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THIS WEEKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ISSUE:

Walk Out or Stay Put?

City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

The Red & Black student editorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; contretemps last week reminded me painfully of a walkout I precipitated myself back in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s. After having sold my interest in The Athens Observer some years earlier, I came back to manage it at the request of the new owners, who had picked it up as it teetered into oblivion.

The day I arrived, people were cleaning out their offices and carrying potted plants out to their cars. What I found inside the building was one of the best newspaper staffs I have ever encountered. It is always that way. When a paper goes down the tubes, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not because of the staff; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always the owners.

Think of all those stories youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve read and seen: the editors, reporters, designers and ad people gathered in the newsroom while some ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rep reads a statement regretfully informing them that as of tomorrow they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have jobs. That never happens because the staff didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how to put out a good newspaper. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always because the owners miscalculated or couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t adjust to changing markets in difficult times. The end Think of all those may be inevitable, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rarely about journalism. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always stories youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve â&#x20AC;&#x153;just business,â&#x20AC;? as Tessio says in read and seen: the The Godfather.

When The Athens Observer editors, reporters, proved not to be a cash cow, designers and ad most of the businessmen wanted out, and I bought their stock and people gathered ended up the minority partner in the newsroom with the one who was left. In our uneasy alliance, he owned while some the controlling interest, and I ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rep reads managed the paper. That worked OK until he became fascinated a statementâ&#x20AC;Ś with the newspaper business and wanted to be more hands-on, which meant cutting costs, which meant firing reporters, which brought on a confrontation between us and an ultimatum from me, which he declined to honor, and I was out the door.

Then, most of the staff quit, too, in the belief that the businessman couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put out the paper without all of us and would have to come to terms. Of course, he could hire more staff to supplement those who stayed, and The Athens Observer continued without us. It was not the same paper, and eventually it succumbed, but it survived our leaving. The kids who walked out behind me werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t college students; they were grownups who were dependent on their jobs for their livelihood. Full of indignation and blinded by emotion, I let them do it, allowing myself to think it would work. I cost them the jobs they were so good at, and I also contributed to the eventual destruction of the newspaper I had helped found.

So, maybe Blake is right in his advice to The Red & Black staff in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s City Dope: that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better to stay and fight from within. On the other hand, their blow-up may have been the only way their subjugation to hired, professional staff could have been avoided. It certainly appears to have worked.

The owners have backed down and disavowed the draft memorandum outlining management by paid professionals who would make The Red & Black more smiley-faced in content. Whether or not the walkouts return, The Red & Black will continue and, thanks to them, students will at least for a while be in control of the editorial content. Maybe some day these editors will, as I do, wish they had done it differently, but I think they will always be proud that they acted on principle and walked out on what they saw as a corruption of the editorial integrity they have been taught to value.

As an added footnote, I cannot help commenting on the news that The Red & Black paid its publisher $189,000 and netted half a million dollars last year. Before anybody calls me for a loan, let me state emphatically that his pay rate is so far above the norm that it probably even exceeds The BannerHerald publisherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wages and makes mine laughable by comparisonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if I werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t crying. And clearing half a million dollars would be astounding even at The New York Times or just about any other newspaper in the country. It just goes to show you that at The Red & Black, just like at the University of Georgia Athletic Association, the skyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the limit when most of your help works for free.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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THREATS & PROMISES. . . . . . 15 NEIL HAMBURGER. . . . . . . . . 16 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS. . . . . . . 17 THE CALENDAR!. . . . . . . . . . . 19 BULLETIN BOARD. . . . . . . . . . 24 ART AROUND TOWN . . . . . . . . 25 COMICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 REALITY CHECK. . . . . . . . . . . 27 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 CROSSWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 FRESHMEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 EVERYDAY PEOPLE. . . . . . . . . 31

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city dope Athens News and Views Red and Dead: Every good journalist comes to almost a full day for them to make a statework every day prepared to quit on the spot if ment about the fiasco, which might as well he is forced to do something that goes against be a century. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like the Pony Express tryhis conscience. The student staff at the Red & ing to run a radio station 80 years ago. The Black did just that last week. students have a far better grasp of what It all started when the independent â&#x20AC;&#x153;digital firstâ&#x20AC;? journalism truly means. They student-run newspaper decided to pare back started a blog, tweeted up a storm and proved its print edition from five days a week to one yet again that nimbleness is far more valuable in 2011 and emphasize its website. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the than a big-name masthead. direction print media is headed, so it made Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an unsolicited piece of advice for sense to train young journalists that way, those students: Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it again. Journalism although the shift was perhaps too abrupt isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a job, a career or even a calling. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a and premature. They hired a semi-retired lifestyle. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who you are. And when the rentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board member named Ed Stamper, who once due, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much harder to walk out that door. sold advertising for the Red & Black and the Learn to compromise in a way that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Atlanta Journal-Constitution before making a compromise your integrity. Fight. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t run fortune in loss-prevention software, to craft a away until you have no choice. new business plan. His plan, basically, was to turn editorial control over to professional staff, who would be charged with running as much inoffensive content as possible, according to a memo the students leaked.

It really shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be any surprise. In their flailing about to remain relevant and profitable, newspapers have retreated into milquetoast-dom, afraid to offend any reader or advertiser lest they sink another inch into oblivion. As former Red & Black editor Chuck Reece put it Friday: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t learn Red & Black Vice Chairwoman Melita Easters reads a statement outside the newspaperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Baxter Street office. a damn thing about what to report from a focus group.â&#x20AC;? What readers say they want and I continue to believe, against much eviwhat they actually read are two completely dence, that readers crave real news. They want different things. Nor should â&#x20AC;&#x153;digital firstâ&#x20AC;? be a someone to hold the powers that be accounteuphemism for fluff. able. Whether they are willing to pay for it in At a news conference Friday, Red and sufficient numbers to support it remains an Black board vice chairwoman Melita Easters open question. Good thing Flagpole is free. and, via written statement, Stamper, were appropriately apologetic. But what led the Party On, Athens: Sunday is a holy day for board to put the paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future in the hands of many people, but this Sunday in particular someone like Stamper? Why was he allowed to will be the holiest of holies. If you go to put forward such terrible ideas to begin with? the beer aisle at the grocery store, you will I posed these questions to Easters and got, be bathed in light, because that beer will no essentially, no response. The organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; longer be shrouded in darkness; it will be for ostensibly a nonprofitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;was successful enough sale, and the blue laws shall not overcome it. to pay publisher Harry Montevideo $189,000 Shocking absolutely no one, Athens voters and rake in half a million dollars in net revapproved Sunday package sales by a 70 perenue in 2011, according to tax returns. Taking cent to 30 percent margin July 31, and I susaway editorial control would have turned stupect most of the 30 percent were just trolling. dents into virtual slave labor.

But it has taken the Athens-Clarke Finance Witness, though, what chains like Morris Department a few weeks to process storesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (owner of the Athens Banner-Herald) and permit applications. As of last week, 36 of the Advance (owner of the New Orleans Times109 eligible establishments in Athens were Picayune and major dailies in Alabama and approved, so if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re rebuffed at one store, Michigan) have done to their publications. donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be discouraged. Canaan is out there, just Advance cut back print to three days a week, over the mountain. laid off half its newsrooms and turned its websites into glorified blogs, even though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Public Service Announcement: The envistill profitable. At least Morris had the excuse ronmental group GreenLaw is hosting a $100 of crushing, ill-advised debt it took on at the fundraiser in Athens this Sunday to fight tail end of its halcyon days for cutting threea Rayonier paper mill that is polluting the quarters of the ABH staff.

Altamaha River downstream from here. Five & There is really no excuse for the Red & Ten will cater and Randall Bramblett, among Black. The boardâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;made up of businesspeople, others, will perform. For more information, go advertising executives, academics and retired to green.org/southern-nights. journalists, but not a single working reporter or editorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is clearly out of touch. It took Blake Aued

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a bridge too far for most commissioners, but no one balked at the hanging for the Classic Center. The Cultural Affairs Commission will also help choose designs for murals at the renovated Rocksprings poolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;perhaps designed by children at the adjacent community centerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and along Baxter street in front of the library. In addition, â&#x20AC;&#x153;they have a lot of local art work and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work that will be hanging insideâ&#x20AC;? the library, Wolf-Ragatz said.

The Athens-Clarke County Cultural Affairs Commission has picked a colorful hanging sculpture of metal rods and fabric-like panels to help fill the huge atrium of the expanded Classic Center. The expansion could be completed in February. The 65-foot-wide abstract sculptureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;?Ladder and Nest,â&#x20AC;? by St. Louis John Huie designer Maureen Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;was chosen from 39 proposals, including paintings, murals, wood and metal sculpture and projection art. A lot of it was â&#x20AC;&#x153;fine work,â&#x20AC;? cultural affairs chairwoman Marilyn Wolf-Ragatz told Flagpole, but not necessarily suited to the space. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ladder and Nestâ&#x20AC;? will be lit internally with Hundred-year-old pipes and utility lines programmable LEDs, and will be visible from under downtown streets and sidewalks are outside the building through a large window expensive to replace, and the necessary street as well as inside. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This piece will keep that disruptions never make merchants or customspace from feeling cavernous,â&#x20AC;? Wolf-Ragatz ers happy. Such work isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cheap, either. $7.2 told ACC commissioners at million in sales-tax money last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work session. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This piece will keep will reconstruct only the Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fabric-and-metal five downtown blocks that designs tend towards the need it most, Athens-Clarke that space from whimsical, and they hang in County Manager Alan Reddish feeling cavernous.â&#x20AC;? told commissioners last various commercial buildings in the U.S., including week. Those blocks are along the Hilton San Diego and New York Botanical Clayton Street from Lumpkin Street to Thomas Garden. She often uses stainless-steel fabric; Street and Jackson Street from Broad Street to one plus for her proposal was that it will Washington Street. Streetscape improvements require little more than a yearly dusting to will be done, too. By the time construction maintain. The work is budgeted at $150,000. begins (not before late 2013), a downtown master plan should be finished.

Commissioners now routinely consider â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really needs to be done,â&#x20AC;? Reddish said, including public art when the county builds but â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be long-term and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going new buildings; spending up to 1 percent to disrupt.â&#x20AC;? Until you start digging, you never of construction budgets is a rule of thumb. know what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find, he added; such projects Including art in the new jail was considered in the past have brought â&#x20AC;&#x153;a very intensive interaction with all the business owners.â&#x20AC;?

Some Clayton street buildings have basements that extend out beneath the sidewalk; those will require the construction of block An article on GlenRidge Park, a profoundations. posed industrial and commercial develPressed by commissioners to limit inconveopment in Jackson County, in the Aug. niences, Reddish said the work can be sched1 Flagpole included two statements that uled, if not for only the summer months of require clarification. The website Biz 2014 and 2015, at least to avoid downtownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daily asked Walton International CEO Bill busiest seasons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be Doherty how his company compares to down there during football season,â&#x20AC;? he told Profitable Plots. In addition, Waltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flagpole. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible some of the work could past 28 percent annual return for invesbe done at night, SPLOST Program Manager tors is not a promise of future results.

Don Martin told Flagpole. Commissioner

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Kathy Hoard noted that, on past construction projects, even close cooperation between merchants and the county could not prevent businesses from appearing closed when they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

Several commissioners wondered if one-way downtown streets might be reconfigured at the same time for two-way traffic. But â&#x20AC;&#x153;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a much different question,â&#x20AC;? Reddish said. It would require recurbing the angles for street parking and would cost more money. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been some discussion over the yearsâ&#x20AC;? that one-way streets are confusing to drivers, Commissioner Jared Bailey told Flagpole, and some end up driving the wrong way.

For now, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no money for infrastructure improvements on many blocks that will still need it, or even for additional streetscape improvements, except in the block surrounding City Hall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each one of those segments is roughly $3.5 millionâ&#x20AC;? for underground infrastructure, Deputy Manager Bob Snipes told commissioners. Streetscape improvements would be cheaper.

British Tech Conference May Come to Athens A music and technology festival in Liverpool, England, could be branching out into Athens to bolster the fledgling local hightech industry. Create Athens, a nonprofit that promotes the arts as economic development, and Four Athens, a tech startup incubator, are interested in bringing a version of Sound City to the Classic Center in January.

The three-day eventâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which includes panel discussions and exhibits on topics like gaming, apps, music technology and the artsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is expected to draw 200 attendees to a conference and 3,000 people to an associated music festival. Sound City would expose startups from across the Southeast to venture capital firms and established firms from New York City and Silicon Valley, according to Jim Flannery of Four Athens. Supporters are trying to raise $200,000 from public and private sources. For more, see In the Loop at Flagpole.com.

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capitol impact athens rising Between now and Nov. 6, you will hear a lot about the charter school constitutional amendment that’s on the general election ballot. This amendment would authorize the Legislature and the governor to establish a state committee with the power to approve applications for charter schools that have been turned down by local school boards.

Here is some information to keep in mind.

You will be told that the amendment is necessary so that parents have more “choices” for their children. You will also be told that local school boards won’t approve new charter schools. In fact, the number of charter schools in Georgia has steadily increased for more than a decade. There were more than 160 charter schools during the 2010-11 academic year, a number that grew to 217 in 2011-12 and to 315 in the current school year.

Most of the charter schools were approved by their local school boards. In some cases where the school board would not approve a charter, the case was appealed to the state Board of Education, which has approved 19 charter schools originally turned down at the local level.

Every current member of the state board of education was appointed by a Republican governor, either Sonny Perdue or Nathan Deal.

There are more than 300 charter schools in Georgia and more than 500 private schools as well. If parents don’t want to send their children to a traditional public school or a charter school or a private school, they can choose to educate them at home. There are plenty of choices available under the current system.

You will hear it said that we need more charter schools because they do a better job of improving student performance. In fact, study after study has shown that charter schools don’t do any better than traditional public schools when it comes to student performance, and in many cases they don’t perform as well.

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One of the measurements used by the state Department of Education is how many schools are making “adequate yearly progress” (also known as AYP) in meeting the standards set by the No Child Left Behind Act. For the 2010-11 academic year, 70 percent of charter schools made “adequate yearly progress,” while 73 percent of traditional public schools made AYP. Here is some more information on our public education system: since 2003, the Legislature and the governor have cut the state’s formula funding to local school systems by a combined total of $6.6 billion.

That reduction in state funding forced many local school boards to increase their property tax rates and lay off teachers so that they could make up for the lost money.

Since 2008, the number of students enrolled in public schools has increased by 37,438. The number of classroom teachers, however, has decreased by 4,280, as local school systems have scrambled to balance their budgets.

Out of the state’s 180 public school districts, 121 of them have shortened their school calendar from the former requirement of 180 days because they don’t have enough money to operate for a full academic year.

If the constitutional amendment is approved, it is estimated the state will divert another $430 million over the next five years from traditional public schools to the new “state charter schools.”

“Until all of our public school students are in school for a full 180-day school year, until essential services like student transportation and student support can return to effective levels, and until teachers regain jobs with full pay for a full school year, we should not redirect one more dollar away from Georgia’s local school districts,” state school Supt. John Barge said last week.

It is something to think about.

Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

What’s Up in New Development Four or five years ago, in late August, University in Augusta, formerly the Medical a friend texted me, “The masses have College of Georgia and Georgia Health Sciences descended.” (Insert non-publishable expletives University. Several buildings have already at your discretion.) Those of you who live in been renovated: five academic buildings, a Athens year-round or have at least spent a gym, residences (leased to graduate, medisummer here, you know exactly what that text cal students and visiting scholars) and the meant. With school starting last week and new University Childcare Center (operated by football season right around the corner, this is Prodigies Child Care Management). There are the time of year when “island time” in Athens future plans for more residence halls, a dining gives way to a faster pace, drunken crowds hall and administrative buildings. and awful traffic. Not that I’m complaining. As While the UGA campus has seen some a University of Georgia alumna and huge footchange in this past year, it’s not the only ball fan, I always look forward to the influx of place around town that’s changing. The constudents and, you guessed it, football season! troversial $24 million expansion of the If you’ve been gone, here’s what you’ve Classic Center is well underway. The 55,000 missed: Most noticeable to a tailgater like me square-foot project will nearly double the is the historic North Campus fence, which is size of the Classic Center exhibit hall on top undergoing a restoration. The historic castof what used to be Hancock Avenue. It also iron fence was erected in 1857; all current includes a 10,000 square-foot atrium that entrances, including the Arch, originally had gates on them to help keep animals from grazing on campus, except for stairs over the original wooden fence, rather than gates.

UGA restored the fence from the Arch to Jackson Street this summer, and it should be ready in time for the first football game.

After football season, the section from the Arch to Lumpkin Street will undergo restoration.

The fence was removed Construction on the Classic Center exhibit hall expansion and atrium, seen here section by section, except for three sections from Foundry Street, is well underway. where an oak tree has grown into the fence, the crumbling paint was looks to be modeled after the original Penn removed and the sections were repainted. The Station in New York City that was demolished fence is also getting steel interior supports to in 1963. So far, construction has been on help make it sturdier and more durable. schedule, and the new addition is expected to The university also restored the Holmesopen in March.

Hunter Academic Building this summer.

Someone has finally decided to reuse the The Corinthian columns on the front of West Broad Street building that formerly the building were stripped to the core and housed Red Rooster. (I’m about to show my replaced with historically accurate replicas. age here, but I remember when it was Taco Replacement rather than repair is a sensitive Mac.) The building has been sitting empty for subject in regard to historic integrity, but, several years and, frankly, is an eyesore. The unfortunately, the columns were badly weathPhi Kappa Tau fraternity will be relocating ered and in disrepair. from their rental house on South Milledge Interestingly, the columns are not original Avenue when the project is finished in about to the building. The Holmes-Hunter Academic a year.

Building was originally two separate buildThe fraternity is renovating the building ings. The structure beside Demosthenian Hall, in two phases. The first phase is to turn the the Ivy Building (ca. 1831–32), was the first existing building into a banquet hall and add library on campus. The building abutting a new façade. The second phase will add a resBroad Street was known as the Old Library (ca. idential second story to the building. Though 1859–62). In 1903, the buildings were linked some nearby residents are concerned about together with the Corinthian colonnade we see the late-night noise a fraternity will produce, today and the façades were altered to create a the building was formerly a late-night restaucontinuous pattern. In addition to the reconrant in an area with several apartment buildstructed columns, the building received a new ings and hotels. The neighborhood is already paint job this summer. Though not identical to subjected to a fair amount of late-night noise. the former paint job, it looks great and makes (And I would know because I live there.) I, for the building stand out more. It matches well one, am glad to see the building being reused. with Candler Hall on Herty Field.

Some life needs to be pumped back into that Classes also began at the new Health section of Broad Street west of downtown.

Sciences Campus this week. The public is And what’s up with Walmart? Things seem invited to attend an open house at 10 a.m., to be at a standstill for Selig Enterprises’ Aug. 22, on the former site of the Navy Supply proposed mixed-use development on the Corps School on the corner of Prince and Armstrong & Dobbs property on Oconee Street Oglethorpe avenues. The two occupants of near downtown. The future of the property the new campus are the UGA College of Public remains to be seen.

Health and UGA’s medical school partnership with the newly renamed Georgia Regents Stella Smith

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The Race to the Bottom Ain’t for Sissies!

