist, who’d worked in the City Manager’s office for years, stopped by the Gamble Building. A coworker asked her what it was like working for the new guy.

“This morning when he came into work he said ‘How was your weekend?’ and I looked behind me to see who he was talking to,” she said.

Brown’s predecessor was not inclined to ask such questions. The respect he garnered from employees was grounded in fear.

If a tour guide decides to launch the Michael Brown Legacy Tour, she’ll have plenty of sites to visit. Some are obvious. The Roundhouse Railroad Museum and Battlefield Park, assembled

through years of Brown-led negotiations with CSX/Norfolk Southern Railroad and SPLOST project identification. Two City-owned parking garages on Bryan and Liberty Streets that adhere to historic preservation regulations.

The Trade and Convention Center on Hutchinson Island, now in the city thanks to annexation and more negotiation. Public restrooms and improved disabled access on River Street, and the extension of the River Walk to the Marriott. Ellis Square. Historic facades on Broughton, refurbished using City grants.

Less interesting to most tourists would be a trip to Fell Street and Baker Street in West Savannah, where a FEMA grant was used to buy and demolish chronically flooding houses. Or a visit to pump stations around Savannah and a peek at giant underground stormwater pipes, large enough to drive a car through, that keep neighborhoods from flooding.

And then there’s the 2010 budget, perhaps the most impressive and also the wonkiest stop on the tour. This is the budget where the city anticipated an $8 million revenue shortage from a year ago, as a result of the recession.

Instead of just whacking off a slice of services and calling it a day, Brown and recently departed Assistant City Manager Chris Morrill asked city employees from every level to come up with ways to save money and work smarter, so employees wouldn’t lose their jobs.

In truth, being a futurist wonk and a nice guy won’t ever get Michael Brown his own Savannah tour. But his mark on our city is everywhere, and sets the bar high for the next occupant of that fourth floor office in City Hall. cs

Crime me a river

Police were called in reference to a disorderly person. The responding officer found a man standing on his front porch, who immediately said, “She’s in the house with a knife and a loaded shotgun.”

The officer grabbed his shotgun out of the trunk and took cover near the front corner of the house. He began to yell for the woman who was supposedly inside the house. Unknown to the officer, the man went around to the back door and emerged through the front of the residence. He said that she was no longer there, and that the gun had been replaced. The officers secured the residence and then put both shotguns in the patrol vehicle. The man said that he had been at home, on the couch, when the woman arrived. He told her she could not be there, because she had been banned from the property. She refused to leave and then became irate when

the man refused to hand over his Oxycontin prescription. She went into the kitchen and pulled out a knife. She threatened to cut her wrists if he didn’t turn over the prescription. Another man came into the residence and helped get the knife away from the woman. Then he left. The woman went and got a shotgun, wrapped it in a towel and stuck into the complainant’s stomach, saying “I know what to do with this.” It was then that the man fled the residence and called for help. The officer located the second man, who had helped disarm the woman when she had the knife. He asked the man why he left the residence, and he stated that he “did not want to be around that crazy bitch.” The officers located the woman based on a suggestion from the complainant, they found her, but she was under the influence and could not provide any information about what happened. She was arrested for a variety of charges and transported to CCDC. • A woman called police to complain that the neighbor’s children have been messing with her mail, going through it, and sometimes taking her magazines.

She stated that she has sat in her foyer

and watched the kids go through several nearby mailboxes. She also told police that in one particularly egregious incident, one of her magazines went missing for 10 days, then showed up back in her mailbox covered in food stains and fingerprints. The officer spoke to the children and explained to them that messing with other people’s mail is a federal offense, and that they could get in a lot of trouble. They told the officer they wouldn’t do it again.

• An officer heard loud music coming from a blue Buick as it passed him on Henry Street. He conducted a traffic stop and found that the driver did not have her license on her. She provided some information and her license was confirmed through the system. She was also uninsured, but told the officer “as far as I know I have insurance.” She was issued three traffic citations, and then asked the officer where she could get cheap insurance. Her vehicle was towed.

• A police responded to a burglary at five a.m.

Someone had smashed in the delivery door of a Thomas Square business and grabbed the cash register with $400 in cash. A K9 was brought in to search the building. Some loose change was seen on the floor of the business, and in the lane behind the building. A canvas of the area was done but turned up no additional leads.

• A woman reported her identity had been stolen and that she had been receiving suspicious mail for someone named Ciera Jones. The woman told police she got a letter from a student loan corporation advising that her personal information, including date of birth, social security number and address may have been stolen from their facility in Minnesota. Shortly thereafter, the woman began receiving mail for Ciera Jones. cs Give anonymous crime tips to Crimestoppers at 234-2020

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In mid-April, senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi issued a warning that recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and elsewhere were caused by women’s loose sex and immodest dress.

Immediately, Jennifer McCreight responded on Facebook by urging women worldwide to dress provocatively on April 26 to create “boobquake” and test the cleric’s theory, and at least 90,000 women promised they would reveal serious cleavage on that date. On April 26, following a several-day drought of earthquakes, a Richter-scale-measuring 6.5 quake hit just south of Taiwan.

(Slight advantage to the ayatollah, since a Purdue University seismologist observed that a 6.5 quake was not uncommon for that region.)

“question(ing) the church’s teachings.”

The church had held a contentious meeting of members on March 21, but few spoke out for the principal, largely because female members were banned from speaking at all. (According to the Baraboo News Republic, women cannot vote on the church’s business but generally are allowed to talk at meetings until now.)

Questionable Judgments

• Under Britain’s Department of Health guidelines, prisoners about to be released, and who had previously taken drugs but cured their addiction while incarcerated, are being purposely re-addicted by wardens, using methadone.

According to researchers, the former addicts will then be less likely to overdose when they get back on the street.

Reportedly, more than 460 prisoners Cultural Diversity have thus been “retoxified” in the last One of the world’s longest-running five years.

TV comedy shows (according to an • In March, the European Union’s April Reuters dispatch from South Trade Marks and Designs RegistraKorea) is the weekly North Korean tion Office granted a trademark to production “It’s So Funny,” with its two German entrepreneurs to market undynamic format of a man and a a beer called Fucking Hell. Under the woman in military uniforms talking to office’s reasoning, “hell” is simply Gereach other (though they sometimes sing man slang for “light ale, ” and the other and dance). The latest episode “extolled word is the official name of a town in the virtue of beans,” wrote the Reuters neighboring Austria. However, accordstringer, “while avoiding any flatulence ing to a March report in Der Spiegel, humor.” “If we soldiers see beans, we the applicants for the trademark have become happy,” said the man, leading no connection to the town, and there both hosts to laugh. According to Reis no brewery there, or even plans for a uters, “The two talk about how bean-fed brewery.

North Korean soldiers were able to fight • Judge Robert Benjamin of the off U.S. imperialist troops during the Hobart branch of Australia’s Family Korean war.”

Courts ruled in a March custody case that sisters, aged 10 and 8, must spend Latest Religious Messages weekends with their father, even though • John Ridgeway, 45, filed a federal he is a convicted sex offender with a false-imprisonment lawsuit in March child-porn habit. The judge attached based on his 2005 trial over a traffic some restrictions that Dad must install charge. According to a report in Micha lock on the girls’ bedroom door that igan’s Bay City Times, just before the he cannot control and, if the girls stay jury returned with a verdict, Ridgeway overnight, the father must have “an opened a vial of oil, rubbed some on adult friend” spend the night, too, his fingers and then around the so that Dad will be less likely to defense table, and he later shook offend. hands with court personnel.

The Best Of • In March, an employment Ridgeway was arrested when Savannah tribunal in Sydney, Australia, Drops On the prosecutor, a bailiff and the awarded pilot Bryan Griffin May 19th! ticketing police officer became damages of $160,000 (Aus.) ill. Ridgeway explained that (U.S. equivalent, $208,000) the virgin olive oil had been because Qantas, for which he blessed by a Colorado pastor, worked from 1966 to 1982, had specifically to “cast evil” from allowed him to continue flying government facilities. from 1979 to 1982 with depres• In March, leaders of the sion and anxiety attacks that caused St. John’s Lutheran Church in him nearly to deliberately crash his Baraboo, Wis., voted to fire the aircraft. As a result of continuing principal of its elementary and to work, he had several more epimiddle school because of his

sodes which exacerbated his condition (and, obviously, placed his passengers in jeopardy).

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In January, the principal of D. Roy Kennedy Public School in Ottawa, Ontario, banned “ball-playing” anywhere on school grounds, declaring that it is too dangerous.

We Require Hundreds of Hours of Training for Barbers, But None for Parents

(1) Delmer Doss, 19, and his girlfriend, Amber Burgess, 19, were arrested in Stanley, N.C., in February on child abuse charges after police found a video made by the couple of their 11-month-old son. The toddler was blindfolded, and the parents were shown laughing at him, over and over, as he bumped into walls and fell down.

(2) In March in Dallas, Krystal Gardner, 28, confronting a repo man driving off with her SUV, tossed her 1-year-old baby through an open window to stop the moving vehicle. (At that point, the repo man stopped and got out, but moments later, a teenager emerged from Gardner’s house and began firing a 12-gauge shotgun.

United Kingdom Ninnies

(1) Macdonald Portal Golf and Spa Hotel (Cheshire, England) declined to provide a toothpick to a dinner guest on New Year’s Day (to dislodge a piece of meat between his teeth) because the facility’s manager said she believes that toothpicks are safety hazards. (2) Citing restrictions of Scotland’s Strathclyde Fire and Rescue force, a supervisor ordered firefighters on the scene not to attempt to rescue the 44-year-old woman who had accidentally fallen into a well. The restrictions require that only certified “mountain rescuers” are authorized to climb into wells. The nearest squad did not arrive for six hours, and the woman died. (3) Mirko Fischer, 33, filed a lawsuit against British Airways in January for separating him from his wife, even though they had valid tickets for adjacent seats. BA regulations forbid seating an adult next to an unaccompanied minor, and thus Fischer, with wife on one side and 12-year-old boy on the other, was removed to the only open seat, far away from his wife. cs

By chuck shepherd UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

We recently learned a rapist was loose in our neighborhood when my roommate got an an e-mail from her school that included a link to a police sketch. This got me thinking about the accuracy of police sketches. How much should I trust the rendering we saw? Has anyone done a study comparing sketches to the actual suspects who were later apprehended?

—Ken Yapelli, Brooklyn There have been lots of studies, which I’ll get to in a minute. The one thing I couldn’t find was a systematic online comparison of suspect sketches and actual photos of the criminals. So I spent the afternoon rummaging around looking for examples involving well-known wrongdoers. What I came up with can be seen at tinyurl.com/sketches1.

Ultimately the results confounded my expectations: 1. David Berkowitz, aka Son of Sam. This was the first set I found, and it seemed to confirm my initial biases: in my opinion, the face is too narrow, the cheekbones are too high, and the hair and eyebrows are wrong.

2. Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber.

The sunglasses in this famous drawing conceal so much I initially thought it could be anybody. In Kaczynski’s mug shot he has a beard, but when I compared the prominent jawline with that of a younger, unshaven Kaczynski, the similarity was striking enough to make the sketch seem informative.

3. Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber. Not a perfect likeness by any stretch. But the eyes, nose, and mouth give you the right general idea.

The FBI claims the drawing was close enough that hotel employees who saw it were able to identify McVeigh.

4. Ted Bundy, serial killer. The face is too narrow, but the eyes and eyebrows show a resemblance. Plus your overall impression is that this is a handsome fellow, which Bundy certainly was.

5. Bruno Hauptmann, the kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby. OK, the nose is a

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little off, but the eyes are a dead match.

The upshot is that sometimes police sketches work. More often, though, they don’t. Though I’m not aware of any comprehensive survey, few doubt misses far outnumber the hits.

The problems are obvious. Eyewitnesses are stressed, forgetful, and often wrong—one study of 180 convicts freed

by DNA evidence found more than 80 percent were mistakenly locked up due in part to erroneous identification. And the skill of the artists varies widely.

And often there’s no artist at all.

Instead, investigators may use a set of standardized facial features to piece together a composite portrait with witness assistance. Originally these were kits containing transparencies of different mouths, eyes, ears, etc, that could be mixed and matched; now the job is typically done with computers.

The choices are limited, and the cops in many cases have minimal training or experience. The results are often dismal.

For example: • In 2004 Arizona State undergrads viewed photographs of eight British celebrities and made 48 drawings of them using pro-grade composite software.

Not one was successfully identified by a group of student volunteers in the UK. When other British students were asked to match the original photos with the composites, accuracy was about 6 in 10.

• When 80 students from the University of Stirling, in Scotland, were each shown ten celebrity composites made by local volunteers—a total of 800 views—there were only 22 correct IDs, an accuracy rate of about 3 percent.

When students tried to match the composites with the original photographs, the accuracy rate was only 42 percent.

The latest development is computer software that morphs together drawings or composites produced with the help of different witnesses (or the same witness making several attempts) to generate a consensus. In the lab it seems to work pretty well; see tinyurl. com/sketches2. In the real world? Not too bad, I guess. Go look at Figure 1 in the document at tinyurl.com/sketches3 and judge for yourself.

So a wildly inaccurate composite arguably makes it easier for the bad guy to escape. On the other hand, police renderings do help once in a while, and if you’ve got a killer or rapist on the loose, what else are you supposed to do? Tell the public to keep a sharp eye out for somebody of medium height, medium complexion, and brown hair? cs

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Stuck in the grass: Pollutants entering the marsh through the main channels become trapped in the grassy areas as the tide goes out.

by Patrick Rodgers | patrick@connectsavannah.com

Inspired by an environmental disaster nearly two decades ago, a comprehensive new research project is underway at the Skidaway Institute that could change our understanding of how pollutants interact with marshes.

Backed by two national research labs, and lead by two local scientists, the multi–faceted project will create the most accurate topographical map of the Grove Creek marsh ever made, and then test a hypothetical model designed to better understand how water, particularly polluted water, travels through the marsh.

The results of the study could affect everything from waste water permitting to flood plain mapping and storm surge inundation models.

In 1991, the nuclear facility at the Savannah River Site accidentally released tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, into the Savannah River. The scientific and environmental communities leapt into action to follow the polluted water as it made its way downstream.

“There was an enormous effort to

collect data along the Georgia coast and even South Carolina. The cloud was traced all the way to Florida,” says Dr. Jack Blanton, a researcher at the Skidaway Institute.

What they discovered by watching the tritium was that the prevailing wisdom regarding how water flowed through marsh needed to be reconsidered.

“What we found out is that some of that Tritium was locked up in some of the marshy areas,” Blanton explains.

“The tide wouldn’t put it in the marsh and then flush it back out. It would stay in those grassy areas.”

Although they had some evidence demonstrating the new understanding of the marsh, it would take scientists more than 15 years to return with a model for how the marsh worked.

In 2007, Blanton conducted a pilot

study in the marsh to more thoroughly investigate. He dumped a slug of non–hazardous dye into the creek and then monitored it as it moved through the marsh, using sensors to detect the concentrations of the dye.

Again, he found that, although the tide carried water in and out of the marsh, not all of the dye was carried out by the tide.

“The creek will flush a lot of that out, but there’s enough retained in the marsh, that it takes several days to get the dye down to concentrations you can barely measure,” says Blanton.

Although the field study demonstrated the same effect, the mathematical model being developed by the Savannah River National Laboratory to explain the phenomenon still wasn’t working as effectively as was hoped.

“That’s when they realized they needed better morphology,” explains Dr. Clark Alexander, a coastal geologist at SKIO. “They were assuming a general shape of the marsh, that didn’t represent reality very well.”

