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THIS WEEK’S ISSUE:

Don’t Mess With Success

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Everybody agrees that the only way to attack learning failures is by early intervention, and we have a system in place that by all measurements provides dramatic results. We’ve made great strides in teaching children to read by the time they reach third grade, because we know that if they don’t get it by then, they’re going to fail. Reading is the key. Without it, they can’t learn. When they can’t learn, they drop out. When they drop out, they’re prepared for the next learning institution: prison.

Under the leadership of then-Governor Zell Miller, Georgia came up with a way to raise money for education, requiring no commitment from taxpayers: a state-run lottery, with the proceeds going to provide a practically free college education to students who keep up their grades. Wisely, the program also provided for education at the other end: pre-kindergarten classes for four-year-olds to prepare them to be ready to hit running when they enter kindergarten. Pre-K is not by a long shot just babysitting. Pre-K is a carefully devised and administered program designed to teach young children the skills they will need in order to learn in a school environment. It also involves their parents and helps them understand how to help their children learn.

According to the Clarke County School District’s Office of Early Learning, we have 7,806 children under five years old in Athens-Clarke County. Of When they drop out, those, 2,388 are classified as living in poverty. There are they’re prepared for 735 children enrolled in prekindergarten programs in our the next learning elementary schools and at the institution: prison. Early Learning Center, and more scattered around at some lottery-funded day-care centers, where the curriculum is not under the control of the Clarke County School District.

Needless to say, an added bonus of all this early learning activity is that working parents can go on to their jobs knowing that their children are not only cared for but are getting— at least in the county school system—the kind of preparation they need to begin their formal education.

You would think that even in the worst times our prekindergarten programs would be protected by even the most zealous budget cutters. Messing with a proven program like pre-K not only weakens its impact on the children who need it now, it also jeopardizes our future economic growth—our ability to train our young citizens to prepare for jobs and to adapt to changing work requirements.

Unfortunately, the governor has proposed and the legislature is considering cutting pre-K classes back from six-anda-half hours a day to four. Everyone familiar with our early learning programs understands what that means to the teaching day of these very young children.

Here’s how the Office of Early Learning summarizes it: “If children attend school for four hours, it will have a negative impact on the instructional program as well as the families. The children will have less instructional time and fewer opportunities for social interactions. They will also miss lunch and outdoor time. These are important instructional opportunities, as teachers instruct during these times. Families will not have a full day program for their children, resulting in many families choosing to quit their jobs to care for their children…

“The instructional program will be negatively impacted as well. Highly qualified and trained teachers in the pre-kindergarten program will transfer into other full day teaching positions. The cost to train new teachers will be an added expense to the district. The children will also be impacted as they will not have the benefit of a well-trained teacher.”

It is inconceivable that such a successful and vital program would be at risk, yet it is in imminent danger of being disastrously cut back. For what it’s worth, contact our State Senators Bill Cowsert (404-463-1383, bill.cowsert@senate. ga.gov) and Frank Ginn (404-656-4700, frank.ginn@senate. ga.gov) and our State Representatives Keith Heard (706-5401071 cell, keith.heard@house.ga.gov), Doug McKillip (706340-4102 cell, doug@dougmckillip.com) and Hank Huckaby (404-651-7737, hank.huckaby@ house.ga.gov).

Tell them to dig deeper and find other ways to save money without hurting our children, our families and our future.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

News & Features Athens News and Views

Why does Frank Ginn care so much about future land use plans?

Google that Sh!t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Too Crazy to Be True?

Matthew Pulver’s new feature invites you to check the wack facts.

Arts & Events Movie Pick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Animation with a Twist

Rango reminds that a cartoon can please both children and adults.

HACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Laughing at/with Local Musicians A new night in Athens’ growing comedy scene.

COVER DESIGN by Kelly Ruberto featuring a digital rendering by Saral Surakul from the 36th Juried Exhibition at the Lyndon House Arts Center

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Commune-raised. Art school-educated. Animal Collective-produced.

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LETTERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CITY DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CITY PAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 CAPITOL IMPACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 GOOGLE THAT SH!T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ATHENS RISING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 JUST LIKE FAMILY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 GRUB NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 BEER NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 MOVIE DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 MOVIE PICK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 FILM NOTEBOOK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 THEATRE NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

HACKS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 THREATS & PROMISES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 RECORD REVIEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 PRINCE RAMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 TORO Y MOI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 COLIN HAY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 THE CALENDAR!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 BULLETIN BOARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 ART AROUND TOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 COMICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 REALITY CHECK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 TOWNIECONOMY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 EVERYDAY PEOPLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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letters GREAT WEBSITE I used the revised ACC website the other day for several things: commissioner and staff contact info and the leaf and limb pickup schedule. I wrote to Sandi Turner directly (using the easy-to-use staff directory to find her email address) to tell her how I appreciated the new layout and navigation, but I wanted to acknowledge her publicly and I thought, “Flagpole letter!” So, kudos to Sandi and Jeff Montgomery and their team. The new site is visually uncluttered and navigation is simple. It’s a great example of what a governmental website should do: provide information to citizens in a straightforward manner.

Thanks, y’all!

Neal Anderson Athens

DEEPDO, WADO, CCDO? As always, I enjoyed reading Pub Notes.

It got me thinking of another city, west of here, that resuscitated what was once the core of their community. In the ‘80s, Greenville Avenue was the place to pub crawl in Dallas, TX: lots of great music, food, shops, etc. It may still have it; I haven’t been there in a while.

Artists, entrepreneurs and other creative types, unable to afford the rents in the popular Greenville Avenue District, moved South to Elm Street. Locals referred to the area as Deep Elm (pronounced “deep el em”). When

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CONTACT US AT P.O. BOX 1027, ATHENS, GA 30603, LETTERS@FLAGPOLE.COM OR VIA THE “TALK BACK TO US” LINK AT FLAGPOLE.COM I left Dallas a lifetime ago, Deep Elm was a political discourse. The adjective “American” gritty, groovy, kinda-scary place with lots of has become a synonym for strong, virtuous potential. and infallible, while to be “un-American” is Looking back, I now see that my misto be frightening and foreign. However, I only take was not paying attention to the Classic realized the extent of this delusion after one Center’s expansion plans, approved years ago. freshman proclaimed, “Capitalism is the greatAs was explained to me, it is those plans that est humanitarian engine ever invented.” now make the amputation of LoDo immiIt gave me pause. Surveying Athens and nent. That’s what I get for not being more all its poverty, I had to wonder, “Doesn’t he attentive… know what capitalism As I was sayis?” Under capitalism, ing, your bit got me people and busiBUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: thinking of other nesses pursue their names for the area: own interests alone, DeepDo as in Deep leaving no place for Downtown, where no the type of humanity Thanks, Sarah. Send your sticker sightings to one wants to step; and kindness the stuletters@flagpole.com. or WaDo as in Water dent described. Even Downtown, where Adam Smith acknowlyou can see the river, edged this when but not actually get to it; CCDo as in Classic he wrote, “It is not from the benevolence of Center’s Downtown. the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we Peter Norris expect our dinner, but from their regard to Athens their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.”

It is true, as the student claimed, that capitalism decreased the levels of poverty in The Red and Black ran a series of lettersEurope when it supplanted the old way of life: to-the-editor in which UGA students discussed which economic system Jesus would have sup- feudalism. Yet it is ludicrous to conclude, as ported. Anyone who regularly follows American he also did, that this alone makes capitalism morally good. Indeed, consider that euthanizpolitics will probably guess what ensued: the ing and eating all the homeless in Athens debate quickly became one of “capitalism” would “eradicate” poverty here and increase vs. “socialism” and, by association, “good” the standard of living for the remaining vs. “evil.” Due to our cultural conditioning, people. Would any rational person call this a this regrettably has become the norm in our

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CAPITALISM Is HUMANITARIAN?

humanitarian effort? Similarly, does anyone commend BP for spilling oil or Blackwater for murdering Iraqi civilians because their actions created additional jobs? Do we commend Hitler for jump-starting our economy?

Instead, the debate about which system is the best or most Christian ought to begin with a simple question: “Which economic structure will minimize the suffering of everyone?”

Although this may shock many who conflate Christianity and capitalism, there’s absolutely no reason to believe the answer is capitalism!

In fact, our nation’s increasing homelessness and hunger, ravaged environment, shrinking middle class, staggering infant mortality rate and drastically underfunded education systems (all despite being one of the wealthiest nations on Earth) suggest capitalism is a very poor answer to the question.

To put things in perspective: today in America the top 10 percent of the population owns 71 percent of the wealth, with the top 1 percent owning a whopping 38 percent of it. By comparison, the bottom 40 percent of the country owns less than 1 percent. Even at UGA, President Michael Adams and his vicepresidents regularly enjoy raises and bonuses to their six-figure salaries, while “temporary” wage-workers are repeatedly fired and re-hired so they can be denied basic benefits and a livable income. Are these really products of a humanitarian engine or a class of wealthy elites driving us toward a modern feudalism? I pose the question to any remaining skeptics: Which one would be in their self-interest?

Grant Fiddyment Athens

city dope Athens News and Views Late but Not Never: The Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission’s December approval of a request from the Chi Phi fraternity to build a new house at Milledge and Rutherford cost Commissioner Kathy Hoard a lot of goodwill in a neighborhood for which, ironically, she had just spent years putting together the pieces necessary to establish a local historic district overlay for zoning purposes. Now there’s a coda to that unfortunate episode: the M&C voted last week to begin a moratorium on special use permits in the area while county planners revisit the zoning ordinances that, in their tolerance of dense, unrestricted business uses, they say necessitated their decision.

Here’s hoping the effort to ward off similar entanglements in the future pays off.

Pesky Plans: There are plenty of “unfunded mandates” that ACC commissioners don’t like—former Mayor Heidi Davison gave state reps a list of over a dozen two years ago—but the requirement to create a future land-use plan isn’t one of them. So why does local Sen. Frank Ginn want to eliminate that particular requirement? ACC has been proactive in landuse planning, anyway, but for many less-devel-

$10,000 per vehicle; and completely replacing 17,000 road signs to meet new reflectivity standards.

And what is it that state lawmakers are always complaining about, after they pile more costs onto local governments? About how the locals keep raising everybody’s property taxes… [John Huie] The Balance: Without apparent intent, the AP report on the Georgia House’s passage of an anti-immigrant bill similar to Arizona’s SB 1070 placed the legislation in a disturbingly illuminating context. The story, published in the Friday, Mar. 4 Athens Banner-Herald, closed with a quote from a supporter of the bill who was “elated” with its success: D.A. King, the founder of the Dustin Inman Society, a group described as one that “advocates for stricter enforcement of immigration laws.” And how!

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps pretty good track of such things, lists King’s organization as a “nativist extremist” group, and the Anti-Defamation League’s website features an article cataloging King’s extensive history of openly racist public statements and associations with other extremist groups like the Minutemen.

Just another wonderful example of what passes for mainstream conservative opinion in the current political discourse. Yikes!

Oops, Here’s Another: Those irrepressible Georgia House Republicans introduced a bill last week that would require presidential candidates to provide the state with proof of American It was with considerable alarm that neighbors of the landmark Charlie Williams’ birth in order to be Pinecrest Lodge noticed last week that two additions to the historic structure placed on the Georgia had been demolished. Turns out the remainder of the building will remain intact; ballot. Ninety-three of the county’s fancy new demolition delay ordinance wasn’t triggered because the Georgia’s 180 House renovation is part of a development plan that was approved by the ACC Mayor members, including and Commission in 2005. one Democrat, signed on as sponsors of the oped counties, such a planning exercise can legislation before some of them started getprovide a chance to think about the future. ting skittish and blacking out their names late After all, nobody seems to want their home to in the week. Why any of the huge Republican become “like Gwinnett County”—but market majority would find it necessary to back off pressures tend to produce exactly that. of the perfectly reasonable position that the ACC has made sometimes-controversial President of the United States, who is not decisions on land use—limiting greenbelt white and has a very scary name, nefariously development to one house per 10 acres, got himself elected without showing sufficient outlawing wholesale land-flattening with a proof of his native citizenship is anyone’s mass-grading ordinance, requiring trees to be guess, but those unpatriotic cowards obviously planted—and still, some parts of Athens look need to be interrogated by military tribunals. like Gwinnett County. But ACC officials’ comNext on the legislative agenda is a bill that plaints of unfunded state mandates have run would forbid actual demons and witches to to sex-offender registration that requires “reg- seek office in our great state; it’s expected to istering, photographing, fingerprinting, updat- pass easily along partisan lines. ing local and state websites” and publishing newspaper notices, at a cost of $34,000 a Don’t Forget: The final public input session year; shifting court costs (including personnel for the design planning of the Classic Center and equipment maintenance) to the county; expansion takes place this Thursday, Mar. 10, added costs to the local tag office for various at 6 p.m. on the premises of the center itself. activities formerly performed by the state; The design team is supposed to present its federal water-pollution requirements includfinal two options for the project, but there’s ing “public education, illicit discharge deteca lot about this situation that still seems up tion, additional system maintenance, erosion in the air, so don’t be surprised if the procontrol, and water quality management” cess is extended a bit. You should show up, costing $1.3 million a year (and now covered anyway.

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city pages officials. In the past, ACC Transportation and Public Works Director David Clark told some 40 citizens at an informational meeting last week, GDOT has been “fair and generous” in funding local road projects (like resurfacing of county roads). But with revenues declining, “those opportunities are getting farther and Having solicited (on a short deadline) farther between,” he said. proposals for transportation projects from That’s one reason all the region’s counties citizens, Athens-Clarke County’s Transportation have a real interest in putting together a list and Public Works department prepared to seek of T-SPLOST projects that voters will approve. input from ACC commissioners on a list of pos- The politics of that will be something of a sible regional projects for voters to approve delicate dance. Most of the region’s voters live in August 2012. In a somewhat complicated in Athens-Clarke County, and the biggest part process set up last year by state legislators, of the revenue (if the tax passes) will also be elected officials from this region’s 12 counties collected in ACC. The projects are supposed to will pick a list of projects to fund with a new be of regional impact, and what most of the 1-cent transportation sales tax, or T-SPLOST. counties need are “roads, and not bike paths,” If voters approve the extra penny, the said ACC Commissioner Alice Kinman, who, new tax could fund alternative transportation along with Mayor Nancy Denson, represents projects like sidewalks, buses, and bicycle ACC on the regional roundtable. lanes—which, under But whatever (and Georgia law, cannot be wherever) the chosen The total amount of funded with gasoline projects are, every taxes—as well as roads county will still split 25 money being spent on and bridges. The total percent of the money amount of money being transportation in our region off the top for its own spent on transportauses. “They need this tion in our region might might roughly double, and to pass as much as roughly double, and ACC anybody does,” Kinman ACC sales taxes would sales taxes would reach said. “Chambers of 8 percent. Legislators commerce are going reach 8 percent. authorized such a tax to be very important. last year in the face of Transportation advocacy declining funds available for transportation groups are going to be very important” in (and persistent overspending by the Georgia making the case to voters that the projects Department of Transportation). Gasoline sales are worthwhile, Kinman said. Several citizens are down, along with gas tax revenues. who filled out forms to suggest projects asked The Northeast Georgia region (one of 12 for passenger rail lines; another citizen asked in the state) includes Elberton, Jefferson and about running buses beyond county lines, sayCovington, and reaches south to Greene and ing people who don’t drive “are getting left Jasper counties. Over its 10-year term, the out.” new tax could raise as much as a billion dolAmy Johnson of BikeAthens told Flagpole lars for regional projects. Of that money, 25 that her group would propose including bike percent would go directly to the individual lanes and sidewalks “as appropriate” with road counties to use as they please; the rest would projects, adding greenway trails, and connectfund the list of regional projects selected in ing rural “link” van services into one interconadvance by a “regional roundtable” of elected nected system.

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“There are regions in the state of Georgia recommendations to run by ACC commisthat have multi-county transit systems,” said sioners at their Mar. 9 work session, he said.

ACC Transit Director Butch McDuffie. “If folks But Commissioner Kinman told Flagpole the from Oconee county want transit service, they roundtable has met twice, and “we’re all just need to talk to their elected officials.” But pulling from plans that we already have. They most rural counties are more interested in can’t just be new ideas from out of nowhere.” expanding the on-demand For ACC, those existing van service than institut- What most of the counties plans include the county’s ing fixed-route buses transit development plan (Athens runs the region’s need are “roads, and not for future bus service, only buses), he said. The its list of suggested new bike paths.”

T-SPLOST allows money sidewalks, and its bicycle to be used for transit master plan, which marks operating costs, which regular county SPLOST 16 major and connecting streets for eventual money can’t be used for, he added. “That’s bike lanes or paths. For the roundtable, said pretty significant when it comes to operating Kinman, “the heavy lifting will be this sumtransit.” mer.” The list will be finalized in October.

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For a moment, it looked like Georgia’s political leadership really might be in favor of strengthening the state laws that require governments to conduct their business openly and make their official records available to the public.

Attorney General Sam Olens announced recently he had drafted a bill that would make significant improvements in the open records act.

“Georgians deserve a clear, coherent law that enforces good government practices and allows them to hold their elected officials accountable,” Olens said.

Better yet, the top leaders in the House and Senate indicated they were supportive of Olens’ objectives.

“I think it’s something we’re going to look at with a lot of favor,” House Speaker David Ralston said.

“Openness in government is something that I’ve always been in favor of and will continue to be in favor of, and I will support Attorney General Sam Olens,” Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle agreed.

When you’re dealing with the folks at the capitol complex, don’t just listen to what they say—watch what they do. On the same day that Olens was sending out news releases touting his proposal for the open records act, a bill designated as SB 159 was introduced that would nullify what Olens wants to do. SB 159 would allow local government officials to keep secret all records related to their negotiations with private businesses that might be interested in opening a facility in their county. Any information related to these economic development projects, the bill states, “shall not be subject to any mandatory public disclosure requirement, and no document or record containing information about such private economic development project shall constitute a matter of public record.”

This information would only be made available to the public after the economic

development deal has been officially announced, the bill says. In other words, your county commissioner or mayor can cut a deal to bring in a private business and you not only will not be told about it, you won’t even be able to get copies of the relevant public documents until after deed has been done.

Here’s what SB 159 would mean in the real world: you might wake up one morning and discover that your local elected officials had signed an agreement with private developers to put a landfill, or a rendering plant, or a big-box store on the property next to yours.

Under SB 159, this would have been done with no notice given to the public. If someone had heard rumors that plans were afoot to bring in a new business, they would not be allowed under SB 159 to have access to public documents related to that “economic development project” until after all the contracts had been signed.

Here’s what it also could mean: your mayor or county commissioner could cut a sweetheart deal with their relatives or cronies to provide them with generous tax abatements and free roads and sewers for their proposed project. You wouldn’t know anything about this, because all of the information about it could legally be kept secret from the public.

Does that sound like a bad deal to you? It should.

Bills like SB 159 affect the basic rights of every taxpayer and resident of Georgia.

Your local government is only able to operate because of the taxes and fees that you pay.

It is the fundamental right of every citizen to have access at all times to the public records of how their tax money is being spent.

If you are concerned about what your local officials are doing, you should communicate your feelings about SB 159 to your legislators.

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Search: prison profit CCA Say there were these really rich guys who got money every time someone was put in prison. And since the United States incarcerates more of its citizens per capita than any nation on earth (Google it!), say these guys were making tons of money. Which Georgia legislative entities would you think these guys would try to buy off in order to further their business aims in our state?

If you guessed “the House and Senate judiciary committees,” you might have a bright future in for-profit incarceration. Georgia politicians on the two judiciary committees receive thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the world’s largest for-profit prison company. The corporation owns and operates four profitable prisons in the state, and those prisons’ revenues constitute a sizable portion of CCA’s total income. The friendly folks over at CCA understand that the committee that determines what lands citizens behind bars—and for how long—is a wise one to ply with cash. More prisoners means more money, or, as CCA puts it, the “business strategy [is to] increase occupancy and revenue.”

Local Republican State Senator Bill Cowsert sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee and has received over $1,500 in campaign money from CCA. It doesn’t stop there, though. The Nashville Tennessean reports that CCA (based in Tennessee) has pumped over $500,000 into the Democratic and Republican governors associations. Even Democrat Roy Barnes received $5000 from the corporation in his 2010 bid for the governorship. The corporation also funnels money through its political action committee, spending another $175,000 in the 2010 election cycle. All the “contributions” constitute a vast, multi-million dollar investment by CCA to ensure that a steady stream of prisoners continues to enter and remain in its facilities—or better yet, CCA hopes, an ever-growing stream.

CCA is forced to be candid in its latest prospectus to investors: the corporation boasts that it is “well-positioned to capitalize” on the “growing United States prison population.”

