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WEDNESDAY 4.10 Film: Country Music
“Country Music” explores where country music came from while focusing on the biographies of the fascinating trailblazers who created and shaped it. 7 p.m. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. Free
Film: The Honeymoon Killers
Rare public screening of this ultranaturalistic and ultra-low-budget 1970 American-made independent True Crime picture. Presented by the Psychotronic Film Society. 8 p.m. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. $8
Savannah Music Festival: Closing Night Party:
Maceo Parker SUN 4.13
Saxophonist Maceo Parker embodies the legacy of soul and funk music like no other musician can. Eight years since his last SMF appearance, Maceo Parker returns to close out the 2019 season with what promises to be the funkiest of dance parties. 4 p.m. $42 Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.
The Great American Trailer Park Musical FRI-SUN
There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres-and she’s wrecking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband-the storms begin to brew. Armstrong Campus, Georgia Southern University, 11935 Abercorn St. $15 912-344-2801. armstrongboxoffice@georgiasouthern.edu
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Celebrate 20 years of Moon River with $2 beer from 4-7 pm, a tapping of the Little Chocolate Donuts porter, live music by City Hotel, and birthday cake. 4 p.m. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St.
The Piano Men
3 powerhouse pianists and singers along with band pay tribute to Billy Joel, Elton John, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Lee Lewis and many more. Wed. & Fri. 8 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. $39 adults, $19.50 child savannahtheatre.com
Plein Air Art Sale
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Moon River’s 20th Anniversary
Ever wish you could re-do prom? Dressing up, the lights, the music...the magic? Savannah, get ready for an evening more magical than any dance you’ve attended before. Get dolled up in your dresses, your house-color ties, or even your house robe. 9 p.m. Ghost Coast Distillery, 641 Indian St. $15-$30
Visit the Savannah Art Association’s Gallery on Chippewa to view paintings from their Paint Out Savannah Plein Air participant. A percentage of proceeds will go towards funding this event in 2020. April 5-23 Savannah Art Association Gallery, 232 Bull Street. 912-232-7731.
Savannah Music Festival: Pat Metheny Side Eye with James Francis and Nate Smith
In his SMF debut, renowned jazz guitarist Pat Metheny presents the first edition of “Side Eye,” a new playing environment that allows him to feature a rotating cast of up-and-coming musicians. 8 p.m. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. $35-$65 savannahmusicfestival.org/event/patmetheny-side-eye-with-james-franciesnate-smith/
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SCADstyle
SCADstyle is an annual gathering where international design luminaries and influencers share their expertise with the next generations of creators, artists and visionaries. April 9-11 SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. scad.edu/scadstyle2019
THURSDAY 4.11 Film: The Graduate
It’s the 52nd anniversary of Mrs. Robinson’s scandalicious seduction of disillusioned college grad Benjamin Braddock in the cozy confines of a postWorld War II world. 7 p.m. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne. $10
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres-and she’s wrecking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. Thurs.-Sat. 7:30 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. Armstrong Campus, Georgia Southern University, 11935 Abercorn St. $15 912-344-2801. armstrongboxoffice@georgiasouthern.edu
Steve Oney Talk and Book Signing
Written over a 40-year period, the stories bring to life the famous, the brilliant, the tortured, and the unknown. 7 p.m. The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St.
Union Mission’s Lunch n’ Learn
Discuss ways in which we can make a difference in the lives of those affected by homelessness. 11:30 a.m. Union Mission, 120 Fahm St.
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Dance: Cinderella
See the talented dancers of SAA’s Dance Department tell the beloved tale of this wonderful Disney classic. Fri. 7 p.m., Sat. 2 & 7 p.m, Sun. 7 p.m. Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington Ave. $15 adult, $10 student
Odd Lot Improv: Friday Funnies
An improv comedy show in the style of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” 8 p.m. The Loft on Liberty, 215 W. Liberty St. $10 oddlotimprov@gmail.com. oddlot.lol
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
This low-budget freak show/cult classic/
cultural institution is about the misadventures of Brad Majors and Janet Weiss as they spend the night in the gothic castle of the cross-dressing alien Dr. Frank-NFurter (Tim Curry) and his Transylvanian posse. 8 p.m. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne. $10 912-472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater.org
Savannah Cultural Arts Center Grand Opening A ribbon-cutting ceremony and the theater dedication in honor of Ben Tucker will take place Friday. The grand opening will include live performances from local arts organizations, artist demonstrations and hands-on art sessions. Fri. 5 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. Savannah Cultural Arts Center, Corner of MLK and Oglethorpe Streets.
Savannah Music Festival: Jeff Tweedy
Jeff Tweedy is one of the most accomplished songwriters and performers in contemporary American music. 8 p.m. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $37-$80 savannahmusicfestival.org/event/ jeff-tweedy/
Wizard Prom
Get ready for an evening more magical than any dance you’ve attended before. Get dolled up in your dresses, your housecolor ties, or even your house robe. 9 p.m. Ghost Coast Distillery, 641 Indian St. $15-$30
SATURDAY 4.13 Braxton Calhoun
Springfield native Braxton Calhoun returns to the Mars. 7 p.m. Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. $20
Choosing to Lead Conference
New in 2019, One Hundred Miles will have 15 interactive workshops, including one track entirely geared towards student leaders. April 13-14 Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, 1 International Dr.
Contra Dance
Come join in the fun of contra and squares and a couple of waltzes in a friendly and alcohol free setting. 7:30 p.m. Garden City United Methodist Church, 62 Varnedoe Ave.
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Forsyth Farmers Market
Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Forsyth Park
Front Porch Improv: Best Movie Ever!
Best Movie Ever creates a movie on the spot using audience’s suggestions. We’ll have moving plots, endearing characters and diabolical villains. 8 p.m. The Pop Up Playhouse, 1401 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. $10 frontporchimprov.com
Islands Farmers’ Market
The Island Farmers’ Market is held every Saturday rain or shine. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Lighthouse Baptist Church, 401 Quarterman Dr. Free islandsfarmersmarket@gmail.com.
New Yoga Now Beer and Pizza Pop Up
New Yoga Now will be taking over Service Brewing’s production. $10 gets you a 60min Signature Yoga class with 100% of the proceeds benefiting For the Love of Paws. Big Bon will serve pizzas out front. 4 p.m. Service Brewing Company, 574 Indian Street.
Odd Lot Improv: Saturday Shenanigans
An improv comedy show in the style of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Followed by long form comedy. 8 p.m. The Loft on Liberty, 215 W. Liberty St. $10 oddlotimprov@gmail.com. oddlot.lol
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This popular classic rock band is celebrating its 30th anniversary 30 years since coming together under the name Ajna in 1979. 8 p.m. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne. $15 912-472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater.org
Savannah Art Walk
Explore Savannah’s historic downtown by visiting artists and galleries every second Saturday. second Saturday of every month Hyatt Regency Savannah, 2 West Bay St. savannahartwalk.com
Savannah for Morons: The Trolley Tour
The tour is hosted by Danny and Johnny Moron, two local actors, comedians, and history buffs. 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. Visitor’s Information Center, 301 MLK Jr. Blvd. $33 savannahformorons.com
Savannah Police Department Easter Egg Hunt Grab a basket and hunt for thousands of eggs. Gold eggs will be redeemable for prizes. 11 a.m. Nathaniel Green Park, 56th and Bull.
Steve Mingolla
You may recognize Steve Mingolla from numerous television commercial, or syndicated radio shows. 8 p.m. Bay Street Theatre, 1 Jefferson St. savannahcomedyrevue.com
Tony Arata and Tim Stafford
For this performance Tony will be joined by his longtime friend, Tim Stafford, who is widely known for his stellar guitar work. 8 p.m. Randy Wood Guitars, 1304 East Hwy. 80. $48 912-748-1930. randywoodmusic.com
SUNDAY 4.14 Frank Harmon
Frank Harmon, FAIA, of Raleigh, NC, will discuss his new book “Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See.” 1 p.m. E. Shaver, Bookseller, 326 Bull Street. Free and open to the public
Herstory: Historical Women of Savannah Walking Tour
Massie Heritage Center will host a walking tour for families to celebrate the famous women of Savannah. 4:30 p.m. Massie Heritage Center, 207 East Gordon St. $15 per person, $30 per family massieschool.com April 5-23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
MONDAY 4.15 My Country ‘Tis of Thee by the US Air Force Academy Band
The United States Air Force Academy Band presents “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.” Free tickets are available at the Civic Center Box Office. Doors open at 6 pm. 7 p.m. Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. Free
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Pulaski makes news, 240 years later BY JIM MOREKIS
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IN A TOWN where it’s sometimes assumed that our history is static and boring —or just for tourists — it’s nice when a new twist is discovered, and we see why studying history is anything but boring. The recent discovery that the great Revolutionary War hero and Savannah icon Casimir Pulaski was potentially either intersex or born a biological woman has stirred a lot of interest locally. Technically, this information has been floating around for awhile. But recent DNA confirmation has cemented the research, conducted in part by scholars at Georgia Southern University. The Smithsonian Channel debuted its “America’s Hidden Stories” documentary, “The General Was Female?” on the subject this week. National and international news outlets from the New York Times to the BBC have covered the story. For those who don’t know, Casimir Pulaski was a Polish aristocrat who became deeply motivated to help fight for American colonial independence.
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An inspiring military commander, Pulaski’s small stature was no deterrence to his physical courage in battle — a noble trait which eventually cost him his life. (Some might differ with my use of the masculine pronoun. But we don’t know the medical facts yet for sure, and in any case Pulaski himself identified fully as a male.) Credited with saving Gen. George Washington’s life at the Battle of Brandywine, Pulaski would later come to Savannah, where he was mortally wounded in the failed effort to retake the city from the British in 1779. I recently learned that an ancestor of mine fought with a South Carolina regiment during the Siege of Savannah, which is a real honor. Of course, his name would later grace our Ft. Pulaski itself, which was constructed by Robert E. Lee while serving in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers prior to switching sides in the Civil War. Pulaski made quite a name for himself all over America, and he’s commemorated up and down the East Coast, as well as in his native Poland. In any case, it’s exciting to see a new chapter of Savannah history being written about one of our most admired local heroes, and perhaps talked about by our local tour guides.
And in this case it might even be true! If you’re like me, you have overheard some of the most ridiculous and blatant falsehoods said by local tour guides, for the benefit of tourists who naturally assume it’s all true because the guide said so. One time I overheard a carriage driver tell their hapless guests that The President’s Quarters inn is called that “because Abraham Lincoln once stayed there.” Nope. He didn’t. (And our Lincoln Street isn’t named for Honest Abe either.) Not long ago I was driving beside a tour trolley and overheard the driver tell his gullible passengers, “Savannah is the second planned city in the U.S. after Levittown, Pennsylvania.” Levittown was built in the 1950s — over 200 years after Oglethorpe founded Savannah. It was all I could do to keep from yelling at the trolley driver out of my car window. And don’t get me started on the ghost stories. How wonderful then, to have such interesting —and apparently true! — news to report about one of the most exciting and pivotal chapters in Savannah, and American, history. It’s definitely not boring! CS
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Editor, Important decisions are often dominated by opportunistic pursuit of “easy money” at the expense of longer-term economic benefits, not to mention human health and quality-of-life. At the heart of this problem is an over-simplistic, readily contradicted assumption that, whatever the circumstances, profitable job-creating schemes must proceed unimpeded, making all other factors secondary. Consequences neglected by these practices impose ever-growing threats to nation interest. Hidden within this approach is the fiercely defended fantasy that markets are “free” and self-regulating. Contrary to that sacrosanct tenet, it’s clear that the costs of goods and services have long been
at the mercy of public policies that decide what activities are favored in policy – such as oil-industry tax credits, or allowing pollution and other destructive impacts to become public costs. For instance, when fossilfuel activities contaminate water resources, if protecting and restoring water-quality isn’t included in the profitmaker’s obligations, the “market’ is inherently distorted by the arbitrary exclusion of those responsibilities. Accordingly, market prices of related products are discounted by the value of exempted impacts, and a significant portion of business activities are covertly shifted onto unwary taxpayers. Similarly, creating jobs as if all employment has comparable benefits and costs often imposes unfair burdens on society. Consider the environmental consequences of a
job in the solar-power industry compared with working at a fracking operation. Given the scientifically verified consequences of fracking and the combustion of fossilfuels, important distinctions between these alternatives are self-evident. Yet U.S. policies favor all jobs equally. Recently, tariffs have been reintroduced into the arsenal of U.S. market-manipulating policy devices. Tariffs are explicitly intended to “correct” alleged impacts of global markets on American interests. However, tariffs are now imposing self-abusive market distortions that handicap certain domestic industries while attempting to help others. Tariffs also create incentives for penalized trading partners to seek alliances with other nations – weakening long-term American economic prospects. Responsible economic goals
must be tempered by insightful understanding of market dysfunctions and unwanted outcomes caused by public policy. Economic prospects are worsened by imprudent economic policies incorporating inept provisions that encourage reckless profit-making pursuits. Environmental quality and public health are also degraded. Compounding these negligent, misunderstood policies are dire warnings in recent reports on climate change. Unless U.S. policies ensure crucial and timely priority to reducing greenhouse gases, irresponsible economic and trade practices will sabotage vital environmental functions that are essential to our quality of life, indeed our very survival. David Kyler, Executive Director, Center for a Sustainable Coast, St. Simons Island
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BY JASON COMBS FIRST, a confession: I have not read all of the current draft of NewZO (titled “Final” — but we’ll see). However, I do have all of it printed out and in a binder on my desk, and I will probably, eventually, read all of it. Or at least skim it. Sane citizens will not be interested in reading through the whole thing. So, let’s take a quick look at NewZO (www.newzo. org ) as most Savannah citizens might — using it to figure out how to achieve a particular outcome. Here’s a hypothetical: let’s say I’m a renter looking to buy my first house, and I’ve been looking into “house-hacking” on BiggerPockets.com. Typically, this means finding a way to rent out part of the property that is my primary residence, in order to stretch my buying power, or just to lower my cost of living. In this hypothetical, I’ve decided an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU, defined below) is the way I want to go. So, I want to find a property that already has an ADU, or where I’ll be allowed to build one. Actually, the idea of building one new appeals to me. Where to start? In the case of ADUs, I’m lucky. At the bottom of the Contents page of NewZO’s Executive Summary, there it is, conspicuously: “Accessory Dwellings… 33”. So, this should hopefully tell me how the treatment of ADUs might have changed between zoning codes. (Life tip: ALWAYS read the Executive Summary.) On page 33 I find this: ACCESSORY DWELLINGS NewZO provides new flexibility for developers and property owners to construct accessory dwelling units — ADUs (also known as garage apartments or carriage houses). ADUs are newly permitted in singlefamily districts, but only on lots at least 200% of the minimum lot area required for the district. In practice, this confines ADUs to a limited range of locations in these districts. Other considerations: • ADUs are limited to 400-600 square feet and may contain no more than 1 bedroom. • Located 10 feet from the principal dwelling.
• They must be built in an architectural style consistent with the principal dwelling. • They must share electrical and sewer service with the principal dwelling. The 200% standard does not apply in TC-, TN-, D-, and R-1 districts — collectively the more historic portions of the city — where ADUs are well-established as a common housing type. See 8.7.4 for further details. That doesn’t seem too onerous, at least not for the more historic portions of the city, which is where I want to buy anyway. So I follow the bread crumbs to 8.7.4. This refers to the main body of NewZO, Article 8.0 – Use Standards. Sec. 8.7 concerns itself with “Accessory Structures and Uses.” Further, sub-section 8.7.4 is labeled ““Accessory Dwelling Units.” This sub-section is a page long, and basically says the same thing about ADUs that the Executive Summary did, but in more detail. Where new information is to be found is a bit non-intuitive, having been directed straight to sub-section 8.7.4. The user needs to back up and read the section headers 8.7.1 —Purpose, and 8.7.2 — Generally. Another tip – always read section headers like this. Here we learn that “all accessory structures and uses shall be consistent with all standards of the base zoning district (Article 5.0), any applicable overlay district
(Article 7.0), and any applicable use standards (Article 8.0).” More bread crumbs — I’ll take them in order. First, I’ve decided on a target area: Thomas Square/Metropolitan. I like what’s happening here, and I think I’ve heard that I’m allowed to have a short-term vacation rental (STVR) in my ADU. So, looking at the Zoning Map for this area, I’m going to concentrate on the Traditional Residential (TR-) zoning districts, which takes me to Sec. 5.12. Here I find two references to “Accessory Structures.” Both tell me to go back to Sec. 8.7. No news is good news — there seem to be no exceptions attached to this zoning district in regards to ADUs that I need to worry about. However, the next bread crumb points me towards Article 7.0 — Overlays. Again, this part of the search is not so intuitive or clear. If I don’t know how to use the online map functions, turning overlays on and off, I basically have to skim Article 7.0 to see what overlays might apply. Sec. 7.5 is the Short-term Vacation Rental Overlay District. Yes, I’m definitely interested in this. 7.5.6 tells me that in the TN-2 district, I can use an ADU as an STVR, as long as I own and live in the primary dwelling unit, and as long as I’m inside the Streetcar
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Historic Overlay District. Cool — another bread crumb. Sec. 7.11 is that Streetcar Historic Overlay District. From the included map I see that this newly named overlay (basically taking the place of “MidCity” and bringing it into geographical conformity with the Thomas Square Streetcar National Historic District) is right where I already wanted to be. Awesome. I should probably read this whole section. Very importantly, sub-section 7.11.5 informs me that I might need a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) “prior to the commencement of certain work” – like building an ADU perhaps? I am referred to Section 3.18 to find out. Yes, another bread crumb. Article 3.0 is Application and Review Procedures. And, yes – Sec. 3.18 “COA for Local Historic Districts and Local Historic Properties” tells me that I DO need a COA to build a new ADU in my target area. 3.18 also tells me how to get that COA. Seems to not be too arduous a process, as long as I don’t plan on my ADU straying from the surrounding architectural norms. That’s it. I’ve found all the info in NewZO needed to assure I find a property that suites my “house-hacking” plans. It was a little bit of a journey, but I deliberately added complicating factors like a historic district and STVR considerations. Printing out everything in NewZO that I thought was directly applicable to this “ADU hunt,” I came away with 38 pages of material. Like a choose-your-own-adventure, I hopped back and forth between articles and sections, but the instructions about where to go to next were fairly clear. I didn’t get lost, but then again I’m also already fairly comfortable with a zoning code. Not sure it would have been so easy for you? I have good news – “enCodePlus.” This is “a cloud-based code publishing and content management system” that the City plans to employ concurrent with the adoption of NewZO. The service promises to provide online tools that will make the search I did above basically automatic – plug in an address or a term like “ADU”, and it will bring up all sections of NewZO that are applicable. Good stuff. By the way, I chose an “ADU hunt” as my hypothetical because I believe that ADUs are very important. They are an organic and traditional way to increase housing stock and affordability, both for the owner of the primary dwelling, and the renter of the modest ADU. The City should be doing whatever it can to promote their proliferation. Therefore, I humbly suggest to MPC and City staff that before NewZO is adopted, please remove the requirement that ADUs
not have their own electric meter. I say this as a fairly experienced landlord. I’d rather the tenant see and pay that highly variable bill, and have an incentive to conserve, than for it to be included in the rent. Back to NewZO itself. Number one: NewZO is definitely better organized and easier to use than the code the City has been agglomerating onto since 1960. Over and over, the Executive Summary points out how NewZO has brought increased simplicity and clarity, and that these qualities will bring increased understanding and predictability for the user. I believe this to be true. It’s still not a simple document, but it’s a huge improvement. Second, as demonstrated with ADUs, there has been a general reconsideration of what uses might be appropriate in what districts. Generally, NewZO is a bit more permissive. In particular, there is a recognition and accommodation of the rising Maker Culture. As the Executive Summary points out, new use categories have been created to “…better reflect the low impact of artisan or craft production. While still a limited use, small-scale production is newly permitted in a range of districts…” Will this help manufacturing start-ups to get going? It should certainly make it easier. Increased permissiveness and clarity should lead to a decrease in the need for variances and text amendments. And when accommodation is needed for larger projects (rather than adjustments for little things), NewZO has created a new standard for Planned Developments (PDs). Let’s just call this what it is. It’s “negotiated zoning.” I think it’s better to be honest about it than to obfuscate that fact. No zoning code can anticipate everything. For special projects there should be special exceptions. The good thing about a PD is that it “quarantines” the exceptions. They do not become a part of the larger code, as they would with a text amendment. They stay with the individual project, wrapped up in a PD bow. There’s plenty more I’d like to point out in NewZO — reduction of nonconformities, easier ways to meet parking requirements, codified neighborhood engagement, mixed-use allowed by right in commercial districts, a new Historic Preservation Commission for areas outside the Landmark District — and maybe I will in another column. OR, you could just read the Executive Summary for yourself! Let me say this:It’s not perfect, but it is a hell of an improvement. I urge readers to support the longawaited passage of NewZO!! (As long as they get rid of that separate electric meter thing for ADUs). CS
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National Library Week is here!
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José Lucio brings funfilled program to area libraries BY RACHAEL FLORA
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BY THE TIME you read this, we’ll be right in the middle of National Library Week. From April 7 through 13, we celebrate our libraries and the services they provide our communities. One of the services Live Oak Public Libraries offers our community is programs like Stories and Sketches, the fun, free program led by children’s book author and illustrator José Lucio. For the rest of the month, Lucio will visit libraries in the area on a rotating basis for an hour-long program full of drawing and reading. Lucio’s latest book, “Morty and the Moon,” is his third. “Primarily, I’m an illustrator, so I use the term ‘author’ very loosely,” laughs Lucio. “People are like, ‘Oh, you’re an author!’ And I’m like, well, as long as I’m writing for five year olds!” Through the process of writing three books, Lucio has honed the art of writing to children. “Honestly, kids are going to let you know. If your book sucks, they’ll let you know,” he shares. “They don’t pull any punches! I do bump into other people at festivals and I think, in a general sort of way, people have this mindset of, ‘Oh, I’m older than kids, I know more than they do, so therefore, of course I can write to them. It’s not just that. It’s psychology, it’s tactic, it’s engagement. You have to think about how it’s going to hit them and how they’ll react to it. I got lucky with my first book. It has all those elements locked into it, like the kids really get into it. There’s a lot of call and response opportunity—I got lucky there. I’m becoming more aware of being in this world, existing in this children’s book world and thinking about these things, ‘Okay, why did that work? Will that still work or was that just a passing fad?’ For Stories and Sketches, Lucio will read two books and have a drawing project focused on the basics of drawing. “I don’t want them to just draw a thing. 12 I want them to understand, to look at
things and figure them out for themselves,” says Lucio. “The core of that is just drawing with shapes. There’s always the kid—or multiple kids—who are like, ‘I can’t do it! I’m not good enough.’ So I’m, like, ‘Can you draw a circle? Can you draw a triangle? Can you draw a square?’ And they can, by that point. Then I tell them it’s like using Legos. You have to start with one piece. You can make this magical, fantastical castle in the end, but you have to start with one block.” Depending on the crowd at each event, Lucio will tailor the program for different
ages. “With the little kids, we juts focused on reading and drawing, but I think there’ll be a broader age range,” he says. “So kids up to 12, we’ll try to open it up to more about me as a professional and how they can attain their goals. This is very accessible, just the way this drawing is, even though it may seem difficult.” Libraries are important to Lucio, so taking part in events like brings it all back full circle. “I think it’s important that libraries do these kinds of programs because I know
there are kids that can get left out of that, unless the library is reaching out to them,” says Lucio. “I’m from a working class town, and my mom was always working. We weren’t taken regularly to the library for those things, so much later, when I was older and discovered the library, I was like, ‘There’s so much cool stuff in here!’ But without that prompt from someone to say, ‘Hey, come check this out,’ and then not to just be like, ‘You’re in the library—shh!’” CS For a full listing of Stories and Sketches’ times, visit liveoakpl.org/events/stories-sketches.