The model wasn’t working properly

because it failed to take into account how the physical shape of the marsh was affecting the way water flowed through it, which is why Alexander is working with research assistant Mike Robinson to create a detailed map of the marsh terrain.

The collection of data for the topographical survey is painstaking.

To get accurate readings of elevation and depth in the marsh terrain, where some areas are firm enough to walk and others can only be accessed by boat, Robinson will spend the rest of the year toting around an instrument known as a Real Time Kinetic Global Positioning System (RTK GPS).

“He goes out and sets the rod down right at the marsh surface and collects a data point there. Then he goes 5 meters more and does another data point,” Alexander explains.

Walking through the intertidal area and floating through the inundated areas, Robinson has collected over 70,000 points of data since the survey started in February. However, Alexander expects that they will need around one million

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A research vessel captures data on the shape of a marsh channel.

data points to get a complete picture of the marshes topography.

“We think by the end of the year he’ll be done,” says Alexander.

While a more accurate picture of the marsh’s physical shape will improve the results of Blanton’s testing of the Savannah River Lab’s effluent model, it will also be used by the Los Alamos National Laboratory to test the accuracy of a new, high tech surface mapping instrument.

“We’re providing the validation data set for their instrument,” Alexander says. “This will be their first big test in the real world in these sorts of environments.”

Because it is still being tested, the lab will create a map of the marsh using its new laser mapping system and then compare its results with those collected

by Robinson to assess the accuracy.

Developed by the Los Alamos lab, the new mapping tool uses a photon beam shot from a plane and captures data by sensing how long the beam takes to bounce back, similar to sonar, but able to create a three dimensional map of a surface.

The new system improves upon previous technology like LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), which detects reflected light. The problem with LIDAR is that it averages elevation across its footprint, and can have trouble getting accurate readings through trees and particularly with things like marsh grass. The new system takes a reading with a beam that is only as wide as a

photon, making it able to pass through the grasses and other vegetation.

With the addition of more accurate topographical mapping, Blanton, with support from the Department of Energy, is preparing to repeat the dye study attempted in 2007 in order to re–test the circulation model developed by the Savannah River Lab. Although the research they are doing now will function solely to validate the new model, Blanton hopes that the results of the study will be able to be used by other organizations, particularly environmental agencies.

“We have an interest that’s a little bit beyond helping the Department of Energy,” he says. “We’re trying to get some conceptual tools that we can hopefully get some of the management agencies to look a little more realistically at the marsh.”

The problem, according to Blanton, is that in many cases, when permits for the dumping of wastewater and other effluents are calculated, they are done so using a simpler circulation model, one that assumes the waste is immediately flushed through the marsh, rather than being trapped for a period of several days.

“These kinds of studies,” says Blanton, “They all point to the fact that you really can’t ignore the effect of the marshes on the circulation or their effect that will retain any kind of pollutants.” cs

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You say you want a Revolution

CHS archaeology project seeks evidence of colonial military camp near the Bull Street Library

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

Thomas Square Park, right next to the Bull Street Library, is considered by most of us today to be very near the heart of downtown Savannah.

But during the Revolutionary War this area wasn’t even on the outskirts of town — it was deep into the boondocks.

It was near this spot, Coastal Heritage Society (CHS) archaeologists believe, that a combined force of colonists and French allies encamped before their ill–fated 1779 frontal assault on the British defensive line holding the town.

Funded by a grant from the National Park Service, CHS spent most of last week digging four by eight foot test pits into one corner of Thomas Square Park looking for “smoking gun” artifacts of that military presence.

“They camped for a couple of weeks prior to attacking the city,” says Rita Elliott, curator and director of archaeology for CHS. “With 8000 troops living out here, they would have to eat for several weeks and go to the bathroom, things like that,” thus leaving behind traces of daily life.

A similar dig in Effingham County in 2000 found proof of a British Revolutionary War camp — “Rev War” in archaeologist slang — including cooking pits with barrel hoops as grills.

“We also found broken bottles, uniform buttons, musket balls — all signatures of a military camp,” says Dan Elliott, CHS staffer and president of the nonprofit Lamar Institute.

Unfortunately, the test pits at Thomas Square Park only found evidence of human presence down to the early 1800s, as gauged by the color of the dirt and by the artifacts found. Everything below that was found to be “sterile” dirt, or unaffected by humans.

But what made CHS think these might have been the campsites they were looking for? After a sweep by ground–penetrating radar showed some anomalies in the area, more hands–on tests showed encouraging results.

“We did some shovel tests throughout the park and right in this corner we started picking up all these colonial period artifacts,” says Rita Elliott. “Because

this was so far out of town at the time, we really shouldn’t be getting that from people living here. That suggested we’re getting some encampments.”

While the CHS dig didn’t discover proof of any Siege of Savannah encampment at this particular site, they did discover plenty of artifacts — including a few while we were there researching this story. A typical archaeological method is to “screen,” or one person shoveling dirt into a wire sieve or screen, which isolates anything larger than soil.

“In earlier layers we’re finding bits of dishes,” Rita Elliott says while screening. “By the glaze we can tell how old they are. Certain types of dishes were made at certain times. We also found a lot of square nails, which are older than modern wire nails.”

As if on cue, she reaches into the screen and pulls out a square nail — the first time human hands have touched it since the early 1800s.

A few minutes later, Elliott and team discover something even more exciting: A colonial pipe stem.

“They had white pipes made out of kaolin. They’d be long and have the bowl with maker’s marks on the stem,” she says. “The cool thing about this is archaeologists years ago figured out that over the years the hole got smaller and smaller because the stems got longer and longer. So they came up with a formula for measuring the hole and getting a date for the pipe stem.”

This CHS dig follows on the heels of another Park Service funded project, which resulted in the discovery of remains of a five–foot–ditch in what’s now Madison Square — British defensive works from the era of the siege.

While CHS found conclusive evidence at that prior dig, Elliott says the more recent Thomas Square Park dig is an example of what archaeologists euphemistically call “negative evidence.”

“Even though we didn’t find an encampment, this is still helping us home

Top, remains of a colonial pipe stem; bottom, pieces of pottery in the test pit

in on where they might be. By finding out where they aren’t located, that narrows down the area where they might actually be.”

Also — and perhaps even more valuably — the dig exposed local archaeology to a wider audience.

“We’ve had a ton of visitors come by — tourists and locals. They’re amazed we’re finding stuff underground. When they see it they’re interested in it and want to preserve it,” says Elliot.

Ironically for a city that touts its colonial past, very little of it actually

remains aboveground.

“An awful lot of the original 1730s town is hotels now,” says Dan Elliott.

“Any of these high–rise hotels, anything that’s dug foundations or cellars, they’ve wiped out pretty much everything.”

“We’re losing information at a rapid pace and it’s really unfortunate we can’t save some of that, because Savannah is so crucial,” says Rita Elliott. “It could be used for heritage tourism as well — Savannah can benefit directly from this information.” cs

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Jack Metcalf is bidding farewell to Savannah after several years here as an artist and bartender. He waves goodbye, not with a tear in his eye, but with his art hanging for a solo show.

Definitely something Artist Jack Metcalf finds inspiration in what others discard

“Maybe Something, Maybe Nothing,” debuts next week at the Oglethorpe Gallery.

The title describes the inspiration for the show; an eclectic collection of illustrations, found objects and mixed media collages Metcalf takes found objects ranging from bar napkin doodles to childhood drawings and reinterprets them – breathing new life into the scraps that might have otherwise been discarded or lost.

“The whole show centers around the concept of the possibility of beauty in chance,” says Metcalf.

In the re–discovery of these objects, Metcalf ’s work is permeated with a strong sense of remembrance, while also casually noting the effects of passing time. These found objects encapsulate very singular moments for the artist, and in re–interpreting them as new work, he travels back in time and preserves what he deems significant, ensuring that the most important elements are saved.

In few places is that more evident than in “Remembering you from the objects I find,” where a casual meeting with another artist was all but forgotten until he stumbled across a note she had written for him in a matchbook.

The moment came rushing back. They had initially discussed trading some art, but instead, he asked her for some test images she was planning on throwing away so that he might use them to inspire something new.

“When I rediscovered this note, I checked out her website, and was very impressed,” says Metcalf. “I presented her with the idea of letting me draw into some of her works that she might have tossed aside for one reason or another, and this is what it became.”

It is these chance encounters that form the ideological foundation of the show, and in capturing them the artist asks viewers to take a closer look at their own days and nights, begging the question: Which of the moments in your day could be something more than what it seems?

“I’m inspired by everyday adventures,” says Metcalf. “I think everything adds a

certain something.”

The show’s title also describes the method of pricing the work.

“Everything is going to be priced at the decision of the buyer,” he says, hoping that viewers will pay something but acknowledging that someone could walk away with everything in the show for next to nothing.

“I am more concerned in making art, then selling it,” he adds.

Because so much of the personal meaning behind his work is found in the origins of the objects he uses, Metcalf will also include background stories, each hanging with its corresponding piece during the show.

For his piece “And as I knew it, she was gone,” Metcalf draws upon the Kafkaesque motif of an ex–girlfriend’s face attached to the body of a cockroach, an element that he’s used several times in what he refers to as the “Roachel” series.

“The idea of turning Rachel into a cockroach deals with having a very difficult time getting her out of my thoughts, similar to getting cockroaches out of my kitchen,” explains Metcalf. “As much as I tried to clean my kitchen they would always return, and the same went with trying to forget about Rachel.”

Taking to heart the old adage that ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,’ one might assume that Metcalf was a hermetical pack rat surrounded by stacks of scraps, but all of his objects are kept in a box, the contents of which he visits when searching for inspiration.

“The childhood drawing my mom recently dug up when she was cleaning out an old cabinet,” says Metcalf. “Some things I’ve had for a few months and then I revisit them.”

There are few, if any, places that Metcalf won’t search for inspiration, and he is particularly fond of working from the discarded inspirations of other artists.

“I’ll go through their studio and the pile of trash and take home some things I think have potential,” Metcalf says. “I did that with a couple local friends and then I’ll re–work it.”

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The diverse nature of the work as well as the moments that inspired each piece, make the show difficult to describe, so much so that even the artist has a problem putting into words exactly what the essence of the work is.

“I have been having this ongoing conversation with myself about what I create for over a decade, so I find it very hard to summarize what I do when people who have not been around for the majority of the conversation ask me to describe my work,” he says.

Although the work varies in style and message, the glue that holds it together is the medium.

“I consider pen and ink my primary

and honest medium,” Metcalf explains.

“It is the same medium I have used since I was a preschooler. Now, I am just a lot more anal about it.”

The work is playful, never taking itself too seriously, but visually stimulating, and when tied to the stories behind each piece, also deeply personal. It may have humor, but it’s not to be taken lightly. cs “Maybe Something, Maybe Nothing” by Jack Metcalf When: May 12–18. Opening reception: May 14, 6–9 p.m.

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Exterior of the renovated Clarence Thomas Center for Historic Preservation

Keepin’ it real SCAD, Savannah Tech offer free Preservation Week events

by Jim Morekis | jim@connectsavannah.com

The Savannah College of Art and Design and Savannah Technical College are each offering a wide slate of free public to mark the occasion, now in its fourth decade.

“Historic Preservation Week was started in the 1970s by the National Trust as a way to say that historic preservation is important to communities,” says Jeanne Lambin, chair of SCAD’s Historic Preservation Department.

“It’s wonderful to be a part of a larger national event, and it’s important to reflect that and keep everything open to the public. Without the public, historic preservation doesn’t exist.”

To that end, SCAD is offering a series of lectures by renowned preservation experts through May 8, culminating in a “Potluck Picnic in the Park” Saturday evening in Forsyth Park 5:30–7:30 p.m.

During the Preservation Week events, SCAD will also unveil its brand–new Clarence Thomas Center for Historic Preservation. Located at 439 E. Broad St., the Center is in a former convent and is named for the Savannah–born Supreme Court Justice who studied at the adjacent school run by those nuns.

“It’s really nice entering the building and getting that sense of preservation — it’s amazing that we have facility like this,” says Tiffany Miller, vice president of SCAD’s Student Preservation Association.

SCAD’s offerings include a lecture Friday by Carl Elefante, director of sustainable design at Quinn Evans Architects, and a panel of experts discussing this year’s theme, “Rethinking the Future of the Past.”

Savannah Tech’s Preservation Week events, also all free and open to the public, are more in fitting with that school’s hands–on focus.

Stephen Hartley, chair of Savannah Tech’s Historic Preservation program, says “We basically took what we’re already doing this quarter and opened it up so the public can see what we’re doing. If you say ‘I’m going to Tech for welding’ or ‘I’m going to Tech for air conditioning,’ people know what you’re doing. When you say you’re coming here for Preservation, people say, ‘What exactly is preservation?’”

Hartley explains that while most preservation programs follow the so– called “clean hands” model of advocacy and theory, not enough attention is paid to the literal, physical act of preserving buildings.

“There are plenty of advocates and project managers and people that run historic foundations who fight to save the buildings. That’s great — we absolutely need that part,” says Hartley.

“But when the preservation movement started, we had a group of older workers that could do traditional trades — plasterers, how to fix windows. As more and more schools became involved in preservation, the tradespeople that were able to do that work started to retire or die off,” he says.

“So we’re at a pretty important crossroads. We’ve got a great group of people fighting for buildings, we just don’t have people to fix them. That’s what we need to focus on.”

To that end, Savannah Tech’s Preservation Week offerings include classes on green building techniques, preserving doors and windows, and masonry.

Hartley says that the closest school within 400 miles offering similar classes is Charleston’s American College of the Building Arts, which is not as fully accredited as Savannah Tech but costs much more.

“They’re $23,000 a year. We’re $40 a credit,” he says. “My whole program costs about $4000.”

Society’s current focus on green design and sustainability is part and parcel with historic preservation, though the pursuits aren’t exactly the same.

“We should make things as green as possible, but still have a sense of where we’ve come from,“ says SCAD’s Miller.

“We are sustaining the built environment.”

SCAD’s Lambin says making older buildings more green–friendly isn’t necessarily a daunting thing.

“There are so may ways to sympathetically retrofit existing buildings,” she says. “A lot of those are things you don’t see. Insulation is a really great way to add energy savings to an existing building. A lot of people think they need to do something bigger, but you can put some insulation into your attic and those savings will be significant.”

Indeed, retrofitting older buildings can actually be much more sustainable than new eco–friendly construction, largely due to a concept called “embodied energy.”

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“We practice whole building recycling,” says Hartley. “People talk about recycling paper and cans. What about buildings? That’s where we’re at.”

Everyone agrees Savannah is a particularly awesome place to hold Preservation Week.

“For me as a professor, it’s incredible to be able to not only say historic preservation is a really important value, but

I can say that in a classroom and walk out the door straight into a community that has benefitted so much from historic preservation, and to be working at a college that since the beginning has recognized the value of it,” says Lambin.

“It’s something we practice as well as teach.”

Tiffany Miller sums up her experience at SCAD by saying, “The college really is a living laboratory.” cs SCAD’s Preservation Week continues through May 8, including a Potluck Picnic Saturday night in Forsyth Park and tours of the new Clarence Thomas Center Saturday from 11 a.m.–2 p.m. All events are free and open to the public. Go to scad.edu for a full schedule.

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After more than four decades, Carl Rosengart discovered this unshakeable truth: All you need is Luv. Rosengart, a neurologist who spent 22 years as the senior vice president of medical affairs for Memorial Medical Center, caught the theater bug upon his arrival in Savannah in 1966.

