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Wednesday

Savannah Pride White Party

What: An “Evening of Casual White Elegance”presented by the Don Callahan Real Estate Group. Music, dancing and appetizers by Chef Johnny Baker and Paula Letcher of bar.food. When: 6 p.m Where: Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Cost: $10 includes appetizers Info: Savpride.com

DEEP Kick-off Cocktail Party

What: Adult friends and fellows of the Deep writing project gather for a lit reading and kick-off for the new year. Imbibe Lulu's specialty "Deep" blue cocktail--part of the proceeds from that drink will be donated to Deep. When: 6-8 p.m Where: Lulu's Chocolate Bar, 42 MLK, Jr. Blvd. Info: deepkids.com

Save Water, Drink Beer

What: One of five statewide social events sponsored by Generation Green of the Georgia Conservancy, highlighting water conservation issues and initiatives across Georgia. Music by Robert Benton, light hors d'oeuvres from Churchill's and one free Sweetwater. When: 6:30-9 p.m Where: Churchill's Pub, 13 West Bay St. Cost: $12 Gen Adm. $10 Georgia Conservancy Members. Info: georgiaconservancy.org

Film: King of the Zombies (1941, USA)

What: Birthday Tribute to actor Mantan Moreland. A little-known B&W horror/ comedy. When: 8 p.m Where: Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. Cost: $6 Info: SentientBean.com

Muffins with Mary Ellen

What: Alderman Mary Ellen Sprague hosts a weekly gathering for District 4 constituents every Wednesday morning. Residents and business owners of District 4 are invited to drop-in to ask questions and discuss local issues. When: 6-9 a.m Where: coffee.deli, 4517 Habersham St.

Thursday Film: Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World

What: Susan Sarandon narrates this documentary revealing the riches of Muslim arts, crafts and architecture across nine countries and 1,400 years of cultural history. Post film discussion led by Deborah Jamieson, Armstrong Assistant Professor of Art History. When: 5:30 p.m Where: Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: armstrong.edu

Gray's Reef Ocean Film Festival: Opening Night

What: The first night of this annual weekend-long festival of films about the oceans and seas. See stories this issue. When: 6:30-8:45 p.m Where: Jepson Center, 207 West York St. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: graysreef.noaa.gov/

FRIDAY Blick’s Fall Orientation Party What: The downtown art store takes over Telfair Square for a “welcome to college” party for new students. Live artists, art demos, and music from Damon and the Kickers from 12-5pm. Spin the wheel and receive a free art supply prize from Blick. Plus other Savannah businesses to get to know. When: 8 a.m.-5 p.m Where: Telfair Square, President and Barnard streets. Cost: Free. Open to SCAD incoming freshmen and families. General public also welcome. Info: 912-234-0546. dickblick.com

Moon River (Women's) Chorus Guest Night

What: This women's singing group invites guests to join in for the night with four-part barbershop harmony. When: 7 p.m Where: Whitefield United Methodist Church, 728 E. 55th Street. Info: 912-598-7314

A Moveable Feast Lecture: “On the Relevance of a Liberal Arts-Based Economics Education for Society”

What: Armstrong's Nicholas Mangee presents the inaugural offering in a year-long cultural lecture series held in downtown Savannah. When: 6 p.m Where: Old Cotton Exchange, 102 E. Bay Street. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: armstrong.edu

On Stage at the Lucas: Velvet Caravan

What: The Lucas kicks off their fall series with gypsy swing and other musical frivolity. BYOB wine only. When: 8 p.m Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: $30 Gen. Adm. $15 students. $100 VIP tix. Info: 912-525-5050

The Path to Home Ownership: Two-Part Workshop

What: Six principles to help turn a dream of home ownership into reality. Setting goals, evaluating credit reports, developing a budget, saving habits, exploring options and shopping for a home will be discussed. Two part course, 9/10 and 9/12, 5-8pm. Sponsored by University of Georgia Cooperative Extension-Chatham County. When: 5-8 p.m Where: Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St.

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What: Downtown art store takes over Telfair Square for a "welcome to college" party for new students. Live artists, art demos, and music from Damon and the Kickers from 12-5pm. When: 8 a.m.-5 p.m Where: Telfair Square, President and Barnard streets. Cost: Free. Open to SCAD incoming freshmen and families. General public also welcome.

Gray's Reef Ocean Film Festival — Day Two What: See stories this issue. When: 7-9:15 p.m Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: graysreef.noaa.gov/

Painted Buntings

What: Keep your eyes open to see one of America’s most beautiful birds, that frequent Skidaway Island. When: 2 p.m Where: Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. Cost: $5 parking fee. Info: gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland

SATURDAY

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Saturday Savannah Pride Festival

What: A celebration of Savannah's

diversity with emphasis on the GLBT community. Savannah band Cusses headlines live acts, plus She and She, Roxxy Andrews, Kristina Foxx, The Club One Cabaret, and a finalist from Rupaulaâ€™s Drag Race Season 5. Mayor Edna Jackson presentation at 3pm. When: 11:30 a.m-into the night Where: Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Cost: $5 all day. Free for kids under 10. VIP tent: $40. Info: Mark@savpride.com. savpride. com

2nd Annual Tunnel to Towers Run

What: This 5k run/walk honors 9/11 firefighters. Features a memorial tribute in memory of New York City firefighter Stephen Siller and 342 FDNY brothers who sacrificed their lives on September 11, 2001. When: 8 a.m Where: Orleans Square, Barnard Street and Hull Street. Cost: $30 through September 12 $40 September 13 and race day . Info: t2trun.org/savannah

35th Annual Family Reunion for Memorial Neonatal

What: Families who've had a child in the neonatal intensive care unit at Memorial University Medical Center are invited to catch up and enjoy refreshments, games, and arts and crafts.

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What: From the Savannah Stopover crew comes an Americana smorgasbord. Two stages, twelve bands including Truth & Salvage Co. and Luella & the Sun. Local food and craft beverage purveyors round out this down-to-earth day. When: 12:30 p.m.-midnight Where: Roundhouse Railroad Museum, 601 West Harris St. Cost: $35. gen admission Info: revivalfest.org/

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Adrian Peterson Book Signing

What: Former Chicago Bears running back (and former Georgia Southern Eagle) signs his autobiography Don't Dis My Abilities, the story of his triumph over his speech impediment. When: 6-10 p.m Where: Flip Flop Tiki Bar & Grill, 117 Whitaker St. Cost: Free to attend. Books for purchase.

CrossFit SAV DOGWOD

What: A Workout of the Day competition that incorporates CrossFitters and their dogs. Benefiting the Humane Society of Greater Savannah. Raffle. When: 9 a.m.-noon Where: CrossFitSAV, 2 Mall Court, off Mall Blvd. near Waters.

Forsyth Farmers Market

What: Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine. When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m Where: Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Info: forsythfarmersmarket.com

Free Family Day at the Jepson

What: Kids and families, get to know the art of the Rizza Silver Collection, now on exhibit at the Jepson, with handson activities including faux engraving, aluminum foil sculpture, gallery games exploring silver works. When: 1-4 p.m

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West York St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: telfair.org

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What: A blind wine tasting event, pitting a panel of esteemed Sommeliers against wine. Master Sommelier Michael McNeill moderates a panel as they and the participant wine tasters are challenged to correctly identify the varietal and actual wine. Food by Damon Lee Fowler and Martha Giddens Nesbit. When: 5:30-8 p.m Where: Vic's on The River, 16 E River St Cost: $49 Info: 843-812-5802. savannahfoodandwinefest.com

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What: Pet adoption event hosted by Save-A-Life Animal Welfare Agency, part of the PetSmart Charities National Adoption Event. This is the Abercorn store, next to Lowe's. When: 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m Where: PetSmart, 11132 Abercorn St. Info: 912-598-SPAY (7729). savealifepets.org

Revival Fest

What: From the Savannah Stopover crew comes an Americana smorgasbord: Two stages, twelve bands. Local food and craft purveyors round out this down-toearth day. When: 12:30 p.m.midnight Where: Roundhouse Railroad Museum, 601 West Harris St. Cost: $35. gen adm. $55 admission plus entry to a Pig & Oyster Roast. Info: revivalfest.org/

Wheelchair Cleaning Event at LIFE, Inc.

Savannah Food & Wine Festival: Mankind vs. Wine

National Park Service BioBlitz at Fort Pulaski

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What: Hundreds of books for sale for a quarter each. Benefiting the Humane Society for Greater Savannah. When: 9 a.m.-noon Where: Humane Society for Greater Savannah, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. Cost: Free to attend. Info: HumaneSocietySAV.org

Pet Adoption Day

Seersucker Live: Writing That Risks What: Literati rejoice! The release of Writing That Risks, an anthology featuring work by two area writers, Christina Olson and Seersucker’s own Zach Powers. Plus poet Matt Hart. Hosted by Erika Jo Brown & B.J. Love. Music by Brian Dean. When: Starts at 6 p.m Where: The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: SeersuckerLive.com

"exotic species," i.e. plant species that are not native to the natural ecosystem around Fort Pulaski. Work with leading experts to count, map, and learn about the park’s ecology. Advance registration required. All participants receive commemorative T-shirt. Wear long pants and closed-toe shoes. Lunch provided. When: 7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m Where: Fort Pulaski, US Highway 80 E. Cost: Free. Registration required.

What: Entertainment, snacks, free blood pressure checks and great information while power chairs and manual wheelchairs are inspected and cleaned. Free Teleride transportation to registered Teleride passengers. RSVP. When: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m Where: L.I.F.E., Inc. (Living Independently for Everyone), 5105 Paulsen Street, Suite 143-B. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: 912-920-2414. lifecil.com

Seersucker Live Presents Writing That Risks

What: The book release of Writing That Risks (redbridgepress.com/books. html), an international literary anthology featuring work by two area writers, Christina Olson and Seersucker’s own Zach Powers. Plus poet Matt Hart. Hosted by Erika Jo Brown & B.J. Love. Music by Brian Dean. When: 6 p.m Where: The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: SeersuckerLive.com

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Constitution Day Lecture: How Many Lone Nuts Does it Take to Bring About Presidential Succession?

Sunday What: See stories this issue. When: 2-6:20 p.m Where: Jewish Educational Alliance,

5111 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: graysreef.noaa.gov

Responsible Dog Ownership Day Festival

What: Savannah Kennel Club joins the American Kennel Club in celebrating and educating owners about how to be a good pal to your pooch. Pet Show, Games, Activities, Free Raffle, Canine Good Citizenship Test, Microchip & Vaccine Clinics, Introduction to Agility, Rally and Lure Course for all Dogs, Ask the Vet, Groomer, & Trainer Booths, Dog Related Vendors, Rescue Groups with Dogs Available for Adoption. When: 1-4 p.m Where: Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public.

Speaker: Sujo John

What: Sujo John was on the 81st floor of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 when the first plane struck. He will share his story of redemption out of the ashes during three services. When: 9, 10:15 a.m. & 6 p.m Where: First Baptist Church of Richmond Hill, 9184 Ford Avenue. Cost: Free and open to the public

Monday Lecture: Christian-Muslim Interaction in Medieval Iberia

What: Explores the two-hundred-year shift of power from Islam to Christianity in medieval Spain. By James Todesca, Armstrong Associate Professor of History. When: 6 p.m Where: First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: armstrong.edu

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What: Armstrong Professor of Criminal Justice Dennis Murphy lectures on this aspect of the U.S. Constitution in the annual John Kearnes Lecture on the Founding and the Constitution. Held in Ogeechee Theatre in the Armstrong Student Union. Held on the 226th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution. When: noon Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: 912-344-2593. armstrong.edu

Soprano Alanna Keegan Master Class and Recital

What: Keenan a recital and opera performer, has sung a wide variety of roles and choral parts from Carmen to Handel. When: 2 & 7:30 p.m Where: Armstrong Fine Arts Center, 11935 Abercorn St. Cost: Free and open to the public. Info: 912-344-2801

Wednesday Author Appearance: Mark Rosenberg

What: Rosenberg reads from Eating My Feelings: Tales of Overeating, Underperforming, and Coping with My Crazy Family, essays skewering the author's struggles with weight and body image, both as a kid in the 1980s and as a gay man in the 2000s. When: 6:30 p.m Where: The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St. Cost: Free to attend. Books available for purchase. Info: thebookladybookstore.com

Beer Dinner at B. Tillman @ Byrd Cookie Company

What: A five-course Prix Fixe menu created by B. Tillman chef Cameron Cheney that compliments the season and the beers offered from Savannahâ€™s Southbound Brewing Company. Reservations required. 6 pm seating, 6:30 pm dinner. When: 6 p.m Where: B Tillman, 6700 Waters Avenue. Cost: $65 plus tax and tip. Info: 912-721-1524

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Highlands Community Meeting with City of Savannah

What: City employees who are part of the Highlands Task Force will present updates on ongoing issues surrounding the Highlands neighborhood. Residents will have an opportunity to ask questions and make comments. When: 6 p.m Where: Godley Station School, 2135 Benton Blvd. Cost: Free and open to the public Info: 912-651-6410

Film: A Dog Called Vengeance AKA El Perro (1976, Spain)

What: Psychotronic Film Society pres-

ents this politically-tinged thriller about an escaped prisoner in Latin America who is hounded (literally) for hundreds of miles by a vicious, well-trained German Shepherd. When: 8 p.m. Sept. 18 Where: Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $6 Info: sentientbean.com

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Lucas Theatre. The Collective Face: Equus. Sept. 20-Oct. 6, Muse Arts Warehouse. Film: The Silence of the Lambs. Oct. 12, Lucas Theatre. Savannah Philharmonic Season Opener. Stattsfest. Oct. 13, Muse Arts Warehouse. Sept. 21, Lucas Theatre. National tour: Mamma Mia! Oct. 17, Johnny Film: Indiana Jones and the Last CruMercer Theatre. sade. Sept. 21, Trustees Theater. Mercer Cabaret Night. Oct. 17. Lucas Theatre. Savannah Jazz Festival. Sept. Film: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. 22-28. Oct. 18, Lucas Theatre. Skyway Book Launch. Sept. 24, Bay Street Theatre: The Rocky Horror Show. Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum. Oct. 18-31, Club One. Sondheim Cabaret Night. Sept. 26, Vienna Boys Choir. Oct. 18, Cathedral of St. Lucas Theatre. John the Baptist. Eddie Griffin. Oct. 4, Johnny Mercer Collective Soul/Great Ogeechee Seafood FestiTheatre. val. Oct. 19, Richmond Hill. Broadway Cabaret. Oct. 3, Lucas Savannah Philharmonic: Fauvre’s Requiem. Oct. Eddie Griffin (Oct. 4) Theatre. 20, Lucas Theatre. Film: Beetlejuice. Oct. 4, Lucas Savannah Film Festival. Oct. 26-Nov. 2. Theatre. Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival. Oct. 27, Loretta Lynn. Oct. 6, Johnny Mercer Forsyth Park. Theatre. Disney On Ice. Oct. 30-Nov. 3, MLK Arena. Picnic in the Park. Oct. 6, Forsyth The Foundry: Film and live dance by Park. choreographer Alex Ketley, Nov. 2, Jepson Nicholas Sparks. Oct. 8, Trustees Center. Theater. Mike Epps. Nov. 9, Johnny Mercer Theatre. JJ Grey & Mofro. Oct. 10, Lucas Rock and Roll Marathon. Nov. 9. Theatre. Jim Brickman. Nov. 11, Lucas Theatre. Tybee Island Pirate Fest. Oct. 10-13. Savannah Food & Wine Festival. Nov. Savannah Greek Festival. Oct 10-12, 11-17. St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church. Joe Bonamassa. Nov. 13, Johnny Mercer CBGB opens. Oct. 11. Theatre. Hunter Hayes. Oct. 11, Johnny Film: Doctor Zhivago. Dec. 6, Lucas Theatre. Mercer Theatre. Indy and Dad (The Last Crusade, Sept. 21) CS Film: Edward Scissorhands. Oct. 11,

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When people say “college town,” they typically mean somewhere like Athens or Gainesville or Clemson — places with economies almost completely defined by the ginormous institutions of higher education in their midst. Savannah isn’t quite one of those towns. Our economy is much more diversified, with tourism and the port coming in well ahead of, say, home football weekends. But the lifestyle, in many parts of town, is pure college. Each year we pay tribute to this side of Savannah life and welcome new students to town with our College Issue. The tourist-and-affluent retiree magnet otherwise known as downtown Savannah wouldn’t be what it is today without the enormous influx of development and investment by the Savannah College of Art and Design, which continues to increase its footprint year after year. The beautiful part — and what makes the present moment a truly wonderful time to live and learn in Savannah — is that now we’re living in a sort of post-SCAD era. SCAD is as important as ever, but a bunch of influential and ambitious alumni have settled here after their college days, raising families, opening art galleries, starting businesses and bands. Maybe that will be you one day, newlyarriving college student. And if you don’t go to SCAD, there are still plenty of opportunities to make your mark. A critical mass has formed. There’s a bustling new economy in Savannah, one that owes its origin to college activity but has developed well beyond events directly affiliated with any particular college. This new economy is embodied in the coffeehouses and galleries and clubs and shops that you’ll hang out in during your time in Savannah. And like so many other people these days, maybe you’ll eventually decide to stay and hang around some more after you’re done with school. Savannah’s not just about SCAD. It also has a huge public university presence, in the

form not only of Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah State University, and Savannah Tech, but the University of Georgia (which administers the large research/ aquarium Marine Extension Service complex on Skidaway Island) and Georgia Tech (which offers professional and continuing education at its campus off I-95). There’s also a host of private institutions like South University and the brand-new Savannah Law School, as well as nationallyaffiliated institutions like Strayer University, St. Leo’s University, Troy University, and the University of Phoenix. These educational assets have an outsized effect in a city as small as Savannah. Despite our, um, charming tendency to think of Savannah as much larger than it really is, the truth is that Savannah is pretty tiny. We’re only the 145th most populous metro area in the U.S. — Hickory, N.C., is ahead of us, to give you some perspective— a fact which makes our relatively large college/university presence all the more impactful. You’ll notice we don’t call this a “College Guide.” It’s not really a guide to colleges. Your school has a PR department for that kind of stuff. They get paid to do that. What we try and do in this issue is just have some fun. We want to introduce you to some of the more meaningful day-to-day aspects of life in Savannah that make this such a special place to spend four (or six, or eight) years as you pursue your education, not to mention whether you might decide to stick around afterward. Here’s a note about us and what we do: We publish Connect Savannah every week in print and online at connectsavannah. com to give Savannah an independent voice exploring area arts, culture, entertainment, politics and community activism.