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Choosing to Lead: One Hundred Miles brings annual conference to Savannah BY JIM MOREKIS
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THE regional environmental group One Hundred Miles — named for the length of Georgia’s coastline — holds a groundbreaking conference this weekend. “Choosing to Lead,” at the Savannah Trade & Convention Center, will bring together a wide variety of coastal advocates from many different pursuits and perspectives. It’s all part of One Hundred Miles unique, holistic vision for how best to protect those precious 100 miles. It’s the organization’s third annual conference, but the first up here in Savannah — the first two were held on Jekyll Island, closer to the group’s HQ in Brunswick. “We wanted to hold it in Savannah because we’re a coastwide organization. We wanted to give opportunities for advocates of the coast from one end to the other,” says Catherine Ridley, One Hundred Miles’ Vice President of Education and Communications. Unlike many such continuing education events, “Our conference isn’t geared to any specific profession. Everyone who lives on our coast has a vote in how to conserve it. That includes volunteers at cleanups, it
includes artist and writers, it includes educators,” she says. “We want to broaden the tent of what it means to be an environmentalist. Sometimes it can be divisive. We want to include the hunters and fishermen as well. Not every environmentalist has to have binoculars and khaki pants and be looking at birds — but there’s nothing wrong with that either!” Ridley laughs. “There’s room for everyone at 100 Miles. We encourage people to find the opportunity that fits them. Not everyone is comfortable attending meetings and hearings,” she says. For example, Ridley notes the current focus on controlling single-use plastics is part of a larger effort to spread awareness. “Plastics are a gateway to larger conversations, with city planners and elected and appointed officials. Then you can discuss larger issues like sea level rise and climate change,” Ridley says. The format of the weekend event is simple. “It’s a full day of skill building on Saturday, and then the field trips on Sunday are the opportunity to take what you learned the day before and launch it back into the world.” Ridley points to the success of a new bill in the Georgia legislature involving the
state’s oyster crop as “a great example of how we regulate the coast – or choose not to regulate it.” To some, the oyster aquaculture bill is a long overdue effort to reboot the state’s long-dormant oystering tradition, while to others it is regulatory overreach that will hamstring competititon with South Carolina and Florida. Guest speakers on Saturday include lunchtime keynote speaker Paul Greenberg, author of ‘Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food.’ “He chronicles in a relatable way the future of the fishing industry through the perspective of four different species,” Ridley says. The closing speaker is Angelou Ezello. “She is CEO of an Atlanta organization called the Greening Youth Foundation. They’re charged with providing access to nature for underrepresented young people who might not otherwise get those opportunities,” Ridley says. CS
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NEWS & OPINION BLOTTER 2019 Sav/Chatham County Crime Stats through Sunday April 7
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HOMICIDES Chatham County Police make arrests in Ogeechee Road homicide
The Chatham County Police Department has two suspects in custody related to the homicide of Bhikhubhai Patel at the Stallion Motel. Emanuel Harvey and Alexis Brown were both apprehended in McDuffie County, GA. Emanuel Harvey was taken into custody on Tuesday by the US Marshall Southeast Fugitive Task Force on an unrelated warrant. Alexis Brown was taken into custody with the assistance of the McDuffie County Sheriff’s Office. Both suspects have been charged with one count of Felony Murder. Officers were called to The Stallion Motel at 4009 Ogeechee Road around 5:30
p.m. on March 31st where they found the deceased Bhikhubhai Patel. The investigation is still ongoing.
Murder-suicide suspected in Southbridge area deaths
Chatham County Police released the names of two people found deceased in a home around noon on Monday, April 1. Police have identified the deceased as 74-year-old Thomas Burnett and 78-yearold Susan Burnett. “Police were called to do a welfare check at a home on Myrtlewood Drive on April 1, 2019. Upon entering the home, Alexis Brown police found two residents deceased. Preliminary findings indicated the deaths were the result of a murdersuicide,” police report.
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Savannah Police’s Traffic Investigation Unit is investigating a pedestrian-involved crash that resulted in serious injuries to the pedestrian.
Crash scene on Dean Forest.
“Around 6 p.m. April 2, officers responded to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at W. Bryan Street for a pedestrian-involved crash. A preliminary investigation revealed that Randolph Bartlett, 32, who was traveling in a 2010 Honda Fit, was making a left turn from W. Bryan Street onto southbound MLK Boulevard when his vehicle struck Diane Parham, 62, who was crossing MLK Boulevard from east to west. Officers continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident,” police report. Parham was transported to Memorial Medical Center with serious injuries.
Dean Forest crash injures driver
Savannah Police investigate a two-vehicle crash that resulted in serious injuries for a Savannah teen. “Around 6:45 a.m. Alyssa Strickling, 17, was driving a 2009 Hyundai Accent southbound in the left lane of Dean Forest Road approaching Pine Meadow Drive. At the same time, Josue Quiles, 50, who was traveling in a 2000 Freightliner with a fully loaded container trailer, made a left turn across Dean Forest Road in an attempt to travel north,” police say. Strickling was unable to avoid striking the rear tandems of the trailer. She was transported to Memorial Medical Center with serious injuries. Quiles was not injured in the incident. CS
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Rogers, Arkansas, neighbors Charles Eugene Ferris, 50, and Christopher Hicks, 36, were hanging out on Ferris’ back porch on March 31, drinking and enjoying the spring air. Ferris was wearing his bulletproof vest -- because why not? -- and invited Hicks to shoot him with a .22-caliber semi-automatic rifle. KFSM reported the vest blocked the bullet from striking Ferris, but it still hurt and left a red mark on his upper chest. Next, Hicks donned the vest and Ferris “unloaded the clip into Christopher’s back,” according to the police report, also leaving bruises. That’s where it all would have ended had Ferris not gone to the hospital, where staff alerted the Benton County Sheriff’s Office. Ferris initially told officers an elaborate story about being shot while protecting “an asset” in a dramatic gunfight, but Ferris’ wife spilled the beans about the backporch challenge. Both men were arrested for suspicion of aggravated assault.
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In downtown Borrego Springs, California, a curious sign tops a 5-foot-tall post in front of the Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association gift shop: “This Post Not Currently In Use.” Mike McElhatton, the association’s education director, told The San Diego Union Tribune: “When I started working (here) I saw this post that ... had obviously been there for a long time. At first I just wondered what in the heck was the post for and then I got the idea to put a sign on it.” McElhatton seemed disappointed with the response, though: “Amazingly, we don’t get a whole lot of comment about it. I’ve seen people walk up and they just look at the sign and they just keep going.”
Why Not?
Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, tried a new venue for staging an opera on March 30 and 31: underwater. “Breathe: A Multidisciplinary Water Opera” featured dancers, percussionists, singers, a flute and other orchestra instruments -- some above water, some below. Composer and musical director Loren Kiyoshi Dempster told WLUK TV he was skeptical at first. “It’s been kind of one of the great surprises of my life that you could play cello underwater,” he said. A device used by marine biologists to record underwater sounds delivered the music above the surface for audience members.
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On March 29, in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, an off-duty police officer was enjoying a nice sauna when he noticed that another man in the sauna was a fugitive wanted for aggravated assault, among other offenses. They recognized each other, police spokesperson Carina Skagerlind told the Associated Press, and “the naked police officer calmly told the man that he should consider himself arrested.” The officer called for backup, and “the arrest was undramatic,” she added.
Oops!
-- Harris County (Texas) Civil Court Judge Bill McLeod, who was sworn in last November, accidentally resigned on April 1, but it wasn’t an April Fools’ joke. Reuters reported that McLeod shared his plan online to run for the state supreme court without realizing that such an announcement amounts to a resignation, according to the state’s constitution. McLeod himself did not comment on the gaffe, but county commissioners may be able to keep him in office until a special election can be held.
-- Detroit police say they can’t confirm what made an unnamed 50-year-old man shoot himself in the foot on March 19, but rumor has it that he was aiming for something entirely different. WDIV TV reported that the man, who uses a wheelchair, was trying to kill a cockroach by throwing his shoe at it; the shoe contained his handgun, and it fell out of the shoe and discharged, striking his foot. Police said the man was in stable condition after the incident.
Least Competent Criminals
Who has time to bother with long lines and bureaucracy at the driver’s license office? Not Mr. Tang of Liuzhou, China, who was pulled over for a routine check as he rode his silver motorcycle on March 31. Tang was happy to produce his license, carried in the customary cover, reported Oddity Central. But when officers examined it, they realized it was homemade. “He behaved very calmly as he took out the license,” a traffic police officer said. “But I was shocked when I saw what was inside.” Tang had simply written all the pertinent information found on a standard driver’s license on a piece of lined notebook paper, then glued a photo of himself to the paper. When pressed for an explanation, Tang said he was too lazy to study for the license exam and didn’t want to spend the money on driving classes. He thought a handwritten license would be better than nothing at all. “I didn’t expect the traffic police to be so serious,” Tang said. • Where others see innocent little girls raising money for educational programs, some see an opportunity to pad their bank account. So it went for Brian Couture, 40, of Forest Grove, Oregon, who is accused of going to elaborate lengths to skim more than $700 of Girl Scout cookie
money from his daughter. Forest Grove police responded to a 911 call at Couture’s home on March 6, where the man said an intruder had entered his home and struggled with him. When police arrived, according to KPTV, Couture was “unresponsive” and was taken to the hospital with undisclosed injuries, while K9 units set out to look for the thief around the neighborhood, alarming residents. Police said Couture later admitted to investigators that he had staged the whole thing, but at his hearing on March 29, he pleaded not guilty to initiating a false report. The money, according to a Girl Scouts spokeswoman, is still unaccounted for.
High School High Jinks
At Secaucus High School in New Jersey, two freshman boys received charges of computer criminal activity and conspiracy to commit computer criminal activity -instead of extra credit points -- after they crashed the school’s Wi-Fi network on several occasions to avoid having to take exams, authorities announced April 1. NJ.com reported that investigators believe the boys took requests from other students to jam the signals during specific times. “I was surprised on how a kid our age, or close to our age, was able to do something like this,” commented one 10th-grader. She said arresting them seemed a little heavy-handed: “They are messing with people’s education, but they aren’t harming anyone.” Superintendent Jennifer Montesano said the “system has been restored and is now fully operational.” Back to the books, kids. CS ANDREW MCMEEL SYNDICATION
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Bloodshot, I was playing around Chicago for a while and playing in a bluegrass band. And before that I was doing other things in New York and North Carolina for a bit. But ROBBIE FULKS is still going strong. yeah, the first album under my own name Decades after starting out in Chicago and was through Bloodshot. What brought me eventually moving to Nashville to work back around to that about six years ago as a songwriter—where his solo career was that I had done a record and shopped it began—Fulks continues to make records around, and I don’t remember getting a ton and tour. His most recent output even of interest from other places. found him reuniting with the same team It also seemed like given the acoustic that he worked with in the earlier years of sound of the record, which wasn’t right in his solo endeavors. line with Bloodshot, the rawness of it and Ahead of his upcoming appearance at invarnishness of the musical presentation Savannah Music Festival on April 12 along- put it in their wheelhouse. side Robbie Gjersoe, we spoke to Fulks about his lengthy and incredible career. I’m a bit of an Albini geek, and he’s someone who’s known for a specific When you first started making solo sound. What do you think he brings to music, you worked with Steve Albini the table to your records that makes and released albums on Bloodshot you want to keep working with him? Records. Now, you’re back with Bloodshot and recording with Albini again. Fulks: He’s not shy about using any kind What made you kind of go full circle in of a strange setup, which for me means that way? playing in a room in a small circle a lot of the time. Little separation and a lot of Fulks: Before that first record came out on bleed - some engineers aren’t comfortable BY SEAN KELLY
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One of the first concerts I saw that knocked me out was in 1973 in Richmond. It was Earl Scruggs and his boys, and Doc Watson and his son, Merle. That concert really set a big piece of my musical life in motion. with that. And then I’ve done odder stuff with him, which involved throwing dishes across the room and more unusual, experimental things. He’s not shy about that either. He also brings a deep knowledge of electronics and recording setups and scenarios, so that he’s not easily thrown by anything. And beyond that, he’s a good friend of many years. So when I’m paying him, it’s a good chance to be around him for a couple days and chit chat. Let’s bring it back a little bit. Who were some of the people that made you want to play music, and what were your influences when you were coming up? Fulks: My dad and mom, because my family made music together. One of the first concerts I saw that knocked me out was in 1973 in Richmond. It was Earl Scruggs and his boys, and Doc Watson and his son, Merle. That concert really set a big piece of my musical life in motion. Other than that, probably nothing really surprising like The Beatles and Bob Dylan. But also a ton of under the radar R&B, 50s jazz, gospel, and old, weird folk music. I’m curious about your writing process, having done this for so long. Is it something that has evolved over the years? Your songs are often humorous as well - where did that come from? Fulks: The humor has been, in some ways, a sore point. It’s hard for people to kind of get past that there are two light hearted songs on a record. The other 10 are somehow tainted by two that have jokes and are whimsical [laughs]. I just don’t agree with that at all. The alleged funnys songs are just part of who I am because I like to be funny. I was raised on Mad Magazine and National Lampoon and SNL. As far as my process and how it’s changed - As little as 15 years ago, I was more inclined to think that a song was good if it had a sort of real world reference in mind. Now I almost kind of consciously try to sidestep that and sound more like myself. I think that’s more of a self-confidence problem than anything. For some
reason, it’s just very difficult when you’re creating something to think that it’s as worthy as something that’s like Citizen Kane or something, if you set that kind of a high standard for yourself. Looking back, I regret not having stepped away from that sooner. But my apprenticeship years were sort of extended, and I think it’s probably in the last 10 or 12 years that I’ve really started sounding like nothing else. Do you find that you’ve gravitated towards certain lyrical themes or similar subject matters in your songs over the years?
repeatedly. A lot of my songs are set in a very specific geographical place in the continental United States, and it’s often where I’ve lived on the east coast and Chicago. And if not that, it’s in places where I’ve worked and have a decent familiarity with. So I see a lot of the same geography come up. I’ve seen a lot of boyhood reflections come up in the last five or six years, which I think that I may have to deliberately move away from at some point before I bang that gong a little too insistently. But you know, that’s an old guy kind of thing I guess [laughs]. CS
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Anda Union brings singular sound, experience to Savannah Music Festival The unique and groundbreaking group of “musical gatherers” come to town
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FOR NEARLY two decades, Anda Union has been bringing the best of Mongolian musical traditions to the forefront in the modern world of the arts and blending it with the members’ own individual styles and backgrounds to create something truly singular. Known to describe themselves as “musical gatherers,” the band is truly a fusion of traditions from both Inner and Outer Mongolia. Their captivating sound is something manager Tim Pearce is intimately familiar with, as he’s spent the last 13 years with them while they travel all over the world with their critically-acclaimed work. “The Mongolians are actually made up of lots of different tribes,” Pearce tells Connect. “There are many different costumes and different clothing, and different music as well. Genghis Khan united the warring tribes - his tribe was Mongol, but he called everyone Mongol. They retained the own identities of their own tribes as well, however. Which I think is one of the reasons why there’s such a richness to the music.”
The members of Anda Union not only draw from their own tribes and histories for inspiration, but from other sources of Mongolian music as well. “There are a lot of Mongolians in Xinjiang, for example. Which is a Western province in China where the Uyghurs are the majority. A lot of great songs come from there, too,” Pearce says. Anda Union’s music has been wholly embraced throughout North America over the span of their career, allowing the group to tour regularly in our part of the world. Pearce attributes that, in part, to some cultural similarities. “America has a very strong culture of horses and outdoor spaces. That’s the Mongolian culture - it’s all about horses and all about the grasslands. When we’ve reached out to redneck cowboys in Kansas and in the prairies, they fall in love with the band. And the liberal arts centers couldn’t ever imagine these people coming through their doors,” he says with a laugh. “It’s interesting, that universality. Music does bridge all of these sort of political divides. We find that most places we go, we get a great reaction. But in America it’s fantastic. We were in New Mexico recently, which is interesting given the connection to Native American communities. It’s
always difficult to reach out to teenagers, but we find a lot of Native American kids who are quite suspicious of this stuff. So we always look to do as much work as we can with Native American communities as we travel.” Music is fairly ingrained in the Mongolian culture, as Pearce explains that it’s a culture with strong oral traditions. That means that music has been a central part of the lives of Anda Union’s many members. “All the stories and songs are passed down from generation to generation. They have a very strong sense that if one generation doesn’t pass those songs on, they’re gone. It’s not like they’re written down. So this music is just there, all the time,” he says. “The arts university in Hohhot, which is the capital of Inner Mongolia, has got a department which is now Anda Union’s department. They’re teaching kids to develop their own styles and keep this music going. They want young people to be involved. They’re teaching a degree course, and all the band are lecturers.” CS
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Angelique Kidjo @Lucas Theatre
Afrobeat superstar Angelique Kidjo’s first show here, in 2008, is still remembered fondly over a decade on, and was no doubt a major reason for the high degree of excitement and anticipation evident in the crowd at the Lucas Theatre this past Saturday night. Another reason for the anticipation was the nature of this particular concert: A song-by-song journey through Talking Heads’ seminal ‘Remain In Light’ album from 1980. It also doesn’t hurt that David Byrne’s own ‘American Utopia’ tour this past year — incorporating African and hiphop musicians and elements — has been riveting concert audiences and critics for months, with some calling it the greatest live show of all time. At age 58, Kidjo is ageless. Despite a very high-energy show, with lots of dancing and stage movement — and not just one but two jaunts through the entire downstairs audience — at no point was she ever even slightly out of breath. While Kidjo’s renditions of the Talking Heads tunes are sublime in and of themselves, subtly building on the Afropop elements Byrne is fond of, what made this show stand out is the fact that you really got a lot more than was marketed. ‘Remain In Light’ is a pretty short album, so to make this a full evening Kidjo also performs a wide variety of her own material, in which she is able to vocally shine much more completely than when interpreting Byrne’s lyrics. People will be talking for years about the show’s finale, in which Kidjo invited anyone in the audience to come onstage and dance. The urge to dance isn’t always easy to express at Savannah Music Festival shows. Kidjo slyly remarked on this early in the show, complimenting the crowd for their ability to dance while seated. By 45 minutes in, Kidjo expressly urged people to
stand and dance, and from that point on there was really no turning back. I wonder if it might be a good idea for the Music Festival to include in their wide variety of informational material a note that some shows might be more amenable to dancing than others. This would please both those who enjoy standing and dancing, as well as adequately prepare those who prefer to stay away from those situations. – Jim Morekis
Jerry Douglas @Morris Center
Dobro genius Jerry Douglas strolled onto the stage at the Charles H. Morris Center and won the crowd over before the show even began. With nothing but a vocal mic, a dobro mic, and a direct signal with effects, Douglas was off and running from note one and presented his incredible and inventive playing style in its most exposed form. It’d be a bold move for any player to do a mostly-instrumental set in an intimate setting with no band behind them, but the nuances of Douglas’ instrument made it a particularly daring endeavor. He morethan delivered, however - opening with a lengthy improvisational piece that made a very specific statement about what he was there to do. “A dobro is like a Kleenex,” Douglas joked early on, explaining the origins of the instrument and pointing out that he considers any instrument that looks like a dobro to be just that. He followed the history lesson with a tribute to his hero, dobro pioneer Josh Graves, and floored the crowd with a version of Tom Waits’ “2:19.” One of the show-stopping moments, in this reviewer’s opinion, was the incredible “Route Irish,” which displayed Douglas’ love of Celtic music and Irish culture - something he talked about a number of times throughout the performance. Overall, the 12:30 P.M. set proved to be more than just your typical solo
Scottish Ensemble/Andersson Dance PHOTO BY FRANK STEWART, COURTESY SMF
performance. It was truly a showcase of one of this country’s most brilliant players. – Sean Kelly
Scottish Ensemble/Andersson Dance ‘Goldberg Variations’ @Lucas Theatre
The Savannah Music Festival has made a point through the years of staying committed to interesting and unusual dance performances. Sometimes these performances are well attended, sometimes not so much – but that commitment has thankfully never wavered. Not only was last Thursday’s collaborative performance at the Lucas of the Scottish Ensemble and Andersson Dance troupe very well attended, the audience was treated to one of the most creative and delightful performances I’ve seen in any genre at the Festival in quite some time. Titled “ternary patterns for insomnia”, the performance interprets all 30 of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations in a modern/ contemporary dance style. But that sterile description doesn’t do justice to this wildly inventive and at times touching stage creation dating from a 2015 collaboration of the two groups. The key here is that the musicians of the Scottish Ensemble don’t just accompany the Andersson dancers – they share the stage and participate in movement throughout the show. Under the direction of the brilliant violinist Jonathan Morton, the 11 musicians – six violins, two violas, two cellos, and a bass – deliver a stunningly emotional yet extremely precise performance of the 30 Variations in order, while simultaneously being a component of the choreography and stage picture. Of course, the five dancers – three women, two men – of Sweden’s Andersson Dance provide the main movement. I was pleased that their joyful choreography avoided the unimaginative tropes of the worst examples of modern dance
– spending too much time on the floor, frequent fish-like flopping, etc. – and instead succinctly channeled happiness, whimsy, kineticism, eroticism, and sadness in a very human way and relatable way, as each Goldberg Variation indicated in turn. – Jim Morekis
Late Night Jam @Morris Center
One of the hottest nights of the Savannah Music Festival comes with the epic one-two punch of the Swing Central finale at the Lucas immediately followed by the Late Night Jam. It is the closest the Festival comes to a can’t-miss ticket. No disrespect to Swing Central, but arguably the real main event comes at 10 p.m. over at the Morris Center, as the great Georgia native and Music Festival staple Wycliffe Gordon presides over the Jam. Like a Jimi Hendrix of the trombone, Gordon is deeply soulful as well as skilled in coaxing an incredibly wide variety of alternative sounds from his horn. Gordon’s core ensemble this evening was pianist Chris Pattishall, bassist Rodney Whitaker, and drummer Bryan Carter — the latter of whom stepped out from behind the kit to sing Nat King Cole’s “Unforgettable.” For me, a truly unforgettable highlight came when the folks from the Swing Central performance made their way to the Morris Center to sit in. Thus came one of the golden moments the Music Festival is known for, as the matchless Marcus Roberts sat behind the keys, with Whitaker on bass and Gordon on horn, for an ocean-deep, quietly heartbreaking version of Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo.” The trio, sans percussion, eschewed any trope or gimmick in taking on this very familiar standard. In their hands, it was like hearing the tune for the first time. – Jim Morekis
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Angelique Kidjo PHOTO BY ELIZABETH LEITZELL, COURTESY SMF
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MUSIC INTERVIEW
The future is bright with Futurebirds Genre-bending rock band is a faithful friend to Savannah
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SINCE FORMING in 2008, Athens-based indie band Futurebirds has developed a loyal fanbase and released a consistent output of neo-psychedelic country-infused rock music. They’ve toured with the likes of Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, The Whigs, and Drive-By Truckers, and have garnered critical acclaim for their unique sound. Over a decade into their run, the band continues to tour - making Savannah a frequent stop, particularly over the last couple of years. Ahead of their upcoming gig at El Rocko Lounge on Thurs., April 11, we spoke to the band’s own Carter King on what brought them together and what the
past 10 years have been like. The Futurebirds sound is so unique and really not like much else out there at the moment. I’m curious as to how you this band got started and how you figured out what kind of band you wanted to be? King: We all started playing together in Athen a long time ago now. It was pretty organic - a few of us were working at a recording studio together and the rest of us would hang out in bars together. We had about six different bands going at the same time, all with a rotating cast of the same
musicians. They all sort of merged into one. It wasn’t a real thought out plan or anything, we were just sort of operating to the best of our abilities [laughs]. So what was the point where you went, “Oh, this sort of works. Let’s see how this goes”? King: [laughs] That’s sort of how it went! It was like, “Hey, we can keep doing this? We don’t have to get real jobs just yet? Cool.” Were there any bands in common that you all agreed on?
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King: There’s a lot of music that we had in common or that we discovered from hanging out, but everyone’s got their own interests and stuff that they like. So that’s where the middle ground comes from. For me, I was the youngest of three kids. My sister was a big Dead head, and would run away from home to see Grateful Dead shows. My brother was a classic rock guy, but was also discovering the country part of the Stones with Gram Parsons and all of that. My parents were into music like the Allman Brothers and soul music and stuff like that. So I just got the paint from everywhere, really. The cool thing about you guys is that it seems like the success has been this really organic growth process. How has the writing process evolved over the years as things move along and get bigger? King: It’s definitely evolved. Each record we’ve made has had sort of a different approach to it, and not always by design. A lot of times it’s out of necessity; where we are in life, how much money we’ve got in the bank, that sort of thing. Early on we were all living in Athens and there was a lot of hanging out and figuring shit out together.
There’s a lot of music that we had in common or that we discovered from hanging out, but everyone’s got their own interests and stuff that they like. So that’s where the middle ground comes from. We don’t live in the same town anymore, so it has to be more planned out now. We’ll get together and record demos for a couple weeks and hash it out. Everyone comes to the table with songs they’ve been working on, and they bring it to the band and we see what comes of them. Each song is it’s own story, but the record process has definitely evolved out of necessity. The record we’re working on now was recorded in a ton of different places on days off during tour. We’d be on tour and have friends in Charleston or Mississippi, and it’d work out where we’d have a few days during the week off. So we’d go and work on a couple songs when we had the time. So each record has definitely been different in its execution.
