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FRI. 11/10 THE ERIC JONES TRIO W/ SPECIAL GUEST

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Famous Dex with Special Guests, DJs & Support Artists Wednesday, November 8th

Hinder with Adelitas Way, Josh Todd & The Conflict and Wayland Thursday, November 9th

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Granger Smith with Morgan Wallen

Mother’s Finest w/Special Guest Thomas Claxton & The Myth

Friday, November 17th

Lonestar with Special Guest, Military & First Responder Appreciation Concert Saturday, November 18th Girls Night Out! Saturday, December 9th The Steppin’ Stones with The High Divers Thursday, January 11, 2018

P.O.D. - Alien Ant Farm, PowerFlo, Fire From The Gods Friday, January 19, 2018 Blues Traveler with Special Guest Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Saving Abel with Special Guest Thursday, February 22, 2018 Blue Oyster Cult with Special Guest Friday, February 23, 2018

Mike + The Mechanics Starring Mike Rutherford of Genesis Friday, March 23, 2018

Adelitas Way, and Wayland

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Living Colour with Derek Day

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WEDNESDAY 11. 8 1 Year Anniversary Party

Atlantic is turning a year old. Celebrate all week long with wine takeovers. Through Nov. 11. 5-9 p.m. Atlantic, 102 East Victory Drive. 912-417-8887. atlanticsavannah.com

Famous Dex w/ Special Guests

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Famous Dex performs his hit singles, including “Drip From My Walk.” 7 p.m. The Stage on Bay, 1200 West Bay St. $25

Film: Girl with Hyacinths PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER GILL

This wonderful Swedish film noir deals with the aftermath of a young girl’s suicide. 8 p.m. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. $8

Stopover in the Yard SAT 11.11

Gypsy World’s 4th Birthday Party

Savannah Food and Wine Festival

Savannah duo Painter and Poet take the outdoor stage to benefit Loop It Up. Menu is burgers, hot links, potato salad, broccoli slaw, and baked beans. noon The Grey, 109 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. $25 food and music, $15 music only

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Discounts and prizes throughout the day and a party starting at 5pm. 10 a.m. Gypsy World, 2405 Bull Street.

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THURSDAY 11. 9 Chris Tomlin w/ Matt Maher

Veterans Day Parade SAT 11.11

Film: Blood Road

In honor of Veterans Day, Telluride Mountainfilm hosts this special screening of Nicholas Schrunk’s film about two women’s emotional journey. 5:30 p.m. Service Brewing Company, 574 Indian Street. $15, free for all veterans

Film: Dr. Strangelove PHOTO BY CONAL GALLAGHER

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Annual event happens on Saturday this year, beginning at 10 a.m. Downtown Savannah

Chris Tomlin is among the most influential artists in Christian music. 7 p.m. Civic Center, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. $32-$91

Cold War classic from Stanley Kubrick. 8 p.m. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. $8

Film: Saturday Night Fever

How about that disco sensation from 1977, “Saturday Night Fever,” with the young John Travolta. 7 p.m.

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Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne $10

Hinder w/ Adelitas Way, Josh Todd and The Conflict, Wayland

Hinder is an American rock band from Oklahoma that was formed in 2001. l 8 p.m. The Stage on Bay, 1200 West Bay St. $29

Sammy Miller and the Congregation The Savannah Music Festival season announcement features this party-jazz group. Ticket sales start the next day. 8 p.m. Ships of The Sea, 41 MLK Jr Blvd. Free and open to the public

Savannah Beer and Hymns: Harvest Edition

This month, Beer and Hymns will be collecting canned goods and non-perishable food items for those in need. 7 p.m. Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Dr.

Theatre: Stupid F**king Bird!

Aaron Posner scoops up Chekhov’s tale of unrequited love, missed opportunities, and misplaced dreams and sets it down squarely in the bustle of 21st century life. Thurs.-Sun, 8 p.m. & Sun., 2 p.m. Mondanaro Theatre, 217 MLK Jr. Blvd. Free

Urban Gypsy Trunk Show

The Urban Gypsy brings hundreds of vintage finds. Most items $5-$20. 12-8 p.m. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St.

FRIDAY 11.10 Arty Party

Popular preview bash featuring music, food, beverages, and an opportunity to meet the artists at a cocktail reception. Arty Party patrons also have an exclusive chance to view and purchase artists’ works before Art Fair opens to the public.. 7 p.m. Jepson Center, 207 West York St. Members $50, non-members $75

The Charlie Daniels Band

Charlie Daniels Band comes to Savannah. 8 p.m. Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 W Oglethorpe $60.50

Film: Suspiria

The Psychotronic Film Society hosts this special fundraiser, a screening of Dario Argento’s 1977 cult classic Suspiria. 8 p.m. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $12 savannahboxoffice.com

Lecture: Women in Uniform One Hundred Years Later: Rethinking World War One in Italy

Dr. Allison Belzer will identify how women in uniform changed the country’s culture. noon Armstrong State, 11935 Abercorn St. Free and open to the public

Living Colour

Living Colour’s song “Cult of Personality” achieved them double platinum status. 8 p.m. The Stage on Bay, 1200 West Bay St. $29 savconcerts.com

Museum in the Moonlight

Ships of the Sea Museum will be commemorating the Scarbrough House’s history as the West Broad Street School. 7 p.m. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 MLK Jr Blvd.

The Petty Hearts

The Petty Hearts are America’s definitive Tom Petty Tribute Show. 8 p.m. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne $20 reserved, $25 premium

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Theater: It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play

This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940’s radio broadcast. 8 p.m. Fri/Sat Space Station at Starlandia, 2436 Bull St. $15 or pay what you can savannahstagecompany.com

Trinity River

Trinity River is a musical family that has been playing together since 2007. 8 p.m. Randy Wood Guitars, 1304 East Hwy. 80.

Urban Gypsy Trunk Show

The Urban Gypsy brings hundreds of vintage finds. Most items $5-$20. Nov. 9-11, 12-8 p.m. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St.

SATURDAY 11.11 The Culture of Writing: Values, Customs, Traditions, Community and Diversity.

Writing through the years has held many purposes: to instruct, to inform, to imagine and to connect. 8 a.m. Armstrong State, 11935 Abercorn St. Early Bird: $65 Regular: $75

Contra Dance

Local callers Bob Beattie and Joyce Murlless will teach and call the dances.

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Come join in the fun of contra and squares and a couple of waltzes. 7:30 p.m. Garden City UMC, 62 Varnedoe Ave. $9, $6 students

Forsyth Farmers Market

Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Forsyth Park

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This hands-on family day will encourage the sculptor in everyone to come out, and perhaps inspire the next Auguste Rodin. 1-4 p.m. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

Uplifting Comedy Date Night

For one evening, a half dozen hilariously clean comedians will free your mind and soul from the worries of this world. The Christian band Tell Scarlet returns to energize this night of laughter and fellowship. 8 p.m. The Stage on Bay, 1200 West Bay St. $16 online, $20 at the door

Wilmington Island Farmer’s Market

The market features a Free Family Fun Day featuring Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant’s interactive learning stations and fantastic face painting 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Islands High, 170 Whitemarsh Island Road.

SUNDAY 11.12

Living History Weekend

I Remember Tybee

Odd Lot Improv: Saturday Shenanigans

Savannah Baroque in Concert

Fort Pulaski National Monument will honor our nation’s veterans with a special living history weekend. Saturday/Sunday Fort Pulaski National Monument Free and open to the public

An improv comedy show in the style of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” 8 p.m. Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 W Liberty St $10

Second Saturday Presentation Series

Helping the public learn more about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. second Saturday of every month, 1-2 p.m. Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, Laurel Hill Wildlife Drive off S.C. 170. Free

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Telfair Art Fair

Savannah’s largest, liveliest, and most celebrated open-air festival of visual art, Telfair Art Fair attracts thousands of highend art collectors, tourists, local residents, and families. Featuring 85 artists displaying and selling works in a variety of artistic disciplines -- and for a wide range of budgets this year’s Art Fair presents an array of genres. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat, noon-4 pm Sun. Telfair Square Free and open to the public

Come celebrate the history and uniqueness of Tybee Island in a fun afternoon filled with the stories of the people and places on the island known as Tybee, 4 p.m. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne Free Honors the diversity of music by the great composers born in 1685, J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Domenico Scarlatti. Featuring Tina Zenker Williams, soprano; Kyle Siddons, baritone; Eric Caines, baroque oboe; Jeana Melilli, traverso; Ann Cafferty, baroque violin; Marcy Brenner, viola da gamba; and Anne Acker, harpsichord. 4 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church, 307A E. Harris $20

MONDAY 11.13 Lecture: Conservation and Restoration at the Owens-Thomas House

This lecture presents the Owens-Thomas House as an evolving example of historic preservation. 5:30 p.m. Jepson Center, 207 West York St. Free and open to the public

Monday Means Community: Can We Just Press Pause? Emergent Savannah presents this reflective conversation about resilience. Featuring Andy Wright of Savannah Law School, Paulita Bennett-Martin of One Hundred Miles, Kevin Veitinger of the Foundery Coffee Pub, and the Deep Center’s Youth Leadership Team. Hosted by Thelani Michelle. 7 p.m. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Free and open to the public

NEWS & OPINION EDITOR’S NOTE

BY JIM MOREKIS

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A FEW weeks ago I wrote about the dearth of information on the upcoming de-merger of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department, which will cease to be “Metro” as of February 2018. In the interest of fairness I wanted to share the latest information, since the picture has become a bit clearer. But just a bit. The important news has to do not only with the geographic locations of precinct headquarters, but some completely new developments in that area. Arguably the biggest change will be the Precinct charged with patrolling the Eastside moving from the Islands back within City limits — but just barely. Instead of being off Johnny Mercer Boulevard on the way to Wilmington Island, the new Eastside Precinct HQ will be in what’s now a relatively small office complex on the border of Savannah and Thunderbolt, at 2250 E. Victory Dr., just a few yards within Savannah city limits. The lease will be $176,593 for the first year. This will potentially address one of the more odd aspects of the merged police department, namely that officers charged with patrolling one of the most crimeridden areas of Savannah, the Eastside, were headquartered miles away from that troubled zone in the Islands Precinct.

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Another big development is the move of the Downtown Precinct HQ to the old Great Dane building on East Lathrop Avenue, next to Southbound Brewing and just down from The Stage On Bay. That lease will cost $345,360 a year. The Downtown Precinct itself is expanding in size, and a new substation will be added near the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport. The Southside Precinct HQ is unchanged other than the addition of a substation at Highway 204. However, at a recent City Council meeting, Southside Alderman Tony Thomas made a particular point of saying that he was worried that the new de-merged department wouldn’t emphasize crime fighting on the Southside enough to meet current demand. If you’ve been following the news lately, you know that the Southside – which a generation ago was home to some of Savannah’s most exclusive suburban neighborhoods — is now experiencing a significant upsurge in violent crime. As for the Central Precinct, plans are going ahead for the construction of a brand new HQ at Montgomery and West 34th Street, a design which Mayor Eddie DeLoach decried as looking like a prison. Recent cost estimates of the de-merger to City taxpayers are estimated as high as $9 million. As this is unbudgeted cost — and as City Manager Rob Hernandez says he won’t consider a tax hike — the money

will have to come from cuts in services and/or other departments. And what of the other side of the equation, unincorporated Chatham County? As I write this, news broke that the County has hired its own new police chief to take over post-merger. Kalamazoo, Michigan, Police Chief Jeff Hadley, a nine-year veteran of that post, announced he’d accepted the job. Problem is, the media found out before the Chatham County Commission did. As has become commonplace, Chatham County Commission Chairman Al Scott apparently continued his now-infamous tactic of keeping the entire rest of the Commission in the dark about most major decisions. (County Manager Lee Smith is technically the one to do the hiring, but there is zero chance that Scott wasn’t firmly in the loop.) The de-merger and its attendant confusion comes at a time not only of rampant gun crime in the City, but an enormous spike in property crimes in the unincorporated area, particularly the Islands. Most of the County’s stated opposition to continuing with a merged police department rested on the premise that County taxpayers were subsidizing police work in the higher-crime City of Savannah. But as the years progress — and as crime almost inevitably continues to worsen in the unincorporated area — I wonder how accurate that premise will turn out to be. CS

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An open letter to Savannah about crime and punishment

Dear Savannah, On October 26th of this year I broke the law. I was finishing up lunch at Clary’s when someone entered and informed those of us at the counter that there was a cop parked at the park pulling people over and giving tickets. I made note of it, paid my bill and left to return to my jobsite a few blocks away on Tattnall. I am a resident and make my living here in town as a General Contractor. As I made my right turn in front of the cruiser, his lights flashed and siren blipped. Officer Smith informed me he was issuing a ticket for not wearing a seat belt. He kindly informed

me it would only cost $15 and would not incur points on my license. As I sat and waited for my ticket a slow hot rage began to come over me. This policeman was racking up tickets for the sole purpose of generating revenue, making his quota. But that isn’t what really bothered me. I began thinking of the three shootings on my block in the last two months, of all the violence in our lovely city, and I suddenly realized I didn’t matter, we didn’t matter, the residents who listen to the gun fire, who console the victims, the victims themselves don’t matter. The lawlessness that frustrates and angers us and brings us together in solidarity on

neighborhood message boards like Nextdoor or Twitter does not include the police department, or the Mayor’s office, for that matter. The city is not in solidarity with its residents, the victims of this very serious problem of crime. Theirs is clearly a difficult task and I don’t pretend to know what it takes to curtail such rampant violence. But it has suddenly become clear that we don’t matter. Our feelings, our experiences, our fear. Am I being obtuse to say the police lack empathy or unity with law abiding citizens of Savannah, my brush with traffic violations aside? While they struggle and often fail at serious crime fighting we still look to them

for safety, security and yes, solidarity. Do we find that solidarity in return? Does the police department, or the Mayor’s office seek to know us, to reward us with some gesture of support for our plight, some acknowledgement that we very much matter to the level of success and peacefulness that does exists in Savannah? $15 matters little to me. That it mattered so much to a Police Department overwhelmed by crime and fear speaks volumes. Ironically, as I write this, four shots rang out from the next street. But don’t worry, city leaders, my check is in the mail. Steven Bodek

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NEWS & OPINION THE (CIVIL) SOCIETY COLUMN boost heart health and even heal bones, and cat owners report less anxiety and better sleep habits than the general popuJESSICA LEIGH LEBOS lation (as well as a higher incidence of shredded curtains and missing goldfish.) I grew up in a home full of charming hairballs, though I am not now personally owned by a cat because my husband is allergic to them, and by “allergic,” he means a girlfriend’s cat once peed in his shoes and he has still not forgiven the entire species. So we’re basically a dog-snake-guinea pig family until I can afford my own yurt. As a cat lady without a cat, I’ve been known to become fixated on others’ pussies, drifting off at parties to play with the laser pointer I keep in my purse. I once bought the entire paperback collection of Haruki Murakami from E. Shaver Booksellers out of embarrassment because I’d been there so long blissing out with store mascots Bartleby and Mr. Eliot. Fortunately, I can now get my meow on without dropping big bucks or looking like a purrvert: Purrvana Café & Cat Lounge opened last week on the corner of Barnard and Anderson streets, offering the cat-deprived a clean, well-appointed place to hang out with Savannah’s most glamorous clowder. (FYI, a group of cats can also be referred to as a “glaring,” which is even more appropriate given felines’ superior staring contest abilities.) Several of Purrvana’s pussycats were basking on the sun-dappled window seat on my first visit (there have been several more, obviously.) They eyed me suspiciously at first until Noir, a handsome glossy specimen deigned to introduce himself with a whisker tickle across my hand. Friendly calico Miss Webster stalked across my lap as shy tabby Owlette skittishly disappeared into a cupboard. When Gnarly, a handsome devil wearing a permanent tuxedo snuggled into my armpit and started running his motor like a welloiled Mercedes, I basically went into a murmur-induced coma, until he leapt away to chase a tinkling ball under the settee. Owner Patricia Underwood has styled the place as a fancy Victorian salon, with funny feline touches like a candy bowl too-small box. Hedgehogs and otters may full of feather toys and a picture frame have edged into the cute critter market, mounted with a scratching pad on the but cats remain the world’s favorite maminside. When I fretted that it won’t be long malian entertainment. before all those dainty claws make macOur collective obsession is surely cataramé out of the velvet-covered furniture, lyzed (tee hee) by the cuteness factor, but Patricia laughed. the animal magnetism is real: A 2015 study “I’m not emotionally attached to any found that simply watching Henri’s Ennui of it,” she said with a shrug. “It’s all thrift can improve mood and productivity, just a store stuff, we’ll just get more.” fraction of the benefits gleaned when you The CPA bought the formerly fallpet a pussy in person. (Everyone who’s not ing-down structure from the Historic a felonious barbarian knows that pussies Savannah Foundation in 2012, when it do not like to be grabbed and have the right was listed as one of the city’s 100 Worst to scratch the eyes out of anyone who tries, Blighted Buildings. She moved in upstairs or better yet, hire Gloria Allred to shame and has been restoring the place ever since, and bankrupt the purrpetrator.) though she wasn’t sure what to do with Research shows that cuddling cats can it until she visited a cat café in Portland, Front to back: Gavin, Owlette and Miss Webster await your adoration at Purrvana Cafe & Cat Lounge. PHOTO BY

You gotta be kitten me BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

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IT MAY seem these days that the internet is dominated by white supremacists and Wikileaks, but click for click, nothing gets more attention than pussy. Oh, don’t get your dander up—I’m talking the four-legged persuasion, ya creepers. More than a decade after YouTube founder Steve Chen posted the first cat video, we’re still “feline the kittehs,” as it were, sharing classic Grumpy Cat and Lil’ Bub memes and whiling away the work8 day watching Maru diving head first into a

Oregon a few years ago and became smitten with the kitten concept. “I saw this as a way to be around animals and create a neighborhood gathering spot at the same time,” explained Patricia, twitching a peacock feather ever so slightly to entice Owlette out of the cabinet. In case you’re wondering about the health department logistics, several litter boxes stashed discreetly around the room are changed several times a day. The kitty haven has a separate entrance from Purrvana’s café side, where Cup to Cup coffee and croissants from Auspicious Bakery are served along with other sweet and savory treats. Yes, you’re allowed to bring purchased refreshments over to the cat room, as long as you don’t mind a sneaky paw in your mug. Ten cat groupies are allowed in at a time, and reservations are recommended, as our local pussies are already proving quite popular. At $9 for an hour, $5 for a half hour, they’re also way cheaper than therapists. “I want this to be accessible for everybody,” promises Cat—er, Patricia, adding that the cat room can accommodate wheelchairs. “I’m a special needs mom, too.” I’ll admit the possible exploitation of cat concubines freaked meowt at first, but it’s vital to know that Purrvana is mutually beneficial to the stars of its show: All of them come from the Palmetto Animal League, the area’s only no-kill animal shelter. Just over the South Carolina border in Okatie, PAL rescues hundreds of cats and dogs a year and offers affordable veterinary care and adoption services while doing its best to make a dent in the Southeast’s tragic feral cat crisis. “This is a great way for the community to meet the cats and learn about what we do,” explains PAL Executive Director Amy Campanini, who helped handpick Purrvana’s furry sweethearts. “We make a lifetime commitment to these animals, and this makes space in our shelter and helps them find homes.” Oh, did I mention all the Purrvana pussies are available for adoption? Three fur babies have already found forever families in the past week, and should you develop a special bond with Manly, Miss Webster or any of the rest of the real-life LOLcats, you just have to wait until the end of the day to complete the paperwork. PAL will send over a fetching replacement to the cafe immediately, as there is no shortage in the world of friendly felines eager to bring down your blood pressure, purr in your lap and bat a toy mouse around for everyone’s amusement. If I had it my way, I’d bring home the entire clowder tomorrow, but you know, “allergies.” But one of these days my yurt will be glaring with pussy power! CS Purrvana Café & Cat Lounge, 1402 Barnard Street, (912) 777-4670, purrvanacafe.com

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NEWS & OPINION AN URBANIST VIEW

An Ardsley Park bungalow and Gentrification 2.0 BY JASON COMBS I’M ONE of those guys who will take it upon himself to shush talkers at the movie theater, or during stand-up comedy at the Wormhole. At times it has gone beyond a look and/or a shush, when the talker or talkers persisted. I remember one such shushing. It was about this time of year in 2006: The Departed. Two guys were just having a conversation about the movie, during the movie. I might have skipped the shush phase and gone straight to “What the _____ do you think you’re doing?” It was warranted. Their response was that this was the way they best enjoyed a movie—by discussing it with one another. I told them that if this was the case, please wait for the DVD to come out and screen it at home.

