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November Athens Flute Choir Fall Concert
The King’s Singers
Celebrate “Our Heritage” with the Athens Flute Choir. The program will feature well-known works including “Oh Shenandoah” and the Shaker melody “Simple Gifts” in addition to works celebrating the emigration experience, Appalachia, New Orleans jazz, and a revolutionary-flavor fife and drum march for flute choir and percussion titled “George Washington’s Teeth”. There is no admission charge.
Spend an evening with the two-time Grammy winners as they explore the Great American Songbook. From George Gershwin to Harold Arlen to Cole Porter, the hit songs are all here. “I’ve Got the World on a String,” “Love is Here to Stay,” “It’s De-Lovely,” “Begin the Beguine,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” and many more.Top it off with a great selection of American Spirituals. Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 p.m.
November 1, 2015 2:00pm Location: State Botanical Garden of Georgia 2450 South Milledge AvenueAthens, GA Phone: 706-546-9868
November 9, 2015 8:00pm Location: UGA Performing Arts Center 230 River Rd.Athens, GA Phone: 706-542-3301
Rock & Roll Trivia
The Whigs In Athens
Recurring weekly on Mondays 9:00pm Location: Little Kings Shuffle Club 223 W. Hancock Ave.Athens, GA
November 6, 2015 9:00pm 285 W. Washington St.Athens, GA Phone: (706) 549-7871
Come to Little Kings Shuffle Club for rock and roll trivia every Monday night at 9 p.m.
The Whigs are a three piece rock band from Athens, Georgia. Formed in 2002 while attending the University of Georgia, The Whigs played their first shows around campus and soon graduated to higher-profile performances including opening slots for the likes of the Drive-By Truckers and the Killers. Recording sessions for the band’s self-released debut album, Give ‘Em All A Big Fat Lip, took place in an empty fraternity house in 2005 and by the following year the band’s audience had widened considerably, prompting Rolling Stone to declare that the band could be “the best unsigned band in America.”
Mary Poppins at Mortan Theatre November 12, 2015 - November 15, 2015 Recurring daily Location: Morton Theatre 195 W. Washington St.Athens, GA Phone: (706) 613-3771
Over the last decade, the band has released five critically lauded studio albums and toured the world consistently as either headliners or openers for the likes of Kings of Leon, Black Keys, and MGMT. Their fifth album, Modern Creation, was released in 2014 and the band is currently crafting material for a sixth studio album in their new hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. This event is 18 and over. Price: $15.00
Athens Creative Theatre (ACT) presents the family favorite “Disney & Cameron McIntosh’s Mary Poppins” at the Morton Theatre. The enchanting mixture of story, song, and dance will celebrate the iconic Disney movie adapted for the stage. The performance takes place at the Morton Theatre in downtown Athens on Thursday, November 12 -Sunday, November 15. Thursday and Friday show at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday’s performance is at 3:00 p.m.
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Cole Swindell With Special Guest Adam Sanders November 20, 2015 8:00pm Location: The Classic Center Theatre 300 N. Thomas St.Athens, GA
Country music sensation Cole Swindell will perform at The Classic Center Theatre Friday, Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. Tickets for this 18 and over concert go on sale Friday, Sept. 11 at 10 a.m., and range from $35-$45. This show, which also features special guest Adam Sanders, is proudly presented by Peachtree Entertainment.
8th Annual Greek Festival November 20, 2015 - November 21, 2015 Recurring daily Location: St. Philothea Greek Orthodox Church 3761 Mars Hill RoadWatkinsville, GA Phone: 706-540-0454
Greek food, music, dancing and church tours!!! For more info go to www.stphilothea.ga.goarch.org
Bike Athens Group Ride Last Friday of each month, 6:00pm Location: City Hall 301 College Ave.Athens, GA
Bike Athens has monthly group rides on the LAST FRIDAY of each month. The rides start at 6:00 p.m. from City Hall (301 College Ave., Athens, GA 30601), and wind through Athens for 5-9 miles before ending at Little Kings Club to celebrate an exhilarating ride. The group rides are slow and easy; no one gets left behind!
Jazz at Highwire Lounge Recurring weekly on Friday, Saturday 8:00pm Location: Highwire Lounge 269 N. Hull St.Athens, GA Phone: 706-543-8997
Grab a few friends and head down to Highwire Lounge for live jazz every Friday and Saturday evening at 8 p.m.