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How would you describe the new record, if you could sort of sum it up in its current form? King: Man, I think it’s some of the best stuff we’ve done. I think people are really going to love it. The songs themselves are maybe a little more contained sonically. It’s a little more focused. Some of them are our most fun and upbeat songs, but there’s also some of our maybe prettiest and weapiest on there, too. I don’t know if it’s so much different than what we’ve done before, but it’s maybe a better version of what we’ve been doing. CS
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MUSIC SPOTLIGHT
Good Times celebrates Duke Ellington with a week full of music
Dashill Smith joins a Trumpet Summit as part of Duke’s birthday bash BY SEAN KELLY
sean@connectsavannah.com
THE MUSIC of Duke Ellington is among the most celebrated in jazz history, so it’s no surprise that Good Times Jazz Bar & Restaurant would honor the legendary composer and band leader’s birthday in extravagant style. On April 12, the downtown jazz club will continue its celebratory series of summits and performances that not only acknowledge Ellington’s birth month but also highlight National Jazz Month. The April 12 Trumpet Summit is set to be a special one, featuring a group of renowned musicians who will perform together and include some of Ellington’s most cherished work. One of those players is Dashill Smith, a seasoned performer and composer who effortlessly blends jazz, hip hop, and soul with his own project The Omega Level. Smith, who will be joined by fellow trumpeters Kirk Lee, Ken Trimmins, and Ray Callender, spoke to us ahead of the show to talk all things jazz.
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How did you get into music, and specifically the trumpet?
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Smith: It’s kind of a funny little story. When I was a kid, I could play the piano by ear. I’m originally from Brooklyn, New York, and we picked up and moved down to the metro Atlanta area when I was about 10 going on 11. When we moved down here, unbeknownst to us, this is a real heavy area for pollen and stuff like that. I had asthma, so we’d go to doctors to try and get a handle on it. We had one doctor who suggested that I play a wind instrument. Wow! Smith: Yeah. So it just ended up that I took on the trumpet. It was by way of several different influences. My dad always loved trumpeters. I just kind of took to the horn and that was about it.
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Dashill Smith PHOTO BY DREW BURKE
Your own project kind of fuses all of these genres that really have pretty strong lines drawn between them already - jazz, soul, hip hop, and funk. Hip hop groups like A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, in particular, heavily sampled jazz and funk music. Did you always sort of see the parallels between those styles? How did you land on what you do now? Smith: It was all definitely a natural thing. Being a kid in the late 80s and early 90s, I was listening to De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Digable Planets. So it was really just kind of a natural gravitation towards jazz music. You’d look at the albums and the credits and think, “Hey, where does that horn line come from?” And it’s cool because then you discover that, for example, Q-Tip is a really big jazz guy. That really is his thing. Smith: Right, exactly. So all of those genres just started to become one to me. I just started studying what jazz, bebop, hard bop, and genres like that were about. I grew up rhyming, and was in musical
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theater as well. So all of those things just sort of culminated into me appreciating so many forms of music. What does this kind of event mean to you? Why is it important to celebrate Duke’s music and National Jazz Month? Smith: It’s definitely important because jazz was one of the first forms of music that was actually born in America. It has a special place in American culture, African American culture, and beyond. Because of the improvisational roots of jazz and the combination of influences from earlier classical forms, it has its own tree that branches into so many other later forms of music like pop music and the golden era of hip hop. It definitely was the popular music in this country, but its children have taken
over. So we need to understand why it’s still being played and why it’s still being taught. We also need to understand that jazz has taken on a different path as far as how it’s become important in certain academic realms, but it’s just as important to recognize that it comes from the streets. It comes from the streets, and it became intellectualized over so many years. The music itself is its most genuine when we understand those two links. When we start to understand that as a culture, then we understand the importance of taking something that general public doesn’t glorify and turning it into something brilliant and beautiful. CS
TRUMPET SUMMIT W/DASHILL SMITH, KEN TRIMMINS, RAY CALLENDER, KIRK LEE @GOOD TIMES JAZZ BAR & RESTAURANT Fri., April 12, 8 P.M.
MUSIC THE BAND PAGE
BY SEAN KELLY
ROCKET 77
FEVER BEAM @EL ROCKO LOUNGE
St. Petersburg, Florida’s Fever Beam is making waves so far with their blend of edgy and twangy rock and roll - a style the band members themselves describe as “cowpunk.” There are some serious cowpunk vibes, and that’s evident in the first single from their upcoming debut EP. The band has shared the stage with the likes of Dex Romweber and Gary Clark, Jr., and are currently touring the southeast in preparation for the forthcoming release. SAT., APRIL 13, 9 P.M.
ROCKET 77, JEFF TWO NAMES & THE BORN AGAINS, DIAL DRIVE @THE JINX
Political punk band Rocket 77 brings their high energy, impassioned show to The Jinx alongside local punk rock staples Jeff Two Names & the Born Agains and Orlandobased pop punk band Dial Drive. It’s the perfect night of punk in many forms, and is a bill you definitely won’t want to miss. FRI., APRIL 12, 8 P.M.
AKITA, MISNOMER @CONGRESS STREET SOCIAL CLUB
Charlotte-based funk band Akita is influenced by everyone from James Brown to The Meters to Bob Marley, and it shows in their eclectic and engaging sound. The six-piece group will be coming through town for a night of fun at Congress Street alongside Misnomer. If you like dancing and love solid songs, you won’t want to miss this one. SAT., APRIL 13, 10 P.M.
THE STEEL WOODS @BARRELHOUSE SOUTH
The Steel Woods offer up a unique brand of southern rock, taking equal influence from bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top as well as uniquely southern genres like gospel and R&B. The band tours relentlessly, but found time to record their sophomore album in Asheville and release it to critical acclaim. They certainly appear to be a band on the rise, and their Savannah stop will no doubt showcase that. SAT., APRIL 13, 9 P.M.
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MUSIC
WEDNESDAY 4.10
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LIVE MUSIC
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Barrelhouse South Ben Lewis, 9:30 p.m. Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band Bayou Cafe Ray Tomasino, 9 p.m. Boomy’s Blues Night w/ Ben Keiser, 9:30 p.m. El-Rocko Lounge Slow Caves, Bero Bero, Early Branch, 9 p.m. Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) Turtle Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Mitch Hennes Quartet, 7 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Jason Bible Jepson Center Country Music Documentary Preview, 7 p.m. Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m. Mansion on Forsyth Park George Evans, 7 p.m. Rachael’s : Sports • Food • Fun Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Bill Smith Trio, 6:30 p.m. Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m. The Sentient Bean Film: The Honeymoon Killers, 8 p.m. Southbound Brewing Company Boogaloo Bingo and DJ Miami, 7 p.m. Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Jubal Kane, 8 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Jason Courtenay, 6 p.m. The Wormhole Open Jam, 9 p.m.
TRIVIA & GAMES
The Chromatic Dragon Geeky Trivia Night, 8 p.m. Coach’s Corner Trivia
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Dub’s Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m. The Jinx Human Jukebox Trivia Game, 10 p.m. Service Brewing Company Trivia Night with Daniel, 6:30 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Bingo, 7 p.m., Tubby’s Bar Bingo, 7 p.m. World of Beer Trivia, 7 p.m.
Guerilla Toss, Red Sea, DIP @EL ROCKO LOUNGE
Art rock band Guerilla Toss are a brilliant blend of new wave, synth pop, punk and disco, and they’ll be bringing all of that with them to El Rocko on April 17 alongside Red Sea. Fans of The Slits will dig this band, and there’s certainly not another one like them around right now. WED., APRIL 17, 9 P.M., $13
KARAOKE
Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.
COMEDY
Stafford’s Public House Weird Wednesdays Open Mic Comedy, 9 p.m.
DJ
Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke
BAR & CLUB EVENTS
Two Tides Brewing Company Bring Your Own Vinyl Night, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY 4.11 LIVE MUSIC
Basil’s Pizza and Deli Jason Courtenay, 6:30 p.m. Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band Bayou Cafe Eric Culberson Band, 9 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt, 6 p.m. Cohen’s Retreat Munchies and Music, 5 p.m. Congress Street Social Club DJ Basik Lee El-Rocko Lounge Futurebirds, 9 p.m.
Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) Patrick Duckworth Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Randy Reese Quartet, 7 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Terry Lynn Davis Duo The Jinx Cut Throat Freak Show Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Open Mic The Perch at Local 11 ten Jason Salzer PS Tavern Live Music Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Gypsy Jazz, 7 p.m. River House Ford Natirboff Savannah Riverboat Cruises Willie Jackson and the Tybee Blues Band, 6 p.m. Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m. The Shrimp Factory Stan Ray Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Open Mic, 9 p.m. Top Deck James Lee Smith, 6:30 p.m. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Jason Bible, 6 p.m. Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Jon Lee’s Apparitions, 8 p.m.
Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, 7 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Brian Conley
TRIVIA & GAMES
McDonough’s Trivia, 7 p.m. Pour Larry’s Explicit Trivia, 10 p.m. Southbound Brewing Company Riddle Me This?, 7:30 p.m. Tybee Island Social Club Trivia, 7:30 p.m.
KARAOKE
Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Rusty Rudders Tap House Karaoke World of Beer Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Wormhole Karaoke, 9 p.m.
DJ
The Jinx Live DJ, 10 p.m. Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap
BAR & CLUB EVENTS
The Jinx Cut Throat Freak Show, 10 p.m. Stafford’s Public House Open Mic, 9 p.m.
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FRIDAY 4.12 LIVE MUSIC
Barrelhouse South Messer, Resinated, 9 p.m. Basil’s Pizza and Deli Phillip Wise, 7 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt, 6 p.m. Congress Street Social Club DJ Kut Daily El-Rocko Lounge Okey Dokey, Heavy Books, Ford Natirboff, 9 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Trumpet Summit w/ Dashill Smith, Ken Trimmins, Ray Callender, Kirk Lee, 8 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Kyle Yardley Band The Jinx Rocket 77, Jeff Two Names and the Born Agains, Dial Drive, 8 p.m. Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m. Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Stan Ray Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Sarah Poole Band Molly McGuire’s Outlaw Gypsy, 7 p.m. Pour Larry’s DJ & Live Music Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Jazz Trio, 6:30 p.m. River House Jacob Evans Rusty Rudders Tap House Gavin Herrington, 6 p.m. Ruth’s Chris Steak House David Duckworth, 8 p.m. Saddle Bags Johnathan McGuire, 8 p.m. Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m. Service Brewing Company Bluegrass By The Pint w/ City Hotel, 5:30 p.m. The Shrimp Factory Georgia Kyle
Taste of India Don Read, 6:30 p.m. Tijuana Flats Gary Strickland Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Draucker, 6 p.m. Vic’s on The River Diana Rogers, Claire Frazier and Steven Bryan, 7 p.m. The Warehouse Rachael Shaner, Paul Cleckler Wild Wing Cafe Ben Torres, Bill Hodgson, DJ Bil-E, 5 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe (Pooler) Chuck Courtenay The Wormhole Glass Mansions, 8:30 p.m., Lowcountry Oscillations Magnetic Bass: House Edition, 10:15 p.m.
TRIVIA & GAMES
PS Tavern Beer Pong Tournament, 10 p.m.
KARAOKE
Bay Street Blues Karaoke Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 9 p.m. Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/DJ, 10:30 p.m.
COMEDY
The Loft on Liberty Odd Lot Improv: Friday Funnies, 8 p.m.
DJ
Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap
BAR & CLUB EVENTS
Abe’s on Lincoln DJ Doc Ock The White Rabbit Lounge Underworld: Goth Industrial Night
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LIVE MUSIC
Barrelhouse South The Steel Woods, 9 p.m. Basil’s Pizza and Deli City Hotel, 7 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt, 6 p.m. Bootleggers Evenpete, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Club Elan Pegboard Nerds, 9 p.m. Coach’s Corner Bucky And Barry, 7 p.m. Congress Street Social Club Akita, Misnomer El-Rocko Lounge Fever Beam, 9 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Trombone Summit w/ Teddy Adams, Jaron McCarr, Ray Callender, Kirk Lee, 8 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Brady and the Bazookas The Jinx The Wormholes, Xuluprophet, Early Branch, 9 p.m. Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m. Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Rachael Shaner Mars Theatre Braxton Calhoun, 7 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Just Ford 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. Randy Wood Guitars Tony Arata and Tim Stafford, 8 p.m.
River House Stan Ray Rocks on the Roof @Sundown, 8 p.m. Rusty Rudders Tap House Duane Parker, 6 p.m. Saddle Bags Garrett Speer, 8 p.m. Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m. The Sentient Bean Tyler Goforth Band, 7 p.m. The Shrimp Factory Justin Morris Stafford’s Public House DJ Rudy Lui, 9:30 p.m. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Jon Lee and the Apparitions, 6 p.m. Tybee Post Theater Rock ‘N Roll w/ Toxic Oscar, 8 p.m. Vic’s on The River Diana Rogers, Claire Frazier and Steven Bryan, 7 p.m. The Warehouse Sweet Potato and the Pies Wild Wing Cafe Jason Courtenay Duo, Draucker, Bill Hodgson, DJ Race, 1 p.m. The Wormhole Rotknee presents Best of Star Bar, 8 p.m.
KARAOKE
Bay Street Blues Karaoke Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Warehouse Justin Howl, Sweet Potato and the Pies
COMEDY
Bay Street Theatre Steve Mingolla, 8 p.m. The Loft on Liberty Odd Lot Improv: Saturday Shenanigans, 8 p.m. The Pop Up Playhouse Front Porch
Improv: Best Movie Ever!, 8 p.m. Visitor’s Information Center Savannah for Morons: The Trolley Tour, 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.
DJ
The Black Rabbit DJ Square One, 9 p.m. Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap
SUNDAY 4.14 LIVE MUSIC
Bayou Cafe Don Coyer, 9 p.m. Congress Street Social Club Voodoo Soup, 10:30 p.m. Cuoco Pazzo Sunday Jazz Brunch, 11 a.m., Bill Smith and David Keller, 6 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Velvet Caravan with vocalist Annie Sellick, 7 p.m. Graveface Records & Curiosities Quintron and Miss Pussycat, 7 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Andrew Gill Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m. The Olde Pink House Eddie Wilson The Perch at Local 11 ten Ford Natirboff River House Cory Chambers The Shrimp Factory Justin Howl Tubby’s Tank House (River St.) Jeremy J Riddle, 6 p.m. Tybee Island Social Club Sunday Bluegrass Brunch, noon Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Thomas Claxton Wild Wing Cafe Bucky & Barry, Draucker, 1 p.m.
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TRIVIA & GAMES
Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Moon River Brewing Co. Trivia, 6 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m.
COMEDY
KARAOKE
DJ
The Black Rabbit DJ D Frost, 9 p.m. Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke
DJ
Boomy’s DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.
BAR & CLUB EVENTS
BAR & CLUB EVENTS
Exclusives Bar & Grille Open Mic Poetry Night, 7 p.m. Saddle Bags Bar Olympics
MONDAY 4.15 Abe’s on Lincoln Open Mic, 10 p.m. Bayou Cafe David Harbuck, 9 p.m. El-Rocko Lounge AURA, 6 p.m. Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) Phillip Wise Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m. Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Ford Natirboff Wild Wing Cafe Matt Hill, 6 p.m. The Wormhole Open Mic, 8 p.m. Club One Bingo with Dawn Dupree, 5:30 p.m. The Jinx Pubstar Trivia
KARAOKE
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Fia Rua Irish Pub Family Movie Night, 8 p.m.
TUESDAY 4.16 LIVE MUSIC
LIVE MUSIC
Boomy’s Karaoke, 10 p.m.
TRIVIA & GAMES
Basil’s Pizza and Deli Trivia, 7 p.m. Coach’s Corner Texas Hold ‘Em, 7 p.m. CoCo’s Sunset Grille Trivia, 7 p.m. Congress Street Social Club Trivia, 10 p.m. Fia Rua Irish Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m. McDonough’s Bingo, 7 p.m. Mellow Mushroom Trivia, 7:30 p.m. PS Tavern Poker Rachael’s : Sports • Food • Fun 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.
The Loft on Liberty Odd Lot Improv: Monday Night Madness, 8 p.m. White Whale Craft Ales White Whale Open Mic Comedy
Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/DJ, 10:30 p.m.
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Bay Street Blues Ben Keiser Band Bayou Cafe Jam Night with Eric Culberson, 9 p.m. Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) Ben Keiser Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Earl Williams Quartet, 7 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Sarah Poole Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m. Molly MacPherson’s Open Mic The Ordinary Pub Jeremy J Riddle, 7 p.m. The Portal Knightsquatch, The Most, Lady Valore, 9 p.m. Top Deck James Lee Smith, 6:30 p.m. Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Hitman Blues Band, 8 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Chuck Courtenay,
Blueberry Hill Karaoke, 9 p.m.3 a.m. Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Rail Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.
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Dub’s Pub 225 W. River St.
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El-Rocko Lounge 117 Whitaker St.
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Exclusives Bar & Grille 2003 Greenwood Street 912-695-2116
Fia Rua Irish Pub 10132 Ford Ave. 912-459-4160
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Savannah Riverboat Cruises 9 East River Street
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Savannah Smiles 314 Williamson St.
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Savannah Taphouse 125 E. Broughton St. 912-201-8277 savannahtaphouse.com
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Service Brewing Company 574 Indian Street The Shrimp Factory 313 East River Street
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Southbound Brewing Company 107 East Lathrop Ave. Stafford’s Public House 306 W. Upper Factor’s Walk
Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill 11215 Abercorn St.
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Tybee Post Theater 10 Van Horne
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CULTURE BOOKS
What kind of assignments did you get?
Let’s hear it for the boys ‘A Man’s World’ author Steve Oney comes to the Book Lady Bookstore Thursday
BY RACHAEL FLORA
rachael@connectsavannah.com
FOR OVER forty years, Steve Oney has been writing for magazines like Esquire, GQ, and the New York Times Magazine. One common theme he noticed was that he wrote profiles of men he admired. Oney has written about a variety of men, from Robert Penn Warren to Gregg Allman to Atlanta architect John Portman. All of them inspired Oney; he looked to learn life lessons from the men he featured. Published by the University of Georgia Press, “A Man’s World” is a collection of 20 of Oney’s profiles. We spoke with Oney last week. Tell me how your career started. I got into magazine writing because at heart, I’m an English major, but I knew I could never be an academic, and I didn’t really want to be a daily newspaper reporter. However, I worked at both the Anderson and Greenville, South Carolina, dailies right after I got out of college. I always wanted to be a magazine
American architecture or I could take, as I did, a class on American painting with the curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. I was exposed to a world that was bigger and richer than anything I’d been exposed to in Georgia. But, the humbling part is I would meet 18 year-old kids who were smarter than I was. Kids who were all on a fast track I hadn’t been on as a kid going to UGA. What do you think has changed in the magazine world since those days?
There are an awful lot of good magazines in the world. My favorite thing in the South It was a magical moment because the eyes is the weekly magazine website The Bitof the world were on Atlanta. We were basi- ter Southerner. It’s got great stories every cally allowed to do whatever we wanted. week, amazing photography and art, and There’s a story in my book, a profile of the great columns. They engage important great three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning issues, they tell lovely stories, and they tell writer Robert Penn Warren. I pitched a them well with flair and feeling. profile of him to the editor at the Atlanta The downside is that the economic picJournal-Constitution Magazine. I said, “I ture has gotten darker and darker in the want to go spend a week with him in New years since I started. At age 22 when I got York,” and they said, “You get him to sign my first job, it was just a very rich world on and you go.” of publication and everything was on the I think a very good early piece of my uptick. Now, magazines are folding; they journalism was the 1980 Georgia Senate have fewer staff writers. Conde Nast, one campaign. It was the last campaign for of the biggest publishers, is really downsizHerman Talmadge, the last of the Taling. Hearst Magazines are pulling in. It’s a madge dynasty. In Georgia, it was a very very tough time economically. hotly contested campaign. It was the first My hope is, though, that there’s always time a Republican had been elected to a going to be an appetite for true stories well statewide office in Georgia. The winner and imaginatively told, and accurately was a guy named Mack Mattingly, and he reported. The challenge is to figure out became the U.S. Senator. So for the next how to pay for that, how to finance that two months, I’m traveling around the state kind of journalism. of Georgia, taking notes, getting ready to The Bitter Southerner is one solution. write a two-part piece for the Sunday mag- They have membership, which is one soluazine for the Sunday magazine about the tion. It’s almost like public radio, but it’s a fight for Herman Talmadge’s Senate seat. regional magazine version of it. There was an openness at the paper at What effect do you think social media the time to think big, and the financial resources were there to enable the writers is having on journalism? of the magazine to follow through. It was a time when magazine journalism was a very Twitter and social media are like McDonald’s. It’s fast food. The great magazines, lucrative thing for the publications. It was the great stories, are like going to a fine never really lucrative for a writer—when you’re a writer, you always feel underpaid, restaurant where the chef is really breaking ground and serving you beautiful, fresh but at least I was paid, and I got great disfood. That’s my hope, that we’ll figure out play and good editing. At the end of my fifth year at the Atlanta how to make magazine writing the equivalent of slow cooking. It’s going to be a very Journal-Constitution Magazine, I got a rewarding experience. Once people realize Nieman [Foundation] fellowship with how great [magazine writing] can be, TwitHarvard. It’s a mid-career fellowship; it’s ter and Instagram are not going to be that what Harvard has instead of a journalism satisfying. I’m an optimist, though. school. It’s kind of a graduate school, but Anyone can make a Twitter post, but I without the pressure of graduate school. in fact would say it takes a lot of skill just That was a huge break for me and a big to write a straight news story. People can’t change in my life. do that. You wouldn’t say, “I can paint that What was it like to go from the Univer- masterpiece,” but they know they can’t. But they think they can write that story, sity of Georgia to Harvard? and in truth, they can’t do that either. The fellowship was at once heady and There’s just something so satisfying humiliating. The heady part was the world about reading a really good story. It has was suddenly mine. I could audit whatever that same quality as hearing a bell ring. It class I wanted, whether it was a survey of sounds a note you can’t find anywhere else.
It’s a wonderful thing to be enraptured in a piece of writing. That’s one of my main pieces of advice of being a writer—the most important thing to learn to be a good writer is how to be a good reader. How did you choose which profiles you wanted to include in “A Man’s World?” I’ve been a magazine writer so long I’ve probably written a couple hundred fullfledged magazine features, four or five thousand words each. My agent and I decided, “Let’s get a collection together.” I didn’t quite know how to organize it. We concluded that I’ve written so many profiles of men. I was looking for something, and I was looking to find something about myself while writing these profiles of men. I was interested in them as people, but also as teachers. I picked what I thought were the 20 strongest pieces I had done over these 40 years, and I broke them into categories because I thought, “What’s been important in my life?” Obviously, these are not limited to men. Women face these same issues. But I wanted to look at it through the lives of these men because I am a man. There’s a profile of John Portman, the architect who died last year who essentially single-handedly built downtown Atlanta. He went to Georgia Tech and he revolutionized architecture—but these pieces are journalism. This is not a how-to book. John Portman is a very controversial figure. There are a lot of people who dislike his architecture. They think it’s dehumanizing. The piece gets into who the critics are of his approach, whether his approach has been successful or has it damaged the city. That, to me, is the great virtue of journalism and why this book is not a how-to. It’s factual American journalism. Why is factual journalism so important? In journalism, you play it down the middle. It’s hard to find the m iddle. Unfortunately, we live in a time of polarized journalism where you’ve got Fox on one side and MSNBC on the other. Real journalism is not either of those things. Real journalism looks for something much harder, which is the middle path. It’s always hard to find the middle path; it’s hard to be fair. But that’s what makes it worthwhile. If it was easy, there wouldn’t be a payoff. But when you find that middle path of a story with imagination and fairmindedness, I think that’s a very rewarding thing to do, and a very rewarding thing to read. CS
“A MAN’S WORLD” BY STEVE ONEY
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writer because I thought that was a happy medium. That’s where you could use the skills of literature and art, except apply them to nonfiction. I was lucky enough that, after a couple of years of newspaper writing, I got a job at the old Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine, which was once a Southern institution but is now long departed. It happened to be during Jimmy Carter’s presidency, and I got a lot of great assignments and was covering stuff all over the country, but for a Southern regional magazine.
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CULTURE VISUAL ARTS
Photos courtesy of Gallery Espresso.
QUESTIONS
WITH
Jessica Barnhill BY RACHAEL FLORA
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GALLERY ESPRESSO has been a destination for art lovers for 25 years now. The cozy coffee shop constantly has art on its walls thanks to its thoughtful curator, Jessica Barnhill. With her mother, Barnhill began Gallery Espresso in 1993 and has hosted artists in the shop ever since. She loves finding the unknown or underappreciated artists of our community and giving them a spot on our wall. Gallery Espresso’s latest show, “The Music Show,” is an inventive show that uses musical instruments as the canvas.
Painted guitars, illustrated drum heads, and even sculptures of saxophones fill Gallery Espresso’s walls. We spoke with Barnhill last week.
instruments, we could dig up things that could be repurposed instead of brand new stuff. I don’t know about painting on a thousand-dollar instrument [laughs].