While technically speaking Connect Savannah is what’s known in the biz as an alternative newsweekly or “alt-weekly” — think Atlanta’s Creative Loafing — we take it as a great compliment that many people around town consider us as simply their community newspaper. We kick off this week’s college content with Community Editor Jessica Leigh Lebos’s look at the timeless, and yes, real-world value of a liberal arts education. Editorial intern and SCAD student Chrystal Arboleda Lopez gives her firstperson account of learning the ins and outs of little ol’ Savannah after coming here from Chicago. Our Arts & Entertainment Editor Bill DeYoung has once again curated a playlist of new tracks from local bands, a handy introduction to the steadily evolving Savannah music scene. Contributor Erika Jo Brown gives us a loving look at a great local institution, Savannah State’s WHCJ 90.3 FM, as well as a nifty food roundup of hot spots in the SoFo district, center of that critical mass of new activity I mentioned earlier. Our faithful “News Cycle” columnist John Bennett, executive director of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign, contributes a special piece this week on bicycle-oriented decisions that college students need to make. Social Media Intern Sinjin Hilaski contributes a fun piece on a few pub-crawlable places downtown. Special thanks to our specially-commissioned artist this week, Andrew Williams, for his anime-inspired illustration work on the cover and inside. We also have a bevy of sorta non-collegeish features this week on Revival Fest at the Roundhouse, Savannah Pride, the 24 Hour Play Festival at Muse, and the Gray’s Reef Film Festival. And of course there’s all the usual stuff.... cs

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Keep the feast moving In defense of the Liberal Arts So, one thing you may not know about me is that I make a kickass latte. Stiff foam, creamy espresso, separated into five layers in a tall glass like a fancy French confection. I consider it my second most impressive skill, next to gestating humans in my uterus. I acquired this savvy right around the time I decided to major in the Liberal Arts, and what my parents drummed into me about that choice was that I needed a Back Up Plan. As in a trade that could sustain me as I plunked away on my Great American Novel or whatever I was planning on doing with my degree, because I sure as shit wasn’t going to be doing it broke at their house. My mother wanted me to get my manicurist’s license like her friend’s daughter, an aspiring comedienne who did nails by day and regaled Scottsdale by night with her hilarious pottymouth shtick. (That girl moved to Los Angeles and became Sandra Bernhard, whose screamingly brilliant routine you may have caught at

than the quadruple macchiatos, the rich academic environment kept my mind sharpening itself like a pencil with OCD, synapses snapping over William Blake and Henry Rollins’ poetry and the correct placement of a comma. I devoured many books, including Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, a posthumous retrospective of his younger years in France with other expatriate intellectuals. Papa wrote that his time in Paris and its heady brilliance stayed with him no matter where life took him, an everrenewing fount of inspiration. I am no Hemingway and Javarama was no Champs-Elysées, but those coffeeshop college years became my Moveable Feast. I am a better person for having cleaned those filthy bathrooms, and whenever my well runneth dry, all I need do is call up the memory of debating Descartes over day-old scones. “That’s what a good education is supposed to do — to show students how to learn to love to learn,” sympathizes Laura Barrett, Dean of Liberal Arts at Armstrong Atlantic State University.

Decent writing skills are the way to get noticed by human resources departments, and Mark Edmunson’s essay “The Ideal English Major” went viral last month for its polemic that students most facile with language are the ones best prepared for the Real World. “As it turns out, the employers we hear from are less interested in what your major is than whether you can develop an idea and communicate it effectively,” says Barrett. “They can teach the ‘how’ of a job, but companies want people already versed in critical thinking, cultural sensitivity and collaboration.” True, a degree in English won’t teach you to build a bridge, treat leukemia or bring down a Dementor. But the idea is that you could go on to pursue such things in an effective and compassionate way with a foundation based in the Big Ideas and a wellcrafted set of directions (hopefully written by another English major.) Even if you’re long done with college, it’s never too late for a little portable inspiration. Barrett, along with the faculty of AASU’s Liberal Arts Dept., has styled a “A Moveable Feast

As it turns out, the employers we hear from are less interested in what your major is than whether you can develop an idea and communicate it effectively...They can teach the ‘how’ of a job, but companies want people already versed in critical thinking, cultural sensitivity and collaboration.” Club One last Sunday.) But I was all, omg, free coffee. As a nascent barista, I was schooled hard in the nuances of Arabica versus Robusta, cappuccino versus americana and why on earth Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans cost more than cocaine. I frothed two percent milk into cumulus clouds and perfected a sneer that could make someone bus their own table from across the room. I also learned a lot about people, watching (and oh yes, judging) as I thunked out spent grinds and unclogged unspeakably horrendous toilets. My College Back Up Plan also kept me free to read and write surrounded by other literary nerds. Even more

Barrett gets the vital role that Liberal Arts (which includes English, art, history, political science, AfricanAmerican Studies and other areas with nebulous money-making opportunities) play in a civil society. She worries that our culture’s emphasis on skill subsets diminishes students’ creativity and dampens curiosity. “With this very focused look at job force development, we might be losing the real prize of a college education,” Barrett speculates, defending the argument that the Liberal Arts model creates smart citizens who research important issues and participate in community life. It also might be a college kid’s best shot into the current job market.

Lecture Series,” a year-long chain of cultural programs around the city to lube up our rusty brains just for the sheer joy of it. Hosted by some of the city’s architectural jewels, the series includes a visit from Columbia professor and National Humanities medal recipient Andrew Delbanco at Congregation Mickve Israel on Feb. 24. The first lecture will be delivered this Thursday, Sept. 12 at the Old Cotton Exchange by Nicholas Mungee, AASU assistant professor of economics. Wait, what? Economics is a LIBERAL art? Dude, that sounds like, useful. “Economics is a social science, yes,”

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letter that he was “appalled and horrified” and “almost puked” when he heard the news. Fortunately for that mad dad, his son grew up to be billionaire media mogul Ted Turner, who presumably forgave him for being such a dick and bought him a condo in Boca. Other than the strong suggestion of a Back Up Plan, my own folks were always supportive of my plunge into the Liberal Arts. (They were probably just relieved that Radical Arts was not an option.) Steeped in caffeine and Chaucer, I was well-prepared for a host of billpaying jobs when I stepped out into the real world armed with the most important life skills of all: Clean Up After Yourself and Ask A Lot of Questions. But I keep my latte skills sharp, because you never know where the feast leads next. cs

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assures Mungee. “It involves critical thinking, analytical skills and intellectual flexibility — and it requires being able to view the world from different perspectives.” He believes that in these uncertain times, those attributes will be far more integral to success, than say, an MBA. “We’re faced with unprecedented challenges economically not just in the U.S. but globally,” Mungee continues. “We need the leaders of tomorrow to face these challenges without reducing things to polarities.” Though it may seem counterproductive, Mungee posits that a Liberal Arts education is one of the best investments you can make, because “progress depends on the ability to entertain new ideas.” So maybe that missive will keep the parents who are writing out fat tuition checks for their film and poetry majors from rolling their eyes. Hopefully they won’t be as harsh as one father who, when informed of his son’s decision to major in the Greek Classics, responded with a terrible

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by Chrystal Arboleda Lopez

Live local and prosper Words of wisdom to the new arrivals New to town? Before you start putting moves on her, there is something you should know about Savannah first … she’s pretty crazy. Savannah isn’t your typical Southern belle — she has too much of a personality to be categorized so easily. Which makes her a little harder to get. But, trust me, it’s worth the effort to get to know her. Savannah may seem strange, but that’s only because she is. To an outof-towner it may feel like culture shock to go from a Northern city (let’s say Chicago), and to move to a Southern city that he/she had never visited (like Savannah), and it may have made him/her feel foreign and out of the loop. This may have made me, I mean, him/her, question everything about themselves. The day I met Savannah was the day I moved here, years ago. And boy, did she seem cuckoo. There were a few things that, as an outsider at the time, I couldn’t quite wrap my head around. Like, why didn’t anyone warn me about what the paper mill smells like? Why can’t I pull down the Spanish moss? Or even, why is there a man dressed as Forrest Gump walking around and never breaking character? (And he never breaks character. I know now because I lived next to him.) So, for all of the newcomers, there are a few things that you might want to know in order to get along with the Port City. Starting with the fact that the Port of Savannah is key to local economy. Another key to local economy is tourism. And while you may want to sound like a local by complaining about all of the tourists and tour buses constantly moving through the city — know Andrew Williams

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that actual locals appreciate these profiteering peoples. We like our local businesses’ ratings on Tripadvisor, and we’d like to keep it that way. So, give them a smile or a wave when those buses drive by — be a model citizen of good ol’ Southern hospitality. And be ready to smile and wave constantly, to everyone, everywhere, all the time. In places like Chicago, I may have been able to get away with avoiding eye contact and not interacting with anyone at the grocery store line — but not here. It’s good manners to greet strangers as they walk by — and besides, in due time there will be hardly any strangers left. Once you’ve interacted with a handful of residents in Savannah, you’re already linked in some way to half of the city.

I’m talking, your roommate’s coworker is the boyfriend of the girl who is friends with your first onenight-stand. (True story.) And there will be no escaping it. Don’t fight it, we will find you, and we will get to know you and ask you how your day is going. There is a good amount of merit to reputations here. So, just know that “bless your heart” isn’t a compliment. Getting to know Savannah is easiest when you’re open to her quirks. When you see adults drawing with chalk on sidewalks, or puppy parades, or humongous roaches scampering across your foot, you may want to turn the other way and run. But the only good reason to do that would probably be the roaches. As for everything else, soak it in. The crazy may be contagious, but it’s for your own good to

contract the character. You won’t survive otherwise. And while you’re charming Savannah, know to take things slow. It’s actually the norm to get your coffee “for here.” And with eclectic local coffee places like The Coffee Fox, or Gallery Espresso, brewing locally ground PERC coffee beans, it’s easy to want to take your time and stick around, locally. (Am I saying “local” enough?) Local businesses are where the good stuff ’s at. From the Forsyth Farmer’s Market to boutiques on Broughton, there is local loot everywhere you look. Embrace the coastal creative and it will make you that much more cultured. Despite the misconception of Southern cities, this isn’t where culture becomes limited. Some of the best sushi I’ve ever had came from here. And, have you tried Zunzi’s yet? Savannah is a bustling place that is as sweet as Savannah Bee Company honey, and as complex as the locally brewed Southbound IPA, and it’s as strange as the hauntings in the area. Yes, one of the most well-known aspects of the Hostess City is that it hosts ghostly tenants. Believe what you will, but this detail makes Halloween an exceptionally fun holiday in this town. Speaking of exceptionally fun holidays, St. Patrick’s Day can turn into the blurred memory of one. You’ll get to that bridge when you cross it. (And only when you’re 21 —I know you college kids these days.) Being from out of town doesn’t make you an outsider. It just means you have to spend some quality time with the city before you can call yourself a Savannahian. Hiding in your dorm rooms or apartments won’t get you far in this town. It does no good to avoid the oddities of Savannah — it may even have been the reason you chose to live here. She may be crazy, but she’s a character people want to be around. cs

Chrystal Arboleda Lopez is a Writing student at SCAD. As an editorial intern for Connect, she also waits tables to finance her appreciation for good wine and coffee.

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For your pleasure, here’s the 2013 Connect Playlist by bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

If you’re reading this you already know that Savannah is a college town — isn’t that why you’re here? — and you’re probably wondering what kind of music we’ve got going on. Allow us to explain through song. The online version of this story, at www.connectsavannah.com, will link you to these 16 tracks, a healthy and quite vibrant cross-section of the best rock, hip hop, electronic and acoustic music in Savannah. All of these artists perform live around town, some more than others. You may or may not catch them at some club or festival. Whatever. But listen up, you ought to know who they are, and what they do. You’re welcome! (for Graveface) hypnotic electronic dance project. “Holding You Back” appeared on a special release for Cassette Store Day (Sept. 7).

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The man behind the curtain is Ryan Graveface, the guitarist, songwriter and recording wiz whose betterknown projects include Dreamend, Halloween Ghosts and Black Moth Super Rainbow. Oh, and he runs a record label and a retail store in town (both similarly called Graveface). Sisters Phaedra and Elsa Greene write and sing the words for this typically

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singer/songwriter who relocated to Savannah in 2010. This is the title track from his third album of original material; the wistful violin here is played by Ricardo Ochoa of Velvet Caravan.

Cusses “Hey You”

An explosive three-piece (Angel Bond, vocals; Bryan Harder, guitar; Brian Lackey, drums), Cusses is the loudest band ever to storm Savannah without a bass player. “Hey You” is from the trio’s self-titled debut, which got national attention. Cusses recently raised $37,000 through a Kickstarter program, to fund a sophomore release. A totally fun live act.

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A standout track from Greener, the super-fine 2012 solo release from the one-time frontman for Hazel Virtue. The stellar arrangement and production is by Kevin Rose, the guy who

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Velvet Caravan “Djangology”

KidSyc “G$C”

It’s a tasty title, but he can’t actually write it down — and we can’t print it — because of copyright issues. Listen and you’ll get it. The track is from Singles, one of four ridiculously creative projects that KidSyc (aka Lloyd Harold) undertook during the summer of 2013. The reigning prince of Savannah hip hop also performs with a great jazz/funk band called Brandywine.

Gypsy jazz in Savannah? You bet! It’s guitarist Sasha Strunjas, violinist Ricardo Ochoa, plus Jared Hall (keys and accordion), Jesse Monkman (cajon, percussion) and Eric Dunn (bass). This Django Reinhardt classic was cut during the sessions for the band’s forthcoming first album.

Burning Mansions “Sparks”

Triathalon “Weirdo”

There’s something refreshingly old-school about this guitar-driven rock trio from Effingham County, as if it were the perpetual summer of Robin Trower and Jimi Hendrix. The singer and guitarist is Jonathan Lee Murphy, with bassist Jason Gecik and drummer Chris Heath. This psych/ blues sizzler is from Lucid, the second Burning Mansions release.

Issued in May as part of a two-track download (with “She’s on My Mind”), this ditty finds Savannah’s surf-meetsMotown bad boys in full “murder the babysitter” psycho mode. Well, that’s not what the song’s about, but it’s still pretty creepy. Say hello to Chad Chillton, Alex Previty, Hunter Jayne and Adam Intrator: They know you’re alone.

The Accomplices “Stargazing”

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Electric Grandma “Familiar Scenery”

Cosmic electronic pop from Lucia Garcia (keys, vocals) and Matt Duplessie (programming, synths, guitars). These guys were mainstays in the late, great eight-piece band Word of Mouth.

Antoine, aka Toine, aka Super Toine, co-owns a mobile recording service with KidSyc (who produced this track). He happens to be a professional Ultimate Frisbee player — a five-time Indiana State champion, a Florida Sectionals champion. Hence the title of the song, and of his fivetrack EP.

The Lovely Locks “Fire Beneath”

Three-part harmonies are the calling card of this fair-haired, rocking trio — Britt Scott, Anna Chandler and Crystina Parker. Sometimes it’s acoustic, and sometimes it’s a bigger sound, with bass and drums. It’s always an adventure. Captured liveto-computer in an Ardsley Park living room, “Fire Beneath” was written by guitarist Parker.

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Title track to the EP released in July. “I’m adept at indulging my own imagination,” explains guitarist P.M. Goerner. “And to make that effective, and not just totally indulgent, you surround yourself with musicians that are better than you.” And so to realize his cosmic shoegaze fuzz-tone music, Goerner surrounds himself with bassist Chris Goggans and drummer Matt McCullough. CS

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If you’re living in Savannah, chances are you will at some point end up at the Social Club, and with two-stories, four bars, on-street BBQ and a photo booth the place’s draw is apparent. While Social is consistently a hot spot for twentysomethings in Savannah, the club’s crowd is a sturdy compilation of virtually every demographic, clique or stereotype you could imagine — from the college kids and local soldiers to aging hipsters who may or may not be trying to recapture their youth. Congress Street Social Club is the Savannah scene’s hub for making plans, catching a buzz via the bar’s 130 bourbons, or grooving to the local musicians that love to play this stage. When — and it really is a matter of “when,” not “if”— you end up here, it’ll become clear that the Social Club is true to its name. 411. W Congress Street

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Tucked in on the south end of Forsyth Park, the Legion is the intimate, low-key, casual getaway from the sometimes overbearing and hectic swarms of the downtown area. Originally opened in July 1946, Post 135 is luckily — for us nonveterans — open to the public. This

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At the corner of MLK and West Congress is one of Savannah’s funkiest establishments, where oldies-on-vinyl meld with digital modernity — resulting in one of the most happening atmospheres downtown. Encased behind glass walls with an enviable record collection, Savannah’s Sparetime has it going on, from a delectable dinner menu to an impressive list of houseinfused liquors like a tomato gin — or the C-Port, an alcohol ode to the fine city itself. If you’re going to consider yourself involved in the Savannah scene, the Sparetime needs to be on your list of places to drop in, hang out and vibe. Whether you’re digging the stylings of visual artist/ DJ Jose Ray,or just munching on the magic that the Sparetime kitchen concocts, rest assured that with each venture into the Sparetime comes an assortment of stories you’ll be regaling your comrades in debauchery with. At MLK JR. Boulevard and Congress Street (36 MLK)

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Love the post-hipster thing, too, with the wrinkled button-downs and skinny chinos. Even the jocks in the half-calf black athletic socks with the fratty upside-down visors are mysteriously compelling. You’re rockin’ it all, really. But it’s time to drop some truth. At some point, be it for a job interview or meeting your girlfriend’s parents, you are going to have to clean up your act. And we’re not talking about shaving off the soulpatch: You’re going to need a good suit. And a decent pair of shoes. If the thought of learning to dress like a grown man brings up terrible memories of boxy double-breasted Girbaud blazers and your grandpa’s Sansabelt pants, fear not. Looking sharp in a suit is both achievable and affordable, while leaving plenty of room for personal expression. “Dressing for success doesn’t have to be boring anymore,” assures Joseph Dabit, the well-groomed proprietor of The Men’s Store by Joseph on Broughton. “There are so many options.” Dressed in sleek charcoal gray and blue suede shoes, Dabit sweeps his hand around the spacious shop, pointing out lightweight silk-wool blends

SAVE on average “There are so many options,” says Joseph Dabit of today’s menswear.

and cool seersucker in unexpected hues. Natty threads run in his blood: His father and uncles emigrated from Jordan in the 1950s to sell clothing in Chicago, and Dabit has been in the men’s garment business since the mid-1980s. He owned his first shop in Selma, AL, then moved to Savannah, where he took over Heyman and Son, the downtown bulwark that had been dressing the city’s gentlemen since the 1920s. Dabit kept Heyman’s name for more than 20 years, selling mid-priced suits out of the lofty space with its winding half-staircase in the back. The family also owns the sportier On Time Fashions next door, though the suits remained a mainstay for bar mitzvah boys, bankers and other professionals. But business trends, like lapel sizes, evolve. At the urging of his son, Sam,

Dabit recently relented to carrying bigger brands like Ralph Lauren, Izod and Vineyard Vines, and the Dabits rebranded as The Men’s Store by Joseph last December. Now 19-year-old Sam mans the snazzy alligator and whale icons of southern casualwear up front, while haberdashers Tommy Hall and Tim “Bishop” Brown advise on the serious business hanging on the elegant racks along the brick walls. “It’s been a total transformation,” says the elder Dabit, standing next to a veritable riot of paisley bowties. (Note: A “haberdasher” is one who helps dress you from head to toe, helping you discern whether the fedora actually works and figure out which pair of socks goes with the Cole Haan loafers.) “Anyone can sell clothes, but not everyone can be a haberdasher,” explains continues on p. 22

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If you’re cruising radio stations and happen upon a 12hour Count Basie marathon, or fresh hits from Africa, or deep reggae cuts, you’ve probably hit WHCJ: The Voice of Savannah State University. Ike Carter, WHCJ 90.3 FM’s iconic, papery-voiced director, coined the station’s tagline when he joined the station over two decades ago. From jazz to gospel, blues to Latin music, hip-hop to alternative soul, every program speaks to WHCJ’s mission as musical ambassador for the university. “Being at an HBCU (historically black college or university), we showcase the positive achievements of people of African descent,” says Carter.