Heady Days

After seeing the official budgets for the the rationale for nixing this benefit basically University System of Georgia slashed by amounts to pointing out that, these days, 20 percent over the last four years and his private employers seldom provide health care junior colleagues furloughed without pay options for retirees. The Ol’ Bloviator trembles while struggling to establish homes and at the thought that someone will eventually families with not so much as a whiff of a saltell that crew in Atlanta how much they might ary increase over that entire span, the Ol’ save by adopting the Walmart health-care Bloviator had just about been beaten into a model for active university system employees. submissive stupor. However, that was before news reached him that Governor Nathan (CanWe-Make-a-Shady?) Deal now plans to snatch back more than half of the exceedingly modThe O.B. realizes by now that it is utterly pointless to further emphasize the genuine est 5.2 percent restoration of funds in the fiscal year 2013 budget. In addition, faculty economic hardships inflicted by such draand staff who are once again summarily comconian policies on woefully underpaid staff manded to do even more with even less are employees, much less decry the impact on also ordered hereby to make the cuts as painjunior faculty trying to achieve some semless as possible on the students and parents— blance of a middle-class existence before and therefore on the governor, the Legislature everybody forgets what that is. The simple and the Board of Regents. fact, friends and neighbors, is not exactly that Also, in case you missed it, this bunch absolutely nobody cares—although it damn of regents is so pleased with the job they sure seems that way most of the time—but have done presiding over higher education’s that almost nobody cares enough. Forget the demise in this state that they have decreed consequences of this indifference for the that the new mash-up of what was once people in the robes and funny hats and those Augusta College and the who try to assist and supMedical College of Georgia port them. Let’s step back Forget that the little shall be known henceand consider what’s haplady whose nose you’re pening to them in terms forth as “Georgia Regents University.” This tale would its broader implications getting your jollies off of for what we’ve become as a be laughable enough simgrinding in the dirt… society. The rabid hatred of ply in that it raises the government is now metastanear certainty that the sizing into ill-concealed contempt for almost new school will be confused with Regents anybody who works to provide its services University, Pat Robertson’s diploma mill up in at any level. (Recent events in Wisconsin Virginia. It becomes a bona fide knee-slapper ringing any bells here?) Forget that many of with reports that rather than feeling flattered, these people have given years of loyal and Pat and crew are threatening to sue. frequently unacknowledged, let alone appreciated, service to health, education and public outreach programs that we all depend upon It is presumed that no outcry emanating but take for granted. Forget that the little from the campuses in the wake of these latlady whose nose you’re getting your jollies est fiscal eviscerations will be worthy of note, off grinding in the dirt is the same person much less response. Yet in a final, doubtless who stayed late at school to help your kids futile, attempt to keep his head from explodthrough trig or sacrificed many an evening ing, the O.B. feels compelled to give vent with her own family to comb through her stuto his frustration and bewilderment that so dents’ college entrance essays trying to weed many Georgians of intelligence and means out the sentence fragments and misplaced are willing to look on in stony silence as the modifiers. So what if she’ll have to push back state’s gains in education over the last four the day she retires and be hard pressed to decades are not just being eroded but blasted keep up with her medical bills when that day and bulldozed away in blitzkrieg fashion. finally comes, what with her blood pressure Thus, not only are the menials who staff our and arthritis and such? classrooms and operate our universities enterThere is a principle at stake here, after all, ing their fourth year with no pay increases, and it amounts to swearing fealty to Grover but they are now told that their health care Norquist, who appears to reign supreme at premiums, which rose annually at a rate of every level of representative government 9.3 percent from fiscal years 2008 through almost everywhere throughout this great land 2012, are to increase yet again to the tune of ours. The truth is that this readiness not of 2.5 to 8.5 percent, and by the way, just simply to let our educational and other vital so a second memo won’t be necessary, the public institutions wither on the vine but to system is also cutting its contributions to help ’em along with a good, vigorous chokin’ their retirement from 1 percent to 0.5 perevery few months isn’t rooted in a hard choice cent. Beyond that, the regents’ discussions between furloughing teachers or offering about dropping supplemental post-retirement bread to hungry families. It simply reflects health care support for new hires give rise to the willful stupidity and/or cowardice of those some some ominous implications for the faccharged with representing and guarding our ulty of the future. Admittedly, 20- and early interests who refuse even to entertain the 30-somethings interviewing for entry-level notion of asking Georgians to pay a few penpositions often pay little attention to retirenies more for a pack of cigarettes or a six-pack ment benefits. However, more accomplished of beer. Yessir, let’s stick to our guns, which, 40- and 50-somethings who would typically thank goodness, are now always within reach. be candidates for the already difficult-to-fill Better yet, let’s follow the lead of Slim Pickens senior positions vital to maintaining a univerin Dr. Strangelove and ride this warhead all the sity’s strengths and reputation most assuredly way to ground-zero, casualties and collateral do. Although it has long been understood damage be damned. that such benefits are supposed to offset the heftier salaries available in the private sector, James C. Cobb

Only Human Beings

I admit it. I moved to Athens to hear bands. During my junior and senior years of high school I had offers from scads of colleges (though none from SCAD—I can’t draw to save my life), but the only school to which I applied was UGA. In theory, I came to be a journalism major, but in reality, I came to be schooled in cheap beer, questionable hookups and indie rock and roll.

It was the mid-’80s, you understand, back when Athens was ATHENS, though at the beginning of the end of its capitalization. The scene had already crested and was starting to recede, but it had done its work on this alienated adolescent in suburban Atlanta. I don’t remember if it was punk shows at the Metroplex, weekends in (pre-gentrified) Little Five Points trying to become cool by osmosis,

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the first time I heard Pylon and Love Tractor and Chronic Town, or the late, great Atlanta zine Muzik!, but by the time I graduated I was primed and pumped for full-time Coolsville and couldn’t get here fast enough.

What I’m saying is that college rock (or indie rock or alternative rock or whatever— there’s never been an adequate label for it) saved my life, and I count my blessings every day for the good fortune that led me to this very right place at that very right time. I will, therefore, forever carry a torch for the bands that sustained me through the doldrums of high school, like The dB’s and The Fleshtones and The Bongos, Flat Duo Jets and Arms Akimbo, Oingo Boingo and The Ramones and The Plimsouls and Oh-OK and The Swimming Pool Q’s and countless others.

It gets harder to be a music geek as you get older. Sure, there are guys who do it, but I no longer have the energy to look for live bootlegs and alternate pressings and the like anymore. I barely get out to shows anymore— something about a family at home and the need for real sleep. Add to that the Internet, which feeds the same music and information to everyone, fanboy or no, and that sense of discovery and insider-ness that is the life’s blood of geekery is virtually gone. It’s a different world now: faster and smaller and shinier, but in many ways, far less exciting.

That’s why Jesse Jarnow’s new book Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock (Penguin, 2012) is a remarkable book. In following the fortunes of Yo La Tengo, the eclectic trio from Hoboken who managed to stumble ass-backward into being one of the most critically acclaimed bands in America, Jarnow takes us back to the heady days of indie fandom, when reputations were built on cassette tapes and photocopied zines and frenzied word of mouth. It’s invigorating.

Fans of Yo La Tengo, and there are many, will find much to like here. The story of sometime rock journalist Ira Kaplan and artist Georgia Hubley and their fledgling band, with unclassifiable originals, a mountain of covers (and the balls to incorporate covers as equal parts of their repertoire rather than as fillers or extra credit) and a seemingly endless quest for a bassist, is romantic and funny and fascinating.

Just as interesting, however, is the world around them. Hoboken, NJ would seem to be the last place one would expect a thriving post-punk music scene to pop up, but then the same could be—and was—said of Athens.

Built around Maxwell’s, a bar previously known for being open only four hours a day, during shift breaks at the Maxwell House coffee plant up the road, the Hoboken scene for awhile included a veritable Who’s Who of independent rock pioneers, with veterans of bands like The dB’s and Mission of Burma and The Feelies passing through to perform and record and maybe play some softball, a universal pastime among Hoboken scenesters. Everyone played in everyone else’s bands, and a community sprang up, born of mutual admiration and raw, unadulterated music fandom.

At the center of it all were Kaplan and Hubley and, at long last, bassist James McNew, building their band from the materials of three lifetimes of sponge-like absorption of underground music but without instructions. Yo La Tengo never had a specific direction, never fit into anyone’s genre pigeonhole, but rather worked around a comprehensive list of things they didn’t want to be. For most groups that lack of easy definition would be a killer, and being difficult to market certainly slowed them up. But Yo La Tengo’s seeming weakness was actually a strength, resulting in a band with greater versatility (from crunchy rock to freeform jazz) than most. Their less-than-meteoric rise also allowed them to build a hardcore legion of fans, people who could embrace the songs and the band’s quirky dynamic over time while the band seemingly refused to break big—a great band over which fanboys and fangirls could feel proprietary, their loyalties cemented for all time.

Jarnow writes in a breezy, accessible style that references its history with authority but never descends into the oblique trivia that is the bane of most rock journalism. He captures the gee-whiz of a scene, not just in Hoboken but across the music industry with the force of cataclysm, in its birth and infancy with immediacy and charm.

Or to put it another way, Big Day Coming made me want to go to Hoboken to hear bands, and that is an achievement indeed.

John G. Nettles

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has been provided regarding alternatives considered to retain Legion Pool and why demolition was considered the preferred alternative or other alternatives were considered not feasible.â&#x20AC;?

There are other issues to consider besides money, UGA President Michael Adams told WGAU 1340 AM last week. Lake Herrick is closer to other recreational facilities, and the Legion Pool property off Lumpkin street is valuable long-term for residential and academic uses, he said. (The plan is to turn it into green space for the time being.) Legion Pool drops three inches a day, leaking 24,000 gallons of chlorinated water into Tanyard Creek. And parts for the 77-year-old pool arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t available. But the math is only part of the decision, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The

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egion Pool is in bad shape, but renovating it would still be less expensive in the short- and long-term than building a new pool, according to documents Flagpole obtained from an open-records request.

Legion Pool costs $112,105 to operate annually, including $45,000 for maintenance and repairs and $10,000 for water alone. The proposed new pool at Lake Herrick, although only half the size, would cost marginally less to run: $96,258 to open eight hours a day for four months or $136,000 for six months, according to Associate Director for Facilities Keith Wenrich. Assistant Director of Campus Planning Lara Mathes described those estimates as â&#x20AC;&#x153;very preliminaryâ&#x20AC;? in an email.

At that rate, it could take a century to pay back the cost of building a new pool with savings on running it. Combined with the relative cheapness of renovating Legion Poolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;$490,000 versus quoted figures of $2.3 million and $2.6 million for a new poolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the estimates raise further questions about the cost-effectiveness of new construction, especially at a time when higher education faces ongoing budget cuts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why spend two-and-a-half million dollars on a new pool and destroy a pool thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth $3 millionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insured forâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;when the regents are trying to get them to cut 1.5 percent?â&#x20AC;? Legion Pool booster Grady Thrasher says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not really a good dollars-and-cents reason for doing this at all.â&#x20AC;?

Tim Burgess, vice president for finance and administration, has not responded to questions about pool costs, but administrators have emphasized that the new pool will be paid for with reserves, student fees and donations to athletics, not tax dollars or tuition, which fund expenses like faculty and staff salaries.

University officials cited structural problems and leaks when they asked the Georgia Historic Preservation Division for an opinion on demolishing Legion Pool. The state declined to give its blessing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The narrative indicates renovation costs of $490,000 but provides no context, including why it has been determined to be a not cost-effective candidate for repair, and considering reference to future construction of a pool elsewhere on campus, how repair costs compare to the cost of the replacement facility,â&#x20AC;? Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer David Crass wrote to UGA on July 31. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;ŚAdditionally, no information

long-term upkeep costs are less,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether anybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s put a stiff pencil to those 20-year costs, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know.â&#x20AC;?

The University System Board of Regents, in a preliminary vote earlier this month, told its staff to prepare more detailed financial information on demolishing and replacing Legion Pool. The board is scheduled to vote on UGAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan in September or October, when it will meet in Athens.

Sara Baker, another opponent of demolishing Legion Pool, questioned the environmental rationale for a new pool.

Chlorine evaporates quickly, so the environmental impact of leaks is far less than demolition, she says. A November audit

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The pool audit shows just how poor Legion Poolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s condition is. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As with other pools of this age, they are facing physical obsolescence,â&#x20AC;? the report says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of foremost concern is the structural condition of the pool and facility. Significant cracks have been observed by the staff in the pool structure that reveal themselves through the plaster.â&#x20AC;? Auditors did not recommend demolition, though; instead, they urged that â&#x20AC;&#x153;all the recommended repairs, replacements and renovations be considered and implementedâ&#x20AC;? to bring the pool up to code and modern standards.

Since taking over the pool from the City of Athens and the American Legion in the 1970s, UGA has replaced original tiles with plaster, installed drains, replaced sand in filter tanks, part of a deck and a gutter drain, and patched and refinished several sections of plaster along expansion joints. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough, though, Thrasher says. He thinks UGA has intentionally allowed the pool to deteriorate so it had an excuse to demolish the pool and build something else on the land. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done anything, really, but patch a bunch of cracks for six years,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve wanted to get rid of the pool for about the same amount of time.â&#x20AC;?

The audit lays out a road map for repairing Legion Pool. The biggest expenses would be replacing the pool floor for $320,000 and installing a new filter and pipes for $85,000. Seventeen other, smaller repairs are also recommended. Counsilman-Hunsaker says those repairs â&#x20AC;&#x153;address the physical obsolescence of a pool built in the 1930s, as well as safety, and addresses items that are required by the State of Georgia and the Clarke County health department.â&#x20AC;? They should be done all at once, the consultants say, to save money and because some are dependent on others.

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Oh, you feckless Georgia Square Mall shoppers, eating at Sbarro and mistaking it for actual pizza, dousing yourselves with cologne-testers at Macyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and browsing at Wet Seal even though you know their clothes are a little too young for you. Not a care in the world as you while away an afternoon immersed in climate-controlled commerce. How many of you could guess that our local mall teeters on the brink of total anarchy, and that it is none other than you, blasĂŠ consumers, who have brought us there?

The fact is, our local mall has rules, lots of them. Twentyfour, to be exact. And judging by my recent visit on a Monday morning, we mall patrons are in flagrant violation of at least one of them at all times.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not innocent. Oh, no. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be the first to admit that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve broken rule number 5 (yelling, screamingâ&#x20AC;Ś or otherwise communicating in a manner which creates noises of a sufficient volume to impinge on the hearing or peace of other mall patrons) nearly every time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve brought my infant to the mall. I Robin Whetstone

Comfort is no excuse for rule-breaking. also regularly violate rule number 12 (wearing clothing thatâ&#x20AC;Ś impinges on the sensitivities of others in the mall) whenever I show up wearing a knee-length denim skirt and gardening clogs with white ankle socks. And any time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m around crowds of people anywhere I break mall rule number 3 (annoying others throughâ&#x20AC;Ś inappropriate staring). Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not proud of it; I just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help it.

I first discovered the rules of the mall when I was loitering (rule 8) in an alcove next to the Chinese massage kiosk, waiting for a group of boisterous teens (rule 3) to pass. The rules are displayed there on an official-looking blue sign, and are written in language youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to expect from a bureaucratized society. The usual suspects are there: no gangs, no guns, no violence, no drugs. But what caught my attention and motivated me to write this column was the final rule. Rule number 24: no fishing, swimming or boating without prior written approval of shopping center management.

Really? Seriously? I guess I understand why we shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shoot people or show our underwear at the mall, but fishing?

Boating? This just seems beyond the pale, particularly since there are no lakes, ponds or fountains at the Georgia Square Mall. I realized I needed to go down there and ask some tough questions, so I changed out of my sexually explicit t-shirt (rule 12), strapped the baby in her car seat and was on my way.

I decided to question the mallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s patrons about the rules first, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I realized what a truly lawless bunch we all are. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worse, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care. Take, for example, the three young men I accosted on their way to the big cookie store. I showed them the rules, and one of them seemed downright delighted to realize that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been breaking rule number 8 the whole time theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey!â&#x20AC;? he shouted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been walking abreast! It says here weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not supposed to do that!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;A breast?â&#x20AC;? His friend with the tattoos and Jack Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shirt perked up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where?â&#x20AC;? As his buddies punched each other in the shoulders and muttered â&#x20AC;&#x153;a breast, heh heh heh,â&#x20AC;? over

and over, the first young man shook his head with mock regret. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe this. We broke the rules of the mallâ&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;?

The young men refused to give me their names but gleefully agreed to demonstrate their anti-social behavior.

Then there was Dominic Tracey Leamon. I came upon him sitting in the upstairs atrium with his feet propped up on the railing, reading his Kindle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Excuse me,â&#x20AC;? I said, pointing at his feet, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are you aware that you are breaking mall rule number 19 (improper use of mall amenities)? What do you have to say for yourself? Are you some kind of terrorist?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, no,â&#x20AC;? said Mr. Leamon in a way that suggested this was not the first time heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been asked that question, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a terrorist. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just waiting for my car to be fixed.â&#x20AC;?

Mr. Leamon expressed surprise that the mall had so many rules, but refused to take responsibility for flouting them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look at that train down there.â&#x20AC;? He pointed at the kiddie train that makes a regular circuit of the mall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was just sitting here thinking, man, that train can go anywhere. No lane markings, no speed limitsâ&#x20AC;Ś seems kind of dangerous to me. I was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wow, what a free mall this is.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But I guess there are some rules after all.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rules which you are breaking,â&#x20AC;? I reminded him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, I guess so. I mean, look at this railing. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ugly; the paint is peeling.

They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the money to keep all this stuff up.â&#x20AC;?

And what about his part in maintaining the tattered social contract that governs our behavior at the mall? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a cheater.â&#x20AC;? He looked down, studying his hands. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a white, thin, middle-class man. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sitting right out here in the middle of everything. I might as well be invisible to the rule enforcers.â&#x20AC;?

The mallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manager, Michael Carey, is an agreeable young man who wanted to reassure me that, despite the mayhem Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just witnessed, the mall is a safe place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any problems at all,â&#x20AC;? he said, smiling soothingly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;mainly because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the western police precinct office here. We also have our own security guards to keep shoppers safe.â&#x20AC;? He declined to go into detail about individual incidents of rule-breaking at the mall, referring me instead to the company that owns the mall, CBL Properties.

He explained that the rules Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seen were standard, boilerplate ones that apply to all malls owned by CBL, not just the Georgia Square Mall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t regularly have problems with people showing up here wanting to fish, swim or boat without prior written permission from shopping center management?â&#x20AC;?

He laughed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No. I think that rule existed for when malls had ponds and fountains. But they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t build malls with fountains any more.â&#x20AC;?

Disappointed, I was halfway out the door with my stroller when a final question occurred to me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why do you think they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t build malls with fountains anymore?â&#x20AC;?

A shadow crossed Mr. Careyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face and his smile faltered for just a second. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Probably because of kids like me,â&#x20AC;? he admitted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In this very mall, actually, when there used to be a fountain in front of Macyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.â&#x20AC;?

Just as I suspected. The rules are a thin scrim of respectability pasted over our collective, yowling mall id, and the lunatics are running the asylum. I looked at Mr. Carey, and I could see him as a teenager, pants wet from the knees down, buying himself an Orange Julius with a fistful of dripping change. Et tu, Mr. Carey? Et tu? If the mallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own management is not above reproach, what hope is there for any of us?

Now, I figure the only sane response to living in a world gone mad is to stop fighting and join in. Thus, instead of fretting about how many rules of the mall are being broken, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to revel in breaking them along with everyone else. So, keep your eyes peeled for me the next time you visit Georgia Square. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be the one with the boom box (rule 5), the ferret (rule 18) and, of course, the fishing pole.

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OCAF’s “Perspectives”

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ou can’t throw a wad of clay in this town without hitting someone who has at least tried their hand at pottery,” claims Rob Sutherland, long-time Athens potter and owner of Good Dirt Clay Studio and Gallery.

The Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation’s 10th annual “Perspectives: Georgia Pottery Invitational” exhibit exemplifies just that, as 50 of the state’s most talented and established potters load in their works for one of the largest sales of functional and decorative pottery in the Southeast.

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“Perspectives” will kick off with an opening gala reception and preview sale on Friday, Aug. 31, 6–9 p.m. A $5 admission grants you first dibs on over 5,000 functional pots handmade by this year’s participating potters. The Georgia Mudcats will provide the musical backdrop, playing an assortment of Appalachian string-band tunes, gospel, traditional Southern songs and flatland country blues.

If you find 5,000 pots a shade overwhelming, two separate, more condensed, exhibitions will also be on display.

The Main Gallery will present a crème de la crème sample of “Perspectives,” featuring two of the best works created by each of the 50 potters, as well as a favorite piece selected from each of their private collections. In the Members Gallery, “Connected with Wood and Clay” will share room vignettes from a contemporary home showcasing heirloom furniture and utilitarian clay works created by regional woodworkers and potters.

Considering the palette of earth tones and floral imagery commonly seen in pottery, it’s obvious that many of its makers draw their biggest influences from the natural world. Just as many artists, however, take interest in applying much more abstract concepts to their works, as Barry Rhodes describes: “Because I have a background in both physics and pottery, I find that I am constantly playing one off the other. I tend to collect visual snippets from visits to museums and from pottery, especially ancient and primitive, but also from odd places like partially finished buildings, old country shacks, the architecture of Louis Kahn, physics diagrams and pretty much anything that strikes my interest. I also see an influence of music in my work, especially compositions of Philip Glass or Henryk Górecki, or the quiet repetitions of meditative chanting. I strive to create a fusion between ancient and modern iconographies that reflects my belief that science and art are as Robert Shaw, the great choral conductor, once said about local orchestras making music, ‘…part of the business of being human.’”

For other potters, influence may come from his or her own personal life. Barry Gregg, for example, was immensely inspired by his dog, Parker, a cancer survivor. He elaborates, “Parker passed away about a year ago, and she continues to inspire me. During my grieving process, it was very difficult to work

and create dogs in her image. I began making penguins to deal with my pain. Not really sure why, but it did help. My art became very therapeutic for me. In retrospect, I realized the change came about organically due to the fact: What is funnier and happier than a penguin?”

To see potters in their natural habitat, consider venturing out on the free self-guided studio tours on Sunday, Sept. 16 from 1–5 p.m. This year’s participating hosts, Maria Dondero of Marmalade Pottery (775 Pulaski St.), Jennifer Graff (396 Boulevard) and Yukiko and Bob Marable of Yukiko Pottery (1340 Peacock Dr., High Shoals), are inviting the public to take Barry Gregg

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a look through their workshops and will be around to answer any questions about their spaces.

Every Saturday afternoon from 1–4 p.m. in the Rocket Hall Courtyard, experienced potters will hold demonstrations on wheel throwing and hand-building techniques. This year’s lineup includes Rick Berman on Sept. 1, Gwen Fryar on Sept. 8 and David Morgan on Sept. 15.

For novice potters hoping to hone their own skills, Liz Lurie will lead “Spouts, Handles & Other Appendages,” on Saturday, Sept. 1 and Sunday, Sept. 2 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. each day.

Lurie will share a variety of techniques addressing the challenges of creating these tricky arms and exploring how they can help define a piece of pottery. The two-day workshop costs $135, and space can be reserved by calling OCAF at 706-7694565.

Instructor Elaine Jo will present another workshop, “The Art of Ikebana Flower Arranging,” on the following Saturday, Sept.