Billion-dollar New York hedge fund manager Bill Ackman issued a 40-page report on CCA in which he could barely contain his excitement about the profits to be had in the event of more Americans being incarcerated. He was so excited that he purchased upwards of 10 million shares of CCA stock, becoming the largest of the company’s shareholders. Wall Street is now profiting from Georgians being locked behind bars. Turns out, crime does pay. Google that shit.

Search: 2Pac eats Quayle If you think political rancor is bad now, check out Vice President Dan Quayle’s feud with rapper Tupac Shakur in 1992. That was a real beef, USDA certified. Shakur, son of famed Black Panther Afeni Shakur, was not one to half-step when it came to politics. His debut album, 2Pacalypse Now, simmered with the radical politics of his mother’s milieu, articulating the anger of young black Americans.

Dan Quayle was the Sarah Palin of the late 1980s, chosen

by George H.W. Bush to be his 1988 running mate because of Quayle’s solid conservative credentials and youthful good looks. What Quayle lacked in experience and wisdom, he made up for with the sort of social attitudes that got old, conservative white people jazzed up.

Appalled at ‘Pac’s antagonistic position vis-à-vis the police (how could a young black male not love the cops?!), Quayle attacked the rapper publicly and angrily denounced Shakur’s album as having “no place in our society.” To which 2Pac replied on his sophomore album, “It’s a stick up! Vice President Dan Quayle, eat a dick up!” To which Quayle said absolutely nothing.

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athens rising What’s Up in New Development Pennies for Education: Having wrapped up ACC’s SPLOST 2011 referendum in the last election cycle, we’ll get to vote on the Clarke County Board of Education’s E-SPLOST renewal this November. The program’s timeline is a modest five years, compared to ACC’s nine-year schedule, and will pull in an estimated $112 million. Before we delve too deeply into what new school projects might be on the way, it’s worth looking at how the E-SPLOST has evolved over time.

The November referendum, if passed by voters, will be the fourth round of projects funded by the tax, and according to David Stubbs, the CCBOE’s director of facility planning and construction, its history has been one of continual refinement and evolution. Initial projects focused primarily on meeting essential functional needs, addressing aging and overcrowded facilities first and foremost. In recent years, the school district has begun to consider more innovative solutions to school design. Before then, Stubbs says, “We didn’t have the luxury.”

Stubbs also points to a change in thinking at the state level in the last two to three years as contributing to new ideas coming forward locally.

that reinforce the school district’s educational goals makes a lot of sense. State rules say that an elementary school needs 16 acres; at Vincent Drive there is more than double that.

Rather than plowing up the masses of utility infrastructure under the intended school site, originally intended for the subdivision, perhaps the school could be located on the undeveloped portion of the site, with the existing infrastructure used to support a compatible nonprofit initiative. Habitat for Humanity and the Athens Land Trust come to mind as two organizations that might be able to do a lot of good by having access to a bank of ready-to-go lots around the corner from a new and innovative elementary school. Education doesn’t stop when the student walks out of the school door, and taking advantage of this abundance of land and infrastructure here could result in some innovative solutions to create a 24-7 learning environment. Further anchoring the neighborhood with other community institutions like a Boys and Girls Club

Progressive Design: Timothy Road Elementary and the under-renovation H.T. Edwards building are two examples of newer modes of thinking about how school campuses interact with their surroundings. Both are two-story schools that relate well to the neighborhoods around them, restoring the school building to its historic place as a major civic structure in the community. Previous school projects, such as the new Gaines Elementary and J.J. Harris Elementary, have all the civic presence of a Wal-Mart, each being a lowslung building lying behind a substantial parking lot. These uninviting structures are clearly meant to be driven to, and have little infrastructure to encourage—or even provide safe passage across the parking lot for— The original Gaines Elementary School could be renovated to become Maxine Easom students who might walk or bike.

Elementary as part of the upcoming school district SPLOST. How can designs for new schools Stubbs points especially to the recently evolve to address 21st-century instruction, while still learning from historic structures? completed Fowler Drive Elementary as an example of a school with a truly innovative learning environment, which is not only well-endowed with and playgrounds that served as a well-integrated community sustainable features, but also lush in contextual information park after school hours would go a long way. Combating the which engages the curiosity of students as they move throughgrinding intergenerational poverty of Athens (ACC is the out the building and campus. Through various strategies, such poorest county of more than 100,000 people in the nation) as exposing building systems and educational artwork incorpoand low rank of our school district (138th out of 155 districts rated in floors and paths, a rich and stimulating environment in the state) will take all parties involved reaching out into is created. new realms. A stable environment in which students can easily walk to school rather than enduring 45-minute bus rides, Building for Community: One last major project that still and working moms can go around the corner to parent-teacher remains from the current E-SPLOST III is a new, and so-far conferences and PTA meetings rather than driving across town unnamed, elementary school on Vincent Drive. The school is a vision worth considering. A silo-ed approach just isn’t an district has been in conversation with officials at the state option. level about the idea of making the school a prototype, testing out new ways technology can be used in the classroom, among A Valuable Opportunity: If we can figure out what an innovaother things. How else could it serve as an opportunity to tive urban school campus looks like there, perhaps those rethink what a school does for the community? ideas can be applied to the major E-SPLOST IV projects. Many The school district bought 40-odd acres of the the halfof the most extensive likely projects are renovations at decidfinished Lantern Walk subdivision, after initially searching in edly urban sites, such Clarke Central High School, Barrow the county’s greenbelt for a site. Lantern Walk’s walkable New Elementary and the old Gaines Elementary (to be renamed Urbanist design would be well complemented by a school, Maxine Easom Elementary). Alps Road and Chase Street anchoring the neighborhood both architecturally and as an elementaries are recent school renovations that miss the mark important player in the community. Right now, the idea is on that neighborhood connection. Those major projects aren’t that some of the four or so blocks the school district purchased the only work that will be done, though; there will likely be would be used for the various driveways that would loop projects of some scale at every school, including some which around the school. However, if the standard suburban, or even address facilities built in previous SPLOSTs, when the school rural approach to schools is applied in this urban context, it district was still in a triage mode with regards to its ailing defeats the purpose that the siting choice would have served, buildings. which is a walkable neighborhood school.

It’ll be interesting to see how the district’s evolving thinking is applied to these integral elements of our community.

Productive Sharing: Going back to the example of the H.T. Certainly, those increasingly innovative ideas regarding instrucEdwards campus, located at Evans Street and Dearing Extension tion and what happens inside the walls will continue to guide just south of West Broad, there are some other approaches these projects. However, if we don’t take a hard look at what’s worth considering. That campus houses several distinct acahappening outside the walls of schools, we’ll have missed a demic entities; it’s also home to a chapter of the nonprofit big opportunity.

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Just Like Family People Are Spending More to Keep Their Pets Healthy

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it’s not your imagination: it costs Five Points neighborhood in the late 1980s. Since then, she more to care of your pets than it has seen her number of patients steadily grow. Hers is strictly used to. But, just like we accept a referral clinic, so that’s partially due to increased awareness higher gas prices because we are of specialists like her among other veterinary doctors. But, it reliant on our cars, Americans are choosing to spend extra also has to do with the increased value clients place on their money on their pets, because these days, our furry companions beloved pets. mean more to us than ever before.

“People love it when you can restore a pet’s vision or take The U.S. Pet Ownership and Demographic Sourcebook put away their pain,” she says. “You look right into their eyes, out by the American Veterinary Association (AVA) based on and expression and communication through the eyes is very data from 2006 says that the average pet-owning American important.” household spends $366 a year on veterinary costs. But that’s Allen points out, “There are more people now who consider just an average: the same book says that 49.7 percent of pet a pet part of the family than a piece of property like it used owners consider their animals to be family members, and when to be in the distant past. A direct result of that is to what family members are seriously ill, those who are able to will lengths and what expense people are willing to go in a a pet’s spend a lot to help them get well. medical care.”

Dr. Sheila Allen is the dean of the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine. She says there are several factors relevant to the rise of veterinary costs in recent years.

The simplest cause is the same thing driving up prices in every other facet of life: inflation. When a veterinarian’s rent, power bill, supply costs and employee insurance costs go up, those costs must be reflected in prices in order keep the business open. But, there are many other issues involved, too.

For one, Allen says that many of the medicines and medical devices used in veterinary medicine are the same as those used in human medicine and are produced by the same companies. Unfortunately, pharmaceutical companies don’t give veterinarians a discount just because the drugs are going to animals instead of humans. “When the medical costs for humans go up, our costs go up, too,” says Allen.

Another important reason for increased spending on veterinary care is the simple fact that there are more options available for animals. As medical technology improves, more illnesses can be prevented and treated.

Dr. Victoria Pentlarge and Amy Schwertzel attend to Schwertzel’s dog, Snickers.

As more viruses are identified, more vaccines are created. Just as children now get chickenpox vaccines, which as recently as 10–15 years ago they didn’t, there are Pentlarge agrees. “As pets become more of a family member, now animal vaccines that prevent parvovirus, leptospirosis and they play a more important role in clients’ lives,” she says. kennel cough in addition to the ones for distemper and rabies.

Still, Allen says she has seen some changes in the choices “Veterinary medicine is no different in that regard,” Allen people make with the difficult economy. The Small Animal says. “As the medical advances are made, we feel like it’s our Veterinary Teaching Hospital at UGA is also a referral clinic, so obligation to pass on that benefit to the pet owner.” most clients who take their pets there are aware that costs will Allen says that she has seen a general change in people’s be higher and are at least willing to consider the more expenattitudes toward their animals. In the past, it was common for sive procedures, Allen says. The hospital saw a small drop in people to give their dogs a rabies shot and doghouse in the yearly cases in 2009, but that seems to have come back up in yard, and that was considered enough. Now, dogs are more 2010. What Allen has noticed is that when a client is given the likely to sleep on the bed, and their owners treat them almost choice of two procedures—for example, a less expensive medilike children. That means they are more willing to spend money cal option versus a more expensive surgical option—people to give their pets optimal health in life. seem to be more inclined to try the less expensive route first.

Dr. Victoria Pentlarge is a board-certified veterinary ophLisa Campagna lives on the westside of Athens with her thalmologist. She opened the Animal Eye Care Clinic in Athens’ husband Marc, their dog Miles and their (male) cat Mr. Molly.

She says they spend an average of about $350 per year on routine veterinary costs. She and her husband were laid off around June and were living on savings until they found work in October and September, respectively. Money was tight, but they continued to give their pets the treatments they needed, including flea and tick medicine they had stocked for their dog. Campagna says her sister was nice enough to give her a little for the cat as well, to help out while they were struggling.

“Back in the summer, someone shot our dog,” she says.

“The money was tight, but still we took him to the vet, and had him x-rayed. If surgery was necessary, we would have done that. If they need it, they will get it.”

The unexpected veterinary visit ended up costing the Campagnas about $150. She says her pets are almost like her children. But, still, she has made decisions to make care for her animals more affordable. Her cat lives 100 percent of the time indoors and so is highly unlikely to contract feline leukemia. She opts out of that vaccine to save a little money and also to prevent a reoccurrence of an allergic reaction he had to the vaccine when he was a kitten that sent him to the emergency room, another unexpected expense.

One option for dealing with the high costs of pet ownership is to buy pet insurance. Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI) is one of the biggest and best-known providers in the United States; Purina also offers insurance for pets, as does the ASPCA. Pet insurance is not as common in the United States as it is in some European countries. About 20 percent of pet owners have insurance in England and about 49 percent in Sweden. Some companies there even offer it as a benefit. More U.S. companies are starting to do the same, including the internet company AOL, but according to a Society for Human Resource Management survey, only 3 percent of companies did as of 2009.

Allen says she hasn’t seen too many clients who chose this option, but those who do say it’s a good way to spread out the cost of care over time, instead of having to deal with large expenses all at once. Pentlarge says she only sees a client with pet insurance about once a month.

There are other surprising costs to taking care of animals, like boarding fees. A cat can likely get away with staying home alone indoors for a day or two if you leave extra food, water and maybe a second litter box, but a dog generally needs to come with you, or go to a kennel for boarding.

Campagna said that any college student just getting an animal for the first time should be conscious about how much of an investment it can be. But in the end, Campagana and many other Americans see the costs as worth it. After all, it’s hard to put a price on unconditional love.

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grub notes Eat Locally Local, Part 1: Doing your best to support local businesses doesn’t always mean you have to sacrifice the feeling of a bigger institution, which is what some folks like. The new Piccolo’s Italian Steak House (2061 Hog Mountain Rd., in Watkinsville) in the Oconee Plaza shopping center is where you should go if you’re in the mood for Carrabba’s but would rather your dime go to Tim Piccolo and Marshall Franklin. Much like the corporate restaurant, you’ll be presented with a massive menu (16 choices for appetizers alone) and an array of questions. You may, by the time you’re done ordering, feel as though you’ve been interrogated: Beverage? Would you like your steak Tuscan style, Sicilian style, au poivre or melenzane?

How do you want it cooked? House salad, Caesar salad or soup?

What dressing would you like/what kind of soup? Pasta or vegetables for a side? If the former, what kind of sauce?

The Athens area remains not rich in genuinely good options for Italian dining, and while Piccolo’s is perfectly cheery and a pleasant place to eat, it’s not going to blow anyone away.

The Sicilian nachos (with sausage) are appealingly weird and innovative, although not really an improvement on the standard version of the dish. I was decently impressed with the New York strip served Tuscan style, which was very well cooked, although I still prefer my steak not quite so jus-y. Most things are fine: Sicilian style, not objectionable in any specific way but missing a little pizazz in the seasonau poivre or ing department, like the marinara sauce, melenzane? which my date described as tasting like the one at The Mad Italian. The escarole and cannellini that can be served over homemade gnocchi are better than the potato dumplings—nicely salted and flavorful in their garlic butter sauce. The chicken marsala is good, not the rubbery version you more frequently get, and of the three different soups I tried, one made with beans was by far the best. The menu is far larger than these selections reflect, with lots of seafood, an Italian-style bacon cheeseburger and desserts including a bread pudding of the day. It’s open for lunch and dinner every day, with lunch specials that are a good deal, serves beer and wine and takes credit cards.

Local, Part 2: Similar to Piccolo’s, Yummy Bites (489 E. Clayton St.) gets credit for being a small, independent, local business, as well as for making from scratch most of its offerings. The restaurant, which is in the strip on Clayton Street once occupied by the Bluebird Café, is owned by Suree Amonteerakul of Cozy Yum Yum, but the food is entirely different from that of its parent eatery. Instead of Thai, Yummy Bites does classic American, with a hot bar, subs, cheesesteaks, sandwiches and burgers, and keeps long hours that incorporate very late nights (until 3 a.m. Monday–Wednesday, 4 a.m.

Thursday–Saturday, 11 p.m. Sunday). The hot bar is a little pricey, with an entree plus two sides running as much as $9.

While the mashed potatoes topped with a bacon-onion gravy are pretty tasty and the much-lauded catfish with Cajun spices is decent, the macaroni and cheese is creamy, not baked, and only occasionally livened up by some sliced scallions. Sure, the dinnerware, obviously from a Chinese restaurant, is amusing, but you’d do much better to order a burger in a basket, cooked well done but with the crisp uneven edges caused by a griddle.

They’re at least as good as the ones at Five Guys, if not on the list of the absolute best in town. The fried egg that tops one cheeseburger is overcooked, but the jalapenos on another are fresh, not pickled, and while the onion rings are no doubt prepackaged, that makes them no less delicious. The cheesesteak is a bit low on cheese, but the meat is good. Yummy Bites is open for lunch, dinner and late-night eating every day, takes credit cards and does not serve alcohol. It’s cute, clean and a nice place to take kids.

What Up?: Looks like Totonno’s Famous Meatballs has shuttered, as has The Sultan, although he may just be looking for another space. And, if you were wondering where the heck local James Beard Award-nominated chef Hugh Acheson’s been for a while, the answer was revealed recently. It turns out our unibrowed wonder was filming for Bravo’s “Top Chef Masters,” which starts airing Apr. 6. Acheson will compete against such notables as Traci Des Jardins, John Currence and Suvir Saran.

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beer notes Nearby Beer Road Trips Now that warm weather is arriving, it’s time to begin thinking about making some travel plans to take advantage of the weather improvement. To those ends, it’s amazing how many beer destinations there are reasonably close at hand.

We begin right here in Athens. Out Newton Bridge Road (the extension of Barber Street) is Terrapin Brewing at #265, and (if you haven’t heard) they offer tours. Check their website (and Flagpole’s Calendar) for more specific information. And surely you’ve heard of Copper Creek Brewing, our local brewpub, at 140 East Washington St.! You can’t miss it… the tanks are in the front window. Yum. Atlanta is a mecca for craft beer.

SweetWater Brewing at 195 Ottley Dr., NE (off Monroe Drive near its Piedmont Avenue terminus) and Red Brick Brewing at 2323 DeFoor Hills Rd., NW are both micros that offer tours.

Check their websites for more specifics.

You may well never have heard of Hampton, GA (Atlanta Motor Speedway is there): it’s 28 or so miles south of Five Points on U.S. 19/41. Jailhouse Brewing holds forth there in the city’s old jail (natch) at 8 Spruce St… just go downtown and ask anyone. Jailhouse’s tours are Wednesday from 5 p.m. to 8-ish and Saturday from 2 p.m. until 5-ish. Tell Glenn I sent you and be nice.

Bear in mind that all of these brewery tours mandate that you be 21 (no manure, Sherlock!). You have to pay a fee (usually something like $8) and will receive samples worthy of the charge. This is state law, folks.

Atlanta has (in the metro area) more brewpubs than I can remember without a cue of some kind. Decatur has Twain’s Billiards at 211 East Trinity Pl. (near Agnes Scott) and Brick Store Pub at 125 East Court Sq.; 5 Seasons holds forth in its original location at 5600 Roswell Rd., NW and now has satellite brewpubs north at 3655 Old Milton Pkwy. in Alpharetta and west at 1000 Marietta St., NW at the corner of Howell Mill Road. Each has its own brews.

Max Lager’s is located at 320 Peachtree St., NE downtown. Not far north is Gordon Biersch at 848 Peachtree St., NE in Midtown. Then east is Park Tavern at 500 Tenth St., NE, right

by Monroe Drive. In Buckhead there’s Rock Bottom at 3242 Peachtree Rd., NE. This is all I can conjure up without a magic wand.

Dahlonega also has a brewpub! Dahlonega Brewing Co. is at 19 East Main St. downtown, in Caruso’s Italian Restaurant. My distant cousin Bob Carlton (of our NC lineage) brews their beer.

OK, we widen our mental circle a whet.

Greenville, SC is under 100 miles away and has both Blue Ridge Brewing Co. at 217 North Main St. downtown (a brewpub) and Thomas Creek Brewery, now in their new larger digs at 2054 Piedmont Hwy. This is a packaging brewery that offers tours.

Next distant is Heinzelmannchen Brewery at 547 Mill St. in downtown Sylva, NC. This is a tiny mini-micro that packages in five-gallon kegs and fills growlers. Tell Dieter I sent you and (again) be nice.

Just over a knob or three from there is Bryson City, home of Nantahala Brewing at 67 Depot St. They even maintain an adjacent taproom for your enjoyment. Don’t speed in Bryson City!

Spartanburg, SC has R.J. Rockers Brewing at 220 West Main St. in the converted Salvation Army Thrift Store. You might even wander in on bottling day and get put to work! This micro sells some of its products here. They also offer tours.

Columbus, GA has two brewpubs as well as an under-construction microbrewery in adjacent Phenix City, AL. Cannon Brewpub is at 1041 Broadway downtown; the folks there can tell you how to access the brewpub on-base at Fort Benning (!). As for Chattahoochee Brewing Co., they’re hunting a close-in location… I’ll try to keep you posted.

You can plumb drink yourself into a swivet in Asheville, NC. What with five microbreweries there (two more are closeby) and five brewpubs, it’ll take you a week to taste everything. Highland Brewing is the granddaddy micro, followed

by French Broad Brewing, Wedge Brewing, Green Man Brewery, Craggie Brewing, Pisgah Brewing in Black Mountain and Appalachian Craft Brewery in Hendersonville. The brewpubs are Asheville Brewing & Pizza, Asheville Brewing, Oyster House Brewing, Green Man Brewpub and Lexington Avenue Brewing. (There’s not room for all those addresses, folks! You’re on your own.)

Columbia, SC’s eclectic Hunter Gatherer Alehouse at 900 Main St. is their brewpub and a worthy destination for both beer and food.

A few miles farther afield (circle-wise) we have Aiken Brewing Co. (a brewpub) at 140 Laurens St., SW in downtown Aiken, SC. They now can sell growlers on Sunday, as per new state law! Enjoy!

