Connect Savannah July 24, 2019

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WEDNESDAY 7.24 Beyoncé, Black Panther, and the Politics of Pop Culture

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Chris Cartright, MFA, Lecturer of English at Georgia Southern University (Armstrong Campus) will examine our media landscape and the competing political ideologies of our era. 6 p.m. The Beach Institute African-American Cultural Center, 502 East Harris Street. Free and open to the public

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w/ TOOTHGRINDER, Blue Rising, The Giving End and Solarist Victory North Savannah 7-11pm Victory North 2603 Whitaker St $15-20

Film: Rica: The Mixed-Blood Girl

When a tough female gang member accidentally kills a Yakuza, she gets sent to Juvenile Hall, and then her gang gets kidnapped. After that, it’s a nonstop roller coaster of crazy shit. Don’t miss this beloved exploitation flick, uncut with English subtitles. 8 p.m. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. $8

Film: Spider-Man: Far From Home

In this saga, our friendly neighborhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter’s plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury Fury stop the evil Mysterio from wreaking havoc across the continent. Wed. & Thurs., 3 & 7 p.m. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne. $8 adults, $5 children 12 and under 912-472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater.org

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The Savannah Sweet Tease brings another fresh to death show, but this time honoring some of your favorite video games! Love Sonic, Bayonetta & maybe some Princess Peach?! They’ll have it all ready for you and much much more! 9pm-1am The Jinx 912 127 West Congress St $29

Fix Your Own Bike Night

Dream Campaign Night at the Savannah Bananas THU 7.25

Local non profit that works with urban youth is the featured non profit July 25 and selling tickets with an all you can eat wristband for $18. This is a sold out game so grab one of the remaining tickets at helpmedream.org and $6 will go back to helping kids in our community. 7pm Grayson Stadium Daffin Park

Whether you know how to fix it or need a guide, our mechanics will be on hand to assist with your repairs. We have used parts and basic new parts available for sale, but we also encourage you to purchase parts from your favorite local bike shop. 6 p.m. Bike Walk Savannah, 1301 Lincoln St. $5

THURSDAY 7.25 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 fun for all ages! Thurs., Sat. & Tues., 8 p.m. The Historic Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. $39 adults, $19.50 child savannahtheatre.com

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FRIDAY 7.26 10 Years

With Toothgrinder, Blue Rising, The Giving End and Solarist. 8 p.m. Victory North, 2603 Whitaker Drive. $20 advance, $25 doors

An Evening with Kiese Laymon and Patrisse Cullors

Jack Jones Literary Arts is hosting a public keynote conversation between Kiese Laymon and Patrisse Cullors. Authors of two of the most acclaimed books of 2018, Cullors and Laymon will provide invaluable insight into the cultural landscape of America today. 8 p.m. The Brice, 601 East Bay Street. $39-185 424-204-1616. hello@jackjonesliteraryarts. com. eventbrite.com/e/kiese-laymon-andpatrisse-cullors-in-conversation-tickets-60727257863

Film: Rebecca

Rebecca tells the story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. 7 p.m. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. $5 SCAD Card holders, $8 general admission

Golden Girls Gone Wild

Miami, 1980s. A lovely suburban home g shared by four fiesty older women. Kansas City’s Late Night Theatre brings the fantastic geriatric classic “Golden Girls Gone Wild!†to Tybee Island in a true drag parody of the phenomenal television show. Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 4 p.m. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne. $20 912-472-4790. info@tybeeposttheater.org

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 Perrys

For over 50 years, The Perrys have been traveling across the country, sharing The g Gospel of Jesus Christ. King’s Cross from d Savannah opens. 7 p.m. Mars Theatre, 109 S. Laurel Street. $25

Pet Adoption Day

The Humane Society for Greater Savannah have a dog on-site up for adoption (more details about the pup closer to the event). 100% of sales of our Sixfoot IPA during that time will go to the Humane Society as well as a percent of proceeds from some special bandanas (dog and human friendly) we’ll have for sale. Prowl will be on-site with some delicious eats. noon Two Tides Brewing Company, 12 West 41st St.

SCHOOL IS OUT, CREATIVITY IS IN! Fun-filled activities abound at the SCAD Museum of Art.

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Tybee Lighthouse Sunset Tour

This afterhours tour gives our guests the opportunity to learn a bit about the history of the historic Tybee Lighthouse, which dates back to 1773, and view the sunset from the top of the tower. 8-9:30 p.m. Tybee Island Lighthouse, 30 Meddin Ave. $25 912-786-5801. desiree@tybeelighthouse.org

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SATURDAY 7.27 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

Fun House Improv Comedy

Fun House Improv is a never-seen-before improvised comedy show. Using audience suggestions the cast will create original comedic scenes and games. It’s just like a live choose-your-own-adventure novel but with less reading. 8:30 p.m. Ghost Coast Distillery, 641 Indian St. $10, $5 with student ID

Jacob Evans Album Release Party

Local musician Jacob Evans releases “Just Breathe.” The Bowtie Barbecue food truck will be onsite. 7 p.m. Coastal Empire Beer Co, 79 Ross Rd.

JGBCB - Jerry Garcia Band Cover Band

Formed in Athens, GA in 2012, JGBCB has been filling a hole in the Grateful Dead scene by offering up spirited covers of classic songs pulled exclusively from the repertoire of the Jerry Garcia Band, Garcia’s long-running side-project. 8 p.m. Victory North, 2603 Whitaker Drive. $10

Odd Lot Improv: Saturday Shenanigans

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long form comedy. 8 p.m. The Loft on Liberty, 215 W. Liberty St. $10 oddlotimprov@gmail.com. oddlot.lol

Yoga in the Shade Fundraiser

These donation-based classes will be open to all levels. All proceeds will go to Planned Parenthood South East and American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. 10-11 a.m. Savannah Carnaval Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park Ave. Jaw-dropping aerial acrobatics, live music Donations from Kenny Roy, fantastic beats from the 912-232-2994. savannahyoga.com/ DJs at Top Shelf Entertainment, flamenco workshops dancers, art installations by Lucilla Conen, competitive games, and more will electrify SUNDAY 7.28 The Clyde Venue in an effort to fully fund a service dog for a local Savannah veteran The Look Back: An On-going Series of Queer Cinema or child in need through the SD Gunner The Look Back aims to provide a resource Fund. for queer cinema in Savannah by en6 p.m. gaging the local community with queer The Clyde Venue, 223 Martin Luther King Jr theory and representation on an interBlvd. national level through the exhibition of $30 advance, $40 door queer-related moving image works from Savannah for Morons: The Trolley the past and present. Tour Last Sunday of every month, 7 p.m. This comedy show on wheels will roast Savannah LGBT Center, 1515 Bull St. nearly 300 years of Savannah in a 90Free, donations accepted to the Savannah minute ride. LGBT center 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. thelookbacksav@gmail.com Visitor’s Information Center, 301 MLK Jr. MONDAY 7.29 Blvd. $33 Odd Lot Improv: Monday Night savannahformorons.com

Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue presents Pixels & Pasties: A Tribute to Video Games

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Love Sonic, Bayonetta & maybe some Princess Peach? Well, the Sweet Tease have it all ready for you and much much more that they can’t wait to show off. 9 p.m. The Jinx, 127 W. Congress St. $20

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An improv comedy show in the style of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” 8 p.m. The Loft on Liberty, 215 W. Liberty St. $5 oddlotimprov@gmail.com. oddlot.lol

Tybee Island Farmers Market

Featuring a variety of produce, baked goods, honey, eggs, BBQ, sauces and dressings, popsicles, dog treats and Sip, Savor and Song Anniversary natural body products. Artisans are also Show featured each week. Roger Moss and Kim Steiner will celebrate 4 p.m. the Sip, Savor and Song series with a Tybee Lighthouse, 30 Meddin Dr., Tybee special anniversary show. Guests will Island. enjoy an evening of the Great American tybeeislandfarmersmarket.com Songbook. Special guests include Jane TUESDAY 7.30 Ogle and Danielle Smart. 7 p.m. Let’s Talk Community Discussion: East End Provisions, 420 E. Broughton St. Mental Illness and People of Color $15-$30 The sixth event in The ELLA Foundation’s Tybee Lighthouse Sunrise Tours Let’s Talk Community Discussion Series This early morning tour gives guests the will feature a panel of local experts opportunity to learn a bit about the history and will be moderated by The ELLA of the historic Tybee Lighthouse, which Foundation’s founder and Executive dates back to 1773, and view the sunrise Director Charity Lee. The interactive Let’s from the top of the tower. Talk series was created in the after6-7:30 a.m. math of the Parkland School shooting Tybee Island Lighthouse, 30 Meddin Ave. and is designed to encourage audience $25 participation. 912-786-5801. desiree@tybeelighthouse.org 6 p.m. Butler Presbyterian Church, 603 W. Victory Dr. $10 suggested donation

NEWS & OPINION EDITOR’S NOTE

BY JIM MOREKIS

jim@connectsavannah.com

The council that sits around this table in January is going to have some real hard decisions moving forward in the four years they’re going to be facing. — Alderman Bill Durrence AMID what by many measures is a historic national and local economic boom, the City of Savannah is — incredibly — facing a serious budget crisis within the next year or two. Despite record-high tourism, recordhigh port activity, and a frenzy of development in some areas, City Council was warned in a workshop last week that “The

now to have to be coming in here looking for a 16 or 18 mill rate,” he said, as opposed to the current sub-14 property tax millage, itself over twice the amount of nearby municipalities. Future labor costs form a large part of the future challenge facing the City. There are over 300 current vacancies in the public safety/public works area alone, as the City finds itself in the same boat as the local food/beverage and hospitality industries in having a hard time filling positions. Any attempt to fully staff current City positions at anywhere near competitive salary levels will be an enormous budgetary challenge moving forward. Monahan boiled down the basic issue facing Savannah’s budget to “Slow growth” — meaning not in development, but in slow growth of tax revenue. Amazingly, City property tax revenue

The only truly robust area of tax revenue seems to be sales taxes, in the form of standard City sales tax, the one percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST), and the hotel/motel tax, which largely goes back into funding local tourism marketing. But sales taxes are hardly a panacea. They are the most regressive of taxes, disproportionately impacting the working poor. They are also the most volatile form of tax. A recession would drive down tourism, currently a huge driver of local sales taxes. Like robbing Peter to pay Paul, the focus on tourism and downtown has had a direct impact on other areas. For example, two suggested SPLOST expenditures totalling nearly $15 million would go to pay for the seemingly endless Broughton “streetscaping.”

“We’re going to have to identify ways that we can cut what things cost us, or we’re going to have to identify some kind of new revenue, because what we’ve got right now from what I’ve seen is not sustainable.” — Alderman Durrence revenue base is not growing as fast as the expenditure base,” in the words of City Budget Director Melissa Carter. If the national slowdown they anticipate happens in the next couple of years, “In 2021 we’re going to see a lot of adjustments we’ve made on both sides, revenues and expenditures, come home to roost,” Carter said ominously. New Interim City Manager Pat Monahan has his hands full coping with the economic picture left behind in the wake of Rob Hernandez’s departure earlier this summer. (Ironically, leave payouts to Hernandez and other recent high-level departing officials have added to the budget challenges.) While currently there are no plans to raise City property taxes for the second time in two years, Alderman Bill Durrence said at some point the City will face a reckoning. “We are not keeping up with the way our expenses are growing…. We’re going to have to identify ways that we can cut what things cost us, or we’re going to have to identify some kind of new revenue, because what we’ve got right now from what I’ve seen is not sustainable,” Durrence said. “I don’t want us four or five years from

only increased by a mere $700,000 over the past year. Sound shocking given the amount of residential turnover we’ve seen the past few years? Monahan says that’s one of the “unintended consequences” of the countywide Stephens/Day homestead exemption, which freezes property taxes at the purchase price. “That’s why it’s necessary to talk about maintenance” on SPLOST projects, he said, “to take some of the pressure off of the General Fund. Because the General Fund is not growing… We see all this construction going on in the community, but the General Fund doesn’t reflect that in terms of new growth.” (SPLOST funds, currently the City’s second-highest revenue stream, are limited by state law to capital and infrastructure costs, not maintenance or staffing.) While there was no talk of resurrecting the defunct and hated Fire Fee, there is at least the hint of serious talk about somehow getting SCAD to pony up the equivalent of property taxes, likely in the form of PILOT (Payments In Lieu of Tax). While the huge amount of property in City limits off the tax rolls might be our biggest elephant in the room, I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one if I were you.