“The goal is to educate through music. We present so many different types of genres, and the one thing in common African roots.” Many moons ago, as a college student at Morgan State University, an HBCU in Baltimore, Carter was an active member of the Left Bank Jazz Society, a musical society that promoted live performances from 1964 until around 2002. It also functioned as a reading group of sorts. Each participant

would share 20 minutes of music, which was then discussed, lending both a depth and breadth to the group’s musical explorations. Carter began his radio odyssey as an extracurricular hobby with weekly Society panel programs. That’s when, as he says, “the bug bit him.” He received his own show, during the dubious hours of 12 midnight to 6 am on Sundays. Always on a positive tip, he observes, “I was by myself, so I had to learn everything about the station.” After a successful business career, Carter returned to his musical interests and his hometown of Savannah—two forces that shaped his motivation to share the

sonorous roots of African-American achievement. As a student at Alfred E. Beach High School, Carter notes, “I was very fortunate in my life to have the greatest mentors. My biology and chemistry teacher, Raymond Washington, used to bring music to school and play it during lunchtime. We’d discussed the history of music and musicians. We came to listen and learn.” Although not an SSU alumnus, it was natural that Carter turned his attention to Savannah State, which he’d visited since he was a little boy. He recalls, “They had trees and grass, and we could sneak in and play continues on p. 24

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Humbly, Carter suggests that the basketball on a real floor.” primary reason for WHCJ’s ascent is a His partner in crime was often community effort. Indeed, most proRobert Gordon, son of Asa H. Gorgram hosts are volunteers, who can, don, a campus leader whose name as he puts it, “measure their time graces the university’s main commitment to the univerlibrary. Carter was also sity in decades.” deeply impressed by the He also credits the fertile environment of SSU administration, scholars, including especially Dr. Cheryl his late wife, Dr. BetDozier, university tye Anne Battiste. president, and Dr. Like many colReynold Verret, lege radio stations, provost and vice however, WHCJ was president for academic not exactly in deluxe affairs, for cultivating conditions. an atmosphere of explo“When I came, ration and excellence. we were 1500 watts,” he SSU students are also part explains, “with an antenna ‘We’re not DJs, we’re on top of the water tower, programmers,’ says of the equation. In addiIke Carter tion to hosting two student absorbing most of the interns, WHCJ houses signal.” WSSU, a low-power station broadcast What started as a two-room enteracross the 175–acre campus. WSSU prise blossomed into an artistic force is run by students, who develop their with a 50-mile broadcast range over own programs, schedules, orientaChatham County, as well as portions tions, auditions, and training. They of Effingham, Bryan, Beaufort, and welcome students from all majors and Liberty counties. Internet streaming disciplines. adds an international dimension. Carter marvels at how the radio “We get emails from all over business “enhances communicathe world, from Hong Kong to the tions skills, builds confidence and self Ukraine.” awareness,” especially for those who WHCJ is currently housed in enter the hallowed halls as “scared Hodge Hall, a charming, wood-panlittle freshmen” and exit as confident eled historic building, which origiprofessionals. WHCJ alumni speak nally served as the president’s house. for themselves—on regional radio. Carter’s personal photography collecFor example, WHCJ veteran April tion adorns the interior. The visages Dobbs reigns as Atlanta-area’s Kiss of Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Abbey 104 weekend personality. Lincoln, Charles Mingus, TheloHe is perhaps most proud of Grace nius Monk, Horace Silver, and Sarah Curry, an SSU graduate who worked Vaughan oversee operations.

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His childhood influences range in Washington DC theatre companies from Rachmaninoff to James Brown before being lured back as assistant and, “I still try to listen to as much director of the station. Carter beams music as I can from all kinds of artas he describes how he “worked hard ists. When you limit your appreciato get Grace back here—she has the tion to ten favorites, you’re restricting same kind of commitment that I yourself. There’s so much beauty out have. It’s so rare that you find that in a there.” young person.” If you detect a hint of revFor almost a decade, Lady erence in Carter’s worldGrace has bolstered a new view, you aren’t mistaken. generation of listeners For him, music reprewith her Alternative sents “a high spirituality, Soul Café, melding spoa level higher than me ken word and rock soul sitting and talking to for programming with you. All music is about a modern twist. communication. Certain With this broad range African people believe that of programming, it seems music is the antenna of god— pretty obvious that Ike Carter is not a top-ten-favorite-albums Ass’t Director how the great creator communicates to the people. That’s why sort of guy. Grace Curry the music of John Coltrane and “We’re not DJs, we’re proBob Marley transcended not only grammers,” he explains. “Commertheir art form, but America.” cial radio thrives on requests, which Music that is transformative, eduis why you hear the same thing over cational, and international—all from and over. I suppose I’m a frustrated a one-story studio. In the oft-repeated musician, and I see programs as a way words of Carter’s program round-up: to make music with other people’s “that about brings us up to date. Now, music.” let’s get back into the music.” cs

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Ride like a boss

Tips for the savvy and safe city cyclist The quote, the origin of which I’ve forgotten, goes something like this: “A university is a place where students, faculty and staff come together to complain about parking.”

and them and you at risk, and it’s illegal for people your age. That’s also why “Get on the sidewalk!” is one of the dumbest things you can yell from the window of a car while passing a cyclist. In fact, don’t yell anything at all (or sound your horn) while overtaking a cyclist.

Lose the ninja costume

While college is an ideal place to debate issues and test theories, don’t waste time and energy carping about parking. It’s boring and the solution has already been found: the bicycle. Saving money on fuel, car maintenance and, of course, parking can free up funds for other things. Riding to class is excellent a great way to get focused before a lecture or lab, or relieve stress after examinations, studying or studio work. If there was ever a vehicle ideally suited for academe, your bike is it. If you know how to use it. Understanding some basic concepts will permit you to enjoy the fun and life-changing freedom that bicycling provides, while minimizing the risks, which can also be life changing but not in a good way. If you are a Savannah State University or Armstrong Atlantic State University student, think of this as the Core Curriculum. If you’re a SCAD student, this is the stuff of Foundation Studies. So let’s start here:

Even if you haven’t taken astronomy yet, you’ve probably noticed it gets dark at night. Something to do with the sun, I think (I didn’t do too well in astronomy). Riding a bike with no lights while wearing dark clothing is probably a good way to sneak up on a member of a rival ninja clan. It’s also a good way to get hit by a car, after which the motorist will say, “I didn’t see him,” and the investigating officer will nod in agreement. Bike lights are available at all local bike shops. I like the newer models that are rechargeable via USB. Bright or reflective clothing also helps.

Lock it or lose it

Go with the flow

Georgia State law views cyclists as drivers. That means they must drive their bikes in the same direction as traffic and obey all traffic regulations. Riding against traffic is one of the most dangerous things you can do on a bike and significantly increases the likelihood that you will be hit by a car. Have you heard about two-way bike lanes in other cities? Well, we don’t have those here. Yet. That means the Lincoln Street bike lane is for northbound traffic only and the Price Street bike lane is exclusively for riding south. No exceptions.

A photo from a previous edition of the yearly Midnight Garden Ride around town, put on by the Savannah Bicycle Campaign; go to bicyclecampaign.org for more info.

Get hip to the squares

Downtown Savannah’s squares can be perplexing at first to motorists and cyclists alike. But it’s pretty simple once you get the hang of it. Vehicles, including bicycles, approaching a square must yield to vehicles, including bicycles, already orbiting the square. It’s tempting to ride through a square on the sidewalk, but this is dangerous for pedestrians and for cyclists. And when the police choose

to enforce the ordinance against it, the fines are startlingly high.

Stay off the sidewalks

Speaking of sidewalks, some bicycle riders perceive them as a safe refuge from automobile traffic. That perception of safety is entirely illusory. Remember, you are driving a vehicle, which belongs on the street and not in an area reserved for pedestrians. Riding on sidewalks places you

Scholars have struggled with the question for centuries. Which is better, a u-lock or a cable lock? The answer is yes. The locking strategy formulated by the late Sheldon Brown, the Dumbledore of bicycle knowledge, prescribes using both a cable lock and a u-lock because, “the tool used to defeat one is useless against the other.” Even Brown’s method is useless, however, if the object to which you have locked your bike can be kicked or pried out of place (wooden porch railings) or if your bike can be lifted free of it (parking meters). Locking to a street sign? Make sure it’s firmly secured into the ground first. I’m serious. Bike racks are a good bet. If you are able to bring your bike inside, that’s even better. What’s left? Ah, helmets. They mess up your hair, but they can also save your life or save you from a life you don’t want to live. Your brain will take enough pounding in class. Protect it while you are on your bike. cs

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Looking for a meaty meal that won’t break your budget? Try Betty Bombers (left) or Al Salaam deli, where Meqbel Salameh (right) serves up falafel and gyros.

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As a native New Yorker, I’ve seen plenty of neighborhoods rebranded to reflect an influx of trendy residents. In Brooklyn, a cabal of real estate agents invented East Williamsburg to lure hipsters ever deeper into fuddyduddy — or industrial — Bushwick. In Manhattan, a small strip of streets north of Houston Street, squished between East and West Villages, was re-christened NoHo in order to bring refinement to upscale restaurants and spas. And while Savannah radiates its own distinct identity as a city, several bohemian businesses, galleries, and loft spaces are redefining the SoFo — South of Forsyth Park — district. With creative minds, comes the need to fuel ideas gastronomically — cheaply, ethically, and with inimitable style. Below, indulge in some of the eateries that give the area its character.

Butterhead Greens

Is it in the water? I would argue that the magic at Butterhead Greens is in the fresh ingredients, but daily featured flavored waters — infused with cucumber, mint, lemon, or lavender — do add a refreshing element to an

already diverse menu. Although it’s hard to imagine during the dog days of summer, Savannah does get a touch chill during the winter months. For meat eaters in hibernation mode, the “Flightless Heaven” sandwich ($8.50) is comfort food nonpareil — smoked turkey, Havarti, marinated red onions, oven-dried tomatoes, and homemade sage sauce. The “Sustainable Sammy,” ($8.50) is also a fan favorite, serving up a tomato-y veggie patty with spinach, Gruyere, oven-dried tomatoes, and basil aioli. All sandwiches come with a choice of side, including Butterhead’s much-lauded quinoa salad, sweet potato salad or chips. Butterhead also offers robust entrée salads — many influenced by classics like Caesar or Niçoise, cheekily renamed to reflect a style all their own (“The Centurion” and “The French Angler,” respectively). My favorite is

the “Thai Style” ($8.50), which blends chopped greens and veggies, cilantro, basil, mint, whole peanuts, fried garlic, and glazed pork, served with a flawless baguette. You also have the option to build your own salad or grilled cheese sandwich. The grilled cheese option pairs well with Butterhead’s delectable roasted tomato soup, garnished with tasty croutons ($4 cup, $5 bowl). Composed of only five ingredients, trust me when I say that you will not miss a thing after tasting the creamy concoction. Be on the look out for other soups, teas, and combos du jour. As part of Butterhead’s commitment to the locavore movement, they work with Savannah Bee Company, Form, NLaws Produce, and other Savannah-based businesses. They deliver Monday through Saturday, in selected zones, using eco-friendly packaging. A word to the wise: Butterhead Greens is located across the street from SCAD’s massive Arnold Hall, packed to the gills with students who flock to the restaurant at regular intervals. Whether dining in or taking your snacks to go, call your order ahead to avoid the lines.

Betty Bombers

Chefs Patrick Zimmerman and Seth Musler, the same folks behind Butterhead Greens, paired up again on Betty Bombers, a completely different establishment located in the American Legion, a few blocks north on Bull St. In lieu of delicately flavored waters, you’ll find a variety of Fantas. Rather than leafy greens salads, give in to heart-stoppingly delish gravy fries ($5). And instead of the no-frills, utilitarian décor at Butterhead Greens, step into the 1940s with framed vintage posters, model warplanes, and other paraphernalia memorializing the “Greatest Generation.” I highly recommend the BBQ pulled pork sandwich ($6.95). Served with apple cider slaw on a toasty bun, it’s piled high with smoky, juicy, salty, zesty meat — pig as it’s meant to be eaten. I also enjoy the veggie burger ($6.95), an umami-laden patty paired with cheddar, lettuce, onion, basil aioli, and a pickle. In the parlance of WWII propaganda, Betty Bombers is definitely on the winning side of meaty American goodness. Other items include hot pastrami, Salisbury steak, the army

Should your taste buds wish to travel 7,000 miles, over several seas and an ocean, by all means invite them to dine at Al Salaam. Located on Habersham and 40th, the tiny deli has been serving satisfying and nutritious Middle Eastern delights for 15 years. The gyro on pita ($4.99; $7.69 with soda and fries) is hands-down the best deal in town. Thinly sliced ground lamb with grilled onions, lettuce, and tomato is tender and flavorful. It’s a perfect balance of savory sauce, superbly cooked meat, fresh veg, and wholesome pita.

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Butterhead Greens on a rare day; it’s usually packed with students.

Impressively, every component of the deli, which also serves as an ethnic grocery, is managed the a momand-pop team of Meqbel and Rose Salameh. Al Salaam’s falafel ($4.99; $7.69 with soda and fries) — deep-fried ground chickpeas and spices, served with tomatoes, lettuce, and tahini

sauce—is moist and crisp, in all the right places. One might say that the dish, simple as it is, possesses a complex flavor profile. Each bite brings the nuttiness of the chickpea, the brightness of herbs like parsley and mint, the creamy lusciousness of hummus, and the stalwart grains of pita.

Yes, Al Saalam does offer classic Americana, such a cheeseburger ($6.69, $7.99 for a double) with lettuce, tomato, a pickle, and a side of fries. The restaurant boasts just a few tables and walls covered with signature yellow National Geographic covers — a decorative touch both cozy and worldly. You’ll feel at home here, with international flavors dancing on your tongue. Round out your meal with baklava ($1.79), a phyllo pastry stuffed with walnuts and cinnamon and dripping with honey. As SoFo continues to blossom, so will its culinary options. Within the past year, Blowin’ Smoke opened their second incarnation as a scrumptious Southern cantina about 10 blocks north of Al Salaam on Habersham. And the popular coffee shop Foxy Loxy has spawned an empire on Broughton Street. In a year from now, who knows what artistic current will develop and what cuisine styles will get cooked up on the streets south of Forsyth Park? cs

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the college issue There are any number of youth-oriented faith groups around town, many specifically trying to appeal to a college-age audience. The very newest, Columba House, is a project affiliated with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, one of the more progressive houses of worship in Savannah. As the Episcopal Church itself has been bitterly divided over gay marriage, the ordination of women priests, and other social issues, St. Paul’s — despite offering a very oldschool High Anglican liturgy at its Sunday morning services — has remained steadfastly on the more tolerant side of the various disputes. So how new is Columba House? They just opened this month. We spoke with one of Columba House’s main organizers, the newly ordained Rev. Michael Chaney — who’s not only a thoroughly cool dude but better known to many in town as a Professor of Film & TV at SCAD.

listened and shared hospitality with a broad diversity of people. We’re looking to do the same. You are welcome to participate with as much as you feel comfortable with. You can expect a little Episcopal liturgy too. What’s the overlap, if any, with the Celtic Mass on Sunday nights, a previous St. Paul’s youth outreach effort? Rev. Michael Chaney: The Celtic Mass at St Paul’s is now simply the Evening Mass. The Celtic Mass was a great success, however we’re looking to be a little more experimental with the liturgy and not rely solely on the Celtic tradition. There are several exciting worship opportunities across the convocation that are developing in tandem with Columba House. St. Paul’s is going to offer a back-to-school mass on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 6:30PM. I’m preaching. Look out.

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What prompted the establishment of Columba House? Rev. Michael Chaney: Columba House was begun with the objective of creating an intentional community in the Christian tradition. This is still the long term objective, while currently serving as a foundation for social justice ministry with college students and young adults. Everyone’s welcome, of course!

