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FILM: THE ARK OF THE SUN GOD
For Raiders of the Lost Ark's 34th anniversary, the PFS screens this forgotten European ripoff of the film. In this version, a safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to the god Gilgamesh but is now in the temple of a secret cult. 8 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. $6
THURSDAY / 11 COME AS YOU ARE: OPENING LECTURE AND RECEPTION
Telfair presents a lecture by Alexandra Schwartz, the curator of the exhibition, who will discuss the diverse themes that marked the are of the 1990s, from identity to digital technologies to globalization. 6 p.m Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Free and open to the public telfair.org
CONCERT: THE BRITISH INVASION
The British are coming and so is the Onstage Cabaret Series. Cabaret veterans Trae Gurley, Natasha Drena, JJ Hobbs and Cecilia Arango will sing the hits of the Beatles, Petulah Clark, Dusty Springfield and many more. 8 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $25
FRIDAY / 12 CONCERT: 1964 THE TRIBUTE
Named by Rolling Stone as the best Beatles tribute band on Earth, 1964 The Tribute takes their audiences on a musical journey to an era in rock history that will live in all of our hearts forever. 7:30 p.m Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St.
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CONCERT: CASTING CROWNS
Christian music group Casting Crowns perform songs from their new album, "Thrive." 7 p.m Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $25
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Larisa and Steven Elisha are each internationally acclaimed soloists, chamber musicians, and clinicians. Together they are the Elaris Duo. Their concert program features works of works of Luigi Boccherini, Mozart, Zoltán Kodály, and Johann Halvorsen. 7:30-9 p.m Messiah Lutheran Church, 1 Westridge Road (The Landings). Free
LECTURE: WHY TREES FAIL
Coastal Arborist Association presents this lecture by Dr. Kim Coder of the UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. noon Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne Ave. 478-733-2606. mmcclellan@gfc.state.ga.us
THEATRE: BIG FISH THE MUSICAL
Big Fish is an extraordinary new Broadway musical, based on the novel by Daniel Wallace, spinning magic and myth, fact and fiction. 8-10:45 p.m Savannah Children's Theatre, 2160 E Victory Dr. $15-20 912-238-9015. savannahchildrenstheatre.org
THE UN-GALA
The un-Gala is presented by Coastal Heritage Society and will feature a taste of local fare, while the outdoor museum offers guests a chance to be a kid again with an array of board games, lawn games, and hands-on activities. Guests will enjoy food, cocktails, including an adult lemonade stand, and playtime in SCM's interactive exhibits. The Accomplices perform, and a throw-back dance party, courtesy of Shockwave Entertainment, will close out the night. 6-10 p.m Savannah Children's Museum, 655 Louisville Road.
SATURDAY / 13 FILM: BULLITT
An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. Followed by a post show discussion of the film. 7 p.m Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St.
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THEATRE: BIG FISH THE MUSICAL
Big Fish is an extraordinary new Broadway musical, based on the novel by Daniel Wallace, spinning magic and myth, fact and fiction. 3-5:45 & 8-10:45 p.m Savannah Children's Theatre, 2160 East Victory Dr. $15-20 912-238-9015. savannahchildrenstheatre.org
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CONCERT: BELLS OF CHRIST CHURCH
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Savannah-based youth handbell choir returns from successful southeast tour, including Spoleto! Cookout at Whitefield Center follows concert at 5:30p.m. 4 pm Christ Church Anglican, 2020 Bull St
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Soprano Brenda Rucker and Tim Hall, Eric Jones, Jackson Evans. 3 p.m Lutheran Church of Ascension, 120 Bull St . Free
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Elmo, Grover, Abby Cadabby, and their Sesame Street friends welcome Chamki, Grover’s friend from India, to Sesame Street. Together, they explore the universal fun of friendship and celebrate cultural similarities, from singing and dancing, to sharing cookies! 6:30 p.m Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $15-$55 912-651-6556. sesamestreetlive.com
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Float for a cure and benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Sponsored by Spine and Sport. Day-of registrations and wristband pickup are at Ally 3 on Back River from 12-1pm. 1-4 p.m Tybee Island, Tybee Island. $30 advance, $40 day of
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WEDNESDAY / 17 FILM: MYSTERY ISABELLA ROSSELLINI FILM The PFS will host a rare public screening of one of the most unusual films she has ever starred in, and one that was sadly ignored by the majority of the viewing public. Title revealed at showtime. 8 p.m The Sentient Bean, 13 East Park Ave. $7
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Vs. Asheville. Pack the Park for charity. 7:05 p.m Grayson Stadium, 1401 East Victory Dr. $8
SESAME STREET LIVE
Elmo, Grover, Abby Cadabby, and their Sesame Street friends welcome Chamki, Grover’s friend from India, to Sesame Street. 10:30 a.m Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $15-$55
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EDITOR’S NOTE
‘Tell the police I’m Commissioner Shabazz’ Summer’s only just begun. What’s supposed to be a time of leisure and fun for children has, in some parts of Savannah, become hell on earth. SUMMER IS the trying As the powers-that-be continue to time in Savannah, and not sing the praises of increased tourism and only because of the heat increased development downtown, Savanand the bugs. nah’s poorest neighborhoods are at dire risk. With school out, few Most troubling of all, the risk seems to jobs available, and temperabe metastasizing to a younger and younger tures too high to compopulation every year. fortably stay inside The only way out of this quagmire is houses without air conditioning, Savannah’s leadership—from politicians, from families, most poverty-and-crime-ridden neighborfrom neighborhoods, both in weeding out hoods are at even higher risk for violence. criminals and in increasing education and Locally, this is often accompanied by all economic opportunity. kinds of foolishness on the part of elected But what happens when the leadership is officials. This summer looks like a doozy on itself criminal? all fronts already. Continuing his stellar record of responLess than a week after public schools let sible public service, Chatham County Comout, 15-year-old Mikell Wright was shot missioner Yusuf Shabazz was involved in a and killed at an Eastside apartment. bizarre hit-and-run last week. Three other teens, two of them 15 and You’ll recall the last time Shabazz made one of them 13, have been charged. As shocking as the very young ages of the the news was summer 2014, when he urged a boycott of a locally-owned business he participants are, another shock came later. All three teens—including the 13-year-old accused of cooperating with police in the —are being charged as adults in the murder. shooting of Charles Smith on Augusta Avenue, not even in his district. I don’t remember much about being 13. The business owner said he feared for his I think it involved watching Gilligan’s Island after school, and being vaguely aware of hav- family’s safety due to the Commissioner. Cooperating with police is clearly a major ing really nice feelings about Mary Ann. sin in Shabazz’s mind, as evidenced by his The idea of shooting someone, or being latest shenanigan. charged for murder, wasn’t even at the farIn the hit-and-run, Shabazz was driving thest fringe of my universe. I can’t begin to what’s cryptically described as a “non-emerimagine what it must be like to live in that gency medical transport vehicle,” i.e., used to world, or to try and raise children in it. take people to medical appointments. Soon after Wright’s murder, someone A City-employed flag person directed fired shots into the apartment complex traffic around the unloading of heavy equipwhere the murder happened, triggering a ment. Shabazz elected to ignore the flag larger investigation. person and drive around, striking the flag And that saga is just one chapter in the sadly predictable spike in summer violence. person with his side mirror, causing injuries. The politician didn’t stop, but came back Early Monday morning on the Eastside, the driver of a suspected stolen vehicle shot later, allegedly saying “Tell the police I’m at police several times after he was stopped. Commissioner Shabazz.” And he left again before police arrived. He was apprehended and no one was hurt. On Sunday night, a man in his 20s was Police served Shabazz’s attorney with wounded by gunfire while in a car in Cuyler- several citations, including leaving the scene Brownsville. There was a four-year-old child of an accident with injuries, reckless driving, in the back seat. and driving on the wrong side of the road. On Saturday night 26-year-old ValanBecause the injuries likely don’t qualify as tine Gant was murdered on the Southside, “severe,” the charges are all misdemeanors. apparently in a drug deal gone bad. (The flag person will press charges.) A three-year-old child was in the car. The I wonder what would happen if you or I child was hit by shrapnel from the shooting. left the scene of a hit-and-run, twice, while And on May 31, another 15-year-old was driving a vehicle possibly carrying ill and shot on the Westside. infirm patients? BY JIM MOREKIS
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You have to wonder how differently Shabazz was treated due to his status as an elected official—one who has clashed with police before and encouraged the public to disrupt law enforcement activities. Also, and this is pure speculation, you have to wonder if he got away with anything by leaving the scene, i.e., a Breathalyzer test and/or a blood draw. I mention this because another County Commissioner, Dean Kicklighter, was recently arrested and booked in jail for DUI (actually “DUI Less Safe”) after breaking a Garden City speed limit by 20 mph. There’s no good guy in either scenario, but here’s what Kicklighter told police, as captured on video: “I know I fucked up, I know I did. I’m sorry.” Not to try and make Kicklighter into a hero, but compare his words to Shabazz’s and draw your own conclusions. Come to think of it, a few years back Thunderbolt Alderman and Mayor Pro Tem John Hall was also busted for DUI. You probably know John Hall better today as a Savannah City Alderman, representing one of the most crime-plagued districts in Savannah. It’s difficult to enforce the law, or to ask citizens to take the law seriously, when our leaders disregard it so often. And in Shabazz’s case, with such blatant contempt. As long as voters keep electing and reelecting people like this, they shouldn’t be surprised when the youngest and most impressionable among us continue to lose their way, often in a lethal fashion. To use an unfortunate firearm analogy: Our politicians didn’t hold a gun to anyone’s head to get where they are. They were put there by the voters, and with us is where the ultimate responsibility lies. Maybe it’s time for people to say, “Tell Commissioner Shabazz I’m a voter.” CS CORRECTION: In last week’s story on Smith Bros. reopening on Liberty Street, we misidentified their preferred coffee roaster. The featured coffee roaster of choice at Smith Bros. is Savannah Coffee Roasters, who have had a long and fruitful relationship with the Smith family for over 40 years. We apologize and regret the error. Now go to Smith Bros. for some awesome coffee!
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These walls can talk—and they should
Oh, public art, I just can’t quit you.
empty, its bronze statues surrounded by broken glass. Jerome’s not a grudge holder, but he remains disturbed at how attempts to unify I’M A HUGE fan of all Savannah’s historic narrative to include forms of creative expresslavery never quite seem to take. He’s parsion, and I can think of no ticularly frustrated with the 2002 Africanbetter summer activity American Monument on River Street, than to spend an afterwhich depicts a black family in modern noon in air-conditioned dress supposedly reunited after Emancipamuseum meditation. tion (see story about Juneteeth on page 16.) But there’s something about encounterWhile a quote from Maya Angelou ing the extraordinary in mundane places—a alludes to the horror of the Middle Passage, splash of color on a building, a blocky tag on the sculpture does nothing to acknowledge a railcar, a freakish sculpture rising out of the concrete—that gets me giddier than half the human trafficking that went on near that an Adderall and a shot of tequila. very spot as it glosses over its consequences, Unlike delicate canvases and painstakstill reverberating in the cobblestones and ing installations that warrant quiet, curated concrete. spaces, public art might be coarser in both By commemorating a long-forgotten slave burial ground, Jerome Meadows’s In Jerome’s educated opinion, “the symcontent and component. It isn’t necessarily public art park in Porstmouth, NH helped a town come to terms with its history. bolic use of public art in this case is a beholden to strict hours or rules about its failure.” affairs and short-lived relationships, it appears city leaders finally decided to honor these viewers wearing shoes. It has to be a little So what did Portsmouth get right that that when it comes to matters of the heart, it is long-forgotten souls in a way that speaks to Savannah hasn’t yet? Sure, we could talk all tougher, a little rougher, not only to endure rocket science after all.” the elements, but to reach out and grab the history honestly and with dignity. day about the differences between a small Bison Jack and SeeSAW have more mural attention of someone who might not have Jerome’s Portsmouth African Burying Yankee hamlet of mostly upper-middle class platitudes in store, and in the meantime, been looking for it in the first place. Ground Memorial Park is a somber yet white folk and a busy Southern port city ten other parts of the city are blooming with With public art, we can come as we are, serene testament to the loss and pain of a times as large and far more racially balanced. unconventional art—literally. On the façade people’s forced separation from their homeand if it’s doing its job right, it feels like it But like Savannah, Portsmouth once tipof Judge Realty on Abercorn, artist Jamie belongs to us all. land. Hundreds turned out for the plaza’s toed around its unpleasant history. It now Bourgeois is currently cultivating an outThe recent collaboration between Seededication a few weeks ago as the centuries- has an accessible, durable medium to recdoor design completely out of live Spanish SAW public art pioneer Matt Hebermehl old bones were reburied and laid to rest. ognize the people dragged away from their moss, a brilliant and beautiful use of organic and wordsmith Jason Armstrong Beck Throughout the almost-eight year creative families and treated like animals so that the felt like such a gift when it took over 212 materials that celebrates Savannah’s natural process, Jerome says he couldn’t walk down country we all share now could thrive. Broughton Street last week. resources (and also what might happen if the street in Portsmouth without someone By embracing the bones of the abused For seven nights, passersby were drawn Banksy gave birth to a Chia Pet?) stopping to shake his hand for unshrouding and forgotten, the town has caught up with Along with inspiration and celebration, to a colored glow emanating from the empty the town’s slave history and giving it a perthe present and can face its future with art that is accessible to all can bring even building, its windows covered in orange manent place in its mainstream narrative. integrity. paint except for four circular viewing points. more to our collective table: Under the right “When a community acknowledges how “It was something we should know, and circumstances, public art also has the power valuable it is, it’s the pinnacle of what the (Who needs drugs when there are psychenow that we do, we’re speaking of it in the to prompt healing and redemption. delic portholes to a poetic peepshow?) ‘public’ in public art is all about,” he says, way should have all along,” says Jerome of Inside, a newly-crafted bit of relatable If that sounds eye-rollingly dramatic, con- adding that the project has given the area’s the changed cultural dynamic. wisdom from Beck’s literary persona, Bison sider what Jerome Meadows just did for small black community and its supporters a Public art can help us reach back and Jack, was projected onto the back wall after Portsmouth, New Hampshire. sense of closure and reconciliation. acknowledge the hard, ugly parts of SavanYes, I mean our Jerome Meadows, of the sun went down. Outside, a crowd would The irony, of course, is that a similar proj- nah’s history and has the potential to make Indigo Sky Community Gallery, Blank magnetize on the same patch of sidewalk, ect is what brought Jerome to Savannah: space for more compassionate solutions to three or four people at a time, looking, chat- Page Poetry and other projects that have Back in 1997, the D.C.-based artist was the issues rooted in what Jerome calls our ting, lounging on the planters, simply being. provoked Savannah’s conscience and concommissioned for a public art park at Yam- “strong, tender racial dynamic.” Usually, a group of scruffy weirdos millsciousness. You may have heard he’s Kind acraw Village, where Chief Tomochichi What it would look like and how we’d ing around in front of an empty storefront of Big Deal in the international art world; if first met General Oglethorpe and a pubraise the money and cut through the red might arouse suspicion. But with proper you haven’t, let the fact that he won the $1.2 lic housing project sits literally yards away tape are details best left to the artists and the permitting and support from Jeanne million contract in New England over four from Savannah’s former slave markets. But administrators, but the conversation must Svendson-Campbell of Galerie 124, these other prominent finalists speak for itself. by the time the final memorial was installed continue, no matter how awkward. random congregants became holy witnesses, When Portsmouth city workers dug into a decade later, Jerome’s original vision had In fact, it reminds me of another one of connected by shared observation and the a layer of crumbling coffins while replacing been reduced by mismanaged budgets and Bison Jack’s truisms: sewer lines in 2003, excavations revealed occasional hosanna. apathetic leadership. “I don’t have the words, and you don’t have An excerpt from Evening No. 5: “I wish the remains of an estimated 200 enslaved Today, the thoughtfully-planned square the words, so maybe we should just start there.” I had paid more attention in physics class and people interred there in the 17th century. on Bay and Fahm Streets is largely ignored cs by guidebooks and tour buses, its fountain 10 chemistry, because after all these years of love The site had always been talked about, and BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS
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DR. RICHARD JACKSON is clearly frustrated with our national response to increasing rates of type 2 diabetes and other health problems related to physical inactivity. “We preach about what we want people to do, then we make it impossible for them to do it,” he said. Jackson, a pediatrician and professor at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, was the keynote speaker at the second annual Georgia Trail Summit in Athens last week. His prescription for improving the health of children and adults focuses more on parks than pills, more on infrastructure than injections. “We should create beautiful places that encourage people to be active,” he said. For nine years Jackson was director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award. He’s co-written two books on the relationship between the built environment and chronic diseases: “Urban Sprawl and Public Health” in 2004 and “Making Healthy Places” in 2011. He also hosted the public television series, “Designing Healthy Communities.” “As doctors we’ve been wagging our fingers at people for the last 30 years.” Jackson said. “We’ve failed them.” His ideas about the link between infrastructure and public health found a receptive audience at the trail summit, which was attended by advocates and government officials. “It’s exciting to see the trail summit embrace the message that Richard Jackson carries. We need to design healthy communities, which we haven’t done for decades,” said Paula Kreissler, director of healthy living & community development for Healthy Savannah and the YMCA of Coastal Georgia. This was her second year attending the conference. Since last fall Kreissler has been working with parents, teachers and students at 10 Savannah schools, and has found significant barriers that make it impossible for children
The Silver Comet Trail had a $461 million economic impact. A proposed expansion would increase that to $735 million, a 400 percent return on investment. and adults to engage in the type of healthy activity recommended by Jackson and other physicians. “The No. 1 issue we are hearing from the schools is the need for sidewalks so children can walk safely,” she said. Only 26 percent of streets in Savannah have sidewalks on one or both sides and most of those are in historic neighborhoods, according to Kreissler. Trail summit sessions also focused on a different kind of health, exploring the power of trails to resuscitate communities suffering from poor economic conditions. A prime example is the Silver Comet Trail, a former rail line converted to a shared use path in 1998, which runs 61 miles west from Cobb County through Paulding and Polk counties to the Alabama state line. The Northwest Georgia Regional Commission initiated an economic impact analysis and planning study in 2012 and found the trail has a $461 million economic impact. The benefits of additional trail connections are even more exciting. “For every $1 spent on the Silver Comet Trail expansion, Georgians gain an estimated $4.64 in direct and indirect economic benefits. This translates to an over 400 percent return on investment for local communities, the region and the state.” The Polk County Standard Journal newspaper reported on considerable support at public meetings in April, during which citizens reviewed proposed routes to extend the trail from Cedartown to Cave Spring. However, enthusiastic residents and proven economic benefits didn’t stop Rep. Rob Woodall of Athens from taking to the House floor last month where he, “decried
the Silver Comet Trail’s receipt of $3.7 million in federal funding,” according to Patrick Wojahn, director of government relations for the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, a national advocacy organization. But that’s not all. Reps. Sam Johnson of Texas and Vicky Hartzler of Missouri have introduced a bill, the “Right-of-Way for American Drivers Act of 2015” (H.R. 2609), which would “eliminate the largest dedicated source of funding for trails, and walking and biking infrastructure in America” according to Wojahn. The Transportation Alternatives Program “helps create trails, crosswalks, sidewalks and bike lanes, helping millions of people safely get where they need to go under their own power.” Beth Gardner, vice president of governmental affairs at Americans for Prosperity, wrote in support of H.R. 2609, describing it as a way to eliminate “wasteful spending unrelated to core transportation needs.” However the truth of the matter is that for many people TAP doesn’t provide transportation “alternatives.” For them, TAP does indeed provide for “core transportation needs.” There’s nothing alternative or “wasteful” about it. “Today, 12 percent of all trips in the United States are made by biking or walking,” Wojahn wrote in an email to trail advocates June 8. “These active-transportation modes continue to grow as options for more and more Americans, yet we only invest 1.5 percent of surface transportation funds in these programs.” For Gardner, Hartzler, Johnson and Woodall, it seems even that miniscule amount of funding is too much. CS
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Will the CSS Georgia and its artifacts stay in Savannah?