That’s not the end of the story, but you’ll have to find me for the rest of it. To enjoy the movie their way, they were ruining it for everyone else. Ah, the conundrum as old as philosophy—how to balance personal freedoms with the good of the herd? I’d argue that all situations are different, and there are no absolutes, except at the movie theater and comedy shows: STFU. But what of other situations? On the East 300 block of 49th Street within Chatham Crescent, two dozen single-family homes face one another twelve on the north side, twelve on the south. Eighteen of these homes were built between 1920 and 1927. Four more were constructed in the 1930s. Finally, two were built in the ‘40s. If the property cards can be trusted, there has not been a newly built home on the block in question since 1947. That’s 70 years, folks. Walking up and down this block is like being in a time capsule. It is quaint. All the structures form a very

aesthetically pleasing ensemble. They are of the same or complementary style, and occupy their lots in much the same manner. No one architectural feature stands out from the whole (aside perhaps from one jarring white picket fence). This is a collection of peers—not completely uniform, but close enough. Controversy has arisen recently because someone wishes to demolish the oldest of these structures (1920) and build a brand new, much bigger house. I say “someone,” because it is unclear if it is the wish of the present owner (absentee, living in California it is said), a potential owner (the agent who presented the request for variances to the Zoning Board of Appeals), or some combination. It seems a transaction between the two may have depended on whether or not a new home could be constructed. In a recent column, Connect editor Jim Morekis mentioned the controversy surrounding this proposed tear-down and

re-build, in regards to discussion of it and conduct on the “Ardsley Park Open Chat” page on Facebook. That is not my concern, and I decided not to read through it all. But yes, people behave horribly online. Instead I went to take a look at the structure in question (and wondered if my suspicious activity was reported on said chat page). The agent for the property claims that the existing structure is beyond repair. Now I’m not a restoration expert, but it certainly looks salvageable. There are many dwellings in my own neighborhood of Thomas Square that appear much worse, yet are currently inhabited. It just looks like your typical fixer-upper, but I have not been inside. I’d go as far as to say that from the outside, it’s attractive even in its current state of disrepair. It’s the quintessential Craftsman Bungalow. Nick Palumbo, President of the Ardsley Park / Chatham Crescent Neighborhood Association, heard the argument for

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the same tastes and affinities as those participating in Gentrification 1.0, but nevertheless recognizing a profitable trend when they see one. These investors are not so motivated to restore in a “transitional” neighborhood, but tear-down and re-build bigger in a stable, established neighborhood? You betcha. It would most certainly set a dangerous precedent to allow this sort of behavior on a block like 300 East 49th, and the parties that opposed it were right to do so. As Nick Palumbo said when I met with him, “We have this wonderful public domain that is held together by nothing more than a gentlemen’s agreement.” And obviously some do not feel bound by that agreement. Though it has been included on the National Register of Historic Places since 1985, The Ardsley Park/Chatham Crescent Historic District has no accompanying local historic designation granting special protections. This is why Palumbo and his neighborhood association must be so vigilant in protecting the status quo. In this case, due to the spirited opposition by the neighborhood and their allies, the request for variances was withdrawn. However, this is at best a temporary win. Since the petition was not brought to a vote, it can be re-submitted. Also, tear-downs and re-builds are possible without ZBA approvals, here and elseBirmingham where. That is why it is so urgent for our zoning to be updated, or for local historic protections to be extended to more areas, Alabama or for there to be greater review required for tear-downs—any of these things. But in the breach we are lucky to have Nick Palumbo, Daniel Carey, and others like them, protecting historic structures, and the public domain that they contribTallahassee ute to, where local regulations have yet to catch up. CS

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tearing the historic bungalow down and made a good-faith offer: The neighborhood association would pay for a restoration expert to thoroughly examine the structure and make an estimate on what it would cost to bring it back to life. If the cost were truly prohibitive, he and the association would reconsider their opposition. Daniel Carey and the Historic Savannah Foundation (HSF) also offered help in obtaining tax credits and abatements for a restoration. These generous offers were rebuffed. Was the agent trying to hide the fact that the structure could be restored? I met with Palumbo to discuss the issue, and he declined to speculate. But if one looks with a cynical eye, as of course I have, the profit motive is easy to find, and easy to understand. Two recent sales within this same cohort of 24 structures have reached and surpassed the $200 per square foot mark. Applying that to a structure of 2,115 square feet (the proposed new structure) results in a valuation of $433,500. But remember, that’s equating new construction to old, so the real value for a new home could be even higher. The motivation against restoration might not be much of a mystery. This tear-down/re-build dilemma, an illustration of a “perverse incentive” in economic terms, where the individual benefit is harmful to the whole, might unfortunately be a hallmark of what I will call Gentrification 2.0. Speaking broadly and ignoring societal impacts, one can say that Gentrification 1.0 is generally good for the urban fabric. It is characterized by those who value traditional architecture moving back into inner cities and first-ring suburbs, and putting money into restoring structures or building compatible infill. I would characterize Gentrification 2.0 as a follow-along effect—people without

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Veterans, PTSD and substance abuse New trial seeks participants to develop effective treatments

BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

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those with drug and alcohol problems are also diagnosed with PTSD. The Patriot Study seeks to develop treatment by examining the efficacy of doxazosin, an FDA-approved medication normally used to treat high blood pressure. Preliminary research has shown that doxazosin can also have positive ancillary benefits that apply to veterans. “Based on animal models and pilot studies that have been done on humans, there’s enough to suggest that it may reduce PTSD symptoms and cravings for substances,” explains Dr. Sudie Back, the principal investigator on the study and a Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences professor at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). “Those who have already gone through [the study] are seeing a reduction in their symptoms, and there have been few dropouts, meaning the medication is tolerable

and has a low side effect profile.” MUSC oversees the Patriot Study (“Patriot” is an acronym for PTSD and Alcohol Treatment Research in Outpatient Trials) at both the Ralph H. Johnson VA in Charleston and and the Savannah VA Primary Care Clinic on Shawnee Street. Local veterans are encouraged to apply, and recruits don’t need to have a previous diagnosis of PTSD or substance abuse. A full baseline evaluation is conducted before treatment. Qualifying veterans take doxazosin (or a placebo) for 12 weeks followed by a sixweek post-treatment assessment and can take part in the study alongside any other existing treatments they are receiving. It’s completely free to participate, and vets can earn up to $725 over the course of the trial as compensation for their time and travel. “It’s very exciting to have another large

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THIS Saturday, Nov. 11, we honor the 22 million veterans who have served in the United States armed forces with parades, speeches and gratitude for their service. But no Veteran’s Day tribute can be complete without acknowledging the challenges veterans face at home. The effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can last for decades and are linked to low employment, domestic violence, homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, and shocking rates of suicide. Studies report that 20 percent of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan experience PTSD, though many experts suspect the rates are much higher. More than half don’t seek treatment.

Under the Obama administration in 2013, the VA partnered with the Dept. of Defense to create the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD, which provided more than $45 million to “advance PTSD diagnosis, prevention and treatment for service members and veterans.” That funding has generated dozens of clinical trials around the country, including a new PTSD and substance abuse study currently being conducted at the VA clinics in Savannah and Charleston. Veterans with PTSD are two to four times as likely to develop dependence on drugs and alcohol than those without, and the co-occurrence of both conditions is high: According to the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA), 84 percent of Vietnam veterans with PTSD meet the criteria for alcoholism, and among vets who served in Vietnam or later, more than 46 percent of

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study in Savannah now that Progress Study is finished,” says research study coordinator Michelle Pompei, referring to another clinical PTSD trial that ran at the Savannah VA from 2013 through earlier this year. “While the studies aren’t related— except that they are both examining PTSD treatments—it’s great to be able to offer additional treatment options to veterans. Often, this is enough of a carrot to get them through the door, because even if the research isn’t a good fit, we get them established with mental healthcare here.” The new, state-of-the-art Savannah VA clinic opened last year, expanding and improving local medical care for veterans who used to have to travel to Charleston for certain doctor visits and procedures. The Savannah clinic also offers a full range of psychiatric, psychological and social services for veterans in addition to several ongoing clinical trials. It’s the combination of all of those treatments and services that will actually make a difference to veterans, says Dr. Back. “In the real world, you wouldn’t just give someone suffering from PTSD and substance dependence a medication,” vows the researcher, who obtained her training in substance abuse disorders from Yale School of Medicine.

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“The idea is to help develop good cognitive and behavioral coping skills in addition to what the medication can do.” The medical trial is part of a comprehensive treatment plan at the VA, and Dr. Back notes that participants can pursue different avenues of care without disrupting the “internal validity” of the study. “Those in the study must be able to continue their therapy as usual, if they’re receiving it. If they’re not, we will make sure we provide that support.” Millions of men and women who have served in the U.S. military continue to

experience PTSD and turn to drugs and alcohol to cope, which can lead to further instability at home and work. The VA has the infrastructure and ability to help, but it can’t conduct its research without the veterans themselves. “Veterans are not doing well across a variety of different areas,” acknowledges Dr. Back, who has been working with veterans for more than a decade. “These clinical trials are one of the only ways to develop effective treatments for what affects veterans the most.” The trials are also a way to invite veterans to seek help without stigma of weakness as well as contribute to the greater well-being of fellow vets. Dr. Back points out that the results of the Patriot Study and other PTSD research have far-reaching benefits for others. “If they don’t want to seek treatment for themselves—for whatever the reason, they believe they can tough it out, they don’t want to burden anyone—they should remember that they’re really helping at another level,” she reminds. “They’re using their life experiences to help other veterans.” CS To learn more about the Patriot Study or the Savannah VA Clinic, call (912)920-0214 ext. 2169 or ext. 2132

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Teen creates ‘UTime’ for fun and friendships with special kids BY JESSICA LEIGH LEBOS

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IT’S SATURDAY morning at Monkey Joe’s, and the colorful indoor playground percolates with happy squeals. Children chase each other around the carpeted room, launching themselves from soft slides and bouncing among the inflatable platforms. Most parents and caregivers loiter around the fringes of the chaos or sit at tables looking at their phones, but a few are walking towards the door. Mikeelah Anthony has just dropped off her oldest son, 8 year-old Cameron, with the teen volunteers of UTime, a free “day out” service for parents of children with special needs. Now she can’t decide if she should go shopping or take a nap. Pia Langley (l.) and Kate Bailey share some “It’s been so long since I’ve had three special time on Saturday mornings once a hours to myself, I don’t know what to do,” laughs Anthony, describing Cameron, who month at Monkey Joe’s. PHOTO BY JESSICA has autism, as a “bundle of energy.” “I’m so LEIGH LEBOS grateful this exists.” CPR-certified, and there is always a regCreated in 2015 by Savannah Country Day School student Lily Glass, UTime offers istered nurse on duty in case of an emergency. Parents must register their child in supervised activities, unstructured fun advance, and all capacity levels are weland a pizza lunch to kids with developmencome to inquire. tal and physical challenges—and a much“Even if they can’t jump, kids can come needed break for their moms and dads. “Parents are caring for them twenty-four- and play games, do puzzles and just hang out with us,” encourages Lily. seven, so this gives them a chance to relax,” “We try to pair up with the same kids says Lily, who launched the program the every time, so there are a lot of great summer before her sophomore year. friendships that happen.” “My mother is a pediatric physical Her mother, Liz Glass, who has worked as therapist, so I grew up seeing what a coman aquatic therapist for over 17 years, says mitment it is to raise a child with special she offered her daughter a bit of professional needs. When I started looking around for advice but that the project has blossomed community service opportunities, I saw through Lily’s passion for the children and that there wasn’t anything like this.” fundraisers like T-shirt sales and a partnerShe began recruiting her friends as volship with Savannah Power Yoga. unteers, and now more than 40 students “She just took it and ran with it,” says Liz from SCDS, St. Vincent’s Academy, BC and proudly. other area high schools choose to spend “But she couldn’t have done it without occasional Saturday mornings skipping help. What this has taught all of us is that through the bounce houses, each paired UTime founder Lily Glass clowns around with all you have to do is ask, and this commuwith a special friend, ranging in age from special friend Ethan Shrek. PHOTO BY JESSICA nity is right behind you.” four to 12. LEIGH LEBOS Watching volunteer Grayson Rhangos Monkey Joe’s donates the space, allowand participant Daniela Martinez holding ing UTime to set up once a month during “Teenagers tend to look to hang out with hands on their way to one of Monkey Joe’s the school year and once a week in the 14 summertime. Many of the volunteers are giant purples slides, Liz smiles. kids who are like them, which is totally

normal. What I think is also valuable here is that these teens are learning they can be friends with different kids, and that’s wonderful,” she says. Now a senior, Lily is busy applying to colleges (Vanderbilt is her top pick) but promises UTime will continue under the direction of vice president Ally Best. “We’d like it to keep growing, maybe add some new activities and venues,” she says. “There are so many people who end up benefitting from this—the parents, the kids and the volunteers.” While UTime was conceived with special needs parents in mind, one of the major benefits for them is the knowledge that their children are in an environment where they can have a break from societal pressures. This is true for Anthony, who shares that Cameron has had negative experiences with kids who don’t understand his condition. “I feel comfortable leaving him here because there are kids like him,” she says as she watches her son run off to the nearest bounce castle, two new friends right behind him. “This is respite for me, but it’s also a chance for him to be fully himself without judgment.” CS For more information on the next UTime event, go to utimesavannah.webstarts.com

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What happened to all the supergeniuses? Do supergeniuses still exist? The world has more people, so there should be more Newtons and Einsteins than ever, but I can’t think of many today like that. —Wesley TO understand why the breed is rare, let’s look at supergeniuses of the past. Newton and Einstein were geniuses pretty much by acclaim, up there with other favorites like Shakespeare, Galileo, and Beethoven. And how about Charles Darwin? He basically created our modern understanding of evolution—giving us, in natural selection, a sui generis theory that could only have issued from a singular mind. Right? Well, no. Another guy came up with roughly the same idea, independently of Darwin, around the same time; the two co-published a paper. But despite some latter-day attempts to correct the historical record, few today have heard of poor Alfred Russel Wallace. Darwin, moreover, was by his own account no great thinker. As a 2009 article in Genetics put it, “In his style and from what we can deduce of his mental processes, he does not fit the image of ‘genius’

that we have inherited from physics and mathematics.” Whatever we’re calling “genius” is a blurry concept that comprises not just smarts but creativity, timing, and starmaking PR. In its original formulation, genius was thought by the ancient Romans to be a unique talent everyone was born with. More recently, IQ testing has led it to be associated with quantifiable intelligence, though of course one doesn’t guarantee the other. Einstein was the complete package: a high-IQ fellow who was exceptionally creative and productive—famously, in a single year he produced four papers that changed physics forever. You’ve stumbled, actually, on a point of some anxiety in the sciences today, where future Einsteins aren’t assured. Why not? A few ideas: The disciplines are settled. The supergeniuses we recognize today created their fields (Galileo) or revolutionized them (Einstein). Psychologist Dean Keith Simonton argues that for a century no disciplines have been created wholesale, but rather combined with existing fields into hybrid forms: astrophysics, biochemistry. Simonton writes, “Future advances are likely to build on what is already known rather than alter the foundations of knowledge.” It takes more work to do that building. The lower-hanging fruit having been picked, would-be supergeniuses now must spend more time acquiring background knowledge. A 2005 study of noted inventors and Nobel laureates found the mean age for making significant discoveries had increased six years over a century. The implications of today’s discoveries are more abstruse and so get less public exposure. Einstein’s work led to the atom bomb. Today, consider the Higgs boson,

the so-called god particle—key to understanding the universe. Incredible stuff? Yes. Immediately consequential? No. Science today demands teamwork. One guy theorized the existence of the Higgs, but it took thousands of very smart people—not to mention a series of increasingly enormous particle accelerators—nearly five decades to prove it. As our pursuits get more complex, that’s increasingly what discovery looks like: teams of experts. And as much as the singular genius has given us, he’s increasingly anachronistic. You’ll notice everyone mentioned here is a white guy, a trend the lone-genius trope does nothing to disrupt. A recent poll of 2,000 academics found that fields where scholars explicitly equated success with brilliance (rather than, say, hard work; philosophy being the egregious example) conferred PhDs on far fewer women and people of color than fields (like psychology) in which respondents were less hung up on sheer intellect. Another survey asked subjects (civilians, not profs) to rate the impressiveness of discoveries described as either having occurred “like a light bulb” or having been “nurtured like seeds.” The participants considered light-bulb-type ideas more impressive—unless the discovery was made by a woman, in which case nurturing scored higher. The way the authors see it, these results comport with “gendered stereotypes of genius as male”—we expect men to have the classic “Eureka!” breakthroughs, with women seen as better off tending their little intellectual gardens. But such biases aren’t advancing the overall enterprise of discovery. Supergeniuses, then, may be on their way out, but we’ll make do without them. CS BY CECIL ADAMS

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Fatal shooting on W. 45th Street

SCMPD detectives continue to investigate the early morning fatal shooting of a 21-year-old man on W. 45th Street. About 12:50 a.m. Nov. 1, officers responded to reports of a shooting in the 300 block of W. 45th Street and found John Lee Hunter deceased. Detectives are questioning a person of interest in the case.

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SCMPD officers made an arrest in a shooting at a Largo Drive business that resulted in one death and another injury. Officers were called to Suds Laundromat, 11709 Largo Drive, about 3:15 p.m. Nov. 2 on reports of a shooting and discovered Stanley Owen Anderson, 62, and Katie Herbert, 65, with gunshot wounds. Anderson was transported to a hospital,

was uncooperative with the investigation and initially provided a false name, was transported to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries,” police say.

where he died as a result of his injuries. Herbert was treated for non life threatening injuries. Samuel Hutchinson, 70, was also located on scene and was identified as a suspect in the shooting. Hutchinson is being charged with murder and aggravated assault.

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Woman arrested for passing Marathon barricade, dragging cop

A woman was arrested after she drove past a barricade at Cedar and 48th streets and dragged an officer with her car. Dana Lewton, 25, of Savannah, was charged with failing to obey a police officer directing traffic, driving on a closed road and hit and run over the weekend. “Lewton was attempting to get to a fast food restaurant on Bee Road about 8:30 a.m. when she drove onto a part of Washington Street that was closed to traffic for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon. Officer Corey Stevens asked her to turn around, but she ignored him and turned south on Cedar Street into a closed off area,” police report. “When another officer tried to wave her down, she turned her car around and returned to Stevens. When she slowed down, Stevens reached into the car. Lewton fled, resulting in Stevens being dragged. He sustained scrapes and bruises as a result and was transported to a

Suspect in E. DeRenne armed robbery

hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.” Officers located Lewton in her vehicle at Abercorn Street and DeRenne Avenue and took her into custody.

Haven Drive shooting

Detectives continue to investigate the shooting of a 27-year-old man outside a Haven Drive residence on Nov. 2. “Officers responded to the first block of Haven Drive about 3:20 p.m. and discovered a man later identified as Brandon Wright with gunshot injuries. A residence was also struck with gunfire. Wright, who

Detectives need the public’s help identifying two suspects in an armed robbery on E. DeRenne Avenue on October 31. “At about 6:30 p.m., Metro officers responded to the scene in reference to an armed robbery call. Reportedly, two male suspects flagged down the victim, asking the victim for a ride. The victim consented to give the suspects a ride, but during the drive was robbed of cash. The suspects then fled the scene,” police report. One suspect is as a black male in his 20s, 6-feet tall and around 150 pounds. He wore a race car jacket and tan pants. He may have a discolored bottom lip and dreads. The second suspect is a black male in his 20s, about 6-feet tall and around 140 pounds. He wore a Chicago Bulls hat, grey jacket and black pants. cs NOTE: OUR HOMICIDE TALLY REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF THREE VICTIMS OF JULY 4 INCIDENT IN CITY MARKET. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT DOESN’T INCLUDE THOSE VICTIMS IN THE OFFICIAL TALLY. GIVE TIPS TO CRIMESTOPPERS AT 912/234-2020 OR TEXT CRIMES (274637) KEYWORD CSTOP2020.

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Three teenagers from Rahway, New Jer• Workers at a Carl’s Jr. in Santa Rosa, sey, who call themselves the Rahway Bush- California, were busy filling an order for men, have been discouraged from their 165 Super Star burgers for first respondsignature prank: dressing up as bushes and ers to the Fountaingrove area wildfires popping up in Rahway River Park to say on Oct. 26 when a grease fire broke out in “Hi!” to unsuspecting passersby. NJ.com the restaurant. The fire started in the char reported in October that the Union County broiler and then jumped to the exhaust Police Department warned the Bushmen system. Franchise co-owner Greg Funkthat they would be arrested if caught in houser told The Press-Democrat the buildaction. The high school students started by ing was “completely torn up. ... We made it jumping out to scare people, but decided through the big one, only to get taken to soften their approach with a gentler out by this.” When the person who greeting. “We were trying to be placed the order arrived to pick harmless,” one of the Bushmen it up, he saw six Santa Rosa Fire said. “It’s more or less an idea to Department trucks in the parkI’M BACK! DID YA try to make people smile.” But ing lot and left, so Funkhouser MISS ME?: Union County Public Informahanded out free burgers to “anytion Officer Sebastian D’Elia one around.” deadpanned: “It’s great until the • A Henrietta, New York, first person falls and sues the gifts and oddities store earned county.” Or puts an eye out. its name on Oct. 24 when a garbage truck rolled between two Animal Troublemakers gas pumps and across a road to • Pilots were warned of “low crash into the 200-year-old buildsealings” at Wiley Post-Will Roging where the store had opened ers Memorial Airport in Utqiagvik, in June. Jeri Flack, owner of A Alaska, on Oct. 23 because of an Beautiful Mess, told WHAM-TV obstruction on the runway: a 450that her building is “wrecked in pound bearded seal. Meadow Bailey the front so bad that I can’t open back up.” of the Alaska Department of TransporWitnesses say the truck driver pulled into tation told KTVA-TV that the city, also a spot at a Sunoco station across the street known as Barrow, was hit by heavy storms and got out to use the restroom. That’s that day, and airport staff discovered the when the truck rolled away and barreled seal while clearing the runway. However, into the business. Sunoco employee T.J. staff are not authorized to handle marine Rauber said, “I see a lot of crazy stuff up animals, so North Slope Animal Control here, but I ain’t never seen nothing like stepped in, using a sled to remove the seal. that.” Bailey said animals such as musk ox, caribou and polar bears are common on the Least Competent Criminal Burglary suspect and career crimirunway, but the seal was a first. • About two dozen car owners in the nal Shane Paul Owen, 46, of South Salt Nob Hill neighborhood of Snellville, Geor- Lake, Utah, was on the run from police gia, were perturbed in late October by on Oct. 24 when he dashed into a vacant what they thought was vandalism: Their church. A Salt Lake City SWAT team held cars’ side mirrors were being shattered, a standoff at the church for more than six even in broad daylight. Finally, accordhours -- until Owen called 911 to say that ing to WSB-TV, one resident caught the he was locked in the church’s boiler room real perpetrator: a pileated woodpecker and couldn’t get out. “Can you hurry?” who apparently believes his reflection in he asked the dispatcher. “I need to talk to the mirrors is a rival. Because pileated them first so they don’t ... shoot me,” Owen woodpeckers are a protected species, pleaded. The Deseret News reported he neighbors had to get creative with their was booked on outstanding warrants for solution. They are now placing plastic bags retaliation against a witness, drug distriover their side mirrors while the cars are bution and identity fraud. parked.