His first show with the Savannah Little Theatre, in ’68, was Murray Schisgal’s Luv, a three–person comedy written and first performed on Broadway during the post–beatnik, pre–hippie days of the early ‘60s.

After raising three kids in the downtown area, during his busy–busy years as a full–time medical professional, Rosengart eventually moved the family to the tony environs of The Landings.

Since moving his Savannah Community Theatre out of the old facility on Victory Drive last year, theater president Tom Coleman has been putting up shows in the Landings’ Plantation Club.

“When I directed Becket at the Little Theatre in 1970,” Rosengart explains, “there was a 17–year–old boy who tried out for it, and I cast him. That was Tom Coleman, and it was his first experience in theater.

“He was 17 and I was 37. He blames me for getting him involved in the theater.”

Rosengart hadn’t done a play in 10 years or so (although he’s no longer in private practice, he’s not retired, and still does plenty of “doctor work,” as he describes it).

“Tom said ‘Tell me, if you were going to direct a play, what would you direct?’” Rosengart recalls. “And this was the first thing that came to mind.”

Although it was made into a Richard Donner–directed film in 1967 (critically reviled, by the way), Luv never made it into the pantheon of fondly–remembered classic comedies. Some say that’s because it’s reminiscent of the works of Neil Simon, who was enjoying his first flush of mega–success in those days.

“It’s hard to put it into a single category, because it is very Neil Simon–esque in terms of the lines,” Rosengart says.

“It’s a black comedy in terms of what’s going on. It is also a good bit of farce and a very physical comedy.

“There are just these three characters

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Picture this: In Mike Nichols’ original Broadway version, the characters were played by Alan Arkin, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson.

“On another level,” Rosengart says, “it is a phenomenal satire of something which was more of an issue in the ‘60s than it is today, but it is still very valid today – the rapture, I guess that’s the word, that the avant–garde had for misery.” CS

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“I approach the guitar the same way I approach any other instrument,” says Daryl Hance. “I just play shit that I think sounds cool and that doesn’t feel awkward.

And if I am playing something that feels awkward, I just keep scaling back until it feels right. In fact, I’ll just keep on scaling all the way back until I stop playing altogether if that’s what it takes to make something sound good.”

Based in Jacksonville, Fla., Hance is the longtime slide guitar legend with JJ Grey & Mofro, and this is his first outing as a singing and songwriting (and guitar–slinging) bandleader. With Anthony Cole on drums, and Shane Platten on bass, the sound is “bluesy funky rock music focused on songs and strong grooves,” Hance explains.

“Largely a sum of all my biggest influences rooted in older blues, funk, and rock music.” Listen & learn: www.myspace.com/darylhance.

At 10 p.m. Thursday, May 6 at the Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. $5.

DARE DUKES & THE BLACKSTOCK COLLECTION Savannah’s most interesting acoustic singer/songwriter returns, after a bunch of out–of–town dates. “I have a ton of new material that I hope to record this summer,” says Dukes, whose Prettiest Transmitter of All CD is nearly two years old now. “I keep juggling locales and personnel, but it looks like it’s gonna happen in Athens.”

In a perfect world, he adds, recording will commence in July.

Dukes’ quirky, melodic songwriting has evolved since he began playing with the multi-faceted Blackstock Collection. “I think a lot of the tunes I wrote for the first record were written before I knew I was going to be playing out with bands and stuff,” he says. “So I was really writing with solo instrumentation in mind. Now, I have songs I wrote with complex arrangements in mind. To the point where I feel uncomfortable playing them solo.

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Captured! By Robots

Of all the novelty acts, wackjobs and weirdos that play the Jinx semi– regularly, none is nearly as bizarre as Captured! By Robots, which has been on the road for more than a decade. The “band” first played 127 W. Congress when it was known as the Velvet Elvis.

There’s only one musician, really, and he’s performing live with pre–recorded tracks. Everyone else is the “band” is either a pneumatic, duct–taped robot, a severed doll’s head ... or a stuffed ape.

It’s metal and/or serious slamming rock, and all sorts of other hybrid stuff, with sets that range from bizarre covers (Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing,” Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire”) to twisted originals (“I Just Peed Your Waterbed,” “Don’t Break My Balls”).

The ringmaster for this traveling rock ‘n’ roll sideshow is guitarist Jason Vance, veteran of the ska bands Blue Meanies and Skankin’ Pickles. He just got tired of losing bandmates to marriage, addictions and mall–cop jobs, so he built a bunch of new ones, confident they’d do his bidding without talking back.

But that’s not the way things worked out.

The shtick is this: Vance, wearing a full black– leather bondage mask and chains, is derisively referred to as JBOT – the “robots” delight in torturing and teasing him, both verbally and otherwise. They love accordion, so I have songs that I write with that – and banjo – in mind. That was never the case before.”

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are foul–mouthed and generally nasty (the apes, however, are smiley–faced and quite sympathetic to the plight of their pal JBOT).

“When the robots swear at the crowd and the crowd swears back,” Vance says. “that’s when you know they’re real to the audience.”

Every CBR tour, up until now, has been “themed” to certain kinds of music. This one, Vance told me a few days ago, is called the “I Don’t Give a Fuck Tour,” because his non–living associates are “allowing” him to play pretty much anything he wants, with the only goal to let him “be happy. And it’s working, and I really am happy. So we’re doing metal, punk, some covers, a lot of songs from years gone by.”

Yeah, buddy. There’s no business like ‘bot business.

Listen & learn: www.myspace.com/capturedbyrobots.

At 11 a.m. Saturday, May 8 at the Jinx, 127 W. Congress St. CS

flux for a few weeks, but Chris Van Brickle, who recently relocated to Atlanta (he plays mandolin, banjo and drums in the Blackstock Collection) will be at this local show.

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A decade of Savannah decadence is coming to an end.

For 10 years, Chris Cook has been the city’s unofficial partymeister. Every month he’s planned and put on the First Friday Fetish, a sex–themed bash that encourages outlandish costumes – or the lack thereof – and includes games, shows, a bit of light S&M play, dancing, drinking, music ... and all sorts of (legal) naughty activity.

Things can get pretty wild.

Friday’s event, Sex & Candy, will be Cook’s swan song. It’s at the B&B Ale House, where First Friday Fetish has been in operation since 2007; previously, Cook and company rolled at Tantra Lounge, Venus de Milo, the Jinx and a whole slew of clubs that either don’t exist any more, or now operate under different names.

Cook, 40, says he just wants to move on. He works a day job at Dozier Crane & Machinery in Pooler – and, most importantly, he’s the father of a 5–year–old boy named Jaden. “The parties take time away from my time with him,” says the retiring good-time king.

We also spoke with Becca Geyer Guardino, Cook’s girlfriend, who’s a member of the First Friday party–gal troupe the Hellcats.

How did all this get started?

alcohol and cleaning up the mess at my house. Finally figured I should take it to an official venue. I had my first Pimp & Ho party at Devin Michaels Pub on Broughton Street. That’s when it all

Cook designed this ‘Sex & Candy’ flyer Chris Cook: I had a close group of friends, back in the early ‘90s, we used to just kind of for fun dress up started being official. and go out and raise hell. We dressed up like disco kings, we did the drag thing Looking at the videos on your site, it some too. But after a while it became all seems a bit dark and decadent. Was a regular thing with us, and I was the that always the idea – “dress up, show one doing most of the planning as far up, and see what happens”? as having it at the house. It steadily Chris Cook: Hardly anything is ever grew. More people got interested, and I planned or rehearsed. There’s no particstarted making it more official – making ular shows that we do. We just kind of flyers and passing them out. arrange the event, give it a theme, and And I had big house parties up until let people dress up and come. We do 2000. Then I got tired of fronting all the

have some girls on hand – the Hellcats – to run the fetish cross, or maybe to do a small little show.

But the party pretty much takes care of itself. It’s kind of chaotic. Organized chaos.

It’s all in good fun. But has it ever got out of hand? Did you have serious S&M people show up and make it weird?

Chris Cook: Not really.

We’re not S&M people, we’re not lifestyle people.

We’re throwing these parties just for fun, and show, and entertainment.

But there have been parties where lifestyle people do show up, and they criticize some of the things we’re doing, because we’re not using the proper technique or what not. But they’ve never interfered with a party.

Becca Guardino: We do a show; we’re not doing lifestyle parties. We try to incorporate some burlesque–type themed show. For a sci–fi one, we did a Frankenstein woman. We have a fire–spinner. We also do domination shows. We try to entertain people by shocking them.

What we do is for shock value; nothing necessarily really bad.

Things you don’t normally see that bring people out of their element.

I remember for our sci–fi show, we had tin–foiled the entire bar. And we had some really crazy burlesque shows that night.

People will come in and get on the cross, and we’ll walk them around like a dog on a leash. I told somebody to go sit in a corner and not talk to anybody for an hour. And they did. But that’s what their fantasy is. At our parties, people have fun with a fantasy they might have, whether it’s schoolgirls, or Alice in Wonderland, or domination. It could be anything.

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Chris Cook: We do get that from time to time. But I would say, with confidence, it’s rare that we ever come into any kind of trouble with drunken frat guys coming in and just mouthing off and trying to get in our way. For the most part, everyone’s very respectful of everyone at the party. You don’t get a lot of rude people in there, to be honest.

Becca Guardino: We’re there the whole time, out there networking with the people and having fun. We’re partying just as much as the people are.

What do you get out of this personally?

Chris Cook: I like throwing parties.

It’s real creative for me, because I get to come up with a theme in my head, I get to design these flyers. I get a lot of satisfaction from people coming to the parties and just having a great time.

Becca Guardino: For Chris, the party is art. It’s not necessarily that he

likes to go out and party – he likes to create a party. He likes to watch people have a good time.

I would never discourage him, but we both have children, and we can’t have those flyers sitting around the house.

We can’t really go out and promote as much as we would like to. Jaden’s getting older, and Chris wants to focus more on the kids now. I respect that.

Is there a sense in you that “I need to grow up now”?

Chris Cook: Yeah, especially over the past three years. I did finally grow up some, not fully, but I did grow up some.

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When Robert Harris accepted a position in the Armstrong Atlantic State University music department, in 1981, he was already thinking about assembling a first–class chamber choir, from his best students, and the finest singers the community had to offer.

Well, he got busy – academia tends to do that – and I Cantori didn’t make its debut for nine years.

Membership in the 24–voice ensemble is by audition. It’s not easy singing classical vocal music repertoire.

“Basically, when there’s a vacancy we take the best of what’s available,” Harris explains. “There have been times when there have been people who were not, perhaps, as strong as we’d like. The talent pool, to use a current overused phrase, is what it is.”

I Cantori’s Spring Concert takes place May 7 and 8 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and St. Peter’s Episcopal on Skidaway Island. It’s titled Shall We Dance?

“It’s a theme concert,” says Harris, the group’s artistic director and conductor.

“Everything in the program has some mention of dance, or is dance rhythm.

There won’t be any physical dancing – we’re lucky to musically dance!”

He’s pleased with his 2010 lineup of vocalists. It’s very demanding musical work.

“There are a number of people who have extensive vocal backgrounds,” he says. “Right now, I’ve got two people that have almost finished their doctorates in music, and a third that has one.

A couple of Masters people.

“And there’s hardly an outlet in town for challenging repertoire. You don’t get it in most church choirs. This is something where they’re an important part, individually, of a chamber group – rather than being one of 25 sopranos in a larger group.”

This weekend’s performances include a typically eclectic selection of music, something that Harris prides himself on.

“I’ve always been kind of a repertoire nut, as far as just looking for pieces that everybody else hasn’t done,” he explains.

“I don’t know whether I want to avoid comparison, or keep the challenge alive.

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Dr. Robert Harris at the podium

“I’ve been at it a long, long time, but I still go to conventions and bring back 20 pounds of music. Just looking for that gem that’s a new piece. I guess it’s a part of my musical DNA to be looking for something that’s a little unusual, to keep the juices flowing for the group, as well as for me.”

Often, I Cantori commissions new work, and invites the composers to Savannah to observe and comment on

the rehearsal process.

“The luxury of being the director,” Harris says. “is that you don’t have to do something you’re tired of.

“This concert has one of the two Brahms Liebeslieder waltzes, and they’re not off the beaten track, but they’re not easy. And especially to have a group that’s vocally capable of the subtlety that Brahms requires ... it was just gee, well, we haven’t done Brahms in quite a while. Every once in a while, you need to touch those major bases.”

“Liebeslieder” means “love song,” and Brahms wrote quite a few of them. The I Cantori concert will feature four–handed piano by Timothy McKee, organist and choir director at St. Peter’s, and his wife, Mary Watanabe McKee. Both are graduates of Juilliard and accomplished concert pianists.

“If you don’t have somebody that’s at that level, you shouldn’t attempt it without having the piano,” Harris points out. “Because it’s an integral part of the piece; it’s not just an accompaniment.

They’re right in the middle of things.”

Since Harris, like the vocalists, is not paid for his services, I Cantori doesn’t need to raise extra money by doing something like the occasional pops concert.

This is all about the music, and cash flow doesn’t enter into it.

“Pops is just not us,” Harris says.

“A lot of our singers are – to put it politely – more mature. It’s not a style that everybody’s comfortable with. And it’s something that if you’re gonna do it, you have to do it right. Just out and out pops? No, that isn’t us, and it’s just not something that we care to do.

“That’s who we are, and we recognize it, and we hope that people will find that hey, it ain’t so bad after all.” CS I Cantori When & Where: At 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 7 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn St.; At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 8 at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 3 Westridge Road (Skidaway Island) Tickets: $15 adults, $10 students Contact: (912) 925–7866

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Don’t fear the grocer The wine aisle of your favorite grocery store used to be a place that serious wine drinkers never wanted to be seen. Put away your disguises, that trend is taking a turn.

Occasionally, you will see a guy with a big nose, mustache and glasses in the wine aisle at Publix in 12 Oaks Shopping Center. That me, as I usually look, digging through mis–stocked and strangely organized shelves looking for column worthy wines.

On a recent visit, here’s what I found: Vineyards 2009 Riesling: I’ve beat the drum for this highly affordable and accessible vineyard’s products before, but never the whites. This Riesling is not one of those cloyingly sweet, late harvest projects, for sure. Count on a representative expression of Washington State Riesling, with juicy and inviting aromas and flavors of grapefruit, pineapple and nectarine. This dry style Riesling finishes with food–friendly minerality, that sensation of smelling rain on rocky surfaces. Acidity on the finish knocks down any tendencies for over sweetness.

Cupcake Vineyards 2009 Sauvignon Blanc: With all the great Sauv Blanc coming off the West Coast these days, I find it interesting that Cupcake scored juice from New Zealand to make this wine.

Winemaker Adam Richardson is from Australia – maybe he’s craving home turf influences. Regardless, brace yourself for exotic citrus flavors, from Meyer lemon to Key lime – all capped off by that unmistakable NZ tartness. For score keepers, the previous vintage scored 90 points from Wine Spectator.

Tim’s restaurant hopping turns up intriguing and satisfying meals. He picks some experiences every week to share:

Big House Red: Legendary winemaker Randall Graham propelled these wines to cult status before selling them off in 2006 to concentrate on intense, smaller projects with his Bonny Doon Vineyards. New owners, Wine Group LLC, continued the line up with a new winemaker, Romania–born Georgette Dane, and is adding labels to the Big House theme.