Archaeologists raise the historic wreck— and raise questions about its future
of fascinating aspects about the ship and its weaponry. Musket trigger guards, bayonet handles, cannons, pieces from a sliding gun ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVAcarriage and pairs of leg irons have been TOR Parker Brooks points to a cluster of recovered, with many more mysterious barnacle-encrusted lumps. lumps to sort. Recovered from the wreckage of the CSS “This was one of the first modern wars, Georgia, the pile could be mistaken for a and there was a lot of thought put in to hunk of fused car parts, or a perhaps petrihow you could hurt someone,” drily notes fied sea creature. Brooks, whose job is to blast through the But Brooks, a graduate student at Texas found items’ scabrous build-up with pneuA&M’s Conservation Research Lab, identi- matic chisels and an electrolysis solution fies them as Civil War-era cannon fodder for to remove excess salts. Molds are made of a small crowd gathered around his display at certain pieces, and the original artifacts are the Savannah History Museum. sealed to protect them from the elements. “These here are solid iron balls. What’s really interesting about them is that there’s no spot for explosives—they probably just Conservator Parker Brooks shows off did plenty of damage all by themselves,” he some of the finds from the CSS Georgia, explains. including leg irons and cannon fodder Brooks has been in Savannah since Janu- (below l. and r.). Photos courtesy of U.S. ary to help categorize and archive the remArmy Corps of Engineers, Savannah District. nants of the Confederate ironclad gunship. Built in 1862, the CSS Georgia reportedly had a weak engine and spent its short life as a floating battery at the mouth of the Savannah River. It has lain at the bottom since it was intentionally sunk in 1864 in front of Fort Jackson to avoid capture by Union forces. That was when the Savannah River held a depth of a mere 13 to 17 feet, and the wreck has been bruised and bumped as engineers dug down the waterway to more than twice that in the last century-and-ahalf to accommodate ever-increasing cargo traffic to the Port of Savannah. The Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP), currently underway, will dredge the river down from 42 feet to 47 feet and effectively destroy the Georgia’s resting place. Fifteen million dollars of funding to save what’s left of the historic vessel was included in SHEP’s $700 million budget. Since it began in January, the underwater dig—sponsored by the U.S. Army 14 Corps of Engineers—has yielded plenty BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS
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A 10-person marine archaeology team led by Dr. Gordon Watts and Stephen James of Tidewater Atlantic Research has collected more than 1500 artifacts, using divers to map out the larger pieces in the zero-visibility waters and a clamshell-shaped scoop to lift them out. (A U.S. Navy salvage team has been tasked with recovering the massive sections of casemate and many instances of unexploded ordnance, or UXOs.) Other surprising finds among the Civil War remains are evidence of the area’s prehistoric residents. A pile of ancient stoneware has been discovered along the shelf, which the archaeologists say can reveal much about early life on the Savannah River. “We’re not talking about little sherds, either,” says James. “I mean large pieces of decorated pottery.” All in all, the CSS Georgia dig has already unearthed a treasure trove of historic items as well as enough pieces of casemate to possibly reconstruct the ship. But what will happen once it’s all brought to the surface? At a lecture last week at the Savannah History Museum inside the Visitor’s Center, the Corps of Engineers and its contractors attempted to clarify that question for a standing-room only audience. “The truth is, we really don’t know,” said Julie Morgan, the Corps’ lead archaeologist. “Even though the Savannah district is doing the work on this river, we don’t manage this resource. It’s accountable to the U.S. Navy.” That was something of a revelation to lecture attendees, many who thought the ship might stay in Savannah. Under maritime law, the CSS Georgia is considered a “captured enemy vessel” and is therefore the property of the federal naval agency. Any plans for its display and longterm curation have not been made public. As of now, selected vessel components and artifacts will be taken to Texas A&M
for further study; the rest will be cataloged and reburied at an undisclosed site along the river. At the lecture, someone floated the idea of it being housed at the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, where it would join the restored wooded hull of another Confederate ironclad warship, the CSS Jackson. But the resounding opinion was that the ship ought to return “home” to Fort Jackson. That would be a coup for city tourism as well as for the Coastal Heritage Society, the non-profit that oversees the fort as well as five other historic sites, including the Georgia State Railroad Museum. “But that means we have to come up with a plan, the money and a facility,” admonishes a board member. “That’s a lot.” In the meantime, the CSS Georgia is still nearby. A series of public outreach events and activities have been planned by local archaeologist Rita Elliott for the next year, including teaching resources and a documentary produced by Cosmo Mariner Productions’ Michael Jordan. A public viewing day will take place in July, though an exact date depends on how quickly the UXOs can be removed. There are plenty more exciting surprises expected to come up from the river. Brooks shows his rapt audience another piece of crusty iron, which he designates as an elevator screw from one of the ship’s gun carriages. “Look at this,” he exclaims gleefully as he places a hand on the edge and pushes. “After 150 years buried under water, it still turns!” CS More photos of the artifacts recovered from the CSS Georgia can be seen at flickr.com/photos/savannahcorps
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A cross section of casemate reveals intersected layers of railroad iron. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District.
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Juneteeth @150
A century and a half of freedom from slavery celebrated at the Jepson
BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN officially freed American’s slaves in 1863, but it took a couple of more years for the Emancipation Proclamation to make its way to the people to whom it mattered most. On June 19, 2015, Union Major General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, TX and announced the end of the war and the beginning of freedom for enslaved people. The reading of General Order No. 3 inspired great joy and jubilation, and Juneteenth celebrations became a tradition throughout the country. While initial enthusiasm waned in the early 1900s, a resurgence of interest in Juneteenth sprung up during the Civil Rights movement. Today festivities are shared in hundreds of communities—it’s even a state holiday in Texas, the site of the first fall of slavery’s shackles. Here in Savannah, that bittersweet occasion has been heralded at the Telfair Academy’s Jepson Center for the Arts with music, art and homage to slavery’s West African heritage for the past nine Junes. This year marks the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, bringing extra significance to the revelry on Saturday, June 13. “This is a special year,” notes Juneteenth coordinator Vaughnette Goode-Walker. “Along with continuing traditions, we’ve added the party aspect to make this a celebration of emancipation, truly.” Any good party must include dancing, and for the first time live drummers and DJ Victor Cooper will fill the grand atrium with song and beats for this free family event. Also new is the early afternoon time slot, a change that Goode-Walker hopes will entice more people to come dance and learn. “It used to be in the morning, and I think this time will be even better for children and adults to enjoy the day,” she says. The festivities begin at 1pm as GoodeWalker assists local historian and storyteller Dr. Amir Jamal Tour�������������������� é������������������� in a libation ceremony on the steps of the Jepson “to invoke the call of the ancestors to join us.”
Juneteenth schedule
Savannah tradition dictates that the commencement of Juneteenth festivities begin with a libation ceremony led by Dr. Amir Jamal Touré on the steps of the Jepson “to invoke the call of the ancestors.” Known as a griot in African culture—a keeper of stories—Touré conducts living history workshops and tours with his company Day Clean Soul. His rituals are less performances than they are ceremonies, and observers of all kinds often feel a strong
connection as he conducts a direct expression of what he calls the African Spirit. The rest of the programming will be hosted by Jim Bacote, who runs Geechee Kunda, the cultural education facility and museum in Liberty County.
Part of Bacote and Touré’s mission is to remind that the culture and tradition of Africans were not lost when they were abducted from their homeland. After they were freed, many established fishing and oystering communities along the coast of
1 pm: Libations on the front steps of the Jepson Center 1:15 pm: Introduction by Vaughnette Goode-Walker and a special presentation of the “Juneteenth Artist of the Year” by Telfair Museums’ Friends of African American Arts (FAAA) 1:30 pm: African Spirit by Dr. Amir Jamal Touré 2 pm: Performance by Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine, Chieftess of the Gullah Geechee Nation 3 pm: Storytelling with Mr. Mitch Capel, aka Gran’Daddy Junebug
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Sweetgrass basketweaver Gregory Grant (above) and Gullah Geechee Chieftess and Head of State Queen Quet (at right) pass on the West African traditions that still thrive in the Lowcountry. “The Gullah Geechee corridor is right over the river,” notes Goode-Walker. “You don’t have to go very far to find African culture.” Celebrating the evolution of AfricanAmerican art is also a part of the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth. The Telfair Museums’ Friends of African American Arts (FAAA) will present a special “Juneteenth Artist of the Year” to painter Luther Vann, a West Savannah native whose colorful, unconventionally-produced work (he paints with chopsticks!) reside in the Telfair’s permanent collection. The day finishes with a lively visit from Mitch Capel in persona as Gran’Daddy Junebug, bringing to life the words of African-American poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar. Goode-Walker hopes people will come away not only with a deeper understanding of the African-American story but also a greater awareness that some of those freed in June 1865 once walked the same streets we traverse today, and their descendants are
our friends and neighbors. “Savannah has a history of urban slavery,” reminds the historian, who also operates the walking tour company Footprints of Savannah. “Some say that sometimes we are too politically correct address that history. But we have to know it. Juneteenth gives us the opportunity to talk about it, even if it’s only for an afternoon.” CS Juneteeth 150th anniversary celebration When: 1-4pm, Sat. June 13 Where: Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 W. York St. Jepson Center Cost: Free Info: telfair.org
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Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. They became collectively known as the Gullah Geechee people, and some of those enclaves still exist today. “Gullah Geechee people and their culture are direct links to Mother Africa,” writes Touré. “Gullah Geechees and their culture are living testimonies of Africa in the U.S.” The Gullah Geechee declared themselves a sovereign “nation within in a nation,” recognized as such by Congress in 2000. Invigorating the Juneteeth celebrations once again is Gullah Geechee Chieftess and Head of State Marquetta L. Goodwine, otherwise known as Queen Quet. A dynamic West African performer and speaker, Queen Quet was born and raised on nearby St. Helena Island, SC and has spent the last two decades as an ambassador for Gullah Geechee heritage. She will be joined by painter Amiri Farris and sweetgrass basketweaver Gregory Grant (of local Grant’s Barbershop dynasty), who will provide more context to the African traditions alive and well in the Lowcountry.
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NEWS & OPINION | BLOTTER A suspect who fired on two officers early 15 Monday morning has been arrested. Officers made a traffic stop around 3 a.m. (4 solved) of a pickup truck reported stolen from the IHOP restaurant on Victory Drive. The driver got out, elbowed an officer in the face, and ran. The suspect ran towards One dead, toddler injured in drug52nd Street and Skidaway, firing at two related shooting on the Southside police officers in pursuit. Detectives are investigating a fatal shootA manhunt including K-9 unit and a ing “believed to have occurred during a drug helicopter concluded with Cory Nicholas transaction on Savannah’s Southside Satur- Baker, 19, being found around 5 a.m. in a day evening,” police say. shed on Eastgate Drive between 51st and Valantine Dwight Gant, 26, died after the 52nd Streets. Baker’s pistol was found. No 7 p.m. shooting. “A 3-year-old child who was one was injured. in the car with him was treated for minor cuts believed to be from shrapnel during the Three teens charged as adults in Eastside murder shooting,” police say. Officers responded to the 100 block of Police identified two 15-year-olds and a Edgewater Road for reports of males in cars 13-year-old who have been charged in the shooting at each other. “A car horn drew shooting death of Mikell Wright, also 15, their attention to a car in the parking lot of a of an East 69th Street address at East 38th small apartment complex where they found and Loyola streets. Grant and the child,” police say. Zykieam Redinburg, 15, of a West 57th Detectives are trying to identify the gun- Street address, Tabais Daniels, 15, of the man in the second car, a black sedan. 200 block of Habersham Street, and AntoMaj. Richard Zapal said a quantity of nio Griffin, 13, have been charged with murdrugs and paraphernalia indicative of a drug der and are being tried as adults. transaction were found in the car.
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spokesperson say. Two prior incidents – one involving an attempt to start a fire — in the Ocho Rios Villa Apartments on Westgate Court were reported in the building Monday and Tuesday. “Officers on special patrol had just left the complex when the fire began at 9:46
A 68-year-old Savannah woman has been charged in the Thursday afternoon shooting of a younger woman. Lorraine Manuel, 27, of Grant Street, was in critical condition after the shooting on Culverton Court. Cory Baker, charged after Vivian Corely has been shooting at police charged with aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, a.m. “ police say. aggravated battery and criminal attempt to “All apartments in the building were commit murder. destroyed or rendered uninhabitable in the Corely called 911 at 3:40 p.m. to report fire that appeared to be started with the that “she had shot someone in the rental use of accelerants, possibly through the use of a container that was thrown through house she owns off Beaumont Drive in southwest Chatham County,” police say. a window. Accelerants also seemed to have been applied to a stairway leading to “The shooting took place after a discusupstairs apartments,” police say. CS sion between the two women.”
Accelerants used in apartment fire Detectives are investigating theories “that a childhood spat may have led to an intentionally-set fire that destroyed an eight-apartment building in west Chatham County Wednesday,” a police
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Silicon Valley code-writers and engineers work long hours -- with apparently little time for “food” as we know it. Eating is “time wasted,” in the words of celebrity inventor Elon Musk, and normal meals a “marketing facade,” said another valley bigwig. The New York Times reported in May that techies are eagerly scarfing down generic (but nutrientladen) liquids like Schmilk and People Chow, largely for ease of preparation, to speed their return to work. The Times food editor described one product as “oat flour” washed down with “the worst glass of milk ever.” “Pancake batter,” according to a Times reporter. (That supermarket staple Ensure? According to the food editor, it’s “fine wine” compared to Schmilk.)
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Air travelers last year left $675,000 in (obviously) spare change in airport screening bins, reported the Transportation Security Administration in April. Of the cars reported stolen in 2014, 44,828 were with keys left inside them, according to an April National Insurance Crime Bureau release. American credit card holders fail to claim “about $4 billion” in earned “rewards” each year, according to CardHub.com’s 2015 Credit Card Rewards Report.
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Walter Merrick, 66, was charged with aggravated assault in the New Orleans Among recent inventions not expected to suburb of Harvey, Louisiana, in March draw venture capital interest (reported by after an altercation with neighbor Clarence Popular Science in June): (1) A Canadian Sturdivant, 64, over the comparative merits software engineer’s machine of Busch and Budweiser that unspools toilet paper beers. Bud-man Sturdiexactly three squares at a vant fired the only shot, time (but please keep fingers but a sheriff ’s deputy said away from the cleaver!). (2) A Merrick was the aggresJapanese shoulder-mounted sor -- since he had offered DON’T LEAVE THE tomato-feeder that provides Sturdivant only a Busch. ACCIDENT SCENE nourishment to marathon(In Tulsa, Oklahoma, in ers without their needing to April, police found two catch tomatoes provided by blood-splattered men in supporters. (3) Google softan apartment parking lot ware engineer Maurice Bos’ at 1 a.m., the result of a whiteboard-mounted clock dual stabbing spree with broken beer bottles -- over that writes down the exact whether Android phones time, with a marker, at fiveminute intervals (after erasing are superior to iPhones.) the previous time).
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Britain’s Home Office, judging requests for asylum by immigrants threatened with deportation but who fear oppressive treatment if returned to their home countries, recently turned down asyOur Least Hardy Generation lum for Nigerian lesbian activist Aderonke -- (1) Nursing student Jennifer Burbella Apata, 47, apparently because the office filed a lawsuit against Misericordia Univerdoubted her orientation. Though Apata sity (near Scranton, Pennsylvania) for not had submitted testimonials (and even phohelping her enough to pass a required course tographs) “proving” her homosexuality, the that she failed twice. The professional careHome Office was skeptical because she giver-to-be complained of stress so severe had children from a previous heterosexual that she needed a distraction-free room relationship. On the other hand, an immiand extra time for the exam, but claims gration court in England ruled in April she deserved even more special treatment. that a Libyan man, identified only as “HU,” (2) Four Columbia University students could not be deported since he is a career complained in May that courses in Greek criminal and a chronic drunk who would mythology and Roman poetry need “trigger” be so unlikely to reform his drinking that warnings -- advance notice to super-sensitive he would surely face a lifetime of prison in students that history may include narratives Libya. of “disturbing” events (that have somehow been studied without such warnings for The Continuing Crisis centuries). If Only There Was Somewhere He -- In March, following the departure of Could Have Turned for Moral Guidance: Zayn Malik from the British band One Suspended Catholic Monsignor Kevin WalDirection, an executive with the Peninlin, 63, was sentenced in May to more than sula employment law firm in Manchester five years in prison for running a meth distold London’s Daily Telegraph that he had tribution ring from Bridgeport, Connectireceived “hundreds” of calls from employcut, where he also operated a sex shop to ers seeking advice about workers who were launder the drug profits. (Though he faced a requesting “compassionate” leave because 10-year sentence, he had a history of charity Malik’s resignation had left them distraught. work and submitted more than 80 letters of
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Footnotes: (1) Rusty Sills, 56, previously an “underwear bandit” in West Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested in Pinellas Park, Florida, in March and charged with stealing women’s shoes -- sometimes “replacing” them with shoes he no longer fancied. (Police found about 100 pairs in his van.) (2) James Dowdy, 43, on parole for an earlier sock theft, was arrested once again in Belleville, Illinois, after police received reports of socks missing in burglaries. Authorities said Dowdy had been involved in “other types of sock-related incidents (and) using socks in an inappropriate and obscene manner,” but details were not reported. (Found in a search of Dowdy’s home were notebooks of children’s names, ages and types of socks worn.)
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Faced with a government fee accepted by most real estate investors who view it as a routine cost of doing business, wealthy Arizona investor Wayne Howard balked. Pointless Instead of the ordinary filing-fee rate of Holly Solomon, 31, $50 for registering a property deed, he pleaded guilty in April to demanded that all 2,922 of his deeds be aggravated assault with her Jeep -- against recorded for $500, and when the Pinal her then-husband -- and has been sentenced County treasurer turned him down, he told to 3 1/2 years in prison. The crime occurred the official he would simply use his pull in in a suburb of Phoenix in November 2012, the legislature to change the law and get his days after President Obama’s re-election, as 99.6 percent discount that way. (He almost Solomon ran down her spouse because she succeeded. The bill passed the state Senate was angry that he had neglected to vote for and was favored in the House, but after the Mitt Romney as expected. However, his no- Arizona Republic newspaper exposed Howshow did not affect the outcome, as Romney ard’s imperial move, it failed, 30-28.) easily won the state’s 11 electoral votes without him. A News of the Weird Classic (March
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Short-Attention-Span Thieves: (1) Alvaro Ortega, 34, was arrested for taking a uniformed police officer’s cellphone in the East Coast Catering deli in Bayonne, New Jersey, on May 18. The sleuthing was easy, in that Ortega was the only other person in the deli at the time and sheepishly admitted the theft. (2) Seattle’s KIRO-TV reported in May that a Seattle couple holding a Powerball ticket worth $1 million still has it, despite being theft victims. Someone smashed open a window in their car on May 14 and stole, among other items, a pair of sunglasses that was resting atop the lottery ticket, but left it undisturbed.
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Tombstone, Arizona, which was the site of the legendary 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (commemorated in a 1957 movie), is about 70 miles from the Tucson shopping center where U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others were shot in January (2011). A Los Angeles Times dispatch later that month noted that the “Wild West” of 1881 Tombstone had far stricter gun control than 2011 Arizona. The historic gunfight occurred when the marshal (Virgil Earp, brother of Wyatt) tried to enforce the town’s no-carry law against local thugs. Today, however, with few restrictions and no licenses required, virtually any Arizonan 18 or older can carry a handgun openly. BY CHUCK SHEPHERD UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE
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WE ALL KNOW that familiar sound. Yankees move to town and think there’s a low siren swelling in the distance, some squeal of distress as dusk falls. But here in the South, we all know the song of summertime: the chorus of cicadas, trilling in unison to greet the growing dark. With a woozy sweetness to their sound that’s as comforting as curling up for a nap in a cool, hidden-away patch of green grass, Athenian duo Cicada Rhythm are the perfect band to jump start summer. They make their Savannah debut on June 12. The collaboration of native Georgians Andrea DeMarcus (hailing from the little town of Tucker, outside Atlanta) and Dave Kirslis (of Decatur), Cicada Rhythm just signed with New West Records, home to legends like Steve Earl, Randall Bramblett, and John Hiatt, as well as hometown heroes like The Whigs. Homespun folkies like DeMarcus and
Kirslis couldn’t have written themselves a better meet-cute if they tried. Around six years back, Kirslis was a man of the rails, hopping freight trains and traveling across the states. On one venture, he and a friend were on a train cruising by Athens when, suddenly, the skies gave into a torrential downpour. “That’s when they decided they’d had enough!” DeMarcus recounts with a laugh. Calling it quits, Kirslis phoned a friend and asked to be picked up; DeMarcus, a stranger to Kirslis at the time, came along for the ride. Thus, it began. Though the duo sparked a kinship, they wouldn’t make music together until several years later. “I graduated and moved to Athens first,” DeMarcus, a Juilliard alum, explains. “Dave was like, ‘Athens is such a great music town; you need to find a band.’ I couldn’t find continues on p. 22
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anybody I really wanted to make music with…I can’t remember who said it, but one of us said ‘we should start making music together.’ And we did.” Kirslis, steeped in roots music, is a selftaught guitarist (“The real folk ingredient is the untaught one, and trying to do it,” he sagely notes). In the past, he had played in a blues band and dabbled in country and folk rock. Partnering with DeMarcus in Cicada Rhythm became an outlet for Kirslis’s softer, more melodic songs. “It just kind of fell together that way,” DeMarcus recounts. “We weren’t really trying to emulate anything.” “We didn’t have a sound we were going for,” Kirslis elaborates. “We were like, ‘what can we get away with with two people?’” The answer? A lot. With close harmonies, the fullness of a bowed bass, crooning alluringly like the hum of the train track, and warm guitar fingerpicking, the duo is refreshingly dynamic, tight with a frontporch casual feel. Kirslis’ vocals are a perfect blend of old-time influence and modern tenacity; DeMarcus has a sun-bleached timelessness to her voice. It’s easy to get lost in the winsome roamings of songs like “Do Not Destroy,” off their 2011 demo. While they occasionally bring in a drummer to “fortify” the songs, Kirslis and DeMarcus can spin some of the most powerful folk around with no accompaniment but their voices and the ten strings between them. This week, New West Records will release a 7” Cicada Rhythm recorded in a little Hancock County church. Kirslis spied the location when a friend performed a quick song there and filmed it with an iPhone.
Even through a mobile phone video, Kirslis knew that the church was the location for a live Cicada Rhythm recording. “Immediately, I was like, where is that, because it sounds so amazing!” Kirslis says. “One little pluck of a string would ring for ten seconds.” With a generator and engineer in tow, Cicada Rhythm trekked up to the little 1800s house of worship and tracked. “I really feel like, in our performance, we have a certain live component that doesn’t always get captured in a studio,” says Kirslis. “Andrea and I really play off the room and enjoy the room sound. This church in particular just had an amazing sound; the bass lit up the whole room. I could feel the history of the room. It was super-magical; it was just amazing.”