Indeed, as the City is looking at regular budget issues, they are also – literally as I write this – finalizing their project list for the next round of SPLOST. Savannah will get about 40 percent of countywide revenue from SPLOST VII, assuming it’s approved by voters in November. Beloved projects are taking a hit, as Monahan and Council chose to focus largely on infrastructure projects. The Tide to Town urban trail, for example, as of this writing was set to be off the SPLOST list, in a potentially devastating blow to local cycling/greenway advocates. Alderman Tony Thomas echoed a growing complaint about the SPLOST process. “It’s our faults — it’s the elected bodies’ faults — because we got away from the heavy-duty projects that SPLOST was intended for,” Thomas said. “I can tell you exactly where it happened. It was in SPLOST III… They did polling and it showed that SPLOST was in trouble. And in order to get neighborhood support, they went out and sprinkled these neighborhood projects into SPLOST to pass it,” Thomas said. It will all be up to you again this November, as you vote up or down on SPLOST VII, and on who will be gathered around the budget table for the next four years. CS

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RAISING HOPE Urban Hope closes out summer camps, looks ahead to school year

BY RACHAEL FLORA

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FOR nineteen years, Savannah’s children have had a second home in Urban Hope, the nonprofit founded by Jack Roszkowiak. During the school year, Urban Hope runs concurrent with the school calendar and gives kids from first to eighth grades a place to come after school. “They work on homework, tutoring, special projects,” says site manager Covardis Broadie. “If they’re lacking in a subject, we try to assign someone to them to work specifically with that subject.” “The Urban Hope staff does a great job of serving as a second parent because they actually have contact with the kids’ teachers,” says board member Cassie Beckwith. “If the child says, ‘I don’t have homework,’ Urban Hope’s kids have fun through the whole year. PHOTOS COURTESY OF URBAN HOPE. [the staff] can check in with the teacher and see what they need to work on. They’re “And not in the middle or towards the really communicating with the students’ end,” adds Broadie. “That’s when most teachers as well, which I think is a huge organizations start—in middle school. deal. It holds the kids accountable as well We’d like to take them younger than that, as lets the teacher know that there is this but the younger kids aren’t ready. Once program they’re going to every day where they’re in first grade, they’re ready to start they’re getting the extra help they need.” learning and progressing, and that’s where During the summer, the kids are also we feel like we serve them best.” taken care of with the summer camp, “I look at Urban Hope as one of those which concludes this Friday with the Garorganizations that pulls people from all den and Art Show. There, the campers walks of life, whether it’s from the lower show and sell their art. They’ll keep half income or a higher income,” continues the proceeds, with the other half going Beckwith. “We really try to bring all those back to Urban Hope. people together on one level to serve our “It’s open to anyone who wants to do community. Sure, we’re serving these it,” says Broadie, “and it’s first come first children and their families, but those are served. There’s no favoritism.” There are around a hundred kids in each future employees and employers.” Urban Hope partners with other local program, bused in from 10 schools to one organizations like Beyond the Bell and of two locations. Second Harvest to help their kids even When Roszkowiak began the program more. nearly two decades ago, it was to fulfill a “It’s not that Urban Hope is just doing need he saw in Savannah’s youth for a posia summer program or an after-school tive environment. program,” explains Beckwith. “We’re con“One of Jack’s main points of starting necting those families with other people Urban Hope was that he saw the issues of that can help them as well.” crime and poverty and the cycle that was The partnership with Second Harvest is continuing for decades,” says Beckwith, “and he really felt like if you could get chil- especially important since many in Savannah struggle with food insecurity. dren at an earlier age and give them love “It’s hard for [people] to even imagine and education and a passion to find their that there’s a child who doesn’t have food,” real talents, that could cut down on crime says Beckwith. “They say things like, ‘Well, and poverty. I think people are starting can’t they go to the food bank?’ What if to realize that now. Giving foundation for their parents don’t have a car? What if the children and investing into them at a they’re working? It’s not that easy. I think young age will lead to a better future for 8 them and their community.” we do a good job of shining light on those

without it being like a stigma. This is their life, your life is great, now let’s mend the two. You want to give back, come give back to these children. They’re deserving and so are their families.” An important point in Urban Hope is that the children are most certainly our future. “These children are Savannah’s workforce,” says Beckwith. “We talk about workforce a lot, and there’s not enough skilled laborers. These kids are 95 future employees, and if they’re coming to Urban Hope, they have more of a successful rate of being able to come out on the other side as citizens that are respectful and loving and able to do things for their community.” “We start taking our children here at a very young age that do have the potential to be an employee here as they transition from eighth to ninth grade,” says Broadie. In fact, Urban Hope doesn’t just end for its kids in eighth grade. The Student Leader Program for high school students

allows them to assist the younger Urban Hope students and learn what it’s like to have a job. “With some of the kids, they have something they’re working towards,” says Broadie. While Urban Hope is a Christian-based ministry, Beckwith stresses that it’s open to all. “The children are taught devotion and about God and that God loves them, but I think it’s important for people to know that we’re open to any and everybody,” says Beckwith. “We never want anybody to be turned away because they’re not Christians—we love all. And that’s a big part of it, even to the children.” CS For more information, visit urbanhopesavannah. org and follow them on Instagram @urbanhopesavannah.

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Homeless churches helping homeless people: Part Two KRISTY EDENFIELD

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Above: Father Michael Chaney distributes communion to parishioners at The Community of St. Joseph during their outdoor service. Left: Pastor Candace Hardnett in the USMC.

with getting people to Heaven after they die than bringing Heaven to the world we are living in now.” Veitinger adds to that thought. “Jesus didn’t talk a lot about afterlife Heaven, Jesus talked about this Kingdom of God and bringing forth the Kingdom of God and being active participants in it and that is our role as Christians,” he says. “We are called to be citizens of the Kingdom of God first, and to remember that Hardnett. “Not too long ago, there were that citizenship is to define our perspeccertain branches that were removing tives on things, and if we can do that, we people from service dishonorably for that allow that to inform our decisions on a (PTSD), they could not receive their vetdaily basis. I think that we could make a erans benefits, so some veterans were huge dent without the government’s help.” removed from service prematurely to not Hardnett adds, “Some of us are doing the receive an honorable discharge for various leg work with the right heart intention, we stupid reasons. You have to have paperare doing something about it, even if it is a work in order to receive benefits. Papersmall thing. We are doing what we can do, work becomes a barrier if you are dealing what we know to do, and if everyone can with all of the other stresses of living on do something, even if it is a small thing, we the street.” can actually put a dent in some of what we “This group of people who volunteered see and help as many people as possible.” to do this service, and some Vietnam era “Man, it would be great if the governdidn’t volunteer, they were drafted,” says Rev. Veitinger. “And they are just forgotten ment didn’t have to get involved, wouldn’t that be awesome?” exclaims Chaney. about.” “If we were all really pulling our weight “Jesus modeled this idea that we take care of people’s basic needs first,” says Veit- and taking care of our neighbors, oh what a happy day, the Kingdom would be cominger, and that is what you will find every ing into fruition. That ain’t happening Sunday morning at The Community of St. though. I think that our country is in need Joseph, the outdoor church that he pasof a great spiritual awakening, and I’m not tors in one of Savannah’s 26 different and talking about a religious awakening,” he unique outdoor homeless encampments. “Sometimes the main goal is not to feed says. “I’m talking about the kind of spiritual people,” says Hardnett. “Sometimes they awakening where we really understand our just want to be heard.” Chaney says, “I am far less concerned CONTINUES ON P. 10

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“THERE IS no real transition from military life to civilian life for any veteran,” says Pastor Candace Hardnett of Agape Empowerment Ministries. And she should know—she is a United States Marine Corps veteran. “Literally you are trained for months and months on end to become a military member.” Hardnett received 18 months of training to become a Marine, “and when I got out, I was given a three day workshop on how to put a resume together and go on an interview. Bye, good luck, see you later,” she says. “There was no dismantling of who I had become—you literally become someone different and you are taught to kill and to have no worry or thought about it,” Hardnett recalls. “When you come out in the civilian world, you aren’t turned off—you were created and you weren’t uncreated—and you have to navigate that, and for some people, especially those who saw combat, it is almost impossible. How do you do that on your own?” Pastor Candace Hardnett, Father Michael Chaney, and Reverend Kevin Veitinger all work with some of the 4,200 people who are homeless in our community. They estimate that of the homeless people that they directly work with, about 25% are veterans. “Veterans have gotten the shaft,” says Father Chaney. “The VA is understaffed and underfunded and they can’t really do their jobs to the fullest. A lot of veterans are getting shoved out the door and they find themselves in positions where maintaining what we would call a normal life becomes really challenging and they don’t want to sleep inside because something feels safer about sleeping outside,” he says. “PTSD is very prevalent,” explains

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neighbors and understand that all of us are walking different paths and encounter different obstacles in our life and it is up to us to really take care of one another.” Homelessness is extremely complex— this could be a weekly column all year and we still would not scratch the surface. From broken systems, housing first initiatives that in the long run cost the municipalities less, to the 9th US Circuit of Appeals prohibiting the criminalization of homelessness stating that governments cannot “criminalize conduct that is an unavoidable consequence of being homeless—namely sitting, lying, or sleeping on the streets”—everyone has a Constitutional right to sleep on a park bench, under a bridge, or on the public sidewalk, regardless of how some might think it looks to tourists. The causes of homelessness are just as diverse as the population, from homeless veterans, to the train kids with their own unique hieroglyphic-type symbols, to the over one thousand homeless children that attend Savannah-Chatham County public schools. Hiding the problem is not going to make it go away—and we need to all do better, from our elected officials, to each and everyone one of us looking out for our neighbors who live in tents.

Reverend Kevin Veitinger celebrates outdoor service with homeless neighbors in Savannah.

“Little tiny things, like looking people in the eye to say hello. You are not going to be robbed by a homeless person 999 times out of 1,000, but there is a dignity—offering people the dignity of looking them in the eye and say hello,” says Veitinger.

“Ask them their name,” says Chaney. “Names are important and it brings back this basic human dignity that we take for granted that a lot of our friends lost.” The Community of St. Joseph Church meets every Sunday morning at 8 a.m. for

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breakfast, and 9 a.m. for praise and worship. Directions can be found on their Facebook page. I encourage all to attend, and bring something to share for the communal breakfast. Fresh fruit would be nice, because homeless people rarely get fresh produce. Church of the Epiphany currently meets on Sundays at 11 a.m. at the Savannah LGBT Center at 1515 Bull Street and all are welcome. You can take donations to Padre Chaney and he will make sure that they get to where they are needed most. If you aren’t able to attend a service, you can drop off donations at Emmaus House at 18 Abercorn Street or the Episcopal Diocese office at 18 East 34th Street. In addition to dropping off at Agape Empowerment Ministries at 143 Telfair Road (Sunday service at 10 a.m. and Wednesday Bible Study at 6:30 p.m.), they have a partnership with the U-Haul located at 8810 Abercorn where you can drop off donations seven days a week. Non-perishable food items are greatly needed, along with bottles of water and bug spray. Veitinger concludes, “Until the big systems are fixed, we have to deal with the immediate needs of our homeless neighbors.” CS

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NewZO era set to begin

Proponents of Savannah’s new zoning ordinance are celebrating its adoption by City Council and citing it as a model for collaboration between citizens and government.

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themselves over time and will improve the lives of residents in numerous and important ways. “In Savannah many small businesses are aligning with healthier food options to help make the healthy choice easier. NewZO underscores these opportunities and will definitely strengthen the social fabric of all neighborhoods creating healthier communities,” she said. Kreissler said there are even more potential benefits, particularly if the ordinance is strengthened going forward. Remember, it’s not perfect. Kreissler already sees next steps to make the ordinance better. “Shorter block requirements, grid patterns for blocks, mixed use retail and housing, and accessory dwelling units would all contribute to thriving neighborhoods. If these are allowed to manifest we will have improved connectivity for walking and biking – resulting in increased physical activity,” she said. Durrence described the public input campaign conducted in advance of NewZO as “messy, time-consuming, and difficult,”

but also said it should serve as a model of how to involve citizens in the process and contribute to the discussion in meaningful ways. He credited City of Savannah Planning and Urban Design Director Bridget Lidy and Chatham County -Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission Development Director Marcus Lotson for their leadership and determination to seek input from all stakeholders. And for their patience. Compared to the standard hearing format, in which citizens are allowed to approach a podium and speak for three minutes or less, the process undertaken by Lidy and Lotson was much more inclusionary and immersive, Durrence said. This allowed participants to find common ground, even if they didn’t ultimately agree on everything. “What’s really wonderful to see, as a planner who’s been living in savannah since 2007, is government agencies working with each other and with neighborhood associations and community groups on a truly collaborative effort,” said Whitney

Shephard, principal engineer/planner for Transport Studio, a transportation planning and engineering services firm. “It’s a win for all of the people who have volunteered their time over the last ten years,” she said. “I want people to participate and have a voice in policy making, and council’s adoption of NewZO confirms that citizens who become involved can make a difference.” Kreissler agreed. “Over the last several years the collaboration between public and private partners to get this to City Council for a vote was amazing. The Metropolitan Planning Commission and City of Savannah staff eagerly engaged many sectors to get this first major move on zoning into law,” she said. “So many organizations, including Healthy Savannah, were at the table helping to create the bridge from the outdated ordinance of the 1960s to the one that was passed at city council on July 18. Collaboration is the key and model to follow for any campaign and implementation to be successful.” CS 11

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AFTER YEARS of delays and discussion, and perhaps the most intensive public outreach campaign undertaken by the City of Savannah in recent memory, a new zoning ordinance was adopted by City Council at its July 18 meeting. While NewZO is not perfect (the editor of this publication jokingly suggested a drinking, game based on the frequency with which even supporters uttered that phrase) it’s certainly superior to the ordinance it replaces, which was crafted in the 1960s. “NewZO is not perfect and it never will be,” said District 2 Alderman Bill Durrence. “It’s a dynamic document.”
 Once Council officially repeals the existing ordinance, NewZO will go into effect on Sept. 1, but will not be applied retroactively to projects currently in the approval pipeline. Durrence said a six-month grace period will extend to March 2020, during which developers may choose to comply with NewZO or the older ordinance. After that, it’s all NewZO all the time. According to Durrence, the first benefits of the new zoning ordinance may not be immediately noticeable, but are significant. He said he knows of several developers who were waiting on the sidelines for the ordinance to pass and will now move forward with their plans, including some slated for the Waters Avenue corridor. Paula Kreissler, REACH program manager and director of healthy living and community development for Healthy Savannah, also sees short-term benefits for local businesses in the form of, “considerably more flexibility and freedom on parking requirements.” As I have written in the past, some of Savannah’s most cherished public spaces — including Forsyth Park — could not exist if we wanted to create them today because there’s not enough parking to meet minimums. Many beloved historic structures are also noncompliant with the old ordinance. However, NewZO is not just about parking and buildings according to Kreissler. She said the real benefits will be reveal

NEWS & OPINION BLOTTER 2019 Sav/Chatham County Crime Stats through Sunday July 21

HOMICIDES Homicide on 49th Street

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Savannah Police Violent Crimes detectives made an arrest in the homicide of a 70-year-old woman on Thursday, July 18. “At around 9 p.m., officers responded to a residence on the 700 block of E. 49th Street to conduct a welfare check. Upon arrival, they located Nancy Hunt deceased with apparent injuries that were not selfinflicted,” police report. Sean Hunt, 29, who is the victim’s son, was on scene when officers arrived. “He was brought in for questioning and upon further investigation, it was determined that he was responsible for the homicide. He was charged with murder and transported to the Chatham County Detention Center without incident,” police say.