Next farthest is probably Chattanooga, TN, home of Big River Brewpub at 222 Broad St. downtown and Terminal Brewhouse at 6 East 14th St., as well as Moccasin Bend Brewing, a micro with a taproom at 4015 Tennessee Ave. out in the St. Elmo section.

Birmingham, AL has Good People Brewing at 1035 20th St. South (the brewpub is 5 Points Grill). Their canning line may well be operational already.

Huntsville, AL is an evolving story, with three new startups going on at once. Olde Towne Brewing is their local micro.

Award-winning brewpub Moon River Brewing is located at 21 West Bay St. in downtown Savannah. And that’s enough for now. There are more destinations for me to list, but I’m out of room. More beer news when it’s news. Prosit! And (30.)

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

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG13) The trailers do nothing for the cut of this latest Philip K. Dick adaptation.

Matt Damon and Emily Blunt play starcrossed lovers, David and Elise, being kept apart by the Adjustment Bureau, who resemble a team of Mad Men in suits and hats (one is even played by “Mad Men”’s silver-haired, silvertongued John Slattery). These angels as pencil pushers and bureaucrats make sure The Plan, as envisioned by The Chairman (one of many names for the man upstairs), is adhered to. The love affair between David and Elise is not part of the plan, and the Bureau will stop at nothing, even sending in their heavy hitter (Terence Stamp), to ensure the couple does not end up together. Writer-director George Nolfi meshes romance and sci-fi with more coolly intricate success than you would suspect. Damon and Blunt generate surprisingly easy chemistry, and the men in hats idea works well thanks to Slattery, Stamp and The Hurt Locker’s undervalued Anthony Mackie. The Adjustment Bureau is one of the better films of young 2011.

BARNEY’S VERSION (R) TV producer Barney Panofsky (the typically infallible Paul Giamatti) reflects on his three marriages, battles with the bottle, and the mysterious disappearance of his best friend, Boogie (Scott Speedman, always remembered for “Felicity”) in this adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s last novel. Director Richard J. Lewis is not the toxic comedian; instead, he is the director of the direct-to-video James Belushi sequel, K-9: P.I. (yeah, it really exists).

With Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, Mark Addy, Dustin Hoffman and his son, Jake.

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (PG-13) When aliens invade the streets of Los Angeles, a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his new platoon are one of humanity’s first lines of defense.

Writer Christopher Bertolini’s script is supposedly based on the Battle of Los Angeles incident from 1942; I’m less than convinced. Early buzz on this flick earned director Jonathan Liebesman the helm for the Clash of the Titans sequel.

BEASTLY (PG-13) A literal modern day fairy tale, Beastly stars I Am Number Four’s Alex Pettyfer (how did

this guy escape The CW for the big screen?) as vain, misunderstood, rich boy, Kyle. When Kyle runs afoul of a witch (Mary-Kate Olsen) at his ridiculously posh private high school, she turns him into a hideously scarred and tattooed “monster” with a year to find someone who’ll love him. Of course, he chooses scholarship girl with a drug addict dad, Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens).

The unforgivably unlikely setup for this limp take on Beauty and the Beast requires Lindy to be sequestered in Kyle’s hideaway due to a threat against her life. Beastly is all pretty much bland teen romance and drama, from which Neil Patrick Harris occasionally rescues us, that would have made a smashing CW TV movie.

BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG-13) FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence) dons his fat suit again in the third (how can that be?) entry in the Big Momma’s House franchise. Now both Big Momma and Charmaine AKA Trent (Brandon T. Jackson) must infiltrate an all girls performing arts school to catch a murderer. Faizon Love plays Kurtis Kool, former Run-D.M.C. roadie and present school security guard that becomes smitten with Big Momma. Director John Whitesell also directed Big Momma’s House 2. With Emily Rios, Portia Doubleday (Youth in Revolt) and Michelle Ang. BLACK SWAN (R) Great does not begin to describe Black Swan nor does it do this complex film justice. Let’s call Black Swan what it is: stunning, original, another imperfect masterpiece from filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler). Aging ballerina Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) finally lands a lead as the Swan Queen in Swan Lake. But as the pressure mounts, Nina begins to suspect that the pretty new dancer, Lily (Mila Kunis), is out to Single White Female her. Or are her suspicions those of a raving lunatic raised by a madwoman, Nina’s mother Erica (Barbara Hershey), on the verge of utter selfdestruction?

DRIVE ANGRY 3D (R) The plot is textbook ‘70s exploitation. A vengeful father, John Milton (the not angry enough Nicolas Cage), escapes from Hell to save his granddaughter from the cult leader (Billy Burke) who murdered his daughter. I get all gooey inside just

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typing that synopsis. Along the way, Milton picks up a pretty short-order waitress (Amber Heard), reunites with an old pal (David Morse) and kills a lot of evil cult members. Hot on his trail are a bounty hunter from Hell named The Accountant (William Fichtner) and not nearly enough state troopers, led

by Tom Atkins.

GNOMEO & JULIET (G) This backyard version of Romeo and Juliet definitely succeeds in its cuteness quotient. The two battling terracotta clans, the Reds and the Blues, contain enough distinctive-looking members.

Too bad the movie doesn’t do a better job establishing this colorful retinue beyond a montage of here and there.

Instead, we focus on the blossoming romance between star-crossed lovers, Gnomeo (v. James McAvoy), son of Lady Blueberry (v. Maggie Smith), and Juliet (v. Emily Blunt), beloved daughter of Lord Redbrick (v. Michael Caine).

In between ceramic smooches are lawnmower races against red baddie, Tybalt (v. Jason Statham), and the silly machinations of a loopy pink flamingo (v. Jim Cummings) from an abandoned garden next door. Being a children’s cartoon, most of the true tragedy has been excised by Shrek 2 director Kelly Asbury and the eight other credited screenwriters (not including Bill Shakespeare).

GREEN FIRE (NR) Sixty years after his death, Aldo Leopold (given voice

by Peter Coyote) is considered one of the most important conservationist, if not the most important, of the 20th century. Father of the national wilderness system, wildlife management and ecological restoration, he authored the classic book, A Sand County Almanac.

Leopold biographer, Dr. Curt Meine, serves as the on-screen guide as contemporary scholars, conservation leaders and Leopold’s three children— Nina, Carl and Estella—all provide their insight into this ecological pioneer.

HALL PASS (R) The Farrelly Brothers peaked in 1998. Their first three comedies: Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and There’s Something About Mary held so much promise. Their last six failed to deliver on that promise. Hall Pass is one of their weakest, i.e., least funny, movies yet. Two bumbling suburbanites—Rick (a sorely miscast Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis, who needs to get out of TV more)— are granted a week off from marriage from their gorgeous wives (Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate).

Unfortunately, hilarity does not ensue.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG-13) I cannot find fault with this flawless penultimate installment of the stalwart franchise. The three young leads have matured tremendously as actors; Emma Watson has improved vastly since the game-changing third film. Director David Yates continues to bring Rowling’s magical world to rousing, tangible life. The landscapes of the hopeless, doomed, lonely HP7.1 resembled a post-apocalypse and conjured up the highest possible praise; it reminded me of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and The Empire Strikes Back.

I AM NUMBER FOUR (PG-13) I Am Number Four feels like a feature film pilot for a new CW series to replace “Smallville,” whose creators, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (with help from

“Buffy”’s Marti Noxon), happen to have written Number Four’s script. A powerful orphaned alien, John AKA Number Four (stone-jawed Alex Pettyfer), is on the run from extraterrestrial hunters. With his guardian Henri (Timothy Olyphant; are you watching him on “Justified?” If not, you should be), John moves to Paradise, Ohio, where he meets a girl (Dianna Agron, better known as Quinn from “Glee”) and a new pal (Callan McAuliffe). Just when he feels like he’s found a home, the alien hunters (led by the versatile villain Kevin Durand) arrive. Fortunately, so does another powerful teen-lien, Number Six (Teresa Palmer). (The numbers are the order in which these X-Terrestrials must be killed.) Mixing Superman and the X-Men with a tinge of Twilight, I Am Number Four, based on a bestselling book series cowritten under a pseudonym by James Frey (yes, THAT James Frey), probably will not reach the franchise heights to which it aspires. It would make a kickass CW show though.

THE ILLUSIONIST (PG) A wondrous paean to Jacques Tati, Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist is a nearsilent hand-drawn animated feature unlike any other you’ll see this year.

Its closest peer is not Toy Story 3 or Megamind but The Secrets of Kell or Chomet’s own The Triplets of Belleville.

A magician (a reanimated Tati or more accurately Monsieur Hulot) befriends a young girl—her age is of some debate—and works several odd jobs to give her what she needs. It’s a lot less Lolita-ish than it sounds. As Americans, we are weened on cartoons dominated by manic, anthropomorphized animals and celebrity voice work. Not even the greatest Pixar film can equal the rich, foreign wonders and gentle visual humor of the French Illusionist.

JANE EYRE (PG-13) Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel (just ask any high schooler) is brought to the big screen yet again, this time by an intriguing filmmaker, Sin Nombre’s Cary Fukunaga. The titular, mousy governess (Mia Wasikowska, who is everywhere right now) falls for her employer, Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender), only to discover he harbors a horrible secret. Screenwriter Moira Buffini also wrote last year’s Tamara Drewe. With Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot), Imogen Poots (Solitary Man), Sally Hawkins (HappyGo-Lucky) and Dame Judi Dench.

JUST GO WITH IT (PG-13) Adam Sandler is a hard guy not to like whether or not you think his movies are funny. Unfortunately, in his latest movie, he is neither likable nor funny. A plastic surgeon, Dr. Danny Maccabee, seduces women by faking that he is in a horrible marriage. When he meets a gorgeous, younger, middle school math teacher, Palmer (swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker), he decides he is ready to settle down. Unfortunately, she discovers his fake wedding band, leading Danny to concoct the least plausible, dumbest plan ever.

JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (G) Justin Bieber: Never Say Never perfectly provides the necessary ratio of hair flips, musical performances and backstage insight to stave off the most fatal symptoms of the Bieber fever raging through the world’s tweens. (According to the movie, the pandemic has now spread to men

and women both older and younger.)

Parents and guardians might gain some valuable insight into their child’s condition and also leave humming hideously catchy tunes like “Baby.”

KILL THE IRISHMAN (R) Hopefully, this reteaming of Punisher: War Zone director Jonathan Hensleigh and star Ray Stevenson will turn out better than their previous Marvel Comic sequel.

In 1976 Cleveland, OH, Irish mobster, Danny Greene (Stevenson) gets involved in a turf war with the Italian mob. Naturally, this crime drama is based on a true story.

THE KING’S SPEECH (R) To combat a nervous stammer, King George VI (Colin Firth), AKA Bertie, works with an unorthodox speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush).

Director Tom Hooper helmed HBO’s excellent “John Adams” and Elizabeth I. This historical picture is shaping up to be Firth’s best Oscar shot yet; the trailer predicts a winner. With Helena Bonham Carter as George’s wife Queen Elizabeth, Guy Pearce as Edward VIII, Michael Gambon as King George V and Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill.

LA MEGLIO GIOVENTU (R) 2003.

Winner of 19 international film awards, including six Davids and Cannes’s Un Certain Regard Award, Marco Tullio Giordana’s 366 minute epic, La Meglio Gioventu, follows the Caratti family from 1966 to 2003. Matteo (Alessio Boni) and Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) progress from wild young men to parents through love and tragedy. The film will be screened in multiple parts.

Part of the Cincecitta’ 3 Italian Film Series sponsored by the department of Romance Languages.

LITTLE FOCKERS (PG-13) The Fockers, Greg and Pam (Ben Stiller and Teri Polo), now have a couple of kids, taking a little of grandpa Jack Byrnes’ (Robert De Niro) heat off of Greg. But with the twins’ birthday party on the horizon, old suspicions—and old pals like Teri’s ex Kevin (Owen Wilson)—are returning to haunt male nurse Gaylord Focker. Director Paul Weitz (About a Boy) takes over for Jay Roach, the director of the first two mega-hit comedies.

MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) A boy named Milo (the excellent voice actor, Seth Green) learns to appreciate his mom after Martians take her away. This animated family film from Walt Disney actually has a lot going in its favor.

Bloom County cartoonist Berkeley Breathed wrote the source material.

Joan Cusack provides the voice of Milo’s mom. Director Simon Wells has a family connection to the sci-fi material; he’s H.G.’s great-grandson.

OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS (NR) Ciné brings back the popular Oscar nominated shorts, both live action and animated. This year’s live action lineup includes “The Confession,” Wish 143,” “Na Wewe,” “The Crush” and “God of Love.” This year’s animated lineup includes “Madagascar, Carnet Voyage,” “Let’s Pollute,” “The Gruffalo,” “The Lost Thing” and frontrunner “Day & Night” from Pixar. Also included are the highly commended “Urs” and “The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger.”

You can’t go wrong with either set of shorts.

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RED RIDING HOOD (PG-13) Twilight’s Catherine Hardwicke (she directed Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown

before Stephenie Meyer’s bloodsucker got their teeth in her) sticks to familiar fantasy woods in this retelling of the classic fairy tale. In a medieval village haunted by a werewolf, young Red, Valerie (Amanda Seyfried), falls in love with an orphaned woodcutter (Lukas Haas). Writer David Johnson’s previous credit is for Orphan. Her family does not approve. With Gary Oldman, Billy Burke, Virginia Madsen, Julie Christie and Michael Hogan (“Battlestar Galactica”’s Saul Tigh).

SANCTUM (R) What slowly starts out as the worst film of 2011 eventually settles down to be a decent, trapped in a cave genre effort. A group of cave divers led by Frank (Richard Roxburgh) are trapped far below the surface after a storm closes off their only known means of egress. Thankfully, Frank’s one badass caving vet, who will stop at nothing to get his son (Rhys Wakefield) to safety. The script, written by producer Andrew Wight and John Garvin, is based upon Wight’s similar death-defying escape from a system of underwater caves.

TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT (R) After sitting on the studio shelf for a few years, Take Me Home Tonight accomplishes exactly what it wants to without exactly being good—sounds like many a beloved ‘80s movie to me. Topher Grace produced and stars in the ‘80s set comedy about a college grad, Matt Franklin, trying to finally land his high school crush, Tori Frederking (Teresa Palmer), at a Labor Day party circa 1988. To accomplish this goal, Matt, his twin sister Wendy (Anna Faris) and his best pal Barry (a very Curtis Armstrong-ish Dan Fogler) steal a car filled with blow, and Matt fakes being employed by Goldman Sachs. Many of the jokes, scripted by “That 70’s Show” vets Jeff and Jackie Filgo, hit their mark, and the movie feels more like the homage it strives to be than the parody into which it could have devolved. The look and sound genuinely evoke the 1980s as nostalgically envisioned by 20-to-30-somethings who were children for the majority of the decade. But where’s the Eddie Money?

THE TOURIST (PG-13) Seeing this Angelina Jolie-Johnny Depp team-up may be cheaper than a trip to Venice, but anyone wishing to float the canals of that old Italian city would be advised to wait for discount fares.

TRUE GRIT (PG-13) To help distance their new film from the John Wayne classic, Joel and Ethan Coen are calling it a new adaptation of the novel by Charles Portis rather than a remake.

A young girl (Hailee Steinfeld) hires gruff U.S. Marshal Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to help find the man who killed her father. I am quite thrilled to see Bridges’ take on Wayne’s iconic role as directed by the Coens.

With Matt Damon as La Boeuf and Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney.

UNKNOWN (PG-13) Liam Neeson continues his mid-career crisis with another Taken-type vehicle. In Unknown, the giant Irishman stars as Dr. Martin Harris, who suffers a traumatic brain injury in a car accident while visiting Berlin. He wakes from a four-day coma to find that his wife, Elizabeth (January Jones, “Mad Men”), does not know him and is married to another man (Aidan Quinn), who just so happens to claim he is Dr. Martin Harris. Neeson’s Martin begins to doubt his sanity until a shadowy “they” tries to kill him. Teaming with his cab driver, Gina (Diane Kruger), Martin must discover the truth behind his stolen identity. What starts as a frightening, lonely thriller loses steam before the thriller’s big reveal, and totally blows the ending, which could have been tremendously interesting had Martin behaved characterappropriately.

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Animation with a Twist RANGO (PG) Rango is not your kid’s animated feature. Boasting a quirky pedigree of chameleonic star Johnny Depp, blockbuster director Gore Verbinski (the first three Pirates of the Caribbean and The Ring) and writer John Logan (The Aviator and Gladiator), this animated family/action/adventure/Western stands out from the pack of interchangeable CGI kiddie pics. And it’s not from Pixar, whose

string of Best Animated Film Oscars should stop at four, considering their 2011 entry is going to be a sequel to their popular with kids, less so with critics, Cars.

As unlikely a tale as Rango’s is, it begins and ends quite conventionally. The lonely chameleon (exceptionally well-voiced by Depp), an actor by nature, opens the film as a pet and ends it as a hero. What comes in between is anything but your typical kiddie cartoon adventure. The dusty Wild West of Rango is

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complexly imagined with the most diverse population of grizzled settlers, ruffians and gunfighters this side of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

In the dried up city of Dirt, Rango reimagines himself as a lawman bent on solving the residents’ water shortage. Doing so leads the chameleon, a little lady lizard named Beans (v. Isla Fisher) and a posse of rodents, reptiles and amphibians underground, into the air and to the other side (of a busy, desert highway) in search of the Spirit of the West, a referential treat for adults that I just won’t spoil.

Rango teaches all the usual children’s film lessons with eccentric pop sensibilities that favor Dr. Gonzo cameos to highprofile celebrity voicework.

The filmmakers also eschew 3D for the beautiful, full-color world of 2D. No washed out hues and tones here, and no uncomfortable glasses either. The animation from Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic outdoes the work done by more established animation houses like DreamWorks and Sony Pictures, and is on par with Pixar’s best work. The peculiar world of Rango reminds that a cartoon can please both child and adult without sacrificing the moviegoing experience of either.

Drew Wheeler

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film notebook theatre notes News of Athens’ Cinema Scene The Same, Only Different: One of the great weed-out films of cinema studies is Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story, which has an ability like no other movie I know to positively ravish viewers who are up for two and a half hours of painstaking character study that movingly examines the gulf between an elderly couple and their busy, grown children, rendered in a style that is formal perfection itself—and to bore senseless those who are not. Still Walking, a 2008 Japanese film just released on DVD and Blu-ray by Criterion, treads similar ground, at times displaying not merely the influence of the 1953 film, but the marks of a direct homage to Ozu practically on the level of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Café Lumière.

That’s not a bad thing; there’s a frankness to director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s frequent use of Ozu’s trademark deep, static, waist-level shots in the suburban home where most of the action takes place (he also occasionally divides scenes with exterior shots of the manmade environment, or by allowing the camera to linger in an empty room for a few moments before the characters enter it or after they leave, both standard Ozu techniques) that has almost the same effect as the deployment of genre trappings—deserts and horses

10 (part of the library’s iFilms series) will be accompanied by a conversation led by Dorinda Dallmeyer, head of UGA’s environmental ethics certificate program, and Walt Cook, co-founder of Sandy Creek Nature Center. A second screening at the State Botanical Garden at 9:15 a.m.

Saturday, Mar. 12 will be followed by a walk through the garden. Both screenings are free; email GreenFest chair Nancy Lindbloom (nancylindbloom@aol.com) for more information.

Filmmakers, Take Note: The AthFest Filmfest is now accepting entries in its two categories: Athens Picture Show, a local short film showcase, and Teenscreen Filmfest, which features the work of filmmakers under the age of 18.

Go to www.athfest.com for complete details.

There’s Always Ciné: This has been a strong season at Ciné; in addition to second local runs of The Social Network, The Fighter and Darren Aronofsky’s magnificent Black Swan (currently playing—watch for The King’s Speech and True Grit in coming weeks), they’ve had exclusive engagements of high-profile, high-quality stuff like Blue Valentine, I Love You Philip Morris, Another Year and White Material. Apparently—and thankfully—stick-

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The Illusionist, directed by Sylvain Chomet, is playing at Ciné through Mar. 17. in a western or expressionistically dark urban streets in a crime drama—to establish a familiar “comfort zone” for the exploration of newly varied thematic material. And indeed, some of the themes of Still Walking seem like inversions of those of Tokyo Story: here, the children visit the parents rather than vice versa; a daughter hopes to move back into her parents’ home with her family, to the consternation of her distant, ill-tempered father.

Also like Tokyo Story, and without giving too much away, death has a strong presence in Still Walking. That’s not new to Kore-eda’s films; his 1998 After Life is set among souls in an Earth-like purgatory, and the 2004 Nobody Knows is about four children fending for themselves in a Tokyo apartment after the disappearance of their mother. But Kore-eda has a light touch and a gift for offhand, poignant comedy. In those films, as in Still Walking, death is less the primary subject than survival, if not actual rebirth.