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music scene with his raspy voice and honest, raw lyrics. Come experience this seasoned musician for yourself in The Foundry’s intimate venue! Price: $10 - $22 Time: Doors open at 6:00 p.m., Show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Downtown Parade Of Lights
December 3, 2015 7:00pm Location: Downtown Athens: Parade begins at corner of Dougherty and Pulaski Phone: 706-613-3620 ext 242
Christmas at The Classic Center December 5-6, 2015 Location: The Classic Center
The annual holiday Athens-Clarke County Downtown Parade of Lights is scheduled for Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Float entries compete for cash prizes and awards in the following categories: “Most Original,” “Best Use of Theme” and “Best Use of Lights.” The best overall float is given the “Mayor’s Award.” Entry forms and parade guidelines can be found at www.athensclarkecounty.com/parade. The Downtown Parade of Lights is sponsored by the Athens Clarke County Leisure Services Department and the Athens Downtown Development Authority. For more information, call 706-613-3620. Time: Doors open at 6:00 p.m., Show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Celebrate the holiday season this year at The Classic Center in Downtown Athens, Georgia in December! Christmas at The Classic Center will be a fun filled wonderland for all ages benefiting The Classic Center Cultural Foundation. Come out to enjoy a range of activities from ice skating to visits with Santa, you don’t want to miss this magical event!
Jim Brickman- Comfort and Joy December 8, 2015 8:00pm Location: UGA Performing Arts Center 230 River Rd.Athens, GA Phone: 706-542-3301
Ray Wylie Hubbard December 4, 2015 7:30pm Location: The Foundry 295 E. Dougherty St.Athens, GA
Jim Brickman has revolutionized the sound of solo piano with his pop-style instrumentals and star-studded vocal collaborations. Brickman is the best-selling solo piano artist of this generation. He celebrates this holiday season with a one-of-a-kind conceert event filled with new music, holiday favorites, and the hits that have earned him two Grammy nominations and four gold albums.
Ray Wylie Hubbard is a country singer/songwriter hailing from Oklahoma who has since secured his home as a pillar of the Texas
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Ronnie Mcdowell & Friends
Athens Flute Choir Holiday Concert
December 18, 2015 7:00pm Location: Morton Theatre 195 W. Washington St.Athens, GA Phone: (706) 613-3771
December 12, 2015 2:00pm Location: Lyndon House Arts Center 293 Hoyt St.Athens, GA Phone: 706-546-9868
Join us for a Yuletide celebration with a program featuring holiday favorites and enjoy the festive decorations at the Lyndon House Arts Center Holiday Open House. Admission is free.
Christmas in Statham Festival December 12, 2015 4:00pm Location: Downtown Statham 293 Hoyt St.Athens, GA Phone: 706-546-9868
The city of Statham is hosting its annual “Christmas in Statham” festival in the downtown area. The festival starts in the morning, but the town’s parade begins at 4 p.m. The event includes vendors with crafts and gifts and activities for children. Children can visit with Santa Claus and a Christmas quilt is being raffled with tickets sold $1 each.
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Rasberry Producer Group/Danny Rasberry presents the “Nothing But the Hits” Tour featuring Ronnie McDowell, Billy Joe Royal, Ken Mellons, Deborah Allen, and Amber Hayes with The Blend. These artists take Classic Country to a new level this year with six decades of hits and over 15,000,000 in record sales! Ken Mellons is as country as country can get with barn burner hits like “Jukebox Jukie” and “Rubba Dubbin”. Deborah Allen’s monster hit “Baby, I Lied” started an amazing career that also included “Rockin’ Little Christmas”.
Open Exhibit Hall At The Zoo Recurring weekly on Sunday, Saturday 1:00- 4:00pm Location: Memorial Park and Bear Hollow Zoo 293 Gran Ellen Dr.Athens, GA Phone: 706-613-3580
Explore Bear Hollow’s exhibit hall and visit some of the animals used in programs including snakes, lizards, tortoises, and invertebrates.
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DUBAI
Dubai is a cosmopolitan oasis, a futuristic cityscape that towers over the Arabian Desert. It is located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf and is one of the seven emirates that make up the country. With a population of 2.106 million It is extremely well known for it’s warm hospitality and rich cultural heritage, and the people are welcoming and generous in their approach to visitors. With year-round sunshine, intriguing deserts, beautiful beaches, luxurious hotels and shopping malls, fascinating heritage attractions and a thriving business community, Dubai receives millions of leisure and business visitors each year from around the world. Burj Khalifa, an 830m-tall tower, dominates the skyscraper-filled skyline. witch is currently the world’s tallest structure by a long shot. At its foot lies Dubai Fountain, with jets and lights choreographed to music. On man-made islands just offshore is Atlantis, the Palm, a resort with water and marine-animal parks. With plenty to see and do, Make Dubai next on your bucket list.
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Shopping The Dubai Mall is currently the largest mall in the world. Contains an indoor ice rink and indoor aquarium. It is right next door to the Burj Khalifah, the world’s tallest building, and the visitors’ entrance to the Burj Khalifah is located at the lower ground floor of the Mall.
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Palm Islands in Dubai The three largest artificial islands in the world are located just off the coast of Dubai; a major urban development to add a significant amount of upscale beachfront property to the area. Each of the islands is shaped like a palm leaf, with a trunk connected to the mainland, fronds extending from the trunk, and a crescent (a breakwater encircling the trunk and fronds). Of the three planned, the Palm Jumeirah, at 5km square and near Dubai Marina, is the only one open yet, connected to the mainland by a freeway bridge and a monorail and sporting marinas, luxury resorts, and upscale shopping areas. There are endless water-sport opportunities as Dubai has some of the whitest and sandiest beaches in the world. Ocean temperatures range from 22째C in winter up to 35째C in summer. Try a Banana boat or parasailing or other watersport activity.