Three arrested for June Shooting

Savannah Police’s Violent Crimes detectives have made three arrests in a shooting at Colonial Village at Marsh Cove on June 10. Rondall Udon Newsome, 21 has been charged with home invasion, aggravated assault, two counts of cruelty to childrenfirst degree, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. A 16-year-old male has been charged with party to a crime (home invasion) and party to a crime (aggravated assault). A third suspect, Shanard Maurice Ford, 20, has been arrested in connection to this investigation. He has been charged with home invasion, aggravated assault and cruelty to children. “Around 8:30 p.m. June 10 officers responded to the apartment complex at 11400 White Bluff Road and discovered Joseph Wilder, 28, suffering from gunshot wounds. Soon after, Newsome and a teen male arrived at the hospital, also suffering from gunshot wounds. The investigation resulted in Newsome and the teen being identified as suspects in the shooting. Both suspects turned themselves into police on July 16,” police report.

Larry Branson named director of CrimeStoppers

Savannah-Chatham County CrimeStoppers announced this morning that 30-year law enforcement veteran Larry Branson will serve as the program’s new director. The Savannah native spent his career with Savannah Police Department and retired in 2015 as the senior major responsible for the patrol division. “We are fortunate to have Larry as our new director. Our mission to solve crime is one that is better served by a leader who understands the importance of tapping into neighborhoods and reaching those who may be too afraid to talk and have something to share with police,” said Andrew Davis, board chairman, Savannah-Chatham County CrimeStoppers. “The purpose of Savannah-Chatham County CrimeStoppers is to prevent and reduce crime, by forming a partnership among the community, law enforcement and the media to offer anonymity and cash rewards to anyone providing information leading to an arrest,” a spokesperson for the group says. “Because offering a tip to CrimeStoppers is completely anonymous, everyday people can be amazing superheroes – and just like Batman or Superman, their identity remains completely anonymous. I

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believe that tipsters are nameless super heroes and tipsters are not snitches instead they reap the riches,” says Branson, director, Savannah-Chatham County CrimeStoppers. In June 2019, the CrimeStoppers Board of Directors appointed Branson to manage day-to-day operations of the organization, to determine all reward payments, and be the face of CrimeStoppers. “CrimeStoppers continues to serve as a clearinghouse for information sharing among regional law enforcement agencies. As crime and criminals know no jurisdictional boundaries, and as our technology advances, we will continue to avail every opportunity to share tips with our local, state and regional partners in a timely manner,” adds Branson. “I look forward to working with our area governments, civic groups, and law enforcement leaders in strengthening our partnerships and working together to create a safe and secure community.” Branson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice and a minor in political science from then-Armstrong State College. He earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Georgia Southern University. Branson also has 22 years of teaching experience at both institutions. CS

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NEWS & OPINION NEWS OF THE WEIRD Clay County (Missouri) Sheriff’s officers didn’t have to put their tracking skills to much use as they searched for a fugitive in early July near Liberty, Missouri, according to Fox2. The unnamed man, who was wanted for possession of a controlled substance, gave himself away by loudly passing gas in his hiding spot. Deputies noted on Facebook: “If you’ve got a felony warrant for your arrest, the cops are looking for you and you pass gas so loud it gives up your hiding spot, you’re definitely having a (poop emoji) day.”

Least Competent Criminal

In Shawnee, Oklahoma, Brandon Killian, 29, was already in trouble for brutally beating Jarric Carolina in a June brawl. But as he sat in custody, he told an officer that his face was injured from being “first socked” during the fight. When the officer left the room to get a camera, Killian, who was being recorded, punched himself multiple times in the face (strangely using one hand to propel the other fist into his cheek). Now his charges include preparing false evidence, KFOR reported. “Lying to the police and creating a false report will not be tolerated,” warned District Attorney Allan Grubb. Killian is currently serving time in the Oklahoma County Jail for a separate drug court violation.

Awesome!

A kindly grandfather, who just wanted to treat nurses at Warrington Hospital in Cheshire, England, for the good care given to a relative, unwittingly gave them a red velvet cake laced with cannabis on May 27. According to Sky News, the man got the cake from his grandson’s 18th birthday party and presented it to staff at the hospital. An unnamed staff member said three or four of the nurses were “off their faces” afterward, and another noted how “relaxed” they were. Cheshire police destroyed what remained of the cake after the incident.

News You Can Use

Car rental companies in Japan began noticing last summer that some customers were putting very few miles on their vehicles, so they conducted surveys to find out what renters are using the cars for, reported The Asahi Shimbun, and discovered that one in eight renters were using cars for something besides transportation, to wit: napping (most popular activity), talking on the phone, eating lunch, watching TV, putting on Halloween costumes and doing stretches said to reduce the size of their face. One respondent said she uses rented cars to store bags and other belongings because coin-operated lockers are sometimes all in use. Renting is cheap

in Japan, costing only a few hundred yen (several dollars).

Bird Brain

Ted Richards of Bristol, England, isn’t your run-of-the-mill bird lover. He admires parrots so much that he has had his face tattooed with feathers and his eyes colored with tattoo ink, risking blindness. HuffPost reported that Richards, who goes by Ted Parrotman, also had his ears removed, which has impaired his hearing. “Parrots only got little holes anyways, so I had them cut off,” he said. “I didn’t think about the complications, you know? Because if you looked at negative all the time, you’d never do anything.” Well said, Parrotman. Well said.

Blast From the Past

A plumber renovating the former Centralia High School in Centralia, Illinois, unearthed a 75-year-old trove of memories in late June. Inside a bathroom wall heat vent, he discovered 15 women’s wallets, all from students at the school in the mid-1940s. The cash was missing, but photographs, IDs and other materials were still in the billfolds. “War is ending,” said Seth Baltzell, pastor of the City Hope Church, which is converting the building. “So there are lots of things like pictures of soldiers.” Baltzell posted pictures of the wallets on Facebook, and relatives of 89-year-old Betty June Sissom of Chesterfield, Missouri, saw them. “I remember I lost my wallet,” Sissom told KSDK. “Oh my goodness, look at the boy’s pictures I have ... They took all the money, huh?” Sorry, Betty.

Inexplicable

On the afternoon of July 7, Timothy Smith, 24, and his fiancee returned to their new home in Gresham, Oregon, to find things not quite right. They noted items out of place, others that didn’t belong to them, a mirror ripped out of a bathroom and holes kicked in bedroom walls. Then they found a cat (wearing a green cashmere shirt belonging to Smith’s chihuahua) hiding in a crawl space, The Oregonian reported, and called police. Fifteen minutes later, officers emerged from the house with Ryan Bishop, 38, wearing the woman’s Christmas onesie. Smith told reporters the man had broken into the home and settled right in, eating a cupcake, making coffee, smoking Smith’s weed, playing video games and collecting a clean, warm onesie out of the dryer. Bishop was charged with first-degree burglary, first-degree criminal mischief and thirddegree theft. Smith is seeking a home for the cat. His fiancee declined the return of her onesie.

Oops!

Pool maintenance workers in Boca Raton, Florida, were interrupted on July 5 when one of them was shot in the leg with a pellet gun. “I heard him scream at the top of his lungs,” homeowner E-Lyn Bryan told WPTV, “and he had blood coming out of his leg and he was shot by the hunter.” Police responding to the shooting said someone hired to kill iguanas in the neighborhood shot the pool boy instead. “If neighbors are gonna be like the Wild West and shoot at everything, someone is gonna get killed,” Bryan said. It was unclear whether the shooter was caught or charged.

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Memphis-based band comes to El Rocko BY SEAN KELLY

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AT FIRST listen of Hash Redactor’s Drecksound, the Memphis band’s first LP that was released in April, one thing is clear—this is a band that doesn’t hang on to the traditions of punk. Sure, the record is undeniably influenced by 70s punk like The Stooges and even early 80s post-punk, but it also delves into musical and sonic territory that recalls early garage bands like The Sonics. They also play around with melody and arrangement; all of this comes together to create a record that is lo-fi in the best way, captivating, and layered in dense intensity. The band has been touring steadily since Drecksound was released, and they’re set for a stop at El Rocko Lounge on Tues., July 30 alongside Valley Gals, Pearl & the Oysters, and Dirtbike. Ahead of the gig, we spoke to the band’s Alec McIntyre about everything from recording to tape to the Memphis DIY community.

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You guys were all in different bands prior to coming together. How did you get together?

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McIntyre: This initially started out as kind of just an in town project with me and Meredith [Lones], our bass player. We live together, and it was more of a natural thing. It started as that. We’ve all known each other for probably about 10 years, just being in the Memphis DIY scene. Playing in each other’s bands, playing shows, all of that kind of stuff. George [Williford] was available, so we asked him to join. And then our initial drummer quit for personal reasons, so Charlotte [Watson] asked to join the band after that. So we’ve been kind of keeping it rolling; writing songs together, but not really with any intention other than to make music for ourselves. You mentioned the DIY scene in Memphis. What’s that like? Are there a lot of bands in your wheelhouse? Hash Redactor plauys El Rocko Lounge on Tues., July 30.

McIntyre: There’s a lot of tumbleweeds in the DIY scene [laughs]. There are people who are still fighting the good fight, but it’s one of those towns where if you go out to a show and see out of town bands coming

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“Touring is nice because you can go find your people for a brief moment and then hide back under a rock. Our people are generally freaks and weirdos [laughs].”

It’s funny you say that, because it’s similar in the town where I grew up. The motivation for bands to tour was in part because our hometown didn’t offer much past a certain point. Was that part of the impetus for you guys to start going on the road—to go out and find your people? McIntyre: Yeah, I suppose so. Touring is nice because you can go find your people for a brief moment and then hide back under a rock. Our people are generally freaks and weirdos [laughs]. Memphis is a good place for us, personally. It’s definitely not suited for everybody. It’s a good home base! McIntyre: Yeah! And it helps being in the middle of the country. We’re not stuck on one side, so it’s not impossible to get to the west coast. And doing an east coast run like we’re doing this time around is completely manageable. Do you feel like you guys knew what kind of band you wanted to be stylistically from day one? McIntyre: It definitely evolved, because we changed members. My initial idea for it was going to be more of a rambling, fried out kind of Meat Puppets thing. We couldn’t play that, so we just kind of wound up finding our common ground. There are certainly influences that we draw on, just to center it. We obviously listen to a lot of English post punk stuff and a lot of American DIY, but I don’t think we’re trying to do any one thing.

It sounds like an amalgamation of things. I heard stuff like The Birthday Party in there! McIntyre: We certainly have our heroes. We’re all big Rowland S. Howard fans. I listen to his records way more often than I listen to one particular Birthday Party release, but yeah—it’s all within that continuum. Tell me about recording the new record to tape. McIntyre: Well, mainly we did it on tape because that’s the only way that we know how to record [laughs]. We’re all pretty terrible technical luddites! Computers make no fucking sense to me, and that was not a language that I was going to try and become versed in. It was just easier. A friend of ours had a tape machine, and we all figured it out. Ultimately though, we did have to kind of reply on some digital help. We did have to rely on some digital help. We recorded it all at home, in our practice space. And while that was all fine and good, when the tape starts to disintegrate things get a little scary. So we had to enlist the help of our friend Matt Qualls, who mixed the record, to dump everything down to Pro Tools and basically rescue the audio there. The reason it sounds good is because he saved our asses! [laughs]. Do you like the challenge of recording to tape and having boundaries on the amount of takes you could do, etc.? McIntyre: Sure! I mean, it has its ups and downs. We’re not analog snobs—I’d like to think that we wouldn’t have turned this into a prog rock album if we’d done it all in Pro Tools. I think we exercised enough taste on our own. But who knows, we might wind up doing our next record all digitally if it’s more convenient and seems safer. Rather than having the tape machine blow up while we’re trying to finish it. CS

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in that are at all interesting, nine out of 10 people in the crowd are in bands. There’s not a lot of an audience for the kind of stuff that we do. We try to bring our friends through, and bands that we want to see in town, but there isn’t exactly a thriving scene. There are lots of people who are doing good things, but there are generally just very few people. People leave Memphis, generally, as soon as they get a chance, you know?

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Spiral: Oh yeah, I love Suicide! The Screamers were a big influence on me, too. They were kind of the west coast equivalent to Suicide. Totally. Was all of that in your brain when you realized you could combine clowning and music? Spiral: Yeah, I mean, I’ve always loved synth punk as long as I’ve been into it. It kind of seemed like the clowny stepcousin of punk, because it wasn’t new wave or punk. It had its own little kids table [laughs]. I think Devo is a great example of that, where it was very much synth punk. But also their aesthetic was bright colors, the plastic sort of toy thing.