Green Screen Scene: The organizers of Athens’ annual GreenFest are presenting two screenings of the new documentary Green Fire, about the influential conservationist Aldo Leopold, one of the key precursors of the modern environmental movement. A 7 p.m. screening at the ACC Library Thursday, Mar.

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ing around for a third week is The Illusionist, the absolutely lovely second animated feature

by Sylvain Chomet, director of 2003’s The Triplets of Belleville. On a completely different note, the Bad Movie Night selection for Wednesday, Mar. 16 will be Biohazard: The Alien Force, which I’m sure is just awful.

And down the line, look for the return of Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher’s always entertaining Found Footage Festival Friday, Mar. 25, and the Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival that same weekend. Go to www. athenscine.com for all you need to know.

Finally, Free Stuff: On the heels of the aforementioned Green Fire, the 7 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 17 iFilms screening at the ACC Library will be Ballast, a fantastic 2008 film by Lance Hammer that I’m pretty sure has never been shown in Athens before. Go to www.clarke. public.lib.ga.us to learn more… Upcoming screenings in Will Stephenson’s ICE-Vision series at the Lamar Dodd School of Art are George Romero’s 1977 modern vampire film Martin on Mar. 10 and the 1953 live-action Dr. Seuss film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Mar. 17.

Screenings are at 8 p.m. in Rm. S150; check ICE-Vision’s Facebook page for details.

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Local Venues, Big and Small Here are a few of the productions coming our way over the next few weeks: UGA offers Hamlet, Tuesday, Apr. 19, for local middle and high school students. The students will have the opportunity to discuss the play and production with the director and actors. Contact Dina Canup at dinac@uga.edu or call (706) 583-0045 for info. The Odd Couple runs Mar. 9 & 10; The Maids runs Mar. 25 & 26; Aunt Dan and Lemon runs Mar. 29–31 & Apr. 1–3. And, UGA’s Award-winning Improv Athens performs Mar. 23 at the Balcony Theatre. See www. drama.uga.edu/events/productions.php for more info. The UGA Black Theatre Ensemble presents the Southern comedy Dearly Departed, Apr. 1 & 3 at the Morton Theatre.

For more info, contact Lauren Rice at lauren329@gmail.com. Rose of Athens Theatre continues its openmic night, No Shame Theatre, at Hendershot’s every Tuesday evening.

The Classic Center’s production of the musical, Mama Mia! runs just one night, Mar. 23; check www.classiccenter. com for ticket info.

with state of the art lighting and sound systems. Having seen productions in this theatre under the 1970s renovations, I promise you that attending a production now is an entirely different and impressive experience! UGA’s Cellar Theatre offers less technical wizardry backstage but, with only 100 seats, allows a more intimate theatre experience. Recently developed Quinn Theatre at Memorial Park is a smallish black box space that literally brings the actors and audience together in the same room. The Classic Center is the largest local venue, with 2053 seats and onstage fly lines, wide, spacious wings, and the latest in audio and video equipment to accommodate large touring shows. The Classic Center can showcase spectacular productions, and even if you’re seated 100 feet away, you can hear and

Note that these productions take place in very different performance spaces—from the 2053-seat Classic Center to the tiny Hendershot’s Coffee Bar. The proximity of actors to audience, formality or informality of the space, Rose of Athens Theatre brings its open-mic night, No Shame Theatre, to and the size, shape and Hendershot’s every Tuesday evening. technical capabilities of the playing area, all make each venue differently impact the persee (with the video screens) the performances formance itself. Athens has a terrific variety well. Also well appointed, although smaller, of performance venues and many other spaces is the Oconee County Civic Center, with 500 where theatre has been performed. seats and a fully equipped backstage area.

The oldest venue is the 240-seat Spalding And then there are the other spaces where Theatre in the Seney-Stovall Chapel. Built in actors, directors, designers and audiences fit 1882 as part of the Lucy Cobb Institute and into the nooks, crannies and idiosyncrasies abandoned after WWII, the Chapel was fully and bring plays to life. Spaces like the forrestored in 1997. The curved seating and balmer Alps Movie Theatre where Athens Little cony area allows audience members to be very Playhouse now performs live theatre; Jittery close to the acting area. The stage is a lovely Joe’s Coffee Roasting Company, where I space to perform but doesn’t have wing space sat on bags of coffee beans and watched Rex or stage equipment for lots of scenic specTotty’s play, Arrogant Coyote; New Earth Music tacle. The Morton Theatre originally opened Hall, where Circle Ensemble Theatre perin 1910 and showcased hundreds of stars on formed The Threepenny Opera; the Taylor Grady the Black Vaudeville circuit until it closed in House, T.R.R. Cobb House and Lyndon House, the mid-20th century. Restored and re-opened where Rose of Athens Theatre performed in 1993, the Morton has 271 seats downstairs vignettes of famous Athenians to the delight and 69 seats in the balcony area and is a of touring audiences; and Ashford Manor Bed wonderful, intimate venue for various local and Breakfast in Watkinsville, where I sat and touring productions. It has a very usable on the lawn on a warm, soft summer evening orchestra pit and some flies (pulley systems enjoying Rose of Athens Theatre’s Much Ado for raising scenery) which allow for quick set About Nothing. changes. There’s not much wing space but I’ve seen some pretty spectacular productions So, here’s the deal: where you experience in the Morton. The home of Town and Gown live theatre has a powerful impact on your Players, the Athens Community Theatre on experience. Want lots of scenic and lighting Grady Avenue, was built and gifted to the city spectacle? Don’t go to Hendershot’s. Want in 1969 by Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Mathis. This intiintimate, emotionally spellbinding theatre? mate little theatre has 129 seats and brings Don’t go to the Classic Center and sit in the the audience and actors almost in the same upper balcony. So, here’s a little experiment: room together. Onstage there are no wings, go to see theatre in all the different venues no flies and very little scenic equipment, you can. Check out the differences, tour backbut major musicals have been very successstage, talk to folks who run the theatre. You’ll fully performed on this stage. UGA’s recently be amazed. I promise. renovated Fine Arts Theatre, built in 1940, provides 684 seats and a fully equipped stage Rick Rose theatre@flagpole.com

HACKS Laughing at/with Local Musicians

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uke Fields is refreshingly candid when you ask him why he started HACKS, his monthly comedy showcase at Caledonia.

“Well, I honestly did it because I was scared of going to a comedy open mic. I really just wanted to do some comedy with and in front of my friends and not go through the soulflattening dream-dasher that is early open mic-ing in front of strangers. And all of my friends are other wise-ass musicians.”

different dynamics that are compatible with their respective venues. HACKS, in its rock club confines, has a house-party feel. Many of the comedians are also musicians, and are comfortable (or at least act like they’re comfortable) onstage. HACKS regular Andy Hollingsworth relates incidents from the road in a natural story-telling style. The ubiquitous Jeff Griggs cracks inside Athens jokes even when he’s behind the bar (Griggs’ advice to aspiring comedians: “Don’t lead with a rape joke.”)

T.J. Young’s show Open Toad is a true open mic, where anyone can sign up at the door. “This show will always be in an ‘it is what it is’ state,” says Young. “That’s what I like about this room.”

The Flicker Theatre has an eclectic décor that comedian Dave Stone describes as “Wes Anderson’s Museum.” The show itself, however, is a little closer to the traditional comedy club than HACKS. Young tours with his own troupe, The Beards of Comedy, along with upcoming HACKS headliner Joe Zimmerman, and will bring in his friends from the comedy circuit to headline for a lineup that often is full of first-time performers.

Time limits for comics are strictly enforced, sometimes mercifully for the audience. But for every awkward moment that you would expect at a comedy open mic, there’s Joe Zimmerman a new discovery, like Andrea Boyd, or political science teacher Ed Right before the first HACKS show, howBurmila, that reminds you that there are talever, Fields got over his fear enough to try ented and funny people all over Athens—and the other established Athens comedy open not just in one demographic. mic, T.J. Young’s Open Toad at Flicker Theatre Anyone expecting a Sharks vs. Jets-style & Bar. “I signed up for that show, and after turf war between the two rooms is going to that went relatively well and I swelled with be disappointed. For one thing, as Luke Fields unearned confidence, I finalized plans for a points out, Open Toad takes place considerably ‘friends’ show and conned enough buddies into earlier (the first Tuesday of every month) than it to flesh out the evening.”

HACKS. And for another, both Fields and Young HACKS IV, coming to the Caledonia Lounge feel there’s room for the Athens comedy scene on Mar. 14, illustrates the upsurge of interest to grow. “I think they only serve to strengthen in local comedy that Athens has experienced each other,“ says Fields. “Both shows are just in the last year. There are now four regular trying to cultivate their own performers and shows in Athens that feature first-time or rela- audiences and cross-pollinate them.” tively inexperienced comedians trying to hone their craft. In addition to HACKS and Open Pete McBrayer Toad, Gameday Pub has a monthly “Drafts and Laughs” show hosted by Matt Gilbert, and Chris Patton has created a new comedy WHAT: HACKS IV w/ Joe Zimmerman, open mic at The Globe to complement his day Ed Burmila, Nate Mitchell, job where he books headliner comedians at Andy Hollingsworth, Jake Duvall, New Earth Music Hall. Combine all that with Mat Lewis and Luke Fields the national acts the 40 Watt brings in, and WHERE: Caledonia Lounge Athens has probably had more comedy shows WHEN: Monday, Mar. 14, 9 p.m. in the last year than in the previous five.

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threats & promises record reviews that’s reason enough to start the whole record over again and see if anything else is revealed because, you know, some records require this.

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Music News And Gossip Your guess is as good as mine as to which bit of news below is the most important. These are all things, I suppose, we must decide for ourselves. So, start deciding below…

2–4, 2011. In all, he’ll pick about 40 bands to play, but what he’s put together so far is incredible. On board are a reunited Olivia Tremor Control, Superchunk, Young Marble Giants, The Magic Band, The Raincoats, Apples in Stereo, Tinariwen and A Hawk and a Hacksaw. I fully expect the entire lineup to be mind-boggling. All these shows constitute the first major instances of Magnum playing out in over a decade. For more info, please see www.atpfestival.com.

Jackie Is a Punk; Judy Is a Runt: Hey parents, applications are now being accepted for this year’s Girls’ Rock Camp Athens. The camp takes place July 25–29, and the campers will perform a showcase concert on July 30. The way it works is the campers, girls ages 9-15, pick an instrument, write some music and form a band all under the direction of, and with And Again: Before you ask, the answer is assistance from, local Athens music folks vol“yes.” As in, “Yes, I’m going to keep remindunteering their time. There are also workshops ing you about this.” And the “this” in quesin self-defense, songwriting, etc. There’s only tion is your band’s application to play the room for 40 campoutdoor stages at ers, and it costs AthFest. Apply online $300 to attend. via www.sonicbids.

Some scholarships com/athfest for are available, though. only $5 if you’re a Keep in mind that Georgia band or $10 there is a $25 appliif you’re from some cation fee, including lame other state. Or for those needing you can print out an This year’s album, produced once again a scholarship. The application, gather

by Ghostmeat Records, offers a unique crossdeadline for applicathe other necessary section of local music with alternative, rock, tions is Apr. 1, but items (CD, band bio country and bluegrass all represented. None don’t delay because and press kit) and of these 13 artists have been on a previous applications are deliver it in person AthFest CD. Proceeds from CD sales benefit pretty much accepted to the AthFest suite AthFest, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organizaon a first-come, firstat the Fred Building tion dedicated to music and arts education. served basis. If your (220 College Ave., camper is accepted, Ste. 319). Or you can 1. The Knockouts–Got Everything I Need the $300 tuition is mail it to AthFest at 2. Bombs Bombs Bombs–Waiting for due Apr. 15, and you P.O. Box 327, Athens, Sunlight* will lose your spot if GA, 30603. The dead 3. Vestibules–A Feather in the Hand* you don’t pay by that line for applications 4. The Spinoffs–Lucky Stars* time. No experience is Apr. 22. For more 5. Spirit Hair–Wiser Winds is necessary. All information, see 6. Adam Klein–Driftin’ application materiwww.athfest.com.

7. The Romper Stompers–Dreaming* als and answers to 8. powerkompany–Dear Boy* your questions can One Step at a Time: 9. The Welfare Liners–Terrapin Beer* be found at www.

The Owlphabet label 10. Betsy Franck & The Bareknuckle Band– girlsrockathens.org. is releasing new All the Kings* records by Firework 11. Monahan–Offset I Can See the Child and Puddin’ 12. Free Mountain–Ride* Theatre from Here: Tang, three new 13. The Burning Angels–Nazareth Song * The Georgia Bar is videos by Ancient now booking shows Whales and a big * indicates that the song is previously unreleased. six nights a week. welcome to the The man in charge label’s newest dude The AthFest 2011 CD will be available in of all this is Keith Captain #1. That’s a select stores, AthFest.com, iTunes and at the Fowler (Starlite pretty big update by AthFest merch booth during the festival. The Devilles). There’s a almost any standard. official release party will be announced soon. small in-house PA, Owlphabet is still The 15th Annual AthFest will be held on June and Fowler says that fairly new on the 22–26. [Michelle Gilzenrat] he’s seeking mainly block, but is doing roots rock, singera wonderful job of songwriters and that taking things slowly, type of stuff, but he’ll consider anyone who’s yet deliberately. Good show, people. For interested and who he thinks will fit. You can more info and to access everything mentioned contact Fowler by phone at (706) 265-0789 or above, please see www.owlphabet.com. email to bearpaw.production@gmail.com.

File Under Rock/Pop: Wuxtry Records will Take an Aeroplane Over the Sea: The Internet host a very special in-store performance by basically exploded a few weeks back when The Baseball Project on Saturday, Mar. 12 news broke that Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk at 5 p.m. The show is free. The supergroup Hotel) would play the Portishead-curated All comprises Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate), Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Asbury Park, Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Scott McCaughey (Young NJ (Sept. 30–Oct. 2, 2011). Then everyone Fresh Fellows, R.E.M.) and Linda Pitmon went nuts when he added a handful of shows (Golden Smog). Although known for both its for Canada, Massachusetts and New York. By famous members as well as material focused the time this hits print, all the tickets will be entirely on baseball, the band is also known long gone, but you’re probably still interested to cover songs by its members’ former bands. in knowing that in addition to all of this, Expect this show to be packed. Don’t be late Mangum also curated his own stage at the or you will be on the sidewalk outside.

All Tomorrow’s Parties festival which takes place in Minehead, Somerset, England on Dec. Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

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R.E.M. Collapse Into Now Warner Bros.

Every R.E.M. album is an event.

Of course, all events are not equal. At least a couple of the band’s records were such non-starters (i.e., Reveal and Around the Sun)—it’s hard to even remember their release. Repeated listening, however, shows each of those records actually hold a couple of inspired moments. That’s always the problem with R.E.M. records; a considered opinion can’t be distilled immediately or, even, after a few cursory listens.

Collapse Into Now puts a good foot forward with opening track “Discoverer.” Its chiming call-to-arms guitar riff, the likes of which have not been heard from R.E.M. since 1987’s “Finest Worksong,” is a great album opener that cracks just as powerfully as Accelerate’s “Living Well Is the Best Revenge.” Even so, “All the Best” completely out-rocks this first song and has multiple, stupendously layered guitar tracks that are actually necessary as opposed to being mere noisy decorations (e.g., Monster). The only other straight-out rocker on Collapse Into Now, “Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter,” actually does sound like noisy decoration, so comparisons are relatively easy to make.

Whereas Accelerate may have restored R.E.M.’s credibility as a band that can actually rock, Collapse Into Now showcases a band that can still write yearning and uplifting melodies.

Case in point: “Oh My Heart”—a hymn for New Orleans. Buried alongside the main tune is a nice brass arrangement that works much better than if it had been laid squarely over the top.

The handclap rhythm of “It Happened Today” eventually fills itself out into a half-joyous sing-a-long of non-lyrical vocalization. The distorted megaphone (?) vocals of “Every Day Is Yours to Win” are a distraction from the otherwise sensitively plucked melody.

The just-past-mid-tempo “Mine Smell Like Honey” may be the most authentic rock and roll song on the record, mainly because it has this loud, buoyant refrain that is impossible to not sing along with and also difficult to make sense of. Most of Michael Stipe’s lyrics on Collapse Into Now are impenetrable, deliberate and inflexible.

“That Someone Is You,” though, is an unabashedly straightforward crushsong that even name-drops New Order and Young Marble Giants.

The most rewarding track on Collapse Into Now is the final one.

Recorded with Patti Smith, “Blue” at first feels meandering but is actually incredibly focused. Stipe’s vocals sound like they’re coming through a telephone, and Smith’s vocals are right out front. The space created is almost tangible. It’s a poem told through sound as much as lyrics, and at its end circles around to include the refrain “Discoverer! Discoverer!” from the album’s opening track. And

THE KNOCKOUTS The Knockouts Independent Release The debut album from local ska/ bluegrass/punk/funk/mariachi band The Knockouts not only inhabits each genre at some point, but transitions into them with intention instead of blindly borrowing. The combination sounds like circus punk, as if The Clash woke up in 2011, put on some funny costumes and picked up a banjo.

So many genres can be identified that naming them all is futile. What you really need to know is that The Knockouts pull it off; ska horns steal the funky show in “Capitol Freak On” and round out the Mexican-sounding “Ceviche Polka,” which is sung in Spanish.

The band draws clear instrumental influence from Ireland, Mexico and the muggy hoe-downs of the South.

Both Irish and Southern American farmers found ways to express their comparable financial hard times in the strophic fiddle laments of Celtic folk and bluegrass. The resigned hope for a better day paired with punk’s desperate denial of material satisfaction gives The Knockouts’ genre meld meaning and complexity. The instrumentation is pure and bold, the singer believes in his words, and no genre can own either.

Sydney Slotkin

RADIOHEAD The King of Limbs XL Once again, through its unique business model of self-production, -promotion and -release, Radiohead has delivered yet another glorious, mass-listening event for a hyper-striated world increasingly devoid of communal experience. The King of Limbs is a cool—and sometimes chilling— collection of formalist, stylistic experiments and beat-driven dirges wrapped in the fraying, goosedown blanket of Thom Yorke’s peerless voice.

Opener “Bloom” is a glitchinflected cacophony of electronics and orchestral instrumentation, while “Morning Mr. Magpie” weaves its way around a decidedly jam-inspired guitar.

“Feral” feels like the band’s take on

dubstep as Yorke peppers a hyperquick beat with ambient vocal distortions fracturing an otherwise danceable composition into something wholly foreign. And “Lotus Flower” evokes the melancholy upper registers of Kid A. Initially, these dreary numbers seem almost too disparate to share the same record, but collectively, they represent a sort of prelude to the album’s final two tracks—a long dark night of the soul before emerging into the enveloping warmth of paradise with “Give Up the Ghost.” Like a well-oiled grandfather clock, this penultimate tune is a masterpiece of interlocking pieces building slowly from the unadorned chirp of field-recorded birds to a grand, emotionally reassuring finale, all set against the repeated mantra of “don’t worry.” Radiohead will slip up someday. No band stays great forever. But today, only weeks removed from Muse and the Arcade Fire winning Grammys for the worst albums of their respective careers, it’s nice to see the real “Biggest Band in the World” remind us all how it’s done.

David Fitzgerald

OMD History of Modern Bright Antenna It’s been 25 years since the “classic” lineup of OMD (Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Martin Cooper and Malcolm Holmes) made a record together. And now, on History of Modern, they almost blow the anticipation of the whole thing by opening the album with one of the worst bits of superfluous trash to ever carry the OMD name. The ridiculous, guitar-riff focus of “New Babies; New Toys” fades quickly, though, and the album heads into familiar (i.e., keyboard-based pop tunes) land. Even so, the awfulness of some tracks—e.g., the bald-faced, cheap R&B of “Sometimes,” the goofy lyricism of “The Future, The Past and Forever After” and the touristy sexuality of “Pulse”–creates a strong temptation to dismiss the whole affair. The rub, though, is that about half the record is really good.

In between all the hash mentioned above are incredibly focused and rewarding meditations (“The Right Side?,” “New Holy Ground,” “Bondage of Fate”), exhilaratingly uplifting waves of melody (“History of Modern, Part II”), great dance-floor numbers (“History of Modern, Part I,” “Sister Marie Says”) and groovy, legitimately funky R&B (“Save Me”). The dedicatedto-Kraftwerk track “RFWK” (named after the first names of that band’s founders) is very much a new wave “In My Room” and succeeds as such.

With a bit of editing, the 14-track History of Modern could easily become a meaty, fully enjoyable album. The fat has got to come off, though, because it’s hiding all the flavor.

Gordon Lamb OMD is playing at The Loft in Atlanta on Monday, Mar. 14.