Undignified Death

Nathan William Parris, 72, met his unfortunate end when a cow he was trying to move turned against him at his farm in Floyd County, Georgia, on Oct. 25. Parris was pinned against a fence by the recalcitrant cow, reported the Rome NewsTribune, which caused him severe chest trauma. First responders tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the Redmond Regional Medical Center emergency room.

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IT’S BEEN 29 years since the release of their Grammy-winning anthem “Cult of Personality,” but for Living Colour’s Corey Glover, not much has changed. The revolutionary hard rock band has enjoyed a long and fruitful career, inspiring generations to think for themselves, decry racism, and spread love. The New York-based band, which honed its sound at legendary punk venue CBGB, released Vivid in 1988, debuting at number six on the Billboard 200 charts. The album—their first—reached double platinum status thanks to the success of single “Cult of Personality.” In 1989, the band was named Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards after touring with The

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Rolling Stones and Guns N’ Roses. The hype was building, and Living Colour delivered with their second album, Time’s Up, kicking out the singles “Type,” “Love Rears Its Ugly Head,” “Solace of You,” “Elvis Is Dead,” and “Pride.” The record earned an Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1991. An EP, “Biscuits,” followed in 1991, and the band released its third album, Stain, in 1993. In 1995, Living Colour called it quits, releasing Pride, a compilation, after the breakup. In 2000, the group reunited, playing a show as “Head>>Fake with special guests” at CBGB. This weekend, vocalist Glover, guitarist Vernon Reid, drummer Will Calhoun, and drummer Doug Wimbish bring a new album to Savannah. Shade, released in September, continues Living Colour’s tradition of melding rock, metal, funk, jazz,

and alt-rock with a fresh blues influence. We spoke with Glover about writing political music in 2017, the internet age, and receiving mixtapes from Mick Jagger. Congratulations on the release of Shade! Thanks, it’s a long time coming, but we finally got it done. How long have you been working on it? About four years. Does the title come from that line in “Pattern in Time”—“nobody wants to live in my shade?” Shade just comes from the absence of light. The absence of light does not negate.

There’s not nothing going on within the context of darkness. There are so many parts of the color palette—it’s not just ROYGBIV. It’s black and white as well. We’re just trying to get deep, that’s all! What were you listening to—or what musical influences did you have in mind—while you were writing? Well, the whole impetus to make this record was playing The Apollo in Harlem on the anniversary of Robert Johnson’s birth, so we were kind of inspired by that. Once we were in earnest, trying to get to that, a lot of stuff from our past that we had listened to before crept into the process— Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, Johnson, a bunch of folks. Living Colour, is, if not anything, historians in the music that we draw from. Early

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jazz, early blues, early rock, all that stuff we throw into the mix. Funk music, all that stuff. It’s a big gumbo of stuff. We were focusing on the blues and trying to deconstruct it in a Living Colour idiom. Did you grow up listening to the blues? You know, I tell this story very rarely, but when we first started out, we were doing some demos with Mick Jagger. In the very beginning, he produced “Glamour Boys,” “Broken Hearts,” “Which Way to America.” I was having a conversation with Jagger about the blues, because I know that was his early influence as well. We were having a long conversation about a bunch of people, and the next day after our sessions, he hands me a mixtape! He’d gone home and pulled out all his 78s and made me a mixtape of the stuff that influenced him. That cassette I cherish, because not only was it just that Mick Jagger gave it to me, but the music he put on there was incredible. Rare Little Walter stuff, Howlin’ Wolf, Lead Belly, T-Bone Walker, some really, really, really even further back stuff that was just amazing to me. It’s part of our DNA. Do you find there’s a difference writing socially conscious and politicallyminded music now versus in the ‘80s? No. Nothing’s changed. Fundamentally, things have changed slightly, but what’s interesting is we wrote a lot of these songs before there was a presidential election… and it so happens, a lot of stuff works right now. I had no idea that something I wrote three, four years ago was going to be so prescient now. You have the song “Falsified.” Now, all we hear about is fake news! It’s like I said—nothing’s really changed. We’re sort of in a ten-year span. We’re 20 years into the internet age, and what we seem to have gotten out of that is gossip and hyperbole, you know? It’s a distraction. It was supposed to be there to educate people, but how many times have you gotten into a rabbit hole down YouTube or a Reddit thread and next thing you know it’s four o’clock in the morning? Did you get anything done? The song “Program” talks about reality TV—I’m interested what your thoughts are MTV, VH1’S shifts in programming toward that, as a former VJ. Reality TV…it is what it is. When I was working at VH1, they had just started The Real World. It’s a function of society, I would imagine, that sort of deals with the idea that nothing is real. That was almost 25 years ago. Everything’s possible but nothing is real.

Is there a central message you hope folks take away from Living Colour in this day and age? Anything is possible if nothing is real. But it’s real when you make it real. It’s a function of our species to continue. Don’t ever stop doing what you do. There’s an inspiration for that. We’ve been doing this for almost 30 years now. We’re not going to stop, or stop talking about the things that are going on in the world we live in. Neither should you. What brought you back together after the band took a break? The break was only a year and a half, it was short, but it was a much-needed break. We needed time to ourselves. Before we broke up, we were constantly on the road, constantly making records. For two years, we’d make a record, go back on the road. We needed a break. A lot of changes were going on in our lives—births, deaths, marriages, dissolution of marriages, relationships growing and dissolving and growing again—so it was just time for a good, yearlong vacation. We needed to recharge our batteries and find some new inspiration for ourselves. Will Calhoun, our drummer, went to Africa and Australia and studied with native masters…Doug [Wimbish] went back to England and was doing some stuff with Adrian Sherwood again and into the garage, drum and bass thing. I did a solo record. It inspired me…it gives me the chance to study and come back. You also performed with Galactic. Yeah I did that two years ago off and on… it’s fun because in Living Colour I’m in this “black garage band.” In Galactic, I’m in this “white funk band!” It’s all in my wheelhouse. What’s the secret to keeping a band together this long? We made a commitment to make the best music we know how to do. We made a commitment to ourselves and there is no place else where we can do exactly what we are other than here. You’ll never hear anything like what we do—what the four of us do together—separately. It’s a completely different animal where we all sort of get together and play, and there’s nothing like that. And we love each other. CS

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81-YEAR-OLD Charlie Daniels shows no signs of stopping. The country and Southern Rock legend’s career has grown steadily over the years. With a start as a Nashville session player, contributing to the music of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Marshall Tucker Band, Daniels didn’t “go solo” until he was 35 years old, releasing his debut album in 1971. Four years later, the talented player earned a top 30 hit with the song “The South’s Gonna Do It Again.” All the while, Daniels was still lending out his talents, performing on albums by Hank Williams, Jr. and others before winning a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance for “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” The now-classic was a crossover hit, marked by Daniels’ signature fiery fiddle solo and the classic tale of young Johnny outplaying the Devil himself.

The Charlie Daniels Band celebrates 45 years together in 2017, and Daniels has shared a highly-anticipated memoir, Never Look at the Empty Seats. We spoke with Daniels about his writing process, listening to the Grand Ole Opry—into which he’d later be inducted—as a young boy, and his proudest moments as a musician. Congratulations on the release of your memoir. Why is it the right moment to tell your story?

It was a long time in the making, I just finally got it done. I worked on it for somewhere around 20 years, but I couldn’t find a place to stop it. I wasn’t invited to The Grand Ole Opry until my 70s! Good things kept happening, I kept writing. When I was told I was being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, I thought, that’s a great place to polish this off. It’s from my earliest memories to the Country Music Hall of Fame induction.

What was your process? Were you dictating, were you writing on tour? I wrote it all out, I even got into computers. I wrote a lot of it out, but I can’t read my longhand—I have to print it out and get somebody to transcribe it for me. I took a little typing in school, I know keyboards and word processing, so I got into doing it that way. It took me a long time to get it in the position of a book rather than a bunch of notes. I couldn’t find a place to pause it, but once we got the news about the Opry, I knew it was good enough for pausing. You’re a big reader—were you inspired by other music memoirs, autobiographies…? Not really—it’s just the story of my life as I remember it. It’s my earliest remembrances from the last 80 years. What’s your earliest music memory? Listening to the Grand Ole Opry on the

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radio, which we did every Saturday night— everybody in the neighborhood listened to the Opry on Saturday night. It came in on a local radio station, and that’s what you did—gather around the radio the way they gather around the TV now, and on Monday morning, people could tell you what song so-and-so sang, what joke Minnie Pearl said. It was a cultural thing in my part of the country. Was there a particular Opry performance that was influential or memorable to you? Roy Acuff, who was one of my very early influences and one of my heroes. And Hank Williams, too. You’ve included a lot of advice for young musicians in the book. Aside from the title, is there a key piece of advice you wanted to share? As I go along, I just mentioned some mistakes that I have made and I put in the book. There’s no yellow brick road—it’s you and your talent getting out there and getting with it. And though there’s no yellow brick road, there are some absolute somethings that are common mistakes that young musicians tend to make. I

“There’s no yellow brick road—it’s you and your talent getting out there and getting with it.” pointed some of those out to save some people some mistakes, if they’re inclined to listen. You shared an accompanying CD. How did you select the songs for that? They’re selected kind of chronologically, or as close as we could. The first record I ever made in 1959 is on there, but we tried to come up with songs that would kind of signify the different times in my career. For the part of the book about 1975, we tried to find something from there, from the pertinent areas of my career. The Country Music Hall of Fame induction was the endcap for the book. What did that induction mean to you personally? I have yet to come up with the word or series of words or whatever that articulates the depth of the honor that I feel

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being one of three people that were chosen that year to become a member of the Hall of Fame. It’s hard to put together…it was so unexpected, it was so absolutely incredible. I just can’t put into words. You can use any adjective you want that is synonymous with wonderful and great, but of all the things I’ve said still don’t do it justice. The band’s celebrating 45 years together. How are you celebrating? We’re going to do another 45 years! We’re a pretty businesslike outfit. I’ve kept 25 people gainfully and steadily employed for 40 years, and a lot of them are still with me. We have an insurance program, a 401k program…our eyes are on longevity. One of my people asked me my greatest accomplishment recently, and I said that I’m most grateful that. Working on the memoir, going through your catalog of songs and looking back

at your career—has that impacted the way you’re writing and what you’re working on in the future? Not really. I lived all this, and of course, I didn’t do the book in a short amount of time. It was an elongated amount of time, so I absorbed it as I went along. Nothing was really shocking to me—I had some very pleasant memories and some not-sopleasant memories, but not anything that really shook me up or nothing. So, with y’all coming back to Georgia, gotta ask—the “Devil Went Down To Georgia” number has been a staple of the Stone Mountain laser show for years. Have you seen it yourself? Yes! We played Stone Mountain…it’s been a little while now. But it went on for many years and I didn’t see it, but people told me about it. I’m glad it’s still going on…with all the political correctness going on, who knows how long it’ll last anymore. CS

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22-year-old Chicagoan Famous Dex hits The Stage on Bay this weekend. The protégé of Rich the Kid went viral with cuts like “Drip From My Walk,” “2 Times,” and “Rich Forever,” teaming up with folks like Kendrick Lamar, Justin Bieber, and Partynextdoor to show his versatility right out of the gate. On October 19, Dex dropped “Pick It Up,” a new track featuring A$AP Rocky. For the last year, he’s been working on a debut album, Dex Meets Dexter. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, DOORS AT 7 P.M., SHOW AT 8 P.M., $25-30, ALL-AGES

Savannah Stopover alums Joy Again brings their brand of glimmering indie-pop to Savannah. Founded in 2015 by former boarding school classmates, the band’s fizzy melodies and hooks will charm new fans and returning audience members alike. The Philadelphians have released a string of singles over the year, including “On A Farm” and “Kim,” via Never Grow Up Records. They’re currently working on a debut full-length album between tours. Connecticut’s Furnsss place Brian Wilson-reminiscent melodies against walls of fuzz-pop with bubbly guitar leads. A self-titled EP will be released on November 13. Savannah’s Ryan Jones plays songs that are punctuated by dreamy swells and an easy, charming vocal style. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 9 P.M., FREE, 21+

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Some of Savannah’s favorite musical visitors return with a brand-new project. Philadelphia-based Plaque Marks, featuring members of Creepoid, Fight Amp, Ecstatic Vision, and Powder Room, shows influence from all of those projects yet unfurls in a manner all its own. Bristly, bonecrusher noise with punk and hardcore tendencies, Plaque Marks’ debut album, released in October, is a searing introduction. Anxiety Driven Nervous Worship is available now on Learning Curve Records. Vincas have found their way to Savannah a few times this year. Catch their swamp-psych rock kicking off the night. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, DOORS AT 7 P.M., SHOW AT 8 P.M., FREE, 21+

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Charlotte indie rock/reggae band returns to Barrelhouse South. Blending funk and rock into their sound, guitarist Cameron Brown, percussionist/drummer Joey Vachon, trombonist Brandon Hucks, bassist Jon Reed, and drummer David Hamilton Jr. continue to win audiences over. The band hit the ground running with their first record, Just Add Water, which won Indie-Ville Reggae Album of the Year in 2011. The followup, Life Worth Livin, debut at No. 5 on the iTunes Top Reggae Album Charts. This year, their single “Sit Around,” engineered and mixed by Passafire’s Ted Bowne and featuring Zach Fowler of Sun-Dried Vibes. Over the years, the band has performed with Sublime with Rome, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Slightly Stoopid, Keller Williams, Blues Traveler, and more. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 9 P.M., FREE, 21+

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Soapbox Soliloquy is the project of St. Petersburg, Florida artist Jasmine Deja. Deja, who’s played in the bands Selectric and Veiny Hands, draws garage and psychedelic influences together for her sound as Soapbox Soliloquy. She most recently released an LP, Good Morning Dragonclaw, which was recorded with a seven-piece live band featuring electric guitar, 12-strong acoustic guitar, drums, bass, keyboards and sound effects. To promote the album, the project shared a music video that strings together three of Good Morning Dragonclaw’s songs—“Fire Sale,” “Father’s Funeral,” and “You’re Two Stone Dad”—into a nine-minute video. Savannah’s own seven-piece jazz/blues/ funk/rock/prog fusion group The Sound Experiment joins the bill. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 9:30 P.M., ALL-AGES

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Kick off your weekend in style with lunch and live music at The Grey. Through Savannah Stopover and The Grey’s unique partnership, Savannahians can support local nonprofits, enjoy delicious food, and catch some of Savannah’s hottest bands in the side yard of downtown’s acclaimed restaurant. Chef Mashama Bailey will cook up burgers, hot links, potato salad, broccoli slaw, and baked beans. Pair your meal with beer, wine, or Chatham Artillery Punch and enjoy the sounds of Painter & Poet. Savannah-based Painter & Poet is the project of husband and wife team Anna and William Cusack. Alongside Jalen Reyes and Grant Srikoetkhruen, they blend influences ranging from Stevie Ray Vaughan to Mindi Abair to create an eclectic, engaging sound. In October, the band shared a new single, “Wise Anna Lee,” a taste of the sound they hope to capture on a full-length album. Attendees have the option of paying a cover to watch the show and have a drink ($15) or purchasing a ticket and meal combo ($25). All proceeds benefit local art and creativity advocates Loop It Up Savannah. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 12 P.M., $15 CONCERT & DRINK, $25 CONCERT, DRINK & FOOD, $15 CHILDREN UNDER 10

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Barrelhouse South Ben Lewis, 9:30 p.m. Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band, 9 p.m. Bayou Cafe Ray Tomasino, 9 p.m. Boomy’s Eric Culberson Band, 10 p.m. coffee deli Acoustic Jam, 7 p.m. Five Oaks Taproom Eric Britt, 8 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Claire Frazier Quartet, 7 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Jason Bible, 7 p.m. Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Ray Tomasino, 7 p.m. Rachael’s 1190 Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. The Sandbar Open Mic, 9 p.m. Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m. SEED Eco Lounge Latin Music Night, 9 p.m. The Stage on Bay Famous Dex w/ Special Guests, 7 p.m. Tree House Wobble Wednesday Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Jubal Kane, 8 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Josh Johansson, 6 p.m. The Wormhole Open Mic, 9 p.m.

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The Chromatic Dragon Geeky Trivia Night, 8 p.m. Dub’s Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Trivia, 7:30 p.m. The Jinx Rock n Roll Bingo, 10 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) Trivia Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Bingo, 7 p.m. World of Beer Trivia, 7 p.m.

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Barrelhouse South Of Good Nature, 9 p.m. Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band, 9 p.m. Bayou Cafe Eric Culberson Band, 9 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m. Cohen’s Retreat Munchies and Music, 5:30 p.m. Congress Street Social Club DJ Basik Lee, 10:30 p.m. El-Rocko Lounge Feather Trade, Sins of Godless Men, 9 p.m. Fannie’s on the Beach Christy and Butch, 8 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Randy Reese Quartet, 7 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Shane Baldwin Duo,

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Alabama’s Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires are redefining Southern Rock in 2017. The band continues to grow and spread their rowdy, Southern-accented rock ‘n’ roll throughout the USA via their most ambitious album to date. Youth Detention, released by Don Giovanni Records, dismantles traditional ideas of Southern Rock and the Southern experience. On the album, the band explores scenes in which cultural boundaries and biases stand out and the curtains are peeled back on systems of oppression. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 9 P.M., 21+ 7 p.m. The Jinx Dance Party, 10 p.m. Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Georgia Kyle, 7 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Emily Kenyon, 10 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Trivia The Perch at Local 11 ten Aaron Zimmer PS Tavern Live Music Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Gypsy Jazz, 7 p.m. The Savannah Civic Center Chris Tomlin w/ Matt Maher, 7 p.m. Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m. Ships of The Sea Museum Sammy Miller and the Congregation, 8 p.m. The Stage on Bay Hinder w/ Adelitas Way, Josh Todd and The Conflict, Wayland, 8 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Open Mic, 9 p.m. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) City Hotel, 6 p.m. Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Brian Bazemore, 8 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, 5 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Thomas Claxton, 7:30 p.m. The Wormhole Open Mic, 6 p.m.

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KARAOKE

Blueberry Hill Trivia and Karaoke, 7 p.m. The Chromatic Dragon Karaoke Night, 9 p.m. Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. Doodles Karaoke, 9 p.m. Flashback Karaoke, 8 p.m. Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke & Throwback Jams, 8 p.m. Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Rusty Rudders Tap House Karaoke Totally Awesome Bar 80s and 90s Karaoke, 10 p.m. World of Beer Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Jinx Live DJ, 10 p.m. Liquid Night Club Live DJ, 9 p.m. Little Lucky’s Live DJ Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ Cesar, 10 p.m.

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Carnival Bar Theatre Downtown Delilahs Dance Cabaret w/ A Night at the Movies, 10 p.m. Club One GUNT Farmer’s Market, 9 p.m., Drag Show, 10:30 p.m. SEED Eco Lounge Daas Unterground Thursdays, 10 p.m. Stafford’s Public House Open Mic, 9 p.m.

FRIDAY 11.10 LIVE MUSIC

Barrelhouse South The Grass is Dead, 9 p.m.

Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton, Brett Barnard and the Hitman Band, 8 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m. Congress Street Social Club Great Blue, 10:30 p.m. Dockside Seafood Bluegrass Happy Hour, 4 p.m. El-Rocko Lounge Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires, 8 p.m. Flashback At Sundown, 9 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Eric Jones Trio, 8 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar The Fundamentals, 9 p.m. The Jinx The Discussion, Nancy Druid, 10 p.m. Johnny Mercer Theatre The Charlie Daniels Band, 8 p.m. Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Ben Keiser, 7 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Cory Chambers, The Mercers, 10 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) XAK, 9 p.m. Pour Larry’s DJ & Live Music Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Jazz Trio, 6:30 p.m. Randy Wood Guitars Trinity River, 8 p.m. Rusty Rudders Tap House Live Acoustic Music, 6 p.m. Ruth’s Chris Steak House David Duckworth, 8 p.m. Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m. The Stage on Bay Living Colour, 8 p.m. Taste of India Don Read, 6:30 p.m. Tijuana Flats Gary Strickland Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Voodoo Soup, 6 p.m. Tybee Post Theater The Petty Hearts, 8 p.m. Vic’s on The River Diana Rogers, Claire Frazier and Norm Gagne, 7 p.m. The Warehouse Johnny Octane, 8 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe City Hotel, Bill Hodgson, Evenpete, 5 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Tell Scarlett, 9:30 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

Coach’s Corner Trivia, Movies & Music Trivia, 8 p.m. PS Tavern Beer Pong Tournament, 10 p.m.

KARAOKE

Bay Street Blues Karaoke, 8 p.m. Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 7 p.m. The Islander Karaoke, 10 p.m. Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Sunny’s Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/ DJ, 10:30 p.m.