How does Columba House compare to the various nontraditional churches springing up around town with a much more evangelical bent? Rev. Michael Chaney: Columba House is in its beginnings. We are

Rev. Michael Chaney: I think college age people can expect an opportunity to ask sincere and meaningful questions about what a spiritual life means to both them and their community. We welcome questions. Jesus had His doubts. Why can’t we? The programming will be diverse, addressing social justice issues, theological diversity, faith and the arts, contemplative practices and even a little play time. What is the takeaway you hope for?

How directly does it trace to the schism in the Episcopalian/Anglican church over gay marriage, etc.? Rev. Michael Chaney: I don’t think its establishment is a response to any theological disagreements whatsoever. The Episcopal Church, as I’ve always known it, is opening and welcoming to all of God’s people. This is like getting back to the early church.

What can college-age students expect from the upcoming weekly meetings?

very interested in what the community needs are and in letting the community define what Columba House should be in order to best address those needs. At its heart is the Christian mission of hope and justice proclaimed in the Gospel. What is particularly Episcopalian about Columba House?

Rev. Michael Chaney: As Episcopalians you can expect to find a balance of scripture, tradition, reason, and experience. We are a safe place for all people, on any stage of their spiritual journey, to engage, ask questions, and seek meaning free from judgment. In that way we consider ourselves radically inclusive. Jesus sat, spoke,

Rev. Michael Chaney: We really hope that anyone who shows up feels welcome, affirmed, and validated in their quest. We hope you feel loved no matter who you are. The college years are a challenging period. Issues of existence, meaning, sexuality and authority come into question, as they should. We’re here to provide a safe spiritual home for people to explore these questions. There will also be some prayer. Oh, there’s also supper. And it’s sure to be tasty. cs Columba House is on 34th St. between Abercorn and Lincoln. Weekly Tuesday night events begin Tue., Sept. 17, at 6:30 pm and include meal, program and inclusive worship. St. Paul’s offers a back-toschool mass on Sun., Sept. 22 at 6:30 pm. A meal will follow.

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Pedal police This past weekend saw the delivery of 25 speciallyequipped bicycles to the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department.

Five of the new Redline mountain bikes were distributed to each of the five SCMPD precincts to be used by Crime Suppression Unit officers in patrolling their areas. “Each precinct increased the number of officers certified to patrol on bicycles after a two-day training session by an instructor from the International Police Mountain Bike Association,” says a spokesman. “The two-wheelers will be used by CSU officers on routine patrol and in specific operations.” Police say some of the bicycles “already proved their worth last weekend in the Central Precinct when officers on bicycles discovered three

vehicles that had been entered before their owners even realized it.” “Using bicycles allows officers to patrol with a 360-degree line of sight and the opportunity to interact better with the residents they serve,” says Chief Willie Lovett. “It is much easier to approach residents – and for residents to approach officers – on bicycles than in a patrol car. And in certain situations they could shorten response times. While they are not optimum for all situations, they can make a tremendous difference in the appropriate situations.” The bikes were purchased from Perry Rubber Bike Shop on Bull Street for $31,485. Each bike includes a luggage rack, lights, carry bags, repair kits, helmets and a maintenance contract for the first year of operation. They replace the departments aging fleet of patrol bikes that were purchased in 1992. Central Precinct CSU Sgt. Sean Wilson said the use of bikes is as much an enhancement of the relationship with the community as it is a crime-fighting tool.

“Residents seem to notice us more on bicycles … probably because we present a different appearance … and some stop and talk to us,” he said.

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Cops on new bikes, holla! • Three people were transported for treatment of injuries after a car ran • The first Intoxinto the rear of a tractorilyzer 9000 breath alcohol tester was trailer rig on Interstate 95 late on a delivered to the SCMPD Traffic Unit Tuesday night last week. through an $8,000 grant from the Jonika Arthur, 18, of Cocoa, FL., Governor’s Office of Highway Safety. and Joshua Studstill, 19, of MerMetro police currently use seven ritt Island, FL, were transported to earlier versions of the equipment to Memorial University Medical Center perform breath alcohol level testafter the 11:30 p.m. crash just north ing, “but the technology of those of Exit 94 (GA 204) near mile marker machines cannot meet evolving legal 96. She was listed in critical condition demands. And, replacement parts for and he was listed as stable. the older machines have become an Gregory Pinkney Hope, 52, of issue. Consequently, use of the elder Savannah, driver of the tractor-trailer machines will cease to be legal in also was transported for treatment 2016,” the department says. cs after complaining of injuries. Both vehicles were traveling north Give anonymous crime tips to in the northbound lanes when a Crimestoppers at 234-2020 Toyota Corolla driven by Studstill

If there had never been a dinosaur extinction due to a meteor strike, would human life have evolved into what it is today? Clearly the meteor that struck Earth had an enormous impact and changed the course of evolution, but is there anything to indicate human lineage development before or after the little big bang? —JJ

30 tons, it looked like a rhino crossed with an okapi, but bigger than a onecar garage. But here’s the thing. Having attained dino scale, mammals then dialed back somewhat, becoming smaller on average. Why? Probably because the environment became harsher and more variable. The Miocene epoch, ranging from 23.5 million to 5.3 million years ago, was markedly cooler than previous eras, with more distinct seasons. This was followed by the even colder period that began 2.7 million years ago: after North and South America joined, intensifying the Gulf Stream and global precipitation, the earth’s axial tilt then shifted, resulting in more than 20 ice ages. These changes probably doomed dinosaurs regardless. Mammals, being warm-blooded, were far better equipped to survive the cold, and their more efficient jaws made it easier to chew and extract energy from limited resources. Placental mammals had further advantages—extra nurturing in the womb allowed more advanced physical features to develop. So chances are the world wouldn’t look much different today had the K-Pg event never happened. We can of course arbitrarily declare that dinosaurs would have persisted somehow, and conjure up scenarios where bipedal apes in warm climes compete with fast, small, carnivorous dinosaurs. CS

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in sea level, abrupt warmings, and six major global freezes. One ice age reduced average global temperature by more than 14 degrees Fahrenheit less than 100,000 years before K-Pg. Still, there’s no disputing the pterosaurs, large marine reptiles, and dinosaurs (except proto-birds) were wiped out during K-Pg. Up to 15 percent of all marine families were killed off, although 80 to 90 percent of sharks and other fish survived. Turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and snakes survived, and amphibians were largely untouched. In North America up to 57 percent of plant species disappeared, and some parts of the globe saw a 90 percent loss. Mammals had coexisted with dinosaurs for quite a while prior to K-Pg, but after it many species, notably placental mammals, exploded in significance. Previously mammals had been relatively small, due undoubtedly to competition from dinosaurs. Over the next 35 million years, with their competition out of the game, mammals increased dramatically in size. And why not? In some ways it was a golden age. The Eocene epoch, beginning roughly 56 million years ago, saw a rise in global temperatures and the spread of vegetation, covering the earth in forest. Atmospheric oxygen levels increased significantly, peaking at about 35 million years ago. Land area increased, providing more habitat. And mammal size increased too, culminating circa 30 million years ago with the indricotherium, the largest land mammal known: 18 feet tall at the shoulder and weighing

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news of the weird Spreadsheet parenting Loco Parentis: First-time mother Amy Webb proudly notates dozens of data points about her child each day and obsessively tracks their detailed progression by computer on spreadsheets, according to the provocative first-person account she wrote for Slate. com in July. In categories ranging from ordinary vital signs, to the kid’s progress in sound-making, to dietary reactions, to quantity and quality of each poop, stats are kept 24/7 (even with a bedside laptop to facilitate nighttime entries). She began tracking her own health during pregnancy, but then decided, “Why stop now?” when her daughter was born. Webb’s pediatrician rated the kid’s health as “A-minus,” but the parents’ as “C,” adding: “You guys need to relax. Leave the spreadsheets (out).” Webb and her husband remain confident that their extreme tracking optimizes their chances of raising a healthy daughter.

Compelling Explanations • Dr. Timothy Sweo said later that he was only trying to make his diagnosis of lumbar lordosis “less technical” for patient Terry Ragland when he described her condition as “ghetto booty.” The shape of her spine makes her buttocks stick out more, he said, and he prescribed pain medication as there is no cure, per se. Nonetheless, Ragland felt insulted and filed a complaint against Dr. Sweo with the Tennessee Department of Health in July.

Said she, “I couldn’t believe he said a final thrust. Also, the wife was found that.” with a heavy dose of oxycodone in her • An Anglican parishioner comsystem and likely felt little pain from plained in August about the “blaspheany of the 47 wounds. mous” bumper sticker she saw on the Ironies car of Rev. Alice Goodman of Cambridge, England, but Rev. Goodman • Germany’s center-left Social Demoimmediately defended it as not irrelicrats posted about 8,000 campaign gious (although, she conceded, perhaps placards in July that it proudly hailed “vulgar”). The sticker read as “eco-friendly” and “WTFWJD?” which is a biodegradable to attract play on the popular evanthe support of environgelical Christian slogan ment-concerned vot“WWJD?” - “What Would ers. However, 48 hours Jesus Do?” (“WTF” is a later, at the first rainfall, QUE PASA, vulgar but omnipresent the posters became SENIOR TESTICULO? acronym on the Interwaterlogged and, net, duh.) Rev. Goodman indeed, biodegraded. pointed out that even Dr. Reported Hamburg’s Rowan Williams, the forSpiegel Online, “None of mer Archbishop of Canthe campaign workers terbury, seemed not to could have guessed ... be shocked by her sticker how quickly the enviwhen he saw it. ronmentally friendly • The wife of Valentino process ... would begin.” Ianetti was found dead in • Actually, That’s Why Stanhope, N.J., in 2010 She’s in Trouble: In with 47 stab wounds, leadAugust, a federal judge ing police to immediately in Seattle sentenced Alisuspect her husband, who was at home cia Cruz, 31, to four years in prison for with her. However, after three years’ violating court-ordered drug treatment incarceration, Ianetti, 63, won release stemming from a 2011 conviction for in August by finally convincing prosstealing the identities of more than 300 ecutors that his wife actually commitpeople. Cruz had won a second chance ted suicide. Although the case is still (drug treatment, instead of prison) by officially “under investigation,” the convincing the judge that she was no medical examiner concluded that 46 of longer a crook -- that this time, she the wounds were superficial - “hesitawould abandon her identity-theft life tion” cuts perhaps self-inflicted as the and go straight. Added Cruz, “I’m a difwife built up the courage to administer ferent person now.”

• James “Sonny” McCullough, the mayor of the New Jersey shore town of Egg Harbor (pop. 4,240), announced in August that he was selling his waterfront home - because real estate taxes were too high (more than $31,000 a year) following a recent re-assessment and that he could no longer afford it. The mayor, 71, told The Press of Atlantic City that he had planned to live the rest of his life in the home, but was not even certain he could afford to live anywhere in Egg Harbor.

The Litigious Society A lawyer and former spokesman for the judiciary of Kenya filed a petition in July with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, seeking a retrial of Jesus Christ and naming as defendants the state of Israel, King Herod, various Jewish elders, the former emperor of Rome (Tiberius), and of course Pontius Pilate. Dola Indidis claims that the proceedings before Roman courts did not conform to the rule of law at the time.

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No Profiling, Please: In August, minutes before a scheduled mixed martial arts fight in Immokalee, Fla., the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation canceled it as “unsanctioned.” Contestant Garrett Holeve, 23, who has Down syndrome, was to fight David Steffin, 28, who has cerebral palsy, and both had trained intensively for eight weeks and

Perspective Researchers can accurately estimate a person’s economic status just by learning which environmental toxins are in his body, concluded a University of Exeter (England) research team recently, using U.S. data. Although “both rich and poor Americans are walking waste dumps,” wrote the website Quartz, reporting the conclusions, poorer people’s typical food leaves lead, cadmium and the banned bisphenol-A, whereas richer people more likely accumulate heavy metals (mercury, arsenic, thallium) from aquatic lean protein (and acquire oxybenzone from the active ingredient in sunscreens). Previous research was thought to show that richer Americans ate healthier (for example, eating fruits and vegetables instead of canned foods), but the Exeter research shows they merely house different toxins.

Strange Old World In May, a Brazilian cancer-fighting foundation, AAPEC, published a series of photos of its new mascot that it hopes will call attention to the dread of testicular cancer, and the initial worldwide reviews demonstrate that, indeed, people may never, ever forget their first glance at “Mr. Balls.” AAPEC described its character as a “friendly snowman in the shape of testicles” - friendly in the sense of a buck-toothed humanoid with a puffycheeked smile and the body of a huge scrotal sac dotted with small curly hairs and rough skin. As photos of the

genial “Senior Testiculo” circulated in June, he was variously described as “disturbing,” “horrifying,” “terrifying” and “a nightmare.”

Least Competent Criminals Recurring Themes: (1) Vade Bradley, 39, was arrested on arson charges in Hayward, Calif., in August after burning down an apartment house carport, totally destroying six vehicles. He was siphoning other people’s gasoline in the carport when he decided to light a cigarette. (2) Richard Boudreaux was charged in January with burglarizing Kenney’s Seafood (where he previously worked) in Slidell, La., when he became the most recent perp to fail to outflank surveillance cameras. He had thought to wear a bucket over his head as he moved through the store except he had waited until well inside (within camera range) before actually putting it on.

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Six degrees of Laurence Juber In the United States, Gilligan’s Island — created, developed and produced by a joke writer named Sherwood Schwartz — premiered on ABC-TV on Sept. 26, 1964. That same week, the No. 1 album in every country on earth was the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night. Laurence Juber was an 11-year-old, short pants-wearing schoolboy in London, studying classical guitar on the weekends. Fast forward to 2013: One of the most renowned finger-style guitarists in the world, Juber performs in concert Friday, Sept. 13 at Randy Wood Guitars in Bloomingdale. He is a multiple Grammy winner who has composed and arranged music for numerous films and TV shows, and has made 22 albums of solo guitar music in different genres. Acoustic Guitar magazine named Juber one of the top acoustic players of all time. Yet he’s best known as the lead guitarist in the final incarnation of Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles band, Wings. Juber played on the chart-topping “Goodnight Tonight” and “Coming Up,” as well as the final Wings album, 1979’s Back to the Egg. He’d been a studio musician before McCartney recruited him, and after the band splintered, he immigrated to the United States to pick up where he’d left off. Here, he married a Californian woman named Hope Schwartz. “Pretty bizarre, huh?” Juber, 60, says today. “The two great mentors of

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my career, Paul McCartney and Sherwood Schwartz.” Let us explain. “I didn’t see an episode of Gilligan’s Island until I came to America,” Juber continues. “For me, it was the British sitcoms, and Monty Python and stuff like that. I saw my first Gilligan’s Island and my first Dodger game on the same day. That was the beginning of my Americanization.” Juber was introduced to Gilligan and the Skipper because Hope’s father was — you guessed it — Sherwood Schwartz (who also created The Brady Bunch, and composed that

silly, obnoxious, unforgettable theme song). That’s why guitarist with the delicate touch and the golden ear has, on his resume, the scores for Gilligan’s Island the Musical, A Very Brady Christmas and A Very Brady Musical. His father-in-law, who passed away in 2011, commissioned him to write the music for those legacy-extending shows in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Ah, but Juber knows that his time in the employ of Paul and Linda McCartney is what’ll be first-referenced in his epitaph. He’s about to publish an autobiography called

useful tool for that kind of exploration,” he adds. “And for some weird reason, it lends itself really well to arranging pop songs and Great American Songbook stuff! There’s something about the configuration of that tuning on the fingerboard that is kind of special.” Next month, Juber will join two fellow former Wings, Denny Laine and Denny Seiwell, at a Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp in Las Vegas. He’s looking forward to strapping on the ol’ Les Paul again and rocking out. Eventually, hopefully, McCartney will reissue Back to the Egg as part of his ongoing Archive series. Although the album was not a big seller, it’s been unjustly relegated to the back pages of the McCartney history book. Juber thinks McCartney himself has all but forgotten about it. Back to the Egg was co-produced by Chris Thomas, just after he’d done the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks, and prior to his work on the Pretenders’ eponymous debut. So it’s quite a rocking record. “I’m very happy to have been associated with the McCartneys,” Juber says. “It was a unique experience for me personally, and as a musician. It gave me a great deal of insight, and also opened a few doors for me. “And everything else has been just moving along, getting on with life and career … and I get to share all of that with my audiences.” cs Laurence Juber performs 8 p.m. Fri., Sept. 13. Tickets $25; randywoodguitars.com

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Guitar With Wings. “If it was the only thing that I had ever done, perhaps I’d have some regret that I never really got beyond that point,” he says. “But the reality is that I’ve done an awful lot on my own, and much of it having nothing directly to do with Wings at all. And just when I think it’s safe to forget about it, it pops back up again.” It’s not like he’s tried to escape it. On the contrary, he has recorded two volumes of LJ Plays the Beatles, and a collection of McCartney covers, One Wing. Like Australian Tommy Emmanuel, who’s also turned up to play at Randy Wood’s place, Juber is a virtuoso who can make it seem as if more than two hands are playing the instrument. He is a one-man, six-string band. After 50 years as a guitarist, he says, there are still surprises for him. “That’s what keeps me going, to be able to explore — and then to go back to perhaps the more conventional, but articulate it in a different way,” Juber enthuses. “What’s great on the guitar is that you can take a melody and finger it multiple different ways, and each way of doing it can have a different stylistic frame of reference. Or perhaps using open strings, or conversely playing high up the neck using stop strings.” He’s proficient in multiple alternative tunings, which he demonstrates on his four “how-to” instructional DVDs. “I use DADGAD because it’s a

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Tickets for the previously announced Pig and Oyster Roast are “no longer available,” but there’s still plenty of room for music fans at the inaugural Revival Fest, a tuneful celebration of indie Americana Saturday, Sept. 14 on the grounds of the Georgia State Railroad Museum. The latest project from the forwardthinking crew over at Music File Productions and the Savannah Stopover, Revival Fest features two stages and 12 bands, and just two of the latter are from Savannah (granted, they’re two of the best — the Accomplices and the Train Wrecks). In last week’s issue, we introduced you to Melissa “Luella” Mathes, the vocalist for Nashville’s Luella and the Sun, a band that produces a combustible blend of gospel, southern gritrock and gutbucket blues. This time, we’re talking with organist Adam Grace from Truth & Salvage Co., a rootsy six-piece from Nashville, by way of a lengthy Los Angelino detour. (They actually kinda sorta started in the Carolinas, but it’s a long story.) There’s something delightfully retro about these guys. The exquisite harmony singing is right out of the hippie/folkie movement of the early ‘70s, and lead vocals are distributed between four of the band members (including drummer Bill Smith), making every song a new experience. Yet Truth & Salvage can also be incredibly soulful, and they can rock hard, and carry a sweet pop tune, and they’re each and every one a stellar musician. In that regard, think of

them as a contemporary version of The Band (that makes Adam Grace the Garth Hudson character, sans the Spanish moss beard). Truth & Salvage’s 2010 self-titled debut was produced by Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson, a musician who knows a thing or two about eclecticism. It was Robinson, in fact, who suggested the group cover the classic Joe South tune “Games People Play” — they finally got around to it this year, and included it on their new set Pick Me Up (released at the end of July). The album was produced by Jon Ashley and mixed by Bill Reynolds. Your music invokes the early ‘70s, Southern California — Poco, Crosby Stills et al. You’re all young guys, and you’re clearly not a nostalgia act. So why do you sound the way you do? Adam Grace: For us, it doesn’t seem like an act at all. It’s what we grew up listening to, so therefore it’s what we put out into the world. When we were in Los Angeles, writing these songs and putting this band together, we were surrounded by a lot of artists who were a lot like us, listening to the same kind of music. We came out of a plethora of those kind of people. So for us, it was just naturally embracing

what was going on around us at the time. I don’t think we really give it any thought. It’s just that’s the kind of music we grew up listening to, and the kind of music that resonates with us. Whether or not it makes a comeback in the mainstream, I don’t know if that’ll ever happen.

we’ll have the whole United States covered.” What did working with Chris Robinson do for you guys?