Skippy Spiral on music, clowning, and creativity

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ANYONE IN Savannah who doesn’t know Skippy Spiral has the perfect chance to get acquainted with performer when he plays a special show at the Sentient Bean on Fri., July 26. Spiral’s musical identity is as important as his visual identity—the lifelong musician and artist marries his love of clowning and music, creating something that needs to be seen to be truly heard, and heard to be truly seen. The music Spiral makes draws heavily from new wave, synth punk and goth punk music, and it’s all wrapped in the clown aesthetic that he’s become known for. His story is unique, and he’s become a great example of the musical diversity that Savannah has to offer. The show at the Sentient Bean will feature Spiral, Pittsburgh-based clown Icky Vicky, and Indiana trip hop artist UaZit. We chatted with Spiral ahead of his Sentient Bean show about what to expect at the show and more. I was really intrigued by the fact that your interest in clowning came from your grandfather. Tell me about the impact he had on you. Spiral: Yeah, he was a big influence. One of my earliest memories was seeing him perform at our birthday parties. He did magic tricks, and I’d see my grandfather leave and this clown magically appear. He’d leave, and then my grandfather would show up and be like, “Oh, I missed the clown!” It was really rad and it really captured my imagination. And then getting older and 80s kid, I saw Killer Clowns From Outer Space and It. So there was the phobia that a lot of people have of clowns, but then it was [about] getting over it and embracing that, at the end of the day. I think that

Spiral: Exactly! The retrofuturism too, but also the puppet aesthetic. Even bands like The Cramps had that sort of elevated aesthetic. Spiral: Oh, absolutely. Oingo Boingo—you definitely hear me ripping off Danny Elfman on my album. Skippy Spiral and Icky Vicky are joined by UzZit at the Sentient Bean on July 26.

fear and imagination can kind of combine in different ways—they can be similar sensations sometimes. For creativity, I don’t mind freaking myself out [laughs]. Did that come before music, or were you getting into music at the same time? Spiral: As far as my own style of music, I guess it came later. I really got into punk as a teenager, and was in some punk bands. There was the bright colored hair and patches and pins—looking back on it, it is almost its own form of clowning. You don’t give a shit, and you’re just who you are. You’re not taking life too seriously [as a clown], which is a lot like punk rock and the energy behind it. I think it definitely helped seeing somebody be as uninhibited as my grandfather, and then years later going to see my first punk shows; seeing GWAR and the theatrics of music. I was like, “Okay, this can go together.” I didn’t really realize that I could combine the two, though, until a little while later, and that’s when I took off with this persona. I hear a lot of kind of goth punk and synth punk in your music. It actually made me think of Suicide, the 70s/80s duo from New York.

He’s maybe my favorite composer of all time, tied with [Mark] Mothersbaugh. Spiral: Yeah, they’re both awesome! And they both had these really cool new wave bands that helped them hone in on what they’d end up doing later on with composition. You know, it’s hard looking back in terms of the whole chick or the egg thing for me. It was kind of a culmination. I was a kid who loved to crack jokes; I’ve always loved to make people laugh. But there were two sides of me. There was also the really quiet kid who loved to draw and write. I think a big factor in the last few years of me putting these two things together was just having my own project, complete creative control, and therefore my own identity in it. What can people expect from the upcoming show? Spiral: It’s going to be a lot of fun. I always love performing with other clowns! My friend Icky Vicky is coming down. It’s funny—I feel alone a lot of the time, and then I end up doing shows with other clowns and it’s like, “Oh, wow! I’m not alone anymore.” CS

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RICHMOND, Virginia’s Sinister Purpose plays a heady mix of classic D.C. hardcore punk, 70s-influenced punk rock, D-beat hardcore, and pure riff rock. The band has released a number of EPs and singles over the past several years, showcasing their impressionable approach to songwriting and their commitment to the genre. The band will be making a stop at El Rocko Lounge on Sat., July 27, and we spoke with members Marcus, Paul, Roger, and Steven ahead of the gig. Tell me about how you guys got together. Is punk pretty much the background for all of you? Steven: Yeah, I think we’ve all played in other bands in some genre of punk. I’d say we all listen to rock and roll. We definitely have a lot of Thin Lizzy and Motorhead influence in what we do, it just leans more towards the hardcore element. Paul: I was definitely raised on the D.C. hardcore sound, and it’s always played a role in my writing. I’ve always loved classic rock, and the past few years I’ve really gotten more into that side of music. Just listening to riffs, really. At the end of the day it’s all about the riff for me. How long have you guys known each other? How did this band get together? Marcus: We got together as a band towards the end of 2015, but most of us have known each other going back about 10+ plus. Steven: We all grew up right outside of

D.C., and were all in different bands but in the same scene. Paul: Growing up, my best friend was close friends with Steven. So I’ve known Steven practically my whole life. So everybody has known each other for a while, then. Does that make it easy to be in a band together? Paul: It definitely made the starting phase of the band a lot more comfortable. There’s always that awkwardness of, like, what are we going for? What are we going to do and do we have anything to work on? Steven: It was easy, too, because we weren’t in bands together before. We had no goals at the start other than to write some sweet tunes [laughs]. How long of a process was it, figuring out what you had and trying to land on something musically?

Paul: I do all of the writing, and what I like to do is figure out a riff, get a little recording, and throw it at the guys. Then I work it out to where I’ve got something that would pass as a complete song, and take it to practice. We make sure everyone’s got their say on their part, but I bring the skeleton to the table. Roger: When we first started, Paul would have the song and it was very straightforward and we’d just kind of stuck to that. But starting with Burn In Hell, we moved more into everyone contributing towards finalizing the song.

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I’ve interviewed a few different Richmond bands, and it seems like there’s a pretty robust and eclectic music community. What’s your experience been like as part of the scene?

Paul: It’s been awesome. We’ve all been in different bands in different genres, and had a great time in Richmond. I could’ve stayed Paul: That probably happened when we up in D.C., personally, but Richmond music started working on the Burn In Hell EP. is just substantially better. Originally, the idea was to be more of a Marcus: It seems especially over the last straight up D-beat hardcore punk band. It five years or so, there’s definitely been a just didn’t pan out, and this turned out to good amount of different scenes in Richbe more fun and interesting to write. After mond. It’s kind of segmented, but each Scorched Earth, our demo tape, we noticed scene has its different bands that are thrivthere was a rock and roll kind of feel. I was ing. There’s some mix between the scenes personally into it, and I feel like we got a lot a little bit, but there are always so many of positive feedback. It felt unique. new bands coming out of Richmond all the Steven: [Richmond-based record store] time. CS Vinyl Conflict was a big help, too. Because SINISTER PURPOSE @EL ROCKO they pressed Burn In Hell, and that made LOUNGE it all streamlined. We didn’t need a huge Sat., July 27, 9 P.M. investment to progress. Now that you’ve landed on what y’all do, is the writing process pretty seamless?

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Jacob Evans readies solo debut

Jacob Evans celebrates his album release at Coastal Empire Beer Co. on July 27. PHOTO BY SOMI BENSON-JAJA

Singer/songwriter celebrates release of first solo album BY SEAN KELLY

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SINGER/SONGWRITER Jacob Evans is a relatively new name to the Savannah music scene as a solo artist, but he’s got the talent and the songs to become a mainstay. Evans is prepping the release of Just Breathe, his debut album, and celebrating it with a gig at Coastal Empire Beer Co. on Sat., July 27. Evans got into music several years ago, taking cues early on from the late folk legend Richie Havens. “He got me started playing guitar. I

was trying so hard to play his song, ‘Freedom,’ and then I found out that it was in a different tuning,” Evans tells Connect. “[Havens] was definitely the catalyst to diving into guitar. And then with singing, it was really John Legend.” As he started exploring music, Evans began to discover an interest in writing songs. During the summer before his senior year of high school, he started to see

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a more serious path towards writing and performing. College gave him the chance to start playing gigs, and he quickly began to find his sound. “I would love to describe my music as alternative soul,” he says. The music he plays is an amalgamation of styles and influences that span genres and influences. “The first music I ever listened to on my own was System Of A Down, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco, and then John Legend,” Evans explains. The eclectic nature of his music is reflected on Just Breathe, which features a collection of songs that are relatively acoustic-based but have the feel of a modern post-genre approach to songwriting. “It was a long process,” he says of making the record. “I’ve had one of the songs since I was in high school. And I just started producing like two or three years ago.” The process of recording was natural and intuitive for Evans, who says he’d often play whatever came to his head and wouldn’t adhere to any rules or standards when it came to production or even the lyrical content. “I just played what I thought would be cool, and then would sculpt the song from there,” he says. “Lyrically, a lot of the songs I write about is stuff I have to get off of my chest. Most of the songs are about my problems, but sometimes I’ll write it like I’m talking to someone else. If Just Breathe or the lead single “One More Lie” are any indication, Evans has a fruitful career ahead of him. The music is rhythmic, heartfelt, and accessible, and it’s seemingly just the beginning for him. “This is going to be the first time that I’ve got a solid body of work to represent me,” he says with excitement. CS

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MUSIC INTERVIEW

The shoegaze and dream pop of Niights Ohio rockers come to The Jinx

MAJIC DUST + FOREST EVIL 9:00PM

BY SEAN KELLY

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You don’t lean too heavily into one influence or another—it’s a really delicate balance of stylistic approaches and aesthetic choices in terms of production. It’s also really varied musically. Maraldo: Yeah. It’s hard for us to repeat ourselves, because we make a conscious effort not to do it. That said, was this band one of those instances where you knew all along what it should be? Fournier: When we started the band, I had a bunch of songs written that were in a bare bones, sort of singer/songwriter situation. Frank took those and added a bunch of guitar layers and stuff, and it grew from there. We started the band in 2010, so when we first started writing together it was a little bit of a different kind of collaboration because I joined with songs already written. Now, we do write in a more collaborative way. But we’re not really going for anything other than kind of experimenting together. And we both pull from different backgrounds, so I think that’s why the music comes out sort of all over the place sometimes.

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SAT, JUL 27 ‘We both pull from different backgrounds, so I think that’s why the music comes out sort of all over the place sometimes.’

Maraldo: When I started, I had an idea of what I wanted it to sound like. But since then, we’ve been trying to push further and further to see what we’re really capable of doing. Back in 2010, the shoegaze revival was barely a thing—if it was a thing at all, at that point. Side note, but I think the last Slowdive record might be the best “comeback” record ever. Fournier: Yeah, it’s so beautiful. That whole revival thing must make it a really good time to be doing what you guys are doing. But I also understand the desire as a band to experiment and not repeat yourselves. In what ways do y’all experiment and push boundaries? Fournier: For me, it’s sometimes playing with new pedals. But really, it’s sitting down and writing something that’s maybe more formless and trying to create from that. Or maybe breaking away from a common structure go-to. I know that Frank challenges himself by learning different guitar styles. I never thought we’d ever shift into metal, but there’s a lot to learn from that and I think Frank has been incorporating that into his style. Maraldo: I usually have a pretty formed structure in terms of what I want something to sound like. I don’t mean songwriting, per say, but sonically I have a pretty formed idea when I start with stuff. Obviously there’s lots of branches that go off of that, and that’s the fun of it. But in the studio, I know which way I want to go and which ways I don’t want to retread. It’s a great question because it’s hard for me to think about that. But Jenna did bring to light something that I didn’t

even realize I do—I tend to try and learn a new chord or technique; something to move things along. I do tend to have a lot of things pre-written in my head, and then it’s a matter of getting it out through the instrument. Usually, my ideas are beyond my ability at first, which is what’s fun about music for me. Pushing the physical limitations of the band myself, basically. Fournier: We were also a really fortunate band in that we worked with a producer who let us be ourselves, basically. He let us mess around and let us experiment in the studio. You don’t always have the time and money to do that, and he gave us a lot of extra time to experiment in the studio. That gives you a whole other world of possibilities. That’s a real gift, I think. Especially when you’re just entering the studio realm, it’s hard to let your guard down with producers, and it’s not always the case where producers feel comfortable relinquishing some of that control. Maraldo: It was definitely that way early on, but we spent a lot of time with Jim [Wirt, producer] in a way that was not recording. Doing a remix on the first record, and then when we started the record with him it was in piecemeal. So we’d already had our ins and outs with him at that point, and he’d become a friend. He came along and started realizing that this wasn’t another band where he had to play timekeeper. He knew when to say, “Let’s go down the rabbit hole a little bit.” CS

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NIIGHTS IS a band that ticks every box for this lover of 80s and 90s dream pop and shoegaze. Upon first listen, it’s clear that they take plenty of cues from My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and more alternative rock bands like Smashing Pumpkins. If you listen further, though, you’ll notice that they even explore heavier avenues and dip their collective toe into the vast pool of metal and its riff-centric explosiveness. All of this comes together to create something that makes Niights stand out. The band clearly isn’t keen on just being a copy of their influences, but rather uses those influences as the blueprint for something sonically and compositionally unique. They’ve succeeded in that over the past several years, and most notably on their latest release Hellebores. Niights is currently on a tour that brings them to The Jinx on Fri., July 26, alongside Tape Waves and local favorites Nancy Druid. We spoke to guitarists and vocalists Frankie Maraldo and Jenna Fournier ahead of the gig.

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ALL THE LOCALS @CONGRESS STREET SOCIAL CLUB

Atlanta’s All The Locals are a six-piece band who fuse rock, pop, R&B, and even country to create a sound that feels like an equal balance of each member’s sensibilities. The band has garnered critical acclaim over the past few years for their unique music, and tour regularly throughout the Southeast. Don’t miss their show when they return to Congress Street Social Club. SAT., JULY 27, 10 P.M.

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The name says it all—84 is a faithful, powerful tribute to one of rock’s greatest and most legendary bands. The group not only succeeds in paying tribute to Van Halen’s vast catalog, but has also built a fanbase of their own in the process. You’ll likely hear all of the hits from Van Halen’s most beloved records, but there will surely be some deeper cuts and fan favorites in the mix as well. SAT., JULY 27, 7 P.M., $15-$40

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GOODFIRES @EL ROCKO LOUNGE

Atlanta indie rock band Goodfires recalls the more underground facet of emo music that started in the early 90s, mixed with modern production and a more intricate approach to rhythm. The band’s songs are emotive, ambient, melancholy, and poignant; just the thing for fans of post-rock and melodic indie rock alike. They’ll be joined at El Rocko by Fugitive Soul, Blurry, and Lady Creation. MON., JULY 29., 9 P.M.

BEN STROK & THE FULL ELECTRIC @BARRELHOUSE SOUTH

Combining elements of rock, jazz and funk with jam band sensibilities, Jacksonville’s Ben Strok & the Full Electric have become known for their intricate arrangements and energetic live show. The band recently released an EP that features both instrumental songs and ones with Strok taking on lead vocals. Both types of songs showcase Strok’s musicianship and melodic ear, and his band is as tight as they come.