Prince Rama

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ommune-raised. Art school-educated.

Animal Collective-produced. These kids have got it all. Combining a menagerie of percussion instruments with washes of psychedelic synth and guitar noise and cryptic, hypnotically chanted vocals, Prince Rama creates spiritual soundscapes that, not unlike the hypnotic jams of Amon Duul, seem to operate on a whole other plane. Fluid and freewheeling, the band’s music shifts effortlessly from one idea to the next, feeling neither structured nor chaotic, so much as simply elevated.

Co-founder Taraka explains: “In the Hare Krishna community there was a really big emphasis on music through Kirtan which is a call-and-response style prayer chanting.

There’s always like someone leading it, but it never really feels like there’s a ‘leader’ per se; it’s always sort of this democratic thing. It’s pretty amazing, and I feel like that style—it’s just like a free-for-all, everyone in the room just grabs something to bang on and yells at the top of their lungs—that’s totally my style, and as much as possible we try to incorporate audience participation into our performances.”

Furthermore, three of the tracks on the band’s most recent release, Shadow Temple, are not originals, but re-imaginings of traditional Hindu mantras. Taraka continues, “I’d been really exploring the voice as an instrument—how can I convey meaning without necessarily spelling it out for you—and there’s something really attractive about the Sanskrit chants as well. I feel like they’re so open in a way; it’s like their meanings can encompass so much. It’s not like ‘here’s this word’ and ‘here’s the definition’; it’s a more open-ended definition, and I really like that.”

On working with Animal Collective, who produced Shadow Temple, Taraka became positively effusive. “They’re the sweetest dudes.

I have nothing but good words to say about them. They’re like family. Listening to their music was always inspiring to us, so it’s nice

to be able to work with people you respect so much.”

Only at the beginning of a tour that will ultimately take them to the UK, Taraka and company have big plans for the future. “We’ve been working with video projection,” she begins, “Actually Julian [Bozeman], from Quiet Hooves—you know that band Quiet Hooves?

They’re like super-good friends of ours. We’ve been working a lot with him and doing live visual stuff, so that’s been great. And we work with a friend of ours who’s a classical Indian dancer, and she’ll dance while we’re playing. It’s a really beautiful thing to see.

We’re gonna stop near Seattle on the way back to Brooklyn and record our new album. We met this dude there who’s really amazing. He recorded all the Sun City Girls’ records, as well as some of Animal Collective’s stuff. But man, we couldn’t miss Athens. We have a bunch of friends there. That was one of the first places we went to when we started touring, back when we were in Gainesville, FL. So, we like to stop by, and usually play with Quiet Hooves, but through them have met lots of other really sweet people.”

And so this week, Farm 255 will roll out the red carpet and play host to the court of Prince Rama. But really, they can hope only to be a vessel: the hourglass through which the band’s ever-shifting, psychedelic sands will pass for an evening. For Prince Rama can never be contained, only experienced.

David Fitzgerald

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Very Hi-Fi: Toro y Moi Knows What He’s Doing F orgive us if we fail to represent them all, but between lo-fi, no-fi, shitgaze or chillwave, there are many ways to describe the trend of making music that sounds like you don’t understand how to use recording equipment. The music of Chazwick Bundick, known popularly as Toro y Moi, does not belong to any of these affiliations.

Bundick released two very popular full-length albums on Carpark Records, 2010’s Causers of This and Underneath the Pine, and despite what you may have heard, they both sound pretty smartly produced.

But there is a distinction. Causers of This glimmers with compositional acumen that suggested his skills were approaching a new peak, but maybe not there yet. The haziness that coats the J Dilla-by-way-ofWashed Out smoothness therein could be perceived as a lack of polish but, in fact, seems to be deeply intentional. The reality is somewhere in between.

By contrast, Underneath the Pine is as particularly pleasant a trip through vintage R&B-tinged synthpop as anyone has heard recently, noticeably less jittery and glitchy than Causers. Indeed, the rise of supposed lo-fi, a term that has become as diluted as any widely heralded movement inevitably becomes, is not something of which Bundick was ignorant. With Underneath the Pine, had Bundick conscientiously moved far, far away from anything that could be construed as lo-fi, or did he believe he didn’t belong in that category to begin with?

“Sort of both,” he says. “When the lo-fi movement got big, I sort of took advantage of it because a lot of my recordings were lo-fi, but not intentionally or anything. It’s always been a goal of mine to get better at recordings, but for this one I wasn’t even really doing anything that different; I was using the same

equipment. I just tried to get better at recording. But I guess the biggest difference is that I mixed it in a studio.”

The 25-year-old native of Columbia, SC has come a long way in a short time. While studying at the University of South Carolina, he played with a far more “rockist” band called The Heist and the Accomplice; upon graduating in 2009, he put the Toro y Moi (an alias he’d held onto for the last 10 years) project into high gear. All of the music made under that moniker has been recorded on the same Boss 9-track digital recorder, even though to hear the first and second albums, you would assume a big change in process. Not so, says Bundick: the change was in the sound sources rather than the devices documenting them.

“I wanted to keep the whole album just acoustic instruments and acoustic sounds. Before Causers, I’d recorded live drums, and that was just me trying to make myself better at recording drums. I was aware that I wanted to do an album that was traditionally recorded… something I’d always wanted to do.”

He’s fresh off a jaunt to Australia, and audiences can expect to see a road-tested edition of what Bundick has been working towards perfecting.

Jeff Tobias

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Hay, now 58, was born in Scotland and grew up in the Glasgow area. His parents ran a music shop for years before moving the family to Melbourne, Australia in the late ’60s.

As a teen, Hay played guitar with various pub bands and garage groups. In 1978, he hooked up with guitarist Ron Styker, and within a year they’d formed Men at Work with bassist John Rees, woodwind player/keyboardist Greg Ham, and drummer Jerry Speiser.

The band earned a strong reputation for their energetic live shows and quirky songs.

Their mix of melodic guitar pop, engaging lyrics, reggae and a touch of jazzy horns worked well. By the time they recorded their first major studio album, 1981’s Business as Usual, the new wave movement in pop music was in the works, led by the such acts as the Police, U2, Madness, Elvis Costello and The Clash.

Another new phenomenon was also in the works: MTV. When it came to breaking into the U.S., Men at Work had great timing. Video clips for such catchy pop-rock singles as “Who Can It Be Now?” “Down Under” and “Be Good Johnny” propelled the band’s popularity on the college and commercial radio charts. By the time they released Cargo in 1983, they were one of the biggest pop bands on the international circuit. Cargo generated hit singles—“Overkill” and “It’s a Mistake”—but things came to an end for the group in 1986, shortly after the release of their final studio album, Two Hearts.

Hay pursued a solo career in the ’90s and 2000s. He also picked up acting. He released several major label solo albums with Columbia and MCA before establishing his own label, Lazy Eye. In recent years, Hay contributed songs to the TV show “Scrubs” (on which he’s also had a few cameos) and various original film soundtracks, including Garden State.

Musically, he’s stuck with the life of a rockerturned-folkie, writing songs at his California home of 20 years, and performing acoustic gigs at clubs and festivals.

“It’s always very heartening and affirming when people respond to the new songs,” Hay says of his fans’ reaction to his new material.

“You put it out there and hope that people get whatever they want out of it. It feels good when people seem to get it straight away and respond in a very positive fashion.”

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ongwriter Colin Hay has ventured quite a long way since his heady days in the early 1980s with Aussie pop/rock band Men at Work. His distinctively raspy, deep-toned voice sounds better than ever on his recent solo albums. His lyrics and musical compositions still strike a chord with audiences, too.

Hay makes his way through the Southeast this month, performing as a solo singer/ guitarist at clubs and events in support of his 11th studio album, Gathering Mercury. The self-produced collection is due out on Mar. 29 via Compass Records—a label that focuses on acoustic world and folk music.

When pressed, Hay bristles at the thought of sizing up his own work. “I never really consciously think about comparing one record from the next,” he says. “I just really have the same approach—which is that I try to record what I think are the best songs at the time, with wherever I am and who I’m playing with.

With the record before this [2009’s American Sunshine], half of it was done in Nashville, so the musicians there definitely had an effect on the sound. This latest album was recorded relatively quickly at home in my basement with musicians that I’d worked with for years.”

Gathering Mercury is a melodic collection with an impressively smooth production quality. Sparse, intimate and airy, there’s even a touch of melancholy to some of the songs.

“The overriding theme, if you like—if there is one at all—came from losing my father about a year ago,” says Hay. “Some of the songs were written with that sort of emotional influence. I had a kind of powerful relationship with my father, as a lot of people do, so the impact of him passing away and leaving was an unusually strong component to what was going on personally in my life. That was big stuff, and it was the underlying context.”

I’ve never thought thematically with albums,” Hay adds. “I’ve always thought each song should stand on its own and say what it’s supposed to be saying in its own right.”

At first listen, his new music sounds simple and straightforward. Some of the songs on Gathering Mercury are breezy and sparse, while a few are more full-bodied and percussive.

There are subtle emotional currents and rhythmic complexity underneath it, though, adding a refined quality.

“It’s an accidental result, but maybe that has to do with trying to avoid putting too much on the track during the recording process,” Hay admits. “As I get older, I try to lay the songs bare. Often, it’s what you don’t put on a song that’s most important. The more records I make, the more I tend to leave more things off. Sometimes, that’s a better way to go, you know?”

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Tuesday 8 EVENTS: Drafts & Laughs (The Pub at Gameday) Five beers, five comics, five bucks. 9 p.m. 706-353-2831 EVENTS: International Women’s Day (UGA Miller Learning Center, North Tower) A reception and round table discussion sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies. This year’s theme is “Equal Access to Education, Training, Science and Technology: Pathway to Decent Work for Women.” 2–5 p.m. FREE! 706542-0066, tlhat@uga.edu EVENTS: Italian Film Screening (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 148) Playing the second installment of Marco Tullio Giordana’s La Meglio Gioventu. 7 p.m. FREE! www.rom. uga.edu EVENTS: Sustainability Film Series: Dirt! (UGA Rooker Hall) Story of Earth’s source of fertility and how drought, climate change and war are all directly related to dirt. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-7068, jeizenst@uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recital (UGA Hodgson Hall) Wind Ensemble Concert. 8 p.m. www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Recital (Edge Recital Hall) J. Benjamin Smith on bassoon. 6:30 p.m. 706-542-3737, www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: UGA Law Revue Talent Show (40 Watt Club) Annual talent show consisting of music and comedic performances

by UGA Law students. 8 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Family Afternoon at the (Described) Movies (ACC Library) This month, Shrek. Film features a non-intrusive narrative

track for visually impaired viewers. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Kids’ Beginning Art (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Children are exposed to basic techiniques and encouraged to explore their own creative ideas. Materials provided.

Tuesdays, 5–6 p.m. $10 (adv.) $12 (drop-in). 706-410-0283 KIDSTUFF: Open Craft Hour (Treehouse Kid and Craft) For ages 2–8. Past projects have included puppets, wreaths, mittens and snowflakes. 4 p.m. $10. 706-850-8226 KIDSTUFF: Recycled Arts (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Kids are invited to explore thier creativity through art projects where found objects are transformed into art pieces.

Tuesdays, 3:45–4:45 p.m. $10 (adv.) $12 (drop-in).

KIDSTUFF: Spanish for Kids (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Vocabulary mixed with dance, song, theater, games and other activities.

10 a.m. $10. 706-850-8226 LECTURES & LIT.: AfricanAmerican Authors Book Club (ACC Library) This month’s title is Darius Jones by Mary B. Morrison.

Newcomers welcome. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Ecology of Infectious Disease Lecture (UGA Ecology Building) “Physiological Integration and Phenotypic Variation in Vertebrates,” presented by Lynn Martin of the University of South Florida. 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-5922, alea@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Willson Center Visiting Artists Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room 150) Rick and Laura Brown of Handshouse Studio present “17th and 18th Century Wooden Synagogues: The Bimah Project.” 5 p.m. FREE! 706542-3966, jdingus@uga.edu MEETINGS: Business Networking (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) Athens Referral Bulldawgs, an Athens

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Lunch is provided. 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. 770-713-4278 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. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com

Wednesday 9 EVENTS: AutismUGA Spelling Bee (New Earth Music Hall) Presidential spelling bee with special guests John French and the Bastilles. Campus organization leaders will compete for prizes donated by local businesses. 7:30 p.m. $5. augacampuscontact@gmail.com EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

This week: salty dogs and greyhounds. Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www.indigoathens.com EVENTS: GSPHE Vigil and Rally (UGA Arch) Join concerned students and community members in support of better funding for K–12 and higher education in Georgia. 4:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiastudents.org ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Join Lynn Boland, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, for an introduction to the museum’s Kress Collection. 2 p.m. FREE! 706542-4662 PERFORMANCE: Local Laughs Live (UGA Tate Center) Open mic comedy shows gives students a chance to showcase their stand-up comedy skills. 8 p.m. FREE! www. uga.edu/union PERFORMANCE: Master’s Recital (Edge Recital Hall) Soo Jung Jeon on piano. 6:30 p.m. 706-542-3737, www.music.uga.edu

Danú will perform at the UGA Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Mar. 11.

PERFORMANCE: Recital (Edge Recital Hall) Jay Hunsburger on tuba, James Wilson on horn and Anatoly Sheludyakov on piano. 8 p.m. 706-542-3737, www.music. uga.edu THEATRE: The Odd Couple (UGA Arena Theatre) A Thalian Blackfriars production of Neil Simon’s 1965 stage play about two mismatched roommates. 8 p.m. $5. www.drama. uga.edu OUTDOORS: Rocks of the Piedmont (Various Locations) Guided tour through the Oconee Forest to identify major rock types and learn how they affect topography and vegetation. Meet at the Oconee Forest Park boardwalk. 3–5 p.m.

FREE! www.athensgreenfest.com KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Oconee County Library) Beginning readers in grades 1–4 read aloud to an aid dog. Trainer is always present with the dog. 3:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) This week: no-slip bookmarks. For ages 11–18.

4–5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: APERO Africana Brown Bag Lecture (UGA Tate Center, Room 481) Esra Santesso presents “African Muslim Diasporas in Postcolonial Literature.” 12:15 p.m. FREE! fsgiles@uga.edu

LECTURES & LIT.: Edith House Lecture (UGA Hirsch Hall) Supreme Court of Georgia Chief Justice Carol W. Hunstein will share her insights on being a woman in the judiciary and the field of law.

3:30 p.m. FREE! areed19@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Exit Seminar (UGA Life Sciences Building) Leilei Guo presents “Identification and Characterization of Novel Yeast Telomerase RNAs.” 4 p.m. FREE! whites@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Romance Languages Colloquium (UGA Gilbert Hall, Room 320) Diana Ranson presents “Pragmatic Functions of Spanish Subject Pronouns: Why Meaning Matters.”

12:15 p.m. FREE! dbultman@uga. edu MEETINGS: GSPHE Meeting (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 247) Georgia Students for Public Higher Eduction is a coalition of students who believe that affordable, quality education is a right. 8 p.m. FREE! georgiastudents.org MEETINGS: Safe Space Training (UGA Memorial Hall, Room 238) Interactive workshop to raise awareness and knowledge of LGBT issues and to suggest ways to serve as an ally to LGBT individuals. Online registration required. 1:30–5 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-4077, www.uga.edu/ safespace MEETINGS: We Are Athens Discussion Group (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Meets quarterly to explore environmental, neighborhood, civic and sustainability issues.

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FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Poker night every Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub.com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

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Thursday 10 EVENTS: Lord of the Rings Movie Night (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 148) Come watch The Fellowship of the Ring, preceded by a talk from Dr. Jonathan Evans of the UGA English department. 6 p.m.

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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! collardj@ uga.edu ART: Opening Reception (The Globe) For artwork by Laura Connely. 7–9 p.m. FREE! connely@ washingtonwilkes.org ART: Dr. David Stone (Lamar Dodd School of Art) Stone presents “Signature Killer: Caravaggio and the Poetics of Blood,” a detailed look at “The Beheading of St. John the Baptist.” 5 p.m. FREE! artinfo@ uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Concert (UGA Hodgson Hall) UGA Symphony Orchestra performs the classics, Symphony No. 4 by Beethoven, Incredible Flutist Suite by Piston, and “Romeo and Juliet Overture”

by Tchaikovsky. 8 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu THEATRE: The Odd Couple (UGA Arena Theatre) A Thalian Blackfriars production of Neil Simon’s 1965 stage play about two mismatched roommates. 8 p.m. $5. www.drama. uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Family Skate Night (Skate-A-Round USA) Come take a spin with the Classic City Rollergirls and get a sneak peak at the heat they’ll be packing this season. 6–9 p.m. $5. www.classiccityrollergirls. com KIDSTUFF: Homeschoolers Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Elementary schoolage homeschoolers gather at the library to read a book together and talk about it. Every Thursday. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: Lecture (UGA Miller Learning Center) Martin Kagel, head of the Germanic and Slavic Studies program, and Sarah Hemmings, a NASA researcher, collaborate on research for an extensive public park in Germany. 5 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-4724, alofton@ uga.edu MEETINGS: Townhall Meeting (Council on Aging) Discussing important issues in the Harris Room.

6-8 p.m. FREE! www.accaging.org

Friday 11 PERFORMANCE: Athens Cabaret Showgirls (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Local drag troupe, tonight with special guest, Charlie Brown. Good grief. 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace. com/littlekingsshuffleclub PERFORMANCE: Danú (UGA Hodgson Hall) Irish music ensemble with flute, tin whistle, fiddle, button accordion, bouzouki and uilleann pipes. 8 p.m. $20–37. 706-5424400, www.uga.edu/pac THEATRE: The Fantasticks (On Stage) Two teenagers on neighboring farms hide their romance from their feuding fathers. Little do they know, however, that their fathers have hatched a plan to get them down the aisle. 8 p.m. www.onstagewalton.org THEATRE: Noises Off! (The Elbert Theatre) A slapstick comedy about an unprepared production company the night before opening night. Fri. & Sat., 7:30 p.m. Sun., 2 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15. 706-283-1049, tking@ cityofelberton.net OUTDOORS: Sole Mates (Rocksprings Park) Wellness program for senior adults. Take a stroll around the park for exercise. Every Friday afternoon. Call to register.

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KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: Book Signing and Release Party (Dog Ear Books) Rebecca Lang, author of Quick-Fix Southern, will prepare dishes from the book. 6 p.m. FREE! dogearbooks@gmail.com LECTURES & LIT.: Odum School of Ecology Lecture (UGA Ecology Building) “Research in Support of Environmental Remediation: From the Lab to the Field,” presented by John C. Seaman. 11 a.m. FREE! www.ecology.uga.edu MEETINGS: Healing with Hypnosis (Body, Mind & Spirit Ministries) A relaxing session of group hypnosis for weight loss, deep relaxation, sleeping better and NLP. Meets second Friday of each month.

6–7 p.m. $10. 706-351-6024 MEETINGS: Mindfulness Practice Group (Mind Body Institute) Beginners and experienced mindfulness practitioners welcome. Meets the second Friday of each month.

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Saturday 12 EVENTS: Athens Area Democrats Breakfast (Brett’s Casual American Restaurant) Today’s breakfast features speaker Mayor Nancy Denson. Call for reservations. 9 a.m. 706–543–1480, anitabarney@ charter.net THEATRE: The Fantasticks (On Stage) Two teenagers on neighboring farms hide their romance from their feuding fathers. Little do they know, however, that their fathers have hatched a plan to get them down the aisle. 8 p.m. www.onstagewalton.org

THEATRE: Noises Off! (The Elbert Theatre) A slapstick comedy about an unprepared production company the night before opening night. Fri. & Sat., 7:30 p.m. Sun., 2 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15. 706-283-1049, tking@ cityofelberton.net KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for stories about the woods and their resident creatures. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615, www.accleisureservices.com KIDSTUFF: Storytime & Craft (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Make a craft inspired by the book. 10 a.m. $10. 706-850-8226 www.treehousekidandcraft.com LECTURES & LIT.: Book Signing (Dog Ear Books) Meet the author.

Athens author and UGA alumnus William J. Barry will sign his young adult dark fantasy novel, Sebastian and the Afterlife. 1 p.m. FREE! dogearbooks.com LECTURES & LIT.: Leopold Discussion and Greenfest Kick-Off (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A morning exploring Aldo Leopold’s sustainability concepts with guest speakers Walt Cook and Nancy Lindbloom. There will be a tour of the garden with Lunda Chafin following the presentation. 9 a.m. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden

Sunday 13 THEATRE: Noises Off! (The Elbert Theatre) A slapstick comedy about an unprepared production company the night before opening night. Fri. & Sat., 7:30 p.m. Sun., 2 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15. 706-283-1049, tking@ cityofelberton.net GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Monday night. Bring your friends! 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Weekly Trivia! 7 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655

Monday 14 EVENTS: Movie Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Come watch 1970s Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise classic The Cannonball Run. www. flickertheatreandbar.com EVENTS: Townhall Meeting (ACC Library) Meeting open to all community members. 5–7 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1142 PERFORMANCE: HACKS IV (Caledonia Lounge) Comedy night showcasing Joe Zimmerman, Ed Burmila, Nate Mitchell, Andy Hollingsworth, Jake Duvall, Mat Lewis and Luke Fields. 9 p.m. $3 (21+), $5 (18-20). www.caledonialounge.com. See story on p. 15.