How did “The Music Show” come about?
wanted in the exhibition?
1.
My boyfriend Tim Becker is a musician himself, or he dabbles in it, so he had some equipment he hadn’t been using that was in our garage. I thought, the Savannah Music Festival is coming up, and it’d be so cool if we did our own music show where we did artwork on musical instruments. I think if we got a variety of people, and a variety of talent to do it on all different
2. How did you pick the artists you
They’re all connected to me or to Gallery Espresso. Some of them are self-taught, some of them used to work here at some point; some were kids I went to SCAD with. Some are just friends I’ve known over the years. I even did a piece. Tim did a couple guitars, and we had Shelley Smith do a sculpture of a saxophone. It turned out really
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to go to Alexander Hall for Open Studio and find some talented kids that if they’re stuck in town for a couple months and they want a show … That’s kind of a fun thing to do. To see someone brand new that no one else has seen before. I like experimenting in that way. Having people from out of town is fun as well, just to keep it fresh, but I’m definitely very supportive of the local artists as well.
4. Who’s your next exhibition? Becker and Barnhill with their pieces.
“You Can’t Beat Me” by Jessica Knapp.
cool. Jessica Knapp did a little drum top. This is our first time doing a two-month show. I wanted to extend it to run through the [Savannah] Music Festival.
at Gallery Espresso. The cool thing about it is when I see raw talent, it’s fun to give them their first step, to see them grow as people and as artists and for them to have an opportunity for bigger and better things Gallery Espresso celebrated 25 in their careers as artists. That’s super satyears last year. Have you been with it isfying for me and continues to make Galsince then? lery Espresso a landmark in Savannah. Being such an art town, it’s like you’re My mom and I got into it in ’93, so it’s never short [of talent], you just need a been going ever since then. The art provenue. When kids start getting out of gram has been since the beginning. Several school and trying to get their feet wet, you successful local artists had their first show need a place to get started. I’ve been happy
3.
I have an artist, Vanessa Withun, who’s going to be for May. She’ll have some local landscapes. Her style is more of a traditional style. I think it’s going to fit in well with the garden tour going on during that weekend.
5. Do you often plan your exhibitions
around the events in town?
I try to. Sometimes things sneak up on you! I try to have a heads-up and try to make some sort of plan. But sometimes, people that are involved with these organizations approach me and ask if I want to be involved, and I just try my best to do my part to be involved with any community situation. I can participate as much as I can without spreading myself too thin. CS
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Brandi Marie Little’s
‘Homecoming’ keeps the dead alive
Queen Of The Mardi Gras
WHEN THOSE who cherish the dead are gone, what still remains? Brandi Marie Little asks herself that question all the time. The artist collects old photographs from estate sales. “There are these things left over,” Little says. “With photos, there’s always someone who remembers. When they’re gone and no one remembers, these mementos are still here. So I’ve become their caretaker.” As far as caretakers go, Little is a great one. She creates haunting oil paintings from the photographs she collects. That body of work is on display at “Homecoming” this Thursday night on Fab’rik’s second floor. Little has always had a fascination with old photographs. “The body of work is based on lost, abandoned old family photos. I’m focusing mostly on photo booth photos now,” Little notes. “I started collecting them and was like, ‘I need to do something with those.’ I was doing these large-scale oil paintings with them, not really knowing why I was doing them at first. Over time it sort of progressed into understanding why I was doing them.” Part of that reasoning is Little’s personal relationship with death. “There’s no pretty way to put it other than [it’s] my obsession with loss and death,” shares Little. “I lost my father when I was 20; he was 46 years old. Not long before that, when I was 17, I lost my maternal grandmother, who’s the one who taught me how to oil paint. I was super close to her. And in succession, I lost all these family members. When you lose a parent that young, it just sort of does something to your brain. “I do have this feeling of a fear of loss. It’s weird. And then I go to these estate sales and antique shops, and you find all these family photos and you’re like, ‘Why are these abandoned? Who do they belong to?’” Little also doesn’t have many family photographs or mementos, compounding her need to take care of the ones she does find. “I think that’s why a lot of people have kids. They want someone to be their caretaker of their precious things,” Little muses. “If you don’t necessarily have a faith that believes in an afterlife, then this is it.” Part of Little’s compulsion to collect old things is from seeing her family’s precious few things go to waste. “My grandmother was an oil painter and had all these paintings, and when she passed away, this family member took one
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and another took one, and then what happened to them? They went to Goodwill. That breaks my heart,” says Little. Now, Little relies on Goodwill, antique stores and estate sales to find the photographs she turns into paintings. “Estate sales are both fascinating and fun,” says Little, “and horribly depressing at the same time.” Little specifically seeks out photos from the 30s, 40s and 50s to reproduce. “I’ve always had a bit of an obsession with that time frame, sort of that golden era,” she muses. “I think it is idealized in a way, and I myself idealize it, but I just love that kind of nostalgic feel. I love the fact that I didn’t live through it, I don’t know what it’s like, I can’t even relate. It has this kind of unknown magical quality to people in our generation.” Since she’s working with tiny
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photographs, Little scans them and reprints them larger to enhance the detail. “From there, I use oil paint—only one color, actually, which was random,” she says. “It’s raw umber. I wanted to do a sepia tone, so that’s why I went for raw umber. I planned to use white paint, but as I was doing one, I found the white of the canvas showing through gave it a glow. I loved that shine of the light going through. I felt like if I covered the canvas, I would lose that glow. I wanted it to have that ghostly feel.” That ghostly feeling is evident in the paintings, which are eerily beautiful portraits of people frozen in time, and will also be evident in the installation. Little notes that even the steps up to Fab’rik’s second floor are creaky and spooky. “It’s supposed to feel like you’re stepping back in time,” Little gushes. “It should have the atmosphere of an old prom. I’m doing it right at peak prom time. Then the name of the show is ‘Homecoming,’ so it should have that sort of stepping back in time, haunting, ‘Where am I?’ feeling.” In addition to the installation, there will be a singer performing pieces from the era of Little’s paintings and the chance for a prom photo op. Overall, Little wants the “Because of my focus on loss and death, I do want people to cherish their loved ones, cherish their ancestry,” says Little. “Let’s all romanticize the past. Let’s all do it. Let’s dig in. I hope [viewers] find my work striking. I want them to stand in front of a painting and feel transfixed by it. Not just like, ‘Okay, that’s a portrait,’ and walk away. That’s the worst. I want them to feel a little haunted by it.” CS
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Tiffani Taylor BY RACHAEL FLORA
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FOR Tiffani Taylor, it all started with a dream. Raised in Ogden, Utah, by a single mom, Taylor came from humble beginnings. In high school, Taylor learned about SCAD from a poster in her high school classroom—“with a little tear-away tab,” she laughs. “I saw the poster of Poetter Hall and I just knew that was home. That was my destination.” Taylor received the Presidential Scholarship that allowed her to afford college and moved across the country to pursue her dreams of being an artist. Now, the Tiffani Taylor Gallery celebrates eight years this Thursday. “It’s all a dream,” says Taylor. “Coming into eight years and realizing that dream, it has just strengthened me. Everything it took to get here—the courage, the failure— has helped me find my purpose, which is to help other artists. I made it, and now I want to help other artists make it. I want to help create more success stories.” One way Taylor writes those success stories is with the Savannah Art Walk. Held every second Saturday, the walk is in its fifth year and visits 26 galleries in the downtown area. “My goal with Savannah Art Walk has been to build Savannah as one of the preeminent source for art collecting,” she says. “It really does take all of us for this to happen, and I think we’ve done an amazing job collaborating and connecting and being positive and lifting each other up.” However, Taylor acknowledges that it took her quite a while—three years, exactly— to get herself in a place to help others in the way she wanted. “My first three years of having the gallery were so difficult,” says Taylor. “[With] the trials and tribulations that strengthened me, I didn’t have time to connect with other artists.” A hotel owner downtown asked Taylor to create a speaking engagement for artists. At the same time, Taylor was fielding questions about the lack of an art walk in the downtown area. “I was immediately guided to just ask, ‘Will you support an art walk?’” Taylor remembers. “God gave me this epiphany of, ‘Utilize this for an art walk.’” The Savannah Art Walk is free and open to all who want to participate. Visitors who 34 spend more than $20 on art receive a raffle
ticket, and Taylor says the ticket receipts show her that the walk is increasing foot traffic and patronage in the downtown art scene. Around that same time of beginning the Savannah Art Walk, Taylor was afforded another great opportunity. “In having a brick and mortar shop, there are many components you have to problem-solve,” says Taylor. ”After three years, I wrote to President Wallace about being an artist in residence in Lacoste, and that’s when I was given the opportunity to be an Atelier Ambassador and open a gallery for three months in France.” After selling art to patrons from the world over, including Pierre Cardin, Taylor moved back to Savannah. “It restored me. It was like coming home to SCAD,” shares Taylor. “Managing my business from another continent, that’s when things flipped because I had to learn how to delegate and build a stronger team. You just want to do everything! But it took me going to France to learn how to delegate and to truly learn and actively display self-love and self-care.” Taylor credits carving out time to meditate or run with assisting in her calm attitude, as well as recognition of where she’s come from. “The positive energy really stems from being a little girl and standing in the welfare line, being treated very poorly,” she remembers. “I made a decision that I will be nice. In the position of power I have, whatever it may be, I’m going to use it to help people who are speechless.” At the eight year soiree, Taylor’s designated charity is Helping Parents Heal. “One of my patrons lost both of her sons, and she commissioned a beautiful painting to commemorate them,” Taylor says. “We’ll have prints of that for sale that I’ll be signing. A percentage of all our sales will go to Helping Parents Heal.” Celebrating eight years reinforces Taylor’s purpose. “During the last eight years, I’ve fully realized my purpose, and that’s in utilizing the gallery as a sanctuary where people feel loved and they’re greeted and we treat people like family, but also utilizing the gallery as a platform to help charities,” Taylor explains. “Throughout my whole life, I’ve always had one hand open to charity.” CS
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GOING INTO EIGHT YEARS SOIREE Thurs., April 11, 6:30 p.m. Tiffani Taylor Gallery, 11 Whitaker St.
“Poppies of My Youth: Divinity in Nature.”
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Work by Coleman Camp is in ‘Topocene,’ at Sulfur Studios, opening Friday.
THE BEAUTY OF WORDS — The eight Lower Elementary classes of Charles Ellis Montessori Academy have been creating art projects all year to display at an art gallery which will be set up in the Ellis Media Center on Thursday, April 4th from 6-7:30pm. Thu., April 11, 6 p.m. ellispta.com. Charles Ellis Montessori Academy, 220 E 49th Street. HOMECOMING — On view will be Brandi Marie Little’s haunting large scale oil portraits, fiber work, and more in a transformative and magical atmosphere with live performances by singer, Dannie Blue. Her current work focuses on nostalgia, loss, and mourning; which she investigates through her process of collecting discarded vintage photo booth portraits from estate sales and antique shops and translating them into large scale oil paintings. April 11-14. fabrikstyle.com. Fab’rik, 318 West Broughton St. LIQUID ART EXHIBITION — Artist Felicia Grace Wrap will create one of her exceptional liquid art pieces at her show on April 13th, 7pm! Felicia pours her soul onto canvas combining string technique, chemistry and a background including generations of artists and training from the Atlanta Institute of Art. She will have finished pieces for view during her demonstration displayed on a liquid dance floor located at 201 Tapas Lounge 201 Blackburn Dr. Sat., April 13, 7-9 p.m. PAINTING WITH POETRY — Art Exhibition Supporting Joe Iannacone for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Man of the Year
Campaign. Free Event Featuring Local Artist, Sarah Braxton www.sarahbraxton.wixsite. com/sefb Paintings and Gift Items Available for Silent Auction Wine, Beer, & Hors d’oeuvres RSVP 334-452-6505 Thursday, April 11, 2019 7-9 pm Henny Penny Art Space & Café 1514 Bull Street STRAIGHTFORWARD — Tristian Mnajai Martin presents a senior thesis exhibition. Free Thu., April 11, 4 & 9 a.m., Fri., April 12, Sat., April 13, Sun., April 14, Mon., April 15 and Tue., April 16. savstate.edu/. Savannah State University, 3219 College St.
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TOPOCENE — Topocene by Coleman Camp addresses the current state of land and human’s engagement with it. This land is our land. Our house, our home, our mother grown old. It has shed itself for us, now only bearing the cost of freedom. Where have you been in this? What are you doing for tomorrow? Fri., April 12. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St.
CONTINUING EXHIBITS ABSTRACTS AND ANIMALS — Abstracts & Animals showcases the diverse talent of two local artists through a vibrant exhibit of art quilts. Donna Stankiewicz works with realistic subject matter using paints, dye, and fabric. Jody Beth Wigton uses color and pattern to create multi-pieced abstract and improvisational designs. Through Dec. 31. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.
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ANTHOLOGY OF LORE — Every region has their own collection of tall tales, every family their own anthology of lore. Mallory Fite’s Colorado upbringing gave her a natural bent towards the tales of the Wild West. Through May 26. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. THE ARTIST AND THE TRUCK — Explores black and white and corresponding tonal values with drawings, paintings, photography, sculpture and mixed media by Joel Crowe, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, James Graham, Ahmad Jackson, Patrick McKinnon, Kyunnie Shuman and Troy Wandzel. Through April 27. Location Gallery at Austin Hill Realty, 417 Whitaker St.
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BIRDLAND — birdland (MISSITOPIA) features artistic musings by writer, firefighter and visual artist Chela Gutierrez. Through May 31, 5 p.m. Location Gallery at Savannah LGBT Center, 1515 Bull St. CHARLES SCARBOROUGH — Local artist Charles Scarborough will be displaying his art work on the walls of the South Wing and into the Brown Dog Market. Through April 20. Cohen’s Retreat, 5715 Skidaway Rd. CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART FROM THE KING-TISDELL COTTAGE FOUNDATION PERMANENT COLLECTION — Artists include William Tolliver, Luther Vann and more. These legendary African-American expressionist artists have gifted the foundation with exceptional works that will leave you in awe. Through April 30. Beach Institute, 502 E. Harris St. JAUME PLENSA: TALKING CONTINENTS — Talking Continents is a floating collection of 19 cloud-like, stainless steel sculptures. Their biomorphic forms are made of die-cut letters taken from nine different languages. Through June 9. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. KATNISS — Part of a yearlong commission process, the museum’s largest to date, katniss is the result of a creative collaboration between Katherine Sandoz and Rachel Reese, Telfair’s Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, the museum’s dedicated exhibition staff, and Julio Garcia of Price Street Projects, who fabricated the work in Miami. Through June 2. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. KEITA TAKAHASHI: ZOOMING OUT — Telfair Museums hosts the first museum survey of the work of visionary videogame designer Keita Takahashi (Japanese, b. 1975). Museum admission Through July 14. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. KEROSTASIA — These pieces by Eric Braun began as digital photographs shot around Savannah. The images were then combined using 3D fractal generating software. Through April 30. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave.
LINEAGE — In this exhibition, fiber artist Anya Mitchell takes Amish quilt squares inherited from her grandmother’s studio and builds off the original structure and intent to develop her own composition and meaning. Through April 16. Starland Cafe, 11 East 41st St. LINEAJE II — In Lineaje II, Alexis Javier furthers his exploration of the contour line drawing technique wherein he uses one line to capture the features of his subject, only picking up his pen from the surface once the drawing is done. Through April 25. In Vino Veritas, 102 E. Liberty St. THE MUSIC SHOW — Music is the inspiration behind this body of work featuring multiple artists from Savannah and all across the USA. Through April 30. galleryespresso. com/. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. ON::VIEW: WORTH DYING FOR — Kevin Clancy explores political meta-narratives in his art practice using loaded symbols such as the United States flag as a discussion of social, cultural and ethical systems. Through May 5. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. PLEIN AIR ART SALE — Visit the Savannah Art Association’s Gallery on Chippewa to view paintings from their Paint Out Savannah Plein Air participant. A percentage of proceeds will go towards funding this event in 2020. Through April 23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Savannah Art Association Gallery, 232 Bull Street. THE PRINTS OF DAME LAURA KNIGHT — Telfair Museums exhibits nine prints by Dame Laura Knight (British, 1877-1970), together for the first time since they were acquired by the museum in 1949. Through July 28. telfair. org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. REMBRANDT AND THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE — This exhibition contains 21 etchings by Rembrandt and one drawing by Rembrandt’s teacher Pieter Lastman (Dutch, 1583-1633). These works highlight the artist’s nuanced relationship with Amsterdam’s citizens of the Jewish faith and the keen insights Rembrandt brought to interpretations of Old Testament Bible stories. Museum Admission Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. SOUVENIR SAVANNAH — “Souvenir Savannah” features antique Savannah tourism souvenirs that highlight famous landmarks as well as traveling mementos popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. On loan from private collectors, highlights of the exhibit include early stereographs of Savannah and intricate sterling silver spoons featuring symbols of Savannah. “Souvenir Savannah” speaks not only to the souvenir experience of acquiring mementos during ones travels as a way to remember and share your visit, but to the second life many antique souvenirs have as collectors seek them out in later years. Through Dec. 31. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.
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L-R: Heather Byler- Linoleum, Pandora Crumpton- Betty, and Hannah Davis- Pickles
‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ comes to GSU’s Armstrong Campus BY SEAN KELLY
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GEORGIA Southern University’s student theater group The Masquers is set to bring The Great American Trailer Park Musical to the stage starting April 11. The show is a comedy that centers around an exclusive Florida trailer park called Armadillo Acres and its quirky residents. “My character’s name is Betty, and she owns the trailer park,” cast member Pandora Crumpton tells Connect. “The story centers around Jeannie Garsecki, who hasn’t left her trailer in over 20 years, her husband Norbert, and a woman named Pipi who’s new to Armadillo Acres. She brings with her a ton of chaos and
destruction, along with an ex-boyfriend.” Other characters who are central to the story include Pickles, who is hysterically pregnant, and Linoleum - a woman currently awaiting her husband’s release from jail on parole. The show, which has been described by the New York Sun as “South Park meets Desperate Housewives,” is just one of a few productions that Crumpton has participated in as part of The Masquers. Her love of acting was something that came about more recently, in fact. “When I was a freshman I started out as a psychology major,” she explains. “And then I auditioned for the school’s musical last Spring, and it actually made me change my major to performance. So now I’m a performance theater major and I’m a part of all of the shows. I always want to be part of them, whether I’m in the cast or
Actors Tristin Brooks and Olivia Quillman play Norbert and Jeannie Garsecki
crew.” It was during her first performance in her first show with the school that she realized her change of passion and made the decision to switch paths. “I really felt like I nailed that performance. Afterwards, the adrenaline rush was so intense that it made me stop and consider that this was really what I wanted to be doing with my life,” Crumpton says. “I realized that this was my passion.” One of the the things that Crumpton says she loves the most about her character in The Great American Trailer Park Musical is that Betty is “a badass.” “She doesn’t care what anyone thinks or says. She will cuss you out, and doesn’t care who’s around or watching. But she also cares about everyone and has a lot of love.” Playing the role, however, comes with the unique challenge of portraying an older woman.
“She’s older, and it’s harder for me to portray an older woman because I’m still learning my art. It can be a challenge,” she says with a laugh. Crumpton says she has big aspirations for the rest of her time at Georgia Southern and beyond. “I want to eventually be in films. That’s the dream,” she says. “But I want to learn about the stuff that I can do behind the scenes as well, like building sets. That way, when I do graduate and get out into the field, there won’t be a limit. I’ll always have opportunities.” CS
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Cast member Pandora Crumpton chats ahead of The Masquers’ production
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THERE ARE certain restaurants that could be designated cornerstones of Savannah’s food scene. For a BLT salad you go to the Olde Pink House, for ice cream it’s Leopold’s, and for decadent oversized baked goods, specifically for me the caramel roll, Gottlieb’s Bakery is the choice. At least that was the way until a few weeks ago, when Gottlieb’s decided to expand their repertoire to include brunch on Sunday and dinner on Friday and Saturday nights. 38 The second I heard, I zoomed over to
check it out. I visited on a Friday evening, and sat down to chat baked goods with Laurence Gottlieb while his brother Michael Gottlieb cooked dinner in the back. The rest of the patrons filled the side of the shop where Laurence bakes, sitting at the actual tables where he rolls out his dough on every early morning. Eating at this table provides an experience that allows you to daydream of kneading, twisting, and filling pastries while you eat. In the back sits a modest kitchen in which Michael impressively cranks out dish after dish for the influx of patrons that fill the family shop. The fourth generation Gottlieb brothers re-opened the more than 100 year-old
bakery and brought their own experience and tastes to the table. “We are slowly incorporating old school bakery products into the mix as well as having fun creating new bakery items based on inspiration from old family recipes,” Michael elaborates. The two work together like peas and carrots—Laurence the baker and Michael the cook. With their powers combined, the resulting food is well thought out and prepared exquisitely. Most locals know and love the institution that has been Gottlieb’s Bakery, so speaking to the quality of their food didn’t require many questions on my end; the reputation speaks for itself. I was, however, curious to learn why the family bakers
decided to expand to dinner service. Michael explains, “Dinner was brought on by our desire to showcase our passion for food influenced by bakery products and ingredients found around us. Baking is our second calling (well first really as we grew up in the bakery), working in kitchens serving fun foods is where Laurence and I both started in our careers.” Just as surprised as I was to learn about the ever growing and changing bakery, I was surprised to find a well rounded menu. You’ll find anything from fluffy gnocchi coated in pesto to an earthy roasted mushroom burger. Michael educated me on how bakers with a lifetime of experience go about creating a savory dinner menu:
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“Laurence and I talk about weekly bakery production and see what items, doughs or desserts will be floating around and then the menu is created based on those influences. We also look at seasonal products that are coming into play and showcase those based on our menu writing experience,” he says. To create each recipe, old or new, the process is simple according to Michael: “The dinner and brunch items are based on our love of food, travel and past work experiences. We enjoy a free flowing menu that incorporates foods from all over. Currently we are having fun creating and paying homage to our favorites and the challenge of recreating a dish that would normally cost $30 plus in a more formal setting but figuring out how to serve the same quality at a $15 - $17 price point,” he says. I started with a shareable dish, the Foienut. For this rich starter a warm sticky sweet donut is served with seared Hudson Valley foie gras. A hint of texture is added to the outside of the velvety delicacy. The salty/sweet combination is finished with a sprinkling of nuts and a sticky sauce. Foie and doughnuts is what chicken and waffles wants to be. It is the right time of year to find soft shell crab featured on the brand new
The mushroom burger. Michael plates the softshell crab.