8, from 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Ikebana, the traditional Japanese approach to flower arrangement, is a disciplined art form that, over the centuries, has evolved from the Buddhist ritual of offering flowers on altars to the spirits of the dead to a widespread, multi-purpose custom emphasizing minimalism, shape and natural beauty. Several members of the School of Ikebana Atlanta Chapter will exhibit floral arrangements in the Hall Galley on Saturday, Sept. 8 and Sunday, Sept. 9 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. in conjunction with the workshop. Registration is $25, and space is limited, so call to reserve a spot.

In an increasingly homogenized consumer world where impersonal, mass-produced pots, plates, bowls and mugs can be purchased robotically in any home goods store, there’s something very special about investing in handmade pottery.

Many potters will agree that one of the primary reasons they stay loyal to their craft is the ability to design pieces that go beyond their basic purpose in terms of visual aesthetics and imagination.

Tim Sullivan of Creekside Pottery explains, “It was important to me that my work not be overly influenced by the monetary side of the business. There are simply easier ways to make money, and I wanted, and still do, to make each piece special in some way. I am not now, and never intend to be, a production potter. I make pots because I like the challenge of making simple things that aspire to more than their function.”

Gwen Fryar says, “It’s difficult to describe what motivates me to create pottery; I just have to. The delight in knowing that a bowl or mug or birdhouse that I made will enhance someone’s life is very satisfying. Pottery lives on long after the act of making it. The true life of a piece of pottery really begins once it finds its owner and starts doing its job.”

“Perspectives” will be on display Sept. 1–19, 10 a.m.–5 pm., in Rocket Hall of OCAF, located nine miles outside of Athens at 34 School St. in Watkinsville. For more information, visit www.ocaf.com.

2012 Georgia Pottery Invitational Georgia’s Largest Pottery Event

Aug. 31-Sept 19 • Watkinsville, GA • www.ocaf.com • 706-769-4565

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movie dope Some releases may not be showing locally this week.

• indicates new review 21 JUMP STREET (R) One of 2012’s biggest surprises, this brilliantly dumb comedy pairs star-producer-story contributor Jonah Hill with comedy revelation Channing Tatum as pathetic cops, Schmidt and Jenko, who are transferred to a special undercover unit that sends fresh-faced policemen into local schools to nab drug dealers and the like. Schmidt and Jenko hilariously discover today’s high school has turned upside-down since their experience.

Former cool kid Jenko is banished with the nerds, while Schmidt experiences what it’s like to be popular.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (R) The historically playful Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter gets most things right until it whiffs on a tremendously silly climax that involves the 16th president personally overseeing a secret mission to save the Union Army at Gettysburg. Unfortunately, Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of the book upon which AL:VH is based, is proving far less resourceful as a screenwriter than as a historical revisionist (see Dark Shadows). A quick perusal of the book’s plot reveals a much more believable retelling of the Lincoln mythology; the movie not so much. k THE APPARITION (PG-13) Blah blah hot couple (“Gossip Girl”’s Sebastian Stan and Twilight’s Ashley Greene) blah blah haunted blah blah supernatural entity. A guy named Marti Matulis is credited as the titular Apparition in writer-director Todd Lincoln’s feature debut. The flick does have some horror pedigree; cinematographer Daniel Pearl worked on Tobe Hooper’s genre-defining The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and composers tomandandy gave good horror beats in The Strangers. Harry Potter’s nemesis Draco Malfoy, er, Tom Felton also stars.

BACK TO THE FUTURE (PG) 1985. Still one of the most popular blockbusters from the 1980s, Robert Zemeckis’s comic time-traveling adventure stars Michael J. Fox in the midst of his Alex P. Keaton heyday.

Powered by Fox, Christopher Lloyd’s manic Doc Brown, the unpredictable Crispin Glover and the lovely Lea Thompson, Back to the Future is timeless. Followed by two sequels, the second of which I prefer. Winner of one Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing (Huey Lewis was robbed).

• BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (PG-13) Filmmaker Benh Zeitlan’s feature debut certainly lives up to its sky-high expectations. Six-yearold Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) lives in the Bathtub, a tiny community beyond the levee with her daddy, Wink (Dwight Henry). As Wink grows weaker from illness, the only world Hushpuppy has ever known starts to crumble.

First come the rains, then the people that live on the dry land and finally the mythical, recently thawed aurochs.

Still, Hushpuppy fights and survives.

This fantastical tale unfolds in a harsh world that feels so realistic the film could be mistaken for a documentary.

Zeitlan, who also co-wrote the pulsing, string-heavy score, captures the ruthlessness of rural poverty without the assumed pandering. Newcomers Wallis and Henry dominate the non-professional cast; their absence from the field come awards season will be stunning

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and heartbreaking. The film deserves to be this year’s Oscar dark horse. I have seen nearly 100 films in theaters this year, and not a single one of them has offered an emotional, imaginative, narrative experience approaching Beasts of the Southern Wild. Such a rare, singular cinematic moment is rare in this day of sequels, reboots and readymade blockbusters. Go see this film now.

• THE BOURNE LEGACY (PG-13) Tony Gilroy has been scripting exceptional Bourne films for a decade now. His first time directing one plays exactly like his previous two directing efforts (Michael Clayton and Duplicity), well-crafted but unexciting.

Matt Damon’s unseen Jason Bourne is on the run, but another enhanced secret agent, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner, who’s an adequate replacement for Damon), is in the crosshairs of some nasty government spooks, sociopathically led by Edward Norton.

Cross and pretty scientist, Marta Shearing (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz), travels across the globe to find the means to permanently enhance the superspy’s mental abilities. This admirable, modern action franchise has always lacked in the fun department (I’ve never wanted to rewatch a Bourne); now it misses Paul Greengrass’ kinetic, athletic, handheld style. Legacy is more desk jockeying than spy gaming.

• THE CAMPAIGN (R) One expects big laughs from a Will Ferrell-Zack Galifianakis political comedy, but one merely hopes for a sharp enough satirical framework to build upon. Austin Powers director Jay Roach, has honed his political teeth on HBO’s “Recount” and “Game Change” and provides the proper support for Ferrell/Galifianakis’s silly showdown as North Carolina congressional candidates. Ferrell’s helmet-haired Democratic incumbent Cam Brady, loosely based on John Edwards, peddles to the “America, Jesus and freedom” crowd as he takes on Galifianakis’s oddball Republican challenger, Marty Huggins (His pants!

His sweaters! His run!). Both comics are at their recent best; Ferrell had time to hone his Southern shtick on “Eastbound & Down,” and Galifianakis was born in NC. But the real meat of this comedy is how serious it is about campaign finance reform. .

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG-13) Fanboy expectations of all-time greatness aside, The Dark Knight Rises concludes filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy as satisfyingly as one can hope. A brilliant blockbuster, TDKR cannot best its immediate predecessor; the three-quel lacks the Ledger zeitgeist and shockingly needs more Batman. Still, The Dark Knight Rises darkly comic-bookends the movie summer that blissfully began with Joss Whedon’s candy coated Avengers. I’m sad Nolan’s time in Gotham is over.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS (PG) The formula still entertains but has grown increasingly worn in the third movie in the unlikely Wimpy Kid franchise, based on the bestselling books by Jeff Kinney. As the school year gives way to summer, Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) again proves a poor son—though not as bad as older bro, Rodrick (Devon Bostick)—and an

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even poorer friend to the series’ best character, Rowley (Robert Capron), who invites Greg on daily trips to the country club and his family’s big vacation.

The movie, as a whole, is not as good as its predecessors.

• THE EXPENDABLES 2 (R) This sequel sharpens its blunt bludgeon of a predecessor by promoting Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis (who, let’s be honest, knows he does not belong in these movies) to slightly more than glorified cameos and adding Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme. The title is honest; the main team of Expendables—save Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham—is expendable, slowing the brisk flick whenever tasked with doing more than blowing the heads off a nameless opposing army. The nominal plot involves a mission of vengeance after JCVD’s Eurotrash villain, Vilain (yep, that’s how it’s spelled), kills the youngest, prettiest, newest Expendable.

For no narrative reason, fellow mercs Trench (Ah-nuld, who still has that unfathomable screen appeal) and Booker (Norris) show up along the way

Ryan Hansen (“Veronica Mars” and “Party Down”) and David Koechner— could be fun.

HOPE SPRINGS (PG-13) If older people talking about and having sex makes you uncomfortable, skip Hope Springs. But if you want a mature, intimate romantic dramedy about an ailing, aging marriage, warmly and realistically portrayed by two consummate professionals, you will find no other film this summer that comes close to Hope Springs.

THE HUNGER GAMES (PG-13) While a successful adaptation of a difficult book that near everyone has read, The Hunger Games has little cinematic spark. It’s a visual book report that merely summarizes the plot.

It’s well-written, but still a book report.

Seabiscuit director Gary Ross was not the most obvious choice to direct this dystopian adventure in which 24 teenagers are randomly selected for a contest in which only one will survive.

ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Manny (v. Ray Romano), Diego (v. Denis Leary) and Sid (v. John Leguizamo) return in a fourth adven-

It beats living in the dorms. to assist the Expendables when they’re in trouble and wind up brightening the movie with more personality and wit, despite their witless dialogue, than regulars Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews or Randy Couture. With a climactic mano-a-mano showdown between Sly and JCVD that is the absolute apotheosis of mindless action, this sequel is the superior guilty pleasure in every way except one. No Eric Roberts.

GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT (NR) 1947. This Best Picture winner pits Gregory Peck, in a role for which he was nominated for his third Academy Award, against anti-Semitism as a reporter who experiences bigotry and hatred while posing as a Jew for a story. The film also won Elia Kazan a Best Director trophy and Celeste Holm a Best Supporting Actress prize. This special screening is sponsored by the Athens Jewish Film Festival and features light snacks from The National and a post-film discussion led by Ciné’s Gabriel Wardell.

HIT & RUN (R) Dax Shepard, who has found his groove on NBC’s excellent “Parenthood,” wrote and codirected this romantic action comedy about a former getaway driver named Charlie Bronson, who is in Witness Protection.

He jeopardizes his new identity to help his girlfriend get to Los Angeles. The cast—Shepard’s real life girlfriend Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper, Kristen Chenoweth, Beau Bridges, Michael Rosenbaum (“Smallville”’s Lex Luthor),

ture, which is good news for the millions not waiting for this fatigued franchise to go extinct. This kiddie flick is only for children that don’t want to watch Madagascar 3 again.

THE INTOUCHABLES (R) 2011. The extremely popular French film is based on the book “You Changed My Life” by Abdel Sellou. A wealthy, wheelchairbound man hires a man from the slums to be his caretaker, eventually forming a lifelong bond between them as they share their cultures and viewpoints.

It’s the highest-grossing non-English language movie ever.

MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (PG) By now, franchise fans know what to expect from the adventures of Alex the lion (v.

Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (v. Chris Rock), Melman the giraffe (v. David Schwimmer) and Gloria the hippo (v.

Jada Pinkett Smith). No one should be coming into Madagascar 3 blind.

This third entry proffers more cute fun in a long first act chase than either of its predecessors, and that’s before any of the appealing new characters are introduced.

MANKILLERS (R) 1987. Ciné’s Bad Movie Night presents Mankillers, AKA 12 Wild Women. Presumed dead CIA agent Rachel McKenna (Lynda Aldon) assembles the roughest, toughest gang of death row ladies she can to take down rogue agent Mickland (William Zipp), who is working for a Colombian drug cartel. Starting in 1983, writer-

director David A. Prior continues to produce awful, cheap, generically titled actioners. Who isn’t gung-ho for a late’80s, hot lady Dirty Dozen with Russ Meyer regular Edy Williams?

MEN IN BLACK III (PG-13) Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones reprise their roles as Agent J and Agent K. Apparently, Smith’s J time travels back to 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his partner, whose younger version is played by Josh Brolin.

Director Barry Sonnenfeld returns and could really use a hit. With Alice Eve, Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson and Bill Hader as Andy Warhol.

NITRO CIRCUS (PG-13) One lady and several bros with a lot of gumption film themselves performing extreme sports stunts, like Jackass with real injuries and without the sadistic friends. Nitro Circus has been featured as a reality TV show with stunts including BMX challenges and base-jumping • THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (PG) From an odd, sweet place, Frank Zappa’s son Ahmet, comes The Odd Life of Timothy Green, though the locale is familiar to screenwriterdirector Peter Hedges, who adapted his own novel What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? for director Lasse Hallstrom, who must have been busy as this project seems tailor-made for his sentimental modern fairy tales. Before finally accepting their barren existence, Cindy and Jim Green (Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton) put all their wishes for a child in a box and bury them in their fertile garden.

After a freak storm, the Greens have a new arrival, 10-year-old, leaf-legged Timothy (CJ Adams). Desiring to right all the wrongs of their own childhoods, Cindy and Jim attempt to give Timothy the perfect adolescence. The Odd Life of Timothy Green might appeal more to kind-hearted, older kids, thanks to Adams’ cute but not cutesy Timothy, despite its being an above average parenting fable.

• PARANORMAN (PG) This marvelous, family horror flick is the writingdirecting debut of Corpse Bride/ Coraline storyboard artist Chris Butler, whose time apprenticing under Tim Burton and Henry Selick was wellspent. For my genre-tainted money, it bests Pixar’s Brave as the year’s best animated feature. I was smitten from its Grindhouse opening well through the closing credits scored to The White Stripes’ “Little Ghost.” This hip, stop-motion animated feature pulls no punches like ‘80s kiddie adventure and horror movies like Goonies and Something Wicked This Way Comes; the tale of a sweet, 11-year-old, oddball named Norman (v. Cody Smit-McPhee, The Road) is a perfect first scary movie for the son or daughter of a diehard horror fan. Norman’s battle to stop a 300-year-old witch from destroying his town (which climaxes in the bravest act I’ve witnessed in recent animation) is filled with real scares (of the PG variety), smart nods to slasher classics like Halloween and Friday the 13th, atypical character design and suffers from a trailer that unfortunately undersells that it’s an honest-to-god horror flick.

PREMIUM RUSH (PG-13) A Manhattan bike messenger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) picks up an envelope that puts him in the sights of a dirty cop (Michael Shannon). A citywide chase ensues. This team up of GordonLevitt and Shannon excites me more

than the last De Niro-Pacino summit (Righteous Kill).

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (PG-13) 2012’s second Snow White movie (she was also a television star on ABC’s “Once Upon a Time”) tweaks the fairy tale with the pale beauty (Kristen Stewart, Twilight) and the huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, Thor), sent by Charlize Theron’s Evil Queen to kill her, instead teaming up to overthrow her majesty. Director Rupert Sanders is an unknown entity; thankfully, the cast includes the familiar faces of Toby Jones, Ian McShane, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost and Bob Hoskins.

Written by Drive’s Hossein Amini.

• SPARKLE (PG-13) This good old-fashioned movie musical retells a very familiar tale (that’s honestly not too far removed from Dreamgirls) but does so with toe-tapping music and solid performances from “American Idol” champ Jordin Sparks and Derek Luke (among others). Three sisters— Sparkle (Sparks), Sister (Carmen Ejogo) and Dee (Tika Sumpter)—from Detroit find success as a musical act, but drugs and abusive relationships (does Mike Epps even know what nuance means?) tear them apart, pretty much like their holier than thou mother (Whitney Houston, in her final performance, which also marks her first time on screen since 1996’s The Preacher’s Wife), a failed singer, told them it would. The original, seemingly forgotten Sparkle starred Irene Cara, was cowritten by Joel Schumacher (?!) and featured future En Vogue hits, “(Giving Him) Something He Can Feel” and “Hooked on Your Love.” Not as ambitious as Dreamgirls, the new Sparkle hits the right, albeit imitative, notes but will probably only be remembered as Whitney’s last appearance.

STEP UP REVOLUTION (PG-13) Let’s go ahead and get the criticisms out of the way. The acting and story are crap. Emily (Kathryn McCormick from “So You Think You Can Dance”), a professional dancer comes to Miami and falls for Sean (Ryan Guzman, the series’ latest C-Tates knockoff), who leads a local dance crew. Too bad, Sean and his gang’s neighborhood are being threatened by a development planned by Emily’s father (the eyebrows of Peter Gallagher).

TED (R) I’m not sure what it says about Ted, the funny feature debut of “Family Guy” creator Seth McFarlane, that I, an admitted “Family Guy” detractor, laughed more than anyone else in the theater. Despite the overflowing gay jokes and some poor setups, the fairy tale of 35-year-old John (Mark Wahlberg) and Ted (v. McFarlane), the teddy bear he was given on Christmas Day 1985 that came to life via wish, hits the mark more than it misses so long as the talking teddy is involved.

TOTAL RECALL (PG-13) The new Total Recall won’t satisfy anyone.

Fans of the original will wonder why anyone would choose to watch an ugly, uninspired action/sci-fi flick that’s one Dylan McDermott away from a Syfy special event; those unfortunates who have never seen the original will wonder why anyone would bother remaking it.

WHERE THE YELLOWSTONE GOES (NR) The longest undammed river in the lower 48 is traversed over a 30-day drift boat trip that features meetings with colorful locals from both the big cities and the small towns.

Start at the Gateway to Montana’s Yellowstone National Park and float on to Buford, ND, with fly fishing guide and fourth generation Montana native Robert Hawkins. The film was an Official Selection of the Newport Beach Film Festival. Filmmaker Hunter Weeks (10 MPH and Ride the Divide) will be present to take part in a Q&A. Drew Wheeler

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The Reason for the Season

flagpole's fall concert preview all means a lot of things in Athens: school, football, exponentially more enjoyable weather patterns and, perhaps most importantly, a dramatic increase in the amount of high-profile concerts. Each year we at Flagpole make it our mission to cobble together a list of the most anticipated shows of the season so you can go ahead and put ‘em on your calendar.

From buzzy indie acts to tie-dyed jam standbys to legends of the rock and roll guard, there’s a little bit of everything coming through town over the next few months. Unless you want to be the lamer that misses it all, start saving for tickets now!

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Things get crazy in September. Like, Octomom-crazy. The month starts off with a bang, when the former Athenians of Azure Ray (Caledonia Lounge, 9/6) return to their old stomping grounds with copies of their new album, As Above So Below, in tow. And hey, remember Drivin’ N Cryin’ (Georgia Theatre, 9/14)? Frontman Kevn Kinney’s famed rock band will blow the roof off the Theatre in September. (Hopefully not literally. That place has been through enough.)

Tycho and The Album Leaf (Georgia Theatre, 9/15) will bring the ambient techno and electro-rock vibes, respectively.

Pysch-punks Jaill (Farm 255, 9/16) will play a good ol’ Sunday show at Farm. In the wake of their first band releases since 2004, the Ohioan indie-rock miscreants in Guided By Voices (40 Watt Club, 9/18) will bless us with their raucous presence once again.

The North Mississippi Allstars (Georgia Theatre, 9/19) will groove on some real Southern rock. Alt-country heroes The Handsome Family (Melting Point, 9/20) will delight with their sly downer-folk. Hometown hotshots The Whigs (Georgia Theatre, 9/21) celebrate the release of their brand-new album, Enjoy the Company, with a special Athens performance. Pujol (Georgia Theatre, 9/18) will garage-punk the hell out of your eardrums. And Quintron and Miss Pussycat (Farm 255, 9/20) will confuse the hell out of any Farm passers-by.

The Mad Violinist (New Earth Music Hall, 9/21) will jam on his violin with hip-hop and dubstep aplomb. For those into the funky-junky jam scene (yeah, you with the moccasins), you’ll be pleased to hear that Louisiana’s Galactic (Georgia Theatre, 9/22) is returning to our city to beam you back onto its funkrock-hop hybrid mothership. (Probing not included in ticket price.) For aging, erstwhile pop-punk fanatics yearning for a return to the Warped Tour-studded days of yore, The Ataris (Caledonia Lounge, 9/26) come to town for a make-up of their scheduled February show.

Speaking of punk, the city will be sufficiently rocked by the pretty damn spectacular triple bill of OFF!, Negative Approach and Double Negative (40 Watt Club, 9/29), where rock will be rocked, many alcoholic drinks will be drunk and the swirling circle pit will hopefully not cause the floor to open up, revealing that the darkest depths of hell are actually concealed right underneath the 40 Watt. Hopefully!

getting old? James McMurtry and Joe Pug (Melting Point, 10/6) will prove that two gritty, evocative singer-songwriters are better than one. And Gonjasufi (New Earth Music Hall, 10/11) will rap in that weird, creepy, kinda-awesome voice of his.

Whoa! GZA and Killer Mike (Georgia Theatre, 10/13): same stage, same night, the former performing his classic Liquid Swords in its entirety, and the latter basking in the afterglow of his stellar new album, R.A.P. Music. Meanwhile, the violintinged chamber-pop of the lauded Andrew Bird (Georgia Theatre, 10/5) will inspire some self-conscious, introspective semi-dancing; the Latin/world-beat grooves of Antibalas (40 Watt Club, 10/6) will make many booties shake; and the bluegrass-jam stylings of the talented but horribly named Leftover Salmon (Georgia Theatre, 10/9) will start many UGA-capped heads a-noddin’. Mutemath (40 Watt Club, 10/11) brings its electro-tinged rock to the 40 Watt. Huzzah!

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OCTOBER Home of Halloween, the “Georgia-Florida World’s Largest Outdoor Binge-Drinking Contest Oh Shit I Totally Forgot There’s a Football Game” cocktail party and a formidable list of scheduled performers, October promises to be a doozy.