PERFORMANCE: Comedy Night (The Pub at Gameday) Featuring Atlanta comedian David Waite. FREE! 706-353-2831.

KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Snuggle in your jammies and listen to stories. Every Monday.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Spanish for Kids (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Vocabulary mixed with dance, song, theater, games and other activities.

10 a.m. $10. 706-850-8226 LECTURES & LIT.: Goodbye Blue Monday Poetry Open Mic (Dog Ear Books) Every 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month. For musicians’ open mic, drop by on the 1st or 3rd Mondays. 8 p.m. FREE! 706818-0976 MEETINGS: Teen Advisory Board (Oconee County Library) Help plan and organize programs for the library’s Young Adult department that appeal to you! For ages 11-18. 7–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? 8 p.m. 706548-3442 GAMES: Trivia (Highwire) Compete with friends for a $100 bar tab at Highwire Lounge. Come early to register your team. Every Monday.

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Nash Smith & Ganges, Emily Armond, Eureka California Go Bar Blacksburg, VA is a town of just over 40,000 people and roughly two venues where musicians can play. House shows are restricted, and bars in Virginia are required to make 50 percent of profits from food, all of which makes it difficult to nurture any sort of DIY music scene, says Nash Smith & Ganges guitarist Rob Kenagy. In lieu of a circle of peers to observe, the members of atmospheric rock trio Nash Smith & Ganges look to the natural wilderness that pervades the town for inspiration and encouragement.

“We all moved from farther cities, so it was a very conscious decision to move here,” says Melissa Smith, keyboardist and vocalist. “We’re in Appalachia; so we’re in the middle of nowhere. I think our location has everything to do with it. It allows a certain amount of contemplation and exploration of things.”

Guitarist Kenagy is a “backwoods junkie” who uses echoes and creaks to give the sustained, foreboding notes a varnish of alertness and unpredictability. Instead of a timid reverence for nature, the sound embraces the wilderness and the isolation. Smith’s riversiren voice winds in and out of the crunchy guitars and Mark Arciaga’s echoing snares.

Every song from the new Nash Smith & Ganges EP goes at either the speed of a swiftrunning animal or passing clouds. The woods are in the music so obviously and so beautifully that nothing but the mercy of the wild needs to be consulted to understand it.

They follow their instincts, wild or tame, in a way some musicians don’t when surrounded by too many opinions. The result is not clean or completely cohesive, but it always makes sense in the moment. Whether you catch it or it catches you, it was inevitable and precisely correct. [Sydney Slotkin]

Tuesday 15 ART: “Calculations: What Could be Painting” (Town 220) An informative and entertaining talk with Athens artist Richard “Ole” Olsen.

His “Large Format Wall Painting” exhibit will be on display. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! www.madisonartistsguild.org KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Exploring Craft (Treehouse Kid and Craft) For children 6 & under. Accompanied by a story or puppet show. 10 a.m. $10 706-850-8226, www.treehousekidandcraft.com KIDSTUFF: Kids’ Beginning Art (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Children are exposed to basic techiniques and encouraged to explore their own creative ideas. Materials provided.

Tuesdays, 5–6 p.m. $10 (adv.) $12 (drop-in). 706-410-0283 KIDSTUFF: Open Craft Hour (Treehouse Kid and Craft) For ages 2–8. Past projects have included puppets, wreaths, mittens and snowflakes. 4 p.m. $10. 706-850-8226 KIDSTUFF: Recycled Arts (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Kids are invited to explore thier creativity through art projects where found objects are transformed into art pieces.

Tuesdays, 3:45–4:45 p.m. $10 (adv.) $12 (drop-in).

MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Friendship Christian Church) After a short business meeting, club members that visited Fort Drum Cystal Mine will present a program highlighting the mine’s rare calcified marine clam shells. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-8082 MEETINGS: Business Networking (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) Athens Referral Bulldawgs, an Athens chapter of BNI, meets every Tuesday.

Lunch is provided. 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. 770-713-4278 MEETINGS: Tinnitus Support Group (Oconee County Library) Discussion on the causes of tinnitus, effects on everyday life and treatment options. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www. athensoconeeaudiology.com 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. 8:30 p.m.

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Wednesday 16 EVENTS: Bad Movie Night: Biohazard: The Alien Force (Ciné BarCafé) A hunky security guard tries to stop his company’s genetically engineered monster. 8 p.m. FREE! facebook.com/badmovienight EVENTS: Canine Cocktail Hour (Hotel Indigo, Madison Bar & Bistro Courtyard) Drink and food specials for you and your (well-behaved, non-aggressive, vaccinated) dog!

This week: salty dogs and greyhounds. Every Wednesday. 5-7 p.m. www.indigoathens.com EVENTS: GSPHE Vigil and Rally (UGA Arch) Join concerned students and community members in support of better funding for K–12 and higher education in Georgia. 4:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiastudents.org KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

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whatever it is you want to play! For ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month’s title is The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

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FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: GSPHE Meeting (UGA Miller Learning Center, Room 247) Georgia Students for Public Higher Eduction is a coalition of students who believe that affordable, quality education is a right. 8 p.m. FREE! georgiastudents.org GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. Win house cash and prizes! 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Poker night every Wednesday. 18 and up. Sign in at 6:30 p.m. Dealing begins at 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.interstatepokerclub. com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for zany prizes! Every Wednesday night. 9 p.m. FREE! 706546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Harry’s Pig Shop) Nerd wars at Classic City Trivia’s “most challenging trivia night in Athens.” Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-612-9219 * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line EVENTS: 16th Annual OCAF Thrift Sale 3/19 (OCAF) Over 10,000 items for sale. Find antiques, furniture, trinkets, tools, toys, electronics, lawn and garden supplies, pottery, clothing and so much more. Benefits the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation.

8 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com EVENTS: Found Footage Festival 3/25 (Ciné BarCafé) Brand-new installment of festival that showcases odd videos, such as infomercials, training videos and cable access shows. 8 and 10 p.m. $10. www. foundfootagefest.com EVENTS: BreastFest 2011 3/26 (Terrapin Beer Co.) Fundraiser for breast cancer research and breast health that benefits St. Mary’s Women’s Diagnostic Center. Main event features live music, food, wine and beer, silent auction, raffle and kids activities. 12-7:30 p.m. $30 (adv.), $35. FREE! (kids). www. breastfest.org EVENTS: Trot for Tots 3/27 (Athens Regional Medical Center) 5K to help low-income families obtain childcare services. 2 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25. info@nancytravis.org, www. nancytravis.org EVENTS: International Street Festival 4/9 (Downtown Athens) Annual festival featuring cultural displays, traditional costumes, dances and international bands. 12–5 p.m.

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Wednesday 9 Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. 706-369-3040 BOAR’S HEAD OPEN MIC Every Wednesday in March!

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com ANTLERED AUNT LORD Fuzz pop guitar/drums duo featuring songwriter Jesse Stinnard.

GREEN THRIFT GROCERY New band… big fans of Flagpole’s

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com LADIES NIGHT A night of musical performances featuring female musicians. Hosted by Jess Marston, formerly of Romanenko.

Go Bar 9 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/gobar EMILY ARMOND The singer/songwriter behind Sea of Dogs performs her heartfelt folk ballads solo over banjo and guitar.

EUREKA, CALIFORNIA Melodic, guitar-driven indie rock influenced by bands like Guided by Voices.

NASH SMITH & GANGES Atmospheric garage rock sprinkled with wild sounds of nature and siren-like singing. See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com DREW DAVIS Young female singersongwriter and pianist who has

Thursday 10 The Bad Manor 10 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com BASS MATTERS: SPRING BREAKDOWN A night of dubstep with the UGA EDM Colab, DJ Pound Town and DJ Decepticron.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com AMERICAN BABIES Melodic and meandering folk-country outfit with an irresistable and untouchable Rod Stewart vibe.

THE BEAUVILLES Trio from Tampa inspired by ‘70s rock and Britpop that results in noisy, open-ended sensitivity.

EDDIE THE WHEEL Moody, melodic indie rock.

NATE NELSON Local singer-songwriter whose dreamy vocals lilt over sweet, heartfelt indie pop melodies.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BUBBLY MOMMY GUN Local experimental pop band that plays idiosyncratic, psychedelic tunes. See Calendar Pick on p. 25.

GRAPE SODA Local band featuring the brothers Lewis (Mat and Ryan, also of The Agenda), on vocals, organ and drums, playing

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com REFINED ROBBERS Soulful, sensitive local folk quartet, similar to Bon Iver.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $3. 706-353-3050 NO SHAME! Open mic hosted by Rose of Athens Theatre. Every Tuesday!

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PRETTY BIRD Lo-fi psych and experimental tunes.

TINY VICTORIES Electronic dance party pop from Brooklyn.

WOWSER BOWSER Blissed-out, bittersweet synth-pop from Atlanta.

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Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BIGFOOT Howling indie classic rock as intriguing as it is difficult to pin down. This Athens group mixes Tom Petty guitar solos with Captain Beefheart strangeness.

HERMIT THRUSHES Outsider folk that ranges from sweetly straightforward to purposefully discordant.

MANY MANSIONS Spacey, atmospheric ambient performance project of Shane Donnelly and featuring members of Quiet Hooves.

MOUSER Exuberant garage-pop that experiments with noise jams.

New Earth Music Hall 10 p.m. FREE! www.newearthmusichall. com AZ-IZ Adrian Zelski of DubConscious spins world/dub/dance, tonight spinning all reggae in celebration of Mardi Gras.

electronic soundsapes underscored by her dreamy vocals.

PRINCE RAMA The wild animals of psychedelic rock, Prince Rama’s chanting and pulsing sounds like something from an onstage version of Lord of the Flies. See story on p. 17.

QUIET HOOVES High-energy, idiosyncratic pop that’s loose and full of fun. Expect some fun covers thrown into the mix.

Gnat’s Landing 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5858 NATHAN SHEPPARD The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is known for his emotive singing style and his modern reworkings of classic tunes.

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Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5. www.caledonialounge. com JOSH DANIELS Local acoustic singer who works real emotion into classic bluegrass songs.

THE LISPS This Brooklyn band’s quriky, fun spoken-sung lyrical interplay over eclectic folk has a sort of off-kilter Vaudeville feel.

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Highwire 8–11 p.m. FREE! 706-543-8997 KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid’s music borrows freely from multiple sources and hammers it all into a seamless product glistening with inspiration. Every Tuesday!

The Loft Dance Lounge 10 p.m. www.loftofathens.com FERAL YOUTH DJ Chris Howe gets the party started with high-energy house, electronica and Top-40 mash-ups every Tuesday.

The Melting Point “Terrapin Bluegrass Series.” 7 p.m. $4. www.meltingpointathens.com NORTH GEORGIA BLUEGRASS BAND An eclectic blend of traditional and contemporary acoustic music.

Legendary ska-rock fusion band Fishbone celebrates its 25th anniversary at New Earth Music Hall on Thursday, Mar. 10.

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Ryan Donegan, Chloe Tewksbury, Hana Hay and Dain Marx keep Dan Lorentz’s dream alive with “intergalactic, nonsensical wondrous confusion.”

TED KUHN Guitarist from local envelope-pushing hard rock/metal band Marriage.

SMOKE DOG Local guys Thom Strickland (vocals, guitar) and Jason Jones (drums) play a noisy motorik pulse with treated guitar. Says Jones, “noisy lo-fi boogie smeared over mechanical back-pocket beats.”

Farm 255 “Primals Night.” 8-10 p.m. FREE! www. farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS Background sounds for dinner and cocktails.

This quiet jazz duo features Jeremy Roberts on guitar and George Davidson on tenor sax playing odd covers and improvising on familiar themes.

10:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com GRIMES This lady from Montreal makes makes eerie, atmospheric

drawn comparisons to acts like Eva Cassidy, Patty Griffin and Fiona Apple.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Every Wednesday and Friday with Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens KELLEY MCRAE Folk singer with strong country, soul and gospel influences.

MILAGRES Chillwave five-piece from Brooklyn akin to the relaxed beats of Beach House.

ERIC SOMMER Upbeat songs that showcase the D.C. guitarist’s proficiency in slide guitar and Travis picking.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com KELLEY MCRAE Folk singer with strong country, soul and gospel in-

reverb-heavy garage psych-rock.

Celebrating the release of their debut album, Form a Sign.

HEIGHT WITH FRIENDS Hip-hop group that’s part of the Wham City collective in Baltimore.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com BETSY FRANCK This local songwriter offers soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility.

JESS MARSTON Singer/guitarist from local rock band Romanenko.

40 Watt Club “March Madness Mini Festival.” 8 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.40watt.com CASPER & THE COOKIES Increasingly experimental but always rooted in pop sensibilities, this local act presents a danceable mix of quirky fun driven by keyboard and guitar.

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Bubbly Mommy Gun, Grape Soda, HEIGHT Farm 255 Odd as it is, few band names are as apt as Bubbly Mommy Gun. In drummer Joe Kubler’s version of events, the story behind the name is just as fitting: Bubbly Mommy Gun “They have these toy guns that shoot bubbles; I don’t know what they call ‘em, but I call ‘em bubbly tommy guns… [And so] we all grew fake mustaches and went to a party and were shooting this gun around. We were going to call the band Bubbly Tommy Gun, and we told Mercer [West, the band’s bassist], and he said it should be called Bubbly Mommy Gun.” Substitute music for mustaches and, in a way, the story comes to describe the group’s dynamic. The band grew out of the collaboration between Charlie Key and Greg O’Connell, who trade off songwriting duties. After a year or so of playing house shows as a duo, Kubler was added. West followed soon after. The new additions added structure. Kubler speaks of “taking apart these really abstract ideas between Charlie and Greg and making them into songs.”

A year and a half after the band’s debut, Ain’t Got No Favorite Color, the group is now recording new songs for an upcoming release. With each show, the four bandmembers seem to grow more comfortable, allowing the oddball elements to shine, like the Reggaeton beat of “Tight Squeeze” or the Spielberg-referencing opening motif of “Jawes.”

The band name isn’t changing, but as the group gets more cohesive, it might consider playing up the mystery of its origin. Headed for the big time, Bubbly Mommy Gun might one day be too big for parties and mustaches. Kubler’s suggestion looks promising: “We’re really named after some soap factory mafia in south Florida.” [Marshall Yarbrough]

sive, new wave rock soundscapes since 2000. The band recently traded in its pensive, cello-lead sound for a lineup featuring two guitars, drums and Lynda Stipe on keys and bass.

THE GOONS New indie-poprock featuring members of The Glands, Casper & the Cookies and Marshmallow Coast.

GREEN THRIFT GROCERY New band featuring Ryan Donegan, Chloe Tewksbury, Hana Hay and Dain Marx. Playing “noisy, hooky songs about dancing, science fiction and consumer culture.”

SUPERCLUSTER Local “Appalachian wave” band featuring an all-star line including members of Pylon, Olivia Tremor Control and more.

TUNABUNNY Local act featuring hazy and warped experimental psychedelia. Dual female guitarist/vocalists are backed by synthesized percussion and a wall of noise.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Hosted by fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 RAND LINES TRIO Pianist Rand Lines performs original compositions with the help of drummer Ben Williams and bassist Mike Beshara.

Highwire 8–11 p.m. FREE! 706-543-8997 THE INDIE REVENGE Sparse, experimental jazz from Marietta, GA. Hilltop Grille 7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7667 MILLIGAN Acoustic duo reworks both classic rock and more recent hits from CSNY to Johnny Cash.

Hotel Indigo “Live After 5 on the Madison Patio.”

6–8 p.m. FREE! www.indigoathens. com CARL LINDBERG Jazz bassist Carl Lindberg (Grogus, Squat, Kenosha

Kid, etc.) performs standards, originals and some surprising tunes from divergent styles. Playing every Thursday in February at Hotel Indigo. Tonight with special guest Jason Fuller!

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub CCBB Cars Can Be Blue, the sweetly sarcastic lo-fi pop duo of Becky Brooks and Nate Mitchell, recently acquired a bassist (Jeremy Dyson) and an abbreviated moniker. “Our songs are catchier than genital warts,” says the band.

KNAVES GRAVE This trio of women from Atlanta plays hedonistic garage rock and lists its interests as “making out, fast food, the beach, parties, friends, adventures and rise above.”

X-RAY EYEBALLS Plodding, pounding garage rock that’s earned comparisons to Jay Reatard and Velvet Underground. This Brooklyn acts bounces all over the board with moody, ethereal noise and synthdriven dance numbers.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $23 (adv.), $28 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com COLIN HAY From ‘80s hit-making Australian group Men at Work, Hay now plays mellow, nostalgic folk.

See story on p. 19.

CHRIS TRAPPER Folk-pop singer/ songwriter formerly of The Push Stars who has been featured on numerous film soundtracks and TV drama episodes. He has an narrative, emotional style and accompanies himself with light guitar/piano/percussion fare.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $10. www.newearthmusichall. com ASHUTTO MIRRA Alternative rock quartet with a dark and steely sound.

DJ TROGDOR Local trance DJ named after the cartoon Burninator.

FISHBONE Legendary ska, funk and rock band from L.A.

I.O.Z. Atmospheric trance and mellow ska from Atlanta.

The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Blues night hosted by The Shadow Executives. Come join the jam every Thursday!

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com SWEET KNIEVEL This band’s brand of melodic, psychedelic rock showscases an appreciation of Syd Barrett and The Beatles.

WUOG 90.5FM “Live in the Lobby.” 8 p.m. FREE! www. wuog.org LIVE IN THE LOBBY Grey Milk will perform on the college radio station’s twice weekly program. Listen over the air or drop by to watch!

Friday 11 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 OLD SCHOOL OUTLAWS Southern rock with a country vibe.

The Bad Manor 9 p.m. FREE! www.thebadmanor.com DJ THIAGO Spinning techno, rap and top-40 hits.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com CASPIAN Math rock from Massachusetts.

CHIAROSCURO Ambient prog-rock from Indianapolis with climactic explosions that build from soft, repetitive progressions.

NATIVE Calculated and complicated prog-rock from Indiana.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com HOLY LIARS This local four-piece tends towards blue-collar rock, not

unlike more polished, early Uncle Tupelo or the cow-punkier moments of Social Distortion.

THE INVISIBLE HAND Psych-pop with tight and angular instrumentation from Virginia.

NAKED GODS From the mountains of Boone, NC, Naked Gods bring a warm, hook-laden blend of indie altcountry and rock and roll.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com AKI-RA No info available.

THE RIVERMEN Last time the band performed, Will Chamberlain and Zach Clayton from A PostWar Drama sang lewd Christmas songs, so watch out.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com CLOUD NOTHINGS Child-like power-pop from Ohio with an altrock vibe that does nothing to quell the wave of optimism that swells from the vocals.

THE GOLD PARTY This local band plays danceable new wave and synth-driven glam.

TORO Y MOI South Carolina native and frontman of The Heist and The Accomplice, Chaz Bundick plays deeply layered electropop tunes with understated vocals. See story on p. 18.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar SO IT GOES Socially conscious punk rock band that infuses elements of Spanish rock, folk and ska.

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

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 DAMIAN CHURCHWELL & THE OMENS Local songwriter whose soothingly mellow acoustic rock is tricked out with bells and whistles.

THE DINO ALL STAR BAND Featuring drummer and celebrated bachelor of the evening, Dean Johnston.

KEN WILL MORTON BAND Bluesy rock and roll with a hint of Americana and pop is Morton’s speciality. Now he’s hitting the stage with his backing band (Andrew Vickery, Tim Adams and Dave Hooper).

BEN STEVENS Local acoustic soul/ R&B artist. Accompanied by Nolan Terrabone on guitar.

Highwire 8–11 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8510 RAND LINES TRIO Pianist Rand Lines performs original compositions with the help of drummer Ben Williams and bassist Mike Beshara.

Every Friday!

Hilltop Grille 7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7667 DAVID PRINCE This Athens staple and one-time member of The Jesters plays your favorite soul, rock and R&B oldies.

Johnny’s New York Style Pizza 8 p.m. FREE! 706-354-1515 LEAVING COUNTRIES Warm, inviting folk rock featuring violin, aching harmonica and melodic guitars.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 8 Terrapin Bluegrass Series featuring

NORTH GEORGIA BLUEGRASS BAND $4 admission • $2 Terrapin Pints All Night!