menu. Gottlieb’s offers theirs spewing over its bun. The bread—tender with a chewy outside—was the perfect vessel to deliver the meaty flash fried soft shell crab. As you bite into the sandwich, the expertly baked bread gives away just enough to let the crab
shine. The finished sandwich had all the textures and flavors of a stellar deli sandwich but with a salty fare flare. The Grilled Charleston Cheese Curd Sandwich was recommended to me, probably because it is one of the more unique items on the menu. Creamy curds are
paired with a spicy sweet apricot horseradish and floral herbed olive oil. The dish comes together like an upscale sandwich version of that pepper jelly covered cream cheese party dish that so many locals make. In lieu of staple Savannah shrimp and grits, the brothers serve red fish over creamy grits with basil and a corn cream. The fish is well seasoned, cooked delicately, and serves as the perfect counterpart to its base of custard like ground southern corn. The mushroom burger will make you forget meat. A gigantic slice of mushroom is layered with charred onions and sharp melted cheddar between the same handmade bun that serves the crab. The best part of my meal was how warm and welcoming the Gottlieb duo was. Their hospitality truly pays homage to the legacy that is the Gottlieb family. The restaurant does not have a liquor license, so don’t forget your favorite bottle (or two) of wine to pair with your meal. You can replace the empty space in your bag with a take home box full of fritters, cookies, and danishes. CS If you would like an update on the menu, and when it changes, follow their instagram handle @gottliebsbakery
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How to get into the film industry A great place to start is to work as an extra on one of the numerous productions in and around Savannah. BY CHARLES ‘BO’ BOWEN Working as an extra largely consists of waiting around for hours for a few minSO YOU want to be in pictures? Considerutes of work as a background player with ing that Savannah is transforming into a no lines and minimal pay. But it is a prime thriving entry point for film and televiopportunity to watch what film profession careers, you are definitely in the right sionals are doing. place. Does it look interesting? Can you cope Until fairly recently, almost all roads with the rigid top-down management and leading to the film and television screen stressful environment? Does the reality started in Los Angeles or New York City. look as appealing in person as it did in your Over the past decade, however, advances imagination? in technology and financial incentives like Casting calls are typically well covered those the state of Georgia adopted in 2008 in local media, thus finding an opportuhave expanded the industry far beyond nity to work as an extra can be as simple as California and New York. searching “casting in Savannah GA” on the Georgia has been the primary benefiinternet. Casting calls are also often listed ciary of this expansion with Atlanta topon the Savannah Regional Film Commisping the list of current filming locations sion’s website, savannahfilm.org, or you and significantly-smaller Savannah comcan send a request to join www.facebook. ing in second. com/groups/savannahextras. If you are interested in becoming a part If you still feel drawn to invest in a filmof Georgia’s film industry, you should know related future after being on a set, Savanone thing up front: no one starts at the top. nah has you covered. Thanks to Savannah The movie and television industry rewards Technical College, our city hosts one of the experience and is merit-based. 12 campuses of the Georgia Film Academy. Anyone willing to work hard and mainThis unique partnership of the Univertain a positive attitude in the high-paced sity System of Georgia and the Technical and stressful world of film production, College System of Georgia provides a cerhowever, will likely find themselves protification program of 18 credit hours, comgressing quickly. plete with internship opportunities. Granted, experience is crucial to success Georgia Film Academy students study a in almost all professions, but it is especially curriculum of on-set production, set contrue in the entertainment industry. When struction and scenic painting, lighting and a production begins filming, hundreds of electric, grip and rigging, introduction to strangers come together to work intensely special makeup effects, post-production on a single project — often for months at a effects and, in the future, production time — and then immediately move on to accounting. the next opportunity. At $89 per credit hour (plus fees) at There may be a few stories of overnight the technical college level, you can comsuccess, but for the most part, those indiplete the entire course of study in just viduals worked hard for 20 years to earn two semesters for a very affordable price. that “overnight” success. This can be a worthy investment to help If you believe a career in movies might break into a field where the Georgia Film be a good fit, it is always a good idea to give Academy estimates an average salary is your interests a thorough test drive. $84,000 a year (not to mention retirement
benefits and health insurance coverage). The required introductory course is currently on the schedule for Savannah Tech’s summer semester. These types of jobs are on the production crew. There is a tremendous need for local crew in Savannah and once you receive the requisite training and experience, work should be easy to find. If you are more interested in the creative side of the process (directors, screenwriters, actors, etc.), there is still far more than just luck involved. Savannah has a number of successful theater groups where you can audition for local productions to help you explore whether acting may be for you. There are also quite a few acting classes and workshops taught locally to help you hone your skills. Savannah offers college and university resources for those careers, as well. You can pursue theatrical performance degree programs at Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong and Statesboro campuses as well as Savannah State University. Savannah College of Art and Design offers programs in almost every spectrum of the creative side of the entertainment industry from highly-skilled and respected professionals. Most importantly, do not give up. Almost everyone enters the film industry slowly for little pay to learn firsthand what the entertainment world is all about while gaining practical skills and making all-important contacts prior to finding success. If you are willing to put in the time and effort, Savannah’s film production boom ensures the opportunity is there for the taking. CS Charles Bowen is an entertainment attorney and founder of the Savannah Film Alliance. Contact him at 912.544.2050 or cbowen@thebowenlawgroup.com
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/ The animated 1941 classic Dumbo runs just over an hour and the 2019 live-action clunker Dumbo runs just under two hours. In other words, in the time it takes to watch the misbegotten new version once, a viewer could have watched the enchanting original twice (hardly a chore) or watched it once and then had time left over to get started on taxes, prick a painful blister, or undertake any other unpleasantry that, on balance, would still prove to be more enjoyable than sitting through this laborious new version. It’s a shame that the new Dumbo is such a lumbering bore, since Disney had mostly been on a roll with its live-action renderings of its animated gems. Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Maleficent and The Jungle Book were all better than they had any right to be — indeed, the only sore spots were those Alice in Wonderland adaptations, with Tim Burton directing the so-so first film and serving as producer on its excruciating follow-up (Alice Through the Looking Glass). Burton is back in the helmer’s chair for Dumbo, but this picture doesn’t even bring to mind those Alice endeavors as much as it recalls Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful, another torturous undertaking that found a formerly exciting and innovative filmmaker (in that case, Sam Raimi) shucking aside all creativity simply to mangle and mutilate a cherished motion picture from yesteryear. While the 1941 Dumbo opted to anthropomorphize its animal stars, this new interpretation decides to silence them by either shunting them to the background (Mrs. Jumbo), dismissing them with a fleeting cameo (Timothy Q. Mouse) or deleting them altogether (Mr. Stork and the crows). In their place, Burton and scripter Ehren Kruger (whose credits range from the underrated pair Arlington Road and Ghost in the Shell to the awfulness of The Brothers Grimm and three — count ‘em, three — Transformers flicks) decided that they should instead focus on the human characters, because Lord knows that’s what people really want to see when they attend a movie ostensibly about a flying elephant. Thus, Dumbo quickly becomes a supporting character in his own story, as the focus shifts to Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell), a returning World War I veteran, and his two children, a son (Finley Hobbins) so nondescript that I wouldn’t even be able to pick him out of a police line-up and a daughter (Nico Parker) so anachronistic and forced that she talks like a contemporary 30-year-old woman rather than a Depression-era preteen. Holt returns from the war to resume his job as a rootin’-tootin’ horseback rider for a circus owned by Max Medici (Danny
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DeVito), but between Holt losing an arm in battle and Max having sold the horses to make ends meet, the only available post is looking after the elephants. Holt and his kids are especially taken with baby Dumbo, who’s initially the object of scorn but soon becomes a sensation thanks to the oversized ears that allow him to get airborne. Dumbo’s triumph over his tormentors — and over gravity — is pretty much where the ’41 film ends, but here we’re just getting started. After Dumbo attains celebrity status, he’s noticed by V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton), a zillionaire who enters into a partnership with Max so he can incorporate the circus into his own opulent theme park, Dreamland. Of course, this is just a scam; Vandevere is only interested in the profits he can generate from Dumbo and plans to get rid of everyone else, man (via firing) and beast (a bullet for Mrs. Jumbo) alike. Naturally, it’s up to Holt and his younglings to save the day, although they receive unlikely assistance from Vandevere’s mistress Colette Marchant (Eva Green), a French trapeze artist who develops a conscience quicker than you can utter, “C’est quoi cette merde?” As expected for a Burton romp, technical values are top-notch, with the director turning to regular collaborators like production designer Rick Heinrichs (Oscar for Sleepy Hollow) and costume designer Colleen Atwood (Oscar for Alice in Wonderland) to punch across his vision. But such visual splendor is all for naught when wrapped around a film as emotionally uninvolving as this one. The CGI Dumbo is adorable enough in design (even if the surrounding effects aren’t as convincing), but there’s no genuine pathos to this rendition since the li’l elephant is mainly used as a prop simply so the human protagonists can all feel a little better about themselves. And what dullards these mortals be — a far cry from the colorful types Burton used to showcase back when he had a propensity
to frolic with the freaks (how this movie could have used a Joker or an Edward Scissorhands or even a Pee-wee Herman!). Even the cherished moments from the original that have survived are given no value — the magical “pink elephants” sequence, for instance, has been reconfigured as a blasé circus number. The performances are mostly fine, with no one ultimately able to escape the crushing weight (heavier than Mrs. Jumbo!) of the worn-out dialogue and banal developments. But special mention should be given to Michael Keaton, who enjoyed a career comeback with his Oscarnominated turn in Birdman and deserved (but didn’t receive) additional nods for his exemplary turns in Spotlight and The Founder. Here, he speaks in a strange, clipped cadence and sports more facial tics and smirks than even Beetlejuice. Frankly, I didn’t think it was possible for him to give a performance as awful as the one he brandishes here — then again, perhaps he figured it was the only way to stand apart from the numbing homogenization of the rest of this white elephant.
THE AFTERMATH
// After the soft box office performances of such World War II sagas as Allied and The Zookeeper’s Wife, it’s a wonder that anyone put up the funds to make something as similarly grown-up and period-specific as The Aftermath. Given the likely financial fate of this one as well, we may not see another WWII yarn until around the time World War III gets off the ground. That’s a shame, because both Allied and The Zookeeper’s Wife deserved better fates. And while The Aftermath doesn’t match their quality or conviction, it’s not one for the trash heap, either. Based on Rhidian Brook’s novel of the same name, it’s set right after the war, as cleanup efforts are underway in Germany by the
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conquering heroes. While most of the British and American occupiers view all Germans with contempt, forever suspicious that each and every one admired Adolf Hitler, one exception is the kind-hearted Lewis Morgan (Jason Clarke), an officer tasked with helping restore the bombed-out city of Hamburg. Lewis’ wife Rachael (Keira Knightley), on the other hand, doesn’t share his sympathies, which makes matters prickly when the pair move into a luxurious home owned by widower Stefan Lubert (Alexander Skarsgard) and populated by Stefan, his headstrong daughter Freda (Flora Thiemann), and various household servants. The Luberts and staff were expected to vacate the premises when the Morgans moved in, but Lewis’ bleeding heart decreed otherwise, figuring there’s enough square footage for everyone to live separately if not quite equally (the Morgans get the run of the house while the Luberts are confined to the cramped attic). But the proximity nevertheless remains close enough for Rachael to overcome her prejudices and develop an attraction to Stefan while her workaholic husband is away rebuilding the city. Had The Aftermath been around as a property in the late 1940s, it doubtless would have starred Deborah Kerr and Claude Rains as the Morgans and Laurence Olivier as Stefan. The performers cast here do their filmic forebears proud, and the picture succeeds as long as it focuses on their love triangle. But a storyline involving the teenage Freda’s dalliances with a youthful Nazi supporter (Jannik Schumann) is severely underplotted and leads to a climax that seems at odds with the more measured pace of the rest of the picture. It’s pumped up melodrama that competes with the more nuanced drama, and — with apologies to Casablanca — it crowds out the three adults and their struggles with that towering hill of beans.
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/// Jordan Peele’s Us, the writer-director’s first effort since the Oscar-winning Get Out rocked the nation two years ago, begins with a TV ad plugging 1986’s Hands Across America, a charity event that found over six million citizens and celebrities (among them Robin Williams, Michael J. Fox, then-Governor Bill Clinton, and Chewbacca) linking palms and forming human chains in an effort to raise funds to combat homelessness. Given the theme of Us, another commercial from the period that could work would have been the one for Wrigley’s Doublemint Gum that featured various sets of 42 twins … although the lyrics of “double your
pleasure, double your fun” might have given pause to the terrorized protagonists of Peele’s heady, harrowing but ultimately overreaching horror yarn. Certainly, the Hands Across America promo plays into the picture’s DNA, though that’s hardly a spoiler: Anyone who saw Get Out already knows that small details perpetually inform Peele’s narrative sensibilities. So that Michael Jackson/Thriller T-shirt? That Jeremiah 11:11 passage? And that boat with a motor that’s so Looney Tunes in its unpredictability that it might as well have been manufactured by the Acme Corporation? Yes, yes, and yes. When the picture commences way back in ’86, Adelaide is just a little girl (played by Madison Curry), one who’s taken to a seaside boardwalk teeming with games and rides. Adelaide wanders off on her own and enters a spooky funhouse of mirrors, wherein she sees herself as a sinister-looking child. But this isn’t merely a mirror distortion — it’s a flesh-and-blood doppelganger, one so frightening that Adelaide bolts from the joint. Cut to the present and Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o) is now happily married to the garrulous Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke) and the proud mother of Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Jason (Evan Alex). But an ill-advised trip back to that same beach unleashes a horror that follows the Wilsons back to their vacation home. Standing outside in the driveway, deep in the darkness of night, are four figures who eventually break into the house. And the four are exact duplicates of the Wilsons (and portrayed by the same four actors), although only the Adelaide clone, Red, has the gift of gab, as the other three can only communicate via moans, shouts and howls. To reveal more risks ruining the ultimate direction the movie takes, but suffice to say that Peele maintains an unnerving ambience for at least the film’s first hour. After that, the film allows too much of a jokey demeanor to siphon away some of the tension — this is partly due to the performances of Elisabeth Moss and Tim Heidecker as the Wilsons’ fun-loving friends. In their defense, the pair are fine in their earlier scenes and are obviously directed by Peele in the latter passages to go overboard in their emoting, but it nevertheless breaks the moody spell the film has maintained until this point (on the plus side, this midsection does include a <I>great<P> gag involving a notorious N.W.A. song). Fortunately, the movie recovers and Peele again pours on the suspense, although it’s at this point where the plot specifics start to come into focus and Peele is revealed to have attempted to juggle too many eggs. To be sure, there’s enough thematic material here to power an entire
semester of college dissertations: the notion that we’re our own worst enemies; the idea that you never really know other people; this nation’s pronounced struggles with xenophobia; the invisible status of those deemed disposable to our society; and so on and so forth. But Peele is never able to integrate the sociopolitical horrors with the cinematic horrors as brilliantly as he did in Get Out — consequently, the more fantastical aspects of Us require a lot of hard swallowing and ultimately generate more questions than answers. As for the big twist, it’s likely to floor many a viewer, but, honestly, it struck me as rather obvious — then again, maybe that’s because I’ve sat through so many ham-fisted M. Night Shyamalan movies and found this twist to be almost on that grasping “gotcha” level (even if Peele does add more subtext to his reveal than Shyamalan ever did). The performances by the four principals are exceptional, considering they’re all required to provide both “good” and “bad” interpretations to the same characters — Jekyll and Hyde, as it were. But it’s Nyong’o who truly excels in Us. Already an Oscar winner for her superb turn in 12 Years a Slave, she’s phenomenal here as well, bringing a damaged yet ultimately resilient quality to Adelaide and somehow flipping her internal switch to transform into the ravenous and razorvoiced Red. Even when Peele occasionally allows his reach to exceed his grasp, Nyong’o maintains a tight grip on the proceedings.
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“So did Wonder Park direct itself?” might be the expected sneer from any moviegoer alert enough to notice that the new animated feature has no helmer listed in its credits. The truth of the matter is that Dylan Brown directed the film, but after he was accused by various women of inappropriate sexual advances as the movie neared completion, Paramount opted to fire him and release the picture without a directorial tag. In this new era in which many are striving to be more socially responsible, it was a necessary removal, and it’s perhaps ironic that it was from a film about a bright girl who fights hard not to let her emotions and imagination be damaged by the people and circumstances surrounding her. The child is June (voiced by Brianna Denski), whose loving mom (Jennifer Garner) has joined her daughter in creating (via drawings, models and pure imagination) Wonder Park, an amusement park run by anthropomorphic animals like the chimpanzee Peanut (Norbert Leo Butz), the boar Greta (Mila Kunis), and the porcupine Steve (John Oliver).
But once June’s mom takes ill and has to leave home for medical attention, June becomes increasingly depressed and inconsolable, worrying her father (Matthew Broderick) and her friends. And when June stumbles across an actual Wonderland just like the one from her mind’s eye, she notices that it’s no longer a place of joy, as Peanut has gone missing and the other park denizens are having to contend with an army of chimpanzombies. A product of the Nickelodeon studio, Wonder Park of course has a gentle and positive message at its center — aside from the X-rated Fritz the Cat, what animated film doesn’t? — but it counts for little when cushioned in a film as blasé as this one. CS The story isn’t particularly interesting, the critters aren’t exactly engaging, and the animation isn’t especially appealing. Peanut the chimpanzee is particularly on the creepy side, appearing less likely to play with the kiddies and more likely to whip out a razor like the capuchin in George Romero’s Monkey Shines and start slashing at everything in sight.
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/// Despite nods in the direction of such worthy endeavors as Attack the Block and District 9, Captive State is basically a World War II picture reconfigured for a sci-fi crowd, with outer space invaders cast as the Nazis and humans repping the two sides of the French flip: resistance fighters and collaborators. Indeed, while the word “Vichy” never comes up, “collaborators” is rightfully applied to those people who dutifully serve the extra-terrestrials rather than fight them. As for the aliens, the collaborators call them “legislators” while the dissidents call them “roaches,” even if their physical appearance more resembles a sea urchin, or a porcupine, or John Travolta’s precombed hair in the animated sequence that opens Grease. Captive State begins with so much scrolling text that audiences will be forgiven for thinking they’re back on their couches at home cracking open a hardcover book. Once these viewers are transported back to the multiplex, they’re introduced to seemingly more characters than was found in the entire 57 seasons of the TV soap opera Guiding Light. Chief among these is William Mulligan (John Goodman), a Chicago cop tasked with tracking down dissidents; Gabriel Drummond (Ashton Sanders, the teenage Chiron in Moonlight), a young man who repeatedly finds himself in the middle of sticky situations; Gabriel’s older brother Rafe (Jonathan Majors), a key figure in the resistance movement; and Jane Doe (Vera Farmiga), a prostitute with a portrait of a Trojan horse in her living room. CS
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SAVANNAH AREA YOUNG REPUBLICANS Get involved. Meetings are the last Tuesday of every month (except for December) at 7:00pm. Contact number: (912) 657-9623 912-604-0797. chairman@sayr.org. sayr.org. VICTORIAN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS The VNA represents all residing, working or otherwise involved in the Victorian District and meets every second Tuesday of each month to the exception of the month of August. Meetings are held at The Mansion on Forsyth Park. Social starts at 5:30 p.m. and meetings start at 6 p.m. There is no fee to attend our meetings. For anyone using the Valet Parking at The Mansion, there is a $5. fee. MEMBERSHIP YEARLY FEES are: Individual $25. - Household (2 people) $40. - Business $50. and Students $10. Free ongoing, 6-7 p.m. vnasavannahga2013@ gmail.com. mansiononforsythpark.com. Mansion on Forsyth Park, 700 Drayton St.
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BENEFITS
COCKTAILS WITH A CAUSE The Tiffani Taylor Gallery is partnering with Miki Hall Skelton to support her campaign for “Woman of the Year” through the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. A portion from the evening’s proceeds will go directly to the Society. Tue., April 16, 6 p.m. Tiffani Taylor Gallery, 11 Whitaker Street. COFFEE BLUFF MARINE RESCUE SQUADRON 2019 BARBECUE DINNER FUNDRAISER Dinners will cost $10 and include barbecue, coleslaw, Brunswick stew, and a roll. The
Savannah Music Festival: tenThing
Formed in 2007 by Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth as an exciting collaboration between musical friends, the 10-piece, all-female brass ensemble tenThing (pronounced “ten-ting”) have firmly established themselves on the international scene to great acclaim. $42 THU., APRIL 11, 11 A.M. AND FRI., APRIL 12, 11 A.M. SAVANNAHMUSICFESTIVAL.ORG. TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 225 WEST PRESIDENT ST. Coffee Bluff Marine Rescue Squadron is celebrating its 60th anniversary as a nonprofit marine search and rescue operation. The Coffee Bluff Marine Rescue Squadron provides hundreds of manhours annually on missions including the search and rescue of stranded boaters, support of local authorities in drowning victim searches, and more. $10 Sat., April 13, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Coffee Bluff Marine Rescue Squadron, 14915 Coffee Bluff Rd. SCI FANS FOR SENIORS DRIVE Members of the community who would like to donate a new box fan or make a cash donation to purchase a fan may come by SCI’s headquarters at 3025 Bull Street, Savannah between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday or donate on-line at www.seniorcitizensinc.org/give. ongoing. Senior Citizens Inc., 3025 Bull St.
CLASSES, CAMPS & WORKSHOPS
2018 SUMMER BONANZA
The program will expose young people to local government, cultural diversity, and positive role models. Strengthening academic development while providing safe, structured, and fun activities for youth is essential. Summer Bonanza meets once per week on Saturday mornings from 10 am – 1 pm at the Moses Jackson Center. Saturdays, 9 a.m. (912) 663-4528. Moses Jackson Advancement Center, 1410B Richards Street. BACHATA AND SALSA DANCE CLASSES New 4 week dance series, designed for absolute beginners to learn the fundamentals of Bachata or Salsa for social dancing! Bachata and salsa are fun dances from the Dominican Republic that can be found in cities all over the world, and is a great way to meet other people and enjoy amazing music. No partner or dance experience needed, just come and have fun! Special discount if you decide to do the salsa and bachata series together! RSVP via facebook or email. $40 for 4 classes, $70
for both bachata and salsa series ongoing. stephaniehmetzger@gmail.com. facebook. com/events/239285403377870/. BASIC SELF DEFENSE Essential self-defense for adults. $30/ month Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6 p.m. fit912savannah.com. fit912savannah.com. Fit912 Savannah, 428 Bull Street. 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. BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU CLASSES Monday/Wednesday- Competition 5:30pm and Fundamentals at 7:00pm Tuesday/ Thursday- Fundamentals at Noon and Fundamentals at 5:30pm Friday- Private Lessons by appointment Saturday- Open Mat at 10:30am ongoing. Serg Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, 401 Mall Blvd. BRIDGE LESSONS
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AUDITIONS FOR ARMSTRONG YOUTH ORCHESTRA Auditions for our spring session will be held January 9, 2019. Students who played in the Fall 2018 session, and who plan to remain in the same ensemble, do not need to re-audition in January. The January auditions are for new students, or students wishing to move to a different ensemble. Choose your instrument from the list on their website - https://ayosavannah.org/ auditions/ -to see the audition requirements for applicable ensembles. Then, contact them via email at ayosavannah2004@gmail. com to reserve an audition date and time, or with any questions you may have. ongoing. Armstrong Campus, Georgia Southern University, 11935 Abercorn St. CALL FOR EARLY 19TH CENTURY DANCERS/REGENCY DANCING The Davenport House has a social dance program which meets most Wednesdays at 5 p.m. The Museum is looking for new participants in this free community activity. For information contact info@davenporthousemuseum. org or call 912-236-8097. ongoing. davenporthousemuseum.org. Davenport House, 324 East State St.