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WEDNESDAY 7.24 LIVE MUSIC Barrelhouse South VuDu Shakedown, 10 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. Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) Turtle and the Heads Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Lavon Stevens Quartet, 7 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Josephine Johnson 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. 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. White Whale Craft Ales Open Mic Music, 7 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Jason Courtenay and Uncle Buck, 7 p.m. The Wormhole Open Jam, 9 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES The Chromatic Dragon Geeky Trivia Night, 8 p.m. Coach’s Corner Trivia Dub’s Pub Trivia, 7:30 p.m. The Jinx Human Jukebox Trivia, 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) Tubby’s Bar Bingo, 7 p.m. World of Beer Trivia, 7 p.m.

KARAOKE Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Wet Willie’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY Totally Awesome Bar SCU Presents The Narrator, 9:30 p.m.

DJ Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke

THURSDAY 7.25 LIVE MUSIC Barrelhouse South Savannah is for Lovers: Emo, Pop, Punk Throwback ft. Sadsongs, 10 p.m. Bay Street Blues Hitman Blues Band Bayou Cafe Eric Culberson Band,

Soundboard 9 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt, 6 p.m. Cohen’s Retreat Munchies and Music, 5-9 p.m. Congress Street Social Club DJ Square One El-Rocko Lounge Majic Dust, Forest Evil, 9 p.m. Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) Markus Kuhlmann The Flying Fish Anne Allman and Michael Moody, 6:30 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Demetrius Doctor Quartet, 7 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Peter Hennes Duo The Jinx Grand, Velvet Willow, Brandon Nelson McCoy, 9 p.m. Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m. The Perch at Local 11 ten Jason Bible PS Tavern Live Music Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Gypsy Jazz, 7 p.m. River House Josephine Johnson Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m. Savannah Spirits Kitchen JD Music Group The Shrimp Factory Ray Tomasino Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Open Mic, 9 p.m. Top Deck James Lee Smith, 6:30 p.m. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Bucky & Barry, 6 p.m. Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon Victory North Victory North Presents 2019 Cabaret Series : Billie Holiday, 8 p.m. The Warehouse Jon Lee’s Apparitions, 8 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Matt Hill, 7 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES B & D Burgers (Congress St.) Pop Culture Trivia, 7:30 p.m. McDonough’s Trivia, 7 p.m. Pour Larry’s Explicit Trivia, 10 p.m. Southbound Brewing Company Riddle Me This?, 7:30 p.m.

KARAOKE Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m. The Jinx 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.

COMEDY Totally Awesome Bar Totally Open Mic, 8 p.m.

DJ Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap

BAR & CLUB EVENTS Club One The Roast of Motion

Poetry Slam, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY 7.27 LIVE MUSIC

Medicated Sunfish @BARRELHOUSE SOUTH

Medicated Sunfish are melodic, funky, and fun. The band mostly defies genre but definitely leans heavily into rhythm and explores the jam band mentality in their instrumentals. If you’re looking for a good time, their show at Barrelhouse should be just that. SAT., JULY 27, 8 P.M.

Adreanne, 8 p.m. Stafford’s Public House Open Mic, 9 p.m.

FRIDAY 7.26 LIVE MUSIC Barrelhouse South Ben Strok and the Full Electric w/ Swim in the Wild, 8 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt, 6 p.m. Congress Street Social Club DJ Kut Daily Doc’s Bar Chester Love Band, 9 p.m. El-Rocko Lounge God Bless Relative, Dustin Price, Jalen Reyes, 9 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant The Eric Jones Trio ft. Joe Gransden, 8 p.m. Isle of Hope Marina Fourth Friday Pavilion Series, 6:30 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar The Train Wrecks The Jinx Niights, Tape Waves, Nancy Druid, 9 p.m. Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m. Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Josephine Johnson Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Amar Molly McGuire’s Keith & Ross, 6 p.m. Pour Larry’s DJ & Live Music Prohibition Bootleg Beats, 10:30 p.m. Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Jazz Trio, 6:30 p.m. River House Greg Williams Rusty Rudders Tap House Live Acoustic Music, 6 p.m. Ruth’s Chris Steak House David Duckworth, 8 p.m. Saddle Bags Jay Tyler, 8 p.m. Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m.

Savannah Spirits Kitchen Bucky & Barry, 8 p.m. The Sentient Bean Newlydeads Tour w/ UaZit, Skippy Spiral, Icky Vicky’s Brokenheart Sideshow, 7 p.m. Service Brewing Company Bluegrass By The Pint w/ City Hotel, 5:30 p.m. The Shrimp Factory Adam Nye Taste of India Eric Culberson Tijuana Flats Gary Strickland Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) Jeremy Riddle, 5 p.m. Vic’s on The River Diana Rogers, Claire Frazier and Steven Bryan, 7 p.m. Victory North 10 Years, 8 p.m. The Warehouse Magic Rocks, Jason Bible Wild Wing Cafe Thomas Claxton, Individually Twisted, 5 p.m. The Wormhole Dizygote, The Sawed Offs, Sacred Owl, 9 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. Stafford’s Public House Stafford’s Comedy Showcase, 9:30 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 Foxy Loxy Cafe Fire Brand Fridays

Barrelhouse South Medicated Sunfish, Clayton Hackle, 8 p.m. Billy’s Place at McDonough’s Nancy Witt, 6 p.m. Coach’s Corner 84 - The Ultimate Van Halen Tribute Band, 7 p.m. Coastal Empire Beer Co Jacob Evans Album Release Party, 7 p.m. Congress Street Social Club All the Locals El-Rocko Lounge Sinister Purpose, Playytime, Tourist Trap, Last Call, 10 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Jonathan Baptiste Sextet, 8 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Ben Keiser Band Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m. Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill Rachael Shaner Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub Hitman Molly McGuire’s Charlie Fog Band, 7 p.m. The Olde Pink House David Duckworth & Alisha Duckworth Pour Larry’s DJ & Live Music Prohibition Bootleg Beats, 10:30 p.m. Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant Jody Jazz Trio, 6:30 p.m. River House Adam Nye Rusty Rudders Tap House Live Acoustic Music, 6 p.m. Saddle Bags Adairs Run, 8 p.m. Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos, 7 p.m. Savannah Spirits Kitchen Draucker, 8 p.m. The Shrimp Factory Josephine Johnson Stafford’s Public House DJ Rudy Lui, 9:30 p.m. The Roasting Room Lounge and Listening Room Aaron Stephens, 8 p.m. Tubby’s Tank House (Thunderbolt) The Train Wrecks, 6 p.m. Vic’s on The River Diana Rogers, Claire Frazier and Steven Bryan, 7 p.m. Victory North JGBCB - Jerry Garcia Band Cover Band, 8 p.m. The Warehouse Jubal Kane, Alex Bazemore Wild Wing Cafe Chuck Courtenay Group, Josh Johansson, Bill Hodgson, 1 p.m.

KARAOKE Bay Street Blues Karaoke Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m.

COMEDY Ghost Coast Distillery Fun House Improv Comedy, 8:30 p.m.

The Loft on Liberty Odd Lot Improv: Saturday Shenanigans, 8 p.m. Visitor’s Information Center Savannah for Morons: The Trolley Tour, 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. The Wormhole Christmas in July, 8 p.m.

DJ The Black Rabbit DJ Square One, 9 p.m. Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke Rusty Rudders Tap House DJ Tap

BAR & CLUB EVENTS Club Elan Crypt Pub at Elan, 9 p.m. The Jinx Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue presents Pixels & Pasties: A Tribute to Video Games, 9 p.m.

OTHER East End Provisions Sip, Savor and Song Anniversary Show, 7 p.m.

SUNDAY 7.28 LIVE MUSIC Bayou Cafe Don Coyer, 9 p.m. Congress Street Social Club Voodoo Soup, 10:30 p.m. Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant Eric Jones Trio w/ Teddy Adams and Cynthia Utterbach, 7 p.m. Jazz’d Tapas Bar Eric Britt Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub Live Music, 8 p.m. The Olde Pink House Eddie Wilson The Perch at Local 11 ten Danny Moon River House Josephine Johnson The Shrimp Factory Cory Chambers Tubby’s Tank House (River St.) Jeremy J Riddle, 6 p.m. Vic’s on The River Jimmy Frushon The Warehouse Thomas Claxton, Rachael Shaner, Thomas Claxton The Wayward Sunday Night Service, 9 p.m. Wild Wing Cafe Chuck Courtenay, High Velocity, 1 p.m.

TRIVIA & GAMES Moon River Brewing Co. Trivia, 6 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Trivia, 9:30 p.m.

KARAOKE Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m. McDonough’s Karaoke, 9 p.m. Tailgate Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke/DJ, 10:30 p.m.

DJ Boomy’s DJ Basik Lee, 10 p.m.

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

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TRIVIA & GAMES Club One Bingo with Dawn Dupree, 5:30 p.m. The Flying Fish Trivia Night, 7 p.m. The Jinx Music and Movie Trivia, 10 p.m.

KARAOKE Boomy’s Karaoke, 10 p.m. Club One Karaoke, 10 p.m.

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COMEDY The Loft on Liberty Odd Lot Improv: Monday Night Madness, 8 p.m. White Whale Craft Ales White Whale Open Mic Comedy

DJ Little Lucky’s DJ and Karaoke

BAR & CLUB EVENTS Blowin’ Smoke Southern Cantina Pubstar Trivia at Blowin’ Smoke, 7-9 p.m. Fia Rua Irish Pub Family Movie Night, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY 7.30 LIVE MUSIC Bay Street Blues Ben Keiser Band Bayou Cafe Jam Night with Eric Culberson, 9 p.m. Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) Trevor Clendenin Foxy Loxy Cafe Acoustic Tuesday features Andrea + Mud, 7 p.m.

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Congress Street Social Club 411 W. Congress St.

B & D Burgers (Congress St.) 912-238-8315

912-238-1985

Lizzy’s Tequila Bar and Grill 417 East River St.

The Rail Pub 405 W. Congress St.

912-341-8897

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The Loft on Liberty 215 W. Liberty St. Mansion on Forsyth Park

Rancho Alegre Cuban Restaurant 402 MLK Jr. Blvd.

912-238-1311

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Dub’s Pub 225 W. River St.

700 Drayton St.

ranchoalegrecuban.com

912-238-5158

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River House 125 W. River St.

912-662-5576

dubspubriverstreet.com

East End Provisions 420 E. Broughton St.

McDonough’s 21 E. McDonough St.

912-234-1900

barrelhousesouth.com

912-233-6136

Rusty Rudders Tap House 303 W. River St.

Barrelhouse South 125 W. Congress St.

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

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

Bayou Cafe 14 N. Abercorn St. 912-233-6411 bayousavannah.com

Billy’s Place at McDonough’s 20 E. Perry St. 912-231-9049 billysplacesavannah.com

The Black Rabbit 1215 Barnard St. Blowin’ Smoke Southern Cantina 1611 Habersham St.

912-335-5522

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El-Rocko Lounge 117 Whitaker St.

Mellow Mushroom 11 W. Liberty St.

912-495-5808

912-495-0705

Exclusives Bar & Grille 2003 Greenwood Street

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

Fiddler’s Crab House (River St.) 131 West River St. 912-644-7172 www.liveoakstore.com/ fiddlersriverstreet

The Flying Fish 7906 E. Hwy 80

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

Molly McGuire’s 216 Johnny Mercer Boulevard

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The Chromatic Dragon 514 MLK Jr. Blvd. 912-289-0350 chromaticdragon.com

Club Elan 301 Williamson St. Club One 1 Jefferson St. 912-232-0200 clubone-online.com

Coach’s Corner 3016 E. Victory Dr. 912-352-2933 coachs.net

Coastal Empire Beer Co 79 Ross Rd. coastalempirebeer.com/

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

(912) 298-0071 ghostcoastdistillery.com

Good Times Jazz Bar and Restaurant 107 W. Broughton St. Isle of Hope Marina

The Ordinary Pub 217 1/2 West Broughton Street (912) 238-5130 www.theordinarypub.com/

The Perch at Local 11 ten 1110 Bull St. Peregrin 256 E Perry Lane (912) 415-9000

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Pour Larry’s 206 W. St. Julian St.

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Jazz’d Tapas Bar 52 Barnard St.

Prohibition 125 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

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

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

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

Service Brewing Company 574 Indian Street The Shrimp Factory 313 East River Street 912-236-4229 www.theshrimpfactory.com

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Butcher BY RACHAEL FLORA

rachael@connectsavannah.com

MULTIDISCIPLINARY artist Jimmy Butcher is always creating something. A tattoo artist for 15 years, Butcher owns and tattoos at The Butcher Tattoo Studio and Art Gallery downtown. He’s also a talented painter and illustrator, and he was recently tapped to paint a mural at the Starland Yard. We spoke with Butcher last week.

From tattooing to painting, drawing to product design, Butcher does it all and then some. ART COURTESY OF JIMMY BUTCHER. PORTRAIT BY AARON FISHER.

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The Butcher started in 2011. When we opened this space, it was me and my mentor at the time. About a year and a half in, he wanted to do things differently, so he split. It was tough because I was tattooing as much as I could possibly physically tattoo, and still trying to do conventions and gallery shows to supplement everything I couldn’t handle with tattooing. It’s funny, I was always reluctant to use my name. I talked to a small business coach who said, “Don’t ever name your business after yourself,” because it makes it about you, and when you’re creating a customer service business, you want it to be about everyone else. I thought that I agreed with her, but throughout my career, I never was really able to escape the name, even when I tried. I’d say, “Nah, don’t call me that,” when I was first starting as a tattooer. People thought it was a nickname— that’s a bad nickname for a beginning tattooer! I thought if I embraced it and I curated the vibe of the shop in a way that was kind of the opposite of what you’d expect from something called The Butcher, it’d be awesome. And then I worked really hard to make sure it wasn’t about me. I always tell people, “As an artist, the worst thing that can happen to you is you have your artwork on a gallery wall and nothing gets said.” And no one walks past the shop without something to say. There’s just much bad as there is good, but I take it the same way.

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and how did you get started tattooing?