Indielectro mainstays The Octopus Project (Melting Point, 10/1) return to town. Legendary session man/Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell (Georgia Theatre, 10/2) comes ramblin’ around. Glitchy superstar The Polish Ambassador (New Earth Music Hall, 10/2) will bump some mad crazy beats for your spastic body movements. Local punks Muuy Biien (Caledonia Lounge, 10/5) will mark the official physical release of their stellar new album with a blowout show at Caledonia. White Rabbits (40 Watt Club, 10/5) are 2000s indie-rock to a tee, so wear your skinny jeans and blah blah aren’t hipster jokes

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That same night, comedy fans can see Wanda Sykes’ (Classic Center, 10/11) outrageous stand-up act. Tennis’ (40 Watt Club, 10/10) precious indie-pop is makin’ serious waves in tastemaking circles; that group’s show should be packed with ebullient, fresh-faced WUOG staffers. The Melvins (40 Watt Club, 10/13) bring their sludgy, grunge-y, detuned metal back to our neck of the woods; that show should be packed with smelly, overweight townie types. Let’s hope those two shows don’t get mixed up, Freaky Friday-style. Imagine the hijinks!

The list continues. Athens-based folk-country songstress Lera Lynn (Georgia Theatre, 10/20) will play to an appreciative hometown crowd. The lovely Kathleen Edwards (Melting Point,

10/23) brings her similarly tinted music to town. Pop-punkers Say Anything (40 Watt Club, 10/24) are celebrating the return of original lead singer Max Bemis and a new album. Meanwhile, venerable country-folkie Patty Griffin (Melting Point, 10/22) blesses us with her timeless radiance.

Wow, October’s huge! It concludes with a pair of bigguns at the 40 Watt: First, Anticon founder Yoni Wolf’s excellent, genre-spanning group Why? (40 Watt Club, 10/25) will ring in the release of its new album, Mumps, Etc. A couple days later, Athens post-rock institution Maserati (40 Watt Club, 10/27) commemorates its hotly anticipated new record, Maserati VII.

NOVEMBER OK, so a lot of shows from November onward are no doubt still in the works. Venue owners are making calls, promoters are sealing back room deals and bands are all coy, like, “Maybe we’ll play, maybe we won’t.” Trust that there will be a steady stream of newly announced shows as the next couple months progress.

For now, there are a few notables to point out. Locals Futurebirds (Georgia Theatre, 11/1) will headline a hot one.

San Francisco noise purveyors The Soft Moon (Caledonia, 11/7) will perform. Del the Funky Homosapien (New Earth Music Hall, 11/9) will inject us with a needed dose of deep hip-hop. Fragmented Bay Area popsters Deerhoof (40 Watt Club, 11/10) will return, to the delight of local music nerds galore, many of whom are already planning which obscure B-sides and ironic covers they’ll shout for in-between songs.

Marco Benevento (New Earth Music Hall, 11/10) brings his experimental jazz piano to town. The fluid, funky jam overlords of Perpetual Groove (Georgia Theatre, 11/15) will help their audience get their, uh, groove back. And comedian Louis C.K. (Classic Center, 11/30) will perform not one but two shows the very same night, to the delight of everyone, everywhere, because doesn’t it seem like everyone is always talking about Louis C.K. these days? It’s probably because he’s very good at what he does. Still, it’s enough already.

That’s that! Of course, this is only a fraction of the hundreds of nightly events you can expect to encounter this fall in the Classic City. Choosing how many of them, and which ones, you’re going to see can be a daunting task for psyche and wallet alike. But let’s all thank our lucky stars we live in a place where such veritable Sophie’s Choice-style personal entertainment decision-making is even possible. Yay, variety!

Gabe Vodicka

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Contributing players on McIntoshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compositions included Derek Almstead, Kris Deason, Andy Gonzales, Jeremy Thal, Eric Harris, Jeremy Wheatley, Pete Erchick and John Lindaman. For more information on the score and to check out some samples, see milanrecords.com. For film info, head over to magpictures.com/compliance. I really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I can wait to see this.

Ancient Soundtracks: The soundtrack to the 1987 film Athens, Ga: Inside/Out has just been re-released for what feels like the billionth time. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got music from R.E.M., The Squalls, Time Toy, Pylon, Dreams So Real, Bar-B-Q Killers and more. Significantly, though, there are some bonus tracks on the CD that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear the first time around, even though they were featured in the film. These include Love Tractorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s versions of Marvin Gayeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Got to Give It Up,â&#x20AC;? The Stoogesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Search and Destroyâ&#x20AC;? and The Rolling Stonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shattered,â&#x20AC;? with Pete Buck (R.E.M.) on guitar. So, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a thing right there, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it? The full DVD release of the film is packaged with the soundtrack, and the pair will run you about 25 bucks. All things considered, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty nice release, the perfect gift for that ancient former scenester who hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bought any new records since 1990 and never lets you forget how great â&#x20AC;&#x153;the old daysâ&#x20AC;? were. This set will be released Oct. 9 through Omnivore Recordings, and you can pre-order via omnivorerecordings.com.

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Shine It Up: Rat Babies have made their first ever official music video for the track â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thunder Swampâ&#x20AC;? from the record Bad Men. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a creepy, doom-y, 10-minute-plus thing with a whole bunch of swamp footage and a dead body. I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spoil it for youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just go watch it at youtube.com/user/ ratbabiesband. If you want to check out the new album, head over to ratbabies.bandcamp.com, where you can actually spend a good part of your day digging through seven of the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s releases. Although Bad Men has been out for well over a year, this video emerged only a couple of weeks ago. Ergo, everything old is new again, and the big wheel keeps on turning.

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New Views: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new video out from the Emergent Heart project, an ongoing collaboration between musicians with a focus on suicide prevention and awareness. The track is called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Burning the Books,â&#x20AC;? and the video, shot by philosopher and photographer Joey Carter, features footage from the wedding of Fulbright scholar and visual artist Marie Porterfield Barry. The scenes were culled from Carterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film Specters of Appalachia. Learn more about the project via emergentheart.com or follow them at facebook.com/emergentheart.

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Epic Soundtracks: Longtime Athenian mainstay (and current Los Angeles resident) Heather McIntosh composed the original score for the new film Compliance. The film, written and directed by Craig Zobel (Great World of Sound, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Homestar Runnerâ&#x20AC;?), is a harrowing true-events tale bearing the tagline â&#x20AC;&#x153;When a prank caller convinces a fast food restaurant manager to interrogate an innocent young employee, no one is left unharmed.â&#x20AC;?

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Wrap It Up: I talk a lot about bands in this column, obviously, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to remember that Athens has a veritable treasure trove of supporting industries in town. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been meaning to mention Pretty Road Cases for months, but havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t gotten around to it until now. These guys build custom instrument and equipment road cases right here in town and have built for Drive-by Truckers, R.E.M., Alabama Shakes, Silent Events and more. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never owned anything nice enough to bother with a road case, but you might; they even make cases to carry vinyl. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re curious, go give â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em a look at prettyroadcases.com or see them in person at Wuxtry Records.

Keepinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; On: Modern Skirts continue to ply their trade. Most recently, the band recorded a session for popular website Daytrotter, and there are six tracks available over there.

In other news, the band just launched a new website at modernskirts.com. I never really looked at their old website, so I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different about this one. I can say it looks good, though, and has lots of big photos and important-looking stuff. The group next plays locally at the Georgia Theatre on Aug. 31, where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be joined by Grass Giraffes and The Darnell Boys.

Apologies: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to personally apologize to former Manray member Gene Woolfolk for misspelling his name in a column that ran a couple of weeks back. It was really stupid of me, especially considering Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve written it about a million times. I know this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really news, but I like to correct things when I can.

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Neil Hamburger , The Questionable Comedy of America s Funnyman

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eil Hamburger has been making audiences react, one way or another, for over 15 years. With his terrible tuxedo, worse comb-over and a delivery that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite exude confidence, Hamburger rarely ellicits any audience reaction outside of sheer disgust. He still has a sizable fanbase, and if you attend his 40 Watt performance, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see why. Flagpole caught him in between shows.

sour look on their face, basically throwing daggers at me with their eyes. And that can feel like the most hostile crowd youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever had in your life. Surly, unhappy, dissatisfied customers just glaring at you for 45 minutes, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s awfully unpleasant, I have to say.

FP: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re as successful as youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever been, at this point. Would you say thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true?

youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on television, etc. So much of your act is based on poking fun at celebrities. Have you ever had the misfortune of running into the celebrities whom youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve mocked in your act?

NH: Well, I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been on television in several years, but thanks for saying that.

Yes, I did run into Mr. Dane Cook at a bar. He surprised me by coming up and speaking with me. I had no idea that he was thereâ&#x20AC;Ś He was

Flagpole: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re known as one of the hardest-touring comedians out there. Do you still try to perform most nights?

Neil Hamburger: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that I try to, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that I have to. Because of the situation involving overwhelming debt, impending bankruptcy, lawsuits, alimonyâ&#x20AC;Ś When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got people breathing down your neck who insist on getting paidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and these guys, a lot of them are pretty convincing about thatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really no choice but to keep working.

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NH: Well, I would say that if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at quantity of hostility, you would have to take the bigger shows that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done. There was one at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney, where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about, oh, geez, at least 30,000 peopleâ&#x20AC;Ś very hostile, throwing lots of things at the stage, a really unpleasant situation. Whilst the show that I did at Madison Square Garden with Tenacious D, where they were chanting â&#x20AC;&#x153;assholeâ&#x20AC;? at me for the whole half-hour, I mean, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty hostile. But when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at it on a personal level, I would have to say the worst shows for hostility are the ones where someone comes up onstage and physically attacks youâ&#x20AC;Ś Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly going to be a memorable evening when somebody smashes something over your head or that type of thing, and police are summoned, and arrests are madeâ&#x20AC;Ś I guess it depends on what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done shows for two people where they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t throw anythingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they just sat at the table with a

NH: Well, in that we do have audiences at the shows, which is quite nice. But unfortunately, due to a situation I got myself in during the leaner periods, my pay has been garnished by these former management types and some of the unscrupulous booking people I used to deal with, and certain attorneys and certain ex-wives. Basically, the more that I make, the more that they make, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m on a very restrictive salaryâ&#x20AC;Ś barely above sustenance level. I could play quite a big venue and it could seem like a triumph, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only a triumph to those who I owe money to.

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very cordial, and expressed his sadness that I felt this way about himâ&#x20AC;Ś And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little sad, because he was a nice guy. But we will still do the jokes. I mean, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotta keep the act moving. And getting laughs from the folks that paid their good money to be entertained that evening, and they expect nothing more than the jokes they paid to hear, delivered in a style that can help them forget their problemsâ&#x20AC;Ś Because a lot of it is people with problems trying to get away from their problems for the night, and just laugh their fool heads off and have some fun. I mean, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why you go out on the town, am I correct?

NH: And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to supply.

I do apologize [to] some of the celebrities, but honestly, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s their fuckinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; problem? I mean, these guys can hear me make fun of them in front of 75 people for $1.50 and then they can go back to their mansions and have caviar on toast and count their bags of money that they have to rent an extra room in the mansion just to storeâ&#x20AC;Ś What does it matter if I go on a stage and say they look like a fraud?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be happy to be called names all day long if it would mean that I would have a room full of cash at home. So, I think these people need to fuck themselves if they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take a gag like that.

FP: How do you know Todd Barry?

NH: We met in line at a Walgreens many years ago, and stayed in touch. It was a very slow cashier, and it was kind of a traumatic situation in which a line that should have taken, you know, three or four minutes to get through ended up taking 20 or 30â&#x20AC;Ś So, all of us in this line stayed in touch over the yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;cards and lettersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;then it moved into the digital age with emails and that sort of thing, and we have a reunion every once in a while and talk about the incident. And so when Todd and I both realized we were in a similar line of work, it made sense to pair up and bring what we feel is the best variety evening of entertainment on the market todayâ&#x20AC;Ś which is exactly why weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve brought this act, and always to great acclaimâ&#x20AC;Ś We feel that this is a very solid night out.

Jeff Tobias Read the rest of Flagpoleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chat with Neil Hamburger and a Q&A with Todd Barry at Flagpole.com.

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easy Riders The Drive-By Truckers Slow Down (For Now) O

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ver the years, the Drive-By Truckers’ seemingly nonstop touring and recording schedule has become as much a part of the band’s identity as the spirited Southern rock that has long pulsed through its veins. But recently, that identity has shifted. With last year’s Go-Go Boots, the Truckers tamed the rock and roll beast, instead steering toward the soulful sounds of their North Alabama heritage.

With slower music came a slower pace. After the Go-Go Boots tour (the last bit of which saw the departure of longtime bassist Shonna Tucker, who left the Truckers abruptly in December), things came to a halt.

“We’ve been on the road, essentially nonstop, since ‘96,” says frontman Patterson Hood. “We all have families, and we’ve just been on the road too long. I don’t want it to get where it’s not fun, and not special.”

Road-worn and creatively weary, the Truckers decided to take it easy. But radio silence didn’t mean inaction. For Hood, a born songwriter, time apart from the band meant space to pursue other endeavors. On Sept. 11, he will release his first solo album in three years, the literarily titled Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance, a new collection of vibrant, gothic country-rock. “[I]t’s totally different with the solo project,” he says. “It’s a different band, a different energy. In a lot of ways, it’s harder work for me; I’m doing more heavy lifting. I don’t have [guitarists Mike] Cooley on one side and [John] Neff on the other.”

And of course, there was “After It’s Gone,” the geographical love letter/ big-box protest tune Hood recorded with his hastily assembled group The Downtown 13. (“It was a really special weekend,” Hood says about the session, which featured Mike Mills, John Bell and Lera Lynn.) The song, written in response to a planned downtown Walmart, made national headlines and sparked a discussion about the threat of cultural homogenization.

“I love downtown Athens,” Hood explains. “We’ve got something really special and really unique here, and I think putting something of that size and that scale right in the middle of what we’ve already got [would] disrupt a delicate balance.”

The Truckers’ love for their adopted hometown is obvious.

Hiatus be damned, they will set up shop this weekend for their annual multi-night stand. Once a 40 Watt staple, this year will be the second in a row that the revitalized Georgia Theatre plays host. But the yearly event does more than just energize the townies; it also exposes Athens to a slew of eager outsiders.

“Probably 75 percent of the audience at those shows comes in from out of town,” says Hood. “And those people fall in love with [Athens]. We’re the excuse for coming, maybe, but it’s become more than that.”

Regardless of that bit of modesty, the Truckers’ show ain’t a half-bad reason for folks to come to town.

“Us having a little bit of time off has only really made it better,” Hood says. “It’s like running a marathon while you’re singing, ‘cause it’s pretty highenergy. Once you get up there, it’s like an explosion of chaos. We don’t do a set-list. You never really know where it’s gonna go, or what it’s gonna do.”

Likewise, where it goes from here is somewhat of a mystery, even to those involved. Hood will embark on a solo tour in September with local folkie favorites Hope for Agoldensummer along for about a month. But what of the Truckers? Despite this relative flurry of activity, Hood says the band’s future is still largely uncertain.

“I don’t wanna tour much until we make another record, and I don’t know when that’s gonna be.”

Still, as the underlying uniqueness of Athens will endure even in the face of a thousand Walmarts, fans can take comfort in the fact that the Truckers will rebel against indefinite stagnation. “I don’t know when the Truckers will be making another record,” Hood says. “But we will. We definitely will. I’ve got some pretty good songs here.”

Gabe Vodicka Read our entire conversation with Patterson Hood at Flagpole.com.

WHO: Drive-By Truckers, Jay Gonzalez and the Guilty Pleasures WHERE: Georgia Theatre WHEN: Thursday, Aug. 23 & Friday, Aug. 24 HOW MUCH: $25 (Friday show is SOLD OUT)

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Tuesday 21 COMEDY: Doug Stanhope (Georgia Theatre) Stand-up comedian with material ranging from true-life graphic perversion to volatile social criticism. Nate Mitchell hosts. 8 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com COMEDY: OpenTOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Voted by Flagpole’s readers as Athens’ “favorite comedy night” in 2011 and 2012, this comedy show allows locals to watch quality comedy or perform themselves. Email to perform. First and third Tuesday of every month! 9 p.m. FREE! (performers), $5. calebsynan@yahoo.com, www.flickertheatreandbar.com EVENTS: West Broad Market Garden Produce Stand (West Broad Market Garden, 1573 W. Broad St.) Seasonal and naturally grown produce. Cash paying neighbors of the West Broad Garden get a 30% discount on produce. EBT payments will be accepted in the future.

Tuesdays, 5–8 p.m. & Saturdays, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

EVENTS: Shape-Note Singing (Athens First United Methodist) Monthly traditional singing of shape-note music from The Sacred Harp (1991 ed.). Beginners welcome. Park in church lot on Hancock Ave. Books available to borrow or buy on site. 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706353-4378, www.fasola.org EVENTS: Georgia Theatre: The Finished Product (Georgia Theatre) Meet owner Wil Greene on the rooftop for a tour of the venue and happy hour. Email to RSVP. 5:30 p.m. FREE! (members), $10. athenaeumclub@gmail.com FILM: Gentleman’s Agreement (Ciné) A 1947 controversial drama about a journalist who poses as a Jew in order to conduct research for a national magazine publisher on anti-Semitism. Post-film discussion led by Ciné’s executive director, Gabriel Wardell. Light snacks will be provided before the screening

by The National at 5 p.m. 5 p.m.

FREE! www.athenscine.com, www. athensjff.org GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub ) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (Chango’s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles.

Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706546-0015 GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack) (College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050

GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 OUTDOORS: Gardening at Night (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Water, weed and harvest by the light of the moon. Discussions on lunar planting, biodynamics and plant lore. 6-8 p.m. FREE! www.botgarden. uga.edu SPORTS: Street Hockey (YMCA) Street Hockey (on foot, no blades) for all skill levels. Every Tuesday and Thursday. 6:30 p.m. FREE! athensfloorhockey@gmail.com

Wednesday 22 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the museum’s collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo) (Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www. indigoathens.com EVENTS: Open Mic Night (Ten Pins Tavern) Hip-hop, spoken word, rock, singer-songwriters, DJs, jugglers, bellydancers, comedy, poetry, ballet—if you can do it, we want to see it! Hosted by Amy Neese. 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-8090 EVENTS: Farmers Market (790 Gaines School Rd.) Fresh produce, eggs, grass-fed beef, honey, homemade cakes and breads, cut flowers, herbs, jams and relishes. Every Wednesday and Friday. 4–7 p.m.

706-254-2248 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (City Hall/ College Avenue) An afternoon market featuring local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music at every market.

Every Wednesday through the end of October. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night.

8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday night.

7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892

GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Jonathan Thompson. 9 p.m. www.facebook. com/lkshuffleclub GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2–5.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Teen Volunteers Wanted (Oconee County Library) Teenage volunteers are wanted to help make book safes. The finished products will be sold at the annual Oconee County Library Friends book sale to raise money for the Young Adult Department. Snacks provided.

6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Things that Go Storytime (Madison County Library) Fasten your seatbelts! It’s storytime. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Autumn Craft Extravaganza (Rocksprings Park) Create crafts inspired by the wonderful colors of fall. For ages 5–8. 4 p.m. $2. 706-613-3603 LECTURES AND LIT: Community Snapshot: “Art, Healing, Wisdom” (Lyndon House Arts Center) Dr. Rich Panico presents recent paintings in a discussion that weaves art, healing and timeless wisdom. 12:30 p.m. FREE! www. boomersinathens.org LECTURES AND LIT: The People’s Law School (The Classic Center) (Willow Room) The People’s Law School takes the mystery out of everyday legal issues like divorce and child custody, products liability, criminal law, automobile insurance and more. Speakers include UGA law professors. Call to reserve seat.

6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-6111

Thursday 23 ART: Drawing in the Galleries (Georgia Museum of Art) Open hours for visitors to sketch in the galleries using graphite or colored pencils. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Genealogy 102: Census Records Online (Oconee County Library) This class covers navigating the genealogy databases Ancestry Library Edition and HeritageQuest Online. Participants must have basic computer skills.

Registration required. 12:30–2 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 CLASSES: Rain Barrel Workshop (Thyme After Thyme) Convert plastic barrels and sturdy trash cans into

Roy Lichtenstein’s serigraph “Finger Pointing” is on display at the GMOA through Oct. 28. rain barrels. Conserve water around your house and reduce stormwater runoff that may impair local streams.

BYOB (Bring your Own Barrel). 4–6 p.m. FREE! (first barrel), $10 (each additional barrel). atedrow@uga.edu COMEDY: Todd Barry, Neil Hamburger, Brendon Walsh (40 Watt Club) A night of highly disparate laughs, featuring the droll stylings of Todd Barry, the pained anti-comedy of Neil Hamburger and the energetic humor of Brendon Walsh. See a Q&A with Neil Hamburger on p. 16. 8 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www.40watt.com EVENTS: Reiki Circle (Healing Arts Centre) A Japanese hands-on technique for stress reduction, relaxation and healing. Every Thursday. 7–8 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-3386843 EVENTS: Cultures and Cuisines (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Six area restaurants feature cuisines celebrating the Spanish-American, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean collections of the International Garden. The Grit, Kumquat Mae Bakery and Cafe, The National, Porterhouse Grill, Square One Fish Co. and Trappeze Pub will offer tastings of dishes complemented by selections from Northeast Sales Distributing and Terrapin Brewery.