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Learn to play bridge. BB2 Competitive Bidding: Monday, September 24@7:00PM. BB4: Play of the Hand/ Declarer/Play: Saturday, September 15@10:00AM. Intermediate/Advanced Workshops: Friday, September 14@10:00AM ongoing. 912-2284838. bridgewebs.com/savannahclubs. Savannah Duplicate Bridge Center, 8511 Ferguson Ave. CARE TEAM TRAINING (HAAF) Tue., April 16, 10 a.m. ACS Building 1286, 171 Haley Ave. CHAKRA BALANCING AND GAYATRI MANTRA W/ REBECCA SOULE Join Rebecca for a special satsang and yoga class. We will discuss the use of mantras in meditation and our practice, and follow with an asana practice designed to physically balance the chakras. $35 in advance, $40 day of Sun., April 14, 1-3 p.m. 912-3492756. programs@savannahpoweryoga. com. savannahpoweryoga.com/workshops. savannahpoweryoga.com. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Road Unit J-3. CONTEMPORARY DANCE FUSION CLASS AT THE STUDIO IN THUNDERBOLT Join a classically trained dance teacher for a fun and challenging dance class. Focus on technique, choreography, and whatever else you would like to do! Opportunity to learn aerial hammock moves as well. Every Sunday from 6-7pm $20. To reserve a space call/text 912-483-2109 or email ktoyogasurf@gmail.com ongoing. COUNTRY TWO STEP GROUP CLASS Join us every week to learn how to dance to the classics and modern day songs of country music. All levels welcomebeginners to advanced. Each week will progress from the previous. First week is the top of the month and runs for 4 weeks. Sign up today! $40 for 4 weeks Thursdays, 7-8 p.m. 612-470-6683. salondebaile.dance@ gmail.com. salondebailedancestudio.com. Salon de Baile Dance & Fitness Studio, 301 US Hwy 80 SE. 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. You’re Invited To A Free Masterclass: 5 Steps to Turning Your Talents and Expertise Into A Successful Online Coaching Business (even if you have no idea how to get started!) See website for more info at www.laurenl.com/creativity_ coaching/ or contact Creativity@LaurenL. com ongoing. Online, ---. DRUM FOLK: A RIDDIMIC RESCUE Join a new folk and funk cultural movement built within the classic traditions of GullahGeechee cultural legacy. Learn about juba, hand jive, ring play, ring shout, tambourine, riddimic movement, and vocalization along with the various regional drum legacies connecting national and international culture. $12 per 1.5 hour session Wednesdays, 7 p.m. nowgriot1@aol.com. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. DUI PREVENTION GROUP Offers victim impact panels for intoxicated drivers, DUI, offenders, and anyone seeking 44 knowledge about the dangers of driving
Savannah Cultural Arts Center Grand Opening
Join on Saturday, April 13th from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. to celebrate the opening of the Savannah Cultural Arts Center! The much-anticipated center will be a space for locals and visitors alike to not only experience art but engage and create it too. 201 MONTGOMERY ST, SAVANNAH, GA
while impaired. A must see for teen drivers. Sign in time begins 6:00-6:20 p.m. Panel starts promptly at 6:30 p.m. and ends at approximately 8:00 P.M. Fee is $40.00 money orders or certified bank checks only payable to DUI Prevention Group. Meets monthly, check the website. $40/session (912) 691-4905. info@duipreventiongroup. org. EXCEL INTERMEDIATE At the conclusion of the class, you should be able to: • Create and Manage Worksheets • Manage Data Cells and Ranges • Create Tables • Perform Operations with Formulas and Functions • Create and use Charts Early Bird Registration by March 1 - $120 Regular Registration-$125 Thu., April 11, 6-7:30 p.m. 912-478-2560. adaniels@georgiasouthern. edu. academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ ce/programs/excel-courses/. Armstrong Campus, Georgia Southern University, 11935 Abercorn St. FIRE SAFETY $0-$30 Sat., April 13, 8:30 a.m. GSU Armstrong Campus Auditorium, 11935 Abercorn Street. HIGH VIBE / LOW COST YOGA Join Melissa DeLynn for all-levels, beginner friendly Yoga classes. These classes are well-balanced, nourishing, and challenging with an emphasis on philosophy and spirituality. Expect to learn, heal, meditate and connect. $15 Wednesdays, 6-7:15 p.m. 706-614-4715. mdelynn@gmail.com. WELMONT, 1930 Montgomery Street. JEWELER’S GUIDED OPEN STUDIO Join us for time to practice your skills and knock out some projects you’ve been dreaming up. Tuition includes access to the studio with support from Christina or one of her assistants. Students are responsible for their own materials. Prerequisite of Jewelry I or similar instruction from another studio. $30 Thursdays, 1-4 p.m. 912-289-8337. christina@dreamcatstudio.
com. dreamcatstudio.com. Use our space to practice your skills and knock out your personal pieces. Tuition includes access to the studio with support from Christina or one of her assistants. Students are responsible for their own materials. Prerequisite of Jewelry I or similar instruction from another studio. $30 Fridays, 6 p.m. 912-289-8337. christina@ dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcatstudio.com. dreamcat studio, Hover Creek RD. MUSIC LESSONS AND CLASSES: ALL INSTRUMENTS, ALL AGES Portman’s Music Academy offers private lessons on piano, guitar (electric, acoustic, classical), mandolin, ukulele, banjo, bass guitar, drums, percussion, voice, clarinet, saxophone (alto and tenor), oboe, flute, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, tuba, DJ, Pro Logic, Composition, Ear Training, violin, viola, and cello. Group classes for beginner piano and guitar. Music Adventures for ages 5 to 7. ongoing. 912354-1500. portmansmusic.com. Portman’s Music Superstore, 7650 Abercorn St. NAMI FAMILY TO FAMILY EDUC PROG Help caregivers understand and support loved ones with serious mental illness. every week from 2/5/2019 through 4/16/2019 Free Tue., April 16, 6-8 p.m. 912-401-2689. namisavannah.org. Isle of Hope Methodist Church, 412 Parkersburg Rd. POWER SELF DEFENSE Join us for fun and fitness in the heart of downtown Savannah. Fit912Savannah offers fun, safe, friendly classes in yoga, self defense, dance, and fitness, with more classes coming soon! Have a question, want to register? Contact us at nfo@ fit912savannah.com! Located in the lower level of the United Way Building, 428 Bull Street, Savannah, GA (Enter via the red doors on East Wayne Street) Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m. fit912savannah.com. fit912savannah. com. Fit912 Savannah, 428 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. SURFING AND UKULELE LESSONS Surfing & Ukulele Lessons and surf camps. Tybee Surf Lessons, Tybee Island/ Savannah. Email or call Turner for more info 808-385-5364. TybeeSurfLessons.com. ongoing. Tybee Island, Tybee Island. TAI CHI The tai chi classes are open to the first 25 participants 60 years of age or older. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. 912-877-0056. Senior Citizens, Inc. Liberty County Neighborhood Center, 800 Tupelo Trail. TEND THE FIRE & TRANSFORM YOUR PRACTICE: AGNI SARA, THE FIRE WITHIN W/ REBECCA SOULE In this class Rebecca will discuss the physiological, energetic and psychological benefits that you will gain from a daily practice of agni sara. We will also consider how this practice works synergistically with your meditation practice to bring stability and strength into your daily life. This challenging practice will be heated. $35 in advance, $40 day of Fri., April 12, 5:45-7:45 p.m. 912-349-2756. programs@savannahpoweryoga.com. savannahpoweryoga.com/workshops. savannahpoweryoga.com. Savannah Power Yoga, 7360 Skidaway Road Unit J-3. 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 awardwinning 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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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. For more info visit https://www.abeniculturalarts.com or call 912-272-2797. ongoing. abeniculturalarts@ gmail.com. abeniculturalarts.com. 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. 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
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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 Our mission is to further the art of beading and bead education within our membership and our communities. Visit website for more info regarding the next Bead-In Class or the next CBS Meeting! ongoing. coastalbeadsociety. com/coastalbeadsociety-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, and other fiber arts. Meets at Oatland Island Wildlife Center (in the 2nd floor studio), first Saturday of the month (Sept.-June) 10:15am - 1pm. Visit website for more updates! ongoing. fiberguildsav.com. Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, 711 Sandtown Road GA. 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. ONE MILLION CUPS Opportunity to polish your pitching skills while networking and making valuable connections. Pitch your idea/business in front of fellow entrepreneurs and get real-time constructive feedback. 2222 Bull Street, weekly Wednesday 9-10am, no charge, free coffee. www.1millioncups.com/ savannah Wednesdays. bullstreetlabs.com. Bull Street Labs, 2222 Bull St. PROOFREADER’S WHISKEY CLUB Membership includes the first whiskey drink free, free monthly private whiskey tastings from various brands, 15% off the member’s bill for the year, and a personalized book card including a list of 75 whiskeys in each chapter in the DeSoto library. Library series meetings will be the last Thursday of every month and include one free guest pass per member for the year. They will pick a book from the Edgar’s P&P library to hold their personalized book card which will be used to keep track of their progress on the whiskey list. $50 ongoing. eventbrite. com/e/proofreaders-whiskey-clubtickets-42943991635. proofsavannah.com. Edgar’s Proof and Provision, 15 E. Liberty St. 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 SACRED HARP SINGERS Savannah Sacred Harp Singers welcome you to join our monthly community singing on the second Saturday of the month from
2-4pm at Ferguson Avenue Baptist Church. Sacred Harp is an American tradition of singing hymns in four part harmony. No particular religious affiliation is required or endorsed. All are welcome. No experience necessary. ongoing. Ferguson Avenue Baptist Church, 10050 Ferguson Ave. 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. STITCH AND BITCH Slow down and nurture your creative spirit in a constructive, casual atmosphere. Bring a project or enjoy one of our kits curated to focus on the dedicated process of craft: embroidery, knitting, needlework, or any of the fiber arts. All ages are welcome! Cheeseboard + wine deals to be had. Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. THOMAS HEATH AT SOCIAL MEDIA BREAKFAST SAVANNAH Thomas Heath of Thomas Heath Advisors from Charleston, SC, brings a wealth of experience as a Personal Branding Expert, LinkedIn Trainer, Business Coach and Columnist for the Charleston Regional Business Center and other unique skills that make him a special guest presenter for the SMBSAV community. His presentation will include practical tips on how to build our personal brands and he might even ask for volunteers to be in the hot seat as he critiques LinkedIn profiles. free Fri., April 12, 8-9:30 a.m. 920-819-2642. socmedbreaksav@gmail.com. thomasheath-social-media-breakfast-registration. eventbrite.com. Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street.
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ARMSTRONG WIND ENSEMBLE Located in Fine Arts Auditorium. $6 Tue., April 16, 7:30 p.m. 912-344-2801. armstrongboxoffice@georgiasouthern. edu. Armstrong Campus, Georgia Southern University, 11935 Abercorn St. ARMSTRONG WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT The Armstrong Wind Ensemble performs its spring concert under the direction of Mark B. Johnson at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium Tue., April 16, 7:30-9 p.m. 912-344-2801. Armstrong Campus Fine Arts Center, 11935 Abercorn St. MY COUNTRY ‘TIS OF THEE BY THE US AIR FORCE ACADEMY BAND The United States Air Force Academy Band presents “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.” Free tickets are available at the Civic Center Box Office. Doors open at 6 pm. Free Mon., April 15, 7 p.m. 912-651-6550. savannahcivic. com. Johnny Mercer Theatre, 301 West Oglethorpe Ave. THE PIANO MEN
3 powerhouse pianists / singers along with band pay tribute to Billy Joel, Elton John, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Lee Lewis and many more. The audience is singing along to 2 hours of fun. $39 adults, $19.50 child Sundays, 3 p.m. and Wednesdays, Fridays, 8 p.m. savannahtheatre.com. savannahtheatre.com. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. SAVANNAH LIVE! 2-hour high-energy variety show featuring award- winning singers, dancers and band performing 60s, 70s and 80s pop music, rock and roll, Broadway, Motown, Stomp and comedy that’s fun for all ages! $39 adults, $19.50 child Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. savannahtheatre. com. savannahtheatre.com. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: ANDA UNION Anda Union’s captivating combination of Mongolian musical styles is a reflection of their roots. Hailing from different ethnic nomadic cultures, the nine-member band unites tribal music traditions from all over Inner Mongolia, a semi-autonomous region of China. $42 Wed., April 10, 7 p.m. and Thu., April 11, 12:30 p.m. savannahmusicfestival. org. charleshmorriscenter.com. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: CHARLIE HUNTER TRIO FT. LUCY WOODWARD With a career spanning 25 years, Charlie Hunter consistently ups his game as an innovative composer, imaginative bandleader and all-around great guitarist. $37 Thu., April 11, 7:30 p.m. savannahmusicfestival.org. charleshmorriscenter.com. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: CHRISTOPHER HOPE PRESENTS “MY SON THE FIDDLER” How do a writer and a musician survive in the same family? Conceived as an essay and delivered via a series for BBC Radio 3, author Christopher Hope recalls raising his son Daniel Hope. Recitation by Christopher Hope will be mixed with solo performances by Daniel Hope. $57 Sat., April 13, 4 p.m. savannahmusicfestival. org. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: CLOSING NIGHT PARTY: MACEO PARKER Saxophonist Maceo Parker embodies the legacy of soul and funk music like no other musician can. Eight years since his last SMF appearance, Maceo Parker returns to close out the 2019 season with what promises to be the funkiest of dance parties. $42 Sat., April 13, 4 & 8 p.m. savannahmusicfestival. org. shipsofthesea.org. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: DANIEL HOPE & FRIENDS IV: BALKAN ROOTS Back by popular demand, violinist Simos Papanas conceived this season’s Balkan Roots program, combining both fine art and folk music traditions from Eastern Europe and the Balkans. $57 Wed., April 10, 6 p.m. savannahmusicfestival.org. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: DANIEL
HOPE & SEBASTIAN KNAUER: HOMAGE TO YEHUDI MENUHIN Daniel Hope and Sebastian Knauer pay tribute to Daniel Hope’s teacher and “musical grandfather” Sir Yehudi Menuhin. $57 Fri., April 12, 6 p.m. savannahmusicfestival.org. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: DARRELL SCOTT Acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and singersongwriter Darrell Scott performed at SMF in 2014 in collaboration with Tim O’Brien, and returned for a solo show in 2016. He has played with hundreds of country and bluegrass music’s brightest stars, ranging from Randy Travis and Sam Bush to Martina McBride and Zac Brown. $30 Wed., April 10, 12:30 p.m. savannahmusicfestival. org. charleshmorriscenter.com. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: DIMMER TWINS: PATTERSON HOOD AND MIKE COOLEY OF DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, T. HARDY MORRIS Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley (a.k.a. the “Dimmer Twins”) formed the Drive-By Truckers in Athens, Georgia in 1996, though their musical collaboration began in the 80s with the band Adam’s House Cat. T. Hardy Morris is an Athens, Georgia-based guitarist and singer whose songwriting propelled the roots rock band Dead Confederate. $39 Thu., April 11, 8 p.m. savannahmusicfestival. org. shipsofthesea.org. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: JEFF TWEEDY As the founding member and leader of Wilco and co-founder of Uncle Tupelo, Jeff Tweedy is one of the most accomplished songwriters and performers in contemporary American music. $37-$80 Fri., April 12, 8 p.m. savannahmusicfestival.org/ event/jeff-tweedy/. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: JERUSALEM QUARTET A regular and beloved guest on the world’s great concert stages from London’s Wigmore Hall to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg to the Théâtre des ChampsElysées, the Jerusalem Quartet is recognized as one of the most dynamic and exciting quartets currently performing. $57 Thu., April 11, 6 p.m. savannahmusicfestival. org. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: KANNAPOLIS: A MOVING PORTRAIT Conceived by award-winning composer, singer and violinist Jenny Scheinman, Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait is a music and film project that features a live score and sound design with re-edited footage from the archives of filmmaker Herbert Lee Waters. $37 Thu., April 11, 7 p.m. savannahmusicfestival.org. www2.scad. edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: LATIN DANCE PARTY: EL SEPTETO SANTIAGUERO The intoxicating Cuban ensemble El
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Septeto Santiaguero gained attention for infusing an adventurous streak into the traditional son music of its native Santiago de Cuba. $39 Fri., April 12, 8:30 p.m. savannahmusicfestival.org. shipsofthesea. org. Ships of The Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: MODERN BROADWAY Experience modern Broadway favorites from Phantom of the Opera to Les Misérables and more. In this fifth annual co-production, the Savannah Music Festival and Savannah VOICE Festival team up to deliver two performances of timeless musical theatre hits, unplugged and beautifully sung. $42 Sat., April 13, 2 & 5 p.m. savannahmusicfestival.org. charleshmorriscenter.com. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: PAT METHENY SIDE EYE WITH JAMES FRANCIS AND NATE SMITH In his SMF debut, renowned jazz guitarist Pat Metheny presents the first edition of “Side Eye”— a new playing environment that allows him to feature a rotating cast of up-and-coming musicians who have caught his eye. $35-$65 Wed., April 10, 8 p.m. savannahmusicfestival.org/event/patmetheny-side-eye-with-james-francies-natesmith/. www2.scad.edu/venues/trustees/. Trustees Theater, 216 East Broughton St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: ROBBIE FULKS WITH ROBBIE GJERSOE Robbie Fulks is a singer, multiinstrumentalist, composer and songwriter whose early solo work helped define the alt-country movement that began in the 1990s. He is joined by Robbie Gjersoe, an accomplished multi-instrumentalist who first appeared at SMF in 2011 with The Flatlanders. $30 Fri., April 12, 12:30 p.m. savannahmusicfestival.org. charleshmorriscenter.com. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: ROBERT EARL KEEN, DAVE ALVIN AND JIMMIE DALE GILMORE Since his beginnings in the Texas folk scene nearly four decades ago, Robert Earl Keen has achieved pioneer status in the Americana music world. Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore have been friends for 30 years, but only recently started playing music together. $35-$80 Sat., April 13, 7:30 p.m. savannahmusicfestival.org. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: SEBASTIAN KNAUER, PIANO Sebastian Knauer began playing piano at the age of four. A perennial competition prize winner, Knauer gave his concerto debut at the age of 13, performing Haydn’s D Major Piano Concerto in the Hamburg Musikhalle, followed by his international debut as part of the European Concert series for Italy’s national public broadcasting company in Venice. $42 Wed., April 10, 11 a.m. savannahmusicfestival. org. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: STRINGBAND SPECTACULAR: 46 ACOUSTIC MUSIC SEMINAR FINALE
Hear inspiring original compositions and arrangements by the next generation of Americana, bluegrass and acoustic musicians in this highly-anticipated annual concert. $20 Fri., April 12, 6 p.m. savannahmusicfestival.org. Savannah Cultural Arts Center, Corner of MLK and Oglethorpe Streets. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: TENTHING Formed in 2007 by Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth as an exciting collaboration between musical friends, the 10-piece, all-female brass ensemble tenThing (pronounced “ten-ting”) have firmly established themselves on the international scene to great acclaim. $42 Thu., April 11, 11 a.m. and Fri., April 12, 11 a.m. savannahmusicfestival.org. trinitychurch1848.org/. Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 West President St. SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: UNION TANGUERA AND KATE WEARE COMPANY, A COLLABORATION, SIN SALIDA Contemporary dance meets Argentinian tango in Sin Salida, a first-time collaboration between New York-based choreographer Kate Weare and Esteban Moreno of the French/Argentinian tango troupe Union Tanguera. $37-$85 Thu., April 11, 7:30 p.m. savannahmusicfestival.org. lucastheatre. com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. SAVANNAH VOICE FESTIVAL CO-PRO WITH SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL: MODERN BROADWAY In this fifth annual co-production, the Savannah Music Festival and Savannah VOICE Festival team up to deliver two performances of timeless musical theatre hits, unplugged and beautifully sung. Hear first-class singers perform some of the best of Broadway from past four decades. Savannah VOICE Festival co-founder Maria Zouves once again directs this lively show with special host, world-renowned baritone and mentor to many, Sherrill Milnes. Singers include Jessica Ann Best, Peter Lake and Savannah’s own Nicolas Yaquinto with arrangements for piano, bass and drums by Mark Chesanow. 42 Sat., April 13, 2-3:30 & 5-6:30 p.m. 855-7667372. info@savannahvoicefestival.org. savannahvoicefestival.org/festival/modernbroadway/. charleshmorriscenter.com. Charles H. Morris Center, 10 East Broad St.
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CHOOSING TO LEAD CONFERENCE New in 2019, One Hundred Miles will have 15 interactive workshops, including one track entirely geared towards student leaders. And you won’t want to miss the keynote speakers, Paul Greenberg (Four Fish by Paul Greenberg), the James Beard Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food and American Catch: The Fight for our Local Seafood and Angelou Ezeilo, Founder and CEO of the Atlantabased environmental non-profit, Greening Youth Foundation. April 13-14. savtcc.com. Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, 1 International Dr. COASTAL CONSERVATION IN ACTION:
CHOOSING TO LEAD CONFERENCE One Hundred Miles hosts the 3rd annual Coastal Conservation in Action: Choosing to Lead conference on April 13-14. Choosing to Lead offers fifteen interactive workshops broadening the understanding of what it means to be a conservationist by focusing on those who choose to make a difference in their own time, in their own way, through actions both big and small. This year’s conference also includes a track geared to student leaders. $100 (early bird) Sat., April 13, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. 912-264-4111. officemanager@onehundredmiles.org. onehundredmiles.org/choosingtolead/. savtcc.com. Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, 1 International Dr.
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2ND ANNUAL GEORGIA WORLD LANGUAGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE Thu., April 11, 9:30 p.m. 711 Sandtown Rd, 711 Sandtown Road. 40 ACRES AND A MULE TOUR This is the story of Savannah and its significant role of promoting slavery throughout the South and it’s the story of the triumph over slavery through faith, culminating in a historic meeting in which the aspirations of 4 million African-Americans became distilled in a single phrase: “40 acres and a mule.” You will visit six of Savannah’s most historic squares as you learn the truth about crucial events that took place in the city between 1733 and 1865 that shaped the life and times of Savannah for years to come. Private tours only. $40 ongoing. 912-6594383. rumpel@40acresandamule.org. 40acresandamule.org. APRIL BIRTHPLACE GENERAL TOURS $15 Sat., April 13, noon. juliettegordonlowbirthplace. org/. $15.00 Mon., April 15, noon. juliettegordonlowbirthplace. org/. $15.00 Tue., April 16, noon. juliettegordonlowbirthplace.org/. Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, 10 East Oglethorpe Ave. APRIL GIRL SCOUT TROOP EXPERIENCE $13 Sat., April 13, 8:45 a.m. juliettegordonlowbirthplace. org/. $13.00 Mon., April 15, 8:45 a.m. juliettegordonlowbirthplace. org/. $13 Tue., April 16, 8:45 a.m. juliettegordonlowbirthplace.org/. Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, 10 East Oglethorpe Ave. CONTRA DANCE Come join in the fun of contra and squares and a couple of waltzes. Joyce Murlless and Bob Beattie will teach and prompt the dancing. Glow in the Dark String Band will play tunes in ‘old time music style.’ Newcomers welcomed. Easy to learn, no experience or partner needed, two left feet accepted, come early for beginner lesson, casual dress, teens and up. Friendly and alcohol free setting. $9 or $6 members & students Sat., April 13, 7:30 p.m. 912-826-6504. d79vincent@gmail. com. savannahfolk.org. Garden City United Methodist Church, 62 Varnedoe Ave. DIY NATURAL HAIR WORKSHOP $75-$130 Sat., April 13, 3 p.m. Bella Salon and Spa, 115 Canal Street Unit 301.