I do everything, and it’s really important for me to talk about the art. I graduated from college with a bachelor’s in painting with a concentration in graphic design. I always wanted to do streetwear. I’m an MTV kid, so when I was growing up, I was like, “Man, I want to see my designs on the clothes those guys wear.” I moved to Savannah on a whim. I didn’t really have any plans other than to just leave the town I was in, which was Charleston, West Virginia. The type of thing I wanted to do just wasn’t there. I didn’t know if it was here, either, but I took a chance on it. I worked at Tony Roma’s, which is now Tondee’s Tavern, and I was hanging out at the tattoo shop that was right next door—it was called Alien Arts. I would just get off work and go there. I wasn’t getting tattoos, I wasn’t really into tattoos. Months went by, and after not doing anything creative, I asked for an apprenticeship. The guy said, “Yeah, you can have an apprenticeship if you can give me five full sketchbooks of artwork that I find impressive.” I had eight sketchbooks on me when he said that, so I showed him, and he liked it. So that was 15 years ago.

My style changes several times a year. It’s good and it’s bad, because I’ll change my style and then have a customer come back from years prior—sometimes even six months prior—and they want something I’m not doing anymore. I’m inspired by music and fashion, just like popular art I look at. I don’t really look at tattoos. I’ve never done that, and I’ve worked really hard to make sure I don’t do that. I acknowledge this, and I think that anyone that works creatively could do this, too—I know that I’m heavily influenced by a lot of stuff that I really like. But I don’t use it when I know I’m being influenced by it. If I sit down and want to paint, and I want to create something in the vein of this thing that I saw, I try to draw it from memory. If I do that and I think about all my favorite paintings I’ve seen over the past six months, and I try to channel that into my painting, it’s mine. It doesn’t look like I’m copying anyone or ripping anyone off. I find that’s the truest way to do something new. All things hip-hop culture are heavily influential in everything I do, and what’s really cool is that’s really popular right now. My childhood was really popular. I’ve been drawing Bart Simpson since I was a kid, and now that I’m doing it, people are like, “Wow, that’s so popular and cool.”

4. What were your influences for this mural?

I started this process a few years back, where I wanted to get really loose and

gestural. I was using brush pens a lot and mentoring under a Japanese artist that lives up in Vancouver. I was doing these really loose, gestural flowers and organic things and it became a go-to for me, keeping in mind the graffiti influence of growing up and never having done graffiti. I wanted to make the mural really big, do something kind of non-representational, a little more abstract for a space that big. I didn’t want to get specific or hone in on any theme. I just wanted it to be energetic.

5. What’s up next for you?

I’m making a softer transition into a more artistic career. It doesn’t mean I’m not going to be tattooing at all, but it means I’ll be tattooing less to focus on other creative stuff I want to do. This mural and other stuff I’m planning is definitely part of trying to make a splash with that. It’s always felt a little bit to me like I’m trying to convince everybody who knows I’m a tattoo artist that I’m a lot more than that. Not that it isn’t something impressive, but I always put it like this. If you were a graphic designer and you said, “I want to tattoo,” most of the people around you would be like, “That’s a great idea.” A lot of times, when a tattoo artist says, “You know what, I think I want to design clothes,” they’re like, “Nah, man, you’re a tattoo artist.” It’s this weird double standard that I’ve never liked and never felt comfortable with. I think I’ve done a good job with the shop and my reputation and pushing that as hard as possible, but what’s next for me is pushing even harder into the realm of actually putting some of these products out and more art where people can see it and more gallery shows and things like that. Recently someone said to me, “So I see you’re doing this mural. Why are you doing this? That’s so different than tattooing.” I fight the urge to get upset; I’ve reached out to people like, “How do I calmly answer this question?” It just comes back to the fact that I’ve always been an artist. Art is my first love. Tattooing has been my career for 15 years, but it doesn’t define me as an artist. CS

CULTURE THE ART•BEAT OF SAVANNAH

FOR HER final show in Savannah, Heather MacRae decided to try something a little different. The veteran of the art scene is typically a landscape painter, but for the source material for “pedal,” opening Tuesday at Sulfur Studios, she had to go into the metaphorical back room. “I was thinking about public and private and consent and buildings, and this concept of internal vs. external,” explains MacRae. “I started thinking about places we can go, and the body as permission and consent, and this idea of permission of entry into a body. That’s where this conversation started to become more erotic, and that’s where the source material came from.” To explore the body and its entry points, MacRae began buying porn magazines— she admits she’s probably the only one who does anymore—and drawing what she saw. “These are women who embrace this lifestyle and this public presentation of what we’d consider a more private practice,” says MacRae. “When you’re looking at these images extensively, you start to contextualize the body, and that’s when I became more interested in this idea of how females are portrayed as sexual objects, but they’re always so innocent and demure.” The female porn star has long been a point of contention depending on which wave of feminism you ride, but MacRae sees it as empowerment. “I’ve done a lot of reading about how feminists have put down porn for so long, but are starting to realize that women who want to take control of their sexuality and say, ‘Yeah, this turns me on, I like this,’ and don’t allow a straight male gaze to control what they appear as,” explains MacRae. “There’s more of a dominant female presence and a claiming of their own sexuality. It plays into that concept of power and I think that’s where porn can be really interesting, because there’s a shift in the sense of power when women feel like

they can take control of their own sexuality.” In “pedal,” the figures are all in control, strong and fearless. They’re also all without faces. “That’s consent,” she says. “I was really focused on line and the body, and also the expression of the female body actively engaged, and I really feel like it all goes back to body as structure and consent.” Perhaps one of the reasons porn is still seen as so damaging is because of consent. “I think a lot of people see porn as damaging or adverse, but that in turn creates a society where we repress or pusdh down any human feelings we have surrounding sexuality. This can lead to a lot of trauma,” she muses. MacRae admits she was nervous to show this series because some of the work expresses the human body in ways that can be misconstrued as graphic or vulgar. “My intent is to explore the body as an expression of these ideas of access, permission and public and private consent. However, I’m trying to embrace the Billy Porter quote about, ‘It’s not my business what someone else things of me.’ But I don’t know what it is about our culture that there’s that very Western idea of Protestant modesty. How do we advance from that?” One way, obviously, is to hold more shows like “pedal.” The paintings in this show, done in acrylic paint on wood panel, use floral fabric patterns as a backdrop for the figures to comment on domesticity. “There’s no reason to doll up the bodies, because they’re all very feminine and strong in their own way anyway,” says MacRae, “but it felt like they had that space for that and that weird plastic feeling of domestic intimacy on a public surface. It’s all about internal vs. external, public and what happens at home—how these relationships or what we do at home dictates how we are out in the world and what we bring out into the world.”

The work in “Pedal” represents the female body in two stylistically different ways. PHOTOS COURTESY OF HEATHER MACRAE.

MacRae will also exhibit her “build” series, which she first exhibited in South Carolina. “I’m obsessed with nun and verb. They’re all verbs and nouns, so it’s an object and it’s an action,” she says. “I also feel like that relates to the body as well, so the object and the body in motion. I used the word ‘pedal’ because it’s both the object that is stepped on to create motion, but it is also the motion of changing things. It’s the concept of, ‘Here’s this platform we’re standing on to change things or create motion or progress.’” “Pedal” might create some of that progress, but MacRae won’t be a Savannah resident to see it. “I’ll be back,” she promises, “but it’s like drop the mic and walk away. I’m literally leaving the next day. Our van is going to be packed for this show.” MacRae has been in Savannah for ten years, where she was a major part of Art Rise Savannah and director of Non-Fiction Gallery. In my opinion, that makes her perspective on the changes in Savannah’s art scene, and in general, an important one.

I worked alongside MacRae at Art Rise Savannah for a few years and learned a lot from her perspective. We both came here in 2011 and met a few years later, when the art scene felt very different than it does now. “I kind of miss back when. 2013 is when it felt like so much was going on,” she remembers. “I know there is still a lot going on. Maybe I’m just too busy to go be at it.” Still, the changes have been pretty noticeable for MacRae. “Savannah has definitely changed a lot since I’ve been here, a ridiculous amount,” she says. “I remember when Foxy opened their doors. It was as if the whole neighborhood changed overnight. I lived on Bull and 37th.” As happens in Savannah, our conversation drifted to the gentrification of the Starland District without ever actually saying the word. “That’s the crazy experience of watching things—all these intense conversations about how that may or may not be damaging,” she says. “It damages the people who have lived here and grown up here being able to live or pay their property taxes.” MacRae is moving to Decatur, Ga., so she’s not too far to come back and visit, but she might be coming back to a different Savannah than she knows. “You know the Keep Austin Weird thing? I want Savannah to be kind of weird still,” she says, “but I understand that once they put that direct flight in from New York to Savannah, that kind of cracked open an artery. There are some places I’m like, ‘Wow, is this Charleston? This is not the city I thought.’ Nobody wants it to turn into Charleston, but there are definitely some places you can’t tell the difference. We’ll see what happens.” CS “pedal” is on display July 23-28 at Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. The reception is Friday, July 26, from 6-9 p.m.

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Keitaro Harada set to take the baton at Savannah Philharmonic New Music and Artistic Director named after extensive search

THE renowned conductor Keitaro Harada will join the Savannah Philharmonic as its Music and Artistic Director in the 2020-21 season, the Philharmonic has announced. Harada will conduct the 2019-20 seasons’ opening and closing concerts, “while working with an impressive roster of guest conductors and soloists to connect the local audience with the evolving orchestral world,” the Philharmonic says in a statement. “Harada’s multi-year commitment to The Phil guarantees that the Coastal Empire will be the creative home to one of the most sought-after, ascending conductors in orchestral music,” says a spokesperson. The 34-year-old Harada will fill the shoes of Peter Shannon, who served in the same role with the Phil for a decade. Originally from Tokyo, Japan, Harada recently wrapped up his fourth season as Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops. Harada has recent and upcoming engagements with ensembles such as Houston Symphony, NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Sofia National Opera & Ballet, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and New Japan Philharmonic. “Harada’s artistic vision and ebullient personality make him the perfect fit as the next Music and Artistic Director for Savannah Philharmonic,” says Board Chair Rhegan White-Clemm. His repertoire and performance experience spans genres, including classical symphonic music, chamber works, opera, pops, ballet, film scores, educational and outreach programming. “Harada places high personal value on the advancement of each musician and ensemble he encounters. He conducted the Savannah Philharmonic and Savannah Music Festival’s co-production of ‘Rhapsody in Blue and the Firebird Suite,’ during which he dazzled the audience and orchestra alike with his talent and passion for excellence throughout each movement,” White-Clemm says. Harada is a three-time recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, has been featured at the Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview, won the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellowship at Tanglewood Music Festival, and studied

with Lorin Maazel and Fabio Luisi at the Castleton and Pacific Musical Festivals, respectively. Valery Gergiev invited him to join the Pacific Music Festival faculty. “From the moment I started making music with the musicians, I felt an immediate connection. There was passion and excitement from the rehearsals which translated into a beautiful storytelling at the performance,” Harada says. “The energy on stage and from the audience is something I will never forget. My professional career started 14 years ago in Georgia, my home away from home. I couldn’t be more excited that fate has brought me back to Georgia and I feel so honored to join the Savannah Philharmonic family.” he says. The Philharmonic’s music director search committee, led by board vice chairman, Scott Lauretti, brought together prominent musicians from the orchestra, community advocates, active philanthropists, and leaders from the area’s arts and cultural organizations. Reports from the Philharmonic are that in interviews, “Harada impressed committee members and audiences with his vision, enthusiasm, work ethic, professionalism, magnetism and formidable experience.” “Keitaro Harada is special,” Lauretti says. “He is talented, thoughtful, inspirational and committed. He has demonstrated personal and professional integrity since the first day we met, and we are proud and grateful that he is genuinely excited to join our team. With Kei at the podium and out in the community representing the power of music as a galvanizing force, we are in great shape.” “Residents and businesses value the Savannah Philharmonic as an asset that greatly enriches our city,” comments Mayor Eddie DeLoach. “The city is proud and fortunate to have world-class music and musicians available for our residents and visitors.” Harada is married to Yuri Kurashima, who owns Lady Nishida, a women’s fashion line. For seven years, Kurashima played professional tennis on the International Tennis Federation circuit. She has served as an assistant tennis coach at Harvard University. Harada says he has developed affection for Georgia during his stint as a student at Mercer University and Assistant Conductor of the Macon Symphony Orchestra. CS

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TEA FOR TWO: BRITISH AND AMERICAN TEA TRADITIONS — Explore the tea-drinking habits of Savannahians in this fun exhibition dedicated to the consumption of tea in the port city. Featuring practical items such as tables, tongs, and tea caddies, as well as elaborate decorative pieces, including entire silver tea services, the show highlights everyday objects once used here in Savannah for the daily practice of tea drinking. July 26-Jan. 12. telfair.org/exhibitions/tea-for-two-britishand-american-tea-traditions/. telfair.org/ jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

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ABSTRACTS AND ANIMALS — Abstracts & Animals showcases the diverse talent of two local artists through a vibrant exhibit of art quilts. Through Dec. 31. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street.

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AINT-BAD: COLLABORATIONS — This exhibition is not the first coordinated effort between Laney Contemporary and Jennifer Moss exhibits “Stellaverde” in the Drive Aint-Bad working in tandem, but it is the Thru Art Box behind Green Truck Pub through first to be held in the gallery. Through Aug. Sept. 22 PHOTO COURTESY OF SULFUR STUDIOS. 10. Laney Contemporary, 1810 Mills B. Lane Blvd. THE CENTER IS EVERYWHERE — The SCAD Museum of Art presents “The Center is BERTA FISCHER — The SCAD Museum of Everywhere,” an exhibition by SCAD alumna Art presents an exhibition by Berlin-based art- Capucine Gros (B.F.A., painting, 2012). ist Berta Fischer. Through Sep. 1. scadmoa. Through Aug. 11. scadmoa.org/. SCAD org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd. BLACKEST NIGHT: A SURVEY IN BLACKNESS — SCAD Museum of Art presents the first museum exhibition by New York-based artist Azikiwe Mohammed. Through Sep. 1. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

CITY OF THE SUN — “City of the Sun,” exhibited at the SCAD Museum of Art, is a select reading of artist Lee Bul’s painting and sculpture from the past nine years Through July 28. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

CAROL DUGGAR — Carol Duggar was born and raised in Pembroke, GA, where she resides in her ancestral home. Through July 31. savannahjea.org. Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St.