Live music will be performed by BotJam, comprised of past and present Garden employees. 7-9 p.m. $30. 706-542-1244 EVENTS: Books for Keeps Sneak Preview Night (Perimeter Square Mall) Get a free tote bag and first pick on all of the books. Allergy Partners of Georgia will match all donations up to $500. Proceeds help purchase new books for local elementary school children. 5–8

p.m. $10. www.booksforkeeps. blogspot.com EVENTS: Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation’s Fall Fun and Friends (UGA Russell Library) Tour galleries, meet staff and explore the collections. A special tour of the underground vault starts at 6:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. achf@bellsouth.net, www.achfonline.org FILM: Where the Yellowstone Goes (Ciné) Documentary film following a 30-day drift boat journey down the longest free flowing river in the lower 48. Q&A with filmmaker Hunter Weeks. 5 & 7 p.m. $10. www. athenscine.com GAMES: Trivia (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (El Azteca) Every Thursday. Check the restaurant’s Facebook page for weekly updated categories. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. tinyurl.com/d5dp2qq KIDSTUFF: Story Time (Avid Bookshop) Come listen to children’s stories read aloud. Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. & Saturdays, 1 p.m. FREE! 706352-2060 LECTURES AND LIT: Poetry Reading (Avid Bookshop) Casey Carter, author of Currents, reads selections from his book of poetry written on the beach. 6:30-7:30 p.m.

FREE! www.avidbookshop.com MEETINGS: Clarke County Democratic Committee Headquarters Grand Opening (Clarke County Democratic Committee Headquarters) The CCDC

celebrates the grand opening of its headquarters with music, food and fun. Speakers include Mike Berlon, Chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia and Nancy Denson, Athens mayor. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-5467075, ccdc.communications@ gmail.com PERFORMANCE: Cirque Motion: Awaken (The Morton Theatre) Contemporary circus featuring dynamic juggling, high-flying acrobatics, balancing, elegant choreography and comedy that use all original material and absurd characters in a unique, real-world office setting. 7:30 p.m. $8–15. 706-6133771, www.mortontheatre.com SPORTS: Street Hockey (YMCA) Street Hockey (on foot, no blades) for all skill levels. Every Tuesday and Thursday. 6:30 p.m. FREE! athensfloorhockey@gmail.com

Friday 24 ART: Pop Up Art Gallery (390 Parkway Dr.) “Unified Dichotomy” features paintings of Athens scenes

by Jamie Calkin and Heidi Hensley.

Teaming with Chastain, Jenkins and Leathers. Includes live music and refreshments. Aug. 24, 5–8 p.m. & Aug. 25, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! www. jamiecalkin.com CLASSES: Hotmail/Live Email for Beginners (Oconee County Library) Learn how to create and use a free Hotmail account. Registration required. 3–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 CLASSES: Google Earth 102 (Oconee County Library) Learn how to navigate Google Earth to find 3D pictures, walk around Atlanta in 3D

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THE CALENDAR! and access the flight simulator. 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 EVENTS: AAPACT Pool Party (Green Acres, 635 Brookwood Dr.) Athens Adoptive Parents and Children Together hosts an endof-summer party for all adoptive families. Hotdogs and refreshments provided. Bring a covered dish to share. RSVP. 5:30–8 p.m. $2 (individual), $6 (family). 770-601-3042, athensadoptivepact@gmail.com EVENTS: Weigh-In Party (Locos Grill & Pub ) (Harris St.) Mingle with martial artists before their big Fight Night at Manor on Aug. 25.

Holman Autry Band will perform.

7 p.m. FREE! EVENTS: Zumba After Dark (40 Watt Club) Zumba fever continues. 7 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com EVENTS: Farmers Market (790 Gaines School Rd.) Fresh produce, eggs, grass-fed beef, honey, homemade cakes and breads, cut flowers, herbs, jams and relishes. Every Wednesday and Friday. 4–7 p.m.

706-254-2248 EVENTS: Books for Keeps Book Sale (Perimeter Square Mall, 10 Huntington Rd, Suite B10 (adjacent to Goodwill)) Tons of titles covering several genres in adult fiction and non-fiction as well as children’s picture and chapter books. Purchases and donations benefit local elementary school students. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. $0.25–$3 (per book). www. booksforkeeps.blogspot.com KIDSTUFF: Fantastic Fridays (Bishop Park) Obstacle courses and other activities in an unstructured environment. For ages 10 months to 4 years. 9–10:30 a.m. or 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. $5–15. 706-613-3589 OUTDOORS: Friday Night Paddles (Sandy Creek Park) Experience nighttime on Lake Chapman and paddle around the moonlit waters.

Every other Friday night through summer. Participants may bring or rent a canoe or kayak. For ages 12 & up. Call to pre-register. 9–11 p.m. $5–12/family. 706-613-3631, www. athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreekpark PERFORMANCE: Viva, Las Vegas! (Seney-Stovall Chapel) The Athens Choral Society performs songs made famous by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Wayne Newton, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis, Barry Manilow and more.

Donations for The Ark accepted at each performance. Aug. 24-25, 7:30 p.m. & Aug. 25–26, 2:30 p.m. $10.

706-546-7446, www.athenschoralsociety.com PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists. 10 p.m. $5. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub THEATRE: Cotton Patch Gospel (The Elbert Theatre) A musical comedy set in rural Georgia about the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, with Baby Jesus being born in Gainesville, GA and Herod serving as the mayor of Atlanta. Aug. 24 & 25, 7:30 p.m. & Aug. 26, 2 p.m. $8–15. www.elberttheatre.org

Saturday 25 ART: Pop Up Art Gallery (390 Parkway Dr.) “Unified Dichotomy” features paintings of Athens scenes

by Jamie Calkin and Heidi Hensley.

Teaming with Chastain, Jenkins and Leathers. Includes live music and refreshments. Aug. 24, 5–8 p.m. & Aug. 25, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! www. jamiecalkin.com

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CLASSES: Beginner Sewing: Make a Tote (Sewcial Studio) Seamstress Norma will show you how to sew a simple tote using a sewing machine. For ages 18 & up.

10 a.m.–1 p.m. $25. 706-247-6143 CLASSES: Plant Conservation (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) This course surveys threats to plant biodiversity in Georgia and worldwide as well as restoration and protection techniques. 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $95–105. www.botgarden. uga.edu CLASSES: SAFE Course (American Black Belt Academy) Sexual Assault Fundamental Escapes is a workshop designed to help you develop skills to evade danger and defend yourself against physical assault. 11 a.m.

FREE! 706-549-1671, www.americanblackbelt.org EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Oconee County Courthouse) Fresh produce, meats and other farm products. Every Saturday. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. www.oconeecountyobservations. blogspot.com EVENTS: Combat Quest 5: Manor Fight Night! (Manor) Watch mixed martial artists battle it out in the cage to determine who is the top dawg in Athens. 6:45 p.m. $15-25. 706-4107527, www.fightnightathens.com EVENTS: Kappa Delta Pi Meet and Greet (Big Dogs on the River) UGA co-ed honors society in education hosts a meet and greet featuring kayaking on the river and a cookout.

10 a.m. $20. 706-353-6002 EVENTS: West Broad Market Garden Produce Stand (West Broad Market Garden, 1573 W. Broad St.) Seasonal and naturally grown produce. Cash paying neighbors of the West Broad Garden get a 30% discount on produce. EBT payments will be accepted in the future.

Tuesdays, 5–8 p.m. & Saturdays, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts.

Live music at every market. Every Saturday through mid-December.

This week features a cooking demonstration with Craig Page. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Books for Keeps Book Sale (Perimeter Square Mall) Tons of titles covering several genres in adult fiction and non-fiction as well as children’s picture and chapter books. Purchases and donations benefit local elementary school students. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. $0.25–2 (per book). www.booksforkeeps. blogspot.com KIDSTUFF: Story Time (Avid Bookshop) Come listen to children’s stories read aloud. Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. & Saturdays, 1 p.m. FREE! 706352-2060 PERFORMANCE: Viva, Las Vegas! (Seney-Stovall Chapel) The Athens Choral Society performs songs made famous by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Wayne Newton, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis, Barry Manilow and more.

Donations for The Ark accepted at each performance. Aug. 24-25, 7:30 p.m. & Aug. 25–26, 2:30 p.m. $10.

706-546-7446, www.athenschoralsociety.com THEATRE: Cotton Patch Gospel (The Elbert Theatre) A musical comedy set in rural Georgia about the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, with Baby Jesus being born in Gainesville, GA and Herod serving as the mayor of Atlanta. Aug. 24 & 25, 7:30 p.m. & Aug. 26, 2 p.m. $8–15. www.elberttheatre.org

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Sunday 26 CLASSES: Wildlife Sanctuary (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A conservation initiative to help protect wildlife and plants in Athens.

Bring a photo of your backyard and Kate Mowbray, education chair of the Oconee Rivers Audubon Society, will show you how to create a wildlife sanctuary in your backyard. 2-5 p.m. $18. www.botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: Books for Keeps Bag Sale (Perimeter Square Mall) On the final day of the book sale, grab a bag and fill it up with as many books as you can fit. Proceeds help purchase new books for local elementary school students. 12–5 p.m. $5. www.booksforkeeps.blogspot.com EVENTS: Raise a Glass to Five Years of The National (The National) An open house celebration of The National’s five-year anniversary with drinks and light snacks.

3–5 p.m. FREE! www.thenationalrestaurant.com EVENTS: Spirited Spelling Spectacular (Hotel Indigo) (Rialto Room) Spell for a cause. Featuring a spelling bee, silent auction, hors d’oeuvres and cash bar. Proceeds benefit The Athens-Clarke Literacy Council. 3–6 p.m. $5–10. www. athensliteracy.org/bee GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Amici) Every Sunday. First place receives $50 and second place receives $25.

9 p.m. www.amici-cafe.com GAMES: Trivia Sundays (Blind Pig Tavern) At the West Broad location. 6 p.m. 706-208-7979 GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) “Brewer’s Inquisition,” trivia hosted by Chris Brewer every Sunday night. 7 p.m. FREE! 706354-6655, www.buffaloscafe.com/ athens GAMES: Trivia (The Capital Room) Every Sunday! Hosted by Evan Delany. First place wins $50 and second place wins $25. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.thecapitalroom.com LECTURES AND LIT: Dating Teleclass (Avid Bookshop) Dating and relationship coach Kellie Walker presents a class on how to use common sense and a bit of selfawareness to make better choices in your dating life. RSVP. 6–7:30 p.m. $10. 706-352-2060, avid.athens. rachel@gmail.com LECTURES AND LIT: Altamaha: A River and Its Keeper (Avid Bookshop) Dorinda Dallmeyer, Janisse Ray and former Altamaha riverkeeper James Holland read selections from their collaborative project. 1–3 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com PERFORMANCE: Viva, Las Vegas! (Seney-Stovall Chapel) The Athens Choral Society performs songs made famous by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Wayne Newton, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis, Barry Manilow and more.

Donations for The Ark accepted at each performance. Aug. 24-25, 7:30 p.m. & Aug. 25–26, 2:30 p.m. $10.

706-546-7446, www.athenschoralsociety.com THEATRE: Cotton Patch Gospel (The Elbert Theatre) A musical comedy set in rural Georgia about the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, with Baby Jesus being born in Gainesville, GA and Herod serving as the mayor of Atlanta. Aug. 24 & 25, 7:30 p.m. & Aug. 26, 2 p.m. $8–$15. www.elberttheatre.org

Monday 27 GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Every Monday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706543-8997

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Big Freedia, Five Knives Georgia Theatre Bounce! Sexy. Sweaty.

Energetic. Addictive.

Chaotic. Thumping.

Bumping. Humping.

Syncopated. Bootylicious.

Unbridled. Feminine.

Ridiculous. Salty.

Infectious. Confusing.

Exhilarating. Vulgar.

Thrilling. Percussive.

Wild. Zeitgeisty. Big Freedia!

Born Freddie Ross, Big Freedia first performed in Athens at Farm 255 in February of this year, bringing the town a taste of the sensation known as New Orleans bounce music for a muchtalked-about dance party.

Largely an underground phenomenon until very recently, bounce music Big Freedia is a repetitious, hypersexualized variety of hip-hop that draws heavily on the call-and-response of New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian chants. With an aggressive tour schedule and an even more aggressive live performance, Big Freedia has quickly become one of the most visible ambassadors of the form.

So: Dancefloor instructions! Wave your hands in the air? No. Wave your ass anywhere.

(Maybe even everywhere.) The democratic spirit of a Big Freedia show is one of its most enticing qualities. Freedia on a stage without her crowd would be much less interesting, as would the audience without Big Freedia to direct them.

Also on the bill for Wednesday’s performance is Five Knives, a young band out of Nashville that giddily tap-dances all over the notion of genre distinctions. Drum machines and a remix aesthetic characterize the band’s electro-pop-punk, and lead vocalist Anna Worstell goes toe-to-toe with Freedia for love of spectacle. Backed by her group of boys in masks, she commands her band to create a noise that’s part Daft Punk, part preteen punk and part singsongy schoolyard chants. If M.I.A. were an angry teen from Tennessee who grew up on crunchy emo guitar, maybe she would’ve turned out a bit like this. [Chris Hassiotis]

GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes!

Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Nurture language skills.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES AND LIT: Last Monday Book Group (ACC Library) Adult book discussion group. This month’s title is The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski.

Newcomers welcome. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650

Tuesday 28 EVENTS: West Broad Market Garden Produce Stand (1573 W. Broad St.) Seasonal and naturally grown produce. Cash paying neighbors of the West Broad Garden get a 30% discount on produce. EBT payments will be accepted in the future.

Tuesdays, 5–8 p.m. & Saturdays, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub ) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Trivia (Chango’s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles.

Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706546-0015

GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack) (College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050 PERFORMANCE: “Off the Cuff” Showcase, Open Mic & Improv (Farm 255) Five comics, three open mic slots and a theme that changes month to month. Comics are eligible for a $50 prize, determined by the crowd at the end of the show.

Themes announced on Facebook the day of. Email to participate. 11 p.m.

FREE! shamelesshamburger@gmail. com, www.facebook.com/shamelesscomedy SPORTS: Street Hockey (YMCA) Street Hockey (on foot, no blades) for all skill levels. Every Tuesday and Thursday. 6:30 p.m. FREE! athensfloorhockey@gmail.com

Wednesday 29 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the museum’s collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org COMEDY: Shameless Comedy Presents an Evening with Hannibal Buress (40 Watt Club) An incisive writer and comic, Buress has built a loyal following in his adopted hometown of New York City

and beyond. 8 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www.40watt.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (City Hall/ College Avenue) An afternoon market featuring local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music at every market.

Every Wednesday through the end of October. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Open Mic Night (Ten Pins Tavern) Hip-hop, spoken word, rock, singer-songwriters, DJs, jugglers, bellydancers, comedy, poetry, ballet—if you can do it, we want to see it! Hosted by Amy Neese. 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-8090 EVENTS: Farmers Market (790 Gaines School Rd.) Fresh produce, eggs, grass-fed beef, honey, homemade cakes and breads, cut flowers, herbs, jams and relishes. Every Wednesday and Friday. 4–7 p.m.

706-254-2248 EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo) (Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www. indigoathens.com FILM: Bad Movie Night (Ciné) A ragtag, all-female combat squad must infiltrate a Columbian drug cartel against all odds in Mankillers.

8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920

GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night.

8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Birthday Storytime (Madison County Library) Make a wish with birthday storytime. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES AND LIT: The Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Law School (The Classic Center) (Willow Room) The Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Law School takes the mystery out of everyday legal issues like divorce and child custody, products liability, criminal law, automobile insurance and more. Call to reserve seat. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-6111 LECTURES AND LIT: Oconee Democrats Book Group (Piccoloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Italian Steak House) The community book group sponsored by the Oconee Democrats will discuss Joe Bageantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book Deer Hunting with Jesus. 7 p.m. FREE! patricia.priest@yahoo.com LECTURES AND LIT: LinkedIn Boot Camp (Miller Learning Center) (Room 148) Learn how to make the most of LinkedIn. 3:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.terry.uga.edu

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 21 Georgia Theatre Get Up Get Down. On the roof! 11 p.m. $2 (21+). www.georgiatheatre.com MACHINES ARE PEOPLE TOO Indie dance-pop from Chattanooga.

IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. hosts a dance party featuring high-energy electro.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 SLEEPIES Brooklyn-based punk band whose songs are raucous.

SATURN DOGS Self-described â&#x20AC;&#x153;sci-fi post-apocalyptic dance ritual performance groupâ&#x20AC;? from Brooklyn.

KARA KILDARE & ROB DELLENBACK This duo debuts a new audio-visual project featuring non-traditional video with live musical performance. See our Q&A on our music blog, Homedrone.

GOOD PROBLEMS New local group featuring members of Grape Soda, Dead Dog and Elf Power.

WALMART THE BAND New band featuring Colby Carter of Mouser.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee. com IKE STUBBLEFIELD AND FRIENDS Soulful R&B artist Ike Stubblefield

is a Hammond B3 virtuoso who cut his teeth backing Motown legends like the Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye.

Featuring Seth Hendershot on drums. Every Tuesday!

Highwire Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com EVEREST Join Ryan Monahan, Lemuel Hayes and Danny Kirschner for a night of free-form improvisation. Every Tuesday in August!

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. $5. www. meltingpointathens.com THE FOUR THIEVES This energetic acoustic folk band is sure to get your boots stompinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Mirko Pasta 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5641 (Gaines School Rd. location) LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk and country. Every Tuesday in August.

No Where Bar 11 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 TRIZ Local electro mainstay sets up shop all summer every Tuesday at Nowhere Bar, collaborating live with other acts to â&#x20AC;&#x153;show people how eclectic electric music really is.â&#x20AC;?

ADAM PAYNE Payne writes songs with a lot of heart, the kind that can either make you tear up or laugh out loud.

The Volstead 9 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Every Tuesday!

WUOG Live in the Lobby! 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org THE VIKING PROGRESS Patrick Morales has a lovely, tender voice that sings gentle, indie/folk ballads about love, death and isolation inspired by his time at sea.

Wednesday 22 Athens City Hall Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net MAD WHISKEY GRIN Masterful local guitarist Frank Williams slides and finger-picks his way through bluesy, American sounds.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BEHOLD THE KINGDOM Christian metal band from Ohio brings â&#x20AC;&#x153;an aggressive and brutal sound along with a great stage performance to every show.â&#x20AC;?

BY THE SWORD Local group plays â&#x20AC;&#x153;fast, melodic groove death metal.â&#x20AC;?

CITY OF COLOSSEMetal from Danielsville, GA ANATOMY OF SHADOW Metal from Elberton, GA influenced

by Mastodon, Tool, Opeth and Cryptopsy.

Farm 255 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS Local act featuring Jeremiah Roberts on guitar and George Davidson on tenor saxophone playing cool jazz.

11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DEEP TIME Formerly Yellow Fever, this Austin band plays minimalist and melodic pop music. See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

SHADE New local trio featuring Phelan Lavelle, Will Donaldson and Adam Bewley plays groove-laden postpunk.

DAYS OF BEYOND THUNDER Mercer West and friends play lyrical pop songs â&#x20AC;&#x153;for the over-50 set.â&#x20AC;?

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com CRAIG LIESKE Local experimental musician curates a forward-thinking show at Flicker every Wednesday in August.

ECHO CANYON Local trio of Jim Wilson, Chuck Bradburn and Craig Lieske plays experimental music that is playful yet demanding with an other-worldly, delicate feel that evolves into metal power.

CRAIG LIESKE BLUES BAND Featuring Lieske, Damon Scott, Phil Carpenter and Carlton Owens.

JEFF CHASTEEN Local experimental guitarist.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com BIG FREEDIA Get ready to shake your booty with the Queen Diva of Bounce! There will likely be â&#x20AC;&#x153;azz everywhere.â&#x20AC;? See Calendar Pick on p. 20.

FIVE KNIVES A Nashville band that has â&#x20AC;&#x153;an erotic aesthetic that fuses industrial power chords, hip-hop undertones and a chemical pool of synthetic lo-fi swagger.â&#x20AC;?

On the rooftop! 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com RIVER CITY EXTENSION Upbeat, ensemble country music with pop accents and a lively show.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com BREATHLANES Athens musical collective playing organic, atmospheric improv. Featuring John Miley (guitar), Dave Spivey (keys), Steve Abercrombie (bass) and Nathan Hale (drums).

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

Porterhouse Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT An Athens tradition for over 10 years! Pianist Steve Key is joined by other talented local musicians for an evening of standards and improvisations.

Ten Pins Tavern 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-8090 OPEN MIC NIGHTHip-hop, spoken word, rock, singer-songwriters, DJs and more! Hosted by Amy Neese.

The Winery 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0095 LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk.

Thursday 23 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com PHIL HUMMER Rock and Roll trio out of Nashville.

JUSTIN COLLINS & THE COSMICS This Nashville band has a collision of genres through a mix of grunge and country.

TIA MADRE Local atmospheric rock band featuring members of Dead Confederate and Pilgrim.

T. HARDY MORRIS Dead Confederate frontman Hardy Morris leads this new project which features lonesome pedal steel, tender folky melodies and dreamy harmonies.

DePalmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Italian Cafe 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1237 (Timothy Rd. location) LOW TYED New project featuring Scott Low of Efren and Ty Manning of the Bearfoot Hookers.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DAFFODIL This reunited local trio plays hard-hitting, noisy rock.