Adam Grace: He was involved all the way to the core. I’m sure a lot of producers are just names that get hooked up with bands so that they can try to sell records. But that’s not the way it The band relocated from L.A. to Nashwas with us. He discovered us, in a ville. Why? sense — he had been Adam Grace: It was searching for an act Revival Fest a business decision, to put out on his own Where: Georgia State Railroad really. We had conlabel, his first band. Museum, 655 Louisville Road quered the west coast It was just really serWhen: Noon-11 p.m. to a certain degree. endipitous, because Saturday, Sept. 14 We could travel up we came along at Tickets: $35 at revivalfest.org and down the west the right time, when coast and play anyhe was looking for Schedule: Bridge View Stage where and draw a something like us. pretty big crowd. So it 1 p.m.: Poppa Moon & the Stargazers He not only took (Johnson City, Tenn.) was just about going us in and produced 2 p.m.: The Accomplices (Savannah) to Nashville to be able our record, he took 3:30 p.m.: Bradford Lee Folk & the to be close to the rest us on the road for a Bluegrass Playboys (Nashville, Tenn.) of the world. There’s year. Not only just 5 p.m.: Cedric Burnside Project such a gap between taught us a lot about (Holly Springs, Miss.) everywhere else and touring, and how to 7 p.m.: Luella and the Sun Los Angeles. I’m talkbe great musicians, (Nashville, Tenn.) ing about getting in but he also taught us 9 p.m.: Wild Child (Austin, Texas) the van and driving about integrity. He’s Paint Shop Stage to play a show! We got a lot of integrity 1:30 p.m.: Whisky Shivers had some choices as to what he does, (Austin, Texas) to what we should and the choices that 2:45 p.m.: The Train Wrecks do, and we thought he makes about the (Savannah) “Let’s go try and build songs he chooses. We 4:15: Matrimony (Charlotte, NC) a crowd in the South, 6 p.m.: Cranford & Sons (Hilton Head) were with him for a and on the east coast, 8 p.m.: Field Report (Milwaukee, Wis.) year, and it almost like we’ve done out felt like he was trying 10 p.m.: Truth & Salvage Co. here in the West. to pass the torch to (Nashville, Tenn.) And if we do that, an up-and-coming

You’re an organ player, and Walker Young plays piano …. Adam Grace: I started as a piano player, and I didn’t actually start playing organ until I joined this band … Well, it’s so much like Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson from The Band. What does having the two keyboards do for the texture of the sound? Adam Grace: I think it works really well with what we do, because Walker’s a really brilliant player, and we’re very conscious of what each other is doing all the time. He has his strengths and I have my strengths, and it’s almost like a psychic thing by now, where we know who can do what, and who’s going to do what, where. We work really well together. The main thing is to make sure it’s never too much, you know? It needs to be just the right amount of both. But we like to have both in there. Pick Me Up was recorded at Echo Mountain Studio in Asheville. I know others who’ve done work there, and they love the place. Does the vibe of the studio really have that much to do with how the record comes out? Adam Grace: When you walk into a place and something just feels right — that’s how it felt from the beginning. I don’t know if it’s because it was a church. I don’t know if maybe people’s souls were saved there, I don’t know what that place has. But it does have something magic to it. I can’t even explain how things were just beautiful from the first moment we stepped in the door until we left. Everything worked out perfect, the way it should, and even better. A record is such a snapshot of time. You make a record, and it depends on how you feel that day. You’re going to record it the way you want to play it that day, under those circumstances. And that’s the way that record’s gonna sound forever. And so it’s not just the place, it’s everything. Not only is it the studio, it’s the people that are there, it’s everything down to what you eat, I think. It’s all-important and it’s all-encompassing. You cut three versions of this album before you got one you liked. Why?

almost there. It had to be the thing. That’s why I said that we knew it was right from the first moment we walked into Echo Mountain. That’s how different the feeling was, making the album the third time. It hit us like a ton of bricks. CS

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The clock starts ticking at 8 p.m. Friday, and in exactly 24 hours the curtain opens on six bittersweet windows into the human condition — plays that did not previously exist. Well, it’s not as existential as all that. It’s what those who tread the boards call a 24-Hour Play Festival, in which writers, directors and actors have a finite window of time to create and produce something with entertainment value. All without leaving Muse Arts Warehouse. Gabe Reynolds is the producer of this year’s event, Savannah’s fourth; it’s called A Late Summer’s Night Play Festival. Perhaps best known as Kotter, the afternoon wise guy on Rock 106.1 FM, Reynolds regularly cuts up as a member of the Odd Lot, Muse’s Monday-evening improv troupe. As for the 24-Hour play adventure, “I’ve written three times and acted twice,” Reynolds says. “It is one of the most creative things I’ve ever been a part of. I dabble in writing; I had written a play years ago, and here and there written stuff I never finished, so this was one of the first times I’ve ever had a deadline — like ‘You’ve got to get this done in this amount of time.’ So it was incredibly nerve-wracking, but also incredibly liberating. It was awesome.” The 2013 players, all volunteers, were all set by the beginning of

Gabe Reynolds, event producer, is also known as Rock 106.1 DJ Kotter.

summer. Several of Reynolds’ Odd Lot pals will be part of the fun. Until the stroke of 8 on Friday night, nobody — nope, not nobody — knows nothing. Here’s the deal: “The writers show up first,” Reynolds says. “They’ll be given a theme, a very loose theme, and no other directions for the show

other than they have to write it there. They can’t come in with something ahead of time. They’ve got until 6 Saturday morning to finish a 10-minute play.” That’s correct, the playwrights are not permitted to leave 703 Louisville Road until their work is finished. “The directors arrive around 6 or 7

restrictions as to props and stuff like that. So they would write things that we couldn’t necessarily find at the Muse, and we had to track stuff down. So now the rule is, if it’s not at the Muse, don’t include it in the show.” cs • 2013 Writers: Marshall Frey, Scott Garner, Thomas Houston, Brenna Lauren, Tarrin Lupo, Amanda Mack. • 2013 Directors: Jason Aarons, Bill Cooper, Mike Moore, Kimmi Sampieri, Travis Spagenburg. • 2013 Actors: Ruth Dalton, Melanie Goldey, Cami Hall, Andy Hernandez, Thomas Houston, Kenna Karlson, Justin Kent, Valerie Lavelle, Scott Morgan, Michelle Padgett, Abbie Skaines, Lynita Spivey, Jason Wallace, John Wesley Turner, Timmy Vo, Zoey.

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a.m. They don’t know what the theme is. They don’t know who’s written their show. They read all the scripts and divvy it up themselves: ‘I want to do this one, I want to do this one.’ We’ve got 16 actors confirmed, and they get there by 8, and the directors cast their shows from those who show up.” They hand-pick actors as if they’re choosing sides for a shirtsand-skins basketball team. The directors and their instant casts hunker down “outside, in the green room, in the theater, in the lobby, in the room off of the lobby,” according to Reynolds. “Everybody just kind of claims a spot, and they start going over lines, blocking and everything like that.” There’s no restriction on subject matter — the show can be a drama or a comedy. Even a musical, if anybody feels especially inspired. “The first year, I think, was more intense because none of us had ever done it before,” Reynolds says. “You could definitely see some concern as time went on! “And the first year, we learned a lesson: we really didn’t give the writers

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ity n u m m co n o s e s u c o f l a v i t s e de F i r P h na da Lopez n a v ole to try and make a ruckus out of their ‘there are going to be protesters, Sa hrystal Arb lifestyle choices, Hill says, “It has to something is going to happen’ — and by

Witnessing the union of communities can be a beautiful thing. This year’s Pride Festival will have gay people in high spirits, straight people dancing, and every supporter of the LGBT community celebrating. And even if you can’t make the main event this Saturday in Forsyth Park, there will be a number of pre and post celebrations Sept. 7-15. But know that Savannah’s Pride Festival doesn’t fit the mold of what you may think a gay pride festival looks like. “Our Pride is a little different than a lot of Prides because larger cities sometimes they sequester themselves away — the gay community from the whole community,” says Mark Hill, president of the 2013 Savannah Pride committee. “Ours is one that embraces Savannah’s community as a whole and the tolerance level that Savannah has. The mayor’s thoughts last year when she held the tolerance seminar, was to basically be inclusive everywhere — and that’s what we try to do,” says Hill. “We are right in Forsyth Park, and we have things for kids — and not just for the gay folks that have kids but also for the straight folks who have kids. We want to pool everybody in, not just us.”

For the last 13 years, the Savannah Pride Festival has put on an event to recognize the presence of the LGBT community and to share their jubilation. Hill praises “those brave people who actually stepped up then really need our recognition, because they were brave enough to do it in a time when it wasn’t so accepting. And in many cases they put their jobs and their livelihoods on the line. Today, because of them, it’s not so much.” Today’s view on the LGBT community and gay rights is worlds away from where our culture was ten years ago. But Hill shares that he has “been here for 27 years, and Savannah has always been accepting. It’s not the starch Southern town that people might perceive it to be. If you do positive things, the community as a whole accepts you. And that’s the light we want to bring.” Justin Johnson, treasurer for this year’s Savannah Pride committee, recalls that during his first year assisting with Pride he was “a little apprehensive. I was thinking, you know,

there was none of that. It was just complete community support. Which was an awesome feeling and it made me feel like I was part of something that was bigger than myself.” And this year, with all of the political action and the advancement of gay rights, there will be much to celebrate. But, be sure to know that the festival is kept in good Southern taste. “We present ourselves in a different manner here. Our (Pride) is extremely family friendly. We have acts that approach us, that want to perform, and we make sure that we keep it all family friendly,” Hill says. “And I think that people who come to are festivals are quickly cured of any misconceptions that they may have about what it is. It’s completely family friendly. It’s about acceptance and being together as a community,” adds Johnson. “People have that misconception that it’s just a party. But it’s more of just a right to celebrate, or to celebrate that we can even do this — and enjoy that acceptance from your community.” This festival is about the union of supporters, whether they are gay or not. And with Mayor Edna Jackson receiving the first ‘Spirit of Pride’ award, it is shown that the relationship between Savannah and the LGBT community is known and noted — even in the face of those who aren’t so supportive. When speaking about past protestors that have traveled to Savannah

do with the climate of the moment as well. Something can spike, you never know. Like the minister from the Midwest that was here the spring before last, and it was venom. You know, it was a group of ministers who got together and held a rally in Forsyth Park, but Savannah’s community basically thwarted the whole thing. Just saying, ‘we don’t want your hate here.”’ Johnson even shared that this year’s festival includes more support from churches than ever expected or seen before that “are not there to preach damnation. “They’re all about acceptance and wanting to be decent. And that’s awesome, that’s something that three or four years ago, that never would’ve happened.” The Savannah Pride Festival’s events spread throughout the week, from Queeraoke at Club One, to the Savannah Pride White Party the Thursday before the festival, all the way until Marilyn Monroe’s After Party and Tee Dance to wrap up the festivities on Sept. 15. And while Pride will be a celebration of the freedom to be oneself, it is also a tribute to Savannah’s community and the respect that is extended to every person. “It’s bigger than what you realize, sometimes,” said Hill. cs Savannah Pride happens Sat., Sept. 14, in Forsyth Park from 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m.

Natural Order — Recent mixed

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juried exhibition of prints from students studying printmaking at SCAD. Alexander Hall Gallery, 668 Indian St.

Arsenal — A contemporary

installation of hundreds of hand-made paper “guns” suspended from the ceiling. Created by Sarah Frost in 2010 for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

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by Teachers as Inspiration and Mentors to their Students (TIMS), art teachers and their students from across Savannah/Chatham County Public Schools. Free and open to the public. Through Sep. 20, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington Ave.

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Here Begin the Terrors, Here Begin the Miracles — Two-woman

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show with paintings by Kelley Hagemes and Juliana Peloso. Reception is Friday, September 20, 7-10pm. The Butcher Tattoo Studio, 19 East Bay St.

Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel —

exhibition of wall-mounted and freestanding sculptures. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Jerry Siegel’s approximately 50 black-and-white and color portraits of Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, William Christenberry, Lamar Dodd, Ida Kohlmeyer, Charlie Lucas, Charles Shannon, Kathryn Windham and others. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Exhibition by Diana Al-Hadid — Large-scale gypsum and

metal sculptures, small bronzes and drawings inspired by Italian and Northern Renaissance painting, Gothic architecture and Hellenistic sculpture. Reception and discussion: Fri. Sep. 20, 5pm. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Fifth Annual “Five by Seven” Show and Sale benefiting Hospice Savannah — Over 150

miniature masterpieces on exhibit and for sale by silent auction. Final bids and closing reception Fri. Oct. 18, 5:307pm. Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr.

The Ghost Within — New works

on paper by SCAD alumna Blanche Nettles Powers, whose abstracted imagery derives from Savannah’s iconic Spanish moss. Arnold Hall (SCAD), 1810 Bull St.

Hybrid — Chakaia Booker’s

Ice or Salt — Iconic and recent

works by artist Ellen Gallagher. An original and focused look at the artist’s gridded forms, and use of incision and excision. Reception: Friday, Oct. 4, 6:30-7:30 p.m., as part of the SCAD Savannah gallery hop. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

Local Dishes — A five-woman show of local ceramics. Jessica Broad, Mitzi Davis, Mary Cale Wilson, Lisa Bradley, and Rebecca Sipper display their image based ceramic dishes. Starland Cafe, 11 East 41st St. Manifest by Hayden John —

John’s painting series is based on pure imagination, creating abstractions through explorations of line, shape and color. Artist Talk: September 13, 5-6pm. Desotorow Gallery, 2427 Desoto Ave.

Muse Series: Photographs by Shannon Christopher — Chris-

topher’s explorations on Cockspur Island are captured in honest and beautiful black/ whites and color. Portions of proceeds will benefit Fort Pulaski. Tybee Island Social Club, 1311 Butler Ave.

tion of visual art, decorative and fine art objects from Telfair Museums’ permanent collection dating from the early 19th century to the present, exploring the rich influence of New York on Savannah. Museum admission. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St.

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Allure of the Near East: Treasures From the Huntington Museum of Art’s Touma Collection — Exhibition features more

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Passages — Embroidery paint-

ings and large-scale drawings on paper by artist Jessica Rankin. Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E Liberty St.

Paul Bloodgood: This Inch of Wholeness — Abstract paint-

ings by New York-based artist and former SCAD artist in residence. Reception Fri. Sep. 20, 6:30 p.m. Pei Ling Chan Gallery and Garden for the Arts, 322 MLK Blvd.

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Reconstruction — A site-specific, commissioned painting installation by Adam Cvijanovic. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Reverie: Claire Rosen photography — Recent photographs by

SCAD alumna Claire Rosen (B.F.A. photography, 2006). Reception Fri. Oct. 4, 6:30 p.m. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Shadows Remain — A selec-

tion of cedar sculptures by artist Ursula von Rydingsvard. Wall reliefs and monumental freestanding floor pieces. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

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It’s 3 a.m. and the band’s finished its last set. Or maybe you’re wired after an epic session at the Jen Library. Either way, you’re stumbling around downtown looking for sustenance.

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Spudnik’s baked potatoes might be the tastiest (and most sustainable) snack in the galaxy by jessica leigh lebos

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Spudnik owner Andrew Wanamaker shows off “The Potatolé,” a tater topped with cheese, sour cream, salsa and jalapeños.

Perhaps your appetite is set on something a bit more nutritious than the ubiquitous pizza and hot dogs, maybe with a dash of sriracha. Better yet if it happens to be gluten-free, vegetarian and hella cheap. So muster up your inner compass and head to the west end of Broughton Street, where Spudnik cheerfully serves up fresh-baked potatoes until 4 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. For around six bucks, you can choose from standard Russet or orange sweet, and pile it high with all the usual fixin’s — and plenty of unusual ones, too. “It was kind of a revelation when I realized you could put just about anything on a potato,” says proprietor Andrew Wanamaker, who launched Spudnik at 416 W. Broughton a few weeks ago and is already drawing in the late night noshers. Spudnik opens at 11 a.m., so plenty of sober people are finding their way in for lunch, snacks and dinner, too. Wanamaker says that while most customers go for the Classic (a Russet loaded with cheddar cheese, sour cream, butter and chives), others are foraying into other menu offerings like The Athenian (another Russet with feta cheese, roasted red pepper hummus, olives and capers) and The Sugar Mama (a sweet potato Thanksgiving paradise of toasted almonds, cinnamon butter and marshmallows.)