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“Punk’s not dead, it’s just barely breathing,” proclaims Burns Like Fire in their song “Last Dance.” But for all y’all who got the chance to see Orlando’s The Attack last time they were in town, you know punk rock is alive and well; this lineup will leave the crowd sweating, dripping and barely breathing after a scorcher of a set. The Attack throws it back to punk rock’s bare-boned, scrappy roots: fast and punchy tempos, surly, brash vocals, and chunky guitars with a skate-punk gloss. They recently did a few dates with beloved Irish punks Flogging Molly, bringing their big sound to even bigger stages. Athens foursome Burns Like Fire dishes out melodic singalong punk with muscular riffs and brash beats. In their five years as a band, they’ve become Athens’ prime candidate to kick off killer shows, opening for Against Me!, Bad Religion, The Queers, and more. Savannah’s Jeff Two-Names and the Born Agains start the night. Friday, June 12, 10 p.m., $8
Summer cabaret is back at The Lucas! If you’ve never been, The British Invasion is a great way to kick off a new tradition. At the Onstage Cabaret Series, the tables are turned: the audience sits directly on the stage, facing out into the theatre. The Lucas already feels like some kind of Wedgewood music box, and when you’re perched on the stage on a plush velvet couch, you get the absolute best view of the gilded architectural wonder. And all while being serenaded by some of Savannah’s finest vocalists! For 2015’s first installment, returning Cabaret stars Trae Gurley, Natasha Drena, JJ Hobbs, and Cecilia Arango will whisk audiences back in time with their stellar vocals and dynamic presence. From “Son of a Preacher Man” to “House of the Rising Sun” to “Yesterday,” the show will focus on pop hits of the mid-60s. “We knew that 1964: the Tribute was returning to the Theatre this year, and we were trying to think of a fun way to tie into that concept with our cabaret season opener,” explains Lucas Managing Director Erin L. Muller. “All of our vocalists were in immediate, full support of the idea, so we have a team of people really excited to turn out a great show.”
The eyes of Athens are on Wrenn, and who can blame them? A charismatic and simultaneously untouchable performer confecting some of the most original pop music that’s come out of Georgia’s music capital in years, she’s poised to be the Southeast’s next big thing. For now, she’s been anointed Athens’ pop queen; she’ll be holding court on Saturday at The Sentient Bean. Wrenn has that kind of chill-inducing voice often likened to Adele—intimately robust, dispelling like dandelion seeds in the wind at the end of a phrasing (she’s got a range and knack for texture, push and pull comparable to Regina Spektor’s stylings). With a full band, her songs coast rock on a platform of horns, jazzy drums, and electric guitar licks. Hammering brazenly at a keyboard draped in a curtain of flowers, her songs land somewhere between charming whimsy of Yellow Submarine, the quirk of Athens’ healthy indie-pop history, and the hooks that make giant hits. Lots of techicolor fun for all.
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AT THIS POINT, the 1990s throwback trend in fashion and music has nearly been worn ragged, but between you and me, I’ve enjoyed every second of it. While I understand why those of us in our late 20s and 30s have trouble getting we’d want to dig through our parents’ basements in search of the mall duds we wore to a Jewel concert (electric blue tiedyed, fur-print bell bottoms from The Limited, thanks, and yes, I found them), I still relish the vibe and welcomed its return. Yes, bands, please slather on the Pavement influences! The guitar solo is back, thank God—er—J. Mascis! Give me all of the platform shoes—they’re the only heels that can handle cobblestone! But the spirit of the ‘90s goes far beyond what’s in the closet and on the radio. Socially and artistically, it was a complicated—and integral—decade for environmental activism, identity politics, and globalization, via the birth of the internet and major advances in software development. While it’s simple to reduce the representation of ten years to an aesthetic, like a plastic made-in-China tattoo choker, the crucial unrest and catalytic nature of the decade is captured lovingly and painstakingly in Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, capturing some of the most important years in American history and, in turn, visual art. With work by such luminaries as Doug Aitken, Felix GonzalezTorres, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, Prema Murthy, Shirin Neshat, Catherine Opie, Gabriel Orozco, Diana Thater, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Kara Walker, this exhibit at the Jepson Center for the Arts is the first major museum survey exclusively devoted to the decade. The ‘90s were a time in which multimedia, participatory, and experimental art reigned, as artists tested the waters of new digital media and net art. Conversely, there was also a renewed interest in painting and traditional materials—something select critics deemed a backlash against tech art, while others simply saw it as a return to the aesthetics of classic beauty. Come As You Are Curator Alexandra Schwartz argues that those paradoxes and contradictions define the ‘90s as a historic turning point in the institution of art itself; it’s what makes the exhibition’s name, borrowed, of course, from the Nirvana song, so fitting. “Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be,” Kurt Cobain languidly coaxes over a narco-haze guitar riff effected like it’s tremoring in the deep end of a pool. “As a trend,” he offers. “As a friend.” From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the fall of the Twin Towers, Schwartz has strived to capture the essence of a fascinating era of art in the United States. “All the work that I chose addressed usually two of three main themes,” Schwartz explains. Man with a Computer, Aziz + Cucher
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happiness and the weary sadness of their parents. Having worked on the show for five years, Schwartz says the 1990s trend is just a matter of lucky timing. “I thought it was really fascinating, and it’s interesting that, since I started on this show, the trend has really taken off,” Schwartz says. “I feel the whole ‘90s nostalgia thing only happened in a couple years, but now there are so many artists thinking about multimedia and technology of the time. I think it’ll be really interesting for artists, and art students especially, to look at this work again and see its relevance today.” “I also had been talking to a lot of younger artists interested in the period,” she adds. “They really almost had a yearning for the political engagement that the artists of the time had, and were looking to that period.” A renewed interest in net art and the throwback aesthetics of Tumblr culture have demonstrated that resurgence within the art world. Schwartz notes that some of the artists with net pieces have had their work printed; while it would be ideal to project The Cripple, John Currin; Untitled, Sharon Lockhart; After Walker Evans: 4, it directly from the web, some of the sites their pieces originally appeared on no longer Sherrie Levine. function or exist. Technology has outgrown the art itself. In a way, that insecurity and element of Every piece demonstrates some tie between identity politics, the digital revolu- risk—not knowing if a page will one day slip away into the web, or get deleted, like a tion, and globalization. GeoCities page—makes it time-based art. The first section of the exhibition spans “A lot of the work of that time is already 1989 to 1993, highlighting work based on obsolete,” Schwartz notes. cultural, racial, class, sexual and gender dif“And it’s going to continue. It’s a fascinatferences of the era. It’s integral to view Come As You Are’s work in the context of history: ing issue, and part of what I love so much about doing the research is that these questhe AIDS crisis, Rodney King, and Anita Hill act as frames for the work on the walls. tions aren’t resolved. Yet the generations I’m looking at were on the frontlines of that; “What was happening in society and politics—that was something that was very they were the first generation with internet, the first to feel the repercussions of that.” important to me,” explains Schwartz. At Come As You Are’s opening at MontPieces like James Luna’s Take a Picture with a Real Indian (viewers could pose with clair Art Museum, Schwartz, the museum’s the artist in their choice of costume: leather founding Curator of Contemporary Art, loincloth, Plains Indian feathered headdress, was pleasantly surprised at the blend of or street clothes) unblinkingly invited scru- attendees. “So many previewers were adults during tiny of the politics of representation, as well as the role museums play in shaping the way the 1990s with specific memories of it, and there were people growing up in the ‘90s, we know history. kids born in the ‘90s who learned about it In his 1996 photographic series Sugar Children, Vik Muniz created portraits of the from friends and pop culture. I think that’s really interesting, and it’s important to bring children of sugar plantation workers out of your own personal experience to the show.” actual sugar and photographed them. Not “A lot of the subject matter is often chalonly did the series serve as a comment on lenging,” she continues. “But I think it’s really the disparity of the sugar’s country of oriinteresting and profound in a way to think gin (where workers suffered from exploitabout those works within the context of the ative labor practices) and countries where period—to think about what we’ve heard the product was sold (richer countries that about it, and the everyday life and experimade the bulk of profits)—Muniz also observed the stark contrast of the children’s ence.” CS 27
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Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s — This unique exhibition, titled after the 1992 Nirvana song, showcases 65 works from paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations to photographs, prints, videos, and digital art. Come As You Are explores the history of the 90s through the perspectives of 45 different artists born or working in the United States between the years of 1989 and 2001 -- from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11. Covering a range of social issues and geopolitical milestones, the show centers around three principal themes: multiculturalism and the “identity politics” debates, the digital revolution, and globalization. Opening Lecture and Party: Thursday, June 11, 6 pm, Jepson Center. Flashback to the ‘90s with Telfair Museums and Alexandra Schwartz, the Montclair Art Museum’s first curator of contemporary art and formerly a curator at MoMA in New York.. June 12-Sep. 20. telfair.org. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.
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laborative exhibition features illustrations that showcase royalty, nobility, family, and poetry. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St.
The Art of Diplomacy: Winston Churchill and the Pursuit of Painting — The landmark exhibition,
organized by Millennium Gate Museum, is the first of its kind in the United States since 1965 and features paintings by Sir Winston Churchill, as well as photographs, letters, and personal belongings on loan from members of his family. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.
data.tron/data.scan — Exhibition by Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda, marking his first exhibition in the southeast. Ikeda’s practice explores the contemporary world of information and data. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Dicky Stone and Dana Richardson — A native of Sewanee, Tennessee, Dana Richardson’s pieces are small-scale Savannah cityscapes in oil, collage and mixed media. Savannahian Dicky Stone transforms indigenous wood such as pecan, sycamore and maple into decorative pieces of sculpture. Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. Folk Art: Simply Profound — What is folk art?
Exaggeration and simplicity converge to describe the folk artist as he deals with family, God and the human condition. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.
The Highwaymen — The exhibit features several well known black artists known as The Highwaymen. A total of 26 artists, one woman and twenty-five men, traveled the highways of Florida from the early 1960s to the early 1990s selling oil paintings from the trunks of cars. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.
Work by acclaimed folk artist Michael Banks is on display at Gallery Espresso Joshua Hill — As well as faux finishes, painted furniture and murals, Joshua has designed greeting cards and painted canvases. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Life’s a Beach: Photographs by Martin Parr —
Martin Parr has been photographing this subject for many decades, creating images that range from close-ups of sunbathers to rambunctious swimmers caught midplunge. This exhibition presents photos of beachgoers on far-flung shores, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Japan, the United States, Mexico, Thailand, and, of course, the artist’s native England. General museum admission. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Mandala Blooms: Visual Meditations Papercut Art Exhibition — Savannah artist Rachel
Greneker’s newest hand-cut paper works. Inspired by traditional mandalas and floral motifs, each piece is hand-cut from paper using an X-Acto knife, honoring the tedious tradition of the mandala. coffee deli, 4517 Habersham St.
The Maps of Infinitude — Known for his
complex, monumental and kaleidoscopic mandala paintings, SCAD alumnus Caomin Xie (M.F.A., painting, 2001) ponders the magnitude and ethereal beauty of the celestial realm. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.
Michael Banks — Folk artist Michael Banks is
a young artist from Alabama whose art has been collected by George Clooney, Martha Stewart and Tim Burton. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St.
Moments in Space — Moments in Space by
Toni-Lyn Keller explores the use of imagery to alter the mood of a space. Foundery Coffee Pub, 1313 Habersham St.
The Paintings of Anne Taylor Nash — Anne Taylor Nash (1884–1968) did not begin painting until she was forty years old, when she became inspired by the example of her close friend Elizabeth O’Neill Verner, an artist and a key figure in the Charleston Renaissance. General museum admission. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. Savannah’s Mossterpiece — Judge Realty and Art Rise Savannah invite you to watch the face of public art in Savannah grow. Jamie Bourgeois will create a mural that represents growth, community and art out of moss on the facade of the Judge Realty building. Judge Realty, 347 Abercorn St. SHOW BIG: Works by the Landings Art Association — Inspired by the lofty large space in the
Blick Gallery, Artists of the Landings Art Association present their first group show in downtown Savannah. All work is at least 24 inches wide, some are very “BIG”, and include a variety of mediums. Blick Art Materials, 318 East Broughton St.
So-Called — Solo exhibition of existing and new work by artist Nari Ward. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Structural-Response II — A monumental installation of new sculpture and painting by Serge Alain Nitegeka created for eFINE Art 2015. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. ThincART: Thomas Mitz — This exhibition
will display a range of works by Thomas Mitz, from large oil paintings, to personal portraits and charcoal studies. ThincSavannah, 35 Barnard St. Suite 300.
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Talking with… Helen Fields
Forsyth Farmer’s Market regular is part of a thriving, but difficult, family business SAVANNAHPODCAST.COM
HELEN FIELDS thought her husband was crazy when he told her that he was giving up his welding job and going back to the farm. But Joseph Fields, a thirdgeneration farmer from John’s Island, S.C., was serious. Now, 41 years later, Helen, a former booking coordinator for a steamship company, can be found most Saturdays at the Forsyth Farmer’s Market, selling vegetables at her family business, Joseph Fields Farm. “It can be demanding,” Helen says. “What’s the hardest part?” I ask. “Being a farmer’s wife,” she says. Joseph wasn’t around to defend himself when I spoke to her, flanked by collards, cabbage, kale, strawberries, squash and peas at a recent market. Her husband was
selling vegetables at the Saturday market in Charleston. But I can’t imagine anyone ever saying anything about farming is easy. You have to work with your customers. “Even if it’s after eight o’clock at night, if they want to buy something, and he has it to be sold, he’s going to sell it to them,” Helen says. “But that means that if you’re at the dinner table, you’re going to move.” And moving is something that I’ve learned you always have to do to stay in business, whatever it is. Farming just carries bushels more physicality than most businesses. In summer, they might carry on the family tradition seven days a week. “When the watermelons, tomatoes and all that’s coming in…” she says, trailing off. “Squashes? They have to be picked every other day. So sometimes, you have to pick on Sundays, before you go to church or either afterward.” When I ask about all that bending and lifting in the hot sun, she tells me she’s actually the business behind the business.
Someone has to keep up with all the bookkeeping, certifications, marketing, sales, tours and something called a ringing phone. I’d almost prefer the dirt. (No, I take that back immediately.) “You wouldn’t want me to go into the fields because of my production,” Helen says with a laugh. “I wouldn’t bring anything out of the fields, very little. I can’t stand the gnats and the mosquitoes. And my back is bad.” Her desk has grown an extra layer of paperwork since the farm became certified organic about 10 years ago. But thankfully, Helen says, the organic label also been good for business. It was Savannah’s very own organic guru Cynthia Hayes, the John Edgerton and James Beard Award winning co-founder of SAAFON (the Southeastern AfricanAmerican Farmers Organic Network), who helped the Fields switch. “The chemicals and stuff that you used before to kill the weeds and all that, they have to be hand-picked,” Helen says. “We’re
at more markets now.” That means more opportunities for people to eat healthy. And it means another family farm can continue when so many have folded. Not that she wants to wake up at 2:30 in the morning every Saturday for the rest of her life. “What would you like to do next?” I ask. “Retire!” she says. “My husband is not ready just yet.” Helen is putting her faith in an 11-yearold grandson, Xavier C.J. Dillahunt. “He’s very passionate about becoming a farmer,” she says. “So, he plans to go to college to major in agribusiness. And he’s going to come back and take the farm.” Until then, you can count on Helen, usually accompanied by her son J.J. and helper Dwayne, to trundle down US Hwy. 17 with a truck full of nature’s best for the Park Avenue end of Forsyth Park every Saturday. Watch that space for okra, tomatoes, peppers and cantaloupe as the seasons change. CS
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Food, Guts, & Glory A food truck-style atmosphere at Gears & Grub in Garden City
Oh yes, and here, sweet potato lovers actually get to taste the favored tuber, not A WHILE back I’d been become comatose from a crust of sugar and suitably impressed by a marshmallows! little spot on Abercorn For those craving desserts, choose as downtown, Sly’s Sliders peach or apple cobbler as a side, and if you ‘n’ Fries, and was happy to have a desire for further decadence in the learn that owner/chef Matt form of cake or cookies, grab Chef Marty Baldwin and his pal Newsome and let him know. He’s one enthuDave Hammer where siastic food connoisseur! He’s a jolly dude soon to be opening a with a headful of curly brown hair, beard, new ‘meat ‘n’ three joint out in Garden City. and tortoise-shell framed glasses, and once After sampling Matt’s succulent sliders you get him started, he’ll entertain you with and hot dogs, not to mention the hand-cut stories of food, guts and glory. fries, you know I had to make my way out to “Hey, I’m an emotional guy and a big Main Street to see what new delights he is eater, and that kinda led me down the right cookin’ up! career path!” Marty grins confidently. First thing you notice is the parking lot “Just outta cop school, I had friends who slap full of big rigs, and dudes, both slim and wanted me to take off to Vegas, but I knew burly, making their way across the pavement where my tastes truly lay, so I decided to with big smiles of anticipation. They already go to Savannah Tech. Chef John taught me know what they’ll be getting: home-cookin’ a lot—he was incredible! The only thing I didn’t get into deeply was baking—but I was style meals, fresh veggies, plentiful meats and good prices, served with a smile by the dating a girl in the class who was happy to lovely Erika, and prepared by Chef Marty set me up with sugar rosettes and such on Newsome and his pal Felix Grendel. the sly, so I got through it,” he confesses. The concept of freshness is really imporThe venue is bright and full of sunshine reflecting from big front windows, clean as a tant to Marty. “I grew up around Fergufreshly whitewashed picket fence, and there’s son Avenue, always with great, really fresh seafood—throw your nets in the river and plenty of space if you decide to eat in. bring’em up full.” Mosey on over to where Felix stands behind the long bar of vividly colored vegThat idea shows up well at Gears & etables, fried chicken, huge chunky cuts Grub—you can watch the potatoes being of meatloaf and a bin of REAL mashed peeled behind the clear glass counter, each potatoes—that’s an important point here, item done right, every single day, Monday because every item fresh as a dewy daisy, and through Friday. you won’t find a single stalk of overcooked Sly’s Sliders n’ Fries led here to Gears & Grub and the tradition continues onward broccoli or soggy peas in the place. with Marty’s dream of owning his own food I’m a cornbread lover, for sure, and fastidious about a good chunka, yet even I was truck; he’s also a member of the Savannah impressed by, not a stack of dried out mufFood Truck Association. fins in paper cups, but an actual bin, a full A brigade of food trucks is a common sight in cities like L.A. or Austin, but Savanpan of luscious, slightly sweet, moist and nah has yet to get itself in gear. Marty’s eyes tender cornbread that had me dreaming of taking a hunk home for breakfast the next shine at the thought of his own truck at morning! ever-changing venues and parks around the My friend Elizabeth and I were happy city. to indulge in a plethora of fresh vegetables If the eats on his rig are as fresh and tasty that warmed my heart: tender, yet firm as that cornbread, I’m there, baby! CS slices of squash and zucchini; bright, sweet, sliced carrots; gently steamed broccoli and Gears & Grub corn-on-the-cob cooked to perfection, with 309 E Main St, Garden City just the right amount of tenderness and (912) 495-5877 30 crispiness. Mon.-Fri. 11am-3pm JUNE 10-JUNE16, 2015
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SPY
OOO Here’s the extraordinary thing about Spy, the latest comedy from director and hitmaker Paul Feig: it somehow manages to feel like both a star vehicle and an ensemble piece even though those classifications generally belong on opposite ends of the spectrum. At its center is Melissa McCarthy, who’s been memorable when part of a large cast (Bridesmaids, St. Vincent) or even in a costarring role (The Heat) but whose chances at a headlining career took a hit with last summer’s dismal Tammy. But Feig, who guided the actress to an Oscar nomination for Bridesmaids and also helmed The Heat, clearly knows how to best employ her talents, and with Spy, a picture he not only directed but also wrote, he offers her what’s basically a cinematic love letter, allowing her to not only flex her comic chops like never before but also presenting her with her most complete character to date. McCarthy plays Susan Cooper, a CIA agent who’s content confined to desk duty, serving as the miked-up voice in the ear of agent extraordinaire Bradley Fine ( Jude Law). But when Fine is put out of commission by a femme fatale named Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne, another Bridesmaids alumna), Susan volunteers to go out into the field. Her boss (Allison Janney) informs her that she’s only to observe and report, but Susan instead finds herself immersed in deep-cover espionage, mixing it up with Rayna while also contending with Rick Ford ( Jason Statham), a rogue CIA agent who firmly believes that Susan will hopelessly screw up the mission. The plot is fairly standard spy-spoof material, but Feig has taken great care to provide his star with an arsenal of comedic opportunities. McCarthy never once lets him down: Her Susan Cooper is wholly
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Melissa McCarthy stars in Spy and pops a cap in your funny bone sympathetic, but that vulnerability (rarely seen in the actress’ roles before) never interferes with her ability to deliver precisiontimed laughs. Many of these gags are at her expense, but they’re never mean-spirited, and, perhaps most pleasingly, they don’t revolve around her weight (the fat jokes are mercifully MIA) but rather the impressions that others make about her. It’s here where the rest of the cast comes in and makes Spy far more than a one-woman show. Without fail, all of the performers beautifully play off McCarthy and her often hapless, often heroic character, particularly Byrne, who’s wonderful as a cool crime queen both amused and annoyed by Susan’s shenanigans, and Statham, absolutely hysterical as a macho agent more skilled in braggadocio than in anything else. Yet the depth chart extends beyond just the marquee names, with Miranda Hart endearing as Susan’s equally awkward friend and co-worker Nancy and Peter Serafinowicz ceaselessly amusing as the randy Italian agent Aldo. Like this past spring’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, Spy derives a good amount of mileage out of upending spy-flick conventions. The scene where Susan is outfitted
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ENTOURAGE
OO There’s always a perverse pleasure to be gained when a character in a fictional movie writes a book, or sings a song, or delivers a performance, and while everyone else on screen is declaring its brilliance, we in the audience, treated to a brief snippet, are laughing at its sheer awfulness. Such a scenario unfolds within the parameters of Entourage, the big-screen continuation of the long-running (2004-2011) HBO series loosely based on Mark Wahlberg’s early years. Ari Gold ( Jeremy Piven), having ascended from being an agent to becoming a studio head, wants actor (and Wahlberg stand-in) Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) to star in his upcoming movie Hyde, an expensive update of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Backed by his trio of buddies/co-workers/ sycophants E (Kevin Connolly), Turtle ( Jerry Ferrara) and half-brother Drama (Kevin Dillon), Vincent agrees, but only if he can also make his directorial debut with the feature. Ari reluctantly agrees, and soon he’s overseeing a project that’s far behind schedule and way over budget. Ari and other studio
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bigwigs are anxious to see at least a rough cut of the picture, and they finally get a chance…as do we. The footage, featuring Vincent playing a Hyde who’s some sort of futuristic dubstep DJ orchestrating a skirmish between clubbers and cops, looks jaw-droppingly awful, with Vincent coming across like some rejected Avengers villain or, as my lil buddy Adam stated, some heretofore unseen Sith Lord (Darth Ludicrous, perhaps?). The footage is so risible, in fact, that it makes the recent bomb Jupiter Ascending look as phenomenal as Blade Runner or 2001: A Space Odyssey in comparison. In the real world, it’s doubtful even Paul Blart groupies would turn out for this nonsense, but in the vacuum-sealed world of Entourage, it naturally promises to be a critical and commercial smash. Indeed, such stunning lack of selfawareness is the constant stream running throughout this smug, self-satisfied picture, which is saved from total disaster by some clever Hollywood-insider digs but which otherwise asks us to spend an inordinate amount of time with a group of insufferable lunkheads, the sort that most of us try to avoid in social situations. Without exception, these doofuses are ripe for a comeuppance, or a putdown, or a hard lesson learned, but whenever it looks as if someone might actually, you know, grow or at least enjoy some sort of character arc—generally helpful ingredients in motion pictures, so as to prevent narrative stagnation and dramatic flatlining—creatorwriter-director Doug Ellin (scripting with Rob Weiss) pulls back and ends up letting boys be boys, or putting bros before hos, or whatever the manly meme this week might be. Nowhere is this more evident than in the character of Drama, a misogynistic creep prone to making declarations like, “[A relationship’s] not fun. What’s fun is forgetting a chick’s name while you’re fucking her.” In a slasher flick, Drama is the type of character who would be the first to go; in a high school rom-com, he would be the only one at movie’s end without a girlfriend; in a crime movie, he would be the snitch who gets garroted by Ray Liotta. Here, he’s basically the glorious hero, the Indiana Jones of a-holes, the Luke Skywalker of d-bags. Not helping matters is the fact that Dillon has always possessed the acting chops of an avocado. Equally difficult to take is Grenier, who’s supposed to be this magnetic A-list movie star but whose listless performance suggests that Vincent would even have trouble landing a gig as announcer at an Illinois hog-calling
competition. Connolly and Ferrara fare better as, respectively, E and Turtle, with Ferrara especially ingratiating in the moments when he’s trying to romance MMA star Ronda Rousey (playing herself ). And then there’s Piven, a motor-mouthed wiz who best knows how to swing around all the Tinsel Town jargon. His scenes are often the best since they focus more on the business end and provide a respite from the boorish behavior of the other guys. Other familiar faces from the show pop up here and there (Debi Mazar, Martin Landau, etc.), and of course there are more celebrity cameos than there are stars in the night sky. Some are amusing (Gary Busey), some are not (Liam Neeson), but true to form, they almost all belong exclusively to the men’s club: Armie Hammer, Tom Brady, David Spade, Kelsey Grammer, Mike Tyson, Jessica Alba, Andrew Dice Clay, Jon Favreau, Bob Saget … wait, Jessica Alba? How did she slip by, and does Mark Wahlberg know?