GEAR JAMMER Dual-lead, riff-heavy rock with classic metal influences.

Music for the open road.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. Sold Out! www.georgiatheatre. com DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Local Southern rock superstars are back for their annual multi-night stand.

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JAY GONZALEZ AND THE GUILTY PLEASURES Solo project from Drive-By Truckersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; keyboardist.

Go Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-5609 WEREWOLVES Local band featuring quirky lo-fi rock with bright, bouncy flourishes, unique instrumentation and emotive lyrics.

GORGEOUS â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grunge-punkâ&#x20AC;? group from Tallahassee.

FOR THE HELL OF IT Folk-punk outfit out of Florida.

10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dr. Fredâ&#x20AC;? Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $10. www.hendershotscoffee. com DAN NETTLES & THE EXTRASPECIAL GUESTS Known for his work as the composer and guitarist for improv-indie-jazz juggernauts Kenosha Kid, for this show Dan Nettles showcases his work as a sideman. With several special guests!

Highwire Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com THE WELFARE LINERS Bluegrass band complete with upright bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle, featuring the founder of Ghostmeat Records and members of 6 String Drag. Every other Thursday!

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub WHOMP! New local four-piece that favors classic and modern metal with hints of jazz and funk.

INCENDIARIES Ladies of pedigree enforcing angular sensibilities.

Featuring local musicians Mandy Branch-Friar, Mary Joyce, Erika Rickson and Erica Strout.

CLOAK AND DAGGER DATING SERVICE Local six-piece ensemble plays loud and loose straightahead rock with dueling male/female vocals.

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The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com SEAN MCCONNELL Singer/songwriter playing what he describes as â&#x20AC;&#x153;lyric-driven roots rock with soul.â&#x20AC;?

ADAM HOOD Country-folk songwriter and artist honoring Southern culture.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com HIGHER LEARNING Combines â&#x20AC;&#x153;a sonic palette of rock, electronica, jazz, hip-hop, ambient and world music.â&#x20AC;?

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GEMNEYE Live electronic and dub mixed into what main man Nick Stewart calls “ragestep.”

No Where Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 FRANK & THE STRANGLERS Side project from TJ Mimbs and Frank Keith IV of The District Attorneys.

The Office Lounge Blues Night. 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Get your fill of straight-up, authentic blues covers from this skilled Athens five-piece. This is an open jam and guests are welcome!

WUOG Live in the Lobby! 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org THAYER SARRANO Local singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist with lovely, airy vocals and dark, gentle melodies.

Friday 24 40 Watt Club 4 On the Floor! 11 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com DJ Z-DOG Loveable local DJ spins top 40 hits, old-school hip-hop, high-energy rock and other danceable favorites.

TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller (The Gold Party, The Agenda) and friends spin late-night glam rock, new wave, Top 40, punk and Britpop.

FERAL YOUTH Banging electro house, dubstep, with a dash of top-40 remixes backed by video projections.

MODERN PORNOGRAPHY DJ duo spinning new wave, rock and dance.

Amici 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 CHROMAZONE Electronic-infused rock.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com VELVETEEN PINKThis quartet of funksters (including DJ Alfredo of Immuzikation) plays electro-based, groove-laden, upbeat stuff in the Prince abd Stevie Wonder.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com TOXIE Former Athenian Alex Burden fronts this garage-pop band from Memphis on Goner Records.

THE RODNEY KINGS Scuzzed out garage-punk trio.

CCBB Sweetly sarcastic lo-fi pop trio of Becky Brooks, Nate Mitchell and bassist Jeremy Dyson.

TIMMY TUMBLE Tim Schreiber howls and spasms and literally tumbles over garage-y rock-anthems and retro-inspired pop songs.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com AJ GRIFFIN Solo set from Slaw and Order’s singer and synth wizard.

M. HEAVEN Dark acoustic music.

HOLLY BELLE This local singersongwriter sings smoky, acoustic ballads accompanied by cello.

Georgia Bar 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-9884 LOW TYED New project featuring Scott Low of Efren and Ty Manning of the Bearfoot Hookers.

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This time, it’s two nights at the Georgia Theatre. See story on p. 17.

JAY GONZALEZ AND THE GUILTY PLEASURES Solo project from Drive-By Truckers’ keyboardist.

Go Bar 10 p.m. $3 (21+). $6 (18-20). 706546-5609 SUSPECT RAPTOR Local four-piece draws inspiration from ‘90s rock and bass-driven post-punk.

THE FOUNTNHEAD Atlanta “punkhop” group blends hip-hop and rock styles to create a melodic, danceable mash-up.

ARGONAUTS Local band plays moody, alternative-inspired rock.

DJ FOG JUICE Spinning Euro/Italo/ space-disco, new-wave, old school R&B and classic dance hits.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $7. www.hendershotscoffee.com KENNEY BLACKMON STRING BAND Traditional folk and bluegrass at its finest featuring some of the region’s top old-time and folk players including fiddler David Blackmon, multi-instrumentalist Noel Blackmon, guitar/banjo/ mandolin picker Jason Kenney and bassist Chris Enghauser.

Highwire Lounge “Friday Night Jazz.” 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com RAND LINES Original compositions of pianist Rand Lines with drummer Ben Williams and bassist Carl Lindberg.

Max On the patio! 10 p.m. FREE! 706-2543392 WILL WEBER Weber, who makes music as Sunspots, hosts a night of reggae.

The Melting Point 9:15 p.m. $23 (adv.), $28 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Grammy Award-winning songwriter, folk singer, humorist and actor celebrating his new album, Older Than My Old Man Now. MARTHA Local singer Marty Winkler teams up with guitarist Michael Steele for a set of sultry, melodic tunes.

New Earth Music Hall Third Anniversary Party! 8 p.m. $9. www.newearthmusichall.com WICK-IT THE INSTIGATOR Dubstep/electro/hip-hop act from Nashville.

PROTOHYPE Hip-hop-inspired glitch from Los Angeles.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $4. 706-546-4742 EDDIE AND THE PUBLIC SPEAKERS Local power trio delivers an energetic show with a hardhitting rhythm section, funky riffs and soaring guitar solos filled with catchy hooks and harmonies.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 ORIGINAL SCREWTOPS Formerly the SOB Blues Band.

SONS OF BILL The three eldest Wilson brothers (all sons of Bill Wilson) along with Seth Green and Todd Wellons play big, polished, Southern-tinged rock. The new album Sirens was produced by David Lowery.

BLACK IRON GATHERING Highenergy bluegrass-style power anthems, catchy ballads and instrumental grooves.

Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net WHISPER KISS Acoustic project featuring multi-instrumentalist Michael Wegner (Abbey Road LIVE!, Fuzzy Sprouts) and Shelley Olin (DubConscious, Grogus). (8 a.m.)

THE HOBOHEMIANSThis six-piece, acoustic band utilizes banjo, ukulele, flute, accordion, saxophone, piano, various percussion, drums and bass to perform popular American and European roots music of the 1910s, ‘20s and ‘30s. (10 a.m.)

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com DIRTY NAMES Feel-good, bluesy rock and roll band that takes its cues from classic Stones, The Black Crowes and The Black Keys.

LORD BALTIMORE Formerly The Falcones, this band plays alternative rock with anthemic choruses with layered vocal harmonies.

WILD ADRIATIC Made up of four members they are “a rock band with definitive pop and soul leanings.”

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit 7 p.m. FREE! 706-850-7561 KARAOKE With “The Queen of Karaoke,” Lynn Carson.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com SHOWTIME Elite tha Showstoppa’s band plays eclectic hip-hop mixed with rockin’ funky soul.

LOWDIVE Local ska/reggae band.

Front Porch Book Store 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 THE VINEYARD Authentic country music with a modern twist.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10, www.georgiatheatre.com THE PACKWAY HANDLE BAND Packway’s “gather around the mic” approach to bluegrass provides sly, hearty original songs and renditions of classic tunes. The contemporary lyrics are delivered with an engaging sense of humor.

THE CORDUROY ROAD Although rooted in classic Americana, with lots of foot-stomping, banjo-plucking and pedal steel, The Corduroy Road also has a knack for pop.

CICADA RHYTHM Athens/Atlanta acoustic guitar and upright bass duo playing bluegrass-tinged indie folk.

Go Bar Boybutante Back to School Dance Party! 9 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com QUIABO DE CHAPEU Local musicians playing a lively mix of authentic Brazilian music.

40 Watt Club 8:30 p.m. $8 (adv.) www.40watt.com RADIOLUCENT Popular local band falling somewhere between bluesy Southern rock and the poppier side of alt-country.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub DJ Z-DOG Loveable local DJ spins top-40 hits, old-school hip-hop, rock and other danceable favorites.

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Necessity breeds invention, as it goes, and Austin-based duo Deep Time can vouch for that.

Guitarist and vocalist Jennifer Moore and drummer Adam Jones find inspiration in minimalism, having wholly embraced the constraints of the two-person setup in their quest for forward musical movement.

Formerly known as Yellow Fever, the band became Deep Time after running into a legal snag. “We like the new name, Deep Time and it kind of feels like a fresh start,” Moore says. “But it hasn’t really affected how we play.” The group’s terrific new self-titled record features some seriously slanted music, a mercilessly catchy blend of stripped-down guitar-pop and fractured, rhythmic post-punk. It’s simultaneously dense and airy, mystical and danceable, heady and razor-sharp. Moore’s sonorous vocal work and her ear for weird, rich melody are ideal counterparts to Jones’ tense, spasmodic style.

But Deep Time’s tunes are just as notable for the space that remains unfilled. “We don’t wanna put unnecessary parts in our songs. We don’t mind having the space in there,” Moore says, adding that the choice is practical as much as stylistic. “There’s two of us, so we want to be able to play [live].”

Deep Time’s music unfolds in wonderfully unexpected ways; it seems constantly shifting, never satisfied (though always highly satisfying). It’s pop gone rogue, subtly irreverent and boundary-pushing.

“We write pop songs,” Moore explains, “but what we’re building around them, we want it to be interesting. [It’s] more about how things sound, and experimenting that way.”

Deep Time is the type of work that reveals itself more deeply with each listen, that rare record that feels absolutely boundless. Blending the earthly with the avant-garde is a challenge that many have undertaken, but the results are not usually this thrilling.

[Gabe Vodicka]

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com ABBEY ROAD LIVE Here come the sun kings! The local cover band delivers a start-to-finish performance of The Beatles’ Abbey Road and tosses in other high-energy, later-era Beatles rockers.

The Office Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 SCARLET STITCH Straight up rock and roll!

VFW 7 p.m. $12. 706-543-5940 THE SENSATIONAL SOUNDS OF MOTOWN Six veteran musicians entertaining crowds in the Southeast for nearly 18 years promise an exciting, live-energy show.

Sunday 26 The Georgia Center Once in a Blue Moon! 7 p.m. $15. www.wuga.org (Mahler Hall) WUGA, the Classic 91.7 and 97.9 FM celebrates its 25 year anniversary with a live radio show featuring live music from THE KENNEY-BLACKMON STRING BAND Traditional folk and bluegrass at its finest, featuring some of the region’s top old-time and folk players.

REVIEN Local trio featuring members of the Georgia Guitar Quartet on classical guitar, cello and electronics playing everything from Bach to Radiohead.

KYSHONA ARMSTRONG This engaging local songwriter and music therapist performs a unique fusion of acoustic folk and soul.

BROCK SCHEIDL Acoustic artist from Atlanta.

CHRIS SHUPE Athens’ own Elvis impersonator.

The Globe 7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 KATE MORRISSEY Best known for her dark velvet voice, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her conversational live shows come punctuated with an offbeat sense of humor. CD release show!

MERCIES Connecticut-based trio plays affectionate, atmospheric rock and roll.

Highwire Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com ANSLEY RUSHING Local singersongwriter plays wistful farm-folk.

Locos Grill & Pub 5 p.m. FREE! 706-548-7803 (Harris St. location) CHRISTIAN HERRING & TRUE BLUES Talented, teenaged blues trio from Birmingham, AL has “plenty of bite to go along with its bark.”

The Melting Point Camp Amped Instructors Showcase! 5 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com NANNY ISLAND Local band plays dreamy, tropical melodies featuring electric ukelele, bass and drums.

CLAIRE CAMPBELL Gorgeous folk tunes from half of Hope for Agoldensummer.

THAYER SARRANO, SETH HENDERSHOT & JOJO GLIDEWELL Three Athens musicians playing “dreamy rock as dark and beautiful as a drummer’s eyes.”

PETER ALVANOS AKA Fabulous Bird, Alvanos leads his female back-

ing band with bright, ‘60s-esque pop songs.

NATIONAL ANTHEM Featuring members of Bit Brigade, Pride Parade, Marriage and The Spinoffs.

Ten Pins Tavern 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-8090 SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE BOWLING ALLEY BLUES BAND Featuring locals Paul Scales, Randy Durham, John Straw, Dave Herndon and Scott Sanders playing blues jams.

Monday 27 Buffalo’s Southwest Café 7–10 p.m. $5. 706-354-6655, www. buffaloscafe.com/athens LINE DANCING Learn to line dance in the Big Back Room! Every 2nd and 4th Monday.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop! 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THOMAS WYNN & THE BELIEVERS This six-piece group from Orlando plays Americana rock infused with Southern soul.

The Grotto 6 p.m. FREE! 140 E. Clayton St. THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR Every Monday. Smooth jazz played by DJ Segar from WXAG 1470, “The Light.”

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Local songstress Kyshona Armstrong hosts this open mic night every Monday!

Manor Ignite Athens. 9 p.m. $5. www.manorathens.com POYNTE Georgia band is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a solid mix of individual influences that uniquely combine to provide driving rhythms, solid bass lines and rocking guitars, all topped off with melodic vocals and harmonies.â&#x20AC;?

DEFYING SILENCE Atlanta band that creates a blend of metal, indie and emo.

ALCHEMY Alternative rock band from Atlanta.

Tuesday 28 Georgia Theatre 11 p.m. $2. www.georgiatheatre.com GRASS GIRAFFES Buzzworthy local band puts together a psychedelic and anthemic guitar-rock dance party.

ABANDON THE EARTH MISSION Psychedelic electronic rock band centering around ex-Macha bandleader Josh McKayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songs.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee. com IKE STUBBLEFIELD AND FRIENDS Soulful R&B artist Ike Stubblefield is a Hammond B3 virtuoso who cut his teeth backing Motown legends like the Four Tops. Every Tuesday!

Highwire Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com EVEREST Join Ryan Monahan, Lemuel Hayes and Danny Kirschner for a night of free-form improvisation. Every Tuesday in August!

Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.manorathens.com LIVE BAND KARAOKE Metalsome covers â&#x20AC;&#x153;all your favorite hits from â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70sâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s pop, rock and country,â&#x20AC;? while you sing along. Every Tuesday!

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens. com YOU WONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T A punk/folk blend with edgy, lyrical dynamics.

Mirko Pasta 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5641 (Gaines School Rd. location) LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk and country. Every Tuesday in August.

New Earth Music Hall 8 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com SCOTT LOW Local indie-folkster frontman for Efren plays a solo set.

TY MANNING Bearfoot Hookers guitarist plays a solo set.

KELLY HOYLE FULLER Acoustic Americana rocker often seen playing locally with Mark Cunningham & The Nationals and The Burning Angels.

No Where Bar 11 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 TRIZ Local electro mainstay sets up shop to â&#x20AC;&#x153;show people how eclectic electric music really is.â&#x20AC;?

State Botanical Garden of Georgia Sunflower Music Series. 7 p.m. $15, $10 (Friends of the Garden Members), $5 (ages 6-12). 706542-1244 GROGUS The local and long-running ensemble plays jazz and salsa accentuated with reggae, hip-hop and Afro-Cuban styles.

The Volstead 9 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Every Tuesday!

WUOG Live in the Lobby! 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org EUREKA CALIFORNIA Melodic, guitar-driven indie rock influenced by bands like Guided by Voices.

Wednesday 29 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com POWERKOMPANY Local husband and wife duo playing sincere, bittersweet lullabies with gorgeous vocal harmonies over guitar and viola.

KING OF SPAIN Male duo creates â&#x20AC;&#x153;experimental-popâ&#x20AC;? using intruments â&#x20AC;&#x153;ranging from melodicas to xylophones to synths.â&#x20AC;?

Farm 255 8 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CALEB DARNELL Member of The Darnell Boys and Bellyache sings the blues.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com CRAIG LIESKE Local experimental musician curates a forward-thinking show at Flicker every Wednesday in August.

GARBAGE ISLAND â&#x20AC;&#x153;Small versionâ&#x20AC;? of this local experimental outfit, featuring Kris Deason, Chris Herron, Jeramy Lamanno, Brian Head and Craig Lieske.

DEITIES Tim Payne, Jeff Rapier and Craig Lieske play Motorheadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No Sleep â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Til Hammersmith.

MARSHALL MARROTTE Local improvisational guitarist.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com 3LAU DJ that combines â&#x20AC;&#x153;top-40 a cappellas with instrumental bangers.â&#x20AC;?

D.VELOPED North Carolina based producer and remixer who is â&#x20AC;&#x153;beginning to redefine the mashup scene.â&#x20AC;?

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com BREATHLANES Athens musical collective playing organic, atmospheric improv. Featuring John Miley (guitar), Dave Spivey (keys), Steve Abercrombie (bass) and Nathan Hale (drums).

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5 (adv.), $8 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com EMILY HEARN Young singer-songwriter offers sweet, melodic acoustic ballads.

CONNOR PLEDGER Singersongwriter whose mostly acoustic sound is influenced by acts like Dave Matthews.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

Porterhouse Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT Pianist Steve Key is joined by other talented local musicians for an evening of standards and improvisations.

Sideways 11 p.m. 706-319-1919 LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk and country.

Ten Pins Tavern 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-8090 OPEN MIC NIGHTHip-hop, spoken word, rock, singer-songwriters, DJs and more! Hosted by Amy Neese.

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bulletin board DO SOMETHING; GET INVOLVED! Deadline for getting listed in Bulletin Board and Art Around Town is every THURSDAY at 12 p.m.

Email calendar@flagpole.com. Listings are printed based on available space; more listings are online.

ART Call for Artists (Farmington Depot Gallery) Applications currently being accepted for the artist market at the gallery’s fall festival, Festiboo, to be held on Oct. 20. Email farmingtongallery@gmail.com for application and information.

Call for Artists (OCAF) Artists can submit works for OCAF’s 18th annual holiday market that runs Nov. 30–Dec. 1. Apply by Sept. 4.

Application and information on website. 706-769-4565, info@ocaf.com, www.ocaf.com Call for Artists (Ten Pins Tavern) Artists may submit artwork to be displayed in Ten Pins. Call for information. 706-546-8090 Logo Contest (Athens, Ga) The Athens Historical Society is seeking entries for a new logo and offering $250 to the winner. Submissions due Oct. 1. Email for rules and to submit. ahslogo@gmail.com

AUDITIONS Athens Dance Company Auditions (Studio Dance Academy) Seeking dynamic dancers of all styles, ages 18 & up. Bring a headshot and a resume or bio and be prepared to perform a 1-2 minute solo. Must be available Wednesdays from 5:30-9:30 p.m. for rehearsal, as well as a weekly ballet class of your choice. Aug. 26, 3–6 p.m. www.studiodanceacademy.com Athens Master Chorale Auditions (Athens Master Chorale) Now accepting auditions for all voice parts. Contact Joseph Napoli for more information and scheduling. 706-546-0023, evenings only.

Rose of Athens Theatre Auditions (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Open auditions for the new season. Please prepare two oneminute, contrasting monologues, or a monologue and a song with your own accompaniment. This season’s productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Carol, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ramona Quimby and The Tempest. Call, email or visit the website to schedule an audition. Ages 9 & up. Aug. 29 & 30, 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-340-9181, danielle@roseofathens.org, www.roseofathens.org

CLASSES Advanced Yoga Teacher Training (Athens, Ga) Vastu Yoga hosts a 500-hour yoga teacher training. Journey more deeply into your own practice while learning the technical skills necessary to become a stellar yoga instructor.

Visit website for location and info.

Begins in November. $2,495. www.globalvastuyoga.com.

Buddhist Book Study (Body, Mind & Spirit) Every Wednesday.

6 p.m. Donations accepted.

706-351-6024 Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7-9 p.m.

“Family Try Clay” classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2-4 p.m. $20. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Computer Tutorials (ACC Library) Choose from a list of topics for personalized, one-onone instruction. The library also offers online computer classes in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel

and eBooks. Call for times and to register. 706-613-3650 Drawing Workshop (Georgia Museum of Art) Artist and educator Hope Hilton teaches a drawing workshop for adults in conjunction with the exhibition “The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection at the Snite Museum of Art.” Learn basic drawing techniques using materials like carved sticks and ink, graphite and ink washes and #2 pencils. Materials provided. No experience required.

Call to register. Sep. 20, 5:30–8:30 p.m. 706-542-4662 Fall Art Classes and Workshops (OCAF) Instruction in watercolors, portraiture and nature painting, clay arts, book, paper and journal making, bagpipes, freelance writing, writing for business and self-publishing. Call, email or visit website to register. 706-769-4565, info@ocaf.com, www.ocaf.com Fall Classes (Good Dirt) Now registering for clay classes for all levels of wheel and hand-building.