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Tucked between a pawn shop and a convenience store, Spudnik is bound to bring a bit of action to this bald end of Broughton across from the courthouse garage. The eatery is a few steps down from Elev8ted clothing shop, and a new dance club is slated to open in the coming weeks, giving students, tourists and locals even more reason to meander past

Montgomery. Wanamaker hopes the new commerce will inspire the city to speed up its scheduled facelift. “I’d like to help reinvigorate this block,” he says. “A bike rack would be a great place to start.” In the meantime, Spudnik is walking distance from dozens of bars, several dorms, many hotels and plenty of offices full of hungry people — facts

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that did not escape Wanamaker’s architectural site analysis skills. He thinks the low-impact concept could take off in other cities, and judging from the steady lunch rush and late-night pile-ins, he could be right. Spudnik just may rocket the simple potato’s reputation into something stellar. cs

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That’s right: It’s all taters, all the time. The idea sprouted a few years ago when Wanamaker was helping his best friend, John Croley, clean out another Broughton Street storefront for Croley’s new venture, Planet Fun. Among the detritus, Wanamaker found a vintage box that once contained frozen twice-baked cheddar potatoes. Though the box he now refers to as “the holy of holies” only contained some broken G.I. Joe dolls, it piqued his interest. And his appetite. “All I wanted was a huge, twicebaked potato and there was nowhere,” he remembers. Sensing that he wasn’t alone in his hankering for a loaded spud, he soon signed a lease and began a year of tearing out and building up the space, including setting $835 worth of pennies into the floor. He designed everything, working with the 400 square feet to create sleek booths and an economical kitchen with clean angles. The Connecticut native also happened to be working on his Masters of Architecture at SCAD at the time, making him something of a poster child for innovation and unexpected application of learned skills. The tight business model is also something Wanamaker hit upon at SCAD. While working on a branding campaign for a BMW dealership, he realized that simplicity is key. “Successful brands do one thing very well, and they do it first,” he says. Though he doesn’t see himself working in front of computer all day long as required by the profession, he vouches that “architecture is the best education I could have chosen. It teaches you a whole different way of thinking.” Sustainability figures prominently into SCAD’s architecture program, and Wanamaker translated that philosophy on every level for Spudnik, from the repurposing of all those pennies to the product itself. “It takes sixty gallons of water to grow a pound of potatoes and it takes 6,000 to grow one pound of beef,” he points out. But no worries, carnivores: For an extra $1.50, you can top any of Spudnik’s potatoes with a fistful of bacon. Wanamaker is working on sourcing it locally and says that other options are coming, like sautéed mushrooms and onions.

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Stylish Night photos by jen wall | frmjenslens.blogspot.com Fashion, art, music, and downtown’s finest retailers all combined for a fabulous good time this past Thursday night Savannah’s Fashion Night. Broughton Street was shut down to auto traffic, and pedestrians enjoyed a wide variety of entertainment and fashion-forward goodies.

Angela Sun’s The Great Pacific Garbage Patch opens the Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival by Bill DeYoung | bill@connectsavannah.com

Five minutes into Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, filmmaker Angela Sun asks an obvious, and terrifying, question: “Almost every molecule of plastic ever created is still on this planet,” she says. “So if it doesn’t deteriorate, where does it go?” A great percentage of this indestructible substance, we are shown in the documentary, winds up in the ocean. Because of whirlpool-like currents — called gyres — in the Pacific, many decades of non-biodegradable plastic trash is still out there, billions of tons of it, concentrated in one everturning, moon-sized perma-flushing eddy. The toll it takes on marine life, of course, is immense. Especially the discarded fishing nets that rip up living coral reefs as they roll, like giant killer tumbleweeds, across the sea floor. More insidious is the cumulative effect of tiny bits of plastic ingested by fish, beginning a climb up the food chain to — guess who? — and, according to some scientists, constituting a very real threat to human survival. Angela Sun admits she’s no

environmentalist. She is a Californiabased television journalist best known for her sports work — she’s frequently on ESPN, MTV, Fox Sports, G4TV and The Tennis Channel. She is currently the host of Yahoo Sports Minute. But this was one story she felt compelled to report on. She’ll be at the Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival Sept. 12, to screen Plastic Paradise and conduct an audience Q&A about what she calls her sevenyear “passion project.” Why did you take on this project? Angela Sun: As an ocean lover, and someone who grew up going to the ocean every weekend, and surfing and scuba diving and watching Jacques Cousteau documentaries, I’ve always been fascinated by the oceans. So when I heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, I just felt so tugged

and had to know more. It seemed so mysterious. Is that the journalist in you, or the ocean lover? Angela Sun: I guess it’s a little bit of both. I’ve always been curious and inquisitive about the world around. Especially because we know more about the moon than the depths of the sea. And from a journalistic standpoint, that’s where the need to tell people came from. It took a lot of research, scouting the Internet and reaching out to a lot of organizations and scientists. I did so many interviews for this documentary. I guess I left no stone unturned. In the film, we see the garbage-strewn beaches of Midway Atoll. Tell us where that is, and why it’s like that. Angela Sun: The Garbage Patch is a concentrated area in the Pacific Ocean, and the only land out there is the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. Specifically, this small chain in the Northwest Hawaiian Archipelago. Because of the oceans’ currents, this is where it washes ashore. It’s the only piece of land that is above water out there.

Based on what you know now, is it going to keep getting worse? Angela Sun: There’s been initiatives in the past about trying to clean it up. But imagine your living room, and there’s a bunch of dust bunnies. Let’s say you haven’t cleaned in while, and the dust bunnies have settled behind the couches and in crevices. Those would be like the ghost nets — lost fishing nets made out of plastic — that are still in the ocean. Imagine dust bunnies that are single masses of plastic in the oceans. But it’s your living room, which is pretty big. It’s a good size. It’s not all in one spot. If you imagine that we are like ants in this living room, that gives you an idea of how small and miniscule we are… there’s a young man in Europe who is trying to clean up the garbage patch. He’s raised a lot of money to create something to scoop it up. That would be like an ant saying he’s going to create a broom and a scoop sweeper to clean up giant dust bunnies in a living room. That’s not to deter people from cleaning it up, but I think the message here is to make people aware enough to refuse plastic in the first place, or to acknowledge what is going on with our consumer waste. A scientist in your film says “If you don’t buy it, they won’t make it.” So what’s the ultimate answer? Angela Sun: I think it’s a multipronged answer. First is awareness — sixty-five percent of people have heard of the Garbage Patch, but they don’t know a whole lot about it. There’s so much single-use disposable plastics that are just being chucked out. Maybe you’re like “Well, I didn’t throw it into the ocean; it’s not my fault.” But things end up there. I mean, when I was out there we saw computer monitors, we saw refrigerators! Massive pieces and also smaller pieces, which are more insidious and more detrimental. I don’t want to give the whole documentary away, but what I learned on this journey was: It’s a lot scarier than you think. And you can’t expect it to not touch every single one of us — because we all touch plastic, every day of our lives. Just about every piece of plastic was made to last forever — and if it’s not in your eyesight, then where did it go? If it’s not in a landfill, it’s got to go somewhere. CS

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Filmmaker Angela Sun on Midway Atoll, in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Here, tons of plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch comes ashore.

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Greg Marshall by Bill DeYoung

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If Jacques Cousteau had been in possession of a Crittercam, natural history filmmaking as we know it would be radically different. Instead, the great French explorer took large, heavy cameras into the oceans, cameras with film canisters that had to be switched out after 15 minutes of use. Yet the discoveries made by Cousteau and his fellow pioneers were inspirational to the next generation of scientists and filmmakers. In 1986, Greg Marshall — during a research project in Belize — had an epiphany. While on a dive, he started thinking about the scavenging remora fish that attach themselves to sharks, going where they go, seeing what they see. The year before, Sony had introduced the first hand-held video recorder. What if, Marshall wondered, one of these could be attached to a free-swimming whale, turtle or shark? “There’s just so much that we don’t know about how these animals use their environments,” he says. “How they function in this alien world that

Greg Marshall with a seven-inch Crittercam. Right: An emperor penguin, camera attached, prepares to take the plunge.

we have such a hard time accessing.” So he made it happen. National Geographic, Marshall’s employer, owns the copyright on “Crittercam,” and in the 27 years since its creation the organization’s contributions to the study of natural science have been incalculable. Marshall, who’ll be at the Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival this weekend to discuss his work, says the earliest Crittercam tests were focused on making sure the attached camera hindered the animal as little as possible. “In retrospect, I call the very first one a monstrosity, because that’s what comes to mind,” he laughs. “It was a huge great thing that was the best I could do at the time — and was about the best that could have been done, given the state of the art of cameras at the time. “The key thing I learned about that first camera was that it didn’t bother the animal that I had deployed it on. It was a sea turtle, in a pen in Belize,

and the turtle just didn’t seem to care that it was there at all.” Since video signals cannot be transmitted through water, the animals must be fitted with an actual camera. It’s attached with a temporary epoxy; after a specific amount of time, or under certain weather conditions, the onboard computer detaches the unit and it floats to the surface. It is recovered through the use of a tracking signal. You can watch some remarkable footage at animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/crittercam. Of course, Marshall points out, “The films we make take the ten percent of the images that are interesting to people generally. The truth is, the 90 percent that’s not really of interest to a lay person is still interesting from a scientific perspective — finding out what an animal doesn’t do is almost as relevant as finding out what it does do.” Maybe this won’t get big ratings

Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival Schedule Thursday, Sept. 12 at Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. 6:30 p.m.: Your National Marine Sanctuaries; Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary 6:50 p.m.: Film: Oceans at the Tipping Point: Ocean Health Index, narrated by Harrison Ford 7:15 p.m.: Film: The Majestic Plastic Bag 7:30 p.m.: Film: Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with filmmaker Angela Sun 8:30 p.m.: Q&A with filmmaker Angela Sun Friday, Sept. 13 at Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. 7 p.m. Films: Your National Marine Sanctuaries; Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary 7:20: Film: A Penguin’s Life, with filmmaker Greg Marshall 8:15 p.m.: Film: Project Shiphunt, with filmmaker James Delgado 9 p.m.: Greg Marshall Q&A

Saturday, Sept. 14 at Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. 1 p.m.: Films: Your National Marine Sanctuaries; Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary 1:20 P.M.: Film: Otter 501 2:30 p.m. Film: Lifeline: A Chesapeake Oyster Documentary, with filmmaker Adrian Schwarz 2:40 p.m. Film: Shellshocked, with filmmaker Emily Driscoll 3:20 p.m.: Recognition of students involved in the making of Savannah College of Art and Design: A Digital Field Guide of Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary 4:15 p.m.: Student Film Showcase 6:30 p.m.: Films: Your National Marine Sanctuaries; Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary 6:45 p.m.: Film: Sharks of Lost Island, with filmmaker Enric Sala 8 p.m.: Film: Chasing Ice, with filmmaker James Balog 9:15 p.m.: Q&A with Skidaway Island Institute of Oceanography researcher Clark Alexander

on TV, but that’s not really the point. “It’s interesting to the scientist in me, and to our research collaborators who really haven’t had any other vehicle for being able to get those kinds of statistics as to what these animals do.” Everyone from Jacques Cousteau to Marlin Perkins to Walt Disney knew that engaging the public — showing them fascinating footage of wild animals in the natural habitat — was a crucial step in raising awareness about issues that endanger our planet. Greg Marshall made his first film, pre-Crittercam, in Central America in 1985. He had to build a transparent underwater housing for then thennew Sony Handy-Cam. It was all very skin of the teeth. “Long story short,” he says, “that film ended up generating $5 million for marine conservation in Belize. So I really saw the direct correlation between funding for conservation and film. And I’ve been trying to do that ever since.” CS

Admission: All events are free

Sunday, Sept. 15 at Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. 2 p.m.: Films: Your National Marine Sanctuaries; Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary 2:15 p.m.: 1:20 P.M.: Film: Otter 501 3:30 p.m.: Film: Oceans at the Tipping Point: Ocean Health Index, narrated by Harrison Ford 3:55 p.m.: 6:45 p.m.: Film: Sharks of Lost Island, with filmmaker Enric Sala 5: p.m.: Film: Chasing Ice, with filmmaker James Balog

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THE SPECTACULAR NOW OOO

There’s a spectacular performance hovering around the edges of The Spectacular Now, and it belongs to Shailene Woodley. Best known for her role as George Clooney’s older daughter in The Descendants, Woodley here delivers the sort of transcendent turn that feels so natural, so precise, so perfect in every detail. She’s not the film’s central character, and in many ways, that’s a shame. That’s not meant to knock the contributions of Miles Teller, who’s rock-solid in the pivotal part of Sutter Keely. Sutter is the cool kid, the wisecracking high school senior with the hot girlfriend (Brie Larson), a laid-back job (a men’s clothing store) and an easygoing demeanor that allows him to talk to anyone anywhere. But like any teenager worth his salt, Sutter also has problems: He has no desire to attend college, he unfairly blames his mom (Jennifer Jason Leigh) for his dad leaving when he was a small boy, and the aforementioned girlfriend dumps him when it’s clear that they have no future together. But that’s OK, as long as he has his trusty flask, his keg parties and his booze-fortified sodas. And it’s after one of his drunken all-night revelries, when he’s passed out on a strange lawn, that he meets Aimee Finecky (Woodley), a fellow student who’s as shy and introverted as Sutton is garrulous and outgoing. Sutton believes he can help this awkward teen, a virgin who’s into anime and believes nothing has ever happened in her life that’s worth discussing, and for her part, Aimee becomes smitten with this popular boy who is devoting so much time to her. For most of its running time, The Spectacular Now appears headed for 10 Best territory - this year’s equivalent of 2012’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Director James Ponsoldt and (500) Days of Summer scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Webber (adapting Tim Tharp’s novel) beautifully capture the insecurities and ill-advised decisions frequently made by teenagers, and they

never allow any of the kids or adults to descend into caricature. But a late-inning incident leads to a curiously rushed final act, one which shortchanges the characters, skips key developments and leaves an unsettling and unsatisfying feeling regarding what transpired. Still, The Spectacular Now has so much going for it that skipping it is not an option. And among its many strengths, the most impressive one is the subtle way the filmmakers build upon Sutton’s drinking throughout the picture, slowly revealing him not as a fun-loving kid but as a damaged individual just a few years away from becoming an alcoholic. It’s not the sort of narrative spin found in high school or college flicks, and it’s all the more powerful for not being preachy or sentimental. I headed into The Spectacular Now expecting to see a movie like Sixteen Candles and was stunned when I got a prequel to Days of Wine and Roses instead.

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In Woody Allen’s latest picture, Jeanette “Jasmine” Francis (Cate Blanchett) is the 21st century reincarnation of Blanche DuBois, the tragic figure at the center of Tennessee Williams’ enduring masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire. The tale begins as Jasmine moves from New York City to San Francisco to stay with her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins). The siblings couldn’t be more different: Whereas Jasmine is used to wealth and prone to flights of fancy, Ginger operates in a working-class milieu and tends to be a pragmatist.

But because Jasmine’s Bernie Madoff-like husband Hal (Alec Baldwin, seen in flashbacks) turned out to be a crook, a financier living off the funds of his clients until he was caught, Ginger has taken pity on her nowhomeless sister and has invited her to stay with her until she can get back on her feet. It’s a situation that proves stressful for everyone, including Ginger’s uncultured boyfriend Chili (Bobby Cannavale). Compounding matters is that Jasmine has always been a trophy wife and thus totally unprepared to live in a real world that requires her to have skills of some sort. She does find employment working as a receptionist for a dentist (Michael Stuhlbarg), but most of her time is spent guzzling booze and complaining about her lot in life. Allen makes no apologies for his lead character’s infuriating behavior, and neither does Blanchett. Jasmine Francis is the sort of person who causes acquaintances to cross the road to avoid talking with her - she’s obnoxious, self-centered, conceited, vapid and deceitful - and yet, miraculously, we sympathize with her more than expected, thanks to Blanchett’s intuitive performance. It’s a superb turn, though it would be neglectful to overlook the contributions of Hawkins, Cannavale and, shockingly, Andrew Dice Clay. Clay, a vile stand-up comedian back in the day seems to have had his name plucked from a dusty rolodex by Allen - it was a good call, though, as he draws a lot of emotion out of his role as Ginger’s continues on p. 54

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ex-husband Augie, a working stiff whose life was ruined by Hal’s Ponzi scheme. The Blanche-Stella-Stanley triumvirate channeled through the characters of Jasmine, Ginger and Chili keeps the film rooted in the Streetcar district. Yet in addition to paying tribute to Williams, Allen also seeks to comment on the repeated financial crises that have shattered this nation, showing that while they may have further divided the haves from the have-nots, they’ve nevertheless managed to claim victims from every tax bracket.

Lee Daniels’ The Butler

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“A Butler Well Served by This Election,” a 2008 Washington Post article written by Wil Haygood, recounted the story of Eugene Allen, a butler who worked at the White House through eight presidencies. Modifying this true-life tale, scripter Danny Strong (who won Emmys for writing and producing Game Change, the HBO film starring Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin) has opted to drop one of the presidents (Truman) for his fictionalized story of Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker), whose civility, grace and common sense allow him to rise from the dangerous terrain of the cotton fields (where as a small boy he witnessed his father shot in the head by one of the landowners) to working indoors as a servant to white people. His professionalism ultimately lands him a gig at the White House, where he makes friends with his fellow staffers (nice to see Cuba Gooding Jr. finally landing another decent role after all this time) and impresses the various power players who over the years grace the Oval Office. Cecil’s a workaholic, which doesn’t always bode well for his wife Gloria (Oprah Winfrey), who’s so lonely that she begins to eye a flirtatious neighbor (Terrence Howard). Even more turmoil takes place on the home front when the Gaines’ oldest son Louis (David Oyelowo), coming of age in the midst of the Civil Rights movement, looks down on what he perceives to be his father’s subservience to the white man and sprints in the opposite direction by attending marches and meetings. The rift between father and son continues to grow, reaching its breaking point when Louis dares to dismiss family

favorite Sidney Poitier as an Uncle Tom. The Butler is at its best in those moments when it’s addressing how the different approaches of two men to racism - one working from within, one from without - can be equally valid courses of action and might even complement each other. The rest of the time, the film is entertaining but awfully slender - a light look at heavy history. The Forrest Gump approach of hopscotching through 20th century America worked better in that fantastical film than in this ostensibly more serious effort. Louis gets to chat with Martin Luther King, attend a Malcolm X rally, participate in a lunch counter sit-in, join the Freedom Riders for a dangerous drive through the South and hang out with the Black Panthers; in short, he does everything except refuse to move to the back of the bus. Cecil, meanwhile, gets to play Gump by appearing in scenes with Kennedy, Nixon and others - only instead of being expertly injected into archival footage of the historical figures, the character plays opposite movie stars cast as our Commandersin-Chief. It’s an unnecessary tactic that serves to lessen the importance of the film, as it’s impossible to accept most of these A-listers in these roles. James Marsden plays JFK close enough to the vest that he’s a harmless choice, and Liev Schreiber at least makes us laugh with his bulldog impersonation of LBJ.