Club 309 West DJ Zay Doubles Nightclub DJ Sam Diamond, 8 p.m. El-Rocko Lounge DJ D-Frost Hercules Bar & Grill DJ Liquid Night Club Live DJ, 9 p.m. Little Lucky’s Live DJ Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ C-Rok, 10 p.m. Tree House DJ Phive Star

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BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Abe’s on Lincoln DJ Doc Ock, 9 p.m. Carnival Bar Theatre Downtown Delilahs Dance Cabaret w/ A Night at the Movies, 10 p.m. Club One MIX: Trilogy Complete, 10 p.m., Drag Show

SATURDAY 11.11 LIVE MUSIC

17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond, 6:30 p.m. Barrelhouse South The Southern Belles, 9 p.m. Bayou Cafe Thomas Claxton, Brett Barnard and the Hitman Band, 8 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt (piano and vocals), 6 p.m. Congress Street Social Club Palace Doctors, 10:30 p.m. El-Rocko Lounge Plaque Marks, Soapbox Soliloquy, 8 p.m., DJ Precisa Flashback Main Street, 9 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Demetrius Doctor Trio, 8 p.m. The Grey Stopover in the Yard with Painter & Poet, noon Jazz’d Tapas Bar Voodoo Soup, 9 p.m. The Jinx Captured by Robots!, Eskizo, 10 p.m. Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Matt Eckstine, 7 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Wood & Steel, 10 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Comedy Night, 9 p.m. Molly McGuire’s Greg Williams, 7 p.m. The Olde Pink House David Duckworth & Alisha Duckworth Pour Larry’s DJ & Live Music Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Jazz Trio, 6:30 p.m. Rocks on the Roof @Sundown, 8 p.m. Rusty Rudders Tap House Live Acoustic Music, 6 p.m. Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m. Service Brewing Victory Moto Show ft. Cusses, 6 p.m. Southbound Brewing Company Matt Eckstine, 2 p.m. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Keith & Ross, Micahlan Boney, 6 p.m. Vic’s on The River Diana Rogers, Claire Frazier and Norm Gagne, 7 p.m. The Warehouse Eric Britt, Fig Neutrons, 2 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Jason Courtenay Band, Thomas Claxton, Bill Hodgson, DJ David, 1 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) 8 Mile Bend Band, 9:30 p.m.

KARAOKE

Bay Street Blues Karaoke, 8 p.m. Doodles Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Islander Karaoke, 10 p.m. Jukebox Bar & Grill Karaoke & Throwback Jams, 8 p.m. Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina Karaoke, 8 p.m. PS Tavern Karaoke

COMEDY

Savannah Coffee Roasters Odd Lot Improv: Saturday Shenanigans, 8 p.m.

Doubles Nightclub DJ Sam Diamond, 8 p.m. Liquid Night Club Live DJ, 9 p.m. Little Lucky’s Live DJ Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap SEED Eco Lounge DJ Pieces, 10 p.m. Tree House DJ Phive Star

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Carnival Bar Theatre Downtown Delilahs Dance Cabaret w/ A Night at the Movies, 9 & 11 p.m. Club One Drag Show, 10:30 p.m.

SUNDAY 11.12 LIVE MUSIC

17 Hundred 90 Restaurant Gail Thurmond, 6:30 p.m. Bayou Cafe Don Coyer, 9 p.m. Congress Street Social Club Voodoo Soup, 10:30 p.m. Flashback Open Jam, 5 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Maggie and Jackson Trio, 7 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Josephine Johnson, 7 p.m. Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Sarah Poole, 7 p.m. The Olde Pink House Eddie Wilson The Perch at Local 11 ten Eric Britt Tybee Island Social Club Sunday Bluegrass Brunch, noon Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah Savannah Baroque in Concert, 4 p.m. Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Thomas Claxton, 8 p.m., Thomas Claxton, 8 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, Irritating Julie, 1 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m.

KARAOKE

Blowin’ Smoke Southern Cantina Karaoke, 7-10 p.m. Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, ongoing, 9 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/DJ, 10:30 p.m.

Boomy’s DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

BAR & CLUB EVENTS

Exclusives Bar & Grille Open Mic Poetry Night, 7 p.m. Saddle Bags Bar Olympics

MONDAY 11.13 LIVE MUSIC

Abe’s on Lincoln Open Mic, 9 p.m. Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, 9 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Eric Jones Trio, 7 p.m. Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Ray Tomasino, 8 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Jason Courtenay Band, 6 p.m. The Wormhole Open Mic, 8 p.m., Open Mic, 6 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

Blowin’ Smoke Southern Cantina Team Trivia, 7:30 p.m. The Britannia British Pub Bingo, 8 p.m.

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Bingo

KARAOKE

Boomy’s Karaoke, 10 p.m. Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. Little Lucky’s Karaoke McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Molly Mondays, 10:30 p.m.

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The Jinx DJ Lucky Bastard, 10 p.m. Little Lucky’s Live DJ SEED Eco Lounge DJ Pieces, 10 p.m.

TUESDAY 11.14 LIVE MUSIC

Bay Street Blues Ben Keiser Band, 9 p.m. Bayou Cafe Jam Night with Eric Culberson, 9 p.m. El-Rocko Lounge Joy Again, Furnsss, Ryan Jones, 9:30 p.m. Foxy Loxy Cafe Acoustic Tuesday w/ City Hotel Solo Sessions, 7 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Velvet Caravan, 7 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Ricky Standard, 7 p.m. The Jinx Hip Hop Night, 11 p.m. Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Rachael Shaner, 7 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Open Mic, 9 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Open Mic Nickie’s 1971 Open Mic hosted by Willie Jackson, 8 p.m. The Sentient Bean Tongue: Open Mouth and Music Show hosted by Melanie Goldey, 8 p.m. Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Hitman Blues Band, 8 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Josh Johansson, 6 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES

Basil’s Pizza and Deli Trivia, 7 p.m. Coach’s Corner Trivia, 8 p.m. CoCo’s Sunset Grille Trivia, 7 p.m. Congress Street Social Club Trivia, 10 p.m. Fia Rua Irish Pub Trivia, 7:3010 p.m. McDonough’s Bingo, 7 p.m. Mellow Mushroom Trivia, 7:30 p.m. PS Tavern Poker Rachael’s 1190 Adults Only Trivia, 9 p.m. Savannah Taphouse Trivia, 7 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Trivia, 9 p.m. The Wormhole Trivia, 10:30 p.m.

Trinity River Band Friday, Nov 10th 8:00 PM CALL

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COMEDY

Chuck’s Bar Comedy Open Mic, 9:30 p.m.

SEED Eco Lounge DJ C-Rok, 10 p.m.

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Thur. Nov. 9 FEATHER TRADE SINS OF GODLESS MEN

Fri. Nov. 10 LEE BAINS SAY BROTHER

Sat. Nov. 11 PLAQUE MARKS VINCAS SOAPBOX SOLILOQUY

Tue. Now. 14 FURNSS JOY AGAIN RYAN JONES

KARAOKE

Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 7 p.m. Club One Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) Karaoke The Rail Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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17 Hundred 90 Restaurant 307 E. President St. 912-236-7122 17hundred90.com

Abe’s on Lincoln 17 Lincoln St. 912-349-0525 abesonlincoln.com

Barrelhouse South 125 W. Congress St. 912-662-5576 barrelhousesouth.com

Basil’s Pizza and Deli 216 Johnny Mercer Blvd. 912-897-6400 basilsonline.com

Bay Street Blues 17 E. Bay St. 912-236-6655

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Blowin’ Smoke Southern Cantina 1611 Habersham St. 912-231-2385 blowinsmokesavannah.com

Blueberry Hill 546 Dean Forest Rd. 964-8401

Boomy’s 409 W. Congress St. 912-436-6660 boomysbar.com

The Britannia British Pub 140 Johnny Mercer Blvd. 912-898-4257

Carnival Bar Theatre 306 West Factors Walk The Chromatic Dragon 514 MLK Jr. Blvd. 912-289-0350 chromaticdragon.com

Chuck’s Bar 305 W. River St. 912-232-1005

Club 309 West 309 W. River St. 912-236-1901 club309west.com

Club One 1 Jefferson St.

912-232-0200 clubone-online.com

Coach’s Corner 3016 E. Victory Dr.

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912-352-2933 coachs.net

CoCo’s Sunset Grille 1 Old U.S. Hwy. 80 912-786-7810 cocostybee.com

coffee deli 4517 Habersham St.

912-352-7818 savannahcoffeedeli.com

Cohen’s Retreat 5715 Skidaway Rd. 912-355-3336

Congress Street Social Club 411 W. Congress St. 912-238-1985 congressstreetsocialclub.com

Dockside Seafood 201 West River St. 912-233-3810

Doodles 586 S. Columbia Ave. 912-295-2536

Doubles Nightclub 7100 Abercorn St. 912-352-7100

Dub’s Pub 225 W. River St.

(912) 200-3652 dubspubriverstreet.com

El-Rocko Lounge 117 Whitaker St. 912-495-5808

Exclusives Bar & Grille 2003 Greenwood Street 912-695-2116

Fannie’s on the Beach 1613 Strand Ave. 912-786-6109 fanniesonthebeach.com

Fia Rua Irish Pub 10132 Ford Ave. 912-459-4160 fiaruairishpub.com

Five Oaks Taproom 201 W. Bay St. 912-236-4440 fiveoakstaproom.com

Flashback 10010-B Ford Ave. 912-428-1643

Foxy Loxy Cafe 1919 Bull St. 912-401-0543 foxyloxycafe.com

The Grey 109 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 912-662-5999 thegreyrestaurant.com

Mellow Mushroom 11 W. Liberty St. 912-495-0705 mellowmushroom.com

Melody’s Coastal Cafe and Sandbar Cantina 2518 Hwy 17 912-459-6357 melscoastalcafe.com

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub 311 W. Congress St. 912-239-9600 macphersonspub.com

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Pooler) 110 Towne Center Dr. 912-348-3200 macphersonspub.com

Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub (Richmond Hill) 3742 US-17 Molly McGuire’s 216 Johnny Mercer Boulevard

912-898-0852 liveoakstore.com/mollymcguires

Nickie’s 1971 1513 Butler Ave. 912-786-4444

The Olde Pink House 23 Abercorn St.

912-232-4286 www.plantersinnsavannah.com

The Perch at Local 11 ten 1110 Bull St. Pour Larry’s 206 W. St. Julian St. 912-232-5778

PS Tavern 11 W. Bay St.

Hercules Bar & Grill 2500 Dean Forest Rd.

912-495-5145

The Islander 301 Johnny Mercer Blvd.

912-920-7772 rachaels1190.com

912-966-5790

912-897-6137

Jazz’d Tapas Bar 52 Barnard St.

912-236-7777 www.jazzdsavannah.com

The Jinx 127 W. Congress St. 912-236-2281

Johnny Mercer Theatre 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. 912-651-6556 www.savannahcivic.com

Jukebox Bar & Grill 3741 US Hwy 17 Ste 500 912-756-6997

Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub 117 West River St. 912-233-9626 www.kevinbarrys.com

Liquid Night Club 307 W. River St. Little Lucky’s 6 Gateway Blvd. E. 912-925-1119

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill 417 East River St. 912-341-8897

McDonough’s 21 E. McDonough St.

912-233-6136 mcdonoughssavannah.com

Rachael’s 1190 1190 King George Blvd. The Rail Pub 405 W. Congress St. 912-238-1311 therailpub.com/

Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant 402 MLK Jr. Blvd. 912-292-1656 ranchoalegrecuban.com

Randy Wood Guitars 1304 East Hwy. 80

912-748-1930 www.randywoodguitars.com

Rocks on the Roof 102 W. Bay St.

912-721-3901 bohemianhotelsavannah.com

Rusty Rudders Tap House 303 W. River St. 912-944-6302

Ruth’s Chris Steak House 111 W. Bay St. 912-721-4800 ruthschris.com

Saddle Bags 317 West River St.

912-349-5275 saddlebagssavannah.com/

The Sandbar 1512 Butler Ave. 912-786-8304

The Savannah Civic Center 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. 912-651-6556 www.savannahcivic.com

Savannah Coffee Roasters 215 West Liberty Street (912) 238-2426

Savannah Smiles 314 Williamson St.

912-527-6453 www.facebook.com/pages/ Savannah-Smiles-DuelingPianos/118909441502557

Savannah Taphouse 125 E. Broughton St. 912-201-8277 savannahtaphouse.com

SEED Eco Lounge 39 Montgomery St. 912-349-5100

The Sentient Bean 13 E. Park Ave. 912-232-4447 sentientbean.com

Ships of The Sea Museum 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 912-232-1511 www.shipsofthesea.org

Southbound Brewing Company 107 East Lathrop Ave. Stafford’s Public House 306 W. Upper Factor’s Walk The Stage on Bay 1200 West Bay St. savconcerts.com

Sunny’s Lounge 5630 Ogeechee Rd. 912-234-6628

Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill 11215 Abercorn St. 912-921-2269

Taste of India 401 Mall Blvd. 912-356-1020

Tijuana Flats 1800 E. Victory Dr. 912-344-9111 tijuanaflats.com

Totally Awesome Bar 107 B Whitaker St. 912-495-5945

Tree House 309 W. St. Julian St.

912-239-0095 treehousesavannah.com

Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) 2909 River Dr. 912-354-9040 www.liveoakstore.com/ tubbysthunderbolt

Tybee Island Social Club 1311 Butler Ave. 912-472-4044 tybeeislandsocialclub.com

Tybee Post Theater 10 Van Horn

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Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah 307A E. Harris St. 912-234-0980 www.uusavannah.org

CULTURE THE ART•BEAT OF SAVANNAH

Rafael Gomes BY RACHAEL FLORA

rachael@connectsavannah.com

1. Why did you decide to host this

exhibition? What does it mean for SCAD to host the first American exhibition of Guo Pei’s work? Guo Pei is one of the most important international designers working today. Many fashion aficionados are aware of the imperial yellow cape Rihanna wore to the 2015 Met Gala, but not as aware of the designer

PHOTO COURTESY OF SCAD.

behind it. SCAD’s relationship with Guo Pei began at the time she was preparing for her first haute couture collection during Paris Fashion Week. We have worked with her and her team closely since then. Her devotion to the revival of beautiful traditional embroidery techniques, colors and silhouettes that were lost during the Cultural Revolution has positioned her as a bridge between contemporary China and its past. SCAD is honored to present her first solo US exhibition of garments from the past decade. The exhibition and forthcoming book provide a unique teaching opportunity for students and visitors. Guo Pei is a modern messenger of China’s past. SCAD invites visitors to view the show in-person (at Pei Ling Chan in Savannah and SCAD FASH in Atlanta) to fully appreciate the meticulous attention to detail, opulent materials, and extraordinary skill of her atelier in the creation of these works of art. The exhibition is a survey of the last decade [2006–2016] and where possible we have endeavored to show the entire look as it was presented on the runway, including shoes, jewelry, headpieces, belts, and other accessories. The gowns in the show required numerous artisans and time to create. Guo Pei is truly the antithesis of “fast fashion” and defies trends.

2. What does it mean to a designer

4. How does haute couture fashion,

The gown Rihanna wore to the 2015 Met Gala was so heavy that when it debuted on the runway as part of Guo Pei’s spring 2010 collection, the model wearing it couldn’t make it off the runway. The lights were killed and she was helped down. Consequently, the piece didn’t receive as much press as it should have at the time. When Rihanna graced the red carpet wearing it five years later, the event exposed Guo Pei to a broader international audience and made her instantly recognizable.

SCAD’s award-winning fashion programs prepare students for blossoming careers across the full spectrum of fashion —from the conceptual and couture to the commercial. The fashion programs consistently garner high praise. In addition, whenever possible, SCAD FASH collaborates with SCAD Museum of Art to bring a complementary exhibition to Savannah. The two museums also exhibit looks from the university’s permanent collection of garments created by the world’s leading fashion houses.

to have their work picked up by a celebrity?

How did you choose which ten garments to display in Savannah? The pieces exhibited here in Savannah are all very special. Two of the gowns are from Guo Pei’s first collection shown in Paris. The others are from a collection called “An Amazing Journey in a Childhood Dream.” Guo Pei designed it while she was pregnant, and it wasn’t until the collection was complete that she realized she was designing for the way she felt during her pregnancy. The garments are very voluminous with shapes reminiscent of a women’s figure when she’s with child.

as opposed to prêt-à-porter, fit into the SCAD Fashion department?

What are the differences between the Savannah and Atlanta exhibitions? The garments at Pei Ling Chan gallery give a breathtaking introduction to China’s most renowned couturier. We invite our museum guests to SCAD FASH for a more immersive experience. This retrospective marks the first time Guo Pei’s work has been shown in a dedicated U.S. exhibition. The featured designs span her illustrious career, and the dual exhibition includes more than 55 garments and accessories. CS

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ANYONE FAMILIAR with the awards season hoopla in Hollywood knows that it doesn’t really matter what you’re wearing—it’s who. Celebrities on the red carpet are asked the name of their designer dozens of times throughout the evening, and the answer matters. The same names often get repeated ad infinitum, but when a celebrity takes a chance on an unknown designer, the result can be extraordinary. Take Rihanna’s extravagant yellow gown she wore to the 2015 Met Gala. The gala’s theme was “China: Through the Looking Glass.” Rihanna found Chinese designer Guo Pei and her yellow gown, and the rest is history in the best-dressed lists. Though Guo Pei had been designing for over twenty years at the time, Rihanna’s gown catapulted her into notoriety. She made her Paris Fashion Week debut just months after Rihanna wore her gown, and she is the first Chinese national designer asked to join the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, or a trade association of high fashion, a prestigious honor. Now, SCAD presents the first solo American exhibition of Guo Pei’s works in a joint exhibition between its Savannah and Atlanta campuses. “Guo Pei: Couture Beyond” opened at the Pei Ling Chan Gallery on Oct. 27 and features work from her “An Amazing Journey in a Childhood Dream” collection, which won her the Best Dressed Design Award at China International Fashion Week. The exhibition remains up until Mar. 4, 2018. We spoke with Rafael Gomes, head of fashion exhibitions at SCAD, last week.

The Confucius Institute at Savannah State University Beijing Opera hosted by the Confucius Institute at Savannah State University November 10, 2017 will perform 10AM and 7PM in SSU Kennedy Auditorium.

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Presented in partnership Confucius Institute of Chinese Opera at Binghamton University Featuring Beijing Opera excerpts, instrumental music, vocal, a magician and special presentation of Sichuan Face Changing. Face Changing 《变脸》 Performer: CHEN Lei 陈雷

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The beloved Telfair Art Fair happens this Saturday and Sunday in Telfair Square.

Face Changing (bian lian) is an important aspect of Sichuan Opera, and the precise techniques that are used to change masks in modern Sichuan Opera is a closely guarded secret. The secrets have been passed down within theatre families from generation to generation. In contemporary opera, performers wave their arms and twist their heads, and their painted masks are changed again and again, much to the astonishment and amusement of the audience Seats are limited, RSVP by Nov. 8th: 912-358-3160 or bloodp@savannahstate.edu Free and open to the public.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION contact the CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE 912-358-4337 qijuanl@savannahstate.edu bloodp@savannahstate.edu

OPENINGS & RECEPTIONS

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ANOMALOUS GALLERY OPENING — Join host Douglas Kaufman in introducing Anomalous Gallery, with an art exhibition and cocktail reception. This event space will be housing and selling the work of local artists Scott Smith, Katharine Russell, Eric Clark, Mary Ann Grant, and Thomas Jordan. Fri., Nov. 10, 6 p.m. Anomalous Gallery, 422 W. 43rd St.

ANIMAL INSTINCT — The diversity of animal imagery in Animal Instinct reveals the wide-ranging roles animals inhabit in an anthropocentric world. Through Nov. 26. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

MANIFESTATION — Two undergraduate Savannah State University students, Kayla Grayson and Brian Miller, showcase their thesis artwork. Free and open to the public Nov. 9-Dec. 10. Savannah State University, 3219 College St. SAVANNAH MOSAIC — Thirteen Savannah artists display a Savannah-style artwork mosaic with a variety of styles, mediums and square sizes. Gallery profits are donated to Chatham-Savannah Authority for the Homeless Tiny House Project. Nov. 10-30. Location Gallery at Austin Hill Realty, 417 Whitaker St. TELFAIR ART FAIR — Featuring 85 artists displaying and selling works in a variety of artistic disciplines—and for a wide range of budgets—this year’s Art Fair presents an array of genres, including painting, printmaking, digital media, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics, photography, furniture, glass, textiles/fiber and mixed media. Sat,10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. noon-4 pm.Telfair Square, President and Barnard streets. Free and open to the public

THE ART OF THE ART-QUILT — The “Art of Art-Quilting” exhibit showcases the use of fabric, thread and quilting to create the illusion of three dimensions. The images presented by the Art Quilters of the Lowcountry range from realistic to abstract. The Quilters are Ron Hodge, Shaaron Thomas, Peg Weschke and Jody Wigton. Through Nov. 30. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE — Solo exhibition featuring the work of Agnieszka Kurant, composed of sculpture, works on paper, lenticular prints and a video. Through Jan. 14, 2018. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES — The SCAD Museum of Art presents this eponymous exhibition of works by the late Cuban-American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Through Jan. 14, 2018. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. GOD AND MODERN MAN — What is the relationship between God and modern man? Through Jan. 15, 2018. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St.