spending the day with her mom’s new boyfriend Daniel Riddick (Ioan Gruffudd). Riddick’s a wealthy architect, the sort of workaholic who calls his skyscrapers his “kids,” and he’s eventually revealed to be a heel molded in the same cartoonish manner as Billy Zane’s Cal Hockley in Titanic. But while Blake can’t count on Riddick for her survival, she does encounter brothersin-arms in the form of British siblings Ben and Ollie (a winning pair of performances by Hugo Johnstone-Burt and Games of Thrones’ Art Parkinson). How many times does a character smile and relax, believing he or she is out of danger, only to be faced with another crisis within milliseconds? It’s this film’s equivalent of the horror film trope wherein a cat suddenly leaps into the frame, scaring the protagonist but boring the viewer, and it occurs repeatedly. And as the mayhem grows more monumental and the rescues more outlandish, the film loses much of its initial personality and settles into standard-issue CGI chaos.
being shocked—shocked!—at the notion of space weaponization, especially in partnership with a deep-pocketed businessman (guess Eisenhower was wrong to warn us against the military-industrial complex). Where Aloha succeeds is in its delineation of its central characters’ relationships. There’s a palpable ache in McAdams’ portrayal of a woman whose betrayal by her one true love meant she had to settle for second best, and she and Cooper establish a tender rapport. Even more interesting is the relationship between Brian and Allison. Stone seems too young for her role, and Allison remains as much a conceit as an actual character—she’s like a manic pixie dream girl in uniform. But the actress injects the part with irresistible effervescence.
TOMORROWLAND
OO The title Tomorrowland is of course the ultimate product placement—this is a DisSAN ANDREAS ney-backed movie, and the Disney theme OO parks have a Tomorrowland—but in the The new disaster flick San Andreas feaALOHA context of the film, it refers to a futuristic tures an earthquake that measures 9.8 on OO realm that can only be accessed by those the Richter scale, but on the cinematic scale, Far from the madding crowd of big-bud- who have been given a special pin by a the film itself only rates a 5. That’s actuget blockbusters comes Aloha, and will there young girl named Athena (Raffey Cassidy). ally not too bad a number, considering the be a more infuriating film this summer than Young Frank Walker (Thomas Robinson) dismal quality of most of the similar shake this one? receives such a pin at the 1964 World’s Fair, ’n’ bake duds that pass through theaters, “When I’m good, I’m very good, but as does Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) in whether fantasy-based (Battle Los Angeles), when I’m bad, I’m better,” Mae West the present day. history-based (Pompeii) or imbecility-based famously purred. Aloha mishandles that Both have been chosen because of their (2012). decree: When it’s good, it’s very good, but eternal optimism and hopes for a brighter San Andreas, which basically pits The when it’s bad, it’s better left unseen. future, but over the decades, Frank (now Rock against tons of rocks, offers the comBradley Cooper stars as Brian Gilcrest, played as an adult by George Clooney) has mon theme of personal problems set against a defense contractor returning to Honobecome disillusioned, and it’s up to Casey and Athena to bring him around and in the a massive backdrop. And while Bogart’s Rick lulu after many years working elsewhere. process save the world from… Blaine in Casablanca opined that “it doesn’t There to serve as a point person between Well, I won’t spoil it, but let’s just say this take much to see that the problems of three the military and billionaire Carson Welch is the sort of movie in which a discussion of little people don’t amount to a hill of beans (Bill Murray) in their joint effort to place a in this crazy world,” in the disaster genre, the satellite in space, he finds himself becoming global warming plays a supporting role and the senselessness of Hollywood movies and problems of the little people are paramount. involved with two disparate ladies: Tracy In the case of San Andreas, the three Woodside (Rachel McAdams), the woman video games receives its obligatory culturewould be Ray (Dwayne Johnson), an LAhe abandoned decades earlier and who’s now war spanking. Brad Bird’s soap box stance would be based search-and-rescue helicopter pilot, his married to a pilot ( John Krasinski) involved easier to take if it were in the service of wife Emma (Carla Gugino), whose inability in covert missions, and Allison Ng (Emma to crack her husband’s defenses following Stone), an Air Force captain and the person an engaging film, but even on a basic storytelling level, this picture too often fails, a past tragedy has left her no choice but to assigned to look after Brian. Tracy’s marifile for divorce, and their daughter Blake particularly in its surface examination of tal woes might allow Brian an opening, but (Alexandra Daddario), whose inner decency he has to weigh his feelings for her against Tomorrowland itself. matches her outward beauty. Clooney receives the star billing, and he’s those for Allison, who initially irks but evenHanging around another part of the plot tually charms him. acceptable in the picture, but the triumphant is Lawrence Hayes (Paul Giamatti, lending performances belong to Cassidy and RobCrowe’s movie seems hopelessly naïve in necessary gravitas), a Caltech seismologist a couple of respects. The scenes focusing on ertson. The turns by these two actresses go whose own research has revealed that a gar- Hawaiian mythology and its people’s resent- a long way toward salvaging huge chunks of the movie—whenever they’re absent from gantuan earthquake is set to hit California, ment of cultural appropriation by nonthe screen or even relegated to the sidelines, with most of the damage occurring in San natives are murky and half-baked. Tomorrowland proves to be about as stale as Francisco. Sure enough, disaster wallops the Even more dubious is the generous view yesterday’s bagels. CS West Coast, and it’s up to Ray to rescue first of the U.S. military leadership (repped by his wife and then his daughter, the latter off Alec Baldwin’s barking General Dixon) as 33
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Join the Facebook group to find out about upcoming local events. Mondays. Facebook.com/groups/SAVlibertarians. Savannah Tea Party
5pm social time. 5:30pm meeting begins. 6pm speaker. Reservations not necessary. Free to attend. Food and beverages available for purchase. Mondays, 5:30 p.m.. 912-598-7358. savannahteaparty. com. liveoakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby's Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. 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. AUDITIONS AND CALLS FOR ENTRIES
Call for Applications to Citizens Academy
fibers will be considered. Day and evening class proposals can range from one-day workshops to six week courses. Interested individuals should submit an application and a proposal to include: a resume; description of proposed class; and up to five portfolio images (in digital format). Previous experience in art instruction is required. Applications are available at www. savannahga.gov/arts. The deadline for applications is July 17 at 5 p.m. Visual Arts applications should be submitted to Debra Zumstein, Arts Programs Coordinator, at dzumstein@savannahga.gov. Through July 17. 912-651-6783. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Call for Artists for 2016 Exhibitions
The City of Savannah's Department of Cultural Affairs is now accepting exhibition proposals at the Cultural Arts Gallery for the 2016 calendar year. The 1,700 square foot community gallery serves the Savannah area with exhibitions and educational programming that strengthen awareness and stimulate dialogue through artistic expression. In conjunction with each exhibition, artists are encouraged to develop and present a learning opportunity to the public such as a workshop, lecture or demonstration. All mediums will be considered for a non-degree seeking solo or group exhibitions, including video and installation pieces. Proposals should be professionally presented and should include a cover letter; a resume; an artist statement; a previous exhibition record; 10-12 digital images of the work to be considered; and a self-addressed stamped envelope if the proposal needs to be returned. Through Sep. 11. 912-651-6783. savannahga.gov/ arts. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Call for Proposals for 2015 Weave-a-Dream
The City of Savannah's Weave-a-Dream Panel has issued a call for proposals for its 2015 cultural and arts projects initiative. Applications will be accepted through the calendar year, while funds are available. Programs are to be completed prior to October 1, 2015. Project funding is available up to $2,000 for specific and innovative arts, cultural, or heritage projects or presentations that have a measurable, quantifiable benefit to Savannah’s diverse populations. The Weave-A-Dream committee seeks proposals that actively involve youth, seniors, and those who have limited access to arts based programs in Savannah. Programs engaging participates ranging from 6 -11 graders with disciplines of production, animation, photography desktop publishing, CAD, metalworking and carpentry are of particular interest to Call for Art Instructors for Fall 2015 and Winter Weave-A-Dream. While other programs 2016 such as performing, visual, media, theater, The Department of Cultural Affairs is seek- folk, design (architecture), or literary arts ing applications from artist/instructors to are also encouraged to apply. To be eligible teach classes during the fall 2015 and win- for consideration, an organization must ter 2016 sessions. Beginning, advanced, be a non-profit, 501c3, head-quartered in adult and youth classes and workshops in Savannah’s corporate limits. Proposed prothe mediums of jewelry, ceramics, printgrams must also be produced within the making, drawing, painting, metals, fused City’s corporate limits. No individual artist 34 glass, stained glass, glass beading and applications will be accepted. Through Aug. JUNE 10-JUNE16, 2015
Registration is now open for the next semester of the City of Savannah Citizens Academy, an eight-session program intended to immerse residents into the workings of their city government. The Academy gives residents a detailed overview of City services and policies and includes on-site visits, presentations by key City officials, and other hands-on activities. It's designed to increase awareness on how Savannah's government works. The application deadline is July 17. Interested citizens must be willing to commit to attend twice-a-week classes, which generally run 6-8pm, beginning July 28 through August 20. A maximum of 25 students will be accepted for the 2015 Academy, which will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. $5 entrance fee Through July 17. savannahga.gov/citizensacademy.
COMPILED BY RACHAEL FLORA | HAPPENINGS@CONNECTSAVANNAH.COM HAPPENINGS is Connect Savannah’s listing of community gatherings, events, classes and groups. If you want an event listed, email happenings@connectsavannah.com. Include specific dates, time, locations with addresses, cost and a contact number. Deadline for inclusion is 5pm Friday, to appear in next Wednesday’s edition.
2. 912-651-5988 ext. 8969. rbrown02@savannahga.gov. savannahga.gov/arts. City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 West Henry St. Call for Speakers for Geekend 2015
The theme of Creative Coast's Geekend 2015 is Growth. All entrepreneurs, developers, marketers, social media mavericks, technology enthusiasts, designers and other creatives are encouraged to apply to speak now. Geekend is looking for compelling cutting-edge content that is actionable and touches upon any one or several of the following topics: Design, Development, Mobile, Social Media, Marketing, Growth Hacking, Access to Capital, Sales, Management. The festival will take place October 15-17. Through Oct. 15. 912-447-8457. geek-end.com/speakers/apply. thecreativecoast.org. Creative Coast, 415 W. Boundary St. City of Savannah TV Show Seeks Entries
The City of Savannah's TV station, SGTV, seeks profiles, documentaries, animations, original music videos, histories or other original works by or about the citizens of Savannah to run on "Engage," a television show produced by the city. No compensation. SGTV offers an opportunity to expose local works to over 55,000 households in Chatham County. Submit proposals via website. Saturdays.. savannahga.gov/engagesgtv. Gallery Seeks Local Artists
Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street, seeks 2-D and 3-D artists to join its cooperative gallery. Must be a full-time resident of Savannah or nearby area. Work to be considered includes painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture, glass, ceramics and wood. Submit 5-10 images of work, resume/CV and bio to info@kobogallery.com. Mondays. Kobo Gallery, 33 Barnard Street ,. Homeschool Music Classes
Music classes for homeschool students ages 8-18 and their parents. Offered in Guyton and Savannah. See website for details. CoastalEmpireMusic.com.
Oatland Island Seeks Memories and Recollections for 40th Anniversary
Oatland Island Education Center is looking for memories of Oatland Island in honor of their 40th anniversary. People who were part of the Youth Conservation Corp that helped to build Oatland Island Education Center in the 1970’s. Great memories from field trips. Special family memories of Oatland Island. Send your photos and stories to memories@oatland40th.org. Deadline is August 31. undefined. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org. BENEFITS
Chatham County Animal Control Seeks Donations of Items
Chatham County Animal Control seeks items for pets in the facility. Canned and dry dog and cat food, baby formula, newspaper, paper towels, soaps, crates, leashes, collars, wash cloths, towels. Open daily, 1pm-5pm. Mondays.. 912-351-6750. animalcontrol.chathamcounty.org. Chatham County Animal Shelter, 7215 Sallie
Mood Dr.
Forsyth Farmers Market Seeks Sponsors
Market sponsors invest in a healthy community and support the local economy. Sponsorships begin at $350. Help keep food fresh and local. Tuesdays.. kristen@ forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket.com. forsythfarmersmarket. com/. Forsyth Farmers' Market, 501 Whitaker St., South End of Forysth Park. $5 Bikram Yoga Class to Benefit Local Charities
Bikram Yoga Savannah offers a weekly Karma class to raise money for local charities. Thursdays during the 6:30pm class. Pay $5 for class and proceeds are donated to a different charity each month. This is a regular Bikram Yoga class. 912.356.8280. bikramyogasavannah.com. The Next Generation's Summer Soiree
This event includes live entertainment, heavy hors d'oeuvres, and an auction. Funds raised benefit The Children's Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center. $100 Fri., June 12, 7:30 p.m. 912-350-6369. nextgenerationsavannah. com. Savannah Yacht Club, 730 Bradley Point Rd. Pink Ice Recognition and Scholarship Ball
Moving All Races To Higher Achievement (M.A.R.T.H.A.), Incorporated presents their first "Pink Ice Recognition & Scholarship Ball." All proceeds will benefit M.A.R.T.H.A.'s scholarships and support community based organizations in the Savannah area. This event is open to the public. M.A.R.T.H.A. is the non profit foundation of Gamma Sigma Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. $50.00 Sat., June 13, 7:30 p.m.-midnight. 912-507-2220. taqwaafsaleem@gmail.com. https://facebook.com/ events/976955912338740/. desotohilton. com/. Desoto Hilton, 15 E. Liberty St. SCMPD Animal Control seeks Volunteers
Savannah Chatham County Animal Control seeks volunteers to serve various tasks as needed by the shelter. No prior animal shelter experience is necessary. Newly trained volunteers will be authorized to serve immediately after orientation. Potential volunteers are asked to notify J. Lewis prior to orientation; though, walk-ins are welcome. Volunteers must be at least 17-years-old. (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@savannahga.gov. Shoes to Trees Program
Help with West Broad Street YMCA with the Shoes to Trees program. Help the MORE Foundation send millions of tree seeds to offset carbon and help Y’s overseas support themselves. Funding for this life-changing program comes from used athletic shoes donated by members, volunteers, donors, community partners, and more. Every donated pair sends 10 tree seeds to a Y overseas. Every pair removes one ton of carbon from the atmosphere. Now collecting gently used athletic and soccer shoes sizes 7-11. Through Aug. 31. 912-233-1951. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Whitman Wednesday
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Support Coastal Pet Rescue at this fundraiser, where attendees enjoy the beautifully restored Victorian mansion as well as heavy appetizers, assorted wines, beers and soft drinks. Just Desserts of Savannah will provide dog bone-shaped treats. $25 in advance, $30 at door Wed., June 10, 5-8 p.m. The Whitman House on Forsyth Park, 611 Whitaker St. CLASSES, CAMPS & WORKSHOPS
Advance Directives workshop
Join social worker Sarah Copeland as she helps you complete the paperwork to make your wishes known when you are too ill or too injured to speak on your own behalf. Easy-to-follow guidelines and complementary booklets provided. Do the loving thing for your family now. none third Tuesday of every month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. 912.629.1045. hospicesavannah.org/. Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. Art Classes at The Studio School
Ongoing weekly drawing and painting classes for youth and adults. See website, send email or call for details. 912-4846415. melindaborysevicz@gmail.com. thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Art Exploration Sessions
Projects will include color exploration, mixing experiments, creation with found objects and beyond! Artistic discoveries are always going on at the Lab. Saturdays beginning June 13th. Ages 6-11. $20 per class Saturdays, 12-1 p.m.. 912-388-1939. artlabsavannah@gmail.com. artlabsavannah.com/#!classes-for-kids/cbhe. ArtLab, 2417 Waters Ave. Art, Music, Piano, Voice Coaching
Coaching for all ages, beginners through advanced. Classic, modern, jazz improvization and theory. Serious inquiries only. 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056. Beading Classes
Offered every weekend at Perlina Beadshop, 6 West State Street. Check website calendar or call for info. 912-441-2656. perlinabeadshop.com.
Beading Classses at Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio
Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced. Call for class times. 912-920-6659. Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio, 101 N. Fahm St. Beginning Belly Dance Classes
Taught by Happenstance Bellydance. All skill levels and styles. Private instruction available. $15 912-704-2940. happenstancebellydance@gmail.com. happenstancebellydance.wordpress.com. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Board Game Nights
Bring your favorite board game or learn to play one of ours! Join our community of gamers and make some new friends while having an awesome time. Guild Hall members get in free, and non-members must simply purchase a $2 Day Pass. Saturdays, 7 p.m. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. Champions Training Center
Offering a variety of classes and training in mixed martial arts, jui-jitsu, judo and other disciplines for children and adults. All skill levels. 525 Windsor Rd. 912-349-4582. ctcsavannah.com. Chatham County Sheriff's Office Explorers Post
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Chatham County Sheriff's Office Explorers Post 876, is taking applications from young men and women (ages 14-20) interested in law enforcement careers. Explorers experience mentoring, motivation, and learn skills which help prepare them for their roles as productive citizens. See Chatham County Sheriff's web page, click "Community/Explorers Post 876 or call. Wednesdays.. 912-651-3743. chathamsheriff.org. Chinese Language Classes
The Confucius Institute at Savannah State University offers free Chinese language classes starting January 17. To register, please call 912-358-3160. 912-358-3160. confuciusinstitute@savannahstate.edu. savannahstate.edu. savstate.edu/. Savannah State University, 3219 College St. Clay Classes
Savannah Clay Studio at Beaulieu offers handbuilding, sculpture, and handmade tiles, basic glazing and firing. 912-3514578. sav..claystudio@gmail.com. Boating Classes
Classes on boat handling, boating safety and navigation offered by U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. See website or call to register. 912-897-7656. savannahaux.com. Creative Writing 2
This course is designed for students with some experience in fiction and nonfiction storytelling. Students will have assigned readings and writing homework, which will be reviewed and critiqued workshop style by the instructor and classmates. Student writing and outside readings will explore narrative structure and scenic writing, dialogue, character, place, word choice, rhythm, pacing and revision. Publication and ready pieces are the goal, along with knowledge of strong narrative structures, beautiful and varying sentences, a refined writer’s voice. Mondays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street. DUI Prevention Group
Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, offenders, and anyone seeking knowledge about the dangers of driving while impaired. A must see for teen drivers. Meets monthly. $40/session 912443-0410.