Check website for schedule. Classes begin Sep. 8. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Gentle Hatha Integral Yoga (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) All levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m. $9/class. 706-543-0162, mfhealy@bellsouth.net, www.mind fuliving.org Lori’s Boot Camp (Fitness at Five) Get in shape in time for summer. Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. & Saturdays, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 706353-6030, www.fitnessatfive.com Painting with Charles (Lyndon House Arts Center) Bring in your oil or acrylic masterpieces-in-progress to receive easel-side assistance from instructor Charles. Call to register. Tuesdays, Sept.11–Nov. 6, 3:30–5:30 p.m. or 6:30–8:30 p.m.

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ACC is FULL again and many wonderful felines need homes. Sweet sisters Lily and Sage are outgoing and entertaining. The tiny black kitten below was ill but has just begun to thrive and is learning to play. And Holly is a perfect cat in all ways but she gets overlooked in a room full of cute kittens. Give her a chance!

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$111–167. 706-613-3623, www.accleisureservices.com/leisure SALSAthens (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes. Every Wednesday, 6:307:30 p.m. (intermediate), 7:30-8:30 p.m. (beginners). $8 (incl. $3.50 drink). 706-338-6613 Sangha Yoga Classes (Healing Arts Centre) Several types of ongoing yoga classes are offered for all levels, including therapeutic, hatha, gentle and vinyasa yoga, as well as pilates. Visit website for details. www.healingartscentre.net Sangha Yoga Teacher Training (Healing Arts Centre) Rahasya Yogic Arts 200 hour yoga teacher training program. Sept.

14–Feb. 13. Apply online. www. rahasya.org/fr_1yogateachertraining. cfm Spicy Salsa Dancing (Jerzees) Salsa and Latin dancing. Begins with a free lesson. Every Wednesday, 9 p.m.–1 a.m. $3–$5. Email dg2003@ yahoo.com Yoga Classes (Athens Technical College) (Bldg. N, Room 112) Call to register by Aug. 23 for a variety of yoga classes of 12 sessions over six weeks. Begins Aug. 28. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7–8 a.m. $60.

706-369-5876 Yoga Teacher Training (Athens, Ga) Yoga teacher and RYT200 certification course.

Saturdays, Aug. 11–Dec. 15, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $1450. www.yoga fulday.com Zumba (Athens Latino Center for Education and Services (ALCES)) Instructed by Maricela Delgado.

Every Wednesday, 6–7 p.m. & 7:15–8:15 p.m. $5 (1 class), $8 (both classes). 706-540-0591

HELP OUT

LILY & SAGE ACC ANIMAL CONTROL 37 Dogs Received, 39 Dogs Placed!

16 Cats Received, 12 Cats Placed ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY 12 Animals Received, 18 Animals Placed, 0 Healthy Adoptable Animals Euthanized!

Brian Hitselberger’s work “Arguments For and Against Solitude” is on display at ATHICA through Sept. 9.

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Back to School Shoe Drive (Athens Area Humane Society) Give your old paws (a.k.a. shoes) a new life. Donate athletic shoes, sandals, heels, dress shoes, work boots and flats to be recycled and raise money for the dogs, cats and small animals awaiting adoption.

Both Athens and Watkinsville AAHS locations. Through Sept. 30. www.athenshumanesociety.org Bear Hollow Volunteer Training (Memorial Park) Bear Hollow Zoo offers docent training

for those interested in assisting with the experience of visiting the zoo.

Docents do not need an extensive knowledge of animals, just the motivation to learn. Participants are trained in customer service, interpretive education techniques and handling of some of the program animals. Ages 18 & up. Email to register. Saturdays, Aug. 18–Oct. 6, 10 a.m. 706-613-3616, clinton. murphy@athensclarkecounty.com BikeAthens Bike Recycling Program (Chase Street Warehouses) BikeAthens Bike Recycling Program (BRP) needs bicycle repair help of all degrees.

Bicycles are donated to social service agencies for individuals in need of a safe ride to work and underserved by public transportation. Wednesdays, 6-8:30 p.m. (beginners), Mondays, 6-8:30 p.m. & Sundays, 2-4:30 p.m. bikeathens. com/brp CASA Child Advocate Orientation (CASA) Information meeting about CASA volunteers, community members who ensure care for abused or neglected local children. Volunteers are required to undergo 40 hours of training online and in a group. Visit website for information about volunteering in the fall. Aug. 23, 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.childrenfirst-inc.org/athensoconee-casa.html Donate Blood (Red Cross Donor Center) Give the gift of blood! Check website for donor locations. 1-800RED CROSS, www.redcross.org Ink Recycling (Athens, Ga) Donate empty ink and toner cartridges to help the American Red Cross provide assistance to people in need.

Visit website for details. 706-3531645, jeffrey.taylor@redcross.org, www.inkrecycling.org Media Drive (Oconee County Library) Now accepting donations of gently used books, DVDs and CDs until Sept. 14. Books can be left in the lobby. All proceeds benefit the library.

Peace Place (Athens, Ga) Volunteer training in September to help victims of domestic abuse. Opportunities include babysitting, court escorting, donating goods or financial resources, working in a thrift store and more. Applications online. 706755-1100, sbruckner@peaceplace inc.org, www.peaceplaceinc.org/ volunteer_intern.html

KIDSTUFF Arts in the Afternoon (East Athens Community Center) Afterschool program teaches arts and crafts and allows children to create original artwork. Ages 6–15.

Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30– 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3593 Craft Club (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Wednesday (4 p.m.) craft club for ages 6–10, Thursday craft club (4 p.m.) for ages 3–5, Saturday Mama, Papa & Me classes (10 a.m.) for ages 1–3 and Saturday Crafterdays (11 a.m.) for ages 3–6. Sign up per month or call the day of to drop in. www.treehousekidandcraft.com Enchanted India (Lyndon House Arts Center) Explore the rich art culture of India and learn about fiber arts and artwork featuring native animals. For ages 7-11. Tuesdays, Sept. 11–Oct. 12, 4–5 p.m. $42–63.

706-613-3623, www.athensclarke county.com/lyndonhouse Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts. For parents and children ages 3–5. Register by Sept. 4. Every other Wednesday, Sept. 5–Dec. 12.

3:30–4:30 p.m. $24–36. 706-6133515, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ sandycreeknaturecenter Pop-In Playtime (Pump It Up) Children ages 11 & under can bounce around and have a jumping good time. Wednesdays, 3:30-5:30 p.m. $3 (ages 2 & under), $6 (ages 2 & up). 706-613-5676 Youth Wheel (Good Dirt) An eightweek class teaching kids how to use the potter’s wheel. Ages 8 & up.

Mondays, 4:15–6:15 p.m. beginning Sept. 10. $160. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net

ON THE STREET Book Drive (Oconee County Library) The Oconee County Library Friends are collecting gently used books, CDs and DVDs for the annual book sale in October. Donations may be dropped off at the library until Sept. 14. Proceeds benefit the Oconee County Library. 706-7693950 Books for Keeps Book Sale (Perimeter Square Mall) (Suite B-10)

Book sale benefitting Books For Keeps, an organization that donates books to children. All genres of books for sale. Sneak peak night on Aug. 23, 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m., $10 (includes free tote bag), Aug. 24, 11 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m., Aug. 25, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. & Aug. 26, 12-5 p.m. (bag sale). FREE! www.booksforkeeps.blogspot.com Open Table Tennis (Oconee Veterans Park) Equipment provided.

Wednesdays, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. FREE! (Oconee Co. residents), $5.

706-769-3965 Primp Your Pit(bull) (The Athens Area Humane Society) The Athens Area Humane Society is offering a limited number of discounted spays to bully-breed dogs in August, including pit bulls,

pit bull terriers or distinct pit bull mixes. Call to make an appointment. $20. 706-769-9155, www.athens humanesociety.org Senior Trip to the Georgia Aquarium (Rocksprings Community Center) Join senior adults on a trip to the Georgia Aquarium. Price is all-inclusive. Call to register by Sept. 10. Sept. 17, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. $40. 706-613-3603

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ART AROUND TOWN A. LAFERA SALON (2440 W. Broad St.) New artwork

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AMICI ITALIAN CAFĂ&#x2030; (233 E. Clayton St.) Coastal landscape scenes in pastel by Rob Graham. Through August.

ANTIQUES & JEWELS ART GALLERY (290 N. Milledge Ave.) Paintings by Mary Porter, Christine Shockley, Dorthea Jacobson, Lana Mitchell, John Gholson, Greg Benson and Ainhoa Bilbao Canup. Art quilt by Elizabeth Barton and handmade jewelry by various artists.

ART ON THE SIDE GALLERY AND GIFTS (1011B Industrial Blvd., Watkinsville) A gallery featuring works by various artists in media including ceramics, paintings and fused glass.

ARTLAND LOFT GALLERY (2 S. Main St., Watkinsville) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Through the Red Door,â&#x20AC;? colorful narratives, self-portraits and imaginary worlds by Lisa Freeman. Through August.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) In â&#x20AC;&#x153;ATHICA Emerges V: The Synthetic Mind,â&#x20AC;? nine artists explore how they perceive and experience the world around them.

Through Sept. 9.

THE BRANDED BUTCHER (225 N. Lumpkin St.) Paintings and drawings by Sanithna Phansavanh.

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Ainhoa Canup.

ETIENNE BRASSERIE (311 E. Broad St.) Paintings by Alan Campbell. Through August.

FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 16 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics, fine furniture and more. Permanent collection artists include Tommy Jackson, Jim Stipemaas, Susan Nees, Lawrence Stueck and more. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;13 Years of Heaven and Hellâ&#x20AC;? features artwork by Chris â&#x20AC;&#x153;CHUBâ&#x20AC;? Hubbard, creator of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heaven and Hell Car.â&#x20AC;? Through Sept.

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FIVE STAR DAY CAFĂ&#x2030; (229 E. Broad St.) Painted portraits of musicians by Lauren Dellaria.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Works by Walker Howle. Through August.

GALLERY @ HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Board Room,â&#x20AC;? part of the 2012 Summer of SPOA (Skatepark of Athens), includes skateboard decks designed by 56 artists. Through Sept. 9. â&#x20AC;˘ In The Glasscube, an installation by Deanna Kamal, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Collosphaera,â&#x20AC;? is a hybrid of interior design and marine biology. Through Sept. 9.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Victory Lap: Time-Based Winners of the Kress Project.â&#x20AC;? Through Sept. 7. â&#x20AC;˘ Murals of agriculture scenes by George Beattie. Through Jan. 7. â&#x20AC;˘ An exhibition of 41 prints and drawings by Gerald L. Brockhurst. Through Sept. 16. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;The South in Black and White: The Graphic Works of James E. Routh Jr.â&#x20AC;? Opens Aug. 25. Through Oct. 21. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;The New York Collection for Stockholmâ&#x20AC;? features works by 30 artists including Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.

Through Oct. 28. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection at the Snite Museum of Art.â&#x20AC;? Through Nov. 3. â&#x20AC;˘ Francisco de Goyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Disasters of War.â&#x20AC;? Through Nov. 3. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Defiant Beauty: The Work of Chakaia Bookerâ&#x20AC;? consists of large-scale sculptures created from tires.

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GEORGIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (East Campus Rd.) A collection of mounted game animals featuring lynxes, African leopards, Alaskan bears, water buffalo and elk, as well as live corn snakes, tarantulas and other live animals.

location. Every Wednesday. 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. FREE! 706-543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771.

Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Sundays, 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m.

706-202-7463, www.emotions anonymous.org Survive and Revive (Athens, Ga) Support, healing and dinner for survivors of domestic violence. Second and fourth Tuesdays in Clarke County. First and Third Mondays in Madison County. Childcare provided during meetings. 6 p.m. (dinner), 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. (meeting). 706-5433331 (hotline only), 706-613-3357, ext. 771. f

GOOD DIRT (510 N. Thomas St.) New pottery by studio owner Rob Sutherland.

THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Watercolors by Jamie Calkin and figure and still life paintings by Mary Joe Vandiver. Through Aug. 25. â&#x20AC;˘ Paintings, photography and prints by Mandy Elias. Through Sept. 15.

HEIRLOOM CAFE AND FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Large floral collage paintings and smaller works by Ally White. Through August.

HENDERSHOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE BAR (1560 Oglethorpe Ave.) Collages and paintings by Charley Seagraves.

Through August.

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE ALPS (1480 Baxter St.) Artwork by Marisa Mustard.

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE DOWNTOWN (297 E. Broad St.) Acrylic paintings by Joe Havasy. Through August. â&#x20AC;˘ Pottery by Nancy Green, Carter Gillies, Mark Johnson and Lea Purvis.

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE EASTSIDE (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Convergence Artist Productions presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paintings by Frank,â&#x20AC;? artwork by Frank Registrato.

Through August.

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE FIVE POINTS (1230 S. Milledge Ave.) Artwork using soil by Mary Charles Howard. Through August.

JUST PHOâ&#x20AC;ŚAND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) Photography by Robert Lowery.

KUMQUAT MAE CAFE (18 S. Barnett Shoals Rd., Watkinsvile) Sustainable art inspired by nature by Jul and Justin Sexton. Through August.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Real Fake: Simulation Technology After Photography,â&#x20AC;? includes works by Claudia Hart, Zeitguised and Gerhard Mantz. Through Sept. 13. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Inside Outside: 2012 Painting Invitationalâ&#x20AC;? features works by Holly Couis and Karen Ann Myers. Through Sept. 13.

LAST RESORT GRILL (184 W. Clayton St.) Paintings

by Bob Davis.

MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fibersâ&#x20AC;? is a group exhibition including fiber art by 15 artists. Through Oct. 20.

MAMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BOY (197 Oak St.) Convergence Artist Productions presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love and Light: Paintings by Frank,â&#x20AC;? featuring Frank Registrato. Through August.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Paintings by Betty Secrist.

SEWCIAL STUDIO (160 Tracy St.) Hand-dyed art quilts by Anita Heady and rust and over-dyed fabric on canvas by Bill Heady.

SIPS ESPRESSO CAFE (1390 Prince Ave.) Acrylic paintings by Johnny Gordon. Through August.

STATE BOTANICAL GARDENS (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) The Oconee River Land Trust and the Athens Land Trust present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spirit of the Land,â&#x20AC;? an exhibit and sale that celebrates the beauty of land and supports its protection. Through Sept. 9.

STRAND HAIR SALON (1625 S. Lumpkin St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;California Dreaminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? features black and white photography by Blake Smith. Through August.

TECH STOP COMPUTERS (3690 Atlanta Hwy.) Abstract expressionist acrylic paintings with bright colors and strong architectural themes by Frances Jemini. Through October.

TOWN 220 (220 W. Washington St., Madison) The Madison Artists Guild presents its XLG show â&#x20AC;&#x153;Uncommon Threads: Four Fiber Artists,â&#x20AC;? featuring works by Jennifer Crenshaw, Margaret Agner, Tressa Linzy and Elizabeth Barton. Through Oct. 27.

TRANSMETROPOLITAN (145 E. Clayton St.) Photographs and paintings by Allison Fennell.

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WHITE TIGER GOURMET (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Rust-dyed fabric on canvas by Bill Heady. Through August.

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins I have been married for three years. My wife and I dated for several years prior to that, and our relationship is fantastic. The one thing that is difficult in our lives is family. Her brother and I are the same age, we went to the same high school, and we were not friends. I have nothing against him; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just that we did not travel in the same circles, have never had the same interests, etc. He was popular enough and I was popular enough, neither of us were the Big Man on Campus or anything. We were always cordial. This was years and years ago. We are both in our 30s now.

The thing is, my mother-in-law cannot fathom why we arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buddies. We went to a huge school and had completely different interests, and since then our lives have gone on different paths. I am not saying one is better than the other, but it is obvious that she wishes he were more like me. This is a very stressful situation for many reasons. She is not very subtle about the fact that she thinks I have done better than he has, and whenever we are all together she makes a point of talking about how well I am doing at work, how much money I make (not that she knows exactly, but she can tell we are doing well because we bought a house and go on vacations and stuff) and how much he should â&#x20AC;&#x153;just try harderâ&#x20AC;? to be like me.

The fact is that he has never been book smart, but he is smart in his own way and he has a good job.

He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a wife and, right now, not even a girlfriend, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good-looking guy and he is super nice. He recently got dumped by a woman who I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think was good enough for him anyway, and now my mother-in-lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream of more grandchildren is on hold. This situation is really embarrassing.

I like the guy a whole lot, and he and my wife used to be very close, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m starting to feel like the pressure of the situation is driving a wedge between all of us. I want to tell my mother-in-law to shut the hell up and accept her son for who he is because he is a great guy with a lot to offer. They live in a smallish town, and he has fewer opportunities to meet â&#x20AC;&#x153;the right girlâ&#x20AC;? anyway, and I think she is killing what little confidence he had left.

What can I do? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want him to resent me, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like I can tell her to stop it because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want her to get mad at me in the process. The whole thing is really making me stressed out and depressed. I love my wife and her brother, but I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to strangle their mother if this doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop. What should I do?

Helpless I think this one is going to have to fall on your wife, Helpless. You are in the precarious position of being family, but not blood. And

as much as this woman obviously loves and admires you and wishes her son were more like you, if you put her in her place (or even try to tell her how it really is) you may end up pissing her off and ruining your relationship forever. Her daughter, on the other hand, is flesh and blood, so she has to be forgiven. Talk to your wife and plead with her to put a stop to this. Surely, if she is (or at least was) close to her brother, she must see how crappy this is for him. She has got to have a talk with her mother and tell her to stop bullying the guy and embarrassing you in the process. Making him feel like crap isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to help his self-esteem or get him another girlfriend.

In the meantime, you should do your best to make sure that your relationship with him is as solid as possible. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let resentment build when you have nothing to do with this. Go out and get a beer with him sometime, or invite him over when the whole family isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t coming along. Make sure he knows you are on his side and keep things cool between you.

I am engaged to marry the best guy ever.

We have been together a few years, and everything between us is perfect. I have never been so happy or felt so good about my future. The one thing that is getting difficult, as our wedding day approaches, is that his mother keeps mentioning â&#x20AC;&#x153;all the grand-babiesâ&#x20AC;? that we are going to have. The thing is, I do not want and have never wanted kids. I have no intention of having ANY CHILDRENâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;EVER. My fiancĂŠ is fine with this. We have discussed it at length, and I have told him that he has got to be absolutely certain because I am not going to change my mind. I am 30 and I have done my best to keep from getting pregnant for my entire adult life. Now I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to say to the future in-laws, because the subject keeps coming up, and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take it anymore. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to offend anybody, but I want her to stop talking about it. Any advice on how to drop this bomb?

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How you approach this depends on your relationship with his mom. If you are relatively comfortable with her and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just worried about her disappointment, then you should just say it. Next time she mentions the â&#x20AC;&#x153;grand-babies,â&#x20AC;? you can say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Actually, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to have kids.â&#x20AC;? Hopefully, even if she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand she will at least respect you enough to let it go. If you think this is an unlikely reaction, then ask your husband to have the talk with her sometime when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not around. It may take her some time, but she will get over it.

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Reference quad. (706) 202-9805.

980 sf, 2BR/1BA. HWflrs., laundry room, carpet in BRs. Free trash & lawn service.

Electric heat & AC w/ gas hot water heater. $490/mo. w/ $490 dep. Call (912) 580-7304 or (706) 247-4802.

Brick duplex, 2BR/2BA, very clean. Just 2 mi. to campus on north side Athens. 2 units avail. Pets OK. $500/mo. + dep. Call Sharon, (706) 3513074.

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Houses for Rent $950/mo. 3BR/2BA house in country. 9 mi. from Dwntn.

W/D hookup, DW, FP. Call (706) 540-8461.

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3BR/2BA. Avail. now! Some HWflrs., fenced yard, pets ok, no pet fees. $795/mo. (706) 254-2569 1 or 2BR, recently renovated, private, quiet location near Publix. All elec., CHAC, new appls., W/D, DW, HWflrs. Water & garbage paid. $650-680/ mo. w w w. b o u l e v a rd proper tymanagement. com, (706) 548-9797.

2BR house. Winterville. Nice yd. Recently renovated. $550/ mo. + dep. References req’d.

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2BR/2BA. Aug. free!

Renovated bungalow in sought after Boulevard District. Very well-maintained. $1200. (706) 546-6900 or valerioproperties@gmail.com.

2 & 3BR. Super Athens & UGA location. Please call Vince at (706) 207-0539, vlow@ prodigy.net.

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3BR/2BA house for rent, Eastside. 7 min. to campus. Hardwoods in main hall & BAs. 2 car garage, fenced back yard. $1100/mo.

Call Matt, (706) 207-8438.

3BR/2BA in Normaltown. Avail. immediately! HWflrs., CHAC, quiet street. Grad students pref’d. Rent negotiable. (706) 372-1505.

3BR/2.5BA house w/ plenty of room for gardening. 10 min. from Dwntn. HWflrs., granite countertops, small pet OK. Avail. now! $900/mo. + $900 dep. (706) 338-3441.

3BR/1BA house off Milledge, near park & busline, large fenced backyard. $1000/mo.

Pet friendly. (706) 255-9900.

3BR/2BA, 2077 S. Lumpkin, $1200/mo. W/D., DW, sec. sys. & ceiling fans. 3BR/2BA, 2071 Lumpkin, $1000/ mo. incl. water, lawn maint. & garbage. W/D, DW. (706) 546-0300.