This red blend brings together grapes with the nuance of an eHarmony dating match–up: Spiciness from the Syrah, cherry and raspberries from Sangiovese and Barbera, blueberries from Tannat, cassis from Grenache and chocolate from Mourvedre. It’s a juicy mix of the best each variety has to offer.

Big House White is yet another bottle full of variety. Malvasia Bianca, Muscat Canelli, Viognier, Gruner Veltliner and Pinot Grigio come together for a luscious tropical cocktail of aromas and flavors. I detected a little cantaloupe – and plenty of stone fruit flavors.

Still not convinced? Wine Enthusiast chose Big House White as a Top Best Buy for 2009.

And if you’re chasing Century Club membership, tasting each of the wines in this column will qualify you as having tasted 14 grapes – only 86 to go!

I’ve written about BearBoat Pinot Noir before, and was surprised to find this decidedly upscale wine on the shelves of Publix. While the wines above will run $10–$14, BearBoat comes in at a premium $23.99. Still, it’s the price of convenience when I can then walk directly to the fish counter to buy salmon, the produce department to select salad fixings and walk out with a complete dinner – and wine. cs

The Mirage Mediterranean Bar & Grill

This new downtown restaurant featuring Turkish–inspired cuisine has the potential to be an oasis – but not without some changes in the kitchen. I wanted to see a variety of dishes, and the menu accommodated with a combination plate, more usually referred to as meze. As you can see by the photo, it presented nicely enough, but most ingredients came up short.

The falafel was oily and the nice flavor of chickpeas was overshadowed. The hummus and baba ganoush were each served with puddles of olive oil in the centers – like mashed potatoes with a ladle of gravy, only not warm and comforting. This adornment overpowered the flavors of each and added an unnecessary component. Can this meal be saved? Yes, the single slice of gyro was moist, hot and nicely seasoned – it was very enjoyable with a forkful of tabouli. Now, the tabouli was a little too heavy on the parsley...but I’ll give ’em one for personal expression. Lastly, the little pair of spanakopita were light and delicious with a creamy feta filling. There were only three other diners present during my dinner time visit – but lots of folks stopped at the window to look at the menu – a hodge–podge of Mediterranean dishes and, sadly, mostly jazzed up entrees of steak, chicken – then they kept walking. It’s as if this little restaurant can’t decide what it wants to be. Need more evidence?

Step inside the door and you’re greeted by a large sound–mixing board. Later in the evening, the hookah bar element of the business gets rolling, but I don’t see why this piece of electronic gear needs to be front and center of what is otherwise a nice re–do of the former Kilwin’s Chocolate Shop.

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Our first look at The Conspirator Robert Redford’s The Conspirator doesn’t have a distributor yet (i.e.

Paramount, Warner Bros., Fox or Lionsgate) or a release date, but that hasn’t stopped the American Film Co., which bankrolled the shot–in–Savannah movie, from letting slip a couple of photographs.

These two pictures show the film’s star, James McAvoy, with his co–star Robin Wright (nee Penn) and director Redford.

In the Civil War drama, McAvoy plays a decorated Union soldier– turned–lawyer assigned to defend Mary Surratt (Wright), the lone woman accused of conspiracy in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He does so reluctantly.

The Conspirator isn’t really about the assassination itself, or about John Wilkes Booth, who actually carried out the deed “All the President’s Men was very similar,” Redford told USA Today, “because you had this big historical event taking place, but what people didn’t know was what these two reporters did, digging in under the radar. You didn’t need to show Nixon a lot.”

The American Film Co.’ s stated intention is to only make historically–accurate movies about United States history. Several Lincoln and Surratt scholars consulted on the script for The Conspirator, which was lensed in Savan-

Top: Robert Redford and James McAvoy on set; McAvoy with Robin Wright

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A spokesman for the company said the film will definitely be in theaters by the end of the year.

The play’s the thing ...The Collective Face, a new theater group in town, has Matthew Barber’s British drama Enchanted April onstage Thursday–Saturdays through May 15 at New Covenant Church. It’s an adaptation of the beloved novel by Elizabeth von Arnim. Call (912) 232–5658.... ...Coming May 14–23 in the City of Savannah’s S.P.A.C.E. on Henry Street: A production of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning The Piano Lesson. Directed by Vicki Blackshear, it’s a drama about an African American family in the 1930s, as they deal with the painful legacy of an heirloom piano (handed down from white slaveowners). Get info at (912) 651–6783 or www.savannahga.gov/arts.... cs

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Reception: May 13, 5:307:30pm. Hospice Savannah Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. Intrigue of Egypt — Original photographs, ancient site drawings and maps from the Smithsonian Institute, as well as authentic artifacts of Egyptology. Runs through May 30. Greer Gallery - Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Hilton Head Introversive Indulgence — A collection of new paintings from Helene O’Hagan featuring colorful, textured abstractions. Runs through May 31. Reception: May 14, 6-9pm. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Lavar Munroe: Art of Illustration — Digitally colored graphite drawing and mixed media pieces with complex

compositions. Runs through 6/12. Beach Institute, 502 Harris St. Maureen Kerstein and Ruth Hunter — Kerstein is a founding member of the Plein Air Painters of Savannah and Hunter is a watercolor painter who has exhibited extensively around the country. JEA Art Gallery, 5111 Abercorn St. Maybe Something, Maybe Nothing — Artist Jack Metcalf holds his farewell show.

Recent drawings, found objects and mixed media celebrating the beauty of chance. Through May 18.

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Philip Perkis: 50 Years of Photographs — Retrospective of work from the NY-based photographer’s career capturing intimate moments and pastoral scenes. Through 9/19. Telfair Museum of Art Rachel Raab: Travels — Large format travel photography from Raab, featured artist at Local 11Ten for the month of May. Local 11ten, 1110 Bull St. The Gallery Re-Opening — Photographer Dusty Vollmer and painter Pamela Goldberg display new work in the first show since water damage from a fire temporarily shuttered The Gallery.

Reception: May 7, 5-7pm The Gallery, City Market The Works — Mixed media from seniors in AASU’s Arts program. Savannah Mall Through the Woods — Solo show by California artist Clare Rojas. Through 5/9.

Pinnacle Gallery , 320 E. Liberty St. Whodunit — Painter Adam Reinhard explores emotion and expression through body language. Through May 14.

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High school students at Savannah Arts Academy will experience a night of celebrity treatment at their fifth annual Film Festival this Friday. Every movie in the festival is the creation of Savannah Arts Academy students.

Communication arts students attend a reception before festival, then they arrive by limousine at the front of the school to walk the red carpet. TV stations serve as “paparazzi” for the event.

Everything from public service announcements to commercials, to music videos, to short films, to news stories, and animations are included in the festival, which highlights work of students in grades 9–12. Film classes are divided into groups of 3–5 students call production groups, and each production group works together to complete projects.

“We spend a lot of time working on the ideas to see if we can flush out our idea with a script that will bring the message across well on video. We make sure that we have the necessary equipment to accomplish certain shots.

We also spend a lot of time planning.

We have to make sure that everyone can get together at the same time to shoot,” says Lester Lee, a member of the FMR Productions group.

“So, there’s always difficulties in organizing to get us all together, but once we get that arranged, we shoot, and then we spend a lot of time editing. But, it’s not always shoot and then edit; it’s not that cut and dry. Often, we’re shooting and editing at the same time,” he says.

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is trying to get all of your elements together at once. Sometimes you will be ready to film, but your actors haven’t shown up. Other times, members of your group aren’t available. It’s hard to coordinate everything. But, we’re a good team, and eventually, we get things all worked out,” comments Delaney Ward, a member of the Common Sense Productions group.

“We share responsibilities and take suggestions from each other. It helps to make the project everyone’s project,” she says.

What videos will be displayed in the Film Festival are not unveiled to the students until the event. However, “by now, most students know about their own work and if it’s up to the caliber of the Film Festival,” comments Lee. Here are some films that Lee’s and Ward’s production groups hope to see from their own groups in the festival: News story: An “Online Movie Review” segment.

Short story: Ghost story genre.

Commercial: An ad for Juicy Juice Public Service Announcement: To promote safe driving without distractions.

Music Video: A video for the song “Amber” by 311.

“We have added something special

this year. It’s called the Frog Festival, where students were competing to create a video that incorporates three specific things into their film,” says Berringson.

Berringson tells what he hopes for the Film Festival this year: “Every year, everything goes pretty smoothly, and I hope it’s the same for this year. We’re always hoping that a big name will show up. Last year, Stratton Leopold showed up, and we also had some local filmmakers that came and checked it out. I’d like to see more people from the community, especially the art community, coming to the event.”

Ward explains her excitement for the event: “The thought of having your work in the Film Festival is pretty exciting.

It’s exciting for the people at the Film Festival to see your project, to see what you’ve worked so hard for the whole year,” she says.

“It’s nice for them to see sort of, the fruits of your labor, and it’s nice to have everyone appreciate and enjoy your work.” cs Savannah Arts Academy Film Festival When: May 7; silent auction to benefit Future Business Leaders of America begins at 5:30 p.m.; Red Carpet event begins 6 p.m.; Festival screenings begin at 7 p.m.

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The result is a perfectly pleasant piffle, a comedy that fails to produce many big laughs but knows how to parcel out its small ones at an acceptable clip. Still, this isn’t half as uproarious as LaBute’s ill–fated remake of The Wicker Man, a bomb whose unintentional laughs continue to delight viewers via well–spliced YouTube compilations.

But I digress. Death at a Funeral focuses on the events surrounding the laying to rest a well–respected man who leaves behind a wide assortment of friends and family members. Among the ranks of the bereaved is his oldest son Aaron (Chris Rock), who’s forced to shoulder the entire cost of the funeral since he can’t count on his successful yet irresponsible brother Ryan (Martin Lawrence).

But Aaron’s issues with Ryan take a back seat when a stranger (Peter Dinklage, reprising his role from the original) arrives at the funeral home hoping to blackmail the siblings over their father’s extracurricular activities. A true ensemble piece, this suffers when humor takes a back seat to drama – for example, the plotline involving a slick businessman’s (Luke Wilson) attempts to win back the deceased’s niece (Avatar’s Zoe Saldana) adds nothing.

But the picture is breezy enough to always get back on track fairly quick, and there are some nice comic moments from Danny Glover as a cantankerous uncle, Tracy Morgan as a perpetually nervous acquaintance, and James Marsden as Saldana’s boyfriend, whose accidental ingestion of hallucinogens leads to some madcap mishaps.

How to Train Your Dragon

Based on the children’s book by Cressida Cowell, this centers on a village wherein the Viking population is constantly at war with the neighboring dragons. Bumbling young Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel), the son of the fearless Viking leader Stoick (Gerard Butler), wants to join the ranks of the dragon slayers, and he gets his chance when he wounds a feared Night Fury.

But rather than go for the kill, Hiccup ends up releasing the creature, and before long, the two become inseparable – a real dilemma, considering the lad is expected to soon complete his schooling and start slaughtering dragons. Writer–directors Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders (scripting with William Davies) gently advance the themes of acceptance and understanding without any pushy shoving, and the animators do a bang–up job in their designs of the various breeds of dragons on view throughout the picture. As expected, they save their best work for the Night Fury (named Toothless by Hiccup), endearing him to audiences by providing him with quasi–feline features (he looks like a silky black cat in close–ups).

Craig Ferguson contributes some good moments as Hiccup’s trainer Gobber, and how odd is it to see Butler involved in a film that doesn’t suck?

THE BACK–UP PLAN Jennifer Lopez’s first screen outing in four years isn’t a motion picture so much as it’s a new form of Chinese water torture: Seemingly innocuous at first, it continues to pelt the viewer with one abysmal scene after another until insanity seems like the only logical result.

Lopez stars as Zoe, a single woman who, tired of waiting for Mr. Right while her biological clock continues to tick away, elects to conceive through artificial insemination.

But wouldn’t you know it, as she walks out of the clinic, she bumps into a charismatic cheesemaker named Stan (Alex O’Loughlin), and they begin dating. Zoe waits until Stan falls in love with – and makes love to – her before she alerts him to the fact that she’s pregnant and that he’ll have to deal with this issue if he wants to permanently commit to her. Zoe’s actions throughout the picture make her a particularly odious heroine, but that’s the least of this film’s problems: More detrimental are the slapstick gags scripted by Kate Angelo and directed by Alan Poul, including (but not limited to) the scene in which Zoe wrestles with her dog for possession of a pregnancy test stick and the sequence in which a woman gives birth in a bathtub while members of her single–mom support group chant around her (speaking of continues on p. 30

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the support group, this movie exhibits nothing but contempt and derision toward single women). There’s also the usual rom–com character of the outspoken best friend (Michaela Watkins) whose wisecracks are supposed to be funny but are instead merely obnoxious, the expected cutaway shots to the mutt whimpering or barking whenever one of the humans says something stupid (needless to say, this happens frequently), and an unhealthy obsession with scatological humor. The only bright spot is seeing ’70s sitcom vets Linda Lavin (Alice) and Tom Bosley (Happy Days) in minor roles; the rest is unspeakably awful.

Date Night The third time’s the charm thanks to Date Night, a likable lark that just makes the cut due largely to the appeal of stars Steve Carell and Tina Fey. After suffering through the dreadful one–two sucker punch of Did You Hear About the Morgans? and The Bounty Hunter, it’s nice to cozy up to a decent comedy that also centers on a marital couple trying to stay one step ahead of murderous thugs. The chemistry between Bounty’s Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston was even more non–existent than that between Morgans’ Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker, but that’s clearly not the case here.

As Jersey suburbanites Phil and Claire Foster, Carell and Fey not only bounce off each other as accomplished comedians, but they’re also completely believable as a longtime married couple who love each other but worry that all excitement has been drained from their union. On one of their patented date nights away from the kids and other

familial obligations, they opt to forego the usual salmon ‘n’ potato skins at the local dive in order to head to Manhattan for a swanky dinner at a posh new seafood restaurant. Unable to secure seats (as the haughty maitre d’ informs them, reservations are required a month in advance), they decide to pose as the Tripplehorns when the latter–named fail to turn up when their table is called.

Unfortunately for Phil and Claire, their impulsive act leads to a case of mistaken identity straight out of Alfred Hitchcock: As in North by Northwest and Saboteur (to name but two), good people find themselves running from dangerous villains while trying to clear their names and escape with all vital organs intact. Shawn Levy is a mediocre director at best (Night at the Museum, ill–advised remakes of The Pink Panther and Cheaper by the Dozen), which explains why the movie grinds to a dead halt whenever the attention shifts from the leading players’ personalities to the usual bouts of gunplay and vehicular destruction.

But the film clicks whenever Carell and Fey are allowed to fully engage each other, whether they’re serving up the anticipated comic riffs or, somewhat unexpectedly, settling down to discuss the commonplace difficulties faced by married couples who feel they can no longer surprise (or even excite) their partners. And while most of the supporting characters are stock (crooked cops, sleazy mob kingpin, sassy babysitter, etc.), there’s a nice contribution by Mark Wahlberg as a buff security expert whose religion apparently prohibits the donning of shirts – this macho man’s perpetual refusal to cover his bulging pecs proves to be a bright running gag.

KICK–ASS Based on Mark Millar’s popular comic series, Kick–Ass begins as a PG–13 delight before eventually turning into an R–rated ordeal. Adaptations of this sort often squarely fit into the more restrictive rating (e.g. Watchmen, Sin City), and Millar’s illustrated series certainly isn’t for the kiddies. But despite this fact, here’s one graphic (in all senses of the word) retelling that would have benefited from a more family–friendly rendition.