FOLKLORE — Folklore is a site-specific installation by Jessica Pope (American, B. 1983) for the 2019 iteration of Telfair Museums’ annual Boxed In/Break Out projectThrough Oct. 27. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St.

CATHEDRAL — With “Cathedral,” artist Gonzalo Lebrija presents a new body of work in dialogue with past projects, offering the visitor a generous range of his projects from 2003 to the present. Through July 28. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

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IF ONLY — “If Only” is a show of papercut paradoxical paradises by Peter Roberts. Through July 26. Location Gallery at Savannah LGBT Center, 1515 Bull St. MICHAEL KOLSTER: TAKE ME TO THE RIVER — Michael Kolster explores four American rivers that flow into the Atlantic Ocean—the Androscoggin, Schuylkill, James, and Savannah—as they emerge from two centuries of industrial use and neglect. Through Sep. 29. telfair.org/exhibitions/ michael-kolster-take-me-to-the-river/. telfair. org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. ON::VIEW RESIDENCY: LOOKS FOR LIFE IN AMERICA — “Looks for Life in America” is a project born out of Nina Farryn’s simultaneous obsession and frustration with Instagram and social media culture in recent years. Through Aug. 3. sulfurstudios.org. Sulfur Studios, 2301 Bull St. PAINTED LANDSCAPES: ARCHITECTURE AND NATURE — Chris D’Antonio is an artist currently living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Through Aug. 20. starlanddining.com/ index2.php#/home/. Starland Cafe, 11 East 41st St. POWER AND PATIENCE: GROUP SHOW BENEFITING KEITH KOZEL — The show celebrates the unyielding spirit of Savannah’s creative scene and power in the face of adversity. Through July 28. foxyloxycafe. com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St.

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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.

SMALL COLLECTIONS — “small COLLECTIONS” pulls together a diverse assortment of small hobby collections to explore the curious need of humans to collect things. Through Dec. 31. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street. SOURCE TO SEA: ANSLEY WEST RIVERS — Source to Sea: Ansley West Rivers considers Ansley West Rivers’ (American, b. 1983) Seven Rivers photographic series. Through Nov. 3. telfair.org/exhibitions/source-to-sea/. telfair.org/jepson/. 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. Through Dec. 31. Savannah City Hall, 2 East Bay Street. STELLAVERDE — In her fibers work, Jennifer Moss explores the intersection of traditional textile patterns and unexpected materials. Through Sep. 22. Drive Thru Art Box, behind Green Truck Pub, 2430 Habersham St. SUZANNE JACKSON: FIVE DECADES — Telfair Museums proudly presents Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades, the first full-career survey and most comprehensive presentation to date for the artist. Through Oct. 13. telfair.org/jepson/. Jepson Center for the Arts, 207 West York St. THINGS — Sarmad Khazraji is the July featured artist for Gallery Espresso. The opening reception is July 18 from 6-9 p.m. Through July 31. galleryespresso.com/. Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. THINK TWICE — “Think Twice,” is an exhibition by artists Carla Fernández and Pedro Reyes.Through Sep. 1. scadmoa.org/. SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.

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Yaupon Tea House & Apothecary helps revive Native American tradition

Yaupon was historically used as a ceremonial and recreational brew by local Native Americans.

EVERY SAVANNAHIAN has had his or her fair share of sweet tea. However, long before the sugary cups of brown “Savannah Water” were served alongside deep fried seafood treats, the natives of our area enjoyed the taste and healing properties of yaupon—a leafy plant that has been brewed for a very long time. Luckily, Savannah has two visionaries bringing back the use of the ancient plant. Owners Lou Thomann and Lori Judge are true pioneers in the world of Savannah’s native yaupon holly. What started with a dream has now turned into Yaupon Tea House & Apothecary. I was lucky enough to sit down with the pair and enjoy Yaupon Tea House & Apothecary’s ceremonial brew exactly as the Native Americans once did. “Different tribes would share the tea, and it would create a bond. When Oglethorpe came to Savannah, Tomochichi gave Oglethorpe a cup of this tea,” Judge told me. As we shared the light, earthy, warm tea, Thomann, who could be considered a selftaught expert on the subject, educated me on the history of yaupon. On a getaway to Ossabaw Island with the owners of Service Brewery, the two were introduced to the yaupon plant by John “Crawfish” Crawford who, according to Thomann, is one of the most knowledgeable naturalists in the coastal area. After hand picking and brewing fresh tea over their campfire, Thomann instantly fell in love with the tea and its history.

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Lori Judge and Lou Thomann say that studying the history of yaupon “opened up this whole world.”

Thomann returned home and immediately began researching the native holly. “It opened up this whole world; I realized that this is a huge treasure. This was the most sacred plant in North America amongst indigenous people for thousands of years, and nobody knows anything about it. We started making little tea bags, hand picking it, giving it to people, going to charity events serving it,” explained Thomann. He started small by harvesting the native plant and distributing it in different forms—tea bags, bottled tea, and more. I’m sure that most locals are very well acquainted with his tea company and its products, ASI Tea Company, even if they may not know it. The next phase of growth for Thomann occurred with implementation of two yaupon farms, one in Metter, Ga., and one in Florida. “We have ten thousand plants that we planted. We are doing it in row crops to see if they can be grown that way because right now it is just grown in the wild,” Judge says. Thomann elaborates: “The farm in Metter is the research farm. The entire farm is not growing yaupon. We are growing probably about fifteen acres. We first started harvesting yaupon on Heard Island, which is a little barrier island off of Darien, and we propagated,” he says. “We were genetically selective with which plants looked good and healthy. We propagated them, and we planted about ten to twelve thousand of those plants on the farm in a row crop. No one has ever done that before.” As America’s only indigenous source of natural caffeine, the yaupon plant has magical properties. Beyond caffeine, the plant contains theobromine, an alkaloid of

the cacao plant. Together the two natural stimulates give drinkers a slight boost while imparting many believed health benefits such as better digestion, lower blood pressure, and immune-boosting properties. Thomann‘s goal is to further explore the many benefits of the tea. “We were just awarded a phase two USDA small business innovation research grant, which is to study the feasibility of yaupon for food,” he tells me. They are pushing even more by reaching for a National Institute of Health grant, which will catapult the duo and their local farm to work towards clinical trials, the purpose being to document the true health benefits of the magical plant. The most recent, but not final, phase of expansion for the two is their official storefront, which opened April of this year. Sitting inside beneath a large open sunlight that fills the space with warmth is a tall busy yaupon tree that the two brought from their farm. While Thomann is the yaupon master, Judge has begun to study up on herbalism. The Teahouse has brought the two together, through its mission to recreate traditional uses of yaupon and share natural yaupon products with local Savannah. Tourists and locals can stop in and enjoy their ceremonial tea—just like I did. The brew is served in a handmade replica of Cahokia civilization’s ceremonial cup. As the in-house expert on the subject, Thomann tells me the story. “It was one of the largest settlements of Native Americans in the 1700s or 1800s; it was a bigger city than London, as a comparison. In that village they found earthenware similar to this with yaupon and cocoa residue in the cup that was tested. They found it in thousand year old cups.”

Again, honoring the native traditions of yaupon, Yaupon Tea House serves Cocoa Yaupon Tea. If you feel it is just too warm to drink your tea hot, iced is the modified classic southern version. Yaupon Tea House sells house blended functional teas to take home and brew yourself. On tap are two original and exclusive yaupon brewed organic kombuchas, which vary from time to time and are available by the cup or by the growler. “Yaupon has natural sugars, probably in the saponins, so when you make kombucha you do not have to put in as much sugar to ferment it,” Thomann explains. As for the layout of the apothecary in Yaupon Tea House & Apothecary, on the right of the store you will find rows of exclusive and unique to the store products. The tea house sourced high quality small artisanal businesses to work with and create the unique wellness products. Customers will find things such as handmade yaupon soap, CBD and yaupon blended products, essential oil balms, facial steams, seasonal skincare products, and much much more. Yaupon pairs well with CBD because, much like CBD, it has natural anti-inflammatory properties. By blending yaupon with other natural plants and herbs, Yaupon Tea House is offering items that contain ingredients that harmonize and boost the properties of each ingredient. The hardworking duo will keep pushing. Thomann said it best when he told me that they “are going to start lectures. We are looking for people in the health and wellness space to do either workshops or lectures.” CS Yaupon Tea House and Apothecary is at 349 Abercorn St.

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p.m. 912.220.1249. kblack@historictours. com. facebook.com/pg/CongressStreetUp/ about/?ref=page_internal. Congress Street Up, 220 W. Congress St. 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 knowledge about the dangers of driving 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. 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. HYPNOSIS AND GUIDED IMAGERY 34 Hypnosis, Guided Imagery, Mindfulness,

Eft, will create neural pathways in the brain Because our brains are neuroplastic it has a positive effect and helps you to recover from anxiety, stress, trauma, and PTSD, It’s great for weight loss and to stop smoking. Kind and compassionate care. 25 years experience. Call 912-927-3432. Website: www. Savannahypnosis.com. Facebook: Alpha Institute. ongoing. INNER PEACE MEDITATION CIRCLE WITH BRITTANY STRINGER Savor an hour long gentle guided meditation class for women focused on inner peace. Cultivate awareness of the thought patterns that provoke self-sabotage and release dysfunctional programming so that you may lead healthier more stress-free life. Connect with your authentic self and the group of strong women surrounding you as you disassociate from ego-driven programming to foster action based on self-love and compassion. Brittany Stringer is a wife, mother, and proud owner of The Blossoming Woman in Snellville, GA. $25 by July 20th, $35 after July 20th Sat., July 27, 2-3 p.m. 912-232-2994. savannahyoga@gmail.com. clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/adm/ main_enroll.asp?studioid=17857&tg&vt&lvl &stype=-8&view=day&trn=100000428&pag e&catid&prodid&date=7%2F8%2F2019&cla ssid=0&prodGroupId&sSU&optForwardingL ink&qParam&tabID=8&fbclid=IwAR1q2YeuOdW_ The camp runs Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Daily activities include game room, movies, basketball, dodgeball, kickball, swimming pool, field trips, arts and crafts, and more. To register, contact Billy Covington at bcovington@@vbjbc.com or billy@jenkinsathleticclub.com. Through Aug. 2. 912-713-3501. Jenkins Athletic Club, 6408 Waters Ave. 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. 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. SEWING FOR BEGINNERS $40 Mon., July 29, 7 p.m. 115 W 42nd St, 115 West 42nd Street. SPEAKING CONFIDENCE WORKSHOP Do you ever feel nervous public speaking? Or even making small talk? Boost your speaking confidence in a fun, interactive workshop! A speech-language pathologist will walk you through techniques and strategies to hone your presence, think more clearly under duress, concisely articulate ideas, and navigate speaking anxiety. You will have the chance to practice with the group and will leave with exercises to further develop your skills. Questions? Contact tricia@georgiaspeechcoaching.com, or call 912-349-9812. Link to register: https:// nyspeechcoaching.appointy.com/ Not ready for a group setting? Individual sessions are always available! Contact us today to schedule your free phone consultation. 30 Wed., July 24, 7-8:30 p.m. 912- 349-9812‬. tricia@georgiaspeechcoaching.com. facebook.com/events/283075765909691/. 2222 Bull St, 2222 Bull Street. SUMMER READING PROGRAM Reach for the stars with Summer Reading Program at Live Oak Public Libraries! Explore “A Universe of Stories” from June 1 through July 31 at your local library. Enjoy great books and exciting activities all summer long. Visit www.liveoakpl.org for details. #LibrariesLiftoff Free and open to the public. Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 912-652-3600. communications@liveoakpl. org. liveoakpl.org/events/srp19. liveoakpl. org. Bull Street Library, 2002 Bull St. SUMMER SEA CAMP Kids 6-11 years old Morning and/or Afternoon Modules, After Care, Curbside Drop-off/Pick-up Summer FUN for the kids… designed to fit your schedule Choose a combination of days and times to fit your summer schedule. Each camp session runs Monday to Friday. Sign-up for all five days of a camp session, or any combination of days, mornings, or afternoon modules. Each day has two 3-hour modules: Mornings, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. & Afternoons, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. After care available from 4-5 pm for $10/day. $30 per module Mondays-Fridays, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. 912786-5917. brenda@tybeemarinescience.

org. tybeemarinescience.org. tybeemarinescience.org/. The Tybee Island Marine Science Center’s summer Sea Camp is now accepting registrations online at www.tybeemarinescience.org. Designed for kids ages six to 11 years old, the educational camp offers weekday morning or afternoon modules, as well as whole day and full week options. Each module focuses on a different coastal critter and includes outdoor beach time in addition to classroom learning in a fun, relaxed setting. Modules are $30 each and after care is available for an additional fee. Members receive Sea Camp discounts based on their membership level. Sea Camp kicks off on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, and runs through Friday, August 2, including Independence Day. Each module is limited to 15 campers. For a complete list of module topics or to register, see the website. Through Aug. 2. tybeemarinescience.org/. Tybee Island Marine Science Center, 1510 Strand Ave. 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. YOUTH: CLAY ZOO PIZZA PARTY W/ MRS. KRISTIN $30 Tue., July 30, 5 p.m. Art League of Hilton Head Academy, 106 Cordillo Parkway. 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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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.