Housing Authority Neighborhood Resource Center
Housing Authority of Savannah hosts classes at the Neighborhood Resource Center. Adult literacy/GED prep: MonThurs, 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm. Financial education: 4th Fri each month, 9am-11am. Basic computer training: Tues & Thurs, 1pm-3pm. Community computer lab: Mon-Fri, 3pm-4:30pm. 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha. com/NRC.html. Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. Intro to Woodturning
Woodturning is a form of woodworking that is used to create wooden objects on a lathe. We'll show you how to get started, no previous experience necessary. Learn to make a wooden bottle opener in this class. Bring your own safety goggles or purchase some in the Forge. $25 Thu., June 11, 5 p.m. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. Intro to Woodturning: Make a Harry Potter Wand
Just in time for Father's Day, bring your dad along or surprise him with a unique, homemade gift. Ages 10+ are invited to create a wizard wand in the style of Harry Potter, all materials included. Bring your own safety goggles or purchase some in the Forge. $15 Sun., June 14. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. Intro to Woodturning: Make a Wooden Ice Cream Scoop
Create a special gift for Dad, or bring him along for an unforgettable learning experience. Work with expert woodturning in this class, no experience required. Bring safety goggles or purchase some in the Forge. $20 Sat., June 13, 3 p.m. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. Knitting & Crochet Classes
Offered at The Frayed Knot, 6 W. State St. See the calendar of events on website. Mondays. 912-233-1240. thefrayedknotsav. com. Learn to Sew
Sewing lessons for all ages and skill levels. Private and Group classes. Tuesdays.. 912596-0889. kleossewingstudio.com. Kleo's Sewing Studio, 36 W. Broughton St. #201. Life Coaching
Group & individual life coaching with a Certified Life Coach. Plan for a career change, The Mediation Center has three workshops new lifestyle, or an opportunity to pursue per month for people who do not have legal creative or business projects. Step-by-step representation in a family matter: divorce, guidance to fulfill aspirations. In person legitimation, modifications of child support, or telephone sessions. Thursdays.. 912visitation, contempt. Schedule: 1st Tues, 596-1952. info@roiseandassociates.com. 2nd Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 Downtown Savannah, downtown. Music Instruction 912-354-6686. mediationsavannah.com. Fany's Spanish/English Institute Georgia Music Warehouse, near corner of Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and chil- Victory Drive & Abercorn, offering instrucdren held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad. tion by professional musicians. Band Register by phone. 912-921-4646. instruments, violin, piano, drums and Figure Drawing Classes guitar. All ages welcome. 912-358-0054. Tuesdays 6-9pm and Wednesdays 9:30georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia 12:30am. $60/4-session package or $20 Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Music Lessons: Private or Group drop-in fee. At the Studio School. 912Portman’s Music Academy offers private 484-6415. melindaborysevicz@gmail.com. or group classes for ages 2 to 92, beginner thestudioschoolsavannah.com. Studio to advanced level. All instruments. Also, School, 1319 Bull St. Guitar, Mandolin, or Bass Guitar Lessons voice lessons, music production technolEmphasis on theory, reading music, and ogy and DJ lessons. Teaching staff of over improvisation. Located in Ardsley Park. 20 instructors with professional, well 912-232-5987. equipped studios. Fridays.. 912-354-1500. Family Law Workshop
portmansmusic.com. portmansmusic. com. Portman's Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. Music Lessons--Multiple Instruments
Savannah Musicians' Institute offers private instruction for all ages and experience levels in Guitar (electric, acoustic,classical), Piano, Bass, Voice, Banjo, Mandolin, Ukulele, Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Music Theory/Composition/ Songwriting. 609 69th Street, Savannah GA. 912-398-8828. smisavannah@gmail. com. savmusiciansinstitute.com. New Horizons Adult Band Program
Music program for adults who played a band instrument in high school/college and would like to play again. Mondays at 6:30pm at Portman's. $30 per month. All ages and ability levels welcome. Call for info. 912-354-1500. portmansmusic. com. Portman's Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. New Mama's Club
A weekly Friday gathering of new moms and their babies. Practice baby & mom yoga, do a planned activity. Dream boards, affirmation writing, personalized aromatherapy and other projects. Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon. 912-704-7650. ann@douladeliveries.com. douladeliveries.com. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street. Nintendo Controller Repair Class
Get started in electronics repair by learning what can cause a Nintendo controller to stop working, and learn to repair. All materials provided, or bring your own nonworking controllers. Sun., June 14, noon. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. Novel Writing
Write a novel, finish the one you've started, revise it or pursue publication. Awardwinning Savannah author offers one-onone or small group classes, mentoring, manuscript critique, ebook formatting. Email for pricing and scheduling info. pmasoninsavannah@gmail.com. Photography Classes
Beginner photography to post production. Instruction for all levels. $20 for two-hour class. See website for complete class list. 410-251-4421. chris@chrismorrisphotography.com. chrismorrisphotography.com. Piano Lessons
Piano lessons with a classically trained instructor, with theater and church experience. 912-312-3977. georgiamusicwarehouse.com/. Georgia Music Warehouse, 2424 Abercorn St. Piano Voice-Coaching
Pianist with M/degree,classical modern jazz improvisation, no age limit. Call 912-961-7021 or 912-667-1056. Serious inquiries only. Reading/Writing Tutoring
Ms. Dawn’s Tutoring in reading, writing, and composition. Remedial reading skills, help with borderline dyslexia, to grammar, term paper writing, and English as a Second Language. Fun methods for children to help them learn quickly. 912-660-7399. cordraywriter@gmail.com. Rhythmic Interactive Percussion Experience
True Alisandre hosts this rhythmic percussion experience, where everyone can bring their own percussion instruments or
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use one of his. Free Thu., June 11, 7 p.m. 501-932-4092. smoothyoga@hotmail.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St.
A. Roper Studio - Voice Technique and Coaching
Experienced and successful voice instructor is accepting students. Nurturing and collaborative studio. Services offered include strengthening the voice, range extension, relaxation techniques, and coaching through various styles of music. Audition and competition preparation. Located 15 minutes from downtown. Varies Mondays-Saturdays, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. 912484-0628. Downtown Savannah, downtown.
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Sing in the harmonious barbershop style with the Savannah Chorus of the Barbershop Harmony Society. No charge Mondays, 6:30 p.m.. 912-344-9768. rfksav@ gmail.com. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington Ave.
An international, leaderless network of individuals seeking more freedom in an unfree world. Meetings twice monthly, Thursdays, 8:30pm. Topics and meeting locations vary. No politics, no religious affiliation, no dues, no fees. Every other Thursday.. onebornfree@yahoo.com.
13th Colony Sound Barbershop Chorus
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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, 912-631Russian Language Classes 3452, or Darowe, 912-272-2797. abeniculLearn to speak Russian. All experience lev- turalarts@gmail.com. Avegost LARP els welcome, beginner to expert. Call for Live action role playing group that exists in info. 912-713-2718. Sewing Classes a medieval fantasy realm. generallly meets For beginners or advanced sewers. Indus- the second weekend of the month. Free try standard sewing courses designed to for your first event or if you're a non-player meet standards in the garment industry. character. $35 fee for returning characters. Open schedule. Savannah Sewing Acadgodzillaunknown@gmail.com. avegost. emy. 1917 Bull St. Sundays.. 912-290-0072. com. Buccaneer Region SCCA savsew.com. Singing Classes Local chapter of the Sports Car Club of Bel Canto is a singing style which helps the America, hosting monthly solo/autocross voice become flexible and expressive, imdriving events in the Savannah area. Anyproves vocal range and breathing capacity. one with a safe car, insurance and a valid A foundation for opera, rock, pop, gospel driver's license is eligible to participate. and musical theatre. $25 Mondays, 6 p.m.. See website. buccaneerregion.org. Business Networking on the Islands 786-247-9923. anitraoperadiva@yahoo. Small Business Professionals Islands Netcom. Institute of Cinematic Arts, 12 West working Group meets first Thursday each State Street, 3rd and 4th flrs.,. Spanish Classes month, 9:30am-10:30am. Tradewinds Ice Spanish courses for professionals ofCream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call for fered by Conquistador Spanish Language info. 912-308-6768. Chatham Sailing Club Institute, LLC. Beginner Spanish for Professionals--Intro price $155 + textbook Friday evening social event at the clubhouse. Meet Members and their families ($12.95). Instructor: Bertha E. Hernandez, who all enjoy water based activities but M.Ed. and native speaker. Meets in the whose prime interest is sailing. This BYOB Keller Williams Realty meeting room, 329 event is free and all are welcome, but Commercial Drive. Tuesdays.. conquistaMembership is encouraged after several dor-spanish.com. SSU Media High Summer Program visits once interest is gauged!! We look SSU Media High $200 Sun., June 14, 10 forward to meeting you. Fridays, 7-10 p.m. a.m. 915-358-3878. www.ssumediahigh. pranschkec3@gmail.com. Young's Marina, net. savstate.edu/. Savannah State Univer- 218 Wilmington Island Rd. Drop N Circle Craft Night sity, 3219 College St. Vocal Lessons Sponsored by The Frayed Knot and Perlina. A group of voice instructors who believe Tuesdays, 5pm-8pm. 6 W. State Street. A in the power of a nurturing community to working gathering of knitters, crocheters, help voice students blossom into vibrant beaders, spinners, felters, needle pointartists. Each instructor holds a Masters of ers, etc. All levels of experience welcome. Music in Voice Performance. Group classes Tuesdays.. 912-233-1240. Exchange Club of Savannah - Weekly Lunch held once a month, plus an annual recital. Meets every Monday (except on the fifth Varies Wednesdays.. 912-656-0760. TheVoiceCoOp.org. The Voice Co-op, Downtown. Monday of the month), 12pm-1pm. Weekly Woodturning for Dad: Scoops and Stops speaker, and honor a student of the month Curious about woodturning? Join a beginand year, police officer and fireman of the ning woodturning class taught by Low year. Charities: Jenkins Boys & Girls Club; Country Turners at The Forge of the Guild Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse. Hall. This summer select from a line up Guest are welcome Mondays, 12-1 p.m.. of six different woodturning classes each 912-441-6559. Savannahexchange.org. centered around a particular turning projExchange Club of Savannah, 4801 Meding ect. No previous experience on the lathe is Street. necessary. And if you love it and want more Fiber Guild of the Savannahs lathe practice, join the Guild Hall's drop-in A club focusing on weaving, spinning, Makers space. $20 Sat., June 13, 11 a.m.-2 basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilting, beading, rug hooking, doll making, and p.m. 844-694-8453. events@theguildhall. com. theguildhall.com/events/2015-06-13/ other fiber arts. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center, first Saturday of the month WoodturningforDad%3AScoopsandStops. (Sept.-June) 10:15am. Mondays, 10:30 a.m. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. fiberguildsavannah.homestead.com/. Fiber 36 Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown
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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. 912-5961962. 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. Island MOMSnext
For mothers of school-aged children, grades K-12. Mothering support, personal growth, practical help, and spiritual hope. First and third Mondays. Childcare on request. A ministry of MOPS International. third Monday of every month.. 912-8984344. kymmccarty@hotmail.com. mops. org. Islands MOPS
A Mothers of Preschoolers group that meets two Wednesdays a month, 9:15am11:30am. Wednesdays.. sites.google.com/ site/islandsmops. fbcislands.com/. First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd.
and fans from all over the sci-fi /fantasy universe. Meetings on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Super King Buffet 10201 Abercorn St., Savannah at 7PM. third Tuesday of every month.. 912-308-2094. kasak@comcast.net. roguephoenix.org. Safe Kids Savannah
A coalition dedicated to preventing childhood injuries. Meets 2nd Tuesday each month, 11:30am-1:00pm. See website or call for info. 912-353-3148. safekidssavannah.org. Savannah Brewers' League
Meets 1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at Moon River Brewing Co. Call or see website for info. 912-447-0943. hdb. org. moonriverbrewing.com/. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. 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. Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States
A dinner meeting every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:00 pm at local restaurants. 3rd Tuesday in November; none in December. For dinner reservations, please call Sybil Cannon at 912-964-5366. 912-748-7020. savannahnavyleague.us. Savannah Fencing Club
Knitters, Needlepoint and Crochet
Beginner classes Tuesdays and Thursdays for six weeks. $60. Some equipment provided. After completing the class, join the Savannah Fencing Club; $5/month. Experienced fencers welcome. Tuesdays, Thursdays.. 912-429-6918. savannahfencing@aol.com.
Knittin’ Night
Meets most Saturdays. Green events and places. Share ways to Go Green each day. Call for info. 912-308-6768.
Low Country Turners
Monthly meetings open to the public the 4th Monday each month, Sept. through June. ongoing, 7 p.m. savannahkennelclub.org. barnesrestaurant.com. Barnes Restaurant, 5320 Waters Avenue.
Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Call for info. No fees. Want to learn? Join us. 912-308-6768. Knit and crochet gathering held each Tuesday evening, 5pm-8pm All skill levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5-8 p.m. 912-2380514. wildfibresavannah.com/. Wild Fibre, 409 East Liberty St. A club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Call Steve Cook for info at number below. 912313-2230. 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, 3003 Rowland Ave. Philo Cafe
Discussion group that meets every Monday, 7:30pm - 9:00pm at various locations. Anyone craving good conversation is invited. Free to attend. Email for info, or see Facebook.com/SavannahPhiloCafe. Mondays. 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
A local club for role-players, gamers,
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Savannah Kennel Club
Savannah Newcomers Club
Open to women who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years. Membership includes monthly luncheon and program. Activities, tours and events to help learn about Savannah and make new friends. savannahnewcomersclub. com. 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 Quilt Guild
Meets second Saturday, 9:30am-11:30am. Social time, business meeting and program. September through June, at Woods of Savannah, 1764-C Hodgson Memorial. Membership: $25/year. second Saturday of every month.. (912) 598-9977. savannahquiltguild@comcast.net. Society for Creative Anachronism
Meets every Saturday at the south end of Forsyth Park for fighter practice and general hanging out. For people interested
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in re-creating the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Free Saturdays, 11 a.m.. savannahsca.org. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St.
a.m.-2 p.m. Heather@worldteasociety.com. worldteasociety.com. Gryphon Tea Room, 337 Bull St.
A group that plays games that tell improvised stories. Create an amazing story in just three hours, using group games with special rules that craft characters, settings, and conflicts. Sundays at 6pm. free Saturdays, 6 p.m.. info@savannahstorygames.com. savannahstorygames.com. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street.
A book club for readers who love thrillers, spy novels, and mysteries. We meet every 2nd Thurs of the month @6:30 pm. None second Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m. 912-925-8305. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St.
Savannah Story Games
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 Veggies and Vegans
Join the Facebook group to find out more about vegetarian and vegan lifestyles, and to hear about upcoming local events. Mondays. Southern Hospitality Early Afternoon Tea
The World Tea Society is hosting an early afternoon tea at the intimate, elegant and gracious Gryphon. What better way to meet new people than with a cup of tea. Ladies and gentleman come escape with us for an afternoon dressed in your finest attire. Reservations are required with limited seating. Please make your reservation at www.worldteasociety.com $18.00 plus Gratuity Sun., June 14, 11
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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. All levels welcome. Free. Purchase beverages and snacks. second Thursday of every month.. foxyloxycafe.com/. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 671
Meets second Monday of each month, 7pm, at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. 912-429-0940. rws521@msn. com. vvasav.com. Woodville-Tompkins Scholarship Foundation
Meets second Tuesday each month (except October) 6:00pm, Woodville-Tompkins, 151 Coach Joe Turner St. Call or email for info. 912-232-3549. chesteraellis@comcast.net. CONCERTS
13th Colony Sound (Barbershop Singing)
“If you can carry a tune, come sing with us!” Mondays, 7pm. 912-344-9768. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Thunderbolt Lodge #693, 3111 Rowland Ave.
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1 Get a whiff of 6 Londoner, e.g., informally 10 Open a crack 14 Portraitist’s prop 15 Norse trickster of myth 16 Adidas rival 17 Wire worker 19 Tip jar bills 20 TP layer 21 Like some hours 22 Electric toothbrush battery size, maybe 24 Bankbook amt. 25 Zooey’s “New Girl” role 26 Drink in the morning 28 Former Israeli P.M. Ehud 31 Less partisan 33 Big one 34 1984 hit for ZZ Top 35 Popeye’s Olive and family 38 Catch a few z’s 39 Gang of characters seen in the four longest answers 40 Watery, like tea 41 Attain peas? 42 “Mystery!” host Diana 43 Arabian Peninsula native 44 Belter on Broadway 46 Cathedral toppers 47 More majestic 49 Candy bar served in twos
50 Hive-minded prefix? 51 Keanu’s role in “The Matrix” 53 “Star Wars” figure 54 “___: Cyber” 57 “Read before posting anything” pages 59 Live through a hot day with no A.C., say 62 Make even 63 Pinball disaster 64 Alberta NHLer 65 “... with ___-foot pole!” 66 Dos + dos + dos 67 Smartly dressed
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1 FIFA president Blatter 2 Do perfectly 3 “___ it’s duck season ...”: Daffy Duck 4 Boggy land 5 Embellished, as prose 6 B.B. King played them 7 Infomercial inventor Popeil 8 Store with multilingual product tags 9 Dessert topped with a powder 10 G.I. mail center 11 When college transfers often begin 12 Agreements from the pews 13 Many a reggae player 18 Word after standardized or stress 23 Ventilate
25 Blog with the tagline “Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women. Without Airbrushing” 27 “Cats ask for it by name” brand 28 Preakness postings 29 Do some pirating 30 Neighbor of South Africa 31 Pretend to have 32 Worked up 34 “Star Wars” figure 36 Lois of the Daily Planet 37 Street wear? 39 They may be unwillingly shared on airplanes 43 That’s what YOU think 45 Cartoon dog surnamed Hoek 46 Hit flies 47 Hot topic of the 1992 presidential campaign 48 The painting in Roger Sterling’s office on “Mad Men”, for example 49 “___ how I roll” 52 Honey of a boo-boo 54 Mare’s child 55 Bird feeder block 56 “Just doin’ my job ...” 58 Hill worker, for short 60 Peyton Manning’s brother 61 ___ Maria (coffee liqueur)
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Concert: 1964 The Tribute
Named by Rolling Stone as the best Beatles tribute band on Earth, 1964 The Tribute takes their audiences on a musical journey to an era in rock history that will live in all of our hearts forever. Fri., June 12, 7:30 p.m. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Concert: Casting Crowns
Christian music group Casting Crowns perform songs from their new album, "Thrive." $25 Fri., June 12, 7 p.m. savannahcivic.com. The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Concert: Smorgasvocal
A concert featuring soprano Brenda Rucker and her friends Tim Hall, Eric Jones, Jackson Evans and others. Free Sun., June 14, 3 p.m. elcota.org. Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 120 Bull St . Concert: The British Invasion
$25/couple Wednesdays, 8 p.m. and Tuesdays.. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@ gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing. com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street.
The Savannah Sacred Harp Singers present a free community singing event from 1pm-4pm on Saturday, June 13th at Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, 50 Diamond Causeway, Savannah. All are welcome to participate in America's original roots music. For more information dial 912-655-0994 or visit savannahsacredharp.com. Sat., June 13, 1-4 p.m. Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, 30 Diamond Causeway.
Learn basic moves and choreography with local Belly Dancer, Nicole Edge. Class is open to all ages and skill levels. Walk-ins welcome. 15.00 Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m. 912596-0889. edgebelly@gmail.com. edgebellydance.com. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St.
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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.