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Large basement. Excellent condition. Must see! Avail.

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Eastside busline. (706) 3388372 or email sjbc33@aol. com.

5 Pts. 3BR/1.5BA. CHAC, DW. Fenced backyard, pets welcome w/ dep. 115 Annes Court. Just off S. Milledge at E. Campus light. $975/mo.

Avail. now! (706) 548-3313.

5 Pts. 3BR/1.5BA. CHAC, DW. Fenced backyard, pets welcome w/ dep. 115 Annes Court. Just off S. Milledge at E. Campus light. $900/mo.

Avail. now! (706) 548-3313.

5 Pts. 1 block off Milledge.

2BR/1BA brick cottage. W/D, HWflrs., large yard, screened porch. $875/mo., 1 yr. lease.

Call (706) 549-5413.

Char ming rustic 2BR/1BA farm house on 4 acres in Oconee Co. CHAC, drilled well w/ filtration system, W/D hook-ups. Comes w/ 225 sf. studio. Fenced garden area.

Great front porch. 25 min. drive from Dwntn. athens. $700/mo. (706) 340-4434.

Commercial/residential. Huge home on busline. 3 min. to campus. 2 kitchens, DR, 2 living rms., 4-5BR/2BA. Lg. yard & front porch. Paved off-street parking. $1200/mo.

David, (706) 247-1398.

Cedar Creek: 4BR/2BA, partially fenced yd., $950/ mo. 5 Pts.: Off Baxter St., 4BR/2BA, $1000/mo.

Eastside: 5BR/2BA, large lot, $1000/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

For rent: 3BR/2BA house on large lot on West Lake Dr. AC, W/D, water/garbage incl. $1200/mo. Call (706) 3404938 or (706) 340-7938.

Oconee Co. 4BR/3.5BA home. Full basement, 2+ acres, $1400/mo., references a must. Close in Jackson Co.: 3BR mobile home in MH Park. $510/mo. References a must. Call Rose, (706) 2550472, Prudential Blanton Properties.

Houses for Sale Near the park, 3BR/2BA, huge screened room, shed, $110,000. 2BR/2BA, fenced yard, work shed, $110,000.

Near Statham, cute 3BR/2BA, LR/FP, 2 car garage, fenced yard, $65,900. Call Rose, (706) 255-0472, Prudential Blanton Properties.

Parking & Storage Parking places for rent across from UGA. $30/mo. (706) 3544261.

Roommates Avail. now. Roommate wanted for 3BR house. Fenced-in backyard. Dog OK. Off Prince, $300/mo. + 1/3 utils. Call in the evening. (770) 363-4445.

M a l e s e e k i n g ro o m m a t e . $275/mo. incl. utils. for policeman or public servant. $325/mo. otherwise. Nice 3BR home w/ deck in Winterville.

No smokers. Bob, (706) 3478889.

Seeking 2 roommates! House near Alps & University. $395/ mo. + utils. References & dep. reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Avail. now! (706) 2491909.

Rooms for Rent 2 mature female grad students, 1 cat & 1 small dog seeking 3rd housemate.

Fellow nerds & freethinkers encouraged! Aug. 1st. 1BR in 3BR/3.5BA house, W/D, DW. Just blocks from Dwntn. & campus. $500/mo., 1/3 utils.

Contact amyh75@gmail.com.

3BR/3BA condo room for rent.

Woodlands. $450 incl. utils.

Avail. immediately. Private BA, gated community, pets OK, clubhouse, pool & workout room access. (770) 380-5282, ro456838ro@bellsouth.net.

Dashiell Cottages. Moveâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;in, $75/wk.! (706) 850-0491.

1BR, private entrance, all amenities, WiFi, long distance.

Enjoy our river community, 5 blocks to UGA. Enjoy wildlife observation.

Lg. BR & BA avail. now!

Historic house, Pulaski St./ Dwntn. $525/mo., incl. utils.

Lg. kitchen, private entrance, fenced in backyard, small dog OK. Call or email (706) 850-5972, lorigage@charter. net.

Wanting to rent Borders! Pictures! Tons of categories to satisfy Athens classified ad needs with the lowest rates in town. Flagpole Classifieds helps you keep your ear to the ground!

For Sale Furniture Almost new household furniture for sale! Winterville & Union Point addresses. Call Bob, (706) 347-8889.

Quality white or tan table w/ 4 swivel chairs. Brightly colored custom flowered cushions.

25.5 in high x 41 in. wide.

Great vintage condition. $145 OBO. (706) 461-5099.

Miscellaneous Archipelago Antiques.

23 years of fine antiques, art & retro. Under neath Homeplace. At 1676 S. Lumpkin St. (706) 354-4297.

Come to Cillies, 175 E. Clayton St. for vintage Louis Vuitton.

20% off single purchase of clothing, sandals and jewelry (excl. J. Crew). 1/person.

Clothing Construction & Rental inventory sale. Sat. Aug. 25 at 585 Barber St. (DOC building).

8 amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 pm. Vintage clothing, jewelry, furniture, fabrics, home decor, accessories, collectibles. Katesawyer7@ gmail.com.

Go to Agora! Awesome!

A ff o rd a b l e ! T h e u l t i m a t e store! Specializing in retro ever ything: antiques, fur niture, clothes, bikes, records & players! 260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

Instant cash is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition. Wuxtry Records, at corner of Clayton & College downtown.

(706) 369-9428.

TV and Video G e t a 4 ro o m a l l - d i g i t a l satellite system installed for free & programming starting at $19.99/mo. Free HD/DVR upgrade for new callers. Call now. 1-800-925-7945 (AAN CAN).

Music Announcements Greene Moon Events. Tallulah River stage & outdoor group venue w/ camping. Book s u m m e r e v e n t o r p a r t y.

Join band roster for festival bookings. www.greenemoon. com.

Equipment For sale: Cargo trailer in great shape. Perfect for band equipment or any hauling needs. 5â&#x20AC;&#x2122; wide x 5.5â&#x20AC;&#x2122; tall x 10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; long. Has excellent 15â&#x20AC;? heavy duty tires. $1500. Call Jared at (706) 338-9019 or email director@athfest.com.

Nuçiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Space needs your old instruments & music gear! All donations are taxdeductible. Call (706) 2271 5 1 5 o r c o m e b y N u ç i â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Space, 396 Oconee St.

Instruction Athens School of Music.

Instruction in guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, brass, woodwinds, strings, banjo, mandolin, fiddle & more. From beginner to expert. Instrument repairs avail. Visit http://www.

AthensSchoolofMusic.com, (706) 543-5800.

Guitar lessons! College instructor w/ doctorate in music. All styles, beginners too. Bass, theory & composition too. 1st lesson free. Call David, (706) 5467082. davidguitar4109@ hotmail.com. www. mitchellmusicguitar.com.

Music Services Eady Guitars, Guitar Building & Repair. Qualified repairman offering professional set ups, fret work, wiring, finishing & restorations.

Exp. incl. Gibson & Benedetto Guitars. Appt. only. (615) 7149722, www.eadyguitars.com.

Fret Shop . Professional guitar repairs & modifications, setups, electronics, precision fretwork. Previous clients incl.

R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Cracker, Bob Mould, John Berr y, Abbey Road Live!, Squat. (706) 549-1567.

Wedding bands. Quality, professional bands.

Weddings, par ties. Rock, jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 9 - 1 5 6 7 . w w w. classiccityentertainment. com. Featuring The Magictones - Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; premiere wedding & party band. www.themagictones. com.

Musicians Wanted L o o k i n g f o r m u s i c i a n s ? T h e y â&#x20AC;&#x2122; re everywhere! Find a d r u m m e r, g u i t a r i s t , bassist, singer, violinist and more with Flagpole Classifieds! Call (706) 549-0301.

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Just text me what you want cleaned & I will give you a price. Quality earthfriendly, botanically germ killing cleaning products. Pets, kids, students..no problem.

Text Nick, (706) 8519087. Local references on request.

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Living expenses paid. Call 24/7. Abbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s One True Gift Adoptions, (866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN).

Home and Garden Advertise your skills! Lawn mowing, housecleaning, nannying. Let Athens know how to contact you with Flagpole classifieds!

Call (706) 549-0301 or visit www.classifieds.flagpole. com.

Misc. Services Football season is a great time to get your entrepreneurial mind working. Have a se r vice y ou can offer the hordes of Georgia fans about to come our way? Let them know where to find you with Flagpole Classifieds. Call 7065469-0301 or visit www. classifieds.flagpole.com

Reach 5 million hip, forwardthinking consumers across the U.S. When you advertise in alternative newspapers, you become par t of the local scene & gain access to an audience you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reach anywhere else. www. altweeklies.com/ads (AAN CAN).

Pets Boulevard Animal Hospital August Special: Multiple Pet Discount. 2nd petâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exam is half price! 298 Prince Ave. (706) 425-5099, www. downtownathensvet.com.

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Dental assistant. Full time, M o n . – F r i . $ 1 5 / h r. d u r i n g training period, $20/hr. once trained. Must be computer literate & avail. to work for a min. of 3 consecutive yrs. due to training cost.

Bachelors degree & min. 3.5 GPA preferred. Employer contributes 100% to retirement plan. Send your educational & work history to DentalAthens@gmail. com.

House/server staff: Greyfield Inn, Cumberland Island.

Come join our house staff & live/work on a beautiful Georgia island! Some dining & wine service exp. helpful.

In-residence position. $25,500/annum. Hiring i m m e d i a t e l y. S e n d l e t t e r o f i n t e re s t & a p p l i c a t i o n request to seashore@ greyfieldinn.com.

UberPrints.com is hiring! We’re looking for a full time Product Buyer to join our team.

To learn more about the job & to apply, please visit uberprints.com/ jobs.

Opportunities Actors/movie extras needed immediately for upcoming roles. $150–300/ day depending on job requirements. No exp., all looks. (800) 560-8672, A-109 for casting times/locations.

Part-time Advertise for help wanted with Flagpole C l a s s i f i e d s . w w w. classifieds.flagpole.com or (706) 549-0301.

Sakura Japanese Restaurant is now hiring experienced servers & bartenders. Bring resume to 3557 Atlanta Hwy. NEED A JOB? Full-Time and Part-Time opportunities are listed weekly in the Flagpole Classifieds.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens seeks pianist/accompanist (immediate start) for diverse, vibrant music program, incl. choirs, bands & West African drum circle. Full job description at http:// w w w. u u a t h e n s g a . o r g / o r c o n t a c t M u s i c D i r e c t o r, musicdirector@uuathensga. org.

Vehicles Autos 04 Lexus RX330 $15K, 100K miles. Silver ext., gray leather int. Loaded. Power everything. Runs beautifully.

Spacious. All new tires & recent oil change. Garage kept. Local. (404) 414-8906 (cell).

Misc. Vehicles

Earn up to $750 by participating in research in the Depar tment of Kinesiology at UGA. Women 25-45 years of age a re n e e d e d f o r a s t u d y examining the effects of a nutritional product on how many calories you burn at rest. Contact the BCM Lab at (706) 688-9297 or ugaprojectwasabi@ gmail.com.

Cash for cars: any car/truck.

Running or not! Top $ paid.

We come to you! Call for instant offer, (888) 420-3808, w w w. c a s h 4 c a r. c o m ( A A N CAN).

Earn up to $30 for completing 3 hr. study. Men between 18–65 needed. Call Personality Studies at UGA for initial phone screening (706) 583-0819. Reference Code B.

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F re e l e s s o n s . B e g i n n e r s welcome. Kenpo, kali, silat, muay thai, wing chun.

Hurry, call now! (706) 4100951. Steve@karatefire. com.

Help wanted! Extra income mailing brochures from home.

Free supplies. Genuine opportunity. No exp. req’d.

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Help wanted. Ear n extra income assembling CD cases from home. No experience necessary. Call our live operators now. (800) 405-7619 ext. 2450, www. easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN).

Movie extras make up to $300/day. No exp. req’d. All looks & ages. Call (866) 3390331.

Seeking serious, entrepreneurial college students to make money selling cell phone service.

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Tales from the Freshman Crypt

How to Avoid the Drama

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fall semester in Athens, GA. I’m reminded of my first day as a college student here after years of dreaming of following in my older brothers’ footsteps to UGA. Living away from home for the first time.

Surrounded by people my age. Downtown shops and restaurants. Parties. Football games. The only thing getting in the way would be passing those classes so I could stay in college, and those classes were taught by the scary college professors my high school teachers warned me about.

My memories drift to that first day. I double-checked the campus map and left for class early, excitement tingling every nerve as I walked from Brumby Hall to my first class building on North Campus. Up the elevator, down the hall, past a wall of students lined up—Why are they staring at me?—as I walked into the classroom. Except it was a very private office, and I was suddenly in front of someone sitting at his desk, not looking up from his books.

“Oh, I’m sorry!” I gasped. “I thought this was my classroom!”

“This is my office,” hissed the voice from its unraised head.

“Uh, yes, I see that,” I said, looking back down at my map. “Well, maybe you can help me. I’m looking for… ” “I’m sure there’s absolutely nothing I can help you with,” said the immobile head irritably.

Icy, wet towel slap in the face.

Ah. Yes. I backed out of the room, bowing along the way, closing his door in front of me, and turned to the still-staring-at-me line of students against the wall, their faces now revealing their upperclassmen age and disbelief. Not enough to have humiliated myself in front of one grownup academic, I just geeked out in front of the top two years of my fellow university students. Turning away from their aghast expressions, I now saw the name blatantly on the nameplate, professor something, head of the English department. Head of my major.

I was back down the stairs and out on the sidewalk as fast as my feet would throw me, absolutely soul-blown. First day of university education and I couldn’t even get the building right?

My four-year college career collapsed into me moving out of Athens by the end of the week. My parents would be furious.

I’ll be a cashier at Piggly Wiggly for the rest of my life. I kept walking to the correct building that a kind teacher I’d passed on my way out of Park Hall had pointed to on my map, wondering if it even matters that I would be late. But I ran anyway.

This time, eyeing the setup and population of the room before I entered, I saw my R.A. and her friends sitting toward the back—great, more upperclassmen—and I sat nearby and feebly returned her chipper wave. My ears were ringing, my head was pounding, I was still shaking and fighting tears, when into the room burst a shaggy-bearded, long-haired, balding, jeans-and-sandal-wearing, belly-peeking-beneath-histhin-t-shirt man. His eyes widened as he exclaimed in mock valley girl, “Empty seats? Oh, mah gawd!” He welcomed us to his class, although he admitted he was a little freaked to discover there were freshmen and he’s used to teaching only upperclassmen.

The clouds broke. My pulse returned to normal. I could breathe—and actually laugh—again. That mean, mean man wasn’t one of my classes, he was just an incident. This guy would be giving me a passing or failing grade. Of course, this hippie prof was a departure from any of the modern faculty I’d seen walking the campus, and I suspected the prof of my dreaded science class the following hour would be more like the hissy, top-of-head guy.

The suspense built when I got to that class, which was in an imposing auditorium—much bigger than anything I’d seen in movies set at Harvard—and that professor walked in briskly.

He looked like one of those mission control moon landing guys from the ‘60s newsreels: dress shoes, thin black slacks, crisp white short-sleeved shirt, horn-rimmed glasses and hair

clipped back to within an inch of its life. He commanded the classroom with a dignified assurance of how the subject profoundly affected our lives and ended his address with, “All I ask is that you learn something while you’re waiting for the next University of Georgia football game.”

Obviously, not all of my professors were comedians— although the exceptions were fodder for comedy back at the dorm—but a lot of them had a sense of humor, something I needed to get through the class. It also made them normal people, which didn’t change the fact that it all felt like hit or miss regarding giving them “what they wanted” in tests and papers. I wouldn’t understand that “hit or miss” was a myth until six years later, when I became a grad student teacher in English and saw firsthand what college students looked like from the other side of the classroom. If only I’d known that as a freshman.

The first myth thrown out the window—at least in my department—was the bossy grownup/ dutiful child relationship mentality. Instead, we teachers were looking for “colleagues” in our students’ work. Not fellow English teachers—we wouldn’t wish that on anybody—but students with enough life and thought in their work that you could have an intelligent conversation with them, either in your office or downtown over a beer. You know that man with the lifeless eyes behind the customer-service counter at Walmart whom you had to spend 20 minutes of your life waiting in line to talk to? Multiply that by 50 and you’ve got a teacher’s weekend of grading papers from students who don’t care. You want a respectable grade?

Show some respect first. On paper.

Second myth: Upperclassmen are taken more seriously than freshmen. The freshman-to-senior time span may feel like a lifetime when you’re a student, but for a teacher, it’s a very narrow four-year difference. It all comes down to the work.

When teachers are grading, their first thought isn’t, “Hmm, I wonder what year this student was born?”

Third myth: Effort is half your grade. “But I worked all night on this!” the student (me included—hey, I had grad school profs at the time) wails, like anything matters more than the final product. Imagine your chef saying that after you bit into a half-cooked chicken, or your mechanic after working on your brakes. Teachers can only grade what you actually give them.

Newest myth: This plagiarism website is password protected. Having not taught for years, this was a new one on me that my teacher friends shared with much laughter. I’d been thankful to dodge this digital age of how on Earth do you know when your students are copying from the Internet? Turns out search engines work for teachers, too. Not only have they made it much easier for teachers to catch plagiarism, there are programs like Turn It In that bypass passwords for plagiarism sites.

So, take heed—or pass it along to our newest fellow Athens residents—because bad grades can stress you out and evict you from this town as much as missed rent. And we’re all in this together, even if we’re in the wrong building.

Marilyn Estes

everyday people Aemro Kassa, Scientist Strolling through the mall, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sure to see at least a few husbands perched on strategically placed benches and waiting for their wives to finish shopping. My former womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studies professors would cringe at my conjectureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that I assumed Aemro Kassa was doing just that when I approached him.

Actually, this Harvard-trained virologist, biochemist and former veterinarian from Ethiopia was just waiting for a vest from the tuxedo rental shop for a destination wedding in the Dominican Republic.

Flagpole: You said you came from Boston and you are working here now?

Aemro Kassa: Yeah, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m working here now. I work for a company called Merial here. I work there as a senior scientist.

FP: What are you studying there?

AK: Well, the company Merial actually is one of the major pharma-biotech companies producing medicines for veterinary care. So, we produce different kinds of drugs and vaccines for

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FP: Yeah, interesting. And this happened by chance or were you looking to go back to that field?

AK: This happened by chance. I mean I was working in other companies, so I was not particularly looking for it, but when the chance appeared that there was a possibility of working here, I definitely was interested.

FP: And how long did you practice as a veterinarian?

AK: Not for that long. I practiced it when I was back home, probably not more than a year or two.

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AK: Yeah. June, like the last week of June.

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AK: Yeah. I had to come here for the interview and visit before we decided to come. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a wife and a son, so I wanted to make sureâ&#x20AC;Ś

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FP: What kind of schooling do you have?

AK: I did my Ph.D. I did my Ph.D. in Harvard in Boston in virology and viruses and protein biochemistry. And then I worked for different companies while I was in Boston. Now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve moved to a new place and have a new, different job.

FP: How long had you lived in Boston then?

AK: Uh, quite a while, probably about 10 years: a few years going to schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;six or seven years going to schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and a few other years working.

FP: You mentioned you were going to a wedding in the Dominican Republic, are you from there?

AK: No, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not from there, actually. My brother-in-law is going to be wedded to his wife, and they are actually from Ethiopia, and I am from Ethiopia originally. Well, they have got a destination weddingâ&#x20AC;Ś Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been in the Caribbean. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard good things about it, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to do some beach-walking and stuff like that.

FP: OK. I honestly havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heard about (Merial) before.

AK: I mean probably not, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s notâ&#x20AC;Ś I mean, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very big company; probably itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got more than 5,000 employees. You know, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got sites in France and here in America weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got multiple sites. One is here, and another in Duluth and multiple other sites, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very international company, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty much located in all continents.

FP: So, you studied viruses and protein biochemistry. Were you interested in getting into the veterinary side of that?

FP: OK, so you relocated your whole family here? I guess how are you and your family adjusting?

AK: So far, great actually. I love theâ&#x20AC;Ś Athens is a beautiful city. I mean, I lived most of the time in Boston which is a big cityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;very crowded, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lots of hustle and bustle, you know; driving to and from work is kind of a hassle with the traffic and stuff. Here thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no traffic problem, the streets are cleaner, the people are nicer compared to the northern ones, you know. So, I really like it; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m enjoying it.

FP: So, what do you and your wife do in your spare time?

AK: In our spare time? I mean, pretty much, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only been a month, so we did not have much spare time because, you know, we were moving our stuff, preparing our home and stuff like that. What else? I mean, we have got family members coming here, so we have been entertaining them, whenever we can. That has been most of the stuff. We like to go to Barnes and Noble with our son and read books with him; sometimes go to the park, walk around or play ball. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty much it so far.

FP: Have you been downtown at all?

AK: Yeah, I have been. The only problem is that we could not go there as a family because my son is extremely mobile, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way ofâ&#x20AC;Ś having a decent meal or decent drink with him. So, we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to go there, but I went there with friends of mine, you know, to sample some of the nice beers around here and good food around here. Yeah, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been there a couple of times.

FP: Your wife, does she work?

AK: Well, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not working now. But sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking for a job.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nurse, soâ&#x20AC;Ś FP: Oh, well, this is a good area for her, no?

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