DRINKS AFTER WORK This group is for people that enjoy getting out mid-week, being social after work, and want to discover new places in the downtown Savannah area. Come have a cocktail, make new friends, and get over the hump. The group will meet on Wednesdays at various establishments throughout Downtown Savannah and nearby area. http://www.meetup.com/Drinksafter-work/ https://www.facebook.com/ groups/960991837322187/ Wednesdays, 7 p.m. drinksafterworksavannah@gmail. com. meetup.com/Drinks-after-work/ events/227656080/. distillerysavannah. com. The Distillery, 416 W. Liberty St. THE EXCHANGE CLUB OF SAVANNAH In a rut? The Exchange Club of Savannah welcomes men and women like you to support, serve and encourage the best teachers, students, firefighters, crime fighters, leaders and organizations in our community. Check us out at savannahexchange.org or find us on Facebook. Mondays, noon. 912-441-6559. ddewitt30@yahoo.com. Savannahexchange. org. Exchange Club of Savannah, Carey Hilliard’s Abercorn across from Lowe’s. FREE TAX PREPARATION BY AARP TAX AIDE Have you prepared your 2018 tax returns yet? If not, AARP Foundation Tax-Aide can help you. Their IRS-certified volunteers provide tax preparation service to anyone — and it’s completely free. You don’t even have to be an AARP member. THE AARP Foundation Tax-Aide – which is celebrating 50 years – will be open until April 16 at Bull Street Library, Southwest-Chatham Library, and Hinesville Library. Through April 16. HERSTORY: HISTORICAL WOMEN OF SAVANNAH WALKING TOUR Massie Heritage Center will host a walking tour for families to celebrate the famous women of Savannah. Massie’s Historical Heritage Specialists invite you for an evening walk through the Historic District, full of tales and anecdotes pertaining to the iconic women in the city’s past, including Mary Musgrove, Juliette Low, Flannery O’ Connor, Susie King Taylor and many more. $15 per person, $30 per family Sun., April 14, 4:30 p.m. massieschool.com. massieschool.com/. Massie Heritage Center, 207 East Gordon St. HISTORICAL WALKING TOURS WITH SAVANNAH TOURS AND TALES True tales of the Irish Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans of Savannah’s past. Join KT O’Brien, a native Savannahian, for a leisurely stroll through the serene squares of Savannah. Frequent stops for seats and refreshments available. Reservations required for tours daily at 10:30am and 8:00pm 2hours $30. Private tours upon request. ongoing. savannahtoursandtales@gmail.com. LEARN HOW TO KEEP YOUR FAMILY OUT OF PROBATE COURT Tue., April 16, 10 a.m. Queensborough Conference Room, 7393 Hodgson Memorial Drive. LET’S GO! NETWORK CONCEPTS UNVEILING CAT will present two contrasting Network Concepts, reflecting the tradeoff between
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high frequency service and wide network coverage. Light refreshments will be provided, and a presentation of the Concepts will begin at 5:30 p.m. The Let’s Go! Designing Better Transit Together system redesign project will rely heavily on input from the community. The project is anticipated to conclude at the end of 2019. More information is available at letsgo. catchacat.org. Free & Open to the Public Thu., April 11, 5-7 p.m. 912-233-5767. letsgo@catchacat.org. letsgo.catchacat.org. cgc.georgiasouthern.edu/. Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street. MASTERS BAR GOLF AT THE GROVE A party unlike any other. Join us April 13th for the 1st Annual Masters Bar Golf event. We’ll have our own 9 hole bar golf course, Masters playing on every TV and live music on the rooftop. Dress in your best golf attire. How does it work? Each participant will explore The Grove for 9 “holes”, featuring food & beverages at each, to complete their bar golf “round”. Once completed, participants will get a t-shirt and a chance to win golf prizes -- shirts, bags, hats, Grove Gift cards & more. $10 Sat., April 13, 1-6 p.m. info@thegrovesavannah. com. thegrovesavannah.com/upcomingevents/2019/4/13/masters-bar-golfsavannah-ga. The Grove, 301 W. Congress St. MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP DINNER AND This low-budget freak show/cult classic/cultural institution is about the misadvenMEETING tures of Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon), as they Membership meeting with dinner and spend the night in the gothic castle of the cross-dressing alien Dr. Frank-N-Furter speaker. Navy League supports our Sea (Tim Curry) and his Transylvanian posse. Services and their families. You do not have $10 FRI., APRIL 12, 8 P.M. 912-472-4790. TYBEEPOSTTHEATER.ORG. TYBEE to have been in any of the military services POST THEATER, 10 VAN HORNE. to join. For further information contact Jeff Zureick at 912 450 0521 $22.00 third Tuesday of every month & 5:45-8:15 p.m. 912 450 0521. piwi@hargray.com. One of the spookiest tours in town. Learn savannahnavyleague.us. Savannah Navy take place Friday. The grand opening will about the untold stories of some of the League, 17 lake heron ct west. include live performances from local arts most haunted locations here in Savannah MOON RIVER’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY organizations on the hour every hour, artist Georgia. Guaranteed to give you a few Celebrate 20 years of Moon River with $2 demonstrations and hands-on art sessions. goose bumps and an unexplained need for a Fri., April 12, 5 p.m. and Sat., April 13, 10 beer from 4-7 pm, a tapping of the Little night light. 33.00 ongoing. 1-866-666-3323. a.m.-3 p.m. Savannah Cultural Arts Center, Chocolate Donuts porter, live music by City 6thsenseworld.com. 6th Sense Savannah Hotel, and birthday cake. Wed., April 10, 4 Corner of MLK and Oglethorpe Streets. Tours, 404 Abercorn Street. p.m. moonriverbrewing.com/. Moon River SCAD DAILY TOURS OSHA 7100: INTRODUCTION Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. SCAD offers tours in Savannah, Atlanta TO MACHINERY AND MACHINE NEW YOGA NOW BEER AND PIZZA POP and Hong Kong for prospective students SAFEGUARDING UP and their families. Tours are available daily, Mon., April 15, 8 a.m. Georgia Tech New Yoga Now will be taking over Service excluding Sundays, and allow prospective Brewing’s production. $10 gets you a 60min Savannah, 210 Technology Circle. students an opportunity to view classrooms OSHA 7105: INTRODUCTION TO Signature Yoga class with 100% of the and administrative buildings, galleries, EMERGENCY PLANNING proceeds benefiting For the Love of Paws. residence halls and dining facilities and Big Bon will serve pizzas out front. Sat., April Tue., April 16, 8 a.m. Georgia Tech see where our students live, learn and Savannah, 210 Technology Circle. 13, 4 p.m. Service Brewing Company, 574 prepare for professional careers. For more PRESERVATION FOR THE FUTURE-Indian Street. information please visit, https://www. TOUR & PANEL DISCUSSION NIGHTLY SPIRITS GHOST TOUR scad.edu/admission/visit-scad/dailyThu., April 11, 5:15 p.m. Bryan Stovall Explore haunted bars, haunted buildings, tours. ongoing. SCAD Student Center, 120 and Savannah’s oldest area, all while having Gallery, 10 Whitaker St. Montgomery St. REAL FRG: KEY CONTACT TRAINING time to enjoy some tasty beverages along SCADSTYLE (HAAF) the way. Step back in time to the 1700’s to SCADstyle is an annual gathering where Thu., April 11, 9 a.m. Army Community explore the parts of Savannah that most international design luminaries and Service - Hunter, 171 Haley Avenue, Bldg only dare to talk about. You’ll hear tales influencers share their expertise with the 1286. about the dead that haven’t quite moved next generations of creators, artists and RECORD STORE DAY on, visit some of the most haunted places visionaries. This year’s event features Sat., April 13, 8 a.m. graveface.com/. in the city and get to know the spirits that captivating, inspiring and forward-thinking Graveface Records & Curiosities, 5 W. 40th haunt the locals…and the places that the lectures, panels and workshops at SCAD Street. locals haunt. $20 Fridays, Saturdays, 8:30 locations in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia SAVANNAH CULTURAL ARTS CENTER p.m. nightlyspirits.com/savannah-ghostand Hong Kong. Through April 11. scad. GRAND OPENING tours/. savannahtaphouse.com. Savannah edu/scadstyle2019. scadmoa.org/. SCAD A ribbon-cutting ceremony and the theater Taphouse, 125 E. Broughton St. Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. dedication in honor of Ben Tucker will THE ORIGINAL MIDNIGHT TOUR SHIRE OF FORTH CASTLE FIGHTER
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PRACTICE Local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism meets Saturdays at Forsyth Park (south end) for fighter practice and general hanging out. For those interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ongoing. savannahsca.org. SOUTHBOUND BREWING PINEWOOD DERBY $10 Fri., April 12, 7 p.m. Southbound Brewing Company, 107 East Lathrop Ave. TWO HOUR WALKING GHOST TOUR Chilling stories & eerie properties that paved the road to this fascinating title. Pre-colonial ghost history, all the way up to the 21st century. The most complete picture of all of the human psychical and paranormal events that put Savannah on the map as the ghostly city of greatness. Presented by America’s Most Haunted City Tour. ongoing, 9 p.m. 6thsenseworld.com/. UNION MISSION’S LUNCH N’ LEARN Discuss ways in which we can make a difference in the lives of those affected by homelessness. Find out about what you can do to fight homelessness, what Union Mission does and how you can help. Thu., April 11, 11:30 a.m. unionmission.org. Union Mission, 120 Fahm St. WOMEN’S CLOTHING SWAP Clean out all your unworn or nonfitting clothes and trade for new to you clothes. Who doesn’t like to shop for free? Bring good condition stain free clothing and accessories. Then look through what others brought, take what you like. All remaining items will be donated to local charities. Men’s clothes are being accepted for donation. Sat., April 13, 10 a.m. liveoakstore. com/tubbysthunderbolt. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt), 2909 River Dr.
FITNESS
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. 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. 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).
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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. 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. 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. BREATHWORK W/ MAGGIE HAYES Join Maggie for a deep exploration of the breath, in all its facets, as she provides a completely physically safe and nonjudgmental space for you to have the journey you need individually as well as supporting the collective energy of the group throughout the session with sound, essential oils and touch (optional). If you choose, please bring a journal or something to write with for discussion questions and writing about your experience. Sat., April 13, 5 p.m. Revolution Yoga Studio, 204 West Victory Drive. COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE AND SOUND BATH Matthew Duplessie, Sound Healer, and Jen Marks Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine 48 Center, LLC are coming together again to
offer a collaborative healing experience where sound and Qi unite to facilitate internal energy shifts. Everyone will receive an acupuncture treatment while experiencing an immersive sound bath by Matthew’s live looping vocals and ethnic world sounds. Our intention is to offer a sacred space for everyone to come as they are, relax and leave knowing they have taken time for self-care and new experiences. Loose clothing is recommended. $40 Sun., April 14, noon. dancingdogsyogasavannah. com/. Dancing Dogs Yoga, 18 E Broughton 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, 10 a.m. customfitcenter.com. CustomFit Center, 101-A West Park Ave. EXERCISE CLASS Stretches, strengthening and general feel good moves. ongoing. 912-667-0487. Functional Bodies, 821 E. 66th St. 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. 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. Visit the website for more info. Mondays-Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. and TuesdaysThursdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. 912-663-5833. getexcitedandmove.com. Anderson-Cohen Weightlifting Center, 7230 Varnedoe Drive. GLUTE CAMP WITH KAYLA All classes are included in membership and day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Fridays, 12:30 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. INSANITY LIVE WITH SHAWN All classes are included in membership and day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. ISRAELI KRAV MAGA SELF-DEFENSE CLASSES A system of self-defense techniques based on several martial arts. The official fighting system of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Custom Fit offers individual and small group training and intensive workshops. Visit
website for more info. ongoing. 912-4414891. customfitcenter.com. 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. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. PLYOGA IN THE PARK - FREE This class is a 4-part interval routine implementing fundamental and fluent yoga postures as an active recovery for explosive high intensity plyometric movements. The modifiable nature of PLYOGA really creates a niche that fits any fitness level. Pairing plyometrics with yoga will give you a unique opportunity to elevate your level of fitness, guaranteed. Please bring a mat, sweat towel, athletic shoes, and water. FREE Sat., April 13, 10:30-11:30 a.m. 912.356.8280. info@thehubsav.com. thehubsavannah. com. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park 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. 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. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. 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. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West Broad St, 1110 May St. SLIDERS WITH KAYLA All classes are included in membership and day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. TIMED INTERVAL TRAINING WITH KAYLA All classes are included in membership and
day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Mondays, 12:30 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. TRX CIRCUIT TRAINING WITH SHAWN All classes are included in membership and day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. TRX FUNCTIONAL TRAINING WITH SHAWN All classes are included in membership and day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton 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. 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. 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 WITH BIANCA All classes are included in membership and day passes. Please contact gym for more information. Mondays, 6 p.m. Fitness on Broughton, 1 E. Broughton St. YOGA, PILATES, AND SPIN Flow, Yin Yasa, Sculpt, Pilates, Spin, and the only studio in Savannah with the original Hot Yoga. Introductory Special: $49 for 30 days of unlimited classes. Visit thehubsav.com to see our awesome lineup of teachers and classes. $49 ongoing. 912.356.8280. info@ thehubsav.com. thehubsavannah.com. The HUB Savannah, 4505 Habersham St. YOGA@THELIBRARY The All Levels class meets from 10:30-11:30 and the Chair Yoga class meets from 12:001:00. Tuesdays. Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St. ZUMBA 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. westbroadstreetymca.org. YMCA-West
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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/. 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.
FOOD & DRINK EVENTS
TEUTONIC WINE TASTING $20 April 11, 5 p.m. Rollers Spirits, Wine, & Cheese, 9 Palmetto Bay Road. NATIONAL GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH DAY Celebrate National Grilled Cheese Day with The Big Cheese food truck and small batch beers on tap by Coastal Empire Beer Co. April 12, 5 p.m.. coastalempirebeer.com/. Coastal Empire Beer Co, 79 Ross Rd. WIZARD PROM Ever wish you could re-do prom? Dressing up, the lights, the music...the magic? Savannah, get ready for an evening more magical than any dance you’ve attended before. Get dolled up in your dresses, your house-color ties, or even
your house robe. $15-$30 April 12, 9 p.m.. ghostcoastdistillery.com. Ghost Coast Distillery, 641 Indian St. ADULT CAKE DECORATING CLASS - HOW TO: CUPCAKES AND BUTTERCREAM $50 April 13, 7 p.m. The Cake Mix Academy, 5936 Georgia 21. ISLANDS FARMERS’ MARKET The Island Farmers’ Market (previously Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market) is held every Saturday rain or shine. This outdoor market sets up on the property of Lighthouse Baptist Church. Food and Artisan Vendors will be at the market each Saturday, along with a kids club, a special guest, story time, a musical gust, kid’s crafts, and nonprofit events. Free 9 a.m.-1 p.m.. islandsfarmersmarket@gmail.com. facebook.com/IslandsFarmersMarket/. Lighthouse Baptist Church, 401 Quarterman Dr. MASTERS BAR GOLF AT THE GROVE $10 April 13, 1 p.m. The Grove Savannah, 301 West Congress Street. WIZARD PUB CRAWL $20-$30 April 13, 4 p.m. Downtown Savannah, downtown. THE HUPMAN REAL ESTATE GROUP EASTER BUNNY PHOTOS April 14, 2 p.m. The Ice Cream Stop, 13300 GA-144. THANKFUL TUESDAY AT THE GROVE All Firefighters, EMS, Police & First Responders get 50% off lunch & dinner food on Tuesdays at The Grove. info@
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ADULT CAKE DECORATING CLASS - HOW TO: CUPCAKES AND BUTTERCREAM $50 The Cake Mix Academy, 5936 Georgia 21. BETHESDA FARM AND GARDENS STAND Featuring in season, organic (not certified) veggies, herbs and flowers. All proceeds go directly to funding tuition expenses for Bethesda Academy students. For specialty orders, contact Merrin at merrin.slocombe@ bethesdaacademy.org. merrin.slocombe@ bethesdaacademy.org. bethesdaacademy. org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. FARM TRUCK 912 The Farm Truck 912 is a mobile market program of the Forsyth Farmers’ Market that aims to improve healthy food access by bringing locally produced fruits and vegetables into Savannah’s neighborhoods. Check the website for more info, including the location where the truck would be found in different days of the week. forsythfarmersmarket.com/farmtruck912/. W.W. Law Gym, 909 E. Bolton St. FORSYTH FARMERS MARKET Local and regional produce, honey, meat, dairy, pasta, baked goods and other delights. Rain or shine. Free to attend. Items for sale. 912-484-0279. forsythfarmersmarket.com. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. ISLANDS FARMERS’ MARKET The Island Farmers’ Market (previously Wilmington Island Farmers’ Market) is held every Saturday rain or shine. This outdoor market sets up on the property of Lighthouse Baptist Church. Food and Artisan Vendors will be at the market each Saturday, along with a kids club, a special guest, story time, a musical gust, kid’s crafts, and nonprofit events. Free islandsfarmersmarket@gmail.com. facebook.com/IslandsFarmersMarket/. Lighthouse Baptist Church, 401 Quarterman Dr. MASTERS BAR GOLF AT THE GROVE $10 The Grove Savannah, 301 West Congress Street. NATIONAL GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH DAY Celebrate National Grilled Cheese Day with The Big Cheese food truck and small batch beers on tap by Coastal Empire Beer Co. coastalempirebeer.com/. Coastal Empire Beer Co, 79 Ross Rd. PRESS PLAY BOOMBOX BRUNCH Brunch is served from 11 am – 3 pm. Jason B. James Live vinyl DJ spinning classic soul, R&B, indie, rock, pop, and everything in between begins at noon. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. SUNDAY SUPPER CLUB ecome part of a Savannah tradition. Join us at our festive community table with new friends and old to share in a night of food, libations and southern hospitality. Each Sunday you will experience unique thoughtfully created dishes paired with meticulously selected wines to complement each delicious course. $55 for four-course meal and wine pairings paccisavannah.com. Pacci Italian Kitchen + Bar, 601 E Bay St. 50 TEUTONIC WINE TASTING
$20 Rollers Spirits, Wine, & Cheese, 9 Palmetto Bay Road. THANKFUL TUESDAY AT THE GROVE All Firefighters, EMS, Police & First Responders get 50% off lunch & dinner food on Tuesdays at The Grove. info@ thegrovesavannah.com. THE HUPMAN REAL ESTATE GROUP EASTER BUNNY PHOTOS The Ice Cream Stop, 13300 GA-144. TYBEE ISLAND FARMERS MARKET Featuring a variety of produce, baked goods, honey, eggs, BBQ, sauces and dressings, popsicles, dog treats and natural body products. Artisans are also featured each week. The market is non-smoking and pet friendly. Located on beautiful Tybee Island, GA at 30 Meddin Drive. We are right behind the Historic Tybee Lighthouse. Visit the website for more info. tybeeislandfarmersmarket.com. Tybee Island, Tybee Island. WEEKLY CASK & FOOD PAIRING Each Wednesday, we create a special cask and pair it with a complimentary dish. Follow us on Facebook for more information! moonriverbrewing.com/. Moon River Brewing Co., 21 West Bay St. WINE SAMPLING Sample the variety of wines Lucky’s Market has to offer. WIZARD PROM Ever wish you could re-do prom? Dressing up, the lights, the music...the magic? Savannah, get ready for an evening more magical than any dance you’ve attended before. Get dolled up in your dresses, your house-color ties, or even your house robe. $15-$30 ghostcoastdistillery.com. Ghost Coast Distillery, 641 Indian St. WIZARD PUB CRAWL $20-$30 Downtown Savannah, downtown.
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BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENINGS St. Joseph’s/Candler’s SmartSenior offers blood pressure screenings on every Monday from 10 AM to Noon in the SmartSenior office, #8 Medical Arts on 836 E. 65th Street. No appointment is necessary; the screenings are free and open to the public. For more information, call (912) 352-4405. ongoing. St. Joseph’s/Candler Medical Arts Building, 836 E. 65th St. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC YOGA TEACHER TRAINING Q+A Wed., April 10, 7:15 p.m. Dancing Dogs Yoga Savannah, 30 West Broughton Street, ##300. FILM: WHAT THE HEALTH What the Health is the groundbreaking follow-up film from the creators of the award-winning documentary Cowspiracy. The film exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us trillions of healthcare dollars, and keeping us sick. Free Tue., April 16, 6 p.m. whitebluffpc@bellsouth. net. White Bluff Presbyterian Church, 10710 White Bluff Rd. FREE CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP Are you gradually feeling more alone as friends and family don’t seem to get what you are going through as the unpaid caregiver of a loved one with dementia, serious illness or disability? Our drop-in and
non-disease specific Caregiver Support Group meets twice a month to provide a safe place to connect with others who truly understand. Second Tuesday of each month from 10 – 11 a.m. and/or the fourth Monday of each month from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. at the Edel Caregiver Institute, 6000 Business Center Drive off Chatham Parkway. 912.629.1331. ongoing. Edel Caregiver Institute, 6000 Business Center Drive. FREE ORAL HEALTH SCREENINGS In an effort to help people detect the disease early on which can increase survival rates to as much as 90 percent, Angela Canfield of Sandfly Family Dental and Premier Dental Designs is offering free cancer screenings at both locations on Thursday, April 11 and Thursday, April 25. The exams only take a few minutes, but they normally cost as much as $80. While the screenings will be free, an appointment is necessary. 0 Thu., April 11, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. 912-349-0472. smiles@sandflyfamilydental. com. sandflyfamilydental.com. Sandfly Family Dental, 7360 Skidaway Rd., Suite H2. FREE RESTORATIVE YOGA FOR CAREGIVERS Are you the unpaid caregiver for a loved one with dementia, serious illness or disability? Schedule some relaxation time just for you! Our free restorative yoga and deep relaxation classes use bolsters and blankets to support the body and quiet the mind. Dress comfortably and join us at the Edel Caregiver Institute, 6000 Business Center Drive off Chatham Parkway. 912.629.1331. ongoing. Edel Caregiver Institute, 6000 Business Center Drive. HIGH VIBE/ LOW COST YOGA WITH MELISSA DELYNN Join this accessible, all-levels class for meditative movement, breath and meditation! Ample free parking, beauty facility and no-fuss yoga. Expect a little sweat, philosophy and possibly enlightenment! $15 Wednesdays, 6-7:15 p.m. 706-614-4715. mdelynn@gmail.com. WELMONT, 1930 Montgomery Street. LADIES WHO PREP SUMMIT The Georgia Department of Public Health Office of HIV/AIDS, Sister Love, Inc., and the Coastal Health District will host the Ladies Who PrEP Summit in Savannah on April 13 at the Savannah Marriott Riverfront. Attendees will be empowered to take control of their sexual health as they discuss women’s sexual health issues and learn about Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as an HIV prevention option. The day will be a great blend of education and fun as attendees will enjoy food, celebrity guest panels, music, and interactive skill building activities from health experts. Sat., April 13, 10 a.m. ladieswhoprepsavannah.eventbrite. com. Savannah Marriott Riverfront, 100 Gen. McIntosh Blvd. NATIVE AMERICAN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Georgia’s only Native American Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Meets every Thursday at 2 pm at 517 East Broad Street, Savannah. Court papers will be signed. Open to all. You do not have to be Native American to attend Free ongoing, 2-3 p.m. 912-712-3314. Islandmedicinewoman@gmail.com. East Broad Native American Group, 517 East
Broad Street. SKIN DEEP - NATURAL CHOICES FOR SKIN CARE Sat., April 13, 10 a.m. Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church, 1008 Henry St. SUPER SATURDAY SAVANNAH $0-$15 Sat., April 13, 2 p.m. 711 Sandtown Rd, 711 Sandtown Road.
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SAVANNAH POLICE DEPARTMENT EASTER EGG HUNT Grab a basket and hunt for thousands of eggs. Gold eggs will be redeemable for prizes. There will be lots of food, cotton candy, bounce houses, games and a DJ. Visit with McGruff the Crime Dog, the Easter Bunny, SPD K-9s, horses, the SWAT unit, and local magician Magic Marc. Sat., April 13, 11 a.m. Nathaniel Green Park, 56th and Bull.
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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.
LITERARY EVENTS
FRANK HARMON E. Shaver Bookseller will host a presentation and book-signing event for award-winning architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, of Raleigh, NC, and his new book “Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See.” Free and open to the public Sun., April 14, 1 p.m. E. Shaver, Bookseller, 326 Bull Street. STEVE ONEY TALK AND BOOK SIGNING “A Man’s World,” University of Georgia Press, is a collection of 20 profiles of fascinating men by author and magazine writer Steve Oney. Written over a 40-year period for publications including Esquire, Premiere, GQ, Time, Los Angeles, and The Atlanta Journal & Constitution Magazine, the stories bring to life the famous, the brilliant, the tortured, and the unknown. Thu., April 11, 7 p.m. thebookladybookstore.com/. The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty St.
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NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
DOLPHIN PROJECT Dolphin Project’s Education Outreach Program is available to speak at schools, clubs, organizations. A powerpoint presentation with sound and video about estuarine dolphins and their environment. Age/grade appropriate programs and handouts. See website for info. ongoing. thedolphinproject.org. LECTURE: GEORGIA’S SHOREBIRDS: CONNECTING THE HEMISPHERE THROUGH CONSERVATION Abby Sterling will discuss how the Georgia Coast provides critical habitat to many species of shorebirds that are experiencing significant population declines. Tue., April 16, 7 p.m. fpc.presbychurch.net. First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave. SECOND SATURDAY PRESENTATION SERIES Each second Saturday of the month, the Wildlife Refuge hosts a presentation by staff, volunteers, and local conservation partners to help the public learn more about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Free second Saturday of every month, 1-2 p.m. 843-7842468. SavannahCoastal@fws.gov. facebook. com/SavannahCoastalRefugesComplex/. Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, Laurel Hill Wildlife Drive off S.C. 170. WALK ON THE WILD SIDE A two-mile Native Animal Nature Trail winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland, salt marsh habitats, featuring live native
animal exhibits. Open daily, 10am-4pm except Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland. org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. WILDERNESS SOUTHEAST A variety of programs each month including guided trips with naturalists. Canoe trips, hikes. Mission: develop appreciation, understanding, stewardship, and enjoyment of the natural world. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-236-8115. wildernesssoutheast.org.
PETS & ANIMALS
LOW COST PET CLINIC TailsSpin and Dr. Stanley Lester, DVM, host low-cost pet vaccine clinics for students, military and seniors the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. 5pm-6pm. Vaccinations: $12, ($2 is donated to Savannah pet rescue agencies). See website for info. ongoing. tailsspin.com. tailsspin. com. TailsSpin Pet Supplies Store, 4501 Habersham St., Habersham Village. PET PHOTOS WITH THE EASTER BUNNY Snap photos of the Easter Bunny with your pets to create paw-fect, lasting memories. Dogs and cats of all shapes and sizes are welcome during the pet photo nights. Mon., April 15, 5 p.m. oglethorpemall.com/. Oglethorpe Mall, 7804 Abercorn Ext. ST. ALMO’S Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting CONTINUES ON P. 52
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Others. Informal dog walks on Sundays, 5pm (weather permitting). Meet at Canine Palace. Call for info. ongoing. 912-234-3336. caninepalacesavannah.com. Canine Palace Inc, 618 Abercorn St. YAPPY HOUR Join us on April 10 at 5:30 for an evening of fun and fur! Celebrate spring with your favorite furry friend! Still looking for that special someone, Save a Life Rescue will be there with adoptable fosters. Adopt a new friend or just puck ups some swag for the one your’ve already got! Food and drink specials, raffles, live music, and games! Free Event Wed., April 10, 5:30-8:30 p.m. 912-2312385. blowinsmokesavannah.com. Blowin’
Smoke Southern Cantina, 1611 Habersham St.
RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL
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 prayer or remain in silence. Wednesdays, 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. SAVANNAH FRIENDS MEETING (QUAKERS) Un-programmed worship. 11am Sundays, Joy Cottage behind Wesley Oak United Methodist Church. Call or email for info. All are welcome. ongoing. 636-233-1772. savannahquakers@gmail.com. Wesley Oak United Methodist Church, 3124 East Victory
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
The Qing Dynasty controlled China from the mid-seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. It was the fifth biggest empire in world history. But eventually it faded, as all mighty regimes do. Revolution came in 1911, forcing the last emperor to abdicate and giving birth to the Republic of China. I’m inclined to think of your life in 2019 as having some similarities to that transition. It’s the end of one era and the beginning of another; a changing of the guard and a passing of the torch. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to be very active in deciding and visualizing the empire you want next.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
I hope that sometime soon you’ll acquire a new source of support or inspiration. Now is a phase of your astrological cycle when you’re likely to attract influences that are in alignment with your deep values. This addition might be a person or animal. It could be a vibrant symbol or useful tool. It may even be a fantasy character or departed ancestor that will stimulate vitality you haven’t been able to summon on your own. Be on the lookout for this enhancement.