Beginner's Belly Dance Classes
Beginners Belly Dance Classes
Instructed by Nicole Edge. All ages/Skill levels welcome. Sundays, 12pm-1pm. Fitness body and balance studio. 2127 1//2 E. Victory Dr. $15/class or $48/hour. Call or see website. 912-596-0889. cairoonthecoast.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. Adult Intermediate Ballet Tues. 7pm-8pm. Private classes and walk Beginner and intermediate ballet, modern ins available. Synergistic Bodies, 7724 dance, barre fusion, barre core body sculpt, Waters Ave. 912-414-1091. info@cybelle3. gentle stretch & tone. Tuesdays.. 912com. cybelle3.com. Happenstance Bellydance 925-0903. theballetschoolsav.com. Ballet Concert: Elaris Duo All levels and styles of bellydance welSchool, 10010 Abercorn St. Mondays and Larisa and Steven Elisha are each interna- Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm. $12/class or $90/8 come. Classes every Monday, 5:30-6:30pm. tionally acclaimed soloists, chamber musi- classes. Call for info. Academy of Dance, 74 Drop-ins welcome. $15/lesson Mondays, cians, and clinicians. Together they are the W. Montgomery Crossroad. Wednesdays. 5:30 p.m.. (912) 704-2940. happenstanceElaris Duo. Their concert program features 912-921-2190. bellydance@gmail.com. happenstancebelworks of works of Luigi Boccherini, Mozart, Argentine Tango lydance.wordpress.com. Anahata Healing Zoltán Kodály, and Johann Halvorsen. Free Lessons Sundays 1:30-3;30pm. Open to Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. C.C. Express Dance Team the public. $3 per person. Wear closed toe leather shoes if possible. Doris Martin Wednesdays, 6pm-8pm. Clogging or tap dance experience is necessary. Call Dance Studio, 8511-h ferguson Ave. Call or email for info. 912-925-7416. savh_tan- Claudia Collier for info. 912-748-0731. Windsor Forest Recreation Building, Windgo@yahoo.com. Awaken with Chakradance™ sor Forest. A free-flowing, meditative dance, with Dance for Peace A weekly gathering to benefit locals in eclectic music selected to resonate with need. Music, dancing, fun for all ages. each specific chakra, along with guided imagery. No dance experience or chakras Donations of nonperishable food and gently used or new clothing are welcomed. knowledge needed. $20 ongoing, 7-8:30 302 West Victory Drive Free and open to the public. Sundays, 3 p.m. 912-663-1306. Chakradancer@ p.m. 912-547-6449. xavris21@yahoo.com. comcast.net. chakradance.com/. synerwww.smokecartel.com gisticbodies.com. Synergistic Bodies, 7901 Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Dance Lessons (Salsa, Bachata) Waters Ave. Ballroom Group Dance Class Learn to dance Salsa & Bachata. For info, Weekly ballroom dance classes focus on call Austin (912-704-8726) or Omar (Spantwo types of dance each month. Open to ish - 787-710-6721). Thursdays. 912-704partners/couples or to solos. The $35 for 8726. salsa@salsasavannah.com. salsa4 weeks or $10 drop in Mondays, 7 p.m. savannah.com. Great Gatsby, 408 West 912.312.3549. reservetodance@gmail.com. Broughton Street. Dance Party salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memo- Dance on Thursdays at 8pm--fun, friendship, and dancing. Free for Savannah rial Drive. Ballroom Series Group Class Ballroom students. $10 for visitors ($15 for A group ballroom dance class for begincouples). free - $15 Thursdays, 8 p.m. 912ners through advanced. Rumba, Swing, 335-3335. savannahballroom@gmail.com. Tango, Foxtrot, Waltz, Cha Cha, Samba, savannahballroomdancing.com. Savannah and more. Singles or couples. $10.00 per Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street. Disco Hustle Dance Class person or $35 for 4 weeks (per person) Do the hustle! A New York style Disco HusWednesdays, 7-8 p.m.. 912.312.3549. reservetodance@gmail.com. salondebaile- tle group class taught by Jos'eh Marion, a professional ballroom dance instructor. dancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Sundays at 5pm. Call for pricing. Sundays, Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Ballroom/Latin Group Class 5 p.m.. 843-290-6174. Trudancer@gmail. Group classes every Tuesday and Wednes- com. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Haberday at 8pm. Tuesdays focus on fundasham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. Free Dance Thursdays at Lake Mayer mental steps, styling, and techniques. Savannah’s New Smoke Shop Lake Mayer is offering free dance and fitWednesday's classes are more specific, (912) 574 2000 38 ness classes for all ages every Thursday, in with advanced elements. $15/person and JUNE 10-JUNE16, 2015
The British are coming and so is the Onstage Cabaret Series. Cabaret veterans Trae Gurley, Natasha Drena, JJ Hobbs and Cecilia Arango will sing the hits of the Beatles, Petulah Clark, Dusty Springfield and many more. $25 Thu., June 11, 8 p.m. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St.
Fri., June 12, 7:30-9 p.m. 912-598-1188 between 2 and 5 p.m. weekdays. allenpr@ comcast.net. messiahsk.com. Messiah Lutheran Church, 1 Westridge Road (The Landings).
the Community Center. 9:30 am and 10:30 am is the "Little Movers" class for toddlers. 12:00 pm Lunch Break Fitness. 1:30 pm Super Seniors. 5:30 pm youth hip hop. 6:30 pm Adult African Fitness. FREE ongoing, 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. 912-652-6780. sdavis@chathamcounty.org. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. FUNdamentals Dance Lesson
Group dance lessons every Tuesday and Wednesday at 8pm. Tuesday: fundamental steps, styling, and techniques. Wednesday: advanced elements. $15/person $25/ couple Tuesdays, 8 p.m. and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@ gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing. com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street. 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. Wednesdays.. 912-704-2052. prideofirelandga@gmail.com. Kids/Youth Dance Class
Kids Group class on various Ballroom and Latin dances. Multiple teachers. Ages 4-17 currently enrolled in the program. Prepares youth for social and/or competitive dancing. $15/person Saturdays, 10 a.m. 912-335-3335. savannahballroom@ gmail.com. savannahballroomdancing. com. Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio, 11 Travis Street. LaBlast- Dance Fitness designed by Louis Van Amstel from DWTS
Created by world renowned dancer and ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" professional, Louis Van Amstel, LaBlast uniquely combines a wide variety of ballroom dance styles and music genres. Do the Cha Cha Cha, Disco, Jive, Merengue, Salsa and Samba set to everything from pop and rock to hip-hop and country – and burn fat and blast calories! No experience and no partner necessary. $15.00 drop in or 10 classes for $80.00 Mondays, 6-7 p.m. and Fridays, 10-11 a.m. 912.312.3549. reservetodance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Line Dancing
Take down Tuesdays. Jazzy Sliders Adult Line Dancing, every Tuesday, 7:30pm10:00pm. Free admission, cash bar. Come early and learn a new dance from 7:30pm8:30pm. doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Mahogany Shades of Beauty
Dance classes - hip hop, modern, jazz, West African, ballet, lyrical and step. Modeling and acting classes. All ages/ 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.
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Salsa Lessons by Salsa Savannah
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. Tuesdays.. salsasavannah.com. Salsa Night
Come and shake it to the best latin grooves and bachata the night away in Pooler where it's cooler. Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m. 912-988-1052. medi.tavern314@ gmail.com. Mediterranean Tavern, 125 Foxfield Way. Savannah Shag Club
Wednesdays, 7pm,at Doubles Lounge. Fridays, 7pm, at American Legion Post 36, 2309 E. Victory Dr. doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Savannah Swing Cats--Swing Dancing
doublesnightclub.com/. Doubles Nightclub, 7100 Abercorn St. Sizzle: Dance and Cardio
A class designed to maintain that summer body by dancing and having fun. Incorporates dance and cardio to fun, spicy songs. $10 drop in or 10 classes for $80 Tuesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m. 912-312-3549. reservetodance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. West Coast Swing Class
Instructor Rick Cody teaches the smooth rhythms of beach music and west coast swing. $12 drop in fee or $35 for 4 weeks Wednesdays, 7 p.m.. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. EVENTS
Awaken with Chakradance™ - Thursdays
Join us for a free-flowing, meditative dance and experience the healing power of Chakradance™. With eclectic music selected to resonate with each specific chakra, along with guided imagery, Chakradance™ will take you on a spiritual journey, free the energy in your body and open you to a deeper experience of life. No dance experience or prior knowledge of the chakras is necessary. Limited to 12 participants – email to reserve a spot today! $20 Thursdays, 6:45-8:15 p.m. 912-663-1306. Chakradancer@comcast. net. anahatahealingarts.com/healingaha/. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. City Council Meeting
Every other Thursday, 2 p.m. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street. Free Family Day: Juneteenth
Juneteenth is the celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Learn more about Savannah's history through storytelling, hands-on activities, performances, and a special concert celebrating Gullan Geechee culture. Free Sat., June 13, 1-4 p.m. telfair.org/learn/ freefamilydays/. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Free Guided Tours
second Saturday, Sunday of every month.. savannahga.gov/cityweb/cemeteriesweb. nsf/cemeteries/bonaventure.html. Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd.
Guided Tours of the Lucas Theatre for the Arts
Learn the history of the historic Lucas Theatre on a 20-30 minute tour. Restoration, architecture, history of the theatre and of early cinema. $4. Group rates for ten or more. School trips available. No reservations needed for 10:30am, 1:30pm and 2pm. Other times by appointment. Call for info. 912-525-5023. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. History of Cherokee Language and Newspaper
Book artist Frank Brannon is the Guest Artist in Residency at the Ashantilly Press June 1-19. He will present a free program including a short film on June 10 at 7 pm on his research into the fascinating history of Cherokee written and printed language. Free Wed., June 10, 7-8 p.m. 912-437-4473. ashantillycenter@gmail.com. ashantilly.org. The Ashantilly Center, 15591 GA Hwy 99.
Vendors include Hardwicke Farms, Sage Wishes, FraLi Gourmet, Savannah River Farms, Woodland Swamp Farm, Sikes Honey, Foods of the Farm, and Farm Fresh Produce. There will also be free balloons, reusable shopping bags, corn hole, and a bouncy house. Tuesdays, 2-7 p.m. J. F. Gregory Park, Richmond Hill. Savannah Storytellers
Tall tales and fun times with the classic art of storytelling. Every Wednesday at 6pm. Reservations encouraged by calling 912-349-4059. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. liveoakstore.com/tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby's Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. Shag Dance Lessons
The Savannah Ballroom Dance Studio will teach the classes in the magnificent Telfair Academy Rotunda. Classes are open to dancers of all levels, beginning to expert. Lecture: Why Trees Fail Space is limited and advanced reservations Coastal Arborist Association presents are encouraged. Drop-ins are welcome this lecture by Dr. Kim Coder of the UGA for one or more lessons and are subject Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Re- to availability. A small reception will follow sources. Fri., June 12, noon. 478-733-2606. the June 23 class. Register at telfair.org/ mmcclellan@gfc.state.ga.us. mightyeighth. tickets. $5-$15 Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m.. telorg/. Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 fair.org/tickets. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Bourne Ave. Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
Sat., June 13. savannahcivic.com. The Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Microcontroller Meetup
If you're interested in getting started with Raspberry Pi or Arduino computers, come join us. If you have a microcontroller project you're working on and need to bounce ideas off someone, this is your chance. We have experts on hand to help you troubleshoot your project or get started with a new idea. General public can purchase a $2 day pass for entry. Thu., June 11, 7 p.m. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. The Olde Pink House Cooking Classes
Come enjoy a cooking class and help raise funds for the Park Place Outreach Youth Emergency Shelter. One of Pink House’s expert chefs will conduct the culinary course from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 125 Sat., June 13, 1-4 p.m. parkplaceyes.org. plantersinnsavannah.com/menu.htm. The Olde Pink House, 23 Abercorn St. The original Midnight Tour
One of the spookiest tours in town. Learn about the untold stories of some of the most haunted locations here in Savannah Georgia. Guaranteed to give you a few goose bumps and an unexplained need for a night light. 33.00 1-866-666-3323. 6thsenseworld.com. 6th Sense Savannah Tours, 404 Abercorn Street. PBJ Pantry
A free food pantry held every Thursday, 1011am and 6-7pm. Contact Jessica Sutton for questions. 912-897-1192 ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Wilmington Island), 66 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Pokemon Video Game Tournament
If you're great at the latest Pokemon video games, you need to show off your skills with a tournament at the Guild Hall. Bring your own Nintendo 3DS and a copy of Pokemon Omega Ruby or Pokemon Alpha Sapphire to play with us. $5 Sun., June 14. Guild Hall, 615 Montgomery Street. Richmond Hill Farmer's Market
Shire of Forth Castle Fighter Practice
Local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets Saturdays at Forsyth Park (south end) for fighter practice and general hanging out. For those interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. savannahsca.org. SONATA Scholarship Luncheon
Sponsors of New and Talented Artists, Inc. Presents its Annual Scholarship Fundraiser Luncheon to support its youth based music programs. The Lunch and Concert will take place at Savannah State University Ballroom in the King Frazier Student Center on June 13, 2013 at noon. Come enjoy a fabulous lunch, a silent auction, great talent and the Teddy Adams Trio. For more information, please email us at info@ sonatasavannah.org or call 912-484-5723. $45 Sat., June 13, 12-2 p.m. somi.benson@ sonatasavannah.org. sonatasavannah.org. SSU King Frazier Student Center, Savannah State University. Southbound Brewery Saturday Tours and Tastes
Savannah's first microbrewery is open for public tours and tastings Wednesday Fridays from 5:30-7:30 and Saturdays from 2-4. Hang out, have a few cold ones, and learn a little more about Savannah's first craft brewery. Free Saturdays, 2-4 p.m. 912-335-7716. info@southboundbrewingco. com. southboundbrewingco.com. Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. Summer of Flying
Bucknell University aviation students are on a cross-country airplane journey with the sole purpose of sharing aviation with youth. They will highlight local aviation and welcome conversations about learning to fly. Sun., June 14. 732-850-6044. colin. hassell@bucknell.edu. savannahairport. com/. Savannah Hilton Head International Airport, 400 Airways Ave. Tybee Floatilla
Float for a cure and benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Sponsored by
Spine and Sport. Day-of registrations and wristband pickup are at Ally 3 on Back River from 12-1pm. $30 advance, $40 day of Sun., June 14, 1-4 p.m. Tybee Island, Tybee Island. Under The Rainbow
On Thursday nights come out to the coolest spot in Pooler for Under The Rainbow. Every week we will host a different event that will cater to those that play over, around and under the rainbow. Thursdays, 8-11 p.m. 912-988-1052. Mediterranean Tavern, 125 Foxfield Way. FITNESS
$6 Community Yoga Classes
Savannah Power Yoga offers a community yoga class nearly every day of the week for just $6. All proceeds support local organizations. See schedule online for details. Most classes are heated to 90 degrees. Bring a yoga mat, towel and some water. $6 $5 Mondays-Fridays, Sundays. (912) 349-2756. info@savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com/. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Rd. 5Rhythms
A moving meditation. A path to higher vibration. A spiritual practice for some. A workout for others. With limited guidance and an eclectic mix of music, each person moves through the 5 rhythms of: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness. In this practice the "energy" of these rhythms is explored through each persons authentic way of moving. There is no right or wrong way and no steps to follow. No experience is needed. Led by Dana Danielson. Last Friday of every month. Sign up at savannahyogabarre.com or simply show up. ongoing, 7 p.m. facebook.com/ wavessavannah. savannahyogabarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 E Victory Drive. $6 Community Meditation Classes
Join us for breath work, guided meditation, and yoga nidra, a deep relaxation technique to relieve stress, quiet the mind, and find the calm within. All proceeds support local organizations. Sundays, 6-7 p.m. 912-349-2756. savannahpoweryoga.com/. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Rd. Al-Anon Family Groups
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. Barre Classes
Looking for a fun way to tone and burn calories? Savannah Yoga Barre offers daily barre classes to help you reach your fitness goals. Diverse classes ensure there's something for everyone. All levels are encouraged to attend. Start where you are and go from there. Classes start as early as 6 a.m. and as late as 6:45 p.m. $15 drop-in or use class pass 912-200-4809. info@savannahyogabarre.com. savannahyogabarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 East Victory Drive.
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MONDAYS at 6:15 PM at the Lake Mayer Community Center $5.00 per session Mondays, 6:15 p.m. (912) 652-6784. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. Beastmode Fitness Group Training
Sin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for schedule. 912-3558811. savj.org. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St.
Bellydancing Fusion Classes
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 in need of support for the caregiving they provide. savannahcommons.com.
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. 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. Blue Water Yoga
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. CommUNITY Classes
The Community Class (with a user-friendly $5 cash price) has a rotating roster of SYC teacher training graduates & SYC regular teachers. It is affordable, fun and a great chance to take class from fresh and enthusiastic new teachers. These teachers volunteer their time/talents to teach these classes and funds from these classes are donated to a local charity. $5 Wednesdays, Fridays, 2:30-3:30 p.m.. 912-232-2994. http://savannahyoga.com/. savannahyoga. com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. CommUNITY Yoga Classes
The Community Class (with a user-friendly $5 cash price) has a rotating roster of SYC teacher training graduates & SYC regular teachers. It is affordable, fun and a great chance to take class from fresh and enthusiastic new teachers. These teachers volunteer their time/talents to teach these classes and funds from these classes are donated to a local charity. $5 Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30 p.m.. 912-988-1320. savannahyoga.com. Savannah Yoga Center Pooler, 111 Canal Street. Core Pilates
This fun and challenging Pilates class will tone your entire body while focusing on building core strength. Betsy HunterHughes is at your service every Mon-WedFri 9:45 at Savannah Yoga Barre. $15 dropin or class pass Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 9:45-10:45 a.m. 912-200-4809. info@savannahyogabarre.com. savannahyogabarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 East Victory Drive.
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Dynamic Defensive Tactics combines the Israeli self defense techniques of Krav Maga with tactical fighting concepts. This is NOT a martial art but a no nonsense approach to self defense. With over 37 years of experience, Roger D'Onofrio will teach you solutions, which are aggressive, simple and effective, to the violent situations of today. Note: these are private sessions for adults only. 912-308-7109. ddt_910@ yahoo.com. Fitness Classes at the JEA
Free Caregiver Support Group
Sundays, 11 a.m. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Kung Fu School: Ving Tsun
Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) is the world's fastest growing martial arts style. Uses angles and leverage to turn an attacker's strength against him. Call for info on free trial classes. Drop ins welcome. 11202 White Bluff Rd. 912-429-9241. Latin Cardio
A cardio-based workout class designed to Free Dance and Fitness Classes at Lake Mayer get students fit while having fun. Latin style Every Thursday. 9:30am-10:15am Toddances like cha cha, samba, jive, rumba, dler Class. 12pm-1pm Adult Lunch Break salsa. No partner necessary. Workout Dance Class. 1:30pm-2:30pm Super clothes required. $10 drop in or $80 for 10 Seniors Workout. 5:30pm-6:15pm Youth classes Mondays, 6 p.m.. 912.312.3549. African Dance Fitness (ages 6-12). 6:30pm- salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salonde7:30pm Adult African Dance Fitness. Wear bailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile comfortable clothing. Free and open to the Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial public. Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.. Drive. Living Smart Fitness Club 912-652-6784. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. MontSt. Joseph’s/Candler African-American gomery Crossroads. Free Yoga for Cancer Patients Health Information and Resource Center St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Center for WellBeoffer the Living Smart Fitness Club, which ing offers Free Yoga for Cancer Patients is an exercise program to encourage every Monday from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. in healthy lifestyle changes. On Mondays Candler’s Heart & Lung Building, Suite and Wednesdays the classes are held at 100. The very gentle movements and the John S. Delaware Center. On Tuesbreath work in this class will give you much days, the classes are held at the center, needed energy, it will make your body feel at 1910 Abercorn Street. Classes include better, and it will give you a mental release. Zumba (Tuesdays) and Hip-Hop low impact This class is free to cancer patients. Monaerobics with cardio and strengthening exdays, 1:30-2:30 p.m. 912-819-8800. sjchs. ercises (Mondays/Wednesdays). Mondays, org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. and Tuesdays, Dude's Day at Savannah Climbing Coop 5:30-7 p.m. 912-447-6605. Delaware RecThursdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. ing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Mommy and Baby Yoga Thursday men climb for half price, $5. See Mondays. Call for times and fees or see website. 912-232-2994. savannahyoga. website for info. Thursdays, 2 & 10 p.m. 912-495-8010. savannahclimbingcoop.com. com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Savannah Climbing CoOp, 302 W Victory Dr. Center, 1321 Bull St. Happy Hour Boot Camp Classes
Amanda Jessop, certified strength and conditioning specialist, teaches classes for those who enjoy challenging and fun workouts and have goals to lose weight, tone up, or get in shape for the new year. Different packages available: Classes start out at $8 Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6-7 p.m.. 832-470-2257. amanda@channelyourinnerathlete.com. channelyourinnerathlete.com/ work-with-me/sports-conditioning-bootcamp/. Tom Triplett Community Park, U.S. Highway 80 West. 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 7am10pm. Call or see website. 912-598-2300. gastateparks.org/SkidawayIsland. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. Insanity Workout Group Class
INSANITY turns old-school interval training on its head. Work flat out in 3 to 5-min blocks, and take breaks only long enough to gulp some air and get right back to work. It's called Max Interval Training, because it keeps your body working at maximum capacity through your entire workout. $10 or $80 for 10 fitness classes
Nonstop Fitness Spin Class
Join us every Thursday at 5:30pm for Spin. Space is limited, please call 912-349-4902 to reserve your spot and to inquire about our other classes. 10 classes for $50 Thursdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. 912-349-4902. kristi@nonstopfitnesssav.com. nonstopfitnesssav.com. NonStop Fitness, 8511 Ferguson Ave. Pilates Classes
Daily classes for all skill levels including beginners. Private and semi-private classes by appointment. Carol Daly-Wilder, certified instructor. Call or see website for info. 912-238-0018. savannahpilates.com. pilatessavannah.com/. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Rerguson Ave. Pregnancy Yoga
Ongoing series of 6-week classes. Thursdays. A mindful approach to pregnancy, labor and delivery. Instructor Ann Carroll. $120. Call or email for info. 912-704-7650. ann@aikyayoga.com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. Qigong Classes
Qigong exercises contribute to a healthier and longer life. Classes offer a time to learn the exercises and perform them in a group setting. Class length averages 60 min. Any level of practice is welcome. $15 qigongtim.com/. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Renagade Workout
Free fitness workout, every Saturday, 9:00 am at Lake Mayer Park. For women only. Offered by The Fit Lab. Information: 912376-0219 Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. Richmond Hill Roadies Running Club
A chartered running club of the Road Runners Association of America. Monthly training sessions and seminars. Weekly runs. Kathy Ackerman, 912-756-5865, or Billy Tomlinson, 912-596-5965. Rock'n Body Fitness Bootcamp
Ultimate outdoor power workout! Group physical training program conducted by former military personnel. Build strength and fitness through a variety of intense group intervals lasting approx. 45 minutes. First Class FREE Mondays-Fridays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. 912-675-0952. rocknbodyfitnessbootcamp@gmail.com. rocknbodyfitnessbootcamp.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Ladies Day at Savannah Climbing Coop
Wednesdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Wednesday women climb for half price, $5. See website for info. 912-4958010. 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, $35 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. SIZZLE- Dance Cardio
The hottest cardio class to keep or get you in shape for summer. Sizzle is designed to give you cardio, strengthening, and stretch training that you need for that bikini body. Enroll now and get the first class free. $10.00 or $80 for 10 classes Tuesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m. 912.312.3549. salondebaile.dance@gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance Studio, 7064 Hodgson Memorial Drive. Somatic Movement Improvisation
This class is for everyone who moves! Improve your dynamic alignment, breath, grounding, and the ability to access fluid movement. You will improve in all your movement activities, while awakening more fully within your own life as an embodied experience. Led by international teacher Janet Kaylo. Wear light, loose fitting clothes suitable for dance or yoga. No experience necessary. $15 drop-in or use class pass Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m. 912-200-4809. info@savannahyogabarre.com. savannahyogabarre. com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 East Victory Drive. Turbo Kick Cardio Workout
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boxing. 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. $5 586-822-1021. facebook.com/turbokicksavannah. Yoga for Cancer Patients and Survivors
Free for cancer patients and survivors. The classes help with flexibility and balance while also providing relaxation. Located at FitnessOne, on the third floor of the Memorial Outpatient and Wellness Center. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays, 12:45 p.m. 912-350-9031. memorialhealth. com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Zumba Fitness (R) with April
Mondays at 5:30pm, Thursdays at 6:30pm. Nonstop Fitness in Sandfly, 8511 Ferguson Ave. $5 for nonmenbers. call for info. 912349-4902. FOOD EVENTS
Forsyth Farmers Market
Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine. Free to attend. Items for sale. 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com. Forsyth Park, 501 Whitaker St. Honey Tasting and Body Care Samples + Store Tour
Daily store tour, honey tasting, and body care. FREE Come to the WILMINGTON ISLAND store and see the bees behind our observation hive glass. FREE Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m. 912-234-0688. tildsley@savannahbee.com. Savannah Bee Company, Wilmington Island, 211 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Prepare Sunday Suppers at Union Mission
Local organizations are invited to sign up to prepare Sunday Supper for people who are homeless and live at Union Mission's shelters for homeless people. Groups must sign up in advance and bring/prepare a meal, beginning at 2pm on Sundays. Call for information. 912-236-7423. Wilmington Island Farmers Market
Vendors offer fresh produce, baked goods, honey, meats, poultry, granola, coffee, pasta, pecans, popsicles, ice cream, kettle corn, canned goods, body products, herbs, plants. Events also include story time, a musical guest, and other special guests. Free wifarmersmarketpr@aol. com. wifarmersmarket.org. Wilmington Island Farmers' Market, 111 Walthour Rd @ Islands Community Church. HEALTH
All Level Free Fitness Class
Ready to get your free workout on? Come workout in a supportive, encouraging fun environment. All Fitness Levels welcomed. Every Monday at 9:30am. FREE Mondays, 9:30-10:30 a.m.. 912-544-6387. info@erigosavannah.com. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street. 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 State University, 11935 Abercorn St. Free Enrollment Help for Medicaid and PeachCare
Parents can find the help they need to renew or sign up their children (ages 0-19) on Medicaid or PeachCare. Enrollment Assisters will work with clients through the process. Free and open to the public. Mondays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and Wednesdays, 1-5 p.m.. 912-356-2887. Chatham County Health Department, 1395 Eisenhower Drive (facing Sallie Mood Dr.).