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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). 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. EXERCISE CLASS Stretches, strengthening and general feel good moves. ongoing. 912-667-0487. Functional Bodies, 821 E. 66th St. FIT4MOM SAVANNAH STROLLER

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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 Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Class sessions and intensive workshops scheduled throughout the year and held at CustomFit Center. Visit savannahkravmaga on facebook for more info. 912-224-2085. ongoing. 912-224-2085. facebook.com/ savannahkravmaga. customfitcenter.com. CustomFit Center, 101-A West Park Ave. JIU JITSU/MMA CLASSES Classes everyday. Free woman’s class every Wednesday at 5:30. Other classes 6:30 to 8:30 for everyone else Monday thru Thursday. Kid classes 4:30 to 5:30 Monday thru Thursday. Visit constantexpansion.net for more information. ongoing. Constant Expansion, 302 W. Victory Dr., unit B. 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. 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. 36 $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 - $10 FLOW

Breath based practice designed to ignite your core, strengthen your body, and energize your day. Learn to move fluidly with your breath. All levels welcome-from beginner to experienced yogi--move through challenges to find your personal change in this dynamic flow. Practiced to light music in warm room. $10 Fridays, 9:30-10:30 a.m., Mondays, 6-7 a.m. and Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m. 9123568280. info@thehubsav.com. thehubsavannah.com. The HUB Savannah, 4505 Habersham St. YOGA - $8 YIN YASA A slow-paced style of yoga with postures, or asanas, that are held for longer periods of time. A more meditative approach to yoga, its goals are awareness of inner silence, calming the mind, and bringing to light a universal, interconnecting quality. Practiced with relaxing music. $8 Wednesdays, 7:15-8:15 p.m. and Mondays, 7:15-8:15 p.m. 9123568280. info@thehubsav.com. thehubsavannah.com. The HUB Savannah, 4505 Habersham 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 IN THE SHADE FUNDRAISER These donation-based classes will be open to all levels (beginners welcome) and taught by all your favorite Savannah Yoga Center teachers and Yoga Teacher Training Graduates. Pay what you can. Cash, Venmo, Cash App, Card payments accepted. All proceeds will go to Planned Parenthood South East and American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia to help stop the bans on abortion. Donations Saturdays, 10-11 a.m. 912-232-2994. savannahyoga.com/ workshops. Forsyth Park, Drayton St. & East Park 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, BARRE, PILATES MAT CLASSES Join our experienced and knowledgeable teachers for a variety of classes at Savannah Yoga Barre. No matter what your fitness/wellness goals or level, we have something for you. Open 7 days a week. New to the studio? 3 Weeks Unlimited class pass $30. Membership options to suit your schedule and budget. We want to welcome you to our studio family and help you on your way to living comfortably in your own skin. Visit our website for full class schedule or call for more info. $$ ongoing. 9122004809. info@SavannahYogaBarre. com. SavannahYogaBarre.com. Savannah Yoga Barre, 2132 E Victory Drive. 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 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

CURRY NIGHT AT BIG BON BODEGA July 26, 6 p.m. Big Bon Bodega, 2011 Bull St. FIRE BRAND FRIDAYS - POETRY SLAM Now as the temperature warms ever so slightly, we want to continue to celebrate Savannah’s electric poetic vibes. So come out to support your friends, be dazzled by amazing strangers and fall in love with your community at FireBrand Fridays. Let the sunset with its amazing array of colors, as insightful and engaging poetry echoes through the beautiful Savannah sunset with Spitfire Poetry Group. So come out and sing, play, or wax poetic with your Host Jive English as we fill the brisk Georgia breeze with the melodies and wordplay of our hearts. July 26, 7-10 p.m.. 912-401-0543. info@foxyloxycafe.com. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. KOREAN STREET FOOD NIGHT Big Bon will be cooking up special Korean favorites, kimchi for sale, and of course beverages can be found inside the Bodega, Saturdays, 5:30 p.m. Big Bon Bodega, 2011 Bull St. FIRE & WINE IN THE COURTYARD Fire & Wine at Foxy Loxy Cafe features halfpriced bottles of wine, courtyard fire-pits, free marshmallows for roasting, and s’more kits. This weekly event is fun for family & friends alike! free 7-11 p.m.. foxyloxycafe. com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. KOREAN STREET FOOD NIGHT Big Bon will be cooking up special Korean favorites, kimchi for sale, and of course beverages can be found inside the Bodega, Fridays, 5:30 p.m. Big Bon Bodega, 2011 Bull St.

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SUSTAINABLE SUMMER LATTE ART THROWDOWN July 27, 6 p.m. Fox & Fig, 321 Habersham St. BOOMBOX BRUNCH Brunch is served from 11 am – 3 pm. DJ Press Play Live vinyl DJ spinning classic soul, r’n’b, indie, rock, pop, and everything in between begins at noon. FREE 12-3 p.m.. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St.

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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

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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. FIRE & WINE IN THE COURTYARD Fire & Wine at Foxy Loxy Cafe features halfpriced bottles of wine, courtyard fire-pits, free marshmallows for roasting, and s’more kits. This weekly event is fun for family & friends alike! free foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe, 1919 Bull St. FIRE BRAND FRIDAYS - POETRY SLAM

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19)

After analyzing unusual animal behavior, magnetic fluctuations, outbreaks of mayhem on Twitter, and the position of the moon, a psychic has foretold that a moderate earthquake will rumble through the St. Louis, Missouri area in the coming weeks. I don’t agree with her prophecy. But I have a prediction of my own. Using data about how cosmic forces are conspiring to amuse and titillate your rapture chakra, I predict a major lovequake for many Aries between now and August 20. I suggest you start preparing immediately. How? Brainstorm about adventures and breakthroughs that will boost exciting togetherness. Get yourself in the frame of mind to seek out collaborative catharses that evoke both sensory delights and spiritual insights.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Your emotional intelligence is so strong right now that I bet you could alleviate the pain of a loved one even as you soothe a long-running ache of your own. You’re so spiritually alluring, I suspect you could arouse the sacred yearning of a guru, saint, or bodhisattva. You’re so interesting, someone might write a poem or story about you. You’re so overflowing with a lust for life that you might lift people out of their ruts just by being in their presence. You’re so smart you could come up with at least a partial solution to a riddle whose solution has evaded you for a long time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are,” wrote Taurus philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. You could use that idea to achieve a finer grade of peace and grace in the coming weeks. The navel-gazing phase of your yearly cycle has begun, which means you’ll be in closest alignment with cosmic rhythms if you get to know yourself much better. One of the best ways to do that is to analyze what you pay most attention to. Another excellent way is to expand and refine and tenderize your feelings for what you pay most attention to.

The Queen of North America and Europe called me on the phone. At least that’s how she identified herself. “I have a message for your Leo readers,” she told me. “Why Leo?” I asked. “Because I’m a Leo myself,” she replied, “and I know what my tribe needs to know right now.” I said, “OK. Give it to me.” “Tell Leos to always keep in mind the difference between healthy pride and debilitating hubris,” she said. “Tell them to be dazzlingly and daringly competent without becoming bossy and egomaniacal. They should disappear their arrogance but nourish their mandate to express leadership and serve as a role model. Be shiny and bright but not glaring and blinding. Be irresistible but not envyinducing.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano wrote that in Havana, people refer to their friends as *mi sangre*, my blood, or *mi tierra*, my country. In Caracas, he reported, a friend might be called *mi llave*, my key, or *mi pana*, my bread. Since you are in the alliance-boosting phase of your cycle, Gemini, I trust that you will find good reasons to think of your comrades as your blood, your country, your key, or your bread. It’s a favorable time for you to get closer, more personal, and more intimate. The affectionate depths are calling to you.

Congrats, Virgo! You are beginning the denouement of your yearly cycle. Anything you do to resolve lingering conflicts and finish up old business will yield fertile rewards. Fate will conspire benevolently in your behalf as you bid final goodbyes to the influences you’ll be smart not to drag along with you into the new cycle that will begin in a few weeks. To inspire your holy work, I give you this poem by Virgo poet Charles Wright: “Knot by knot I untie myself from the past / And let it rise away from me like a balloon. / What a small thing it becomes. / What a bright tweak at the vanishing point, blue on blue.”

Now as the temperature warms ever so slightly, we want to continue to celebrate Savannah’s electric poetic vibes. So come out to support your friends, be dazzled by amazing strangers and fall in love with your community at FireBrand Fridays. Let the sunset with its amazing array of colors, as insightful and engaging poetry echoes through the beautiful Savannah sunset with Spitfire Poetry Group. So come out and sing, play, or wax poetic with your Host Jive English as we fill the brisk Georgia breeze with the melodies and wordplay of our hearts. 912-401-0543. info@foxyloxycafe. com. foxyloxycafe.com. Foxy Loxy Cafe,

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

I predict that between now and the end of the year, a Libran genetic engineer will create a new species of animal called a dat. A cross between a cat and a dog, it will have the grace, independence, and vigilance of a Persian cat and the geniality, loyalty, and ebullient strength of a golden retriever. Its stalking skills will synthesize the cat’s and dog’s different styles of hunting. I also predict that in the coming months, you will achieve greater harmony between the cat and dog aspects of your own nature, thereby acquiring some of the hybrid talents of the dat.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Scorpio poet Marianne Moore (1887– 1972) won the Pulitzer Prize and several other prestigious awards. She was a rare poet who became a celebrity. That’s one of the reasons why the Ford car company asked her to dream up interesting names for a new model they were manufacturing. Alas, Ford decided the 43 possibilities she presented were too poetic, and rejected all of them. But some of Moore’s names are apt descriptors for the roles you could and should play in the phase you’re beginning, so I’m offering them for your use. Here they are: 1. Anticipator. 2. The Impeccable. 3. Tonnere Alifère (French term for “winged thunder”). 4. Tir á l’arc (French term for “bull’s eye”). 5. Regina-Rex (Latin terms for “queen” and “king”).

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

It’s conceivable that in one of your past lives you were a pioneer who made the rough 2,170-mile migration via wagon train from Missouri to Oregon in the 1830s. Or maybe you were a sailor who accompanied the Viking Leif Eriksson in his travels to the New World five hundred years before Columbus. Is it possible you were part of the team assembled by Italian diplomat Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, who journeyed from Rome to Mongolia in the thirteenth century? Here’s why I’m entertaining these thoughts, Sagittarius: I suspect that a similar itch to ramble and explore and seek adventure may rise up in you during the coming weeks. I won’t be

surprised if you consider making a foray to the edge of your known world.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

When the dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago, the crocodiles didn’t. They were around for 135 million years before that era, and are still here now. Why? “They are extremely tough and robust,” says croc expert James Perran Ross. Their immune systems “are just incredible.” Maybe best of all, they “learn quickly and adapt to changes in their situation.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I’m naming the crocodile as your creature teacher for the coming weeks. I suspect you will be able to call on a comparable version of their will to thrive. (Read more about crocs: tinyurl.com/ToughAndRobust.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

“My only hope is that one day I can love myself as much as I love you.” Poet Mariah Gordon-Dyke wrote that to a lover, and now I’m offering it to you as you begin your Season of Self-Love. You’ve passed through other Seasons of Self-Love in the past, but none of them has ever had such rich potential to deepen and ripen your self-love. I bet you’ll discover new secrets about how to love yourself with the same intensity you have loved your most treasured allies.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

“Poems can bring comfort,” writes Piscean poet Jane Hirshfield. “They let us know . . . that we are not alone—but they also unseat us and make us more susceptible, larger, elastic. They foment revolutions of awareness and allow the complex, uncertain, actual world to enter.” According to my understanding of upcoming astrological omens, Pisces, life itself will soon be like the poems Hirshfield describes: unruly yet comforting; a source of solace but also a catalyst for transformation; bringing you healing and support but also asking you to rise up and reinvent yourself. Sounds like fun!

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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. THE LOOK BACK: AN ON-GOING SERIES OF QUEER CINEMA The Look Back aims to provide a resource for queer cinema in Savannah by engaging the local community with queer theory and representation on an international level through the exhibition of queerrelated moving image works from the past and present. As we learn that not all representation is revolution and look forward to a world of queer futurity, The Look Back posits itself in between the recognition and acknowledgement of how far we’ve come, and how far we have yet to go. Free, donations accepted to the Savannah LGBT center Last Sunday of every month, 7 p.m. thelookbacksav@gmail.com. Savannah LGBT Center, 1515 Bull St. 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

HOUSE OF X LAUNCH PARTY The X-Men reborn! Jonathan Hickman is taking the reigns of the X-Men universe for the six issue event House of X and Powers of X. We’ll have X-Men specials all day including variant covers of the new book, complete X-Men single issue packages, 25% off all X-Men graphic novels and statues and... cookies! This is a drop-in event. Variant covers, sale item and cookies are in limited quantities and available first-come, first-serve. Wed., July 24, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. facebook.com/events/858098974564460/. Neighborhood Comics, 1205 Bull St. LET’S ROAM SAVANNAH SCAVENGER HUNT Searching for an exciting outdoor activity in Savannah? The hunt is over! Download the Let’s Roam scavenger hunt app and start exploring today! Tourist, local, or new to town, this is a lively small group activity that anyone can enjoy. Lace up your walking shoes and get ready to experience Savannah like you never have before. Snap pics, race against the clock, and put your navigation skills to the test as you roam through Savannah discovering different destinations along the way, Historic Savannah Adventure has it all! Through

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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. 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 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. 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.

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FILM: REBECCA Rebecca tells the story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house. $5 SCAD Card holders, $8 general admission Fri., July 26, 7 p.m. lucastheatre.com. Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. FILM: RICA: THE MIXED-BLOOD GIRL When a tough female gang member accidentally kills a Yakuza, she gets sent to Juvenile Hall, and then her gang gets kidnapped. After that, it’s a nonstop roller coaster of crazy shit. Don’t miss this beloved exploitation flick, uncut with English subtitles. $8 Wed., July 24, 8 p.m. sentientbean.com. The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. FILM: SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME In this saga, our friendly neighborhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter’s plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury Fury stop the evil Mysterio from wreaking havoc across the continent. $8 adults, $5 children 12 and under Wed., July 24, 3 & 7 p.m. and Thu., July 25, 3 & 7 p.m. 912-472-4790. info@ tybeeposttheater.org. tybeeposttheater.org. Tybee Post Theater, 10 Van Horne.

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