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GUO PEI: COUTURE BEYOND — SCAD exhibits the work of Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei, best known for the yellow cape entertainer Rihanna wore to the 2015 Met Gala. Through March 4, 2018. Pei Ling Chan Gallery and Garden for the Arts, 322 Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd. KAHLIL GIBRAN AND THE FEMININE DIVINE — Renowned for his literary masterpiece “The Prophet,” Lebanese-American artist and writer Kahlil Gibran began experimenting with the visual arts at a young age. Telfair Museums proudly boasts the largest public collection of visual art by Kahlil Gibran in the United States, donated in 1950 by his lifelong supporter and mentor, Southern native Mary Haskell Minis. This exhibition concentrates on works that capture Gibran’s enduring belief in the oneness of all things, often characterized in his paintings and drawings as the feminine divine. Through Jan. 2, 2018. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. KIRK VARNEDOE: IN THE MIDDLE AT THE MODERN — Can you have an art exhibition without any artworks? Is a curator an artist? Who or what decides an object’s value? Through the lens of an art historian’s life, Kirk Varnedoe: In the Middle at The Modern challenges the nature of authenticity and the power of museums to define what is “high” and what is “low.” Through Feb. 11, 2018. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. LARRY LEVOW — Larry teaches group classes in his home studio and has just returned from instructing a weeklong plein air class in Montecatini Alto, Italy. In this current show, he is joined by students Henry and Suzanne Croci, Ron Fagin, Bobbie Kraft, Rhondda Netherton, Margie Sone, Mike Spitler and Gail Quinn. Through Dec. 31. hospicesavannah. org/. Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. LECTURE: LINES OF INFLUENCE — The SCAD Museum of Art and the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation present a group exhibition to commemorate the centennial celebration of the birth of acclaimed painter, storyteller, educator and chronicler of the mid-20th-century African American experience, Jacob Lawrence. Through Feb. 4, 2018. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. LIVING WATERS — Jerome Meadows, an internationally recognized artist whose studio resides on the north side of Waters Avenue, will serve as artist-in-resident at the church in the coming months. In addition to the exhibition, he will also lead a workshop for making Advent Wreaths, and present a Blank Page Poetry performance featuring the work of other artists, dancers, and poets in Savannah. Through Dec. 3. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 3 West Ridge Road. LOST AT SEA: THE LIMINAL ESSENCE OF IMMIGRATION — Conceived by the late Bertha Husband, it investigates the psychology and logistics of trans-oceanic relocation and

acculturation. Featuring original work by Bertha Husband, Simon Ford, Colin Lloyd, Milutin Pavlovic and Kebedech Tekleab. Through Jan. 7, 2018. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. NATIVE BLOOMS — Local artist and City of Savannah employee Carol Lasell Miller will present an exhibition of original paintings. Miller uses the medium acrylics to capture the beautiful and varied bouquet of individuals that make Savannah so remarkable. Through Dec. 31. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street. OTHER SITUATIONS — Liliana Porter is best known for her photographs and installations exploring the conflicting boundaries between reality and fiction and the ways in which images are circulated and consumed. Selected works feature anonymous miniature figurines confronted with overwhelming tasks as a metaphor for the burden of labor and domesticity; others present icons such as Joan of Arc and Che Guevara as their legacies are reduced to representations in cheap, everyday merchandise. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. RODIN: THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE — Rodin: The Human Experience presents a selection of 32 figures in bronze by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), the French sculptor who left behind 19th century academic traditions to focus on conveying the passion and vitality of the human spirit. This exhibition is in honor of the centennial of Rodin’s death. Through Jan. 7, 2018. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. SCENIC IMPRESSIONS: SOUTHERN INTERPRETATIONS FROM THE JOHNSON COLLECTION — The visual story of shifting stylistic trends in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Savannah artists of their day often found themselves working in contrast to the increasing mechanism of Europe. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard St. SCRIBBLE ART STUDIO: IT’S A SMALL WORLD — This year’s show by Scribble Art students ages 4-16 reimagines the magic of “It’s a Small World.” Through Nov. 26. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St.

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Savannah Food and Wine Festival has a lot on the menu

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NOW in its fifth year, the Savannah Food and Wine Fest has quickly become one of the premiere events on the Savannah calendar, both for locals and for the majority of its attendees who are from out of town. The success is all the more remarkable in that the event—happening Nov. 7-12— comes in a month which was once considered slow for tourism. “One of the main reasons our event has been so successful and has helped generate so much economic impact and lift during what was once considered an off-peak time is that our attendees like to go out and eat, drink and shop,” says Food and Wine Fest Director Jan Gourley. “Our guests are real foodie types who want to try everything in town!” Gourley says that while the Festival has had great success tapping into regional drive markets, “now we’re targeting

northeast markets served by direct flights. We’ve seen that really pay off too.” Gourley says roughly 60 percent of total attendees are from out of the market, with a higher proportion of tourists on Saturday for the big Taste of Savannah keynote event at the Georgia State Railroad Museum. While there is a huge menu of events to choose from (see what we did there), the signature events are Friday’s River Street Stroll, Saturday’s Taste of Savannah, and of course Wednesday’s Celebrity Chef dinner at the Westin with a host of James Beard Award winners such as Sean Brock, whose newest adventure, Husk Savannah, is set to open soon. “Now we have a model to use with the Railroad Museum. The first few years we had Taste of Savannah in Ellis Square, but that became difficult because we couldn’t tell who had bought a ticket and who sort of just walked up,” says Gourley. Gourley says the Festival is employing a “pre-check-in” strategy to help avoid

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lengthy queue-ups at the opening of key events. “If you don’t mind milling around for awhile before it starts, checking in early will help keep you out of those long lines.” CS

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ON FRIDAY, Savannah film aficionados will unite to celebrate and save one of the city’s treasures. The Psychotronic Film Society, the organization devoted to screening unusual Dario Argento’s film is a visual treat and treasured masterpiece of horror. and forgotten films, has had a challenging 2017. First, director Jim Reed’s home was to help get the Society back on its feet, and broken into, and hundreds of irreplaceReed is astonished at the support. able, rare DVDs were stolen. “Some people would say, ‘I want to give After losing crucial pieces of the Psychotronic library, misfortune struck again: you some money to help’—and they’ve never been to a single movie,” he says. Reed’s van was robbed. “They stole my projector, hard drive, all “There were people who just said things like, ‘I’m aware of your films, I keep my eye kinds of stuff,” he laments. “I was going to shut down the Society. I thought, there’s no on it, and I think it’s an important thing for a city like Savannah to have and I don’t way we can continue like this.” want to see it go away.’ That really touched With no projector, there was no way to me that there are people, and they’re not continue weekly screenings at The Senregulars, but they really realize that if this tient Bean on Wednesday nights. Support from regular attendees, art advocates, and went away, that would be a gap in Savannah culture. It was very heartwarming to even folks who have never been to a Psyhear that when you do something like this chotronic Film Society screening came for so long.” pouring in. To round up that last chunk o’cash, the “People started sending me notes,” Reed remembers. “They’d say, ‘Hey, we’re really Society hosts a very special screening at The Lucas Theatre for the Arts. sorry to hear what happened. Where’s the Dario Argento’s horror masterpiece, online fundraiser?’ But I didn’t want to do Suspiria, has just been released in 4K resthat. I felt weird about it.” toration from the original uncut, uncenThe fans pushed and pushed and even sored 35mm Italian camera negative with got a little aggressive with stubborn Reed. the original 4.0 English surround sound “I started getting these notes like ‘Hey, for the first time ever. asshole!’” Reed laughs. “These are from “I picked this film with The Lucas spefriends or people I kind of knew, saying, cifically in mind,” Reed says. “It’s one of ‘Hey asshole, we like your movie thing, my favorite movies of all time, and now it’s we’re trying to give you money. You the 40th anniversary of the movie being need to get over yourself. Where’s the made. A couple of years ago, very quietly, fundraiser?’” some people tracked down the original He caved and set up a Go Fund Me camera negative for the film, which no account with plenty of neat perks like one had laid their hands on in decades. ticket punch cards, private downloads of It was in pretty bad shape, but it was the acclaimed cult films, lifetime passes, and original negative and had the original more. As of press time, Psychotronic Film Society had reached $5,012 of its $10k goal. soundtrack to the film. They called up the 32 Supporters have come from far and wide company, got the rights to it, and then got

the cinematographer of Suspiria and said, ‘Would you be interested in supervising? We want to restore this film and we want you to tell us what it looks like.’” After a year of cleaning, restoring, and consulting, Suspiria is as close to anyone can get to the film’s initial screening in 1977. The masterful horror movie, co-written by Argento and Daria Nicolodi and based on Thomas De Quincey’s 1845 essay Suspiria de Profundis (Sighs from the Depths), follows an American ballet student (played by Jessica Harper) who transfers to a dance academy with a malevolent secret. “It’s sort of renown among horror film aficionados as being one of the most beautiful horror films,” Reed says. “I put it up there with The Shining, I think it’s just glorious. And the restoration looks like someone sprayed Windex on it like a dirty window and cleaned it off—the colors are more vivid, it’s more luminous, it’s sharper.”

Italian prog-rock band Goblin provided the soundtrack. In the restored version, even longtime fans of the film will hear something new creeping into the eerie soundscape. “They do scary instrumental hard rock music a lot, and it’s in stereo…it’s one of the most twisted, bizarre, creepy soundtracks you’ve ever heard,” Reed says excitedly. “Now, since it’s been restored, there are these hidden whispers and freaky screams that are popping out of the soundtrack.” Following the fundraiser, Reed plans to incorporate the Society and open an office in Sulfur Studios. “We’ll be a 501c3, so we can apply for grants, it can be tax-deductible, and once I start doing that, it’ll be more of a community-oriented thing,” he says. After all, community is at the core of the Society, and that’s what makes Reed proud to carry on. “In my mind, Psychotronic Film Society is this little thing I do, and I realize that it makes people happy,” he says. “There are people who have been coming to my films that have met each other at my films who were strangers and wound up getting married. Over the years, I’ve seen people get older, I’ve watched people bring their kids. I’m glad that the films occupy a special place in people’s hearts.” CS

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Tune in with Savannah Stage Company Local theatre troupe broadcasts It’s A Wonderful Life

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IN ITS “Season of Values,” Savannah Stage Company is using the holiday season to push the limits of imagination. Under the direction of Wesley Pridgen, a cast of five will use their voices to bring the seasonal classic It’s A Wonderful Life to a live audience. Don’t expect a traditional retelling of the 1946 film, though—in Savannah Stage Company’s world, the beloved tale of George Bailey, his family, and his community will be told as a live radio broadcast. As a troupe that prioritizes physical, action-driven storytelling, it’s a whole new way of sharing stories and challenging actors. “This play is so focused on things we as a company don’t necessarily focus on,” says Artistic Director Jayme Tinti. “Most of our stuff is so physical. You think of something like Call of the Wild where we’re sweating bullets two sessions into the thing because it was so physical. We’re exercising a different group of muscles than we’re used to.” It’s A Wonderful Life may be a Christmas movie, but its message is worthy of celebration year ‘round. The film tells the story of George Bailey and a visit from his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody. On Christmas Eve, George is contemplating suicide when Clarence comes to save George so that he may earn his angel wings. Clarence guides George through his life, showing how he’s helped others along the way. The stellar cast includes Savannah

Stage Company founding member Bryan Pridgen, company member Ashley Cooke, McKenna Lyons who got her start with SSC in Call of the Wild, and SCC newcomers Mason Houseman and Christian I. Noble, who takes the lead as George Bailey. Each talented performer must take on several speaking roles in It’s A Wonderful Life; some have up to 15 roles to play. Audiences will also see a variety of props onstage. “Wesley has designed an amazing soundscape using really interesting things to create sounds,” Tinti explains. “It’s all really specific and instrumental.” While the internet has been a great resource for learning about sound effects, hands-on time has been invaluable to the SSC crew. “There’s been a lot of experimenting between Wesley and the cast to figure out what sounds the best,” says Tinti. “That’s a cool part of the process. It felt more collaborative. Wesley went in there with a great setup, then he had five more sets of ears. A pack of cards, opening up and flipping through them, that sounds like money in the context of this play. A cool-guy comb, running your finger on that, it sounds like crickets. We put a playing card in a bicycle wheel, that’s the sound of a car.” “What Wesley has said in rehearsal is that he’s directing the show for someone who’s blind,” she continues. “The idea is not being able to have sight and have everything you know coming through your ears and having that be a vehicle of imagination.” There are also visual elements to the

production. Expect to see costumes and warm moments of simple choreography and staging that lends itself to the story. November is a busy month for SSC. In addition to It’s A Wonderful Life, the crew hosts its annual announcement party and fundraiser on Sunday. At Fall in Love with SSC: Season Announcement Party, guests will enjoy teasers of the upcoming season’s productions, hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, a silent audition, a wine pull, live music, and much more. The event will be held right up the street from Space Cat Books’ stage at Bull Street Labs. “They’re the nicest people in town right now,” says Tinti. “They’ve been really generous and we’re really excited to be able to work together.” The celebration follows Sunday’s matinee performance of It’s A Wonderful Life. As we enter the season of generosity, it’s a perfect day for opening the ears, wallets, and hearts to live, local art. CS

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THOR: RAGNAROK

OOO Suddenly, everyone’s a comedian. Marvel movies have always plopped heaping servings of humor on top of the expected action and mythmaking, but Thor: Ragnarok dials up the laugh track to heretofore untested decibel levels. This is Asgard by way of The Comedy Store, an approach inspired not so much by previous Avengers-related entries but by Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy. Those saucy superhero outings earned praise for their irreverence and go-forbroke jokes, so it’s not surprising that one of the more traditional franchise threads has opted to similarly amplify the nyuks. To that end, the studio suits even hired a comedian — What We Do in the Shadows’ Taika Waititi — to serve as director. The result is a rollicking adventure yarn sure to delight the faithful, and the picture emerges as arguably the most satisfying of the Thor trilogy. At the same time, the perpetual need to go for joke means that there’s not much of a dramatic center to the project. Certainly, there’s nothing comparable to the sober moment in 2012’s The Avengers when a Holocaust survivor stands up to the fascistic Loki (Tom Hiddleston), or the heartbreaking scene in 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier when Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) tenderly tends to an elderly Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell). Even the actors have been instructed to tackle the enterprise as a lark. Only Idris Elba, as Asgardian guardian Heimdall, provides any semblance of gravitas; everyone else appears to be auditioning for a spot on the next season of Saturday Night Live. Picking up story strands from previous entries, this finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) still contending with the mischievous antics of his half-brother Loki. Both,

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likely come up short in this year’s Oscar race, but no matter. Call it a minority report, but I find it to be the most consistently mesmerizing of the trio, and a stronger ending might have vaulted it into “10 Best” consideration. A creepy combo of The Twilight Zone and Sophie’s Choice, the film stars Lobster star Colin Farrell as Steven Murphy, a surgeon who has befriended a teenage boy named Martin (Barry Keoghan). The exact nature of their relationship isn’t clear, but Steven seems to be spending almost as much time with the lad as he does with his wife Anna (Nicole Kidman), daughter Kim (Raffey Cassidy), and son Bob (Sunny Suljic). Steven eventually elects to introduce Martin to his family, and it’s here when matters take a particularly dark turn. To reveal more would be to deny viewers the opportunity to get blindsided by the directions the film ultimately takes, but suffice to say The Killing of a Sacred Deer is decidedly not for moviegoers who prefer their options on the “feel-good” end of the spectrum. This is a deeply disturbing film, with its eeriness accentuated by the delivery of the dialogue (everyone speaks in carefully enunciated, drawn-out sentences, as if the characters were all trapped in an etiquette class), the sterility of many of Lanthimos’ shot selections, and the moral monstrousness of many of the main characters. Farrell and Kidman are both excellent, and there’s an unexpected appearance by no less than former Clueless star Alicia Silverstone as Martin’s mom. (On a side note, it’s impossible not to think of Rabbit Hole while viewing this, with the presence of Kidman as a tortured mom and even the casting of Keoghan, who looks a bit like the previous film’s Miles Teller.) A final twist could have elevated this to giddy heights — as it stands, the film flatlines at the very end. Nevertheless, The Killing of a Sacred Deer is one of the more unique pictures now playing, and it should serve as the perfect antidote for those annoyed that the seasonal cheer is already being foisted upon us.

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O The original script for Suburbicon was written by Joel and Ethan Coen back in 1986, shortly after the dynamic duo flashed their calling card in the form of their debut beauty, 1985’s Blood Simple. Shelving the script, the siblings instead moved forward with 1987’s brilliant Raising Arizona, although they later incorporated some of Suburbicon’s elements into their Oscarwinning screenplay for 1996’s Fargo. Coen pal George Clooney later got hold of the script for Suburbicon and planned 36 to turn it into a movie as far back as 2005.

Instead, one thing led to another, and it’s only now that Suburbicon is hitting theaters, with direction by Clooney and a Coen script that has since been modified by Clooney and his frequent writing partner Grant Heslov. Given the ghastly result, perhaps the Coens should sue, since it’s almost inconceivable that their original idea bore much resemblance to a debacle that unexpectedly has emerged as one of the year’s worst films. Topical yet tone-deaf, Suburbicon initially appears as if it will focus on the tensions that emerge when a black family moves into a white middle-class neighborhood in 1959. But no, this is merely a side dish to the real plotline, which centers on the plight facing mild-mannered neighbor Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon), his wife Rose (Julianne Moore), their son Nicky (appealing Noah Jupe), and Rose’s twin sister Margaret (also Moore). A home invasion by two seedy criminals (Glenn Fleshler and Alex Hassell) results in one death—this is turn leads to a coverup, a visit from an insurance investigator (Oscar Isaac), and several more slayings. The portions of the film focusing on the African-American family—Mr. and Mrs. Mayers (Leith M. Burke and Karimah Westbrook) and their son Andy (Tony Espinosa)—are presented in far more dramatic fashion, wisely stripped of any comedic underpinnings. Yet witnessing the Mayers being harassed on a daily basis and seeing their car firebombed works in direct conflict to the broad comedy unfolding elsewhere in the film, and the only possible reaction is one of embarrassment.

ONLY THE BRAVE

OO A true-life tale of heroism is the inspiration for Only the Brave, a competent if conventional drama that centers on a team of elite Arizona firefighters known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots. As is often the case with these types of films, hagiography takes center stage, meaning that, aside from a few individuals painted with extra brush strokes (Josh Brolin’s gruff leader, Miles Teller’s troubled newbie), none of the firefighters are given much in the way of individualism. The domestic scenes that are introduced in an effort to provide additional shadings are fairly standard, with the only deviation from the norm arriving courtesy of Jennifer Connelly—as Brolin’s wife, she’s allowed to do more than just stand by her man (usually the default position in these films; see Kate Hudson in Deepwater Horizon and Holliday Grainger in The Finest Hours). Director Joseph Kosinski, whose previous credits were the sci-fi duds TRON: Legacy and Oblivion, effectively captures the horror of the raging fires, while scripters

Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer (working from Sean Flynn’s GQ article “No Exit”) offer some interesting behind-thescenes facts regarding the firefighting business. But who gets the blame for that wince-inducing CGI bear, repeatedly seen in fantasy sequences hurtling through the woods like an ursine Human Torch?

THE FOREIGNER

OO The primary poster for The Foreigner shows Jackie Chan standing alone in a scene of carnage, with the tagline intoning that one should “Never Push A Good Man Too Far.” Such a promotional angle suggests that Chan will employ his considerable martial arts skills to take down various evildoers a la Taken or Death Wish. This is accurate—to a point. But look at the poster more closely and it becomes clear that this isn’t a solo vehicle for Chan, not with Pierce Brosnan sharing abovethe-title billing. As for the movie itself, it’s far from a straightforward action romp—instead, it’s a knotty political thriller involving a terrorist outfit with possible IRA ties embarking on a series of bombings. The scene of mass destruction that opens the picture ends up killing the college-age daughter of Quan (Chan), a restaurateur who had already lost his wife and other daughters to senseless violence long ago. A devastated Quan wants to make sure those responsible are punished, and so he begins harassing Liam Hennessy (Brosnan), a former IRA member who now works with the British government. Quan is convinced that Hennessy knows the identities of the terrorists—for his part, Hennessy must track down these murderers while also assigning his subordinates to deal with a surprisingly efficient Quan. It’s interesting to see Chan stripped of the cheeky charisma that has floated most of his career, even if the movie doesn’t give him much to do beyond scowling, grimacing, and occasion ally throwing a punch. Chan often feels like a visitor in his own film, since the majority concerns itself with the maneuverings and machinations of Brosnan’s character to appease those wanting answers and those seeking power. The script attempts some plot pirouettes that don’t always flow gracefully, and one’s tolerance regarding the wholesale slaughter of innocents in disposable entertainment may understandably be more pronounced than ever. Yet overall, The Foreigner proves to be a respectable example of a thinking person’s action flick.

BLADE RUNNER 2049

OOO Let’s slice through the studio hype and fanboy hyperventilation and immediately answer the pressing question on everyone’s mind. Is Blade Runner 2049, the long-awaited sequel to 1982’s Blade Runner, a masterpiece likes its predecessor? Definitely not. To be blunt, it’s not even a match for 2016’s superb Arrival, the previous film from director Denis Villeneuve. Yet on its own terms, it’s a dazzling achievement, a heady motion picture that employs stateof-the-art visuals to punch across its alternately tough and tender story of love, loss and identity. Because this is the type of film that benefits from a virginal viewing free of spoilers—and because parent studio Warner Bros. promised to dispatch the Dark Knight to rip asunder any critics who break the vow of silence—plot details will be purposely sketchy. Suffice to say that this one is set 30 years after director Ridley Scott’s original, in a period when powerful manufacturer Niander Wallace (Jared Leto) is designing replicants that are comparatively more benign than the previous models. Blade runners still exist, tasked with tracking down these vintage replicants and terminating them with extreme prejudice. One such blade runner is “K” (Ryan Gosling), who’s a replicant himself. But a visit to a farm to track down a fugitive leads to the discovery of a box holding shocking material. As K’s superior (Robin Wright) gravely intones, these contents could create a war and tear apart the very fabric of society. “Yes, questions,” purrs Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) to genetic engineer Hannibal Chew (James Hong) in the ’82 version, a sentiment that might also be directed at this new picture’s screenwriters. Hampton Fancher, who co-wrote the original (adapting Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), and Michael Green, whose cinematic at-bats consist of Green Lantern, Logan and Alien: Covenant, do a fine job not only of maintaining this futureworld but also in laying out themes that lend new meaning and import to what Salvador Dali tagged Persistence of Memory. Yet a few queries still manage to formulate amidst the ample exposition, and, for a film that runs a generous 164 minutes, the back end still feels needlessly rushed. Yet overall, Blade Runner 2049 is a towering work, and if there’s one area in which it equals its predecessor, it’s in its empathic reach. Mainly, though, there’s Harrison Ford, returning to the part of Rick Deckard. Ford’s role should have been much larger, but in the context of what he’s given, he’s excellent, providing a wariness—and

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weariness—that lines up nicely with the Deckard from three decades earlier.

THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US

OO An adaptation of the novel by bestselling author Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us casts Idris Elba and Kate Winslet as surgeon Ben Bass and photojournalist Alex Martin, two of the many folks stranded at the Salt Lake City airport during a particularly nasty snow storm. Their flight has been cancelled, but neither can afford a delay: Dr. Bass has an important operation to perform, while Alex is getting married. Although strangers, they agree to charter a small plane together, a fateful decision once the small craft goes down in the Utah mountains. From there, The Mountain Between Us turns into an old-fashioned survival yarn, as Ben and Alex battle the elements and, occasionally, each other. As both an adventure yarn and a love story, the movie often stretches credulity, yet what sells it are the compelling performances by its two stars.

KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE

O Hitting stateside theaters in February of ’15, Kingsman: The Secret Service proved to be an utter delight—a brainy, brawny,

spy-game send-up packed with memorable characters and nifty plot pirouettes. A sequel was guaranteed, but while Kingsman: The Golden Circle is bigger, it most assuredly isn’t better. Such a precipitous drop in quality would suggest that other hands assembled this follow-up, but that shockingly isn’t the case; instead, this one finds writer-director Matthew Vaughn and co-scripter Jane Goldman again at the controls. Kingsman agents Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and Merlin (Mark Strong) are back, this time using their smarts to attempt to foil the nefarious plans of Poppy (Julianne Moore, sorry to say), a drug kingpin who’s basically a cross between a ruthless CEO and June Cleaver. Serving up an American counterpart to the veddy British Kingsman sounds like a great idea that can’t miss. But with the possible exception of Tatum (who, despite the prominent billing, is barely in this thing), these characters prove to be so underdeveloped and uninteresting that it becomes clear they were added not out of inspiration but out of a scheme to garner more merchandising tieins on this side of the Atlantic. CS

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ACTIVISM & POLITICS

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13TH COLONY PATRIOTS Conservative political activists that meet the 13th of each month. Dedicated to preserving the U.S. Constitution and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. See Facebook page for meeting location. Free 13th of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 912-604-4048. liveoakstore.com/ tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. GREEN PARTY OF CHATHAM COUNTY People, Planet and Peace over Profit! Meets Saturdays and the first Tuesday of every month. Join the Facebook group, @ChathamGreens, to find out about upcoming local events. ongoing. No physical address given, none. MONDAY MEANS COMMUNITY: CAN WE JUST PRESS PAUSE? Emergent Savannah presents this reflective conversation about resilience. Featuring Andy Wright of Savannah Law School, Paulita Bennett-Martin of One Hundred Miles, Kevin Veitinger of the Foundery Coffee Pub, and the Deep Center’s Youth Leadership Team. Hosted by Thelani Michelle. Free and open to the public Mon., Nov. 13, 7 p.m. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. SAVANNAH AREA YOUNG REPUBLICANS Get involved. Contact is Michael Johnson, via email or telephone, or see website for info. 912-604-0797. chairman@sayr. org. sayr.org. Call or see website for information. Free ongoing. 912-308-3020. savannahyoungrepublicans.com. SAVANNAH LIBERTARIANS Join the Facebook group to find out about upcoming local events. Mondays. Facebook.com/groups/SAVlibertarians. VICTORIAN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS Open to all residents, property owners and businesses located between Anderson and Gwinnett, M.L.King,Jr. Blvd to East Broad Street. Free second Tuesday of every month, 6-7 p.m. 912-233-0352. 1308 West, Henry St. and Montgomery St. 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 ongoing. 423-619-7712. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St.

AUDITIONS AND CALLS FOR ENTRIES

AUDITIONS FOR ARMSTRONG YOUTH ORCHESTRA Open to students enrolled in primary grades through high school and including Armstrong students (available for course credit). Auditions, by appointment, are in Armstrong Fine Arts Hall. To schedule an audition, e-mail: savaayo@yahoo. com. Info is also available at www. savaayo.org. AYO is sponsored in part 38 by the Savannah Friends of Music, www.

1 Year Anniversary Party

Atlantic is turning a year old. Celebrate every night of the week with a different beverage event. Monday 11.6.17- Seamus Winery, Service Brewery and 1970 Vodka Company Tuesday 11.7.17- Debra Lewis of Vintage 59; a French wine takeover Wednesday 11.8.17- Rudy Von Strasser of Von Strasser Estates Napa Valley, CA Thursday 11.9.17- Magnum Madness (wines by the glass out of Magnums...when they’re gone, they’re gone!) Friday 11.10.17- Master Sommelier Robert Jones takeover: meet, greet and enjoy wines poured by a master sommelier Saturday 11.11.17 Master Sommelier Michael McNeill takeover ATLANTICSAVANNAH.COM. ATLANTIC, 102 EAST VICTORY DR.

savannahfriendsofmusic.com ongoing. about.armstrong.edu/Maps/index.html. Armstrong State University, 11935 Abercorn St. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR JUNIOR LEAGUE’S COMMUNITY PROJECTS AND COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUNDS The Junior League of Savannah is now taking applications for Community Projects and Community Assistance Funds. Community Projects are organizations that partner with the Junior League of Savannah and receive funding and volunteers. This year, the Junior League of Savannah expects to select three Community Projects that align with the current focus of K-12 Education Performance. Community

Assistance Funds are awarded once a year in the spring and represent an additional financial commitment to the community. Funds are available to all local 501(c) (3) organizations with funding requests that are within the program focus of K-12 Education Performance. To apply, please visit the Junior League of Savannah’s website at www.jrleaguesav.org or call 912-790-1002. The application deadline is November 15, 2017. Through Nov. 15. Junior League Savannah Headquarters, 28 East 41st. CALL FOR AUDITIONS FOR THE DOWNTOWN DELILAHS DANCE CABARET The Downtown Delilahs dance cabaret are holding auditions for several upcoming

shows. To set up an audition, contact Jade Bills at 912-272-7601. Through Feb. 28, 2018. No physical address given, none. CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR VIGNETTE SAVANNAH Are you a student living fabulously in a studio apartment or a creative with an efficient yet stylish workspace? Maybe you’re renewing your space after Hurricane Matthew, decorating your home for the holidays for the first time, or just want to share the character & charm of your historical home? Whatever your space, Vignette Savannah would love to feature you. Vignette Savannah is a web presence that features the most creative and eclectic living, leisure, and

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work spaces in Savannah. Tell us about yours at vignettesavannah@gmail.com, and check us out in the weeks to come at vignettesavannah.com. ongoing. Downtown Savannah, downtown. CALL FOR JESUS-YESHUA PRODUCTION CLUB AND VIDEO CREW Contact Brenda Lee at 912-236-3156 or at revbrendalee@yahoo.com for more information. ongoing. Online only, none. CALL FOR MUSICIANS FOR EFFINGHAM COUNTY ORCHESTRA Effingham Community Orchestra is now accepting additional musicians. Instruments included are winds, orchestral strings and orchestral percussion. For information contact the Director at www. effinghamcommunityorchestra.org or call 912-826-5300 ext. 110. ongoing. No physical address given, none. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN PTSD STUDY Are you a recent combat veteran experiencing psychological or emotional stress related to your combat? You may be eligible to receive first-line medication and talk therapy interventions with proven effectiveness. PROGrESS is a study looking to learn more about how to effectively treat recent combat veterans with PTSD. The therapies are not experimental. You will be randomly assigned to receive either psychotherapy, medication, or both. For more information about the PROGrESS study, please call 912-920-0214 ext. 2169. ongoing. Online only, none. CALL FOR WORLD WAR I ITEMS FOR CITY EXHIBIT The City of Savannah Research Library & Municipal Archives is currently planning a World War I Centennial exhibit for 2018 to honor Savannahians’ role in the war. The City would like to include items from local residents and families to further personalize the exhibit. Residents are asked to share World War I related artifacts or documents with the City to help create the exhibit. To lend an item to the exhibit or to learn more about the exhibit, please contact Luciana Spracher, City of Savannah Library & Archives Director, at Lspracher@savannahga.gov or (912) 651-6411. ongoing. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street. RELIGIOUS ETHNIC ARTISTS NEEDED Religious ethnic (JESUS-YESHUA) artists and musicals needed for upcoming season. A classical accompanist and conductor for sacred music and gospel singers needed. Contact Reverend Brenda Lee (912) 236-3154; email: revbrendalee@ yahoo.com ongoing. No physical address given, none. TELL US YOUR GHOST STORY? Organization seeks to document your first hand experiences with psychical phenomenon for analysis and potential investigation. Our investigators have reputable credentials and long time investigation training and connections with the top minds and researchers in parapsychology field research and other areas. We are especially interested in Chatham and neighboring counties with special emphasis on Savannah itself and the Historic District. Interviewees should

be comfortable with video documentation of themselves and events w/privacy level negotiated beforehand. ongoing. amchclub@yahoo.com. Downtown Savannah, downtown.

BENEFITS

THE ART OF YOGA Yoga Me Fit’s founder and owner Lynn Geddes Wolling will lead “The Art of Yoga” sessions with proceeds benefiting the Tybee Arts Association. These classes are suitable for all levels of experience. $15 per session Sun., Nov. 12, 11 a.m.-noon. 912308-3410. lynn@yogamefit.com. yogamefit. com/event/. Tybee Arts Association, 7 Cedarwood Ave. GYPSY WORLD VINTAGE 4TH BIRTHDAY PARTY The public is invited to join Gypsy World Vintage’s 4th Birthday Party on Wednesday, November 8th. There will be discounts and prizes offered throughout normal store hours with party festivities kicking off at 5pm with appetizers, and prosecco and desserts! Raffle to benefit Rape Crisis Center of the Coastal Empire free Wed., Nov. 8, 5-9 p.m. 912-704-2347. gypsyworldsavannah@gmail.com. facebook.com/GypsyWorldSavannah/. Gypsy World Vintage, 2405 Bull Street. HALLOWEEN FOOD DRIVE Help families in need by donating to America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia. Non-perishables like peanut butter, jelly, canned meats, soups, canned fruit, and rice are especially needed. Donations are accepted at 3109 E. Victory Drive Monday through Friday from 9:30 am to 5 pm. Online donations are accepted at fooddriveonline.org/HelpEndHunger. Through Jan. 1, 2018. kristin.brown@ century21.com.. helpendhunger.org. America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, 2501 E. President 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. ongoing. (912) 525-2151. jlewis01@savannahga.gov. SOUTHERN STYLE NOW SHOWHOUSE Guests are invited to tour the second annual Southern Style Now™ Showhouse, presented by Traditional Home, enjoy cocktails and meet the designers and sponsors. A portion of the evening’s proceeds will benefit the Historic Savannah Foundation. $225 Thu., Nov. 9, 6-9 p.m. southernstylenow.com/tickets/.

CLASSES, CAMPS & WORKSHOPS

7 DAY CLEAN RESET Join Certified Clean Coach, Stephanie Mobley, and the SPY community for 7 Days of physical and mental detox. Stephanie will give you all the information and resources your need to complete 7 days of healthy

eating and mindfulness. There will be no in studio meetings during this program; all support will be offered via email and Facebook. We will host frequent Facebook Live sessions throughout the week for an opportunity to ask questions in real time. Admission Price includes Facebook Live Q&A sessions, Meal Plans, Recipes, & Shopping Lists $50 Through Nov. 12, 8 a.m. 912-349-2756. info@savannahpoweryoga. com. savannahpoweryoga.com/workshops. savannahpoweryoga.com. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Road Unit J-3. AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES Savannah Speech & Hearing will host an eight-week series of classes for those interested in learning beginners American Sign Language (ASL). The class will be instructed by Crystal Clarkson. Class meets Tuesdays at 6 pm. Registration fee does not cover cost of required textbook, American Sign Language for Dummies by Penilla & Taylor. Class size is limited to 11 people and pre-registration is required. For more information, visit www.speechandhearingsav.com or call 912.355.4601. $85 registration fee Tuesdays. savannahspeechandhearing. org/. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E 66th St. 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. THE ART OF YOGA Yoga Me Fit is slated to host “The Art of Yoga” sessions with 20% of all registration proceeds benefiting the work of the Tybee Arts Association. $15 per session Sun., Nov. 12, 1:30-3 p.m. 912-308-3410. lynn@ yogamefit.com. yogamefit.com/event. Tybee Arts Association, 7 Cedarwood Ave. BASIC SELF DEFENSE Essential self-defense for adults. $30/ month Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6 p.m. fit912savannah.com. fit912savannah.com. Fit912 Savannah, 428 Bull Street. BEADING CLASSSES AT EPIPHANY BEAD & JEWELRY STUDIO Learn jewelry-making techniques from beginner to advanced. Call for class times. 912-677-3983. epiphany.indiemade.com. Epiphany Bead & Jewelry Studio, 101 N. Fahm St. BEGINNERS JEWELERS STUDIO A project-driven class that introduces beginning techniques of metal manipulation such as wirework, forming, sawing and creating textures (rolling and stamping). Students learn safe torch practices by annealing and soldering metal to create custom pieces. Lots of jeweler’s tricks to make your first work look professional. 150.00 Sat., Nov. 11, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. 912-289-8337. www. dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcatstudio.com/ product-page/beginner-s-jewelry-studiosaturdays-october-28-november-18-2017. dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcat studio, Hover Creek RD. 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. BRIDGE LESSONS Competitive Bidding (BB2), Saturday, February 4 at 10AM. Defensive Signals (BB5), Monday February 6. They are 4 week classes. Intermediate and advanced workshops continue on Fridays at 10AM. Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave, Sandfly. Also, games are held in the afternoon and/or evening almost every day. There is something for players at all levels. Check our website for fees and schedules of games and other classes. ongoing. 912-228-4838. bridgewebs.com/ savannahclubs. Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave. 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. 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. ongoing. 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. 912-351-4578. 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. CREATIVITY COACHING Do you have a creative idea but don’t know where to start? Is it time to move forward with your project? Work with your very own creativity coach and learn how to blast through blocks, plan your time, and enjoy the richness of a creative life. See website for more info at www.laurenl.com/ creativity_coaching/ or contact Creativity@ LaurenL.com ongoing. Online, ---. DIVAS & PUMPS: ADULT HEELS DANCE CLASS Divas & Pumps is a dance class teaching walks, struts, freestyles, and choreography to hits by our favorite Divas. Come get your life every Wednesday at 7:30. $15 Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. 323-539-1760. DANCEHOWIWANTTO@GMAIL.COM. DANCEHOWIWANTTO.COM. 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 912-443-0410. FAMILY LAW WORKSHOP The Mediation Center has three workshops per month for people who do not have legal representation in a family matter: divorce, legitimation, modifications of child support, visitation, contempt. Schedule: 1st Tues, 2nd Mon, 4th Thursday. Call for times. $30 912-354-6686. mediationsavannah.com. FANY’S SPANISH/ENGLISH INSTITUTE

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Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children held at 15 E. Montgomery Crossroad. Register by phone. ongoing. 912-921-4646. 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: MonFri, 3pm-4:30pm. ongoing. 912-232-4232 x115. savannahpha.com. savannahpha. com/NRC.html. Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. INTERMEDIATE JEWELERS STUDIO This session will include instruction on bezel and flush setting faceted stones. You’ve got basic soldering skills down and are ready to try some experimenting. This class is focused on design execution. Learn to successfully combine your skills into pieces that require multiple soldering operations, forethought, and planning. Make beautiful, wearable pieces that you love to put on day after day. Perfect for the student that has some basic experience. Christina provides a project each week to inspire your own piece. $225.00 Thu., Nov. 9, 6:30-9:30 p.m. 912-289-8337. christina@ dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcat studio, Hover Creek RD. INTRODUCTION TO JEWELRY A fine place to start or to grow beyond wirework and cold connections as a jeweler. Moving forward with basic techniques, this workshop focuses on building strong soldering skills. You will fabricate a bezel setting (one of the most popular ways to set a stone) and learn rock solid ring making strategies. 150.00 Tue., Nov. 14, 6:30-9:30 p.m. 912-289-8337. christina@ dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcat studio, Hover Creek RD. 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. LIFE CHALLENGE COACHING In an environment of patience, nonjudgement and compassion, we will explore the source of your challenge, the beliefs that hold your challenge in place, and discover & enact healthy and healing life changes. For appointment, contact Cindy Un Shin Beach at revfugon@gmail.com, or Text (only) to 912-429-7265. ongoing. Online only, none. MUSIC LESSONS--MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS AND STYLES Savannah Musicians’ Institute offers private instruction for all ages and experience levels for Guitar (electric, acoustic, bass, classical, jazz), Piano, Flute, Banjo, Mandolin, Ukulele, Clarinet, Saxophone, and Voice as well as Music Theory/ Composition/ Ear Training. We teach public, private and home school students as well as adults at all experience levels. Located at 15 East Montgomery Crossroads in Office #205 near White Bluff Road, Savannah, GA. ongoing. 91240 388-1806. smisavannah@gmail.com.

Dude’s Day at Savannah Climbing Coop

Thursdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Thursday men climb for half price, $5. See website for info. THURSDAYS, 2 & 10 P.M. 912-495-8010. SAVANNAHCLIMBINGCOOP.COM. SAVANNAH CLIMBING COOP, 302 W VICTORY DR. 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. ongoing. 912-354-1500. portmansmusic.com. Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. 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. ongoing. pmasoninsavannah@gmail.com. PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES

Photography Workshops: Beginner to Advanced level. 4-hour sessions. $250 per student. See website for complete list. 410251-4421. chris@chrismorrisphotography. com. chrismorrisphotography.com/learn. 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. ongoing. POWER SELF DEFENSE Get fit and develop powerful selfdefense skills. For active adults. $30/ month Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m. fit912savannah.com. fit912savannah.com. Fit912 Savannah, 428 Bull Street. R&B SOUL ADULT LINE DANCING The R&B Soul line dance group Savannah Show Stoppers are conducting line dance

classes every Monday night at the West Broad St. YMCA and every Tuesday nights at the John Delaware Center. Both classes starts at 6:30. Lamont Hunter, the founder of the Savannah Show Stoppers, is the Instructor. Donations Mondays, 6:30-8 p.m. and Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. 912-220-7712. hlamont70@yahoo.com. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. REIKI TREATMENT Reiki relaxes & rejuvenates; promotes emotional & physical healing; reduces neuromuscular & arthritic pain. E-mail request for appointment/ Fee base at revfugon@gmail.com, or Text (only) 912429-7265 ongoing. Online only, none. 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. 912-4840628. Downtown Savannah, downtown. RUSSIAN LANGUAGE CLASSES Learn to speak Russian. All experience levels welcome, beginner to expert. Call for info. ongoing. 912-713-2718. SAMBA SAVANNAH DRUMMING WORKSHOP Learn Afro-Brazilian rhythms with drumming instructor Andrew Hartzell. All ages. $10 Sundays, 2:30 p.m. starlandiasupply.com. Starlandia Creative Supply, 2438 Bull Street. SASS & SWAG ADULT HIP HOP Sass & Swag is a high energy, adult hip hop dance class. Learn hip hop grooves you can take to any party or club, and learn a choreographed routine to today’s hottest hits. Mondays at 7:30 pm. $15 Mondays, 7:30 p.m. 323-539-1760. DANCEHOWIWANTTO@GMAIL.COM. DANCEHOWIWANTTO.COM. TIME FOR SCRAPPING Time for Scrapping is hosting a 3 day crop event January 19-21, 2018 in Pooler GA for scrapbookers, stampers and crafters. Time away to work on unfinished projects or to start new ones. Creative classes will be offered, daily door prizes, on-site vendors and much more. For information join our FB page Time for Scrapping or email: timeforscrapping@gmail.com Through Jan. 21, 2018. YOUTH AND TEEN AERIAL SILK CLASSES Youth Class ages 8+. Teen Class ages 11+. Learn to dance and work with Aerial Silks and Hoop while suspended in the air. Weekly classes held on Fridays through the month of September only. Very limited space available, reserve your spot and register online today. $20/ class $75/September package ongoing. 954.682.5694. elyse.thestudio@yahoo.com. thestudiosav.net. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. ZONA ROSA WRITING WORKSHOP Become the writer you were meant to be: Join Zona Rosa, the internationally acclaimed, monthly Savannah-based writing workshops founded and led by

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award-winning author Rosemary Daniell. Over 180 Zona Rosans have become published authors. For information, contact Rosemary at info@myzonarosa.com. Also ask about the week-long, intensive Sixteenth Annual Zona Rosa Writing and Living Retreat,Tybee Island, July 22-29, 2017. ongoing. No physical address given, none.