The title refers to Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a geeky teenager who loves comic books and wonders why no one has ever mimicked the caped crusaders seen battling evildoers in print.

Even though he concedes that his only superpower is being “invisible to girls,” Dave decides to don a slick scuba suit and mask and take to the streets to fight crime under the moniker of Kick–Ass. His first encounter with a couple of street punks ends with him receiving a shiv in his stomach before getting slammed by a speeding car, two incidents that land him in the hospital.

Released with damaged nerve endings and a semi–steel body that basically turns him into a Wolverine–with–training–wheels, he again tries his hand at crime–fighting – this time, his skirmish is captured on film and broadcast all over the Internet, turning him into a media sensation.

As long as Kick–Ass remains focused on Dave and his exploits in and out of costume, it remains a clever modern riff on the classic Marvel tale, like watching Peter Parker’s travails reimagined for Napoleon Dynamite. But this is only half the movie. The rest involves the efforts of two far more accomplished superheroes, Big Daddy (a woefully miscast

Nicolas Cage) and Hit–Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz), to take down a ruthless criminal named Frank D’Amico (Mark Strong, fresh from playing the ruthless criminal in Sherlock Holmes).

Big Daddy and Hit–Girl are the secret identities of ex–cop Damon Macready and his 9–year–old daughter Mindy, and they’re both bent on revenge. Make that bloody revenge. A glaring streak of sadism proves to be Kick–Ass’s undoing, as the can–do pluck and spirit exhibited in, say, Spider–Man is ignored in favor of unrelenting violence at every turn.

Writer–director Matthew Vaughn (who previously helmed the memorable Layer Cake) and co–writer Jane Goldman might believe it’s fair game for the bad guys to get offed in jokey, gruesome ways (most notably the goon who explodes in an oversized microwave), but how funny is it when D’Amico fatally shoots a costumed kid in the head after mistaking him for the real Kick–Ass? Equally troubling is the handling of the character of Hit–Girl, who, taught by her father, proceeds to kill scores of men (and one woman) by any means necessary (guns, knives, you name it). One character chastises Damon Macready for turning Mindy into a pint–size killer, correctly asserting that this little girl deserves a normal childhood. Yet Kick–Ass then completely ignores this line of thought, allowing Macready to steadfastly remain a good guy and never once questioning the fact that he’s turned his daughter into a soulless killing machine.

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CLASH OF THE TITANS 3–D or not 3–D — that’s not even a question as far as Clash of the Titans is concerned. In the wake of Avatar’s phenomenal success, studios are shamelessly slapping the 3–D format onto whatever pictures are in the can, failing to take into account that Avatar’s visuals were so stunning because the picture was shot in 3–D. Clash of the Titans represents the laziest use of the process to date: I repeatedly removed my special glasses during the screening and could scarcely tell any difference between 2–D and 3–D. My advice? Avoid any theater charging more to see this in 3–D; it’s not worth the extra cash. As to whether the film itself is worth seeing in any format, that’s a closer call.

Fans of the 1981 original won’t find many improvements here: Ray Harryhausen’s lovingly crafted stop–motion effects have been swapped out for the usual CGI sound and fury; the ingratiating sense of camp has been obliterated, replaced by a solemnity signaled by furrowed brows and stone faces (and not just on those who encounter Medusa); and the amusing banter between the gods (played by the likes of Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith) is noticeably MIA. On its own terms, however, the film is passable spectacle.As Perseus, the mortal son of Zeus (Liam Neeson) who must thwart Hades (Ralph Fiennes) by defeating a string of ghastly beasts and saving both a city and its princess (Alexa Davalos), Avatar’s Sam Worthington is merely OK (the reason for his high demand continues to elude me), but his character is backed by a colorful assortment of warriors who make his journey memorable.

Fiennes’ portrayal of Hades may not fall far from the Voldemort tree, but he nevertheless cuts a menacing figure.

And while most of the mythical creatures (Medusa, the Kraken) pale next to Harryhausen’s achievements, the monstrous scorpions prove to be an exception, and superb FX work allows their battle with the humans to emerge as the film’s action highlight.Those hoping for a Harry Hamlin sighting (he played Perseus in the original) will be left hanging, but rest assured that there’s a clever cameo appearance by another vet of the ’81 release. It would be cruel and unfair to viewers to ruin the scene here (clue: it involves a non–human character), but it’s an amusing gag, and it slices through the rest of the picture’s glumness with the precision of a sword crafted by Zeus himself.

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.

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from the small screen to the large one (and don’t forget that fellow named Clint), but Miley Cyrus seems more likely to join the ranks of Kirk Cameron, Tony Danza and the Olsen twins, thespians who attempted to make the leap but fell short by about 10 miles. In this adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel, the Disney Channel product stars as Ronnie Miller, a brooding teen who’s none too thrilled that she’s forced to spend the summer with her father (Greg Kinnear) at his beachside home (filming took place on Tybee Island). Still angry at him for divorcing her mom (the ageless Kelly Preston), she shows her disapproval by turning down acceptance at Julliard, refusing to eat dinner with him, and perpetually pouting whenever she’s in his presence (that’ll teach him!). Initially, Cyrus’ character is supposed to be this anti–establishment rebel, but the actress suggests “punk” about as much as Wubbzy. At any rate, she eventually mellows out after meeting local hottie Will (Liam Hemsworth), a jock from a rich family. From here, the film slogs its way through the usual hoary conventions, including Will’s snotty circle objecting to Ronnie’s lack of wealth and prestige and the sudden terminal disease sprung on one of the principal players. Cyrus isn’t quite ready for her big–screen close–up, as evidenced by her clumsy pauses (as if she expects canned sit–com reactions after her every utterance) as well as her exaggerated enunciation that’s more suited to the boob tube. But let’s not be too rough on the child: It’s hard to put one’s best foot forward when dealing with a script that’s the literary equivalent of cement shoes.

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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.”

THE BOUNTY HUNTER

If nothing else, the soundtrack for The Bounty Hunter 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 hiscomedic instincts are roughly on par with those of a great white shark.

And as the angry ex, a reporter who’s on the verge of single–handedly cracking a murder case (in tight dress and heels, of course), Aniston regrettably shows that she’s only dependable when insulated by terrific indie casts (The Good Girl, Friends with Money) or co–starring opposite adorable retriever puppies (aww, Marley!).

Predictably plotted, poorly cast (the leads have zero chemistry) and painfully unfunny (nothing here to even crack a smile, let alone bust a gut), The Bounty Hunter is yet one more imbecilic effort suffering from arrested development, 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. 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.

Georgia Federation of Democratic Women

The Georgia Federation of Democratic Women is holding its first meeting in Savannah to organize a local chapter. All local Democratic women are welcome to attend.

Saturday, May 15 at the Pirates House (20 E. Broad St) at 12pm. For more info, contact Jolene Byrne at rjobyrne@comcast.net or visit: gfdw.blogspot.com

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 Republican Women

meets the first Wednesday of the month at 11:30 am at Johnny Harris Restaurant Banquet Room on Victory Drive. Cost is $13 at the door. 598-1883. Johnny Harris Restaurant, 1651 East Victory Drive , Savannah

Savannah Area Young Republicans

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

Savannah Republican Club

Meets second Tuesday of the month. 9277170.

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

A Night at the Museum

The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum hosts a black-tie fundraiser on May 21 from 7-10pm. Evening museum tours, live music, an auction, food, complimentary wine and a cash bar. Tickets are available at the museum as well as from board members.

Call 912-231-8900 for more info.

Blood Drive

The Blood Alliance and Hampton Inn host a blood drive on May 21, 12-7pm. Those who donate will be eligible for a raffle incl. gift cards and free hotel stays. Hampton Inn 201 MLK Jr. Blvd. To schedule an appt to give blood or for more info: 912-721-1603 or via email at: angela.lightsey@hilton.com

Citizens Advocacy Annual Covered Dish Supper

Bring a covered dish, bottle of wine, or $5 donation. Enjoy live music from Soap and hear inspiring stories from people who’ve been involved in the advocacy program. May 13, 5:30-8:30pm. Savannah Station. 601 Cohen St.

Hope House of Savannah

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

plication please contact us at 786.325.4667 or thecolaboratory@gmail.com The Co-Laboratory, 631 E. Broad St. ,

Geekend Presenters

Geekend 2010 will take place November 4-6. Once again, we’re looking for a slate of awesome speakers and panelists to geek out with us. Do you think you are “geek” enough to present at Geekend 2010? Go to www.Geekend2010.com to find out more about Geekend and enter your idea for a Geekend 2010 session.

Georgia Heritage FCU Scholarships

The Credit Union offers two $1,000 scholarships. One for a high school student who will attend an accredited university within six months of receiving the award, and another to a student currently enrolled in a university program. Applicants must be members of the GHFCU. Deadline May 7. For more info, visit www.gaheritagefcu.org or call 2364400.

Open Casting Call

Open call for actors of all ages interested in being part of student films that will begin production in the next few months. No experience required. Please bring resume and headshot if available. May 8, 11am-4pm.

Adler Hall, 532 Indian St. For more info: Lia Towers - ltower20@student.scad.edu

Short films wanted

The first annual Savannah Beach Film Festival will take place Oct. 2, 2010. The call for short films (under 20 min.) is open until Sept. 1. $20/entry fee per film. Application forms, and more info, available at Huc-APoos on Tybee. 912-786-5900.

Short films wanted

The first annual Savannah Beach Film Festival will take place Oct. 2, 2010. The call for short films (under 20 min.) is open until Sept. 1. $20/entry fee per film. Application forms, and more info, available at Huc-A-

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TEDxCreativeCoast

Savannah’s own version of the popular TED conference will take place June 18. There is an open call for potential presenters and speaker nominations who will address the theme of “Designing Creativity.” For more info: http://tedxcreativecoast.com/speakers

Classes, Camps & Workshops Abstinence Education

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

Program activities last for about 2 hours every Wednesday at SSU. Transportation is provided. Snacks, field trips and supportive services are provided at no charge. 2365310. Savannah http://www.savstate.edu/

Akonting Workshop

The akonting is the West African predecessor to the American banjo. Learn how to make a simple version of the instrument.

May 8, 10am-2pm. Ships of the Sea Museum, http://www.shipsofthesea.org/

Art Smarts

SCAD and Arts Academy join forces for a non-residential summer camp experience for ages 7-14. Workshops in studio art, computer art and performing arts/production design are available. July 12-16; July 29-23; and July 26-30. E-mail savannahartsmarts@ continues on p. 34

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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.

Bach Bash camp for kids

A four-day camp running June 28-July 1, 9am-5pm. A program allowing kids to experiment with music, dance and puppetry. Open to children who have completed grades 1-6. Cost: $80 for week. Hosted

by Lutheran Church of the Ascension. 120 Bull St. Call 232-4151 for more info, or to register.

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/

Boater Safety Course

The Metro Police Department is offering boater safety courses on the 3rd Saturday of every month. Participants will receive a certificate upon completion and may qualify for insurance discounts. Minimum age is 12 years old. For more info, call 912-921-5450.

Building Alliances

A workshop on developing community dialogues, forming trust and building alliances to help you advocate for your nonprofit. Wed, May 12th, 1-4:00pm. Advance registration req’d. $90 for GCN members; $130 for non-members. Contact: Georgia Center for Nonprofits at 912-234-9688

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An interactive 5-day summer camp for 8-11 year olds interested in history. August 16-21, 9am-3pm at the Coastal Georgia Center. $199/student. Registration limited to 25. For more info: www.ImaginativeJourneys.org or call 912-536-2719.

at 11:30am. Cook together and eat around 12:30pm. Cost is $90 for 6 meetings.

Call: 912-604-3281

Dating With Success

Children’s Choir Summer Camp

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

Conversational Spanish

Young people ages 14-19 can learn to give tours of the Davenport House Museum during an eight week program. Training is held at the museum from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays from June 17 - August 6. An orientation will be held on May 17 at 6:30 p.m. For info: 912-236-8097, info@davenporthousemuseum

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 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.

Cooking Swiss Meals

Cooking and eating good Swiss food is so much fun. We will be a small group in a relaxed atmosphere. We meet on Saturday

Davenport House Junior Interpreter Program

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

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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Flying Legends Summer Camp

Day Camp for kids age 6-11 offered at the Mighty Eighth Airforce Museum. Classes available in June, July and August. Learn about everything from life on the home front to WWII pilot training. Call Heather, 912748-8888 for more info.

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 ,

Gifted Learning Summer Programs

The Dept of Gifted and Advanced learning will offer 2 summer programs open to SCCPSS students. Junior University is open 6th-8th grade students. Contact Michael Corbett at 201-5700. Superintendent’s Scholars is open to students enrolling in AP classes. Includes classes and possible paid internship. Contact Donna Brado or Grace Herrington at 395-6327. Both programs run June 21-July1, 8:30am-1pm. www.sccpss.com

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A workshop on effective grants management to help nonprofits evaluate their grant project progress. Wed, May 19, 9am-4pm. Advance registration is req’d. $90 for GCN members; $130 for nonmembers. Contact: Georgia Center for Nonprofits at 912-234-9688.

Housing Authority Neighborhood 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: MonThurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri of month, 9-11am. Basic Computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1-3pm.

Community Computer lab: Mon-Fri, 34:30pm. For more info: 912-232-4232 x115 or www.savannahpha.com

Infant/Child CPR Class

Held the first and third Monday of the month, 6:30 PM in the Candler Professional Bldg., Room 508. The class is for new and expectant parents. $25 per person.

For more info and to register, call 8193368 or 800-501-4054 or www.sjchs.org.

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

Model Airplane Building Class

Free children’s model airplane building class with the purchase of a model airplane. World War II model airplanes are on sale in the Museum’s Gift Store for $12. Classes will be held at 10 am, 1 pm & 3 pm. May 15. Mighty Eighth Airforce Museum. Contact Heather at 912-748-8888.

Mother’s Day Brunch at Isaac’s May 9th 11am-5pm

Musical Theatre Camp

3rd Annual Savannah Summer Theatre Intensive. A three week program for talented high school and middle school students. Students will keep a very tight rehearsal schedule as they prepare a fully realized production of the smash Broadway hit, Les Miserables. For camp and audition information, visit www.kaoproductions.com

Portrait Watercolor Workshop

Local artist Napoleon Wilkerson hosts a watercolor portrait painting workshop for kids ages 12-18. May 15, 10am-12pm.

S.P.A.C.E. Gallery. 9 W. Henry St. $10 class fee. Pre-Registration req’d. 912-651-6783 or www.savannahga.gov/arts

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Kilts, Pipes, Moss, Haggis ‘n’ Grits.

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

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

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 912-234-0525 ext.1506 The Starfish Cafe, 711 East Broad Street , Savannah http://www.thestarfishcafe.org/

Summer Camp at the Roundhouse Museum

Four weeks of summer camp for children from June 14 to August 5. Call or email for dates of each camp and additional info.

9am-1pm. $135/wk. 912.651.6823 x203 or childrensevents@chsgeorgia.org

Tybee Theater Camp for Kids

Program runs 6/14-25 for kids ages 6-16 in the Tybee Art Association Firehouse Arts Center. 9am-3pm. Fundamentals, technique, games, improv and more. Cost of camp $250. For more info: Call Renee DeRossett, 912-596-4992, tybeesurf@ netzero.net or Kim Trammell Schneider, 912-228-0357,

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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/

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 driver’s license is eligible to participate. Visit http://buccaneerregion. org/solo.html.

Civil Air Patrol

Aerospace education programs and activities for adults and teens ages 12-18.

Meets every Thursday from 7-9 p.m.