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South African writer-director Neill Blomkamp made one of the more noteworthy feature debuts of late with the 2009 summer release District 9, a box office hit and Best Picture Oscar nominee about the wretched treatment of extra-terrestrials who had the misfortune of landing on our planet. The story was obviously a metaphor for apartheid in Blomkamp’s home country, and the film proved to be another shining example of science fiction serving as a sturdy framework for a social message. With Elysium, Blomkamp again tries to mind-meld sci-fi and social change, but the results this time aren’t nearly as satisfying. A futureworld version of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the film takes place in 2154, when the 1 percent is living

comfortably on a manmade space station (Elysium) while everyone else is struggling to survive on a burned-out planet Earth. One of the regular joes is Max (Matt Damon), a blue-collar laborer whose job-related injury radiation, wouldn’tcha know - means he’ll be dead in five days. Up on Elysium, everyone has a machine that cures all illnesses and injuries, but no one from the earth’s surface is even allowed to set foot on Elysium, let alone breathe its rarefied air or use its cutting-edge facilities. Willing to do anything to reach the celestial paradise, Max enters into a partnership with a tech-savvy hustler named Spider (a good performance by Wagner Moura, the star of the Brazilian twofer Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within), taking along his best friend Julio (Diego Luna) for good measure. But to accomplish his mission, which involves downloading valuable intel from within the mind of a sleazy CEO (William Fichtner), Max has to contend with Elysium’s defense secretary, the smug Delacourt (Jodie Foster), and her earthbound henchman, the psychotic Kruger (District 9 star Sharlto Copley). Nobody can accuse Blomkamp of failing to cram his tale with topical material, most of it pertaining to the class struggles dominating U.S. news these days. It’s potent material, or at least it would be if the movie surrounding it didn’t take so many shortcuts in terms of its characterizations. Foster and Copley might be playing different types of villains - she’s cool and calculating, he’s impulsive and destructive - but the end result is the same in that, given the arch performances, it’s impossible to take either one very seriously.

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Hugh Jackman hardly needs this character, so clearly he feels an affinity for the part and wants to do right by it. Unfortunately, these solo outings, away from the rest of the X-Men, just aren’t quite cutting it. Like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, this latest effort is a middling superhero saga that attempts to deepen our understanding of the character but instead ends up mainly treading narrative water. Indeed, huge chunks of the film feel draggy and underdeveloped, and yet the moments that work feel fresh

and invigorating, as director James Mangold , A-list writer Scott Frank (Get Shorty) and C-list writer Mark Bomback (the Total Recall remake) break free from the template of the big-screen superhero saga to fashion something more personal. This solemnity often feels at odds with the filmmakers’ need to satisfy the blockbuster quota (an extended battle atop a speeding bullet train is a doozy), but it nevertheless makes for an occasionally sharp film.

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I suppose it’s possible to be shaken to the core by this movie - even if it’s ultimately not much more frightening than, say, The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone or Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island -- but ultimately, it’s just one more haunted-house yarn, albeit one that’s modestly elevated by James Wan’s relatively restrained direction and a roster of characters who are more levelheaded than the usual gang of idiots who populate films of this nature. This examines what paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) consider the most frightening and baffling case of their careers. It’s the early 1970s, and they’re called upon to check out a house newly purchased by the Perrons: dad Roger (Ron Livingston), mom Carolyn (Lili Taylor) and their five daughters. It’s a pleasant enough property, but once the Perrons move in, weird things begin happening. To his credit, Wan relies on establishing and maintaining mood more than engaging in cheap scares or buckets of blood, but there’s only so much that can be done with a premise as overexposed as this one (is there anything less cinematic than watching people monitoring cameras and tape recorders?). The filmmakers try to generate some tension with a leering doll, and a guest appearance by the title apparition in Mama, but the return on investment is minimal - the concession prices will scare more people than any of these devices. The Conjuring boasts top production values and an admirable refusal to condescend to its audience, but we really should be demanding more from our horror flicks. CS

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Activism & Politics 13th Colony Patriots

A group of conservative political activists that meets the 13th of each month. Dedicated to the preservation of the U.S. Constitution and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans. See Facebook page or call for information. Free 13th of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 912-604-4048. liveoakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt. 13th of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Drinking Liberally

An informal, left-leaning gathering to discuss politics, the economy, sports, entertainment, or anything else that comes up. Every first and third Thursday. Free , 7:00 p.m. See website or the Drinking Liberally facebook page for more information, including location. Free , 7 p.m. livingliberally.org/drinking/chapters/GA/savannah. , 7 p.m Muffins with Mary Ellen

Alderman Mary Ellen Sprague hosts a weekly gathering for District 4 constituents every Wednesday morning. Residents and business owners of District 4 are invited to drop-in to ask questions and discuss local issues. Free and open to the public. Wednesdays, 6-9 a.m. 912-659-0103. ogeecheecoffee.com/. Wednesdays, 6-9 a.m coffee deli, 4517 Habersham St. Savannah Area Young Republicans

Get involved. Contact is Michael Johnson, via email or telephone, or see website for info. 912-604-0797. chairman@sayr.org. sayr.org. Call or see website for information. Free . 912-3083020. savannahyoungrepublicans.com. Savannah Tea Party

Free to attend. Note new location, date and time. Food and beverages available for purchase. Buffet is optional. Call for additional information. Reservations not necessary. Annual Dues $10.00. Free , 5:30 p.m. 912-598-7358. savannahteaparty.com. , 5:30 p.m Ole Times Country Buffet, 209 Stephenson Ave. Young Democrats

Mondays at 7pm on the second level of Foxy Loxy, Bull Street. Call or visit the Young Democrats Facebook page for more information. Free . 423-619-7712. foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Clubs & Organizations

Abeni Cultural Arts Dance Classes

Classses for multiple ages in performance dance and adult fitness dance. African, modern, ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, gospel. Held at Abeni

Cultural Arts studio, 8400-B Abercorn St. Call Muriel, 912-631-3452, or Darowe, 912-272-2797. . abeniculturalarts@gmail.com. Adult Intermediate Ballet

Beginner and Intermediate Ballet, Modern Dance, Barre Fusion, Barre Core Body Sculpt, and Gentle Stretch and Tone. no experience needed for beginner Ballet, barre, or stretch/tone. The Ballet School, Piccadilly Square, 10010 Abercorn. Registration/fees/info online or by phone. . 912-925-0903. theballetschoolsav.com. Avegost LARP

Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. generallly meets the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you’re a non-player character. $35 fee for returning characters. . godzillaunknown@gmail.com. avegost.com.

Blindness and Low Vision: A Guide to Working, Living, and Supporting Individuals with Vision Loss

Workshops on the 3rd Thursday of each month on vision losss, services, and technology available to participate in the community. And, how the community can support individuals with vision loss. Orientation and Mobility Techniques; Low Vision vs. Legal Blindness; Supporting People with Low Vision to Achieve Maximum Independence; Low Vision Simulator Experiences; Resources. Free and open to the public. . savannahcblv.org. Savannah Center for the Blind and Low Vision, 214 Drayton St. Buccaneer Region SCCA

Local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America, hosting 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. See website. . buccaneerregion.org. Business Networking on the Islands

Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group meets first Thursday each month, 9:30am-10:30am. Tradewinds Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call for info. . 912-3086768. Chatham Sailing Club

Meets first Friday of each month, 6:30pm at Young’s Marina. If first Friday falls on a holiday weekend, meeting is second Friday. No boat? No sailing experience? No problem. . chathamsailing.org. Young’s Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd. Drop N Circle Craft Night

Sponsored by The Frayed Knot and Perlina. Tuesdays, 5pm-8pm. 6 W. State Street. Enjoy sharing creativity with other knitters, crocheters, beaders, spinners, felters, needle pointers,

etc. All levels of experience welcome. Call for info. . 912-233-1240. Energy Healers

Meets every Monday at 6pm. Mediation and healing with energy. Discuss aromatherapy, chakra systems and more. Call for info. . 912-695-2305. meetup. com/SavannahEnergyHealers. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs

Open to all who are interested in the fiber arts: weaving, spinning, basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilting, beading, rug hooking, doll making, etc. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center the first Saturday of the month September through June 10:15am. See our website for programs and events: http://fiberguildsavannah.homestead. com/ Mondays, 10:30 a.m. Mondays, 10:30 a.m Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. Freedom Network

An international, leaderless network of individuals seeking more freedom in an unfree world, via non-political methods. Savannah meetings/discussions twice monthly, Thursdays, 8:30pm. Topics and meeting locations vary. No politics, no religious affiliation, no dues, no fees. Email for next meeting day and location. . onebornfree@yahoo.com. Historic Flight Savannah

A non-profit organization dedicated to sending area Korean War and WWII veterans to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. All expenses paid by Honor Flight Savannah. Honor Flight seeks contributions, and any veterans interested in a trip to Washington. Call for info. . 912-596-1962. honorflightsavannah.org. Historic Savannah Chapter: ABWA

Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6pm-7:30pm. Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Drive, Thunderbolt. Attendees pay for their own meals. RSVP by phone. . 912-660-8257. Ink Slingers Writing Group

A creative writing group for writers of poetry, prose, or undefinable creative ventures. Based in Savannah and a little nomadic. Meets two Thursdays a month, 5:45pm. Discussion of exercises, ideas, or already in progress pieces. Free to attend. See Facebook page savinkslingers. . Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Island MOMSnext

For mothers of school-aged children, kindergarten through high school. Authentic community, mothering support, personal growth, practical help, and spiritual hope. First and third Mondays, excluding holidays. Childcare on request. A ministry of MOPS International. Info by phone or email. . 912-898-4344. kymmccarty@hotmail. com. mops.org.

Islands MOPS

A Mothers of Preschoolers group that meets at First Baptist Church of the Islands, two Wednesdays a month, 9:15am-11:30am. . sites.google.com/ site/islandsmops. fbcislands.com/. First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet

Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Call for info. No fees. Want to learn? Join us. . 912-308-6768. Knittin’ Night

Knit and crochet gathering held each Tuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. 912-238-0514. wildfibresavannah.com/. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m Wild Fibre, 409 East Liberty St. Low Country Turners

A club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Call Steve Cook for info at number below. . 912-313-2230.

Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary

Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1:00pm. Call for info. . 912-786-4508. American Legion Post 184, 1 Legion Dr. Peacock Guild--For Writers and Book Lovers

A literary society for bibliophiles and writers. Writer’s Salon meetings are first Tues. and third Wed. at 7:30pm at the Flannery O’Connor Home. Book club meetings are third Tues., 7:30pm. Location changes each month. Call or see Facebook group “Peacock Guild” for info. . 912-233-6014. Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street. Philo Cafe

Weekly Monday discussion group that meets 7:30pm - 9:00pm at various locations. Anyone craving good conversation is invited. Free to attend. Email for info, or see ThePhiloCafe on Facebook. . athenapluto@yahoo.com. R.U.F.F. - Retirees United for the Future

RUFF meets the last Friday of each month at 10am to protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and related senior issues. Parking in the rear. Free to all Seniors . 912-344-5127. New Covenant Church, 2201 Bull St. Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet the 1st Sunday at 4pm at 5429 LaRoche Ave., and the 3rd Tuesday at 7:30pm at Super King Buffet, 10201 Abercorn St., Call or email for info. . 912-308-2094. kasak@comcast.net. roguephoenix.org. Safe Kids Savannah

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Savannah Brewers’ League

Meets 1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at Moon River Brewing Co. Call or see website for info. . 912-4470943. hdb.org. moonriverbrewing. com/. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St.

Over 200 different hookah tobacco ﬂavors Best & Biggest selection of hookahs Pipes E-cigarettes Vaporizers

Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays each month. Prose writing, fiction and non fiction. Discussion, constructive criticism, instruction, exercises and examples. Location: Charles Brown Antiques/Fine Silver, 14 W. Jones St. All are welcome. No charge. Contact Alice Vantrease via email or phone. . 912-308-3208. alicevantrease@live. com. Savannah Charlesfunders Investment Discussion Group

Meets Saturdays, 8:30am to discuss stocks, bonds and better investing. Contact by email for info. . charlesfund@gmail.com. panerabread.com/. Panera Bread (Broughton St.), 1 West Broughton St.

Beginner classes Tuesdays and Thursdays for six weeks. $60. Some equipment provided. After completing the class, you may join the Savannah Fencing Club for $5/month. Experienced fencers welcome. Call or email for info. . 912-429-6918. savannahfencing@aol.com. Savannah Go Green

Meets most Saturdays. Green events and places. Share ways to Go Green each day. Call for info. . 912-308-6768. Savannah Jaycees

Meeting/info session held the 1st Tuesday each month at 6pm to discuss upcoming events and provide an opportunity for those interested in joining Jaycees to learn more. Must be age 21-40. Jaycees Building, 101 Atlas St. . 912-353-7700. savannahjaycees. com. Savannah Kennel Club

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

Monthly meetings open to the public. Held at Logan’s Roadhouse, the 4th Monday each month, Sept. through May. Dinner: 6:pm. Speaker: 7:30pm. Guest speakers each meeting. . 912-238-3170. savannahkennelclub. org. logansroadhouse.com/. Logan’s Roadhouse, 11301 Abercorn St.

Savannah Fencing Club

Open to women who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years. Membership includes monthly luncheon and program. Activities, tours

A dinner meeting the 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:00pm (except December.) Location: Hunter Club. Call John Findeis for info. . 912-748-7020.

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Savannah No Kidding!

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. savannahnokidding.angelfire.com/ or e-mail savannahnokidding@ gmail.com . The Historic District, Downtown Savannah. Savannah Parrot Head Club

Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check website for events calendar or send an email for Parrot Head gatherings. . savannahphc@yahoo.com. savannahphc. com. Savannah Sacred Harp Singers

Everyone who loves to sing is invited to join Savannah Sacred Harp Singers. All are welcome to participate or listen too one of America’s most revered musical traditions. Call or email. . 912-655-0994. savannahsacredharp.com. Faith Primitive Baptist Church, 3212 Bee Road. Savannah SCA

The local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets every Saturday at Forsyth Park for fighter practice and general hanging out. If you’re interested in re-creating the Middle Ages and Renaissance, come join us! South end of Forsyth Park, just past the Farmer’s Market. Free. www.savannahsca.org Free , 11 a.m. savannahsca.org. , 11 a.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Savannah Story Games

We play games that help us tell improvised stories. Get together over food - roleplayers, storytellers, or the merely curious - and help us create an amazing story in just three hours. We’ll use games with special rules that craft characters, settings, and conflicts. Weekends, in different locales - check savannahstorygames.com for more information. free Fridays-Sundays. info@ savannahstorygames.com. savannahstorygames.com. Fridays-Sundays Downtown Savannah, downtown. Savannah Sunrise Rotary Club

Meets Thursdays from 7:30am-8:30am at the Mulberry Inn. . savannahsunriserotary.org. Savannah Toastmasters

Helps improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment. Mondays, 6:15pm, Memorial Health University Medical Center, in the Conference Room C. . 912-484-6710. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Savannah Writers Group

A gathering of writers of all levels for networking, hearing published guest authors, and writing critique in a friendly, supportive environment. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7:00pm, Atlanta Bread Company, Twelve Oaks Shopping Center, 5500 Abercorn. Free and open to the public. See website or call for info. . 912-572-6251. savannahwritersgroup. blogspot.com/group.