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13TH COLONY SOUND (BARBERSHOP SINGING) “If you can carry a tune, come sing with us!” Mondays, 7pm. ongoing. 912-344-9768. savannahbarbershoppers.org. Thunderbolt Lodge #693, 3111 Rowland Ave. ABENI CULTURAL ARTS DANCE CLASSES Classses for multiple ages in performance dance and adult fitness dance. African, modern, ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, gospel. Held at Abeni Cultural Arts studio, 8400-B Abercorn St. Call Muriel, 912-6313452, or Darowe, 912-272-2797. ongoing. abeniculturalarts@gmail.com. ADOPT A DOLPHIN Adopt A Dolphin fundraiser sponsored by The Dolphin Project is being held through December 15. Dolphin adoptions are unique holiday gifts that support public education and the research of wild bottle nose dolphin that live in our estuaries. The application form can be downloaded from or completed on-line at: www. thedolphinproject.org/adopt.html Please allow a week to 10 days upon payment receipt to receive your adoption certificate.

For additional information please e-mail: thedolphinproject@gmail.com Through Dec. 15. No physical address given, none. AVEGOST LARP Live action role playing group that exists in a medieval fantasy realm. generallly meets the second weekend of the month. Free for your first event or if you’re a non-player character. $35 fee for returning characters. ongoing. godzillaunknown@gmail.com. avegost.com. BETHESDA ACADEMY’S SPORTING CLAYS TOURNAMENT Bethesda Academy announces plans for the 9th annual Sporting Clays Tournament on Friday, November 10 at the Forest City Gun Club. All sponsorship and event proceeds benefit Bethesda’s scholarship program for young men in grades six through twelve. $250-$7500 Fri., Nov. 10, 1-5 p.m. 912.644.4376. bethesdaacademy. org/giving/special-events/sporting-clays/. Forest City Gun Club, 9203 Ferguson Avenue. BUCCANEER REGION SCCA Local chapter of the Sports Car Club of America, hosting monthly solo/ autocross driving events in the Savannah area. Anyone with a safe car, insurance and a valid driver’s license is eligible to participate. See website. ongoing. buccaneerregion.org. BUSINESS NETWORKING ON THE ISLANDS Small Business Professionals Islands Networking Group meets first Thursday each month, 9:30am-10:30am. Tradewinds

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1 “Stay” singer Lisa 5 Actor Kaplan of “Welcome Back, Kotter” 9 Dallas’s nickname 13 Salicylic acid target 14 Canonized women of France, for short 15 Goober’s cousin on “The Andy Griffith Show” 16 They might be mixed 18 ___ Crag (climbing challenge on Nickelodeon’s “Guts”) 19 Some Yosemite employees 21 He, in Paris 22 “Hooked ___ Feeling” 23 Important age 24 On higher ground 26 Barnyard noise 28 Moves lumberingly 31 Lottery commission’s calculation 32 Pearly shell layer 34 Naughty way to live 36 Boxing ring area 41 Play fragment 42 2004 Britney Spears single 44 Arrange in order 47 Beneath 50 Plastic surgeon’s offering, for short 51 Hunt, in the wild

53 Unopened bloom 55 Co. that introduced Dungeons & Dragons 56 DDE beat him twice 57 Deceptive tennis tactic 61 Stick (together) 63 Very quickly 64 Magazine piece, maybe 65 Drink in a red can, usually 66 Saxophone that’s smaller than a tenor 67 PD investigators 68 “Before ___ you go …” 69 Place to post online

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1 Parody 2 From Fiji or New Zealand, more broadly 3 Way in 4 Nuthatch’s nose 5 A flat’s equivalent 6 Like some 20th-century compositions 7 Titanic hazard 8 In ___ (in actuality) 9 Marshy area 10 “That’s good news!” 11 Verb functioning as a noun 12 “These aren’t the ___ you’re looking for” 15 “Not that!” sound 17 School opening?

20 Surname of “Captain America: Civil War” directors Anthony and Joe 25 1970s Cambodian leader with a palindromic name 27 Sideshow Bob’s former boss 29 Fixed a squeak 30 Org. with leaked emails 33 “... and more” 35 Old NYC subway inits. 37 Get back together 38 Former “Today” coanchor Curry 39 Election day survey 40 Excoriates 43 Fairground food on a stick 44 Lost concentration 45 Ultimatum phrase 46 Put up a struggle 48 It keeps your car in place, slangily 49 Apple or potato variety 52 Wild party 54 Twisted Sister frontman Snider 58 “Veni, vidi, ___” 59 Hydroxyl compound 60 Non-striking worker 62 “Illmatic” and “Stillmatic” rapper

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Ice Cream & Coffee, 107 Charlotte Rd. Call for info. ongoing. 912-308-6768. CHATHAM SAILING CLUB Friday evening social event at the clubhouse. Meet Members and their families who all enjoy water based activities but whose prime interest is sailing. This BYOB event is free and all are welcome, but Membership is encouraged after several visits once interest is gauged!! We look forward to meeting you. Fridays, 7-10 p.m. pranschkec3@gmail.com. Young’s Marina, 218 Wilmington Island Rd. COASTAL BEAD SOCIETY Coastal Bead Society monthly meetings, 12 noon on the third Friday of the Month at the Coastal Georgia Center, 303 Fahm Street, near SCAD. All beaders are welcome. ongoing. wyrnut18@gmail.com. cgc. georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street. FIBER GUILD OF THE SAVANNAHS A club focusing on weaving, spinning, basket making, knitting, crocheting, quilting, beading, rug hooking, doll making, and other fiber arts. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center, first Saturday of the month (Sept.-June) 10:15am. Mondays, 10:30 a.m. fiberguildsavannah.homestead.com/. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. GEECHEE SAILING CLUB Founded in 1971, GSC promotes sailing and boating safety, education, and fellowship. Member of the South Atlantic Yacht Racing Association. second Monday of every month, 6 p.m. 912-356-3265. geecheesailingclub.org. liveoakstore.com/ tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr. 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. ongoing. 912-596-1962. honorflightsavannah.org. HISTORIC SAVANNAH CHAPTER: ABWA Meets the second Thursday of every month from 6pm-7:30pm. Tubby’s Tank House, 2909 River Drive, Thunderbolt. Attendees pay for their own meals. RSVP by phone. ongoing. 912-660-8257. HOSTESS CITY TOASTMASTERS CLUB Toastmasters International is an organization which gives its members the opportunity to develop and improve their public speaking abilities through local club meetings, seminars, and contests. Regardless of your level of comfort with public speaking, you will find a club that is interested in helping you improve your speaking abilities. Free Tuesdays, 6:15-7:15 p.m. hostesscity.toastmastersclubs.org. bullstreetlabs.com. Bull Street Labs, 2222 Bull St. KNITTERS, NEEDLEPOINT AND CROCHET Meets every Wednesday. Different locations downtown. Call for info. No fees. Want to learn? Join us. ongoing. 912-308-6768. LOW COUNTRY TURNERS A club for wood-turning enthusiasts. Call 42 Steve Cook for info at number below.

ongoing. 912-313-2230. MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART LADIES AUXILIARY Meets the first Saturday of the month at 1:00pm. Call for info. ongoing. 912-7864508. American Legion Post 184, 3003 Rowland Ave. NUBARTER OF THE LOW COUNTRY & PS TAVERN NETWORKING EVENT Come meet the owners of one of Savannah’s newest establishments, Paisley & Scott Minshall, Gary Field, Nubarter founder and Territory Owner, and other Nubarter members and talk about the benefits of being in Nubarter. Enjoy a relaxing evening at PS Tavern and enjoy their great tasting appetizers and beverages. Free Wed., Nov. 8, 6-8 p.m. 912631-6808. Isabel@nubarter.com. evite.me/ Q5XUVPP9HM. PS Tavern, 11 W. Bay St. 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 ongoing. 912-344-5127. Savannah Tree Foundation, 3025 Bull Street. RMHC’S RED SHOE SOCIETY MEET-UP The Red Shoe Society will be raffling off two tickets to Wine & Fries (Thurs. December 7, 2017 at RMHC 6-9 PM). Learn more about Red Shoe Society: https:// www.facebook.com/RedShoeSocietyCE/. Free Entry Thu., Nov. 9, 6-7:30 p.m. dudleyjoy@gmail.com. facebook.com/ RedShoeSocietyCE/. billysplacesavannah. com. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s, 20 E. Perry St. 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. ongoing. 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. ongoing. 912-4470943. hdb.org. moonriverbrewing.com/. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. SAVANNAH AUTHORS WORKSHOP If you’re a writer, and you’re serious about it, Savannah Authors Workshop is looking for you and has space for a few new members. We meet on the first and third Wednesday of each month, 6:30 p.m. at 630 East Victory Drive. We have members of all standards, from multiple-published to never-tried. Have a look at our website www.savannahauthorsworkshop.com and call Christopher Scott, President, 912-2726309. ongoing. No physical address given, none. THE SAVANNAH CHINESE CORNER The Savannah Chinese Corner welcomes anyone interested in Mandarin language or Chinese culture. Meets every Saturday morning from 10 am to noon. Check

the Facebook group to see meeting location. ongoing. facebook.com/groups/ SavannahChineseCorner. Downtown Savannah, downtown. 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. ongoing. 912-7487020. savannahnavyleague.us. SAVANNAH FILM ALLIANCE The Savannah Film Alliance was founded in 2015 by attorney Charles Bowen. The organization promotes the film community within Savannah and the greater Coastal Empire through advocacy and action via education, outreach and collaboration. Those with a stake in the entertainment industry are invited to gather together quarterly to discuss their goals and how to improve the filmmaking experience in the Savannah area. Thu., Nov. 9, 3 p.m. cbowen@thebowenlawgroup.com. savannahtech.edu/. Savannah Technical College, 5717 White Bluff Rd. SAVANNAH FILM ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES NOVEMBER MEETING The Savannah Film Alliance meeting will be held November 9 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Savannah Tech in Room 7126 in the Academic Commons building. Parking is in the visitor parking lot by the entrance. The Savannah Film Alliance was founded in 2015 by attorney Charles Bowen. The organization promotes the film community within Savannah and the greater Coastal Empire through advocacy and action via education, outreach and collaboration. Those with a stake in the entertainment industry are invited to gather together quarterly to discuss their goals and how to improve the filmmaking experience in the Savannah area. Thu., Nov. 9, 3-5 p.m. 912544-2050. cbowen@thebowenlawgroup. com. savannahtech.edu/. Savannah Technical College, 5717 White Bluff Rd. SAVANNAH GO CLUB This is a new club for the board game “go” (igo, weiqi, baduk). For places and times, please call John at 734-355-2005. ongoing. Downtown Savannah, downtown. SAVANNAH GO GREEN Meets most Saturdays. Green events and places. Share ways to Go Green each day. Call for info. ongoing. 912-308-6768. SAVANNAH KENNEL CLUB Monthly meetings open to the public the 4th Monday each month, Sept. through June. ongoing, 7 p.m. savannahkennelclub. org. careyhilliards.com. Carey Hilliard’s (Southside), 11111 Abercorn St. 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 help you learn about Savannah and make new friends. Ongoing sign-up. savannahnewcomers.com. ongoing. SAVANNAH PARROT HEAD CLUB Beach, Buffet and no dress code. Check website for events calendar or send an email for Parrot Head gatherings. ongoing. savannahphc@yahoo.com. savannahphc.

com. 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. ongoing. 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. SCAD DAILY TOURS SCAD offers tours in Savannah, Atlanta and Hong Kong for prospective students and their families. Tours are available daily, excluding Sundays, in Savannah, Atlanta, and Hong Kong. Tours allow prospective students an opportunity to view classrooms and administrative buildings, galleries, residence halls and dining facilities and see where our students live, learn and prepare for professional careers. Free MondaysSaturdays. scad.edu/admission/visit-scad/ daily-tours. scad.edu/. Savannah College of Art and Design, PO Box 2072. SOUTHBRIDGE WOMENS CLUB HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE Put a dent in your holiday gift list with unique and fun, locally made treasures. Appetizers and raffle prizes. Free Sun., Nov. 12, 2-5 p.m. 407-2672799. southbridgewomen@gmail.com. southbridgegolfclub.com/. Southbridge Golf Club, 415 Southbridge Blvd. SPIES AND MYSTERIES BOOK CLUB 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. VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 671 Meets second Monday of each month, 7pm, at the American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. ongoing. 912-656-6818. jsphmtler@ gmail.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. ongoing. 912-232-3549. chesteraellis@ comcast.net.

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FROM BACH TO BROADWAY - A CONCERT OF VOCAL & PIANO MUSIC Sanford Jones, pianist and Rebecca Flaherty, soprano, will present a program of classical music, spirituals and musical theatre including the works of Gershwin, Ravel and Debussy, along with Broadway favorites. Free - donations appreciated Wed., Nov. 8, 7-8:30 p.m. 912-231-0243. sanfordjones4@gmail.com. youthoperaintl. com. unityofsavannah.org/. Unity Church of Savannah, 2320 Sunset Blvd. SAVANNAH WINDS FALL CONCERT The Savannah Winds is a community wind symphony serving the Coastal Empire and is comprised of musicians from the greater Savannah area. The organization is

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presented by Armstrong State University’s Department of Art, Music & Theatre. $15 Tue., Nov. 14, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 912-344-2801. amt.boxoffice@armstrong.edu. armstrong. edu/academic-departments/savannahwinds-about. ASU Fine Arts Auditorium, 11935 Abercorn St.

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$8 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. $8 Sundays, 6-7 p.m. 912349-2756. ADULT DANCE FITNESS Come out to the Lake Mayer Community Center and participate in “Twist & Shout.” Work out while you dance to the oldies in this fun and varied fitness class. This program is free and open to the public. Bring a yoga mat, bottled water, and a friend. FREE Tuesdays, Thursdays, 1 p.m. 912-652-6863. sedavis@chathamcounty.org. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. AERIAL YOGA CLASSES Increase flexibility and strength using aerial yoga, a relatively new approach to a traditional yoga practice. We use a silk fabric called a ‘hammock’ to support the weight of our bodies, helping us achieve various postures with more depth, ease and excitement. Every Saturday. Class size limited. Required to register online ahead of time. $25 Saturdays, 12:30-1:45 p.m. 954.682.5694. elyse.thestudio@yahoo. com. thestudiosav.net/schedule.html. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE Let the excitement begin as Mahogany takes you to the best staycation each and every Tuesday night to the Islands through movement and rhythm. This class will focus on the cultural movement of Afro-Caribbean dance. Get ready for hip winding and arms in the air as we explore our bodies’ rhythm through Caribbean and reggae music. $10 Tuesdays, 6:45-7:45 p.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. AIKIDO CLASSES Aikido is a traditional Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba, ‘O Sensei’ or (‘Great Teacher’). On a purely physical level it is an art involving throws and joint locks that are derived from Jujitsu and Kenjutsu (open hand and weapon based techniques). Beyond the self defense aspects of the art its true goal is to challenge its practitioners to discover their best selves. $50/month for JEA Members, $70/month for NonMembers, or $80/8-class punch card Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7-8:30 p.m. 912-6040958, 912-346-2650. AikiNorm@aol.com, AikidoBilly@hotmail.com. CoastalAikido. com. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. BALLET BODY TONING Ballet Body Toning is a ballet inspired workout designed to improve balance, flexibility, and use body resistance to strengthen core, legs & booty. This workout is low impact and scorches major calories and teaches you basic ballet! Call to make

a reservation before class. This is a semiprivate class so space is limited! $10.00 Wednesdays, Sundays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. 732.232.3349. FitnessFoodWine@gmail. com. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. BALLROOM FIT Always wanted to learn how to ballroom dance? Don’t have a partner? Want to get in shape and have fun in the process? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this program is for you! Learn how to ballroom dance and get a great workout in the process. We use all styles of music that are modern or traditional. Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Jive, Samba, Paso Doble, Foxtrot, Waltz, Hustle, and more! Check out our schedule for more details. 4 classes for $40, 10 classes for $80, UNLIMITED for $120 Sundays, 5-6 p.m., Mondays, 6-7 p.m., Tuesdays, 12:30-1 p.m., Wednesdays, 12:30-1 & 6-7 p.m. and Thursdays, 12:30-1 p.m. 612.470.6683. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance & Fitness Studio, 301 US Hwy 80 SE. BEACH BODY WORKOUTS WITH LAURA MONDAYS at 6:15 PM at the Lake Mayer Community Center $5.00 per session Mondays, 6:15 p.m. (912) 652-6784. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. BEASTMODE FITNESS GROUP TRAINING 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. ongoing. beastmodefitnessga.com. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. BEGINNING POLE FITNESS Pole fitness is a fun and flirty way to get in shape! Taught by Pole Dance America National Professional Champion Sabrina Madsen, you’ll learn the basics of pole dance in a safe and welcoming environment. Gain strength, balance and confidence. Beginner Classes are open to all shapes and sizes and are for ladies only (men welcome at our Intermediate Class). $25 for drop-in or $100 for a package of 5 classes Tuesdays, 8-9 p.m. 801.673.6737. info@firstcityfitness.com. firstcityfitness. com/pole-fitnessparties.html. First City Fitness, 2127 1/2 Victory Dr. 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. ongoing. egs5719@aol.com. Talahi Island Community Club, 532 Quarterman Dr. BOOTCAMP 101 Ropes, kettlebells, weights, medicine balls, drills, games & lots of fun. Conducted by a certified personal trainer. All fitness levels. $10 or punch cards available for savings. Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Frank G. Murray Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd. CANDLE(LIT) COMMUNITY FLOW Catherine Mulligan teaches this vinyasa flow yoga class in efforts to raise money for local charities in the Savannah community. The class is heated, candlelit, and set to upbeat music. Charities are rotating and chosen based on feedback from the students who show up. $8 Thursdays. The HUB Savannah, 4505 Habersham St. COMMUNITY TAI CHI Tai Chi is an ancient Chinese martial art tradition that is now practiced as a graceful form of exercise, performed in a slow, focused manner and accompanied by deep breathing. All of the exercises are performed from a standing position, so please wear shoes which are comfortable for standing, and clothing which allows freedom of movement. Weather depending, the class may be held indoors or outdoors. $5 second Sunday of every month, 8:30 a.m. customfitcenter.com. CustomFit Center, 101-A West Park Ave.

DANCE DYNAMIX Dance DynaMix is a choreographed dance fitness class inspired by funky hip hop and sleek jazz moves! No dance experience required. Call 732.232.3349 to reserve your spot ahead of time, as class space is limited. Stay after class for a 30 minute stretch to wind down for the weekend with! $10.00 Wednesdays, Fridays, 10-11 a.m. 732.232.3349. FitnessFoodWine@ gmail.com. thestudiosav.net/. The STUDIO, 2805-B Lacy Ave. FIT4MOM SAVANNAH STROLLER STRIDES A group of moms that meet with strollers and workout at Savannah Mall, Daffin Park and on occasion Hull Park. Also offer HIIT Classes to other Moms who have any age children. The HIIT program is a kid free program. 1 hour long stroller based workout with kiddos. Moms- Pre and Post Natal, and kids of stroller age. Savannah Mall (M,W,F). Daffin Park (T,Th), Hull Park (Sat) ongoing. ashleyyoungblood@fit4mom.com. savannah.fit4mom.com. Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave. FITNESS CLASSES AT THE JEA Sin, firm it up, yoga, Pilates, water aerobics, Aquasize, senior fitness, and Zumba. Prices vary. Call for schedule. ongoing. 912-3558811. savj.org. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. FREE CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP For anyone caring for senior citizens with any affliction or illness. Second Saturday of the month, 10am-11am. Savannah

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Commons, 1 Peachtree Dr. Refreshments. Free to attend. Open to anyone in need of support for the caregiving they provide. ongoing. savannahcommons.com. FREE YOGA FOR CANCER PATIENTS St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Center for WellBeing offers Free Yoga for Cancer Patients every Monday from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. in Candler’s Heart & Lung Building, Suite 100. The very gentle movements and breath work in this class will give you much needed energy, it will make your body feel better, and it will give you a mental release. This class is free to cancer patients. Mondays, 1:30-2:30 p.m. 912-819-8800. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital,

5353 Reynolds St. FUNCTIONAL TRAINING CLASS Celebrate fall with a Saturday morning workout class. All levels welcome. A smooth mix of cardio and strengthening exercises. Call Kara 912-667-0487 if interested. ongoing. Downtown Savannah, downtown. GET EXCITED AND MOVE This program is designed to combat the effects of Parkinson disease for Savannah/ Chatham-area people and their caregiver. The activities are designed to enhance and improve muscular strength, and endurance, coordination, agility, flexibility, speed

work, and voice command. $10 a month Mondays-Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. and Tuesdays-Thursdays, 10:3011:30 a.m. 912-376-9833. psgsav@gmail. com. Anderson-Cohen Weightlifting Center, 7230 Varnedoe Drive. DUDE’S DAY AT SAVANNAH CLIMBING COOP Thursdays, 2 til 10 p.m. Savannah Climbing Coop 302 W Victory Dr, Savannah Every Thursday men climb for half price, $5. See website for info. Thursdays, 2 & 10 p.m. 912-495-8010. savannahclimbingcoop.com. Savannah Climbing CoOp, 302 W Victory Dr. HIKING & BIKING AT SKIDAWAY ISLAND

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Adriana Martinez and Octavio Guillen got engaged to be married when they were both 15 years old. But they kept delaying a more complete unification for 67 years. At last, when they were 82, they celebrated their wedding and pledged their vows to each other. Are there comparable situations in your life, Aries? The coming months will be a favorable time to make deeper commitments. At least some of your reasons for harboring ambivalence will become irrelevant. You’ll grow in your ability to thrive on the creative challenges that come from intriguing collaborations and highly focused togetherness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

I had pimples when I was a teenager. They’re gone now, although I still have a few pockmarks on my face as souvenirs. In retrospect, I feel gratitude for them. They ensured that in my early years of dating and seeking romance, I would never be able to attract women solely on the basis of my physical appearance. I was compelled to cultivate a wide variety of masculine wiles. I swear that at least half of my motivation to get smarter and become a good listener came from my desire for love. Do you have comparable stories to tell, Taurus? Now is an excellent time to give thanks for what once may have seemed to be a liability or problem.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

The next two weeks will be one of the best times ever to ask provocative, probing questions. In fact, I invite you to be as curious and receptive as you’ve been since you were four years old. When you talk with people, express curiosity more often than you make assertions. Be focused on finding out what you’ve been missing, what you’ve been numb to. When you wake up each morning, use a felt-tip marker to draw a question mark on your forearm. To get you in the mood for this fun project, here are sample queries from poet Pablo Neruda’s *Book of Questions*: “Who ordered me to tear down the doors of my own pride? Did I finally find myself in the place where they lost me? Whom

can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Is it true our desires must be watered with dew? What did the rubies say standing before the juice of the pomegranates?”