Visit www.gawg.cap.gov, send e-mail to N303WR@aol.com, or call Capt. Jim Phillips at 412-4410. Savannah Flying Tiger Composite Squadron, Savannah International Airport , Savannah

Coastal MINIs

Local MINI Cooper owners and enthusiasts who gather on the first Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. to go on motoring adventures together. Visit coastalminis.com.

Starbucks, Victory Drive and Skidaway Road , Savannah

Coastal Readers & Writers Circle

A Creative Writing and Reading discussion group that meets the 3rd Sunday of every month, 3:30-5pm at the new Savannah Mall Branch Library.

Bring: Passages from any of your writing that you would like to read and passages from a book, publication, or production that you would like to share with the group. www.TellingOurStoriesPress.com

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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

Geechee Sailing Club

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

Georgetown Playgroup

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

Historic Savannah Chapter of ABWA

Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6-7:30 p.m. The cost is the price of the meal. RSVP to 660-8257.

Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Dr , Thunderbolt

Low Country Turners

This is a club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Call Hank Weisman at 786-6953.

Make Friends in Savannah

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.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary

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

Moon River Chorus

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

Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS)

Join other moms for fun, inspiration, guest speakers, food and creative activities while children ages birth to 5 are cared for in a preschool-like setting.

Meets the second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 9:15-11:30 am Call 8980869 and 897-6167 or visit www.mops.org.

First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd , Savannah http:// www.fbcislands.com/

No Kidding

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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Old Time Radio Researcher’s Group

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

Send e-mail to Jim Beshires at beshiresjim@yahoo.com or visit www.otrr.org.

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.

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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 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/savannahwine-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 meetand-greet precedes the meeting at 6:30pm.

Contact Carol North, 912-920-8891. 8108 Abercorn St , Savannah

Son-shine Hour

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, dropins welcome. Call Trinity Lutheran Church

for details 912-925-3940 or email KellyBringman@gmail.com Savannah Mall,

Southern Wings

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

Stitch-N’s

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

Tarde en Espanol

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

236-8566.

The Armstrong Center

The Armstrong Center is available for meetings, seminars, workshops or social events.

Classrooms, meeting space, auditorium and 6000-square-foot ballroom. 344-2951. Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah

The Peacock Guild

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.

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,

Beginners Fusion Belly Dance

Adult Intermediate Ballet

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 guide you through basic bellydance and fusion Walk ins welcome. 15.00/class 912414-1091 http://cybellefusionbellydance. wordpress.com/

African Dance & Drum

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

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 , 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, May 15. 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.

Beginners Salsa Lessons

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 4:00– 6:30pm at the Tominac Gym on Hunter Army Airfield. All are welcome. Free admission; no partner required.

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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.

Tybee Knights Chess Club

Meets every Wednesday, 6:30pm at Seaside Surf Coffee Shop. All levels welcome.

For more info, call Will Strong, 912-6048667. Seaside Surf Coffeeshop, Tybee Island

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

Urban Professionals

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

Victorian Neighborhood Association

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 Savannah

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell at 927-3356. Savannah

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Dance Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes

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

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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.

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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 7480731. Nassau Woods Recreation Building, Savannah

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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

Classes for beginner and intermediate levels. Fridays 10-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. For more info, call Elizabeth 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! The only thing that comes off is your shoes. 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

Learn Salsa â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rueda de Casinoâ&#x20AC;? style every Wednesday, from 6-7pm Beginner, 7-8pm Intermediate, at the Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. Grace, 234-6183 or Juan, 330-5421. Delaware Recreation Center, Savannah

Salsa Lessons

Wednesdays @ 7pm. No partner required.

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

Savannah Shag Club

Shag music every Wednesday, 7pm, at Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn St. and every Friday, 7 pm, at American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr.

Shag & Beach Bop

The Savannah Dance Club hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:30-11 p.m. Free basic shag, swing, salsa, cha cha, line dance and others are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered last two Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. The lesson schedule is posted at www.shagbeachbop. com. Lessons are held 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Doubles Lounge, 7100 Abercorn St. ,

Events 2nd Annual Hoopee Jam

More than 30 bands will perform at this 4-day music and art camp-out festival held on a 100-acre farm in Norristown, GA (Emmanuel County). Includes acts like Moon Taxi, Randall Bramblett, The Lee Boys and more. May 13-16. For more info: www.hoopeejam.com or call 678-6910724.

Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium

An afternoon to look at our biggest challenges and opportunities today. Explore a new global vision built on sustainability, spiritual fulfillment and social justice.

Saturday, May 15th, 1-5 p.m. at Unity of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. $10 (suggested donation) www.UnityofSavannah. org

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Diesel Train Rides

All aboard the old passenger car at the Roundhouse Museum for a trip back in time on the diesel train. Train rides 11am, 1pm, 2pm on Tues-Sat. every week during May and June. Sundays, 1 & 2pm only.

Roundhouse Museum. 601 W. Harris St. 912.651.6823. www.chsgeorgia.org

Early Bird Preservation Walking Tour

Take an early morning stroll through downtown and learn about the city during the 1820s, as well as what parts of that history have survived. May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 at 7:30am. $20. Reservations recommended. Isiah Davenport House Museum. 912-236-8097.

Preservation Week

“Taking America’s Past into the Future.”

Savannah Technical College offers free classes featuring expert guest speakers on preservation-related topics. May 10-14.

Each session is open to 20 participants. To pre-register, call 912-443-5864 or email: shartley@savannahtech.edu 5717 White Bluff Rd. , http://www.savannahtech.edu/

Records for Sale

One day only. All records must be sold.

Priced $1-10. May 8, 10am-? in the Creative Approach parking lot. Plus get 15% all printing you get done that day if you buy records.

Call 912-308-7247 for more info.

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Film: “Hannah Free”

Award winning film that questions same sex partner rights, the definition of family, aging and courage.

Preceded by a hilarious short film “Tools4Fools.” Presented by SGLFS. May 14, 8pm. $10/adv, $12/door. The Jepson Center. 207 W. York St. www.sglfs.com

Film: “Labyrinth der Leidenschaft” (Germany, 1959)

This criminally unknown film won awards for cinematography, and tells the tale of troubled writer whose alcoholism lands her in a remote sanitarium run by a controversial doctor. May 19, 8pm. $5. The Sentient Bean. www.sentientbean.com

Film: “The Stranger in Japan” (Italy, 1968)

Also known as “The Silent Stranger”, this is an early attempt to merge Samurais with Spaghetti Westerns. A cocky outlaw travels from the wild west to Japan in order to claim a large bounty reward. Psychotronic Film Society. May 12, 8pm. $5. www.sentientbean. com

Fitness Beach Body Boot Camp

Shed winter pounds with an intense workout with two certified personal trainers.

Morning and evening classes available. 2127 1/2 E. Victory Dr. For more info: 912-3984776 or www.fitnessbodybalance.com

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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

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/

Cardiorespiratory Endurence Training

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

Island Somatherapy, 127 Abercorn Street , Savannah

Crunch Lunch

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,

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/

Rolf Method Bodywork

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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Squats N’ Tots

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.

The Yoga Room

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

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

The Rehabilitation Institute at MUMC holds weekly wheelchair tennis practice at the tennis courts at Lake Mayer. Mondays 6:308:30pm. We provide trained instructors, specialized wheelchairs, and racquets. Anybody interested in volunteering or playing, contact Corie Turley at 350-7128 or turleco1@memorialhealth.com.

Fitness Classes at the JEA

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/

Learn Kung Fu Today

The Temple of Martial Arts is a Kung Fu school where men and women of all levels of martial arts experience come together to learn the art of Wing Chun and Tai Chi. SiFu Michael, 429-9241. 407 E Montgomery Cross Rd, Ste B , Savannah

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/

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Pilates Mat Classes

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

Wheel Chair Tennis Lessons

Zumba Fitness

Classes are being held every week in the Pooler and Rincon areas. Zumba is a fusion of Latin and international music, dance themes that create a dynamic, exciting and effective fitness system. All ages and shapes are encouraged to attend. $7 per class. For location and info, contact Carmen at 4841266 or calexe@comcast.net.

Gay & Lesbian First City Network Board Meeting

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

Gay AA Meeting

meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 311 E. Macon St. Savannah

Georgia Equality Savannah

The local chapter of Georgia’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 wouldn’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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A Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7 p.m. at the FCN building located at 307 E. Harris St. Call 657-1966, email info@standoutyouth.org or visit www.standoutyouth.org. First City Network, Savannah http://www.firstcitynetwork.net/

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HypnoBirthing Classes

Health

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Alzheimers Discussion with Dr. Monica Parker

The Alzheimer’s Association of Coastal Georgia hosts an event featuring Dr. Monica Parker, from the Emory University School of Medicine, who will discuss an overview of Alzheimers, new treatment options and more. Memorial Health Mercer Auditorium. May 20, 6pm. Free with RSVP (by 5/14). Call 912-920-2231.

Better Breathers of Savannah

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

Community Cardiovascular Health

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

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings

Conducted at three locations. From 8:30a.m.-12:30p.m. and 5:15p.m.-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at the 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. Mary’s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578. Savannah

Free hearing & speech screening

Hearing: Every Thurs. 9-11 a.m. Speech: 1st Thurs. of each month. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601. 1206 E 66th St , Savannah http://www.savannahspeechandhearing.org/

Healthcare for the Uninsured

St. Mary’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. Mary’s Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. ,

Hearing Aid Funds Available for Infants and Children

The Coastal Health District’s Universal Newborn Hearing and Screening Initiative has funds available for the purchase of hearing aid devices for infants and children 3 and under who qualify For info, contact Jackie King at 691-6882.

Help for Iraq War Veterans

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

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/

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.

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

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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. 3507587. 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

Planned Parenthood Hotline

First Line is a statewide hotline for women who want information on health services. Open every night from 7-11p.m.

1-800-264-7154.

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 1-877270-STOP or visit www.unitegeorgia.com.

Weight Loss Through Hypnosis

Lose weight with Guided Imagery and Hypnosis. No pills, diets or surgery. 9273432.

Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors

This yoga class is free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. For more info, call 350-9031. Thursdays at 12:10pm.

FitnessOne, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine, Memorial Health.

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Nature and Environment Dolphin Project of Georgia

Boat owners, photographers and other volunteers are needed to help conduct scientific research. Must be at least 18 years old. Call 727-3177, visit www.

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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.

711 Sandtown Rd , Savannah

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.

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

| Submit your event | email: happenings@connectsavannah.com | fax: (912) 231-9932 | 1800 E. Victory Dr., Suite 7, Savannah, GA 31404 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

Low Cost Pet Clinic

Tails Spin and Dr. Lester host low cost vaccine clinic for students, military and seniors on the second Wednesday of each month from 4-6pm. The cost for each vaccination is $12.00, with $2.00 from each vaccination to be donated to Savannah Pet Rescue Agencies. Habersham Village Shopping Center.

For more info: www.tailsspin.com

Tea time at Ola’s

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

Religious & Spiritual Christian Businessmen’s Committee

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

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

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/

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/

Professional Pet Sitting and Dog Walking St. Almo

USPCA Spring K-9 Trials

The SCMPD K-9 unit hosts a multi-day event featuring skills tests for police dogs.

5/6: Obedience and obstacle course, Memorial Stadium. 5/7: Evidence Search, Thomas Ave. near Montgomery Xrds. & Suspect search, Memorial Stadium. 5/8: Apprehension, Memorial Stadium. 8am-5pm each day.

Free and open to the public.

Readings & Signings Bruce Feiler “Council of Dads”

NYT bestselling author Bruce Feiler stops in Savannah for a reading and signing of his new book “Council of Dads” which documents his struggle with a life threatening tumor. May 12, 7pm. Trinity United Methodist Church. Telfair Square.

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

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Gregorian Chant by Candlelight

For a peaceful end to your day attend the chanted service of Compline (Singing Good Night to God) sung at 9pm every Sunday night by the Compline Choir of historic Christ Church (1733) on Johnson Square; 28 Bull Street. Open to the public. All are welcome! Call 232-4131 for more info.

Live Web-streaming

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

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

Metaphysics For Everyday Self-Mastery

A series of metaphysical/New Thought classes at The Freedom Path Science of Life Center, 619 W 37th St., Mondays 8pm, with Adeeb Shabazz. $10 suggested donation, 1877-494-8629, www.freedompathonline.org, freedompath@yahoo.com. Savannah

Midweek Bible Study

Every Wednesday at noon at Montgomery Presbyterian Church. Bring your lunch and your Bible. 352-4400 or mpcsavannah.com.

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101 E. Liberty St Savannah • 644-5644

Montgomery Presbyterian Church, 10192 Ferguson Avenue , Savannah http://www. montgomerypresbyterian.com/

Music Ministry for Children & Youth

The children’s choir for 3 years through second grade will be known as Joyful Noise and the youth choir grades 3-5 will be known as Youth Praise. Joyful Noise will meet Sundays from 4-5 p.m. and Youth Praise will meet Sundays from 5-6 p.m. Call Ronn Alford at 925-9524 or visit www.wbumc.org. White Bluff United Methodist Church, 11911 White Bluff Rd , Savannah

Nicodemus by Night

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

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

Meets Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church. Call Janet Pence at 2474903. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St , Savannah http://www. trinitychurch1848.org/

Realizing The God Within

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

Mondays at 8pm. 619 W 37th St. , Savannah

Soka Gakkai of America

SGI 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.

Stand for Peace

A sllent witness for peace that will be held in Johnson Square the fourth Sunday of every month from 1-2pm until the occupation ends. Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Social Justice and Action Committee.

224-7456, 231-2252, 234-0980, uusavannah. org Johnson Square, Bull & Abercorn Sts. , Savannah

The Savannah Zen Center

Soto Zen Meditation offered weekday mornings 7:30-8:30am; Tuesday evenings 6-6:30pm with Study Group following from 6:30-7:30pm; Friday evenings from 66:30pm. 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

Two Sunday morning Celebration Services - 9:15 and 11:00. (Children’s Church and childcare at 11:00.)

A.W.E. interactive worship service at 7 p.m. every first Friday of the month. Noon prayer service every Thurs. To find out about classes, workshops and more visit, www.

Women’s Bible Study

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

Sports & Games Open Chess Tournament for Beginners

Ogeechee River Scholastic Chess Association is sponsoring the Chess-tival open to K-12 students at the Langston Chapel Middle School in Statesboro. June 19th.

Check in: 8-9am; Rounds are at 9:30am, 10:45am, 12pm, 1:15pm, and 2:30pm. $8 Registration Fee (on or prior to June 16th), $13 for late registration. For more info, taramichelle.henderson@gmail.com or call 317-696-3355.

Savannah Bike Polo

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

Savannah Sand Gnats Baseball

The Savannah Sand Gnats minor league baseball season runs through September.

For more info on home games, promotions and tickets, visit: www.sandgnats. com.

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.

Youth Track and Field Competition

The Silver Cheetahs host this event inviting youth, ages 4-18, to compete in a variety of races and field events. Saturday, May 22. 8am-4:30pm. SSU Wright Field. $5 per athlete. Free admission for spectators. http://silvercheetahchampions.ning. com or call Coach Ed Jinks 912-660-1475 for more info.