Dining The beauty of the food in Dubai is that you will probably find cuisine for every taste. The top hotels in the city all have at least one restaurant each serving (most commonly) some form of international cuisine - Italian, Japanese, Indian and so on.
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Dubai is essentially a desert city with superb infrastructure, liberal policies (by regional standards), that became popular for its excellent tourist amenities. Just 5h from Europe and 3h by air from most parts of the Middle East, the Near East, and the subcontinent of India, Dubai makes a great short break for shopping, partying, sunbathing, fine dining, sporting events, and even a few sinful pleasures. It is a city of superlatives: for the fastest, biggest, tallest, largest and highest, Dubai is the destination. It has the largest immigrant population in the world.
Nightlife As Dubai has grown from a small town into a bustling city, so has the nightlife scene. Most 3 to 5 star hotels have bars and nightclubs for those interested in the nightlife. World-class DJs frequent Dubai’s nightclubs, and many A-list musical celebrities are adding Dubai to their list of tour dates.
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SUDOKU The classic Sudoku game involves a grid of 81 squares. The grid is divided into nine blocks, each containing nine squares. The rules of the game are simple: each of the nine blocks has to contain all the numbers 1-9 within its squares. Each number can only appear once in a row, column or box.
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Holiday Humor
Halloween Groaner
True Stories From The Butterball Turkey Hotline, where people call to get advice how to cook a Turkey from the experts... Thanksgiving Dinner on the run. A woman called the Butterball Hotline to find out how long it would take to roast her turkey. To answer the question, the Talk-Line home economist asked how much the bird weighed. The woman responded, “I don’t know, it’s still running around outside.” Tofu turkey? No matter how you slice it, Thanksgiving just isn’t Thanksgiving without turkey. A restaurant owner in California wanted to know how to roast a turkey for a vegetarian menu. Then there’s the time a lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but couldn’t find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy, “Do these turkeys get any bigger?” The stock boy replied, “No ma’am, they’re dead.”
A man was walking home alone one night when he heard a “BUMP... BUMP... BUMP...” behind him. Walking faster, he looked back, making out an image of an upright coffin banging its way down the middle of the street towards him... BUMP...BUMP...BUMP...” The man began to run toward his home, and the coffin bounced after him faster... BUMP-BUMP-BUMP!!! He ran up to his door, fumbled with his keys, opened the door, rushed in, and locked it behind him. The coffin crashed through his door, with the lid of the coffin clapping BUMP... BUMP... BUMP... on the heals of the terrified man. Then the man rushed upstairs to the bathroom and locked himself in, his heart just pounding. With a CRASH, the coffin broke down the door, coming slowly toward him. The man, while screaming, reached for something, anything... all he can find was a box of cough drops which he hurled at the coffin... and suddenly “the coffin stops.”
Question: What’s the most popular Holiday Wine? Answer: “I don’t like Brussels sprouts.”
Happy Holidays, Everyone!
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Gifts for friends for free Author Unknown
True friends are not fussy or judgemental. They care
not what you are worth or what you own. And they certainly understand the meaning of your friendship, and whatever you may give as a present comes from the heart. Here are some of the most heartfelt gifts you can offer good friends, without a bit of monetary investment.
5) THE GIFT OF A COMPLIMENT A simple and sincere, “You look great in red,” “You did a super job” or “That was a wonderful meal” can make someone’s day.
1) THE GIFT OF LISTENING... But you must REALLY listen. No interrupting, no daydreaming, no planning your response. Just listening. 2) THE GIFT OF AFFECTION... Be generous with appropriate hugs, kisses, pats on the back and handholds. Let these small actions demonstrate the love you have for family and friends. 3) THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER... Clip cartoons. Share articles and funny stories. Your gift will say, “I love to laugh with you.”
6) THE GIFT OF A FAVOR... Every day, go out of your way to do something kind. 7) THE GIFT OF SOLITUDE... There are times when we want nothing better than to be left alone. Be sensitive to those times and give the gift of solitude to others. 8) THE GIFT OF A CHEERFUL DISPOSITION... The easiest way to feel good is to extend a kind word to someone. Really, it’s not that hard to say “Hello” or “Thank You.”
4) THE GIFT OF A WRITTEN NOTE... It can be a simple “Thanks for the help” note or a full sonnet. A brief, handwritten note could be remembered for a lifetime, and may even change a life (although it may cost a stamp if you mail it)
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Contents Athens Area Calendar Local events around the Athens area Brain Busters Tease your brain
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Crossword Puzzle
A Time to Cull by Matt Gaffney
Bucket List The beautiful Dubi. A unique travel destination
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Some of the most heartfelt gifts you can offer good friends.
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Holiday stories to tickle the funny bone.
Walnut Crumb Apple Pie Sared Salmon
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