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DREW DAVIS $5 admission

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

Nomad Artists and the Melting Point present

COLIN HAY (LEAD SINGER of MEN AT WORK)

CHRIS TRAPPER

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FRIDAY, MARCH 11

GRAINS OF SAND Tickets $12 adv.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12

COSMIC CHARLIE High Energy Grateful Dead Tickets $10 adv.

THURSDAY, MARCH 17 St. Patrick’s Day Celebration featuring

BALLYBEG BAND, CALICO JIG, THE DRAKE SCHOOL OF IRISH DANCE Tickets $6 adv. • $9 at the door

FRIDAY, MARCH 18

BIG DADDY’S BAND ERIC DODD BAND

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SATURDAY, MARCH 19

STRAWBERRY FLATS Tickets $7 adv. • $10 at the door

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23

NATE CURRIN Tickets $5 adv. • $8 at the door

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KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS Tickets $13 adv. • $15 at the door

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Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com TOMORROW PEOPLE BAND Reggae, rock, funk and soul with a Southern feel. Mixing covers and originals.

WUGA 91.7 FM 4 p.m. FREE! www.wuga.org “ITS FRIDAY!” Mad Whiskey Grin and Danielle Howle will perform on the local radio station’s weekly program. University Cable Channel 15 will also broadcast the show.

Saturday 12 Allen’s Bar & Grill 8:30 p.m. www.allensbarandgrill.com LEAVING COUNTRIES Warm, inviting folk rock from here in Athens, featuring tender violin, aching harmonica and melodic acoustic guitars.

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The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 SCARLET STITCH A solid blend of Southern, stadium, metal and grunge rock. The band formerly known as Soul Shaker packs a hefty punch of classic covers and originals.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com AMPLINE Progressive rock and punk from Cincinnati.

DAIKAIJU Hard rocking psycho-surf from Alabama.

SLEEPER YEARS Local ambient post-rock band featuring Jake Duvall (bass), Paul Noble (guitar), Matt Riley (drums) and Jeff Glenn (guitar).

ZRUDA Psychedelic metal with members of Powers, Lazer/Wulf and Gaylord making its Athens debut.

Casa Mia “Viva Latino en Athens.” 10:30 p.m. www.casamiatapas.com DJ SERR Spinning a mix of Latino music, top-40 hits and more in between sets.

ENCISO Performing rock en Español.

LA SUEGRA This high-energy ska band from Atlanta features Spanish lead vocals and a lively horn section.

LOS MEESFITS The music of The Misfits done in Spanish/Cuban salsa style.

LUNA Rock pop group.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com COLUMBOID New York “ghettotech” group with plenty of lo-fi synth riffs and bass drums to go around.

GOBLINIZER Steve Miller from Ceramic Duck teams up with Colin Carey from The Ginger Envelope for this experimental project.

MOTHS Featuring Jacob Morris of Ham1, Moths plays a mostly acoustic sort of ‘70s folk-rock with a pop sensibility and an inevitable psychedelic tinge.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com CAROLINE AIKEN Renowned acoustic folk artist Caroline Aiken shared the stage with the Indigo Girls for some time. Her soulful voice purrs and growls the blues over bright finger-picking.

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KATE MORRISSEY Best known for her dark velvet voice, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her conversational live shows with an offbeat sense of humor.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $15. www.40watt.com THE BASEBALL PROJECT The team of Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon tackle an album’s worth of songs about America’s pastime.

KEVN KINNEY AND THE MUSICAL KINGS Lead singer of Drivin’ and Cryin’ celebrates his 50th birthday tonight! Peter Buck collaborates with Kevn Kinney on this project.

Go Bar 10 p.m. $3–$5 (donation for touring bands). www.myspace.com/gobar DOUBLE DYNAMITE Organ/drum duo that isn’t Grape Soda! Back after a two-year hiatus, these guys (now based in Atlanta) play high-energy, snarling garage rock.

GHOST BIKINI This four-piece from Atlanta plays a lively mix of ‘60s Nuggets-inspired garage rock goodness with a Slits-style twist care of their edgy frontwoman.

TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller (Gold Party, The Agenda) and friends spin late-night glam rock, new wave, Top 40, punk and Britpop. Dance party begins after the live music.

THE HUSTLE RATS Primitive punk disaster birthed from a toxic waste dump. No bass. No cymbals.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-3050 STEVEN TRIMMER Acoustic psychfolk that’s technically proficient and melodically spontaneous. Tonight featuring Eddie Whelan.

Highwire 8–11 p.m. FREE! 706-543-8997 FREE MONK Jazz quartet.

Hilltop Grille 7 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7667 JAZZ NIGHT Every Saturday!

Featuring The Chris Enghauser Trio and a rotation of top jazz musicians.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub ANGELO GIANNI Of the alt-noirpop band Treadmill Trackstar from Columbia, SC. DANIELLE HOWLE A punk rocker at heart with the voice of a honkeytonk angel, this folk singer from South Carolina has shared the stage with such acts as the Indigo Girls, Elliot Smith and Bob Dylan.

MAD WHISKEY GRIN Local duo featuring masterful guitarist Frank Williams, who slides and fingerpicks his way through bluesy and decidedly American sounds, plus the smoky vocals of Nancy Byron.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $10. www.meltingpointathens. com COSMIC CHARLIE Grateful Dead covers like you’ve never heard before.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com CAPSULE CORP. Jazzy band with well-crafted, intricately constructed songs.

DOPAPOD Over the past few years, this band has grown from an organand-drum duo to a five-piece funkjam sensation.

ELASTIC SKYLINE Funky, psychedelic rock from Milledgeville, GA.

seamless product glistening with inspiration. Every Tuesday!

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 SOB BLUES BAND Covering blues from the ‘70s and beyond.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. $2. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens DARYL HANCE Motorcyle-ridin’, leather jacket-muggin’ Southern rock from Jacksonville.

Speakeasy Midnight. FREE! 706-546-5556 FABULOUS BIRD Local troubadour Peter Alvanos plays bright, ‘60sinspired pop.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com DALTON GANG Playing a blend of country and Southern rock.

Sunday 13 Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com FLESH AND BLOOD New project featuring former members of Romanenko playing danceable, inyour-face rock and roll.

Ten Pins Tavern 8 p.m. FREE! 706-540-1831 ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART Critically acclaimed folk and blues singer/guitarist.

Monday 14 Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE!, $3 to play. 706-3533050 OPEN MIC Every Monday! Tonight hosted by Betsy Franck.

The Melting Point 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706-254-6909 THE HOOT This month’s installment of the Folk Society’s monthly music variety show will feature Nathan Sheppard, Beverly Smith, John Grimm and 90 Acre Farm.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens CHEERS TO FALL Pop-rock quintet from Brooklyn with intricate guitar and lovely female lead vocals.

Tuesday 15 Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com A TALE OF TWO CALEYS Dusty Lightswitch collaborators Caley Smith and Caley Ross sound “like a science-fiction folk musical.” The quirky lyrics address meta- and astrophysical concerns, and feature a heavy amount of French and Greek wordplay.

TURNUPS A group of “super MCs” from here in town spinning hip-hop and dance.

VESTIBULES Lyrically driven Americana featuring Coy King (Nightingale News), William Chamberlain (ex-A PostWar Drama), Jason Fusco (ex-Fire Zuave) plus a horn section and pedal steel.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $3. 706-353-3050 NO SHAME! Open mic hosted by Rose of Athens Theatre. Every Tuesday!

Highwire 8–11 p.m. FREE! 706-543-8997 KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid’s music borrows freely from multiple sources and hammers it all into a

Wednesday 16 Boar’s Head Lounge 9 p.m. 706-369-3040 BOAR’S HEAD OPEN MIC Every Wednesday in March!

Farm 255 “Primals Night.” 8-10 p.m. FREE! www. farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS Background sounds for dinner and cocktails.

This quiet jazz duo features Jeremy Roberts on guitar and George Davidson on tenor sax playing odd covers and improvising on familiar themes.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com BOOTY Local funk-rock outfit brings the jams.

FORBIDDEN WAVES First live show from local garage-y surf rock band.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Every Wednesday and Friday with Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens CHRIS CUNDARI Jam, electronica and reggae performed live with a looping technique similar to Keller Williams.

ERIC SOMMER Upbeat songs that showcase the D.C. guitarist’s proficiency in slide guitar and Travis picking.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5-7 p.m. $10 Glass. www.terrapinbeer. com THE BLACK CADILLACS Raw rock and roll from Memphis that pulls off a satisfactory and unmistakeable Stones influence. * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line 3/17 Elvis (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 3/17 Darnell Boys (Farm 255) 3/17 Capsule / Chrissakes / Hot Breath (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/17 Milligan (Hilltop Grille) 3/17 Carl Lindberg (Hotel Indigo) 3/17 DJ Mahogany / Repent at Leisure (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 3/17 Kung Fu Dynamite (No Where Bar) 3/17 Connected Houses / Thieves Market (Rye Bar) 3/17 Louis Pelot (Terrapin Beer Co.) 3/17 Ballybeg / Calico Jig / The Drake School of Irish Dance (The Melting Point) 3/17 The Shadow Executives (The Office Lounge) 3/18 Blue Heeler / Des Ark / Incendiaries / Pygmy Lush (Caledonia Lounge) 3/18 The Burning Angels (Farm 255) 3/18 Athens Boys Choir / Theo Grizol / Humble Tripe (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/18 Rand Lines Trio (Highwire) 3/18 Leaving Countries (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) 3/18 Graham’s Number (Terrapin Beer Co.)

Sunday, March 13

Alvin Youngblood Hart Ten Pins Tavern “One look at the Grammy Awards a couple weekends ago and you see that everything has gone to hell,” says Memphis-based eclectic bluesman Alvin Youngblood Hart with a chuckle. “The friends I was watching the Grammys with were looking at their kids and asking, ‘Hey, who was winning Grammy’s back when we were their age?’ and we’re thinking, Elton John and Stevie Wonder—I don’t know, man, it’s as if people as a whole have lost their minds and bought into mindless drivel… Culture in general is kind of a throw-away thing.”

Hart’s assessment comes from a unique perspective: He took home the trophy offered up annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 2005 for his contribution to Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster.

Two years prior, his fourth album, Down in the Alley, received a Best Traditional Blues Album nomination. (The award ultimately went to B.B. King for a Christmas record whose proceeds benefit a world-renowned biomedical research and treatment center. ) Naturally, Flagpole wanted to know if Hart attended the gala event in-person in 2003 rather than view it from the living room couch. “I went, but I was in the non-televised part of it, where Best Polka Performance and Best Ethnic Performance were awarded,” Hart laughs. The obvious follow-up question: Who’d you sit next to? “The cool thing about it—this was the year of Norah Jones—and in the beginning I was sitting next to Norah Jones and her sister [sitar player and composer] Anoushka Shankar… Norah Jones won about four or five Grammy awards that year so she had to get up a lot. I was thinking, ‘Hey, maybe some of this whatever-it-is will rub off,’ but it didn’t, so whatever,” he laughs, adding, “She had to get up and get her picture taken and all that, so the seats were vacant. Who walks up and asks, ‘Hey, man, are those seats open?’—it was Slash and his wife.”

The Ten Pins Tavern performance, arranged by Hart’s longtime friend and R.E.M guitar tech Dewitt Burton, will be a special solo affair that gets underway early. Music at 8 p.m.

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3/18 The Hypsys (Rye Bar) 3/18 The Big Daddy’s Band / Eric Dodd Band (The Melting Point) 3/19 Leaving Countries (Allen’s Bar & Grill) 3/19 Bo Bedingfield / Romper Stompers (Caledonia Lounge) 3/19 The Real Amanda Jane vs.

Amanda Jane and the Salvation Army (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/19 Jazz Night (Hilltop Grille) 3/19 Dr. Arvin Scott’s Universal Rhythms (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 3/19 E.R.E / Funk You (Rye Bar) 3/19 Tropical Breeze (Terrapin Beer Co.) 3/19 Strawberry Flats (The Melting Point) 3/20 Killick (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) 3/21 Open Mic (Rye Bar) 3/21 Cinemechanica / Obits / Shark / Sundelles (Caledonia Lounge) 3/21 Adrian Foster (First Presbyterian Church) 3/21 Open Mic (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 3/22 NO SHAME! (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 3/22 Eric Chenaux / Godspeed You! Black Emperor (40 Watt Club) 3/22 Ava Luna / Doldrums / Grimes (Farm 255) 3/22 Tom Eisenbraun / EW Harris (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/22 Kenosha Kid (Highwire) 3/22 Dirk Quinn Band / Dopapod (No Where Bar) 3/22 June Star / The National Reserve (Rye Bar) 3/22 String Theory (The Melting Point)

3/23 Boar’s Head Open Mic (Boar’s Head Lounge) 3/23 Karaoke (The Office Lounge) 3/23 Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors / Mockingbird Sun (40 Watt Club) 3/23 The Great Valley / Mouser / Nude Sunrise / Timmy Tumble and the Tumblers (Farm 255) 3/23 Forest City Lovers / Ruby Kendrick / Steven Trimmer (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/23 Haley Bowery / Matthew Pop (Rye Bar) 3/23 Ben Grant (Terrapin Beer Co.) 3/23 Nate Currin (The Melting Point) 3/24 Snoop Dogg (40 Watt Club) 3/24 The Bronzed Chorus / Kenosha Kid / Manray (Caledonia Lounge) 3/24 Betsy Franck / Blair Crimmins (Farm 255) 3/24 Patrick Morales / Pearl and the Beard / Jeremy Wheatley (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/24 Carl Lindberg (Hotel Indigo) 3/24 Mimosa / Sub Shanti (New Earth Music Hall) 3/24 Efren (No Where Bar) 3/24 Tent City (Rye Bar) 3/24 Fifth Nation (Terrapin Beer Co.) 3/24 Kevin Devine / Hardy Morris / River City Extension (The Melting Point) 3/24 Live in the Lobby (WUOG 90.5FM) 3/25 Quiet Hooves / Surfer Blood (40 Watt Club) 3/25 Consider the Source / Eatliz / Lazer/Wulf / Sorry No Ferrari (Caledonia Lounge) 3/25 The Extraordinaires / Tumbleweed Stampede (Farm 255)

3/25 The Horns of Happiness / Kara Kildare / Lady Lazarus / Titans of Filth (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/25 ecompany (No Where Bar) 3/25 Eddie & The Public Speakers / The On Fires (Rye Bar) 3/25 Yaddatu (Terrapin Beer Co.) 3/25 Sons of Sailors (The Melting Point) 3/26 DJ Z-Dog / Immuzikation (The Max Canada) 3/26 J Roddy Walston and the Business / Mike Watt and the Missing Men (40 Watt Club) 3/26 Easter Island / Five-Eight / Little Horn (Caledonia Lounge) 3/26 Sumilan (Farm 255) 3/26 Thayer Sarrano / Hank Sullivant (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/26 Don Auber / Greensky Bluegrass Quintet (No Where Bar) 3/26 Gifts from Enola / Nigredo / The Sleeper Years (RPM) 3/26 JUNK / Justin Kalk Orchestra (Rye Bar) 3/27 Grape Soda / Holopaw / Witches (Farm 255) 3/28 Lera Lynn / Packway Handle Band / The Whiskey Gentry / Yo Soybean (40 Watt Club) 3/28 Dave Marr (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/28 Band of Oz (The Melting Point) 3/29 Bombs Bombs Bombs (Farm 255) 3/29 The Wailers (New Earth Music Hall) 3/29 The Avett Brothers (The Classic Center) 3/29 The Corduroy Road (The Melting Point) 3/30 Tre Powell (Terrapin Beer Co.)

3/30 Chrissakes / The Fucking Hotlights / Spirit Hair (Caledonia Lounge) 3/30 Echo Canyon / Hymn for Her / PD Wilder (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/31 Feral Youth / Night Light (New Earth Music Hall) 3/31 Madeline (40 Watt Club) 3/31 The District Attorneys (Farm 255) 3/31 Songwriter Showcase (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/31 Carl Lindberg (Hotel Indigo) 3/31 Josh Roberts and the Hinges / The Woodgrains (No Where Bar) 3/31 Connor Pledger (Terrapin Beer Co.) 3/31 Dead Confederate (The Melting Point) 3/31 Live in the Lobby (WUOG 90.5FM) 4/1 Futurebirds (40 Watt Club) 4/1 Frangipani Mayo (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/1 Bela Fleck / Zakir Hussain / Edgar Meyer (Performing Arts Center) 4/1 Exception to the Rule (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/2 Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour Holiday Surprise Tour (40 Watt Club) 4/2 The Woodgrains (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/2 Holman Autry Band (The Melting Point) 4/4 Gold Bears / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Twin Shadow (40 Watt Club) 4/5 Live in the Lobby (WUOG 90.5FM) 4/6 Diamond Doves / The Felice Brothers (40 Watt Club) 4/6 Family Band (Farm 255) 4/7 Break Science (New Earth Music Hall) 4/7 The Chapin Sisters (The Melting Point) 4/7 Live in the Lobby (WUOG 90.5FM) 4/8 Citizen Cope (40 Watt Club) 4/8 Common Ground Benefit (Farm 255) 4/8 J Mascis / Kurt Vile & The Violators (The Melting Point) 4/9 Cinemechanica / Manray / Pride Parade (40 Watt Club) 4/9 Rubblebucket / Toubab Krewe (New Earth Music Hall) 4/10 Alexis Gideon / Nutritional Beast (Farm 255) 4/11 The Books / Thick Paint (New Earth Music Hall) 4/12 Diet Cokeheads (Farm 255) 4/13 Arcturus / Qurious / Space Ghost (Caledonia Lounge) 4/13 Senryu (Farm 255) 4/14 Baby Baby / The Orkids / Tealvox (40 Watt Club) 4/14 Easy Star All-Stars (New Earth Music Hall) 4/14 Groove Moose (Rye Bar) 4/15 Ween (40 Watt Club) 4/15 Beats Antique (New Earth Music Hall) 4/15 Todd Snider / The Trishas (The Melting Point) 4/16 Lotus (New Earth Music Hall) 4/18 Lady Gaga (Gwinnett Center & Arena) 4/20 PANTyRAid (New Earth Music Hall) 4/20 STS9 (The Classic Center) 4/21 Dank Sinatra (Farm 255)

In the ATL 4/8 Destroyer / The War on Drugs (The EARL) 4/8 Scissor Sisters (The Tabernacle) 4/9 Lil’ Wayne (Philips Arena) 4/18 Lady Gaga (Gwinnett Center & Arena) 4/22 Pete Yorn (Center Stage)

285 W. Washington St. Athens, GA • Call 706-549-7871 for Show Updates

CHEAP DRINK SPECIALS EVERY NIGHT BEFORE 11PM • 18 + UP

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

MARCH MADNESS

supercluster • flash to bang time casper & the cookies the goons • tunabunny green thrift grocery mistress of ceremonies: amanda burke doors open at 8pm

FRIDAY, MARCH 11

Toro Y Moi CLOUD NOTHINGS THE GOLD PARTY

doors open at 9pm**

SATURDAY, MARCH 12

The Baseball Project (Featuring Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Linda Pitmon & Steve Wynn)

KEV’N KINNEY & THE MUSICAL KINGS doors open at 9pm**

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23

Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors MOCKINGBIRD SUN

doors open at 8pm**

FRIDAY, MARCH 25

SURFER BLOOD QUIET HOOVES

doors open at 9pm

SATURDAY, MARCH 26

MIKE WATT

& THE MI S SING MEN

J RODDY WALSTON & THE BUSINESS doors open at 9pm

All Shows 18 and up • + $2 for Under 21 * Advance Tix Available at Schoolkids Records ** Advance Tix Sold at http://www.40watt.com

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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 Art (Hotel Indigo) Seeking works of surface design, textile art or any wearable art for “Material World II: FashioNation.”

Submit low-res jpgs to celebratethearts@yahoo.com. $10. www.athens arts.org/material_world.php Call for Artists (Downtown Athens) Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa will be accepting applications through Apr. 1 for the spring market on May 7. $15 (application), $75 (booth rental). www. athensindiecraftstravaganzaa.com Call for Artists (Hampton Fine Art Gallery) Now taking submissions for “The Featured Artist Gala Exhibition.” Call to register. $25.

706-454-2161 Call for Artists (Floorspace) FloorSpace is seeking artists for month-long exhibitions. 706-3721833, www.floorspaceathens.com Call for Entries (Georgia Piedmont Arts Center) Artists of all skill levels wanted to participate in the exhibition “Envy Green,” on Mar. 19 & 20. $15. 404-202-3044, www. georgiapiedmontartscenter.com Call for Submissions (Amici Italian Café) Seeking artists for monthly exhibitions in 2011. 706353-0000, athens@amici-cafe.com Seeking Submissions (Highwire) Highwire Lounge is seeking submissions for monthly exhibitions: large paintings or prints preferred.