Support Groups Al Anon Family Groups

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

Al-Anon Meetings

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

Alcoholics Anonymous

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

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

“Greater-Than Sudoku” For this “Greater-Than Sudoku,” I’m not givin’ you ANY numbers to start off with! Adjoining squares in the grid’s 3x3 boxes have a greater-than sign (>) telling you which of the two numbers in those squares is larger. Fill in every square with a number from 1–9 using the greater-than signs as a guide. When you’re done, as in a normal Sudoku, every row, column, and 3x3 box will contain the numbers 1–9 exactly one time. (Solving hint: try to look for the 1’s and 9’s in each box first, then move on to the 2’s and 8’s, and so on).psychosudoku@hotmail.com

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

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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

Fibromyalgia support group

meets the second Thursday from 5:306:30 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St.. 819-6743. 5354 Reynolds Ave. , Savannah http://www.sjchs.org/

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First Line

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

Gray Matters Brain Injury Support Group

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

Grief 101

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

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 continues on p. 46

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Heartbeats for Life

ARIES (March 21–April 19) Hip hop music definitely needs to include more tuba playing. I think that’s what’s missing from it. Likewise, the sport of skateboarding would benefit from having more dogs and monkeys that can master its complexities; the state of journalism could be improved by including more babies as reporters; and you Aries folks would significantly upgrade your life by learning how to play the game of cricket.

(If you believe everything I just said, you’ll be equally gullible when a little voice in your head tries to convince you to seek out things you don’t really need or adopt behavior that doesn’t suit you.)

TAURUS

(April 20–May 20) Among the ancient Anglo–Saxons, the month of May was called “Thrimilce.” The word referred to the fact that cows were so productive at this time of year that they could be milked three times a day. I thought of that as I studied your current astrological data, Taurus. During this year’s Thrimilce, you are almost impossibly fertile and abundant and creative. My advice is to give generously, but not to the point of exhaustion: the equivalent of three times a day, but not four.

GEMINI

(May 21–June 20) In accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to seek out a concentrated period of sweet oblivion. Not a numb, narcotized limbo. Not a mournful unconsciousness that’s motivated by a depressive urge to give up. No, Gemini: The mental blankness that you cultivate should be generated by a quest to rejuvenate yourself, and it must have qualities of deliciousness and delight. You not only have a need to rest and recharge in a lush nowhere –– you also have the right to do so.

CANCER

(June 21–July 22) A while back, I gave my readers this homework: “Tell a story about the time a divine intervention reached down and altered your course in one tricky, manic swoop.” A woman named Kelly testified as follows:

“At first I was disturbed to find I couldn’t identify the last time Spirit descended into my midst with a forceful intervention.

But finally I realized why: I have been working to make my whole life be guided by the Spirit of my Higher Power, as a deep undercurrent. That way I don’t need bolts of lightening to fix my course.” This is a useful lesson, Cancerian. It’s an excellent time for you to follow Kelly’s lead.

Ask yourself how you could cultivate a deep, abiding undercurrent of the good influence you want to have guide you, thereby making lightning bolts of divine intervention unnecessary.

LEO

(July 23–Aug. 22) The exact height of Mt. Everest has proved challenging to determine. Even using modern scientific methods, different teams of surveyors have come up with varying measurements. The problem is not simply with the calculations themselves. The world’s tallest peak is definitely evolving. Shifts in the earth’s tectonic plates work to raise it up and move it northeastward.

But there’s also evidence that the melting of its glaciers due to climate change is causing it to shrink. A member of one mountain climbing expedition said, “If Everest is bobbing up and down, we must hope to catch it on a low day.” I bring this to your attention, Leo, in order to offer you a metaphor for the coming weeks. Your version of Mt. Everest is shriveling. Get ready to ascend.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22) Have you been lusting after spiritual traditions other than your own? Have you been fantasizing about cheating on the deity you’ve always been faithful to, and seeking a taboo liaison with a strange and exciting god from another part of reality?

If so, Virgo, that’s a good sign.

I suspect you could use a few adjustments to your familiar relationship with the Divine Wow. After all, you have gone through a lot of changes since the last time you hammered out your definitive theories about the meaning of life. What made good sense for you back then can’t be completely true for you any more. So feel free to let your mind wander in the direction of

holy experiments.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22) When a girl is born, her ovaries already contain all the eggs she will ever have. What this means, of course, is that a part of you was in your grandmother’s womb as well as in your mother’s. Now would be an excellent time to celebrate that primal fact. Your connection with your mother’s mother is especially important these days. I suggest you meditate on what gifts and liabilities you received from her (genetic and otherwise), and how you might be able to make better use of the gifts even as you take steps to outwit the liabilities.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21) Who is the person most unlike you in the world? I suggest you study that person for tips on how to improve your life. What are the healthy experiences you are least attracted to? You might want to meditate on exactly why they’re so unappealing, and use that information to update your ideas about yourself. What are the places on the earth that you long ago decided you would never visit? I invite you to fantasize being in those places and enjoying yourself. Can you guess why I’m calling this Opposite Week, Scorpio?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21)

Are you in a trance or a rut or a jam? If so, excuse yourself. It’s break time! You need spaciousness. You need slack. You need to wander off and do something different from what you have been doing. If there’s any behavior you indulge in with manic intensity, drop it for a while.

If you’ve been caught up in a vortex of excruciating sincerity or torturous politeness, shake it off and be more authentic. Of all the good reasons you have for relaxing your death–grip, here’s one of the best: Life can’t bring you the sublime gift it has for you until you interrupt your pursuit of a mediocre gift.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22–Jan. 19) The state of Texas is a Capricorn, having become part of the United States on December

29, 1845. At that time, it was granted the right to divide itself into five separate states at some future date. So far it hasn’t chosen to do so, and I would advise it to continue that policy.

I extend the same counsel to all of my Capricorn readers. From an astrological perspective, this is not a favorable time for you to break yourself up into sub– sections. On the contrary: I suggest you sow unity and solidarity among your various parts.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18) I’m all for recycling, composting, and carpooling. Anything you and I can do to reduce our carbon footprint is brilliant. But I also agree with author Chris Hedges, who says, “The reason the ecosystem is dying is not because we still have a dryer in our basement. It is because corporations look at everything, from human beings to the natural environment, as exploitable commodities. It is because consumption is the engine of corporate profits.” So beyond our efforts to save the earth by adjusting our own individual habits, we’ve got to revise the way corporations work.

Now let’s apply this way of thinking to the specific personal dilemma you’re facing right now: It’s important for you to change yourself, yes –– and I’m glad you’re taking responsibility for your role in the complications –– but you will also have to transform the system you’re part of.

PISCES

(Feb. 19–March 20) Every year Americans fork over six times as much money on buying lottery tickets as they do on going to the movies, according to the documentary film *Lucky.* Yet many people who actually buck the improbable odds regard their “luck” as a curse. “Winning the lottery is like throwing Miracle–Gro on all your character defects,” said one person. Let this serve as a cautionary tale for you in the coming months, Pisces. To get ready for the good things that are headed your way, you should work to purify any darkness that’s lurking in your unconscious.

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: 912-598-8457; email: jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga.org

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 Multiple Myeloma Support Group

This education and support group is for individuals with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Call Jennifer Currin-McCulloch at 350-7845. 5-6:30 p.m., Thurs. May 13, Summit Cancer Care office, Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute

Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group

For patients with blood-related cancers and their loved ones. Call Jennifer Currin, 3507845. 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. 2349999. First Baptist Church of Savannah, 223 Bull St. , Savannah

Memorial Health Bleeding Disorders Support Group

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

Memorial Health Focus

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/

Multiple Sclerosis support group

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.

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.

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 Disease Support Group

Meets the first Thursday of the month. 56:30pm in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. For more information, call 3556347 or 238-4666.

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/

PRIDE Support Group

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/

Rape Crisis Center

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.

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.

S-Anon Family Group

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

Safe Shelter Outreach Program

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

Senior Citizen’s Inc. Alzheimer’s 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

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

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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.

Tourettes Community of Savannah (TiCS)

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

Transgender Support Group

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.

Theatre “Aida”

The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina presents a production of the award winning musical “Aida,” through May 30. Tickets: $54/adult, $37/kids. For more info: www. artshhi.com or call 888-860-2787

“Luv”

The Savannah Community Theatre presents this quirky comedy about a wife who won’t grant her husband the divorce he desires.

Plantation Clubhouse at the Landings. May 8, 14, 15 at 7:30pm. May 16, 2pm. $17-27.

Call: 912-247-4644

Accepting Applications

AWOL’s Theater Arts Program is currently seeking people interested in assisting with its annual theater production which begins rehearsal in October. Production in Spring 2011. Positions include: Assistant Director, Stage Manager, Dance Instructor and others. Email cover letter, resume and headshot to kgreen@awolinc.org. Deadline: June 30.

Volunteers 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/ continues on p. 48

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1 Rubbish 4 Rockin’ out 10 Plant with fronds 14 “All Things Considered” reporter Shapiro 15 European rocket series 16 One of the deadly sins 17 More formal version of an ear-related prank?

19 All tied up 20 City in Spain’s Basque Country 21 Chuck who told viewers he’d “be back in two and two” 23 “Let’s Make ___” 24 It may start to show 26 Leather punching tool 27 Like, totally awesome 28 Small farm size 30 Obvious winner 33 Chest-related prank with a more posh color option?

35 Painter Chagall 38 “___ hesitates is lost” 39 Actress Ward 40 Dignified version of a punch-to-the-leg prank?

43 Head female 44 Fortune teller’s opener 45 Way to look at things, for short 48 Playboy boss 49 Ending for general or marginal 50 Dog the Bounty Hunter’s real first name 52 Early ___ (technology fan, often) 55 Day for egg rolls 56 Hit by The Kinks 57 Version of a punching prank for a more refined palate?

60 “The ___ Love” (R.E.M. song) 61 “A life,” to Lemaitre 62 Be delinquent 63 Georgia used to be part of it 64 One of Mars’ moons 65 Horror legend Chaney

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1 Restaurant with shellfish 2 Food company named for two states 3 Called 4 Fast-moving ball game 5 “Alice’s Restaurant” singer Guthrie 6 Dot follower, in some e-mail addresses 7 ___ tai 8 Wonderstruck 9 Fish in a Pixar pic 10 Fail to get any better 11 It gets opened before some speeches 12 Winnebago occupant 13 City far from L.A., CA 18 Ringside org.

22 Pearl City’s island 24 Where Van Gogh painted 25 “Shucks” 29 “I’m Your Man” subject Leonard 30 Make some noise in bed 31 Out of commission 32 Federal performance funder, for short 33 Correspondence course for fix-it types, once 34 Items pointed to from afar 35 1900, way before 1900?

36 “Now I get it!”

37 Where rodents enter walls 41 Room at the top?

42 Puts under 45 Walk a beat 46 Combo punch 47 Actor/dancer/singer Ben 49 Title role for Renee Zellweger 51 Org. that puts on shows for the military 52 Multigenerational baseball surname 53 Oxford heads 54 Former Israeli prime minister Olmert 55 Italian basso Pinza 58 Camping gear co.

59 “I really appreciate that,” while texting

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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/

21 and over only.

Speech and hearing center needs volunteers

to conduct hearing screenings for adults and children. Nurses and retired nurses are encouraged to apply for eye, ear, and dental exams on pre-school children.

Flexible scheduling is available. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call Jane Medoff at 355-4601 Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St , Savannah http://www. savannahspeechandhearing.org/

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/

The Dolphin Project of Georgia

Oatland Island Wildlife Center often needs volunteers. Call 898-3980. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd , Savannah http://www.oatlandisland.org/ 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.

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.

Rebuilding Together Savannah

Be there when Connect savannah hosts the 2010 Best of savannah awards party.

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/

needs boat owners, photographers and other volunteers to help conduct scientific research on the Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin along the coast of Georgia. You must be at least 18 years old. Call 232-6572 or visit the Web site at www.TheDolphinProject.org.

Oatland Island Education Center

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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 Health and Rehabilitation Center, 6711 LaRoche Ave. , Savannah

The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program

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/ cs

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for rent 855 921 WEST VICTORY: 4 BD, 1 BA $800 816 LYNAH: 3 BD, 1 BA $750 Section 8 Discounts, Move In Specials 631-2909 or 272-4378

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1115 E. 55th Street 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, Living Room, $450 per month, $450 security deposit. Call Helen Miltiades Realty at 912-231-1981.

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1944 CAPITAL Street: 2BR/ 1BA, LR, DR, Kitchen, CH&A, Section 8 or Rent. $700 per month.

Call 912-356-5384 or 912-660-4297 2211 UTAH STREET New paint, new carpet, 3BR, 1BA, separate living/dining, laundry, central air/heat, carport, large fenced yard, quiet dead-end street. $750/month, $700/deposit. NO Section 8.

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245 Holland Drive, #7 off Holland Drive. 1 bedroom, 1 bath, Living Room, Dining Room, Laundry Room, Porch, $575 per month, $575 security deposit. One Month Free. Call Helen Miltiades Realty 912-231-1981.

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3yr. option. Call 404-826-0345 404 ½ E. 50th Street Carriage House 2-story - 1 bedroom, 1 bath, upstairs, Living Room, Dining Room Kitchen downstairs $585 per month, $585 security deposit, - Call Helen Miltiades Realty, 912-231-1981 507 E. 51st Street – Apt. B Upstairs 2 bedrooms, 1 Bath, Living Room with Fireplace, Dining Room, Sunroom, Eatin Kitchen with washer/dryer connections. $750/per month, $750/security deposit.

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519 E. 49th Street Apt. B Upper 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, Living Room w/fireplace, Sunroom, wood floors, $750/month, includes water/trash, $750/security deposit.

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5500 JASMINE AVENUE 2BR/1B, sep. LR and DR, furnished kitchen, w/d hookups, oversized rooms. Pet friendly. $625/mo plus deposit.

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CH&A, $550/mo+security •1121 E. 41st st: 2 or 3 BR house, electric and g a s. $550+security.

•2018 Live Oak St: 3BR large upstairs apt. $600/mo+security •1127 E. 39th st: 3BR/2BA house, furnished kitchen, laundry room, off street parking, $800+security •3110 Bright StThunderbolt: 1BR upstairs apt.

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720 E 36th Street Downstairs Duplex, 3 bedrooms, 1 Bath, Kitchen, Living Room with Fireplace, Dining Room, Large Foyer, washer dryer connections, storage in the back, $700 per month, $700 security deposit. Call Helen Miltiades Realty, 912-231-1981.

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for rent 855 731 E. Henry St. (Upper) 3 Bedrooms, 1 Bath, Living Room, Dining Room, off street parking, wood floors, Central Heat/Air, Front Porch Balcony, $750/month, $750/security deposit.

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816 TIBET AVENUE: 2BR/3 Full Baths, Townhouse, washer/dryer hookup, custom cabinets, 1400 square feet, $775/month.

Call 912-507-1448 917 ELLIOT ST. 2BR/1BA, newly renovated, living room, dining room, kitchen, large backyard, air/heat, $700 deposit, $750/m. Call 912-844-6155 or 912-508-2246

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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.

LEHIGH DRIVE-2BR, 1BA, furnished kitchen $675.

GEORGETOWN-2BR, 2BA, furnished kitchen $795.

EAST 39TH ST.-2BR, 1BA, furnished kitchen $600.

HOMES FOR RENT RICHMOND HILLPiercefield, 3BR/2BA, furnished kitchen $850.

PT. WENTWORTH-3BR, 2BA, furnished kitchen $875.

RINCON-THE COVE Like new 3BR, 2.5BA executive townhomes, gated & pool $875-900.