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

“Things to say when in love,” according to Zimbabwe poet Tapiwa Mugabe: “I will put the galaxy in your hair. Your kisses are a mouthful of firewater. I have never seen a more beautiful horizon than when you close your eyes. I have never seen a more beautiful dawn than when you open your eyes.” I hope these words inspire you to improvise further outpourings of adoration. You’re in a phase when expressing your sweet reverence and tender respect for the people you care about will boost you physical health, your emotional wealth, and your spiritual resiience.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Are you working on solving the right problem? Or are you being distracted by a lesser dilemma, perhaps consumed in dealing with an issue that’s mostly irrelevant to your long-term goals? I honestly don’t know the answers to those questions, but I am quite sure it’s important that you meditate on them. Everything good that can unfold for you in 2018 will require you to focus on what matters most -- and not get sidetracked by peripheral issues or vague wishes. Now is an excellent time to set your unshakable intentions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Every one of us experiences loneliness. We all go through periods when we feel isolated and misunderstood and unappreciated. That’s the bad news, Virgo. The good news is that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to make loneliness less of a problem. I urge you to brainstorm and meditate about how to do that. Here are some crazy ideas to get you started. 1. Nurture ongoing connections with the spirits of beloved people who have died. 2. Imagine having conversations with your guardian angel or spirit guide. 3. Make a deal with a “partner in loneliness”: a person you pray or sing with

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whenever either of you feels bereft. 4. Write messages to your Future Self or Past Self. 5. Communicate with animals.

never again allow them to corrupt your devotion to the righteous groove, to the path with heart.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

The drive for absolute perfection could undermine your ability to create what’s very good and just right. Please don’t make that mistake in the coming weeks. Likewise, refrain from demanding utter purity, pristine precision, or immaculate virtue. To learn the lessons you need to know and launch the trends you can capitalize on in 2018, all that’s necessary is to give your best. You don’t have to hit the bull’s eye with every arrow you shoot -- or even *any* arrow you shoot. Simply hitting the target will be fine in the early going.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Remember the time, all those years ago, when the angels appeared to you on the playground and showed you how and why to kiss the sky? I predict that a comparable visitation will arrive soon. And do you recall the dreamy sequence in adolescence when you first plumbed the sublime mysteries of sex? You’re as ripe as you were then, primed to unlock more of nature’s wild secrets. Maybe at no other time in many years, in fact, have you been in quite so favorable a position to explore paradise right here on earth.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

As a courtesy to your mental health, I minimize your exposure to meaningless trivia. In fact, I generally try to keep you focused instead on enlightening explorations. But in this horoscope, in accordance with astrological omens, I’m giving you a temporary, short-term license to go slumming. What shenanigans is your ex up to lately, anyway? Would your old friend the bankrupt coke addict like to party with you? Just for laughs, should you revisit the dead-end fantasy that always makes you crazy? There is a good possibility that exposing yourself to bad influences like those I just named could have a tonic effect on you, Sagittarius. You might get so thoroughly disgusted by them that you’ll

In the coming months it will be crucial to carefully monitor the effects you’re having on the world. Your personal actions will rarely be merely personal; they may have consequences for people you don’t know as well as those you’re close to. The ripples you send out in all directions won’t always look dramatic, but you shouldn’t let that delude you about the influence you’re having. If I had to give 2018 a title with you in mind, it might be “The Year of Maximum Social Impact.” And it all starts soon.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

The punk ethic is rebellious. It transgresses conventional wisdom through “a cynical absurdity that’s redeemed by being hilarious.” So says author Brian Doherty. In the hippie approach, on the other hand, the prevailing belief is “love is all you need.” It seeks a “manic togetherness and all-encompassing acceptance that are all sweet and no sour -- inspiring but also soft and gelatinous.” Ah, but what happens when punk and hippie merge? Doherty says that each moderates the extreme of the other, yielding a tough-minded lust for life that’s both skeptical and celebratory. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because the punk-plus-hippie blend is a perfect attitude for you to cultivate in the coming weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

I’m falling in love with the way you have been falling in love with exciting possibilities that you once thought were impossible. Oh, baby. Please go further. Thrilling chills surge through me whenever you get that ravenous glint in your mind’s eye. I can almost hear you thinking, “Maybe those dreams aren’t so impossible, after all. Maybe I can heal myself and change myself enough to pursue them in earnest. Maybe I can learn success strategies that were previously beyond my power to imagine.”

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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. ongoing. 912-429-5150. LINE DANCE Line dance class teaches basic instructions, coordination, and dance combinations, to the rhythm of different styles of music. Line Dancing is exercise for the body & mind, and is a fun way to dance socially without a partner. Dancing styles covered in this class include Country Western, Swing, Salsa, Tango, Cha Cha, Waltz & more. $10 Wednesdays, 6-7:45 p.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@ westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. LIVING SMART FITNESS CLUB St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center offer the Living Smart Fitness Club, which is an exercise program to encourage healthy lifestyle changes. On Mondays and Wednesdays the classes are held at the John S. Delaware Center. On Tuesdays, the classes are held at the center, at 1910 Abercorn Street. Classes include Zumba (Tuesdays) and Hip-Hop low impact aerobics with cardio and strengthening exercises (Mondays/Wednesdays). Mondays, Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. and Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m. 912-447-6605. Delaware Recreation Center, 1815 Lincoln St. MOMMY AND BABY YOGA Mondays. Call for times and fees or see website. ongoing. 912-232-2994. savannahyoga.com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. 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. ongoing. 912-238-0018. savannahpilates. com. pilatessavannah.com/. Momentum Pilates Studio, 8413 Rerguson Ave. POWER YOGA This is an hour of stretching your mind and body to become one, and a reset in the middle of the work week. Come experience the endless possibilities as you take yourself to the next level with Mahogany. $10 Wednesdays, 8-9 a.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. PRANA YOGA Prana Yoga is a practice that integrates breathing techniques and chakra sounds into the yoga. Come experience a deep sense of grounding, learn to be present, and develop your center, passion, strength, compassion, creativity, intuition, and light. $10 Mondays, 6:45-8 p.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. 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. ongoing. 912-704-7650. ann@aikyayoga. com. savannahyoga.com/. Savannah Yoga Center, 1321 Bull St. PREGNANCY YOGA CLASSES Pregnancy is a transitional time when

many physical and emotional changes take place. Pregnancy Yoga is about honoring these changes in ourselves, our body and our baby. Yoga strengthens the rapidly changing body and increases the ability to relax, and helps to prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and motherhood. Pregnancy Yoga classes are offered as a 6 week session on Thursday evenings from 6pm – 7:15 pm. The class is suitable for all stages of pregnancy and no prior yoga experience is necessary. $120 - six week session Thursdays. 912-704-7650. ann@ douladeliveries.com. douladeliveries.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 ongoing. qigongtim.com/. 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 ongoing. 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. ongoing. 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. ongoing. 912495-8010. 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. ongoing. 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. ongoing. savystrider.com. SHIMMY CHIC Shimmy Chic Fitness is an energetic, fun dance workout based on the ancient art of belly dance- with a modern twist. The class provides calorie-burning and muscle-toning moves, along with increased flexibility, grace, and sense of self. No dance experience necessary. Shimmy Chic provides fun & repetitive routines suitable for all fitness levels. Please wear comfortable workout clothes and sneakers (you do not have to show your stomach).

Open to all ages and fitness levels. $10 Thursdays, 5:45-6:45 p.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. VINYASA YOGA In this vinyasa yoga class you will experience dynamic movements while linking breath, building heat, and endurance. This class is open to all levels. We will explore each pose with special attention to alignment. This class will be the perfect way to start your week and stay energized. $10 Mondays, 8-9 a.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. WEIGHTED WORKOUT A 45 minute, total body workout that includes a 5 minute warm-up and a 5 minute cool-down/stretch. We will use dumbbells and steps to perform compound functional movements to maximize workout time. $10 Tuesdays, 8-9 a.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@westbroadstreetymca. org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. 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. YOGA ME FIT Yoga Me Fit will be donating 20% of proceeds from these sessions to the Tybee Arts Association, a nonprofit organization committed to developing and sustaining interest, appreciation, and enjoyment of the arts in Chatham County. Funds raised for the Tybee Arts Association from these sessions will help support the nonprofit organization’s mission to bring the arts into people’s lives through art shows, theatre workshops, art classes and much more. Registration costs $15 per person for each of these sessions with 20% going to support the Tybee Arts Association. To register for sessions, please visit www.yogamefit.com/ event/. To learn more about “The Art of Yoga” sessions or Yoga Me Fit, please visit www.yogamefit.com, email lynn@yogamefit. com, or call 912-308-3410. Sundays. Tybee Arts Association, 7 Cedarwood Ave. ZUMBA Low impact, fun, hip music. All ages $5. Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. 410-320-9997. Frank G. Murray Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Island Rd. Zumba Fitness is a dance fitness class for everybody and every body! With easy to follow moves, Zumba focuses on a wide variety of Latin and International rhythms. This hour long class is guaranteed to make you sweat. It’s not a workout, it’s a party. $10 Tuesdays, 5:45-6:45 p.m. 912-233-1951. wbsymcagardener@ westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. ZUMBA FITNESS Isn’t lifting weights and running on the treadmill boring? Come join Sheena’s Zumba Fitness class and have fun while burning calories! The class regularly has 75+ participants that know that

Sheena is the best Zumba instructor in Savannah! So show up early and see you soon! Free with YMCA membership Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. 912-354-6223. facebook.com/ZumbaFitnesswithSheena/. ymcaofcoastalga.org/. YMCA (Habersham Branch), 6400 Habersham St. 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. ongoing. 912-349-4902.

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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. 912-236-CITY. firstcitynetwork. org. GAY AA MEETING True Colors Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, a gay and lesbian AA meeting that welcomes all alcoholics, meets Thursdays and Sundays, 7:30pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 311 E. Harris, 2nd floor. New location effective 11/2012. ongoing. SAVANNAH PRIDE, INC. Organizes the annual Savannah Pride Festival and helps promote the well-being of the LGBTQI community in the South. Mission: unity through diversity and social awareness. Second Tuesday/month. PO Box 6044, Savannah, GA 31414. 501c nonprofit. ongoing. info@savannahpride.com. savannahpride.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. 912-288-1034. 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. ongoing. 912-352-2611. CONTINUES ON P. 46

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ALL DAY ZEN MEDITATION RETREAT This all day meditation retreat with Teijo Munnich includes sitting and walking meditations, a gentle yoga practice, dharma talks and discussions. Teijo Munnich is the founder of the Great Tree Zen Temple, near Asheville, NC. She is a Dharma Heir of Dainin Katagiri Roshi, her teacher from 1975 until his death in 1990. Her presence, polished by years of Zen study and practice, has been inspiring students in Savannah for more than a decade. The retreat will take place at a residence on Isle of Hope. You will receive driving directions in an email confirmation before the event. $30 Sat., Nov. 11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 912-3492756. info@savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com/workshops. savannahpoweryoga.com. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Road Unit J-3. BAND OF SISTERS PRAYER GROUP All women are invited. Second Tuesdays, 7:30am-8:30am. Fellowship Assembly, 5224 Augusta Rd. Email or call Jeanne Seaver or see website for info. “The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hands of the Lord.” (Prov. 21:1) ongoing. 912-663-8728. jeanneseaver@aol.com. capitolcom.org/ georgia. BUDDHIST MEDITATION Everyone is welcome. Experience not necessary. Visit our website for location, meditation periods and classes. savannahzencenter.com. Individual instruction upon request. Email Cindy Un Shin Beach at revfugon@gmail.com for more information. ongoing. Online only, none. CATHOLIC SINGLES A group of Catholic singles age 30-50 meet frequently for fun, fellowship and service. Send email or check website to receive announcements of activities and to suggest activities for the group. ongoing. familylife@ diosav.org. diosav.org/familylife-singles. DHARMA TALK WITH TEIJO-OPENNESS AS VAST AS THE SKY Join Zen teacher Teijo Munnich for a Dharma talk entitled “Openness as Vast as the Sky: Finding Relief in the Present Moment” This 2 hour session is the first in a two part visit by Teijo to Savannah. Teijo Munnich is the founder of the Great Tree Zen Temple, near Asheville, NC. She is a Dharma Heir of Dainin Katagiri Roshi, her teacher from 1975 until his death in 1990. Her presence, polished by years of Zen study and practice, has been inspiring students in Savannah for more than a decade. $15 Fri., Nov. 10, 7-9 p.m. 912349-2756. info@savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com/workshops. savannahpoweryoga.com. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Road Unit J-3. GRATITUDE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARES Gather with others to share gratitude. Everyone welcome. Park next to Bull Street Library. Wednesdays, 12-12:30 p.m. 917-676-4280. facebook.com/ savannahgratitude. liveoakpl.org. Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St. GUIDED SILENT PRAYER Acoustical songs, 30 minutes of guided silent prayer, and minutes to receive 46 prayer or remain in silence. Wednesdays,

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6:45-8:00pm at Vineyard Church, 615 Montgomery St. See website for info. ongoing. vineyardsavannah.org. JESUS YESHUA Holidays and plans for 2017 underway for young adults and college Christians. Contact Reverend Brenda Lee @yahoo.com or call (912) 236-3156. ongoing. No physical address given, none. MARITIME BETHEL “Sundays on Thursdays” worship at the Fellowship Assembly. Plenty of parking for large trucks. Free Thursdays. 912-220-2976. The Fellowship Assembly of God Church, 5224 Augusta Road. A NEW CHURCH IN THE CITY, FOR THE CITY

Gather on Sundays at 10:30am. Like the Facebook page “Savannah Church Plant.” ongoing. Bryson Hall, 5 E. Perry St. NEW ORLEANS BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Courses are now being offered at the 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. ongoing. 912-232-1033. revwasson@gmail.com. Savannah Baptist Center, 704 Wheaton Street. PSYCHIC MEDIUM YOUR PAL, ERIN Ready to reconnect you with your loved ones who’ve passed and your own inner

knowing? I’m here to help. Let’s all work together to create the amazing new life you truly desire, releasing old situations that no longer serve you. Readings available in person and by phone. 60 minutes, $65. Group readings of 5 or more, $30 per person for 20 minutes. Get your personalized, 45 minute prerecorded “Tuesday Tune-Up” emailed to your inbox for just $45. Visit www.yourpalerin.com for more information or contact psychicyourpalerin@gmail.com today. ongoing. Online only, none. 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. ongoing. 912-233-5354. 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. ongoing. 636-2331772. savannahquakers@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. 440-371-5209. 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. ongoing. 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.” ongoing. 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 Meets on the third Monday, 8:30pm-10:30pm. Like the Facebook page: Theology on Tap Downtown Savannah. ongoing. distillerysavannah.com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St.

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719 South Avenue, Tatemville Area: Nice 3BR/2BA, separate dining, w/d connection, CH/A, all electric. $950/mo, $950/ deposit. 2216 Auburn Street, Savannah. Great 3BR/1BA, w/d connection, CH/A. Freshly painted. Nice! $950/ mo., $950/deposit. Section 8 accepted. Call 912-844-2344

104 Mills Run Dr. 4BR/2BA, garage, screened in porch, play area for kids, carpet, LR, DR, CH/A, kitchen w/ appliances, laundry room, fenced yard. $1275/month.

APTS. & ROOMS FOR RENT

426 E. 38th St. Apt. B. (Habersham & Price) 2BR/1BA Apt. Appliances, central heat/ air, carpet $695/month.

COZY 1 Bedroom Apt. 5616-1/2 Laroche Avenue. Washer/dryer connections, storage shed, single tenant, no pets. $700/month plus deposit. 912-354-0321

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Mon-Sat 10am-5pm 1 Green Gate Ct. Apt. 56 Savannah, GA 31405 www.bnetmanagement.com WE ACCEPT SECTION 8

1 & 2 BEDROOM APTS. & ROOMS FOR RENT

Westside / Eastside Savannah. Adult Living. Furnished, all utilities incl. Washer/Dryer on premises, cable TV, WiFi/ Internet. $130-$200/weekly. Requirements: Pay stubs/ID. Call 912-677-0271

1 & 2 BEDROOM APTS. & ROOMS FOR RENT

Westside / Eastside Savannah. Adult Living. Furnished, all utilities incl. Washer/Dryer on premises, cable TV, WiFi/ Internet. $130-$200/weekly. Requirements: Pay stubs/ID. Call 912-677-0271

Clean and safe. Call Gail, 912-650-9358 or Linda, 912-690-9097

DUPLEX: 1120 East 55th Street. 2BR/1BA $590/month plus $590/ deposit. One block off Waters Avenue, close to Daffin Park. We Accept H.A.S. Vouchers. Call 912-335-3211 or email adamrealstate@gmail.com. Days/ Nights/Weekends.

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BLOOMINGDALE near Pooler & Gulfstream: Single Family Home w/Room for Rent: Furnished, includes utilities, central heat/air, Comcast cable, washer/ dryer. Ceramic tile in kitchen & bath. Shared Kitchen & NICE HOUSE FOR RENT • 60 Altman Circle: 3BR/1BA, bath. Call 912-963-7956, central heat/air, new paint, leave message new carpet, furnished kitchen. Very nice. $875/month. Call 912-631-7644, 912-507-7934 CLEAN, QUIET, NICE ROOMS or 912-927-2853 & EFFICIENCIES from $100-$215. Near Bus lines. Refrigerator, Stove, Washer & Dryer. Mature Renters Preferred. *SPECIAL PRICE FOR MONTHLY RENTALS* For More Info, Call 912-2723438 or 912-247-7969 Off ACL Blvd. & Westlake Ave. Furnished Efficiency Apt. includes utilities, electricity, gas, garbage/ water. 1yr. lease & security deposit. $700/month. Close to Savannah Mall & Armstrong State University. 912-429-2073

2 & 3BR, 1 Bath Apts. Newly Renovated, hardwood floors, carpet, ceiling fans, appliances, central heat/air, washer/dryer hookups. $645-$815/month for 2bdrs and $735-$895/month for 3bdrs.

912-228-4630 Mon-Sat 10am-5pm www. bnetmanagement.com WE ACCEPT SECTION 8 *For Qualified Applicants with 1+ years on Job.*

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11515 White Bluff Rd. 1BR/1BA, all electric, equipped kitchen, W/D connection. Convenient to Armstrong College. $695 month, $300/deposit.

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310 EAST MONTGOMERY X-ROADS, 912-354-4011 OR 656-5372

DUPLEX: 1120 East 55th Street. 2BR/1BA $590/month plus $590/ deposit. One block off Waters Room for Rent Avenue, close to Daffin Park. ROOMS FOR RENT We Accept H.A.S. Vouchers. Call 912-335-3211 or email Nice, Clean, large, furnished. adamrealstate@gmail.com. Days/ Busline, cable, utilities, central heat/air. $100-$130/weekly. Nights/Weekends. Rooms with bath $145. Call 912289-0410. FOR RENT: 1510 East 53rd St. 3 • Paycheck stub or Proof of Bedroom, 2 Bath House. $875/ income and ID required. month plus deposit. We Accept 2nd person/child add $100 per H.A.S. Vouchers. Call Mark @ 912- week 335-3211. Days/Nights/Weekends. ROOMS FOR RENT Nice, Clean, large, furnished. FOR RENT: 1510 East 53rd St. 3 Busline, cable, utilities, central Bedroom, 2 Bath House. $875/ heat/air. $100-$130/weekly. month plus deposit. We Accept Rooms with bath $145. Call 912H.A.S. Vouchers. Call Mark @ 912- 289-0410. 335-3211. • Paycheck stub or Proof of Days/Nights/Weekends. income and ID required. 2nd person/child add $100 per week

GEORGETOWN

Furnished Efficiency Apt. includes utilities, electricity, gas, garbage/ water. 1yr. lease & security 103 COASTAL PLACE @ TIBET deposit. $700/month. Close to 2BD/2BA Apartment. Eat-in Savannah Mall & Armstrong State kitchen, large LR, washer/dryer University. 912-429-2073 connections, new paint and

624 MONTGOMERY STREET. Downtown. Furnished, all utilities. Clean, quiet, nice room on bus line. $140 & Up per week. 912-247-5404

ROOMS FOR RENT - Ages 40 & better. $150 weekly. No deposit. Furnished rooms. All utilities included. On Busline. Call 912-844-5995 SAVANNAH’S HOUSE OF GRACE

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.

Call 912-844-5995

SHARED LIVING for age 40 & older. Furnished room, CH/A, cable. Shared bath, kitchen and common area. $170 & up (utilities included); $640/month. Safe environment. ID/Proof of income required. 912-308-5455

SHARED LIVING: Fully Furnished Apts. Ages 40 & better. $170 weekly. No deposit. All utilities included. Call 912-844-5995

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Paint & Body Repairs. Insurance Claims. We Buy Wrecks. 49 years Exp. Call 912-355-5932.

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