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Poet David Hinton analyzed the Chinese word for “poetry.” Its etymological meaning is “words spoken at the fertility altar.” Let’s make that your theme, even if you don’t write or read poetry. I suspect the coming weeks will be a favorable time to take a vow or utter a solemn intention in front of a homemade fertility altar. The oath you speak might express a desire to boost your use of your physical vitality: your lust for life, your adoration of the natural world, or your power to produce new human life. Or your vow to foster your fertility could be more metaphorical and symbolic in nature: the imaginative intimacy you will explore or the creativity you’ll express in future works of art or the generous effects you want to have on the world.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
Christopher Robin Milne was the son of author A. A. Milne, who wrote the Winniethe-Pooh stories. He said there are two ways to navigate through life. Either you “take a bearing on something in the future and steer towards it, or take a bearing on something in the past and steer away from it.” So in his view, “There are those who look ahead and pull and those who look behind and push.” I’m hoping that in the coming weeks and months, you will make a delighted commitment to the first option: taking a bearing on something in the future and steering towards it. I think that approach will inspire you toward the most interesting success.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
The national animal of Finland is the brown bear. The national insect is the ladybug and the national instrument is a stringed instrument known as the kantele. As for the national author, it’s Aleksis Kivi, who produced just one novel that took him ten years to write. He also published a short collection of odes and a few plays, adding up to a grand total of less than 800 pages of work. I think that the efforts you make in the coming weeks could have a disproportionately large impact, as well, Leo. What you lack in quantity will be irrelevant compared to the sheer quality you generate.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
I follow the blogger Evanescent Voyager because she makes me cry with sad joy and exultant poignance on a regular basis. One of her other fans wrote her a love note I could have written myself. It said, “Your emotional brilliance and thoughtful passion break me into pieces and then weave me back together with more coherence than I had before reading you. I revere your alchemical talent for undoing me so you can heal me; for lowering my defenses so I can be open to your riches; for demolishing my habitual trance so you can awaken my sleeping genius.” I believe that in the coming weeks, life itself will offer to perform these same services for you, Virgo. I urge you to accept!
Drive. 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.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
“Love is no assignment for cowards.” That’s a quote attributed to the ancient Roman poet Ovid. What did he mean? Was he foreshadowing the wisdom of pop singer Pat Benatar, who in 1983 told us, “Love is a battlefield”? Was Ovid implying that to succeed in the amorous arts we must be heroic warriors prepared to overcome fears and risk psychological dangers? Probably. But I will also point out that it takes as much courage to create fun, interesting togetherness as it does to wrestle with the problems that togetherness brings. You need just as much bravura and panache to explore the sweet mysteries of intimacy as you do to explore the achy mysteries of intimacy. Keep these thoughts in mind as you marshal your audacity to deepen and expand your best relationships in the coming weeks.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
The literal meaning of the French term *jolie-laide* is “pretty and ugly.” Bloggers at wordsnquotes.com define it as follows: “It’s a fascinating quirkiness that’s irresistible, like a face you want to keep looking at even if you can’t decide whether it is beautiful or not.” *Jolielaide* overlaps with the Japanese term *wabi-sabi*, which describes a person or thing that is lovely because of its imperfection and incompleteness. I bring these facts to your attention because I think you have extraordinary potential to be a master embodier of both *jolie-laide* and *wabi-sabi* in the coming weeks.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
As Czech playwright Vaclav Havel (1936–2011) matured, he became a political dissident who opposed the Soviet Union’s authoritarian grip on his country. Eventually he was a key player in the Velvet Revolution that banished Communism. When Czechoslovakia emerged as a new democracy, its people elected him president. Havel later thanked Lou Reed and the band the Velvet Underground for fully awakening his liberationist leadership. He said their unruly music stoked his longing to establish a culture where
total creative freedom was possible. I mention this, Sagittarius, because now is a favorable time to identify the music or art or films or literature that might fuel your emancipation in the coming months.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Capricorn author J. R. R. Tolkien toiled on his masterpiece *The Lord of the Rings* for twelve years. Once he finished, it wasn’t published for more than five years. So seventeen years passed between the time he launched his precious project and the time when it reached an audience. I don’t think you will need that much patience in shepherding your own venture to full expression, Capricorn. But I hope you’ll summon as much faith in yourself as Tolkien had to rouse in himself. To do so will bring out the best in you!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Released in 1998, *The Prince of Egypt* is an animated film that tells the story of the Hebrew prophet Moses. In the climactic event, the hero uses magic to part the waters of the Red Sea, allowing his people to run across the sea floor and escape the army that’s chasing them. To make that seven-minute scene, 28 professional animators labored for 318,000 hours. In the coming months, you could create your own version of that marvel, Aquarius. But you’ll need a team to help you, and that team is not yet ready to go. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get it ready, though.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Piscean businessman Steve Jobs testified that taking LSD was “one of the two or three most important things” he ever did in his life. It opened his mind in ways he felt were crucial to his development. What are the three most important things you’ve ever done, Pisces? I invite you to revisit at least one of them, and see if you can take it to the next step of its power to inspire you. What if it has even more to offer you in your efforts to become the person you want to be?
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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. 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. 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.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
AWAKE, A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK Join us for a documentary and discussion of the film. Donations welcome Sat., April 13, 4-6:30 p.m. 912-341-3675. mothersrevolt@gmail.com. facebook.com/ events/429119951226108/. uusavannah. org. Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, 307A E. Harris St. FILM: COUNTRY MUSIC “Country Music” explores crucial questions –– “What is country music?” and “Where did it come from?”–– while focusing on the biographies of the fascinating trailblazers who created and shaped it — from the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe and Bob Wills to Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Garth Brooks and many more — as well as the times in which they lived. Free Wed., April 10, 7 p.m. telfair.org/ jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. FILM: FIRST REFORMED Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church that was once a stop on the Underground Railroad and now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life. When a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence. $10 Tue., April 16, 7 p.m. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. FILM: THE GRADUATE It’s the 52nd anniversary of Mrs. Robinson’s scandalicious seduction of disillusioned college grad Benjamin Braddock in the cozy confines of a post-World War II world. And Simon & Garfunkel’s haunting soundtrack captivated a generation with “The Sound of Silence” and “Here’s to You, Mrs. Robinson.”
$10 Thu., April 11, 7 p.m. tybeeposttheater. org. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW This low-budget freak show/cult classic/cultural institution is about the misadventures of Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon), as they spend the night in the gothic castle of the cross-dressing alien Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry) and his Transylvanian posse. $10 Fri., April 12, 8 p.m. 912-472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater. org. tybeeposttheater.org. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne.
SPORTS & GAMES
ADULT AND JUNIOR TENNIS CLINICS On Thursdays. Intended for a class size of 4-8 students. Buy four classes, get the fifth class free. $15 per class ongoing. 912-201-2000. westinsavannah.com. theclubatsavannahharbor.com/index.php. The Club at Savannah Harbor, #2 Resort Dr. ADULT COED FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE 8x8 Coed Flag League. Play adult sports, meet new people. Sponsored by Savannah Adult Recreation Club. Wed. nights/Sun. mornings, at locations around Savannah. $450. Minimum 8 games. Ages 18+. Coed teams. See website or call for info. ongoing. 912-220-3474. savadultrec.com. BEARS ELITE FOOTBALL Learn the fundamentals of football. Ages 4-12. Sign up now. Mondays-Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 912-272-6684. Daffin Park, 1198 Washington Ave. DERBY DEVILS ROLLER DERBY CLASSES Roller derby league offers 12-week courses for beginners, recreational scrimmaging for experienced players and two annual bootcamp programs. See website for info. ongoing. savannahderby.com. GRIEF 101 SUPPORT GROUP Seven-week morning or evening adult support group offers tools to learn to live with loss. Tuesdays, 10am-11am; or Thursdays, 6:00pm-7:00pm. Free of charge. Offered by Hospice Savannah, Inc. Call for info. ongoing. 912-303-9442. Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 6000 Business Center Drive. SATURDAY GROUP RUN OR WALK Join us in our quest for fitness. Beginners are welcome. We can help you exceed your fitness goals. Free Saturdays, 7-8:15 a.m. 912-398-4130. runthecity@live.com. savystrider.com. Lake Mayer, 1850 E. Montgomery Crossroads. SAV. STRIDER WEEKLY GROUP RUN OR WALK DOWNTOWN Join us for a run or walk downtown or over the bridge if you’re feeling froggy. The best part is afterwards when we get coffee or whatever else your heart desires from Savannah Coffee Roasters. Free Sundays, 7-8 a.m. 912-398-4130. runthecity@live. com. savystrider.com. Savannah Coffee Roasters, 215 West Liberty Street. SAVANNAH BIKE POLO Like regular polo, but with bikes instead of horses. Meets weekly. See facebook for info. ongoing. facebook.com/ savannahbikepolo. ULTIMATE FRISBEE Come play Ultimate! Tuesdays and
Thursdays, 5:30pm until dark. Sundays, 4:30pm until we get tired. The west side of Forsyth Park. Bring a smile, two shirts (one light or white, one dark), water, and cleats (highly recommended). ongoing. savannahultimateproject@gmail.com. savannahultimateproject.wordpress.com/ pick-up/. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave.
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AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS Are you troubled by someone else’s drinking? Please go to alanon.org for daily meeting schedule. ongoing. savannahalanon.com. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS For people who want or need to stop drinking, AA can help. Meetings daily throughout the Savannah area. Free to attend or join. Check website for meeting days/times, or call 24 hours a day. ongoing. 912-356-3688. savannahaa.com. BACK PAIN SUPPORT GROUP Second Monday of every month,7:00pm. Denny’s Restaurant at Hwy. 204. Everyone is welcome. For more info, contact Debbie at 912-727-2959 ongoing. BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD INJURY SUPPORT GROUP A program for people who have experienced a brain or spinal cord injury and their family members and caregivers. The group meets from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. the third Thursday of every month at Memorial Health University Medical Center. For more information, call (912) 350-7274. ongoing. memorialhealth. com. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. CANCER SURVIVORSHIP PROGRAM Cancer survivorship covers the physical, psychosocial and economic issues of cancer from diagnosis and beyond. Cancer survivorship programs focus on the health and well-being of cancer patients beyond diagnosis and treatment. It also includes follow follow-up treatment, long-term effects of treatment and quality of life. ongoing. 912-819-5704. sjchs.org/cancer/our-care/ cancer-survivorship. Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion, 225 Reynolds Ave. KID’S GRIEF 101 A seven-week structured educational/ support group for children ages 6-17. Offers support and coping tools, utilizing play and activity in learning to live with loss. Meets Tuesday evenings from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Call 912.303.9442 to register for next session. 2019 dates are January 8-February 19; March 5-April 16; June 25-August 6; August 20-October 1; October 15-November 26. ongoing. 912-303-9442. hospicesavannah.org/what-services-areavailable/grief-and-healing/grief-supportschedule/. Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 6000 Business Center Drive. GREATER SAVANNAH BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Breast cancer patients and their caregivers in the greater Savannah, Hilton Head, and coastal Georgia area are invited to join this group. The meetings often feature presentations from the local medical community, are informal, and are conducted
in a discussion format to encourage participation. For more information, call 912897-3933. second Sunday of every month, 4-6 p.m. Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute (at Memorial Health Univ. Medical Center), 4700 Waters Ave. GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS Hospice Savannah’s Full Circle offers a full array of grief support groups and individual counseling for children, teens and adults is available at no charge. Full Circle also has an office in Effingham County. Bereavement Counselor, Barbara Moss, MSW, holds office hours each Monday at the United Way’s Effingham Service Center, located at 711 Zitterour Drive in Rincon. To find out more or to schedule an appointment, call Barbara directly at 912-629-1089. ongoing. 912-303-9442. hospicesavannah.org/whatservices-are-available/grief-and-healing/ grief-support-schedule/. HEAD AND NECK CANCER SUPPORT GROUP MEETING Head and Neck Cancer Support Group is for people with cancers of the head and neck and their caregivers. Each meeting includes a discussion with cancer treatment experts and a group discussion. The group meets at 1:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of every month in the ACI Teleconference Room. Wednesdays, 1-2 p.m. 912-350-7845. memorialhealth.com/service/supportgroups. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOMA AND MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP RSVP required. Please call 954-744-5310 or contact Keanne Owens, MSW- 954-8449712. Thursdays, 5-6:30 p.m. 912-350-7845. mhs.net/calendar/cancer/leukemialymphoma. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS WORKSHOP To pre-register, call 912-508-4777 or email oanfig@gmail.com. $5.00 Suggested Donation. Walk-ins welcome. Sat., April 13, 1-4 p.m. redeemersav.org/. Redeemer Lutheran Church, 51 Wilmington Isl. Rd. PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP For more information call: Sarah Bernzott – 912-704-2059 Alice Gerber – 912-786-5447 ongoing. 912-355-6347. sjchs.org/. Candler Hospital, 5353 Reynolds St. PET BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP CONTINUES ON P. 54
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This group meets on the first and third Thursday of each month and helps pet owners get through the loss of their animals. Contact Jeffrey Wittig at jeffwitt912@ gmail.com for more information. ongoing, 7:30 p.m. The Foundery Coffee Pub, 1313 Habersham St. PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: MAN TO MAN This group is for prostate cancer patients and their caregivers. Meets in the Conference Room of the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute. Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. 912-897-3933. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. RAPE CRISIS CENTER Assists survivors of rape and sexual assault. Free, confidential counseling for victims and families. 24-hour Rape Crisis Line operates seven days a week. 912-233-7273. ongoing. SPINAL INJURY SUPPORT GROUP Third Thursdays, 5:30pm, at the Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-3508900. memorialhealth.com. memorialhealth. com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE SUPPORT GROUP A support group for those whose loved ones have died by suicide. Meets the 3rd Monday of each month at Full Circle from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. third Monday of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. Suicide often leaves survivors with guilt, anger, hurt and unanswered questions. Hospice Savannah/United Way of Coastal Empire/Coastal Suicide Prevention Alliance offer an ongoing support group. Third Thursdays, 6:30-7:30pm. Safe and confidential. Free to attend. Barbara Moss at Full Circle of Hospice Savannah, 912-6291089. ongoing. Full Circle Grief and Loss Center, 6000 Business Center Drive. TEENS WITH NO ONE TO TURN TO Help for people ages 11-18, or concerned parents of teens. Park Place Outreach Youth Emergency Shelter. Call or see website. ongoing. 912-234-4048. parkplaceyes.org. WALK AND TALK THERAPY Initial secure telehealth session followed by 2 “walk & talk”40 min sessions in tranquil nature settings. Well rounded physical and mental health for adults who want to reduce anxiety with a licensed therapist. All Summer & Fall. Check it out and schedule now: www.counselorcoachconfidant.com or 478 569-7069. Counselor, Coach, Confidant ask for Felicia. ongoing. YOUNG SURVIVAL COALITION Young breast cancer patients and their caregivers in the greater Savannah, Hilton Head, and Coastal Georgia area are invited to join this group. Meetings include presentations from local medical community and discussions. Meetings conducted in the Conference Room of the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute. Saturdays, 4-6 p.m. 912-897-3933. memorialhealth.com/. Memorial Health University Medical Center, 4700 Waters Ave.
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Bethesda seeks volunteer docents for their new visitors center/museum. Volunteer docents needed during regular museum hours, Thurs.-Sat. 10am-4pm. Docents will share Bethesda’s rich history and inspiring legacy with visitors from across the country and around the world. ongoing. 912-3512061. Elizabeth.brown@bethesdaacademy. org. Bethesda Academy, 9250 Ferguson Ave. CALL FOR AFFINIS FOR HOSPICE ANGELS Do you have a big heart and time to share? Become a Hospice Angel to help individuals that are seriously ill and/or Homebound. If you are interested in volunteering, call 912-748-6000 or email hospiceangels@ affinishospice.org. ongoing. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR BONAVENTURE Bonaventure Historical Society is looking for about a dozen people, each with three hours a month to spare and a willingness to meet, greet and assist visitors to Bonaventure Cemetery. Volunteer hours are 10 am to 1 pm and 1 pm to 4 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Training for the visitors center and to become a BHS tour guide provided. For more information, go to our website, www.bonaventurehistorical.org. ongoing. savannahga.gov/cityweb/cemeteriesweb. nsf/cemeteries/bonaventure.html. Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR DOG FOSTER CARE GRRR (Georgia Rescue, Rehabilitation and Relocation) is in need of volunteers for its dog Foster Care Program. Fostering gives animals a second chance at life and allows them to receive temporary care from loving foster parents before finding their forever homes. It is a rewarding experience for both humans and pets in need. Please contact Kathryn at 912-656-5900 for more info. ongoing. No physical address given, none. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR GEORGIA REGIONAL HOSPITAL’S COMMUNITY GARDEN Georgia Regional Hospital is in need of volunteers for their community garden. Contact Jessica Mathis at 912-356-2826 or email her at jessica.mathis@dbhdd.ga.gov. ongoing. Georgia Regional Hospital, 1915 Eisenhower Drive. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR HOSPICE SAVANNAH Once a nurse, always a nurse! Hospice Savannah is recruiting retired RN’s with GA licensure to volunteer to provide assessment and evaluation assistance to staff RN’s at Hospice House. No charting in the EMR and no drug administration necessary! Volunteer training is provided on the 2nd Monday of every other month and competency check-off’s subsequently offered. Come volunteer with our patients and families on one day a month for 3-4 hours. Please call Volunteer Services at 912.355.2289 for more information. ongoing. hospicesavannah.org/. Share your love, friendship and empathy with caregivers and hospice patients in their homes or nursing homes. Hospice Savannah is seeking caring volunteers to provide companionship and caregiver respite throughout Bryan, Chatham,
Effingham, Liberty and Long counties. There are also opportunities to volunteer in our Hospice House on Eisenhower Drive, in our administrative offices or at Full Circle Grief and Loss Center off Chatham Parkway. Please complete an application on-line at www.HospiceSavannah.org/volunteer or call the volunteer department at 912.355.2289 for more information. No prior experience is needed - just a loving heart. Volunteer training is offered every two months. ongoing. hospicesavannah.org/. Hospice Savannah, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR ONE LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE One Love Animal Rescue is seeking members for its Board of Directors. Candidates must have a passion for the mission and be able to commit at least 5-8 hours per month. Current needs include accountant, attorney, veterinarian, social media expertise, fundraising experience and contacts, and public relations experience. One Love is also seeking various volunteer positions. Email karrie@ oneloveanimalrescue.com for more information or if you are interested in any of the positions. ongoing. Downtown Savannah, downtown. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR THE TYBEE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND LIGHTHOUSE Volunteers are the backbone to the Tybee Island Historical Society and Lighthouse. Because we are a non-profit we rely on volunteers to help us succeed everyday. If you’re interested in volunteering at the lighthouse please call Gus Rehnstrom at 912-785-5801 or email lhvolunteers@ yahoo.com. For more information visit: www.tybeelighthouse.org. ongoing. tybeelighthouse.org/. Tybee Island Lighthouse, 30 Meddin Ave. DOCENTS AND VOLUNTEERS NEEDED AT FLANNERY O’CONNOR HOUSE Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home seeks additional volunteers and volunteer docents to help on Fridays and Saturdays, 1p-4pm, and for possible extended hours. Duties: greet visitors, handle admissions, conduct merchandise sales and help with tours. Docent training and written narratives for reference during tours are provided. ongoing. 912-233-6014. haborrello@aol. com. flanneryoconnorhome.org. Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, 207 E. Charlton Street. DOLPHIN PROJECT SEEKS VOLUNTEERS Dolphin Project needs boat owners, photographers, and other volunteers to help with scientific research on the Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin along coastal Georgia. Must be age 18 or older. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-232-6572. thedolphinproject.org. GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC St. Joseph’s/Candler’s Good Samaritan Clinic in Garden City needs volunteer nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, Spanish interpreters and clerical staff. The clinic serves people without insurance and those whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Call to volunteer. ongoing. 912-964-4326. HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED IN CHATHAM AND OTHER COASTAL
COUNTIES Island Hospice, THA Group’s nonprofit hospice service, seeks volunteers for patient socialization and caregiver respite. Also seeking nonpatient contact volunteers who can contribute by providing services including, but not limited to, office work, crafting, sewing, light yard work, housekeeping, playing guitar for patients, and licensed hairdressers. Serving patients in Chatham, Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Liberty, Camden, Glynn, McIntosh, and Screven Counties in Georgia, and Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, Charleston, Colleton Counties in South Carolina. See website or email or call for info. ongoing. 888-8424463. kbuttimer@thagroup.org. thagroup. org. LIVE OAK PUBLIC LIBRARIES Volunteers needed to assist in a variety of ways at its branches in Chatham, Effingham, and Liberty Counties. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-652-3661. liveoakpl.org. MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED St. Joseph’s/Candler’s St. Mary’s Health Center, a free clinic serving the uninsured, seeks physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, lab techs, and patient care techs. Non-clinical volunteers needed to to schedule appointments. Contact Stephanie Alston. ongoing. 912-443-9409. St. Joseph’s/Candler--St. Mary’s Health Center, 1302 Drayton St. OATLAND ISLAND WILDLIFE CENTER Oatland Island Wildlife Center often needs volunteers. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-395-1500. oatlandisland.org. oatlandisland.org/. Oatland Island Wildlife Center, 711 Sandtown Rd. PRE-SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Seeking early childhood education majors, retired elementary teachers and/or community residents to help 3 & 4 year olds with language development skills. Mon.-Fri., 9am-12noon. Call for info. ongoing. 912447-0578. sjchs.org/1969.cfm. St. Mary’s Community Center and Health Center, 812 W 36th St. RETIRED AND SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM Share time and talents through the RSVP program of the Equal Opportunity Authority. Seniors 55 and older serve in various community organizations. Call for information. ongoing. 912-238-2960 x123. RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE Help in the “home away from home” for families of hospitalized children. Volunteers needed to provide home-cooked meals for families at the house. Volunteer internships available for college students. Call or see website for info. ongoing. 912-356-5520. rmhccoastalempire.org. rmhccoastalempire. org/. Ronald McDonald House, 4710 Waters Avenue. TUTORING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Education majors, retired reading teachers or community residents sought to volunteer for a reading and math tutorial program for elementary and middle school students. Call for info. 912-447-6605. sjchs.org/AfricanAmerican Health Information & Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. TUTORS SOUGHT FOR ADULT LEARNERS (GED PREP AND LITERACY
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savannahmusicfestival.org BOX OFFICE: 912.525.5050 Monday–Friday 10 am–5 pm, Saturday 11 am–4 pm
Wednesday, April 10
Friday, April 12
Saturday, April 13
11 am
Sebastian Knauer, piano Trinity United Methodist Church
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tenThing Trinity United Methodist Church
2 pm
Modern Broadway Charles H. Morris Center
12:30 pm
Darrell Scott Charles H. Morris Center
12:30 pm
Robbie Fulks with Robbie Gjersoe Charles H. Morris Center
4 pm
6 pm
Daniel Hope & Friends VI: Balkan Roots Trinity United Methodist Church
6 pm
Daniel Hope & Sebastian Knauer: Homage to Yehudi Menuhin Trinity United Methodist Church
Christopher Hope Presents “My Son the Fiddler” Trinity United Methodist Church
4 pm
Closing Night Party: Maceo Parker North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum
5 pm
Modern Broadway Charles H. Morris Center
7:30 pm
Robert Earl Keen / Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore Lucas Theatre for the Arts
8 pm
Closing Night Party: Maceo Parker North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum
7 pm
Anda Union Charles H. Morris Center
8 pm
Pat Metheny Side Eye with James Francies & Nate Smith Trustees Theater
Thursday, April 11 11 am
tenThing Trinity United Methodist Church
12:30 pm
Anda Union Charles H. Morris Center
6 pm
Jerusalem Quartet Trinity United Methodist Church
7 pm
Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait Trustees Theater
7:30 pm
Union Tanguera and Kate Weare Company, a collaboration, Sin Salida Lucas Theatre for the Arts
7:30 pm
Charlie Hunter Trio Feat. Lucy Woodward Charles H. Morris Center
8 pm
Dimmer Twins: Patterson Hood & Mike Cooley of Drive-By Truckers / T. Hardy Morris North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum
D I M M E R T W I N S : PAT T E R S O N H O O D & MIKE COOLEY OF DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS / T. H A R DY M O R R I S Thursday, April 11 at 8 pm
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Stringband Spectacular: Acoustic Music Seminar Finale Trustees Theater
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Jeff Tweedy Lucas Theatre for the Arts
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Latin Dance Party: Plena Libre North Garden Assembly Room at Ships of the Sea Museum L AT I N DA N C E PA R T Y: P L E N A L I B R E Friday, April 12 at 8:30 pm
C LO S I N G N I G H T PA RT Y: MACEO PARKER Saturday, April 13 at 4 and 8 pm
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