A breast feeding support group for new/ expectant monthers. Meeting/gathering first Thursdays, 10am. Call or see website Free walk-in HIV testing. 8am-4pm Mon.- for location and other info. 912-897-9544. Fri. No appointment needed. Test results inlllusa.org/web/savannahga.html. 20 minutes. Follow-up visit and counseling Labor and Delivery Tour will be set up for anyone testing positive. Want to take a look around before the big day? Register for a tour of our labor Call for info. 912-644-5217. Chatham County Health Dept., 1395 Eisenhower Dr. and delivery areas. The tour is held once Health Care for Uninsured People a month and fills up quickly, so please Open for primary care for uninsured register early. Call 912-350-BORN (2676). residents of Chatham County. Mon.-Fri., second Sunday of every month. memorial8:30am-3:30pm. Call for info or aphealth.com/. Memorial Health University pointment. 912-443-9409. St. Joseph's/ Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Candler--St. Mary's Health Center, 1302 Living Smart Fitness Club continues on p. 42 Drayton St. and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St.
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Hypnosis, Guided Imagery and Relaxation Therapy
Helps everyday ordinary people with everyday ordinary problems: smoking, weight loss, phobias, fears, ptsd, life coaching. Caring, qualified professional help. See website or call for info. 912927-3432. savannahypnosis.com. Know Your Water
What everyone ought to know about our drinking water (bottled, tap, distilled, reverse osmosis, filtered, alkaline and spring.) Are you paying thousands of money for water that is making you sick? Find out what water is best for your body. FREE Tuesdays, 7-8:15 p.m. 703-989-6995. oggisavannah@gmail. com. Anahata Healing Arts Center, 2424 Drayton St. Suite B. La Leche League of Savannah
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Hearing: Thursdays, 9am-11am. Speech: First Thursdays,. Call or see website for times. 912-355-4601. savannahspeechandhearing.org. savannahspeechandhearing.org/. Savannah Speech
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An exercise program encouraging healthy lifestyle changes. Mon. & Wed. 6pm7:15pm Hip Hop low impact aerobics at Delaware Center. Tues. 5:30-7:00 Zumba at St. Joseph's Candler African American Resource Center. (Program sponsors.) 912-447-6605. New Mama's Club
Fun new class with Ann Carroll. Time will be spent on a variety of engaging activities for mom and baby including some light yoga. $20 per mom or bring a friend and pay only $30 for you both. If you'd prefer to pay for multiple classes at once you can purchase 6-sessions for $95 to be used within 2 months of purchase. $20 Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon. 912-544-6387. info@erigosavannah.com. erigosavannah.com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street. Planned Parenthood Hotline
First Line is a statewide hotline for women seeking information on health services. Open 7pm-11pm nightly. 800-264-7154. Prepared Childbirth Class
This course gives an overview of reproductive anatomy and physiology and explains the process of labor and delivery in simple, easy-to-understand terms. The four-week course includes a tour of the labor and delivery unit. This class is popular, so please register early $75 per couple Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 912-350-2676. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. The Savannah 7-Day Diabetes Repair
We will show you how to 'repair' your diabetes, in just seven weeks. We will meet once a week for seven weeks, (a total of 7 meeting days). You’ll receive educational and informative workshop materials including strategies for change, stress managing techniques, videos, an offsite tour, and you will learn to eat real foods. You’ll be able to shop for food in any grocery store. You’ll also learn to create a lifestyle to support health. You will learn how to order in restaurants to get what you really want quickly and easily. We include cooking demonstrations, samples of many meals with recipes, so you see how easy it all can be. $450 Wednesdays, 1 p.m., Thursdays, 7 p.m. and Saturdays, 1 p.m.. 912-598-8457. jeff@heartbeatsforlife-ga. org. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St.
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In this workshop you will connect with your divine guidance and higher self as you explore Shamanic healing practices. Learn how to access your highest truth in every moment and take home tools to create a grounded, guided, and whole way of living. Fully engage with life from truth of your soul seat and certainly of your heart center. - Workshop will be guided by Anna Fox at Galerie 124. $125 Sat., June 13, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. 434-962-5046. pachahealing@gmail. com. galerie124.com/anna-fox. Galerie 124, 124 East Taylor Street. The Weekender
This is a special childbirth course for expectant couples with busy schedules or time constraints. $70 June 13-14. 912819-3368. sjchs.org. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St.
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Art-Full Apprentice Program
In this 12 week session, students ages 1214 will study the practice of graffiti, still life drawing, and painting under the mentoring of a SCAD student. At the completion of the course students will perform a servicelearning project for their local community utilizing the skills learned as well as, display their work in a showcasing event. Ages 12-14 Free Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, 3-4 p.m.. 912-233-1951. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Baby & Mom Yoga
For mothers with babies who are precrawlers. Moms learn poses for baby to help with digestion and sleeping -- and get a bit of relaxation, movement and camaraderie for themselves. $120 for a six session pass. Tuesdays, 10-11 a.m.. 912-704-7650. ann@douladeliveriescom. savannahyogacenter.com. savannahyoga.com. Savannah Yoga Center Pooler, 111 Canal Street.
604-2900. Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. Savannah Children's Museum School Year Hours
SCM hours beginning 8/31/13 will be Sunday 11am-4pm; Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm. Open on holiday Mondays that SCC Public Schools are not in session including Labor Day. For more details go to savannahchildrensmuseum.org Savannah Children's Museum, 655 Louisville Road. Save the Planet!
For rising 2015 grades K-5. Whether it’s flying away from our home planet, driving on Mars, or saving our Earth from pollution and disaster, this week will be full of hands-on science exploration. From pollution and ecology, to the science of space, we will have daily hands-on activities. $135 June 15-19. Marshpoint Elementary School, 135 Whitmarsh Island Dr. Sesame Street Live
No matter where you’re from or where you’ve been, everyone is special - so join Geek Week in. Elmo, Grover, Abby Cadabby, and their For rising 2015 grades 6-8. This is a tech Sesame Street friends welcome Chamki, heavy week designed just for kids. We will Grover’s friend from India, to Sesame make photospheres, videos, screen savers, Street. Together, they explore the universal websites, and much more! Come and make fun of friendship and celebrate cultural a video game to share with friends! Learn similarities, from singing and dancing, to how to make your own ringtone. $135 June sharing cookies! $15-$55 Tue., June 16, 15-19. STEM Academy, 207 East Montgom- 6:30 p.m. 912-651-6556. sesamestreetlive. ery Crossroads. com. savannahcivic.com. The Savannah Irish Dancers of Savannah Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Savannah's first organized Irish dance Summer Adventure Camp Pegasus Riding Academy is a therapeutic school welcomes dancers, ages 4 and up. riding program providing equine assisted Learn Irish Step and Ceili (Irish square) activities for individuals with physical, Dancing at a relaxed pace. Convenient mid-town location. Adult classes available. mental or emotional disabilities. Summers at PRA include equestrian instruction, Thursdays.. 912-897-5984. irishdancsav@ ground lessons with horse and equesaol.com. Mad Science 2.0 trian themed art projects. Sessions are For rising 2015 grades K-5. It’s back! All conducted by Certified Therapeutic Riding new activities for Mad Scientists! We will Instructors so you know your children mix it up with chemical science, explore are in good hands. Children develop stuff that flies, and campers will create a balance and coordination while building variety of take-home projects while explor- mental concentration, self-esteem and social skills. Sessions last one week and ing how science affects the world around us. We have daily hands-on activities. $135 run Monday through Friday, 9am-noon. Through June 12. ellispta.com. Charles El- Mondays-Fridays.. prasav.org. Pegasus lis Montessori Academy, 220 E 49th Street. Riding Academy, 2828 Wicklow Street. Monkey Joe's Fundraiser for Kids with Cancer
During June, Savannah Monkey Joe’s will be donating a percentage of lemonade sales to ALSF. In addition, families can make a separate donation in-store or online at https://www.alexslemonade. org/mypage/1132688 Through June 30, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. https://alexslemonade. org/mypage/1132688. Monkey Joe's, 311 EISENHOWER DR.
Summer Camp
Open to youth ages 4-12. Activities include youth sports, character building, STEM, guest speakers, academic enhancement, and field trips. Registration fee is $60. Weekly camp rate is $85 per child. CAPS accepted. Mondays-Fridays, 6:30 a.m.-6 p.m. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. Toddler Time
Bring your 2-4 year old to enjoy stories, games and learning designed just for A weekly Friday gathering of new moms them. Each week there will be a different and their babies. Practice baby & mom nature-based theme. $5 parking Thursyoga, do a planned activity. Dream boards, days, 10 a.m. gastateparks.org/skidawayaffirmation writing, personalized aroisland. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. matherapy and other projects. $20 per ses- Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond sion. Six session discount. Fridays, 10 a.m.- Cswy. noon. 912-704-7650. ann@douladeliveries. Toddler Tuesdays at Oatland Island Wildlife com. douladeliveries.com. erigosavannah. Center Toddlers 6 months to 4 years, and their com. Erigo, 5301 Paulsen Street. Positive Youth Basketball Team adults. Themed programs--story books, Tryouts for the Positive Youth Basketball singing songs, finger puppet plays, crafts, Team begin March 14 and are open to guided walks, up close encounters with 3rd-6th grade kids. The games are every Oatland animals. Preregister by 4pm MonSaturday from 2-4 pm. $20 per child 912day. $5 children. Gen. Admission for adults New Mamas Club
($5 or $3 for military & seniors) Tuesdays. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. The un-Gala
The un-Gala is presented by Coastal Heritage Society and will feature a taste of local fare, while the outdoor museum offers guests a chance to be a kid again with an array of board games, lawn games, and hands-on activities. Guests will enjoy delicious food, creative cocktails, including an adult lemonade stand, and hours of playtime in SCM's interactive exhibits. The Accomplices will perform during the event, and a throw-back dance party, courtesy of Shockwave Entertainment, will close out the night. Fri., June 12, 6-10 p.m. Savannah Children's Museum, 655 Louisville Road. LGBT
First City Network
Georgia's oldest LGBT organization (founded in 1985), is a local non-profit community service organization whose mission is to share resources of health care, counseling, education, advocacy and mutual support in the Coastal Empire. Members and guests enjoy many special events throughout the year, including First Saturday Socials held the first Saturday of each month at 7pm. Mondays. 912-236CITY. 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 well-being of the LGBT community in the South. Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month. Call for location. 912-288-7863. heather@ savpride.com. savpride.com. Stand Out Youth
A gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth organization. Meets every Friday at 7pm. Call, email or see website for info. Fridays, 7-9 p.m. 912-6571966. info@standoutyouth.org. standoutyouth.org. Vineyard Church Office, 1020 Abercorn Street. What Makes a Family
A children's therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Ages 10 to 18. Meets twice a month. Call for info. 912-352-2611. NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
Animal Sign ID
Animal sign is the evidence animals leave that they were in an area. Learn to identify scat, tracks, and other sign like different burrows and holes. Wednesdays, 2 p.m. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. Breakfast Time
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leaping lizards, chomping turtles and snakes licking their chops. Sundays, 10 a.m. gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy.
395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland. RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL Band of Sisters Prayer Group org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 All women are invited. Second Tuesdays, Sandtown Rd. Wilderness Southeast 7:30am-8:30am. Fellowship Assembly, A variety of programs each month includ5224 Augusta Rd. Email or call Jeanne Coffee with a Ranger ing guided trips with naturalists. Canoe Seaver or see website for info. "The king's Start your morning right by getting coftrips, hikes. Mission: develop appreciation, heart is like channels of water in the hands fee and having a discussion with a park understanding, stewardship, and enjoyof the Lord." (Prov. 21:1) 912-663-8728. ranger. Fridays, 8:30 a.m. gastateparks. ment of the natural world. Call or see web- jeanneseaver@aol.com. capitolcom.org/ org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State site for info. 912-236-8115. wildernessgeorgia. Buddhist Meditation Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. southeast.org. Dinner Time Visit savannahzencenter.com for locaWatch as the ranger feeds the reptiles, tion, schedule & events. Teacher: Un PETS & ANIMALS How to Train Your Raptor leaping lizards, chomping turtles and Shin Beach, Sensei. Newcomers and all Ogeechee Audubon board member James lineages welcome. Children of all ages snakes licking their chops. $5 parking Fleullan learned to handle raptors at The Sun., June 14, 3 p.m. gastateparks.org/ welcome. Suggested donation $10. DownLamar Q. Ball Raptor Center at Georgia info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State town Savannah, downtown. Southern University. James now lives in the Catholic Singles Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. Dolphin Project A group of Catholic singles age 30-50 meet Savannah area and volunteers at Oatland Dolphin Project's Education Outreach Wildlife Center, where he helps to train and frequently for fun, fellowship and service. Program is available to speak at schools, Send email or check website to receive ansocialize the Center’s eagles, hawks and clubs, organizations. A powerpoint nouncements of activities and to suggest owls. James will talk about the process of presentation with sound and video about teaching a raptor to be comfortable around activities for the group. familylife@diosav. estuarine dolphins and their environment. humans and to perch on its handler’s org. diosav.org/familylife-singles. Age/grade appropriate programs and wrist so that it can be used for educational Columba House Columba House is an inclusive, welcoming handouts. See website for info. thedolprograms. He will be assisted by several hospitality space dedicated to building and phinproject.org. of his star students and will introduce Interpretive Center Tour sustaining a community of faith commitWassaw the Bald Eagle. Tue., June 16. Explore our museum and get the details ted to social justice with the city's young 912-658-6136. bethheron@bellsouth.net. about our native wildlife, history of the adults, college students, and creative fpc.presbychurch.net. First Presbyterian island, and check out live birds from the demographic. Tuesday evenings 6:30-8pm, Church, 520 Washington Ave. Low Cost Pet Clinic comfort of the birding room. $5 parking includes dinner and a program focused on TailsSpin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host justice. All are welcome. Free and open to Wed., June 10, 2 p.m. gastateparks.org/ low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State the public. Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. 912-228military and seniors the second and fourth 9425. Columba House, 34th Street between Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. Knot Tying Wednesdays of each month. 5pm-6pm. Abercorn and Lincoln Streets. Learn some handy knots for everyday use. Vaccinations: $12, ($2 is donated to Savan- Gratitude Circle in the Squares Join Joanne Morton and others on Sundays, 3 p.m. gastateparks.org/info/ nah pet rescue agencies). See website for skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Park, 52 info. tailsspin.com. tailsspin.com. TailsSpin Wednesdays for a weekly gathering of positive energy. All are welcome. Free hugs. Diamond Cswy. Pet Supplies Store, 4501 Habersham St., Picnic in the Park View calendar for the square of the week. Habersham Village. Join the park staff for an afternoon of Operation New Hope Wednesdays, 12-12:30 p.m. 917-676-4280. Operation New Hope allows inmates to food, games, and fun. Sub sandwiches, magicpassionlove.com/savannah-gratitrain unadoptable dogs from the Humane drinks, and chips will be served. Please tude/. Downtown Savannah, downtown. call 912-598-2300 at least two days before Society for Greater Savannah. The goals of Guided Silent Prayer to reserve your spot. $10 second Saturday the program are to decrease the recidivism Acoustical songs, 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and minutes to receive rate among Chatham County inmates, of every month, 12-2 p.m. 912-598-2300. prayer or remain in silence. Wednesdays, Evan.Goetz@dnr.state.ga.us. gastateparks. help inmates learn a new skill, and help 6:45-8:00pm at Vineyard Church, 615 previously unadoptable dogs find loving org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway Island State Montgomery St. See website for info. vinehomes. The graduated dogs are available Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. Recycling Fundraiser for Economic Opportufor adoption can be viewed at www.human- yardsavannah.org. nity Authority Journey Off the Map societvsav.org, and www.chathamsheriff. Support EOA through the FundingFacHigher Ground Baptist Church Vacation org. Operation New Hope is funded by the tory Recycling Program. Recycle empty Humane Society and community donations. Bible School is Monday, June 15 through cartridges, cell phones, small electronics, chathamsheriff.org. humanesocietysav. Friday June 19, 9 a.m. to noon. This imagilaptops, to EOA for recycling. They will native and fun Lifeway program combines org/. Humane Society for Greater Savanreceive technology products and cash. crafts, songs, snacks, a mission project, nah, 7215 Sallie Mood Dr. Businesses may also recycle items on be- REEF Lionfish Workshop and learning about the Ultimate Guide, half of EOA for credit. Drop off at EOA, 681 Reef Environmental Education Foundation Jesus. Any child between the ages of 3 and W. Anderson St. See website, email or call (REEF) will conduct a lionfish collecting 11 is welcome to join us – please register for info. 912-238-2960 x126. dwproperty@ and handling workshop. This free workin advance by calling 355-1505, or go onshop, funded through a grant from the aol.com. fundingfactory.com. line to highergroundsav.org. June 15-19, 9 Toads and Turtles US Fish and Wildlife Service, is meant to a.m.-noon. Higher Ground Baptist Church, Do you know all the differences between educate and engage stakeholders (recre9120 Whitefield Ave. Maritime Bethel reptiles and amphibians? Come and learn ational and professional divers, environ"Sundays on Thursdays" worship at the all the differences and touch live exmental groups, students, etc.) Wed., June Fellowship Assembly. Plenty of parking amples. $5 parking Wed., June 10, 11 a.m. 10. reef.org/lionfish/workshops. skio.usg. for large trucks. Free Thursdays. 912-220gastateparks.org/info/skidaway/. Skidaway edu/. Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, 2976. The Fellowship Assembly of God Island State Park, 52 Diamond Cswy. 10 Ocean Science Circle. Walk on the Wild Side St. Almo's Church, 5224 Augusta Road. A two-mile Native Animal Nature Trail Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting A New Church in the City, For the City Gather on Sundays at 10:30am. Like the winds through maritime forest, freshwater Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays, Facebook page "Savannah Church Plant." wetland, salt marsh habitats, featuring live 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at Canine Bryson Hall, 5 E. Perry St. native animal exhibits. Open daily, 10amPalace. Call for info. 912-234-3336. 4pm except Thanksgiving, Christmas, New caninepalacesavannah.com. Canine Palace New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Courses are now being offered at the Years. Call or see website for info. 912Inc, 618 Abercorn St.
new Savannah Extension of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Full course loads for both Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees will be offered. Apply now at www.nobts.edu to start classes this winter. 912-232-1033. revwasson@gmail.com. Savannah Baptist Center, 704 Wheaton Street. Read the Bible in One Year
A Bible book club for those wanting to read the Bible in one year. Open to all. Book club format, not a traditional Bible study. All welcome, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, religion. Thurs. 6:00pm-7:00pm. Call for info. 912-2335354. Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 622 E. 37th Street. Savannah Friends Meeting (Quakers)
Un-programmed worship. 11am Sundays, third floor of Trinity United Methodist Church. Call or email for info. All are welcome. 912-308-8286. savbranart@gmail. com. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. Savannah Reiki Share
During shares, participants take turns giving and receiving universal life force energy via Reiki and other healing modalities. Present at the shares are usually no less than 2 Reiki Masters. Come share with us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month at the Sweet Water Spa in downtown Savannah. Sign up at Savannah Reiki Share or Reiki by Appointment on Facebook. Free ongoing, 7 p.m. 440-3715209. Sweet Water Spa, 148 Abercorn Street. Service of Compline
Enter the stillness of another age. Gregorian Chant sung by candlelight at 9:00-9:30 p.m. every Sunday night by the Complne Choir of Christ Church Anglican. Come, say good nigh to God. All are welcome. Christ Church Anglican, 37th and Bull. South Valley Baptist Church
Weekly Sunday services. Sunday school, 10:00am. Worship, 11:30am. Tuesday Bible Study/Prayer Service, 6:30pm. Pastor Rev. Dr. Barry B. Jackson, 480 Pine Barren Road, Pooler, GA "Saving a nation one soul at a time." Sundays on Thursdays Worship Service
Thursdays. 912-826-0206. maritimebethelatsavannah.org. The Fellowship Assembly of God Church, 5224 Augusta Road. Tapestry Church
A church for all people! We don't care what you are wearing, just that you are here. From the moment you walk in until the moment you leave, Tapestry is committed to delivering a creative, challenging, straight forward, and honest message about the role of biblical principles in your life. Come experience an environment that helps you connect with God and discover his incredible purpose for your life. Join us every Sunday morning 10AM at the Habersham YMCA. Sundays, 10 a.m. tapestrysavannah.com. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. Theology on Tap
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES
March 21-April 19
“To look at a thing hard and straight and seriously -- to fix it.” Aries author Henry James said he wanted to do that on a regular basis. He didn’t want to be “arbitrary” or “mechanical” in his efforts. I invite you to make this perspective one of your specialties in the coming weeks, Aries. Pick out a tweaked situation you’d like to mend or a half-spoiled arrangement you want to heal. Then pour your pure intelligence into it. Investigate it with a luminous focus. Use all your tough and tender insight to determine what needs to be transformed, and transform it.