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AVAILABLE NOW! FOUR BEDROOM HOUSES 10804 White Bluff Rd-$1400 THREE BEDROOM HOUSES 33 Chapel Lake N $1295 2 Soling Ave. $850 1734 E.33rd St. $825 1919 Causton Bluff $750 2012 Nash St. $795 TWO BEDROOM HOUSES 1507 E. 48th St. $850 602 W. 35th St. $675 1710 E. 34th St. $675 2010 E. 58th $650 ONE BEDROOM HOUSES 7715 Central Ave. $675 APT/TOWNHOUSE Three Bedrooms 303 Gallery Way $1050 Two BedroomsWindsor Crossing $650 1107 E. 57th St. $575 1130 E. 53rd St. $550 Efficiency 321 Broughton St. $1400

•Condo- Wilmington Island, 2BR/2BA, $800/month +deposit •Guyton- on 5 acres!5BR/3.5BA + in-law suite w/full bath, gourmet kitchen, sunroom, large entertainment pavilion with refrigerated wetbar & glass doors opening to pool & deck. $1800/month.

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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, $795/month.

Bloomingdale 14 Osteen Rd, 3bed 2bath, 2100Sqft.

Lease purchase available. $925mth.

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CLEAN 2 bedrooms, 1 bath brick home. Dining area, den, carpet & CH&A. Kitchen furnished.

Inside washer/dryer area. Carport, Spacious outside area. Located in Effingham off Hwy. 30 on Briarwood Road. $675/month, $450/deposit. Available Now. Call 912-897-0970 Happenings

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CLEAN, FURNISHED EFFICIENCY, on busline, $800/month or available weekly at $200/week plus deposit.

Call 660-2875 or 236-1952

CROSSROADS VILLA Apt Complex – 401 W. Montgomery Crossroads – across from Hunter -Convenient Location – 3 bed, 1 bath, LR, Furnished Eat in Kitchen, on site Laundromat, M ay special $595/month, $300/security deposit, 2 bed, 1 bath, Living Room/Dining Combo, Furnished Kitchen, May Special 525/month $275/security dep.

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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.

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Nice 2Bdrm, 1Ba, W/D, remodeled kitchen, sunroom, 410 E. 64th St. Pets OK $800/m + deposit. Available May 5th.

507-4112. 547-5227.

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For Rent Ardsley Park

618 E. 48th St. brick, entrance foyer, formal dining room and living room with fireplace, 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 baths, new kitchen with all appliances except fridge, off street parking. House is owned by a member of Courington Realty.

Rent $1200/m + $1200 deposit.

Call 912-236-2737 for appt. to see.

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SECTION 8 ACCEPTED 329 Woodley Rd. Southside, Total Electric, CH&A, 3BR, 2B, Living room, Den, Kitchen/Dining, W/D connections. large fenced corner yard. $975/Rent & $950 Deposit. Pets ok with approval.

10 Douglas Ct. Bloomingdale, Spacious 3BR/2B, LR, Sun room, Large eat-in kitchen w/SS appliances, Multi-level Deck, 2-car Garage, Privacy Fence $1,150/Rent & $1,100/Deposit.

109 Zipperer Dr. Southside, mobile home, 3BR, 1 ½ B, LR, eat-in kitchen with appliances, CH&A, W/D hook-ups, deck on large lot. $800/rent, $750/Deposit.

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898-4135

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Big house, high ceilings.

Five big bedrooms, 2.5 baths, kitchen, laundry, tv room, 2 decks, offstreet parking, new electric, new plumbing, AC and central heating, quiet street. 809 E. Park Ave. is available from June 1st. $1600/month.

Contact: John Mustoe at nigelmustoe@msn.com Furnished 2BR/2BA home. Ardsley Park near schools & shopping. $1000/month, $1000/deposit.

Call 912-236-1952 GARDEN CITY APARTMENT Recently renovated 2BR Apt., total electric, washer/dryer hookups.

Convenient location. $615/month.

Call 656-5000.

for rent 855 Homes for rent in Bloomingdale Lease-purchase available $650-$895 Please call 912-823-3302 www.mtpisgahproperties.com House for rent 9 Millikan Street, 3BR 2BA, clean, $550/month.

Call 272-4872 House for rent - Wilmington Island, Battery Creek Plantation 120 Ropemaker- 3BR/2 full Bath, refrigerator &dishwasher, living room, dining room, fireplace, central heat/ac, laundry room, fenced yard, 5 mins. to school and groceries! $800/m + $700 deposit.

Call 912-308-4127 (daytime) or 912-897-4836 (after 6pm).

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HOUSES FOR RENT Very nice 3BR/2 full baths, total electric, central heat/air, hardwood floors, fireplaces in bedrooms, washer & dryer, very good neighborhood. *ALSO: Historic, newly renovated 4BR/2 large marble baths, fireplace, hardwood floors, fenced-in privacy backyard, off-street parking, washer/dryer included.

E. Park Avenue, very nice, quiet neighborhood. 912-659-8141

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Oceanview 1BR fully furnished apt, $800 per month. All utilities paid.

Call 912-786-4147 or 912-433-1567 Large Furnished Efficiency. Very nice, includes utilities, cable, washer & dryer. $200/week. $200/deposit.

912-236-1952 LAUREL LODGE Efficiency Apartments

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5013 Ogeechee Road. $170 per week and up.

No deposit. Nicely furnished, all utilities included. Private bath 695-7889 or 507-0222

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2BR/1BA, $550/rent, $500/deposit.

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2BR/2BA Townhome, fireplace, breakfast cove and much more amenities to pool included. $795/rent, $500/deposit.

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Lovely 2 Bedroom Brick Apt. carpet, blinds, kitchen furnished, central air, no pets. Washer/dryer connections, $550/monthly.

Call 912-661-4814

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2134 LOUISIANA AVENUE: 4BR/2BA, fully equipped, living room, dining room, CH&A. $750/month.

Call 912-441-7454 after 7pm.

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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. $795/month plus deposit $795. Call Alex @ 912-401-5710, Days/Nights/Weekends, email: alexcerbone@gmail.com

RICHMOND HILL

3BR/2BA doublewide, private lot, Water and Garbage, lawn service included.

No Pets,. available now. $750/month, $600/deposit.

Call 912-756-7116, 912-667-2498.

SAVANNAH SUMMER SUBLET! Beautiful, Historic 2BR (+1office) in Victorian District East.Available June 1st-August 31st. Washer/Dryer,dishwasher,fully furnished! Only $1200 w/all utilities included!

Front and back porches,guaranteed parking spot,8 blocks from Forsyth.

Call 912-358-0097 or Email chris.corporandy@gmail.com.

SECTION 8 APPROVED Several to choose from.

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Southside brick home CH/A, 2BR, LR/DR Combo, new carpet, den, bonus room, fenced yard, Cresthill Subdiv. $785/month.

Call 912-354-8315 evenings.

SOUTHSIDE CONDO for rent, downstairs unit 2BR/2BA, washer/dryer connection, pool. Conveniently located to everything. Small pets under 20lbs. Ok. Water and amenities included in rent. $500/cash dep. $750/month.

Call 912-308-0206, no calls after 8pm.

SOUTHSIDE- Hampstead Oaks Two bedroom, 1.5bath townhouse apt, total electric, $600/month with washer & dryer $625.

Call Debra at 912-356-5656

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•k itchen furnished.

Country atmosphere.

3BR/1BA, $785/month plus deposit.

•4BR/2BA $895/month plus deposit.

•Hibiscus, 1BR/1BA, $475 +deposit.

No section 8.

234-0548

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2 & 3 bedrooom apartments & houses. All appliances furnished, hardwood floors, tile, Section-8 Welcome.

912-844-5996

UPCHURCH ENTERPRISES 912-665-0592 912-354-7737

32 GOEBEL Avenue: 3BR/1.5BA garage apt. $800/month.

GARDEN CITY: 4125 Sixth St. 3BR/1BA Apt., new flooring & paint $650/month.

Very Nice!

3BR/1BA- 21 Gerald Dr. $850/month.

3BR/1.5BA- 34 Chatham St. $865/month.

Both w/furnished kitchens, central heat/air, carpet, fenced yard, lots more! Call 912-507-7934 or 927-2853.

WEEKLY AND MONTHLY PROPERTIES AVAILABLE Peaceful atmosphere WEEKLY UNITS: Furnished, Private entrance, No sharing, living quarters, utilities included. From $200/wk, $100-$150/deposit.

MONTHLY PROPERTIES: 2&3BR, 1-2Baths, Appliances included. Properties located in Pooler & Savannah. $600-$800/month plus deposit same as rent.

No Section 8. Interested parties call 441-5468 Wilmington Island 3BR/2BA kitchen furnished, fireplace, fenced yard, great neighborhood, nice house $1125/mo + deposit.

Call 912-897-2047 or 657-3681 Wilmington Island Duplex: 2BR/1BA, liing room, dining room, kithen, Water included, $775/month, 912-897-6789 or 912-344-4164.

CommerCial ProPerty For rent 890 OFFICE CONDO FOR RENT 785 King George Blvd.

Suite 205 & 208, Brick, downstairs 3 offices approximately 1000 sq. ft with Break Room, Utility Room, Bathroom, $900 per month, $900 security deposit. Call Helen Miltiades Realty at 912-231-1981.

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rooms for rent 895 AVAILABLE ROOMS: CLEAN, comfortable rooms. Washer/dryer, air, cable, HBO, ceiling fans. $110-$140 weekly. No deposit. Call Ike @ 844-7065 DOWNTOWN & SOUTHSIDE 1st week $100. 2nd week until star ting $125/week. Furnished rooms w/cable-tv, WI-FI, free-laundry & off-street parking. All utilities included. Minimum deposit $50 required. See online at: http://savannahrooms.cjb.net Call 912-220-8691 912-604-1890 Art PAtrol for the Latest Openings & Exhibits connectsavannah.com

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

Call 912-844-5995.

ROOM FOR RENT: Safe Environment. Central heat/air, cable, telephone ser vice. $400/$500 monthly, $125/security deposit, no lease. Immediate occupancy. Call Mr. Brown: 912-663-2574 or 912-234-9177.

CHEVROLET CAMARO, 1994- SELLING FOR PARTS, BODY, TRANSMISSION & ENGINE IN GOOD CONDITION. MUST SEE! CALL 312-3315 OR 844-6953 CHEVROLET Silverado, 1985- K5, 4X4, needs a little work, $3,000 or best offer.

Call 912-224-4451 CHEVROLET Work Van, 1993 full size conversion van, runs good, new engine, new rear end, white $1,875.

Call 912-398-6224 DODGE Ram, 2003- 1500 SLT pick-up w/CD player, new tires & floormats, full tune-up, etc.

150k, $7,500 cash only.

912-704-7896

LINCOLN LSC,- rare 2 coupe, 50H0 runs & drives great! one owner!

40k, $6000 or best offer.

Call 484-2127

FENDER BENDER? Paint & Body Work.

Reasonably Priced.

Insurance Claims.

We buy wrecks. Call 912-355-5932.

Toyota Corolla, 2006not on recall list! 45k miles, automatic, very clean, in good cond. $10,500. 912-507-9463

For Rent 1BR Garage Apt. East Sav. stove, fridge, furn. $140/wk., $100 deposit. furnished, Call 236-1319 FURNISHED EFFICIENCY: 1510 Lincoln St. $135/week or $145/week for double occupancy, Includes microwave, refrigerator, stove, & utilities! Call 912-231-0240 FURNISHED Studio apts @ Quail Run Lodge, airport location. Newly remodeled, includes all utilities, cable, broadband internet, room service, onsite restaurant/lounge. $169/week.

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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.

LOOK THIS WAY FOR A PLACE TO STAY

Furnished, affordable room available includes utility, cable, refrigerator, central heat/air. $115-$140 weekly, no deposit.

Call 912-844-3609 NEED A ROOM? STOP LOOKING! Great rooms available ranging from $115-$140/weekly. Includes refrigerators, cable w/HBO, central heat/air. No deposit.

Call 912-398-7507.

NO DEPOSIT-LIMITED TIME! 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

$75 move in special! Located on Westside.

Washer/dryer available.

323-8505

ROOMS FOR RENT Completely furnished.

Central heat and air.

Conveniently located on busline. $130 per week.

Call 912-844-5995.

Rooms for rent. Southside/Westside locations.

Furnished w/television, cable, & utilities included. $125/week. Call 507-7174 BUY. sELL fREE!

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Close to transportation and shopping.

Free cable and Wi-Fi. Call 912-228-1242 Three Bedroom, 2 Bath condo furnished $585/m. utilities included. Call 912-856-8913

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LINCOLN TOWNCAR, 1997. 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.

‘56 FORD TRUCK parts, position rears, 6cyl engine, standard trans. ‘70 Ford body parts, 9in rears. Call 661-3879 or 858-2746 ‘74 CHEVY TRUCK, 12 bolt rears, 6 leaps springs, 283 engine parts on rebuilt power glide trans.

661-3879 or 858-2746 BUICK Park Avenue Ultra, 2000- Super charged V6, garage kept. Private party sale. $5500 OBO. Call 912-898-0077 or 912-257-8469.

FORD 390-Engine needs time chain, C-6 Trans, engine to rebuild 390-360-352-351-302-30 0. Call 661-3879 or 858-2746 FORD F350 Superduty Lariat, 2002- 4x4 Off-road, long wheel, crew cab, loaded! $18,000.

Call 354-3008.

FORD Mustang, 19983.8L V6, 5 speed manual transmission, perfect mechanical condition, lots of extras $4,000 obo 303-359-1971 local (Southside) FORD Thunderbird LX, 1994- Nice body, needs engine work. Mazda 626, 1994, needs transmission $600. Call 661-3879 or 858-2746

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•1987 Ford F-150, good motor, needs fuel pump. $700 •2003 Toyota Tundra, good condition, $4950 912-844-8716 or 912-272-6452 HONDA Accord, 1997LX- good condition, heat/AC, all pwr, 1 window stuck, 187k miles, $2,700 or best offer. Call 844-9146

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HONDA Accord EX, 1999- 2-door, Good condition. $3150. Call 912-484-6106.

CADILLAC Escalade, 1999- in excellent condition with 4WD. White in color, leather seats, Bose stereo multi-changer system. $5900. Contact 912-443-5004.

HONDA Hatchback SI, 1991- Lowered suspension, intake exhaust & headers, CD player, brand new tires, very clean $2700 OBO. 912-312-2849

MAZDA MX-5 MIATA 2001. Silver/Tan, 5 speed, leather, excellent condition. $8,500. Call 912-598-0715 MERCURY Villager, 1996good condition, needs rear brake pads, no major problems, CD player, AC, seats 6, new tires, 170k $1500obo.

912-570-8166 Need a Car Loan? Call 912-687-2753 TOYOTA Corolla, 1998VE, runs great, AC, nice wheels! great on gas!

One owner, Call 484-2127

Wanted: Older nice car in good condition. models ‘95-2000. Toyota Avalon, Camry, Honda Accord.

Will consider: Acura or Lexus. 912-596-1959 SUVS 930 Need a Car Loan? Call 912-687-2753 Motorcycles/ AtVs 940 Need a Car Loan? Call 912-687-2753 Boats & accessories 950 2007 Tracker 16’ Panfisher with 40 HP Mercury 4-stroke has less than 30 hours. $10,000 912-663-2445 21’ SEAPRO, 1997 off shore, center console, T-top, 225 Suzuki, 2 live wells, GPS, depth and fishfinder, marine and CB radio, galvanized dual axle fast load trailer. Lots of extras $8500. Call 927-3985.

POWERBOAT Johnson, 1985- 13.3 Custom Craft, 50HP, rebuilt, economical, Reverse is a Paddle!

Extras! $1850. Call 912-927-0716.

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