Seersucker Live’s Happy Hour for Writers

A no-agenda gathering of Savannah’s writing community. First Thursdays, 5:30pm-7:30pm. Free. Open to all writers, aspiring writers, or those interested in writing. 21+ with valid ID. Usually at Abe’s on Lincoln, 17 Lincoln St. See website for info. . seersuckerlive.com. Spies and Mysteries Book Club

Have a great love of the dead drop, tradecraft and signals? Then this is the book club for you! We meet every 2nd Thurs of the month @6:30 pm, 2nd floor, Southwest Chatham Lib. This months read: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. None second Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m. 912-925-8305. second Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. Tertulia en español at Foxy Loxy

Spanish conversation table. Meets second and fourth Thursday of each month. 7:30pm to 9pm at Foxy Loxy, 1919 Bull street. Come practice your Spanish, have a cafe con leche or Spanish wine, and meet nice people....All levels welcome. Free. Purchase beverages and snacks. . foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla

Join the volunteer organization that assists the U.S. Coast Guard. Meets 4th Wednesday at 6pm at Barnes, 5320 Waters Ave. All ages welcome. Prior experience/boat ownership not required. Call or see website for info. . 912-5987387. savannahaux.com. Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671

Meets monthly at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Call James Crauswell for info. . 912-927-3356. Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation

Meets second Tuesday each month (except October) 6:00pm, WoodvilleTompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner St. Call or email for info. . 912-232-3549. chesteraellis@comcast.net. Dance

Adult Ballet Class

Maxine Patterson School of Dance, 2212 Lincoln St, offers adult ballet on Thursdays, 6:30pm-7:30pm $12 per class. Call for info. . 912-234-8745. Adult Intermediate Ballet

Mondays and Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm. $12/class or $90/8 classes. Call for info. Academy of Dance, 74 W. Montgomery Crossroad. . 912-921-2190. Argentine Tango

Lessons Sundays 1:30-3;30pm. Open to the public. $3 per person. Wear closed toe leather shoes if possible. Doris Martin Dance Studio, 8511-h ferguson Ave. Call or email for info. . 912-925-7416. savh_tango@yahoo.com. Beginners Belly Dancing with Cybelle

For those with little-to-no dance background. Instructor is formally trained, has performed for over ten years. $15/ person. Tues. 7pm-8pm. Private classes and walk ins available. Synergistic Bodcontinues on p. 58

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1 Bridge positions 2 Hawaii, the ___ State 3 Was thought of 4 “Lemony Snicket” evil count 5 “I love you,” in a telenovela 6 “You’re ___ Need to Get By” 7 Japanese wheat noodle 8 Knotty sort? 9 iPhone rival 10 Access for a wheelchair 11 Galena and bauxite, for two 12 Kind of Buddhism 14 Gabor who slapped a cop 20 Villain’s den 21 “The Mod Squad” role 26 Oh-so-precious 27 1972 Olympics star Mark 28 Texas or Georgia follower 29 They may be crunchy or soft 30 “The King and I” country 31 Drawer handle 32 Big fishhook 33 “Ugly Betty” actor Michael 34 Piece of land 35 The ___ from French Lick (Larry Bird) 40 Orange drink on some of Portland’s Voodoo Doughnuts 41 Vigilant against attack 42 Catches sight of 43 Weekly septet 47 Blacksmith’s block 48 Gift on the seventh day of Christmas 50 Citified 51 1917 marked their end 52 Hawaiian root 53 Cookie that can be “Double Stuf ” 54 “Waiting for the Robert ___” 55 “At last, the weekend!” 56 Afternoon social activities 57 1600, to Caesar

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ies, 7724 Waters Ave. . 912-414-1091. info@cybelle3.com. cybelle3.com. Beginning Pole Fitness

Our pole classes offer a fun and flirty way to get a great workout in a safe and comfortable environment. Our National Miss Fitness 2013 and Miss Georgia Pole 2012 instructor, Sabrina Madsen, will teach you the basics including spins and pole dance moves. All fitness

| Submit your event online at connectsavannah.com levels are welcome! $25 for drop-in or 5 for $100 (must be used in 30 days) Tuesdays, 8 p.m. (801) 673-6737. firstcitysav@gmail.com. Tuesdays, 8 p.m First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr.

Belly Dance classes with Nicole Edge

Beginners, Wednesdays 7-8PM, Advanced, Sundays 1:15-2:15PM. $15 per session. All ages and skill levels welcome. . 912-596-0889. edgebellydance.

com. First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Beginner and Advanced Belly Dance Classes at First City Fitness (formerly Fitness, Body and Balance studio), 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. Beginner’s Wednesdays 7-8PM, Advanced Sundays 1:15-2:15PM Instructed by Nicole Edge. Walk-Ins welcome, all ages $15.00 per class or 4/$48.00 . 912-596-0889. edgebellydance@gmail.com. edgebellydance.

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Bellydance lessons with Happenstance Bellydance

All levels and styles of bellydance welcome. Classes are every Monday from 5:30-6:30pm. $15/lesson. Drop-ins welcome or call Carrie @(912)704-2940 for more info. happenstancebellydance@ gmail.com happenstancebellydance. wordpress.com $15/lesson , 5:30 p.m. (912) 704-2940. happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com. , 5:30 p.m Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. Burlesque Workshop

In this 2 hour workshop, participants will get a chance to learn about the fascinating art of vintage and neoburlesque dance! A quick and simple choreography will be taught. $30 per student Sep. 15, 10 a.m. (912) 704-2940. dahliastsin@gmail.com. Sep. 15, 10 a.m First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. C.C. Express Dance Team

Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary. Call Claudia Collier for info. . 912-748-0731. Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windsor Forest. Dance for Peace

A weekly gathering to benefit locals in need. Music, dancing, fun for all ages. Donations of nonperishable food and gently used or new clothing are welcomed. Free and open to the public. Sundays, 3 p.m. 912-547-6449. xavris21@yahoo.com. Sundays, 3 p.m Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Home Cookin’ Cloggers

Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm, Nassau Woods Recreation Building, Dean Forest Road. No beginner classes at this time. Call Claudia Collier for info. . 912-748-0731. Irish Dance Classes

Glor na Dare offers beginner to champion Irish Dance classes for ages 5 and up. Adult Step & Ceili, Strength and Flexibility, non-competitive and competitive programs, workshops, camps. Certified. Info via email or phone. . 912704-2052. prideofirelandga@gmail.com. Line Dancing

Take down Tuesdays. Jazzy Sliders Adult Line Dancing, every Tuesday, 7:30pm-10:00pm. Free admission, cash bar. Come early and learn a new dance from 7:30pm-8:30pm. . doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Mahogany Shades of Beauty

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Dance classes--hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step. Modeling and acting classes. All ages/ all levels welcome. Call Mahogany for info. . 912-272-8329. Modern Dance Class

Beginner and intermediate classes. Fridays 10am-11:15am. Doris Martin Studio, 7360 Skidaway Rd. Call Elizabeth for info. . 912-354-5586. Pole Dancing Classes

Beginners class, Wednesdays, 8pm. Level II, Mondays, 8pm. $22/one class. $70/four classes. Preregistration required. Learn pole dance moves and

Beach Body Workouts with Laura

MONDAYS at 6:15 PM at the Lake Mayer Community Center $5.00 per session Mondays, 6:15 p.m. (912) 6526784. Mondays, 6:15 p.m Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. Beastmode Fitness Group Training

Hiking & Biking at Skidaway Island State Park

Year round fitness opportunities. Walk or run the 1-mile Sandpiper Nature Trail (accessible) the additional 1-mile Avian Loop Trail, or 3-mile Big Ferry Trail. Bicycle and street strider rentals. Guided hikes scheduled. $5 parking. Open daily 7am-10pm. Call or see website. . 912-598-2300. gastateparks.org/ SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/ skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.

Get your Rave on with the the one and only DJ Orson Wells! We got glow sticks! Saturdays, 9 p.m. Saturdays, 9 p.m Dosha Bar & Lounge, 128 East Broughton St.

Train with this elite team. A total body program that trims, tones and gets results. Personal training options available. See website for info. Meets at West Broad YMCA. 5am-6am and 8pm-9pm. . beastmodefitnessga.com. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St.

Tues. 8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Thur. 8pm-9pm and 9pm-10pm. Sun. 5pm6pm and 6pm-7pm. Salon de Maile, 704B Hodgson Memorial Dr., Savannah, 31406. See website for info. . salsasavannah.com.

Mixes ballet, jazz, hip hop into a unique high energy dance style. Drills and choreographies for all levels.Small classes in downtown Savannah, and on request. $10 per person. Email for info. . bohemianbeats.com.

A system of self-defense techniques based on several martial arts. The official fighting system of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Custom Fit offers individual and small group training and intensive workshops. . 912-441-4891. customfitcenter.com.

Community donation-based classes, Tues. and Thurs., 5:45pm - 7:00pm. Fri., 9:30am-10:30am. Email for info or find Blue Water Yoga on Facebook. . egs5719@aol.com. Talahi Island Community Club, 532 Quarterman Dr.

Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world’s fastest growing martial arts style. Uses angles and leverage to tunr an attacker’s strength against him. Call for info on free trial classes. Drop ins welcome. 11202 White Bluff Rd. . 912-429-9241.

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Mondays and Fridays, 7:30am-9:00am. Open to free form yoga/movement with guided meditation. A great way to start and end the work week. Email or see website for info. Fee: donations. . trickydame@gmail.com. trickydame. com. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St.

For anyone caring for senior citizens with any affliction or illness. Second Saturday of the month, 10am-11am. Savannah Commons, 1 Peachtree Dr. Refreshments. Free to attend. Open to anyone i need of support for the caregiving they provide. . savannahcommons.com.

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An anonymous fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics. the message of Al-Anon is one of strength and hope for friends/family of problem drinkers. Al-Anon is for adults. Alateen is for people age 13-19. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. check website or call for info. . 912-598-9860. savannahalanon.com. Bariatric Surgery Support Group

First Wednesday each month, 7pm, and third Saturday, 10am, in Mercer Auditorium of Hoskins Center at Memorial. For those who have had or are considering bariatric surgery. Free to attend. Call or see website for info. . 912-350-3438. memorialhealth. com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave.

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provide assistance and lost his life providing aid.Proceeds benefit “Building for America’s Bravest” through the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, designated specifically to building “Smart Homes” for two severely wounded veterans in Georgia. Register online or at Fleet Feet Sports, 3405 Waters Avenue. Through Sep. 14. t2trun.org/savannah. Through Sep. 14

ARIES

March 21-April 19 “A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart,” wrote Chuck Palahniuk in his book *Stranger Than Fiction.* From what I can tell, Aries, the sequence is the reverse for you. In your story, the disruption has already happened. Next comes the part where you laugh. It may be a sardonic chuckle at first, as you become aware of the illusions you had been under before the jolt exposed them. Eventually I expect you will be giggling and gleeful, eternally grateful for the tricky luck that freed you to pursue a more complete version of your fondest dream.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20 Taurus musician David Byrne was asked by an interviewer to compose a seven-word autobiography. In response, he came up with ten words: “unfinished, unprocessed, uncertain, unknown, unadorned, underarms, underpants, unfrozen, unsettled, unfussy.” The coming days would be an excellent time for you to carry out similar assignments. I’d love to see you express the essential truth about yourself in bold and playful ways. I will also be happy if you make it clear that even though you’re a workin-progress, you have a succinct understanding of what you need and who you are becoming.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20 The French word *sillage* means “wake,” like the trail created behind a boat as it zips through water. In English, it refers to the fragrance that remains in the air after a person wearing perfume or cologne passes by. For our purposes, we will expand the definition to include any influences and impressions left behind by a powerful presence who has exited the scene. In my astrological opinion, Gemini, sillage is a key theme for you to monitor in the coming days. Be alert for it. Study it. It will be a source of information that helps you make good decisions.

CANCER

June 21-July 22 “Cataglottism” is a rarely used English word that has the same meaning as French kissing -- engaging in liberal use of the tongue as you make out. But I don’t recommend that you incorporate

such an inelegant, guttural term into your vocabulary. Imagine yourself thinking, while in the midst of French kissing, that what you’re doing is “cataglottism.” Your pleasure would probably be diminished. This truth applies in a broader sense, too. The language you use to frame your experience has a dramatic impact on how it all unfolds. The coming week will be an excellent time to experiment with this principle. See if you can increase your levels of joy and grace by describing what’s happening to you with beautiful and positive words.

going to tell you is something we all need to hear from time to time. And I’m pretty sure this is one of those moments for you. It comes from writer Charles Bukowski: “Nobody can save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise, and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. But don’t, don’t, don’t. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Nobody can save you but yourself, and you’re worth saving.”

LEO

SCORPIO

This is Correct Your First Impressions Week. It’s a perfect time for you to re-evaluate any of your beliefs that are based on mistaken facts or superficial perceptions. Are you open to the possibility that you might have jumped to unwarranted conclusions? Are you willing to question certainties that hardened in you after just a brief exposure to complicated processes? During Correct Your First Impressions Week, humble examination of your fixed prejudices is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. P.S. This is a good time to re-connect with a person you have unjustly judged as unworthy of you.

The cosmos hereby grants you poetic license to be brazen in your craving for the best and brightest experiences . . . to be uninhibited in feeding your obsessions and making them work for you . . . to be shameless as you pursue exactly and only what you really, really want more than anything else. This is a limited time offer, although it may be extended if you pounce eagerly and take full advantage. For best results, suspend your pursuit of trivial wishes and purge yourself of your bitchy complaints about life.

VIRGO

At the last minute, Elsa Oliver impulsively canceled her vacation to New York. She had a hunch that something exciting would happen if instead she stayed at her home in England. A few hours later, she got a message inviting her to be a contestant on the UK television show *Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?* In the days and weeks that followed, she won the equivalent of $100,000. I’m not predicting anything quite as dramatic for you, Sagittarius. But I do suspect that good luck is lurking in unexpected places, and to gather it in you may have to trust your intuition, stay alert for late-breaking shifts in fate, and be willing to alter your plans.

July 23-Aug. 22

Aug. 23-Sept. 22 This is a good time to free yourself from a curse that an immature soul placed on you once upon a time. I’m not talking about a literal spell cast by a master of the dark arts. Rather, I’m referring to an abusive accusation that was heaped on you, perhaps inadvertently, by a careless person whose own pain made them stupid. As I evaluate the astrological omens, I conclude that you now have the power to dissolve this curse all by yourself. You don’t need a wizard or a witch to handle it for you. Follow your intuition for clues on how to proceed. Here’s a suggestion to stimulate your imagination: Visualize the curse as a dark purple rose. See yourself hurling it into a vat of molten gold.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22 The current chapter of your life story may not be quite as epic as I think it is, so my advice may sound melodramatic. Still, what I’m

Oct. 23-Nov. 21

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CAPRICORN

Dec. 22-Jan. 19 “The only thing standing between you and your goal,” writes American author Jordan Belfort, “is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” I don’t entirely agree with that idea. There may be other obstacles over which you have lit-

tle control. But the bullshit story is often more than half the problem. So that’s the bad news, Capricorn. The good news is that right now is a magic moment in your destiny when you have more power than usual to free yourself of your own personal bullshit story.

AQUARIUS

Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Is the truth a clear, bright, shiny treasure, like a big diamond glittering in the sunlight? Does it have an objective existence that’s independent of our feelings about it? Or is the truth a fuzzy, convoluted thing that resembles a stream of smoke snaking through an underground cavern? Does it have a different meaning for every mind that seeks to grasp it? The answer, of course, is: both. Sometimes the truth is a glittering diamond and at other times it’s a stream of smoke. But for you right now, Aquarius, the truth is the latter. You must have a high tolerance for ambiguity as you cultivate your relationship with it. It’s more likely to reveal its secrets if you maintain a flexible and cagey frame of mind.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20 It’s a good time to indulge in wideopen, high-flying, anything-goes fantasies about love -- IF, that is . . . IF you also do something practical to help those fantasies come true. So I encourage you to dream about revolutionizing your relationship with romance and intimacy -- as long as you also make specific adjustments in your own attitudes and behavior that will make the revolution more likely. Two more tips: 1. Free yourself from dogmatic beliefs you might have about love’s possibilities. 2. Work to increase your capacity for lusty trust and trusty lust.

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A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America. Monthly training sessions and seminars. Weekly runs. Kathy Ackerman, 912-7565865, or Billy Tomlinson, 912-596-5965. . Savannah Climbing CoOp Ladies Night

Every Wednesday women climb for half price, 6pm-10pm. $5. 302 W. Victory Dr., Suite D. See website for info. . savannahclimbingcoop.com. Savannah Disc Golf

Weekly events (entry $5) Friday Night Flights: Fridays, 5pm. Luck of the Draw Doubles: Saturdays, 10am. Handicapped League: Saturdays, 1pm. Singles at the Sarge: Sundays, 10am. All skill levels welcome. Instruction available. See website or email for info. . savannahdiscgolf@gmail.com. savannahdiscgolf. com. Savannah Striders Running and Walking Club

With a one-year, $10 membership,free training programs for beginners (walkers and runners) and experienced athletes. Fun runs. Advice from mentors. Monthly meetings with quality speakers. Frequent social events. Sign up online or look for the Savannah Striders Facebook page. . savystrider.com. Tai Chi Lessons in Forsyth Park

Tuesdays, 9am-10am. $10. North End of Forsyth Park. Email for info. . relaxsavannah@gmail.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Turbo Kick Cardio Workout

Lose calories while dancing and kickboxing. No experience or equipment needed. Tues. and Thurs. 6pm, Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton Wed. 6pm Lake Mayer Community Center, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. $5 . 586-8221021. facebook.com/turbokicksavannah. Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors

Free for people with cancer and cancer survivors. 6:30pm Tuesdays. 12:45pm Thursdays. Fitness One, 3rd floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine at Memorial. Call for info. . 912-350-9031. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Yoga on the Beach

Wednesdays and Fridays at Tybees’s North End. 7am-8am, weather permitting. Come to North Beach Parking Area, Gulick Street walkover. Multi-level class. Hatha 1 and 2. Instructor Ann

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A celebration of Savannah’s diversity with emphasis on the GLBT community. Savannah band Cusses headlines live acts, plus ‘She and She,’ ‘Roxxy Andrews,’ Kristina Foxx, The Club One Cabaret, and a finalist from Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 5. Children’s area with games and inflatables. Mayor Edna Jackson presentation at 3pm. $5 all day. Free for kids under 10. VIP tent: $40. Mark@savpride.com. savpride.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Dirty Dolls Burlesque Revue

Contemporary Burlesque Revue featuring an All-Lesbian Cast of local and nationally renowned entertainers. Premiers Gay Pride Weekend as the largest event catering to LGBT Women, friends and advocates. $10 (912) 232-0200. msmaryeliza@gmail. com. Club One, 1 Jefferson St. First City Network Board Meeting

First Monday, 6:30pm, at FCN office, 307 E. Harris St. 2nd floor. Call or see website for info. . 912-236-CITY. firstcitynetwork.org. Gay AA Meeting

True Colors Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, a gay and lesbian AA meeting that welcomes all alcoholics, meets Thursdays and Sundays, 7:30pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 311 E. Harris, 2nd floor. New location effective 11/2012. . Georgia Equality Savannah

Local chapter of Georgia’s largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 912-5476263. . Savannah Pride, Inc.

Organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival and helps promote the wellbeing of the LGBT community in the South. Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month, 7pm, at FCN office, 307 E. Harris St., 2nd floor. . 912-288-7863. heather@savpride.com.

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A children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Ages 10 to 18. Meets twice a month. Call for info. . 912-3522611. Health

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For people who want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Free to attend or join. Check website for meeting days/times, or call 24 hours a day. . 912-356-3688. savannahaa.com. Armstrong Prescription Drug Drop-Off

Armstrong Atlantic State Univ. hosts a permanent drop box for disposing of unused prescription drugs and over the counter medication. In the lobby of the University Police building on campus. Open to the public 24 hours/ day, year round. Confidential. All items collected are destroyed by the Drug Enforcement Administration. . 912-344-3333. armstrong.edu. about. armstrong.edu/Maps/index.html. Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn St.

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