TAURUS
April 20-May 20
Drug expert Jonathan P. Caulkins estimates that Americans are stoned on marijuana for more than 288 million hours every week. A U.N. report on global drug use concluded that Canadians consume weed at a similar rate. Among Europeans, Italians are number one and the French are fourth. But I encourage you to avoid contributing to these figures for the next twelve to fourteen days. In my astrological opinion, it’s time to be as sober and sensible and serious as you ever get. You have the chance to make unprecedented progress on practical matters through the power of your pure reasoning and critical thinking.
GEMINI
May 21-June 20
I think it’ll be better if you don’t engage in much sacrifice, compromise, or surrender in the next two weeks. Normally they are valuable tools to have at your disposal, but for now they may tend to be counterproductive. Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect you need to be more commanding than usual, more confident in your vision of how to take action with maximum integrity. It’s time for you to draw deeper from the source of your own power, and express it with extra grace and imagination.
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You will soon be escaping -- or maybe “graduating” is the right word -- from your interesting trials and tribulations. In honor of this cathartic transition, I suggest you consider doing a ritual. It can be a fullfledged ceremony you conduct with somber elegance, or a five-minute psychodrama you carry out with boisterous nonchalance. It will be a celebration of your ability to outlast the forces of chaos and absurdity, and an expression of gratitude for the resources you’ve managed to call on in the course of your struggle. To add an extra twist, you could improvise a rowdy victory prayer that includes this quote adapted from Nietzsche: “I throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘Here is my thanks to the monster who did not devour me.’”
LEO
July 23-Aug. 22
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I propose a Friends Cleanse. It would be a three-week-long process of reviewing your
support team and web of connections. If you feel up for the challenge, start this way: Take inventory of your friendships and alliances. If there are any that have faded or deteriorated, make a commitment to either fix them or else phase them out. Here’s the second stage of the Friends Cleanse: Give dynamic boosts to those relationships that are already working well. Take them to the next level of candor and synergy.
VIRGO
Aug. 23-Sept. 22
After Walt Whitman published *Leaves of Grass* in 1855, he made sure it would get the publicity he wanted. He wrote anonymous reviews of his own book and submitted them to several publications, all of which printed them. “An American bard at last!” began the glowing review that appeared in one newspaper. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Virgo, you now have license to engage in similar behavior. You will incur no karma, nor will you tempt fate, if you tout your own assets in the coming weeks. Try to make your bragging and self-promotion as charming as possible, of course. But don’t be timid about it.
LIBRA
Sept. 23-Oct. 22
If you carry out the assignments I recommend, you will boost your charisma, your chutzpah, and your creativity. Here’s the first one: Try something impossible every day. Whether or not you actually accomplish it isn’t important. To merely make the effort will shatter illusions that are holding you back. Here’s your second assignment: Break every meaningless rule that tempts you to take yourself too seriously. Explore the art of benevolent mischief. Here’s the third: Clear out space in your fine mind by shedding one dogmatic belief, two unprovable theories, and three judgmental opinions. Give yourself the gift of fertile emptiness.
SCORPIO
Oct. 23-Nov. 21
In the 16th century, roguish French author Francois Rabelais published a comic novel entitled *The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel.* In the course of his satirical story, a learned teacher named Epistemon takes a visit to the afterlife and back. While on the other side, he finds famous dead heroes employed in humble tasks. Alexander the Great is making a meager living from mending old socks. Cleopatra is hawking onions in the streets. King Arthur cleans hats and Helen of Troy supervises chambermaids. In accordance with the Rabelaisian quality of your current astrological aspects, Scorpio, I invite you to meditate on the reversals you would like to see in your own life. What is first that maybe should be last? And vice versa? What’s enormous that should be small? And vice versa? What’s proud that should be humble? And vice versa?
SAGITTARIUS
Nov. 22-Dec. 21
There’s no better time than now to ask the
big question or seek the big opening or explore the big feeling. People are not only as receptive as they will ever be, they are also more likely to understand what you really mean and what you are trying to accomplish. Which door has been forever locked? Which poker face hasn’t blinked or flinched in many moons? Which heart of darkness hasn’t shown a crack of light for as long as you can remember? These are frontiers worth revisiting now, when your ability to penetrate the seemingly impenetrable is at a peak.
CAPRICORN
Dec. 22-Jan. 19
The writer Donald Barthelme once came to see the artist Elaine de Kooning in her New York studio. Midway through the visit, loud crashes and bangs disturbed the ceiling above them. De Kooning wasn’t alarmed. “Oh, that’s Herbert thinking,” she said, referring to the metal sculptor Herbert Ferber, who worked in a studio directly above hers. This is the kind of thinking I’d love to see you unleash in the coming days, Capricorn. Now is not a time for mild, cautious, delicate turns of thought, but rather for vigorous meditations, rambunctious speculations, and carefree musings. In your quest for practical insight, be willing to make some noise. (The story comes from Barthelme’s essay “Not-Knowing.”)
AQUARIUS
Jan. 20-Feb. 18
Sidney Lumet was an American director who worked on 50 films, including 14 that were nominated for Academy Awards, like *Network* and *Dog Day Afternoon.* Actors loved to work with him, even though he was a stickler for thorough rehearsals. Intense preparation, he felt, was the key to finding the “magical accidents” that allow an actor’s highest artistry to emerge. I advocate a similar strategy for you, Aquarius. Make yourself ready, through practice and discipline, to capitalize fully on serendipitous opportunities and unexpected breakthroughs when they arrive.
PISCES
Feb. 19-March 20
“It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too,” said American writer Josh Billings. I agree with him. It’s not impossible to solve the mystery of who you are, but it can be hard work that requires playful honesty, cagey tenacity, and an excellent sense of humor. The good news is that these days it’s far less difficult and inconvenient than usual for you to deepen your self-understanding. So take advantage! To get started, why don’t you interview yourself? Go here to see some questions you could ask:http:// bit.ly/interviewyourself.
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Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah
Liberal religious community where people with different beliefs gather as one faith. Sundays, 11am. Email, call or see website for info. 912-234-0980. admin@uusavannah.org. uusavannah.org. uusavannah.org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 313 Harris St. Unity Church of Savannah
Everyone is welcome. Unity of Savannah is not concerned with where people come from, what they look like, or whom they love – Unity is just glad that each person is here. Sunday 9:15am meditative service and 11:00am celebratory service show what the New Thought Movement is all about. Children’s church 11am service. Unity loves all people, just as they are. Sundays. 912-355-4704. unityofsavannah. org. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. World Changers
June 14-19. Savannah Baptist Center, 704 Wheaton Street. SUPPORT GROUPS
Alcoholics Anonymous
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. 12-3563688. savannahaa.com. Alzheimer's Caregiver and Family Support Group
For individuals caring for Alzheimer's and dementia family members. Second Monday, Wilm. Isl. United Methodist Church, 195 Wilmington Island Rd. Second Thursday, Ruth Byck Adult Care Center, 64 Jasper St. Sponsored by Senior Citizens, Inc. Call for info. 912-236-0363 x143. Amputee Support Group
Open to all who have had limbs amputated and their families or caregivers. Call for info. 912-355-7778. Back Pain Support Group
Second Monday of every month,7:00pm. Denny’s Restaurant at Hwy. 204. Everyone is welcome. For more info, contact Debbie at 912-727-2959 Brain Injury Support Group
For traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. Third Thursdays, 5pm. In the gym of the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. Breast Cancer Survivors Group
Tuesdays, 5:20pm at First Presbyterian Church. For survivors and caregivers. Call for info. 912-844-4524. fpc.presbychurch. net. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. Cancer Support Group
For anyone living with, through or beyond a cancer diagnosis. First Wednesdays, at Lewis Cancer Pavilion. Call for info. 912819-5704. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. Children's Grief Support Group
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to live with loss. Free of charge. A service of Hospice Savannah, Inc. Call for dates. 912-303-9442. Full Circle Center for Grief Support, 450 Mall Blvd., Suite H. Citizens With Retarded Citizens
For families with children or adults with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. Meets monthly. Call for info. 912-355-7633. Citizens With Retarded Citizens, 1211 Eisenhower Drive. Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Assoc.
Meets regularly to discuss issues affecting the lives of polio survivors. Call or see website for info. Polio survivors and guests are invited. Free and open to the public. 912-927-8332. coastalempirepoliosurvivors.org. Connect for Kids
This group is for children who have a loved one with a life-limiting illness. Wednesdays, 2-3 p.m. 912-350-7845. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave.
THE GHOST DOG DIARIES
(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) BY YOUR PAL ERIN
psychicyourpalerin@gmail.com www.yourpalerin.com
Dear Erin, Let’s be honest. Savannah has a black/white problem. Whenever I want to go downtown for a night out, some black dude starts up shit with me and my boys. It happens every single time and it’s ruining our city. Scott
Debtors Anonymous
Dear Scott, I gotta be honest with you. I just edited the crap out of your letter, as it was one of the angriest, most racially charged rants I’ve ever read. I parsed it down to its most Eating Disorders Anonymous basic elements, so you might not recognize Free, volunteer-led support group for this as letter as yours, but it is. recovery from anorexia/restrictive eating Also, I am not going to try to talk you and/or bulimia/binge/purging. Not a diet out of anything you wrote or to change group, nor for those who struggle solely with overeating. Mondays, 7:30pm-8:30pm. your mind on the matter. As much as I Email. edasavannah@yahoo.com. Asbury wholeheartedly disagree with you, I respect Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 the fact that your experiences have shaped Henry St. your perspective of the world. I also Essential Tremor Support Group acknowledge that I don’t have the right to For those with the disease, care partners, family and caregivers. Managing the disforce my opinions on you just because I ease, treatments and therapies, quality of write some column for The Connect. life. First Thursdays, 3:00pm-4:30pm. Call Currently, there are a couple of letters for info.. 912-819-2224. Nancy N. and J.C. in my queue that address the ideas that I Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 am going to present today, but I feel that Reynolds Ave. Fibromyalgia Support Group your comments are much more timely and Second Thursdays, 5:30pm-6:30pm. Call relevant to what’s happening in the world, or see website for info. 912-819-6743. so let’s roll. sjchs.org. sjchs.org. Candler Heart and A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Lung Building, 5353 Reynolds Ave. Ascension process and its role in shifting Gambling Problem 12 Step Program Twelve step program offers freedom from the Earth from a fearful, warring planet gambling. Meets weekly. Leave message to one of peace and love. That column For people with debting problems. Meets Sundays, 6:30pm at Unity of Savannah. 912-572-6108. debtorsanonymous.org. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd.
with contact info. 912-748-4730.
Georgia Scleroderma Support Group
A group for people with scleroderma for the greater Savannah area and surrounding counties. Meets regularly. Call for day and time. Lovezzola's Pizza, 320 Hwy 80 West, Pooler. Info: 912-412-6675 or 912414-3827. Greater Savannah Breast Cancer Support Group
Breast cancer patients and their caregivers in the greater Savannah, Hilton Head, and coastal Georgia area are invited to join this group. The meetings often feature presentations from the local medical community, are informal, and are conducted in a discussion format to encourage participation. For more information, call 912-8973933. second Sunday of every month, 4-6 p.m. Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute (at Memorial Health Univ. Medical Center), 4700 Waters Ave.
CROSSWORD ANSWERS
(“Cancer Sucks and WTF?!” ) talked about the spiritual theory behind the Ascension process. This one will address the Quantum Mechanics involved. In conjunction with the Ascension process, the Earth is undergoing a physical shift out of the 3rd Dimension and into the 5th. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. The first time I heard this news, I couldn’t wrap my head around it. My biggest point of skepticism: What the hell happened to the 4th Dimension? It turns out that in the course of our planetary shift from the 3rd Dimension to the 5th, the 4th Dimension – which is commonly known as Earth’s Ether or Astral Plane – is acting as a sieve that sifts the fearful/warring energy of the 3rd Dimension from the loving/peaceful energy of the 5th Dimension. I gotta be honest with you, Scott. Every morning, I wake up, think about the prospect of this shift and pretty much ask myself, “WTF?!” But as time passes and the wars, riots, mass shootings and police violence pile up, the notion of some science fictional type rip in the space-time continuum becomes far less shocking. In fact, nothing really surprises me anymore. So what does any of this have to do with you and your boys coming to blows every time you head downtown? Whether the conflicts we are experiencing revolve around our feelings about black/ white, gay/straight, Christian/Muslim, Palestinian/Israeli, they are all rooted in the same vibrational frequency – warring energy. And as time goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that the warring energy has to go. I’m not saying that it’s your responsibility to single-handedly stop it. I just want to ask you an honest question: Isn’t all of this fighting wearing you out? I ask from a point of pure selfishness, as earlier this year I came to the realization that I don’t have it in me to fight anymore. In my case, it wasn’t a physical fight, but a tenant/landlord dispute that got ugly. Once this realization struck, I discovered that most everyone I talk to is feeling the wear and tear of all this human conflict. New Thought leaders don’t believe that this collective worn out feeling is a coincidence; they attribute it to the planetary shift from the 3rd to the 5th Dimension. According to one theory, as of 2015, the Earth now operates in the 3rd, 4th and 5th
Dimensions simultaneously. Any moment that you are experiencing the fearful/warring energy, you are having a 3-D experience; anytime you feel loving and peaceful, you are having a 5-D experience; whenever you have emotional or physical purging (like mental or physical illness, confusion, spaciness and other Ascension symptoms mentioned in the previous column) you are having a 4-D experience. This shift is expected to continue for the next seven years, with the transition to the 5th Dimension being complete by the end of 2022. If you’re curious to learn more, there are lots of people out there with insights on the subject. My favorite is Gregg Braden, a chemist who worked for a Big 8 oil company who teaches about the new frontier of science and spirituality. In the coming weeks, I will publish two letters that specifically address solutions to help people process the Dimensional Shift and to neutralize Earth’s warring energies, but now’s not the time or place. I feel that you wrote me because you wanted your feelings to be heard and acknowledged, not because you were looking for a lecture on solving the world’s problems. So thank you for sharing your letter, Scott. Even though we respectfully disagree, I appreciate your taking the time to write and to help clear these 3-D energies from the planet. Know that I am holding you and everyone you meet in the safest, most positive, loving light. Your pal, Erin The Ghost Dog Diaries is a weekly advice column, inspired by the late PJ Cuddlesworth. Three hours after PJ’s passing, Erin held an Irish Wake in her honor. That’s when her name appeared in her beer. (Misspelled, of course. Ghost Dogs aren’t equipped with Autocorrect.) Erin and PJ have been giving psychic readings and helping people connect with their loved ones who have passed ever since. Got a question about life after death and other phenomena? Give us a shout at psychicyourpalerin@ gmail.com. Although we don’t give psychic readings in this column, you can learn more about private consultations at www.yourpalerin.com
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FOR SALE BY OWNER 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Home near Blandford Elementary in Rincon– approx. 1100 ft2. Exterior Features: Private fenced backyard; Additional covered carport, 12 X 12 Workshop, Jacuzzi. Interior Features: Completely remodeled Kitchen and Baths, Corian countertops and raised bathroom vanities, Kitchen back splash with under cabinet lighting, Enlarged Custom tile master shower w/ seat, Wood floors, Tile, Crown molding, Energy saving blown-in insulation in attic. Call (843) 338-3418
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FURNISHED APTS. $170/WK. Private bath and kitchen, cable, utilities, washer furnished. AC & heat, bus stop on property. No deposit required. Completely safe, manager on property. Contact Linda, (912)690-9097 or Jack, (912)342-3840.
1511 VINE STREET: 2BR/1BA, living room, large dining room, furnished kitchen, $600/month, $600/deposit. For more info, call Scott, 912-961-5107.
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Furnished Efficiency Apt. includes utilities, electricity, gas, garbage and water. 1yr. lease & security deposit. $650/month. Close to Savannah Mall & Armstrong State CARVER HEIGHTS AREA. 4BR/1BA, University. 912-429-2073 CH/A. Fenced backyard. Large house near churches/ bus stop. LEASE WITH OPTION Quiet/peaceful street. $750/ 2 & 3 BR Homes with 1 & 2 Baths. month+deposit. Call after 5pm. Stove, Refrigerator, A/C. $600912-660-1915 $800. Call 912-660-4296 or 912507-7875 DUPLEX: 1227 E. 54th Street. 2BR/1BA $550/month plus $550/deposit. Two blocks off Waters Avenue, close to Daffin Park. Call 912-335-3211 or email adamrealstate@gmail.com. Days/ Nights/Weekends. Call 912-721-4350 and Place Your Classified Ad Today!
Off Westlake Ave. 2 & 3BR, 1 Bath Apts. Newly Renovated, hardwood floors, carpet, ceiling fans, appliances, central heat/air, washer/dryer hookups. $595$715/month for 2bdrs and $715-$825/month for 3bdrs, utilities may be added to rent if requested. 912-228-4630 Mon-Sat 10am-5pm www. bnetmanagement.com *For Qualified Applicants* WE ACCEPT SECTION 8 *410 EAST 50TH: 1BR, 1BA Apt., water included. $700/month. Several Rental & Rent-To-Own Properties. GUARANTEED FINANCING STAY MANAGEMENT 352-7829
ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT. Furnished kitchen, CH&A, Hardwood floors, fireplaces, fenced yard. Section 8 accepted. 2123 Harden Street. $550.00. Call 236-0165
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SENIOR LIVING AT IT'S BEST FOR AGES 50 & BETTER Shared community living for full functioning seniors ages 50 & above. Nice comfortable living at affordable rates. Shared kitchen & bathroom. All bedrooms have central heating/air and cable. Bedrooms are fully furnished and private. Make this community one you will want to call home. SAVANNAH'S HOUSE OF GRACE also has community housing with its own private bath. Different rates apply. Income must be verifiable. We accept gov. vouchers. Prices starting at $550.
RENT OR RENT-TO-OWN: Remodeled mobile homes, 3BR/2BA, in Garden City mobile Call 912-844-5995 home park. Low down affordable payments. Credit check approval. Call Gwen, Manager, at 912-964- SHARED LIVING: Fully 7675 Furnished Apts. $170 weekly.
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*2217 Mississippi: 4BR/1BA, washer/dryer, hardwood floors, $900. *24A Mastick: 3BR Duplex. Ground floor $600. 912-257-6181 SOUTHSIDE •1BR Apts, washer/dryer included. $25 for water, trash included, $625/month. •2BR/1.5BA Townhouse Apt, total electric $700/month. Call 912-927-3278 or 912356-5656 WILMINGTON ISLAND 3BR (4th optional)/2BA, hardwood floors, den w/fireplace, fenced yard, quiet cul de sac, most pets okay. Very close walking distance to Whitemarsh Island Schools. 912663-9941 or 663-9941 $1400/mo. Available 7/1. WINDSOR FOREST HOME •Available Now! 3BR/1.5BA, family room has been used as 4th BR, CH&A, nice interior paint, energy efficient windows and sliding doors. Conveniently located. $939/month, $969/ security deposit. Military or Police Discount. NO SECTION 8, NO SMOKING PLEASE. Call 912-920-1936
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