478-986-8681, trappezebooking@ gmail.com

CLASSES Adopt-A-Stream Volunteer Training (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Participants will be trained

to help monitor the health of a nearby stream through chemical and biological monitoring. Registration required by Mar. 9; call for info. Mar. 12 & 19, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706613-3615, ext. 231. www.athens clarkecounty.com/leisure Adult Wing Chun Kung Fu (Floorspace) Wing Chun specializes in developing dynamic, explosive and street-oriented practical selfdefense. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:45 p.m. $12 per class, $60 for 6 classes. floorspacestudio@gmail. com, www.floorspaceathens.com Art Classes (Lyndon House) Sign up for winter and spring art classes!

For adults, teens and children. Go online for full list of programs.

Now registering! 706-613-3623, www.accleisureservices.com Beekeeping for Beginners (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Three-part series focusing on spring hive management, installing bees into new hives and extracting honey.

Pre-registration required. Mar. 12, Apr. 9 & May 28. $95. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden 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.

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Clown School (Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution Studio) Series of classes focusing on clown character and building rapport and fun. Sundays through March, 7–8:30 p.m. $5 (suggested donation). 706-4610262, calclements@gmail.com Computer Class (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Introduction to the Internet. Call to reserve a spot. 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 354

ACC ANIMAL CONTROL

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Or do you need your space? Or do you wanna play? This guy is very flexible. He’s even great with kids! Smallish young adult male, tabby and white. Laidback and fun.

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ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY 16 Cats Received, 7 Cats Placed, 0 Healthy Adoptable Cats Euthanized ACC ANIMAL CONTROL 33 Dogs Received, 26 Dogs Placed!

10 Cats Received, 9 Cats Placed

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Computer Class: Introduction to PowerPoint (ACC Library, Educational Technology Center) Call to register. Mar. 24, 7–8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 354 Creative Exploration Classes (Wildeye Creative Exploration Studio) Tap into your creative process! Classes for kids and adults. 706-410-0250, www.wildeyecreative.com Donation Based Spanish (Athens Language Schoolhouse) Guided conversation class with native Spanish speakers. Wednesdays, 2–3 p.m. & Fridays, 7–8 p.m. $5 (suggested donation). 706-5495002, www.athensprofessional services.com Drawing Workshop: Sighting Technique (The Loft Art Supplies) Learn to draw more accurately with artist Leslie Snipes.

Pre-registration required. Mar. 26, 1–4 p.m. $30. 706-548-5334, loftartsupply.tumblr.com English as a Second Language (Pinewoods Hispanic Community Library) Classes every week! Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3708 ESL Class (Athens Urban Ministries) FREE! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30– 3 p.m. FREE! 706-353-6647 Express Yoga (Five Points Yoga) Create peace in the middle of your day by doing yoga during your lunch break! Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 12:15–1 p.m. $5. www.athensfivepointsyoga.com Fly Fishing for Beginners (Sandy Creek Park) Oconee River Trout Unlimited provides lecture and hands-on instruction in fly fishing. Register by calling. Mar. 12, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $30–45. 706613-3631, www.athensclarkecounty. com/leisure

Personality PLUS. He loves attention, brushing, petting or a good conversation will do. Very affectionate, and clownish. Adult male, neutered, black and white with cute pink nose.

So sweet, she makes air muffins at the very IDEA that you might pet her. She looks like a Tortie, Calico, Orange Tabby with white toes.

Gorgeous white male with blue eyes and a few tabby spots. He was shy at first but is adapting quickly into a very friendly fellow. more cats online at

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Rocky Branch Elementary School’s artwork is on display at OCAF through Mar. 18.

Forest Yoga (Five Points Yoga) Deepen your breath, work your core, strengthen your body and connect with your spirit. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. $10/class. 706-355-3114 GED Classes (Athens Urban Ministries, 717 Oconee St.) Get your GED for free, free, free! Mondays & Thursdays, 9:30–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-353-6647.

Genealogy 102: Census Records Online (Oconee County Library) Research family history online using Ancestry Library Edition and HeritageQuest Online.

Must have previous genealogy experience and basic computer skills.

Call to register. Mar. 17, 11 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 Genealogy on the Internet (ACC Library) A brief intro to Internet resources for genealogy. Databases in Galileo will be introduced. Registration required.

Mar.17, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Hatha Yoga (Floorspace) Relax, restore and renew. All levels welcome.

Tuesdays, 8:45 a.m. & Thursdays, 12:15 p.m. $8–15. thebodyeclectic @rocketmail.com Health and Wellness Classes (Athens Community Council on Aging) Athens Community Council on Aging hosts senior-friendly Zumba, Line Dancing, Yoga, Tai Chi and more!

Go online for a complete schedule.

706-549-4850, www.accaging.org Intro to Computers (Madison County Library) Alisa Claytor, computer specialist, offers an Introduction to Computers series.

Three weekly meetings, and you may attend one per week or all three. Preregistration required. Tuesdays, 2–3 p.m. or 7–8 p.m. Wednesdays, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.706-795-5597.

Introduction to Excel (Oconee County Library) Learn the basics of this Microsoft spreadsheet program in this two-part class. Registration required. Mar. 9 & 10, 3–4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 Laugh-a-Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Laugh your stress away!

Fourth Friday of each month. 5:30– 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-475-7329, mbiprograms@armc.org

Maintain, Prevent and Transform (Athens Yoga Therapeutics) On-going Hatha style Yoga class with instructor Kerry Fulford. 706-207-5881, kerry@athensyogatherapeutics.com, www.athensyogatherapeutics.com Mama-Baby Yoga Bonding (Full Bloom Center) 10 a.m. class for babies 8–18 months old and 11 a.m. class for babies 1–8 months old. Fridays, 10 a.m. $14, $60 (6 weeks). 706-353-3373 Mandalas and Movement (Samaritan Counseling Center) Combining gentle yoga and meditative drawing in 4-week sessions.

Registration required. Wednesdays, through Mar. 2, 6–8 p.m.$90. 706369-7911, www.samaritannega.org Native Medicinal Plant Walk and Talk (State Botanical Garden) Instructional walk through the trails and gardens with clinical herbalist and plant enthusiast Holli Richey.

Pre-registration required. Mar. 26, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $18. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden New Horizons Music Classes (UGA School of Music) Beginning band, intermediate band, beginning orchestra and piano classes for adults age 50+. No prior music experience needed! Call 706-542-2894 to register. www.uga.edu/ugacms Nia (Various Locations) Gain muscle definition and strength in this dance class delivering cardiovascular, whole-body conditioning. Offered four days a week; check online schedule. 706-424-9873, www.TheBodyEclectic.com Painting I and II (Lyndon House Arts Center) Beginner and intermediate level instruction with Margaret Agner on composition, value, focus, power and self expression.

Register by calling. 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Thursdays, Mar. 17–May 5. 706613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty. 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. Register by calling. Tuesdays, Mar. 15–May 3. 706613-3623, www.accleisureservices. com/leisure

Printmaking II Class (Lyndon House Arts Center) Learn various techniques such as etching, relief printing and monotype. Thursdays, Mar. 17–Apr. 21, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $115–167. 706-613-3623, www. athensclarkecounty.com/leisure Qigong for Health & Relaxation (State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Visitor Center, Great Room) Mondays, through Apr. 25, 12–1 p.m. $12 (per class), $80 (8 weeks). 706-542-6156, www.uga. edu/botgarden Rise & Shine Yoga (Five Points Yoga) Get your shine on with early morning flow yoga. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:45–6:45 a.m. $10 (Drop-In). 706-355-3114 Spring Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Now accepting registration for 8-week classes including wheel, sculpture for the garden and handbuilt pottery. See online schedule.

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Spring Wildflowers of the Upland Deciduous Forests of Georgia (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Visit the Dunson Native Flora Garden and learn to identify a number of spring ephermals and other early blooming plants. Call to register. Mar. 29, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $45. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Tango Lessons (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Every Tuesday with Clint and Shelly. 4–6 p.m. (Private Lessons), 6–7 p.m. (Intermediate Class) 7–8 p.m. (Beginner Class), $10 (group class).706-613-8178, cvunderwood@charter.net Tennis for Life (Various Locations) Now offering six-week sessions at Bishop Park and Southeast Clarke Park for juniors ages 5–15 and adults. Register online. 706-613-3592, tennisforlife.net Tribal Basics Bellydance (Floorspace, 160 Tracy St.) Bellydance for every belly! Learn graceful moves in a fun and supportive environment with a focus on Egyptian style and rhythms.

Wednesdays, 7–8 p.m. www.floor spaceathens.com UGA Tango Club (UGA Tate Center, Room 311) Meet up every week to wax the floor with your new moves.

Evening classes for beginners and advanced students. Thursdays, Beginning 6:10 p.m., Intermediate/ Advanced 7:10 p.m.$30 (per semester), $20 (UGA Community). athenstangoclub@gmail.com Vinyasa Flow Yoga (Floorspace) Daytime flow classes. Tuesdays, 8:45 a.m. Thursdays, 12:15 p.m. $6–$12 (suggested donation). thebodyeclectic@rocketmail.com, www.floorspaceathens.com Watercolor Painting (Lyndon House Arts Center) Class for beginners and intermediates covering wash methods, glazes, wet-into-wet, brushstrokes and correcting mistakes. Register by calling.

Thursdays, Mar. 17–Apr. 21, 1–3 p.m. 706-613-3623, www.athens clarkecounty.com/leisure Weekly Meditation (Athens Insights, 179 Woodward St. #7) Providing a calm and open environment in which people can relax and experience new cultural and religious ideas. Wednesdays, 8 p.m.–9 p.m. FREE! athensinsights@ gmail.com Wire Jewelry Class (Athens Technical College) Six-week course beginning Mar. 29. Students will make a new piece each week. Call for more information. 706-3695763, bmoody@athenstech.edu Women’s Self Defense Classes (American Black Belt Academy) One rape or sexual assault occurs every two minutes in the U.S. Learn what you can do to protect yourself. Go online or call to register. 706-549-1671, www.americanblackbelt.org Yamuna Body Rolling (Five Points Yoga) Four-week series to develop a complete routine of destressing and elongating. Register

by Mar. 13. Begins Mar. 26. 12–2 p.m. athensfivepointsyoga.com Yoga (Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution Studio) Offering yoga, meditation and gentle yoga classes every day of the week. For full schedule, go online. Daily, $5 (donation). www.rubbersoulyoga.com Yoga & The 7 Sacred Centers (Five Points Yoga) Learn how to move more fully inro your power & health through asana, journaling and meditation. Mar. 26, 2–4 p.m. $30.

706-254-0200 Yoga Crawlers (Full Bloom Center) For active babies 8–18 months. Every Wednesday. 10:30 a.m. $14. 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com Yoga: Maintain, Prevent, Transform (Leathers Building) Hatha-style yoga in a small, comfortable setting with instructor Kerry Fulford. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:45–7:45 p.m. $60 (6 classes) 706-207-5881 Yoshukai Karate (AKF Itto Martial Arts) Learn Yoshukai Karate, a traditional hard Okinawan style. FREE! www.athensy.com Youth and Parents Drum Circle (Floorspace) Percussion class! Bring a drum if you have one!

Every second Friday of the month.

4–4:45 p.m. $5–$10 (suggested donation). christyfricks@gmail.com, www.floorspaceathens.com Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves comprise this dynamic fitness program. Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $10/class, $80/session. www.uga.edu/botgarden

HELP OUT! Athens Greenway Cleanup (Greenway) All area middle and high school students are encouraged to join in cleaning up the Greenway.

Sign-up at athensvolunteer.org/ youthserve. Mar. 26, 9 a.m–12 p.m.

FREE! 706-353-1313 Become a Mentor (Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens) Volunteer one hour per week to make a difference in the life of a child. Training provided. mentor@athensbgca.com BikeAthens Bike Recycling (Chase Street Warehouses) Join BikeAthens volunteers as they clean and repair donated bicylces for local service agencies. BikeAthens is also seeking donations of used kids’ and adult bikes in any condition. Sundays, 2–4:30 p.m. www.bikeathens.com Blood Drive (Red Cross Donor Center) Give the gift of life! Call to make an appointment today. 706546-0681, 1-800-RED-CROSS, www.redcrossblood.org Cans for Critters (Various Locations) Donate collected aluminum cans to benefit the critters at Bear Hollow Wildlife Trail. Accepting donations through Apr. 22. Register by calling. 706-613-3512 March for Meals 5K Volunteers (Council on Aging) Volunteers needed to help with set-up, registration, cheering along the route and more on Mar. 26. Call 706-549-4850 for info.

Preparing Dinner for the Residents (Athens Area Homeless Shelter) Volunteer to make a meal for the women and children living at Athens Area Homeless Shelter. Call to reserve a night! Daily, 5:30–6:30 p.m. 706-354-0423 Project Safe Volunteers (Various Locations) Take part in the movement to end domestic violence by becoming a mentor, donating a meal or volunteering at the thrift store. 706-542-0922, www.projectsafe.org Thrift Sale Fundraiser (OCAF) Seeking surplus furniture, toys, clothing, books, tools, electronics, antiques, etc. All donations are tax deductible and proceeds will benefit local art education. Accepting donations through Mar. 12.

706-769-4565, info@ocaf.com

KIDSTUFF Fairy House Workshop (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Create a home for a fairy using rocks, moss, flowers and other found materials. Ages 10 & up. Mar. 17, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $60. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Fairy Village Building Workshop (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Four-week workshop to build a fairy doll and village using recycled and natural materials. Register

by Mar. 15. Saturdays (Mar. 19–Apr. 9), 1–2:30 p.m. $60. 706-850-8226, www.treehousekidandcraft.com Girls’ Rock Camp Athens Now taking applications through Apr. 15 for this summer’s camp, to take place July 25–29 with a showcase concert on July 30. No musical experience necessary. Scholarships available. For girls ages 9–15. $25 (application fee), $300 (tuition). girlsrockathens.org March Madness Spring Break Mini Camp (Lay Park) Activities include arts and crafts, baking, computer lab and more. For ages 6–12. Mar. 14–18, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. $9. www.athensclarkecounty. com/leisure Mommy and Me Spanish (Email for Location) Learn Spanish with your preschooler through songs, stories and games! New session starting soon. sehlers@uga.edu One-to-One Learning (Lay Park) Pratice reading, writing and math with the librarian and UGA student

volunteers. For ages 6 and up.

Daily, 3:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3667 Spring Break Art Break (Lyndon House Arts Center) Children ages 6-12 will enjoy art activities, including art exploration with a guest artist and the creation of their own artwork. Call to register.

Mar. 15 or 17, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $50 (materials included). 706-613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure Spring Break Camp: Travel through Time (Memorial Park) Enjoy crafts, games and snacks while you learn about crazy fads from different periods in history.

Mar. 14-18, 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $43.

706-613-3580, www.accleisure services.com.

Spring Break Clay Camp (Good Dirt) Kids will work on a variety of spring-themed clay projects. For ages 6 & up. Call to register. Mar. 14–18, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $55 (per day).

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Spring Break Mini Camp (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Participants will discover the interconnections of the forest environment. Each day includes activities, crafts, snacks and more. Space is limited; call to register. Mar. 16–18, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $16. 706-6133615, www.accleisureservices.com/ leisure Spring Break Mini-Camp (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Spend three days having fun and learning! Monday’s activities will include various garden art projects.

On Tuesday, campers will explore worms and birds. Wednesday will be a day of chocolate. For grades K-5th.

Mar. 14–16, 8:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. $88. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden Theater Academy (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Summer camps for children in grades 3–12. Register online.

June 6–10 & 11–17. 706-340-9181, roseofathens.wordpress.com/ education/academy Theatre Camp (The Elbert Theatre) Middle and high school students learn the inner-working knowledge of a theatrical production through hands-on involvement in Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka Jr. Now accepting registration. June 6–17. $60.

706-283-1049, www.elberttheatre.org Wild Intelligence Nature Programs Nature-based learning and character development while your child enjoys storytelling, games and curiosity-based adventure on the land. After-school and day-long programs. Mondays, 3:30–6 p.m. & Tuesdays 10 a.m.–2 p.m. tommy@wildintelligence.org Yoga Sprouts (Whole: Mind.

Body. Art.) Fun, playful yoga and crafts for kids 2 and up. 3–4:30 p.m. $15. www.wholemindbodyart.com ZumbAtomic for Kids (Whole: Mind. Body. Art.) Mondays, 5:15– 6:15 p.m. $6 (for first child), $3 (for each additional sibling). www.wholemindbodyart.com

SUPPORT Alcoholics Anonymous (Various Locations) If you want to stop, we can help. 706-543-0436, www.athensaa.com Alzheimer’s Caregiver Luncheon Program (Bentley Center) The Athens Area Alzheimer’s Support Group meets the third Tuesday of every month. Noon-1 p.m. FREE! 706-549-4850, eanthony@accaging.org Emotional Abuse Support Group (Call for location) Demeaning behavior can be just as harmful as punches and kicks.

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (2025 Baxter St.) Paintings by Lisa Weaver. Through March. • Visual storytelling artwork by teens and adults. Through March.

Amici Italian Café (233 E. Clayton St.) New works

by Charley Seagraves. Through March.

Athens Academy (1281 Spartan Rd.) A comic arts show featuring Eleanor Davis, Drew Weing, Robert Brown, David Mack and Joey Weiser. Through Apr. 11. • Landscape paintings by Greg Benson, Robert Clements and Joe Ruiz. Through Apr. 20.

Big City Bread Cafe (393 N. Finley St.) Acrylic and enamel works by Charley Seagraves. Through March.

Bob Snipes Water Resources Center (780 Barber St.) In the spirit of the Parisian Salon Des Refusés, “Refusés” is a show of works by Athens artists not accepted into the 26th Juried Exhibition.

Reception Mar. 4.

Circle Gallery, UGA College of Environmental Design (Caldwell Hall) “Brave New Worlds: Explorations in China and Costa Rica” features design work produced by students and faculty during recent studies abroad. Through Mar. 25.

Community (119 Jackson St.) New works by Lea Purvis.

Dawg Gone Good BBQ (224 W. Hancock Ave.) Photographs of the Athens Business Rocks competition by Barbara Hutson. Through March.

Dog Ear Books (162 W. Clayton St.) Photo montages by Kenneth Aguar and paintings by Jeff Owens and Rachel Cabaniss. Through Mar. 15.

Espresso Royale Caffe (271 E. Broad St.) Bright acrylics by Chilean artist Carmen Erazo. Through March.

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 Phillip Goulding, Leigh Ellis, Peter Loose, Susan Nees and more.

Five Star Day Café (229 E. Broad St.) Abstractexpressionist acrylics with deep textures and bright blending of colors by Frances Jemini. Through March.

Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.) Vibrant collages by Alexei Gural and new works by Andrew Gonzales of Marshmallow Coast. Through March.

Georgia Museum of Art (90 Carlton St.) “The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection” addresses the plight of the American farm laborer in the development of industry and the growth of the urban environment. Through May 2. •“Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art.” Through Mar. 27.

Good Dirt (510 B Thomas St.) The gallery features hand-built and wheel-thrown pieces by various ceramic artists and potters including Rob Sutherland, Caryn Van Wagtendonk, Crisha Yantis and Mike Klapthor.

Childcare is provided. Call the Project Safe hotline: 706-543-3331.

Wednesdays, 6:30–8 p.m.

Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally.

Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotionsanonymous.org Grief Support Group (Council on Aging) Meeting every third Thursday each month. 2-3:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-4850 Mental Health Support Group (St. Mary’s Hospital) Meets in the lobby conference room.

Thursdays, 6:30–8 p.m. 706-7835706, www.athensmentalhealth.org Overeaters Anonymous (Various Locations) Mondays, 5:30 p.m. at Nuçi’s Space. Thursdays, 7 p.m. at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. at Princeton United Methodist Church.

FREE! 404-771-8971, www.oa.org Parkinson’s Support Group (Council on Aging) Meet up every fourth Monday for an open support group for those living with Parkinson’s Disease. 2:30-4 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-4850 PTSD Support Group Local support group now forming for

Hampton Fine Art Gallery (115 E. Broad St., Greensboro) Works by various artists. Reception and awards presentation Mar. 26. Through Mar. 26.

Jittery Joe’s Coffee (1230 S. Millledge Ave.) Handpainted silks by René Shoemaker. Through March.

Just Pho…and More (1063 Baxter St.) New work

by Virginia Nazarea. Through March.

Krimson Kafe (40 Greensboro Hwy., Watkinsville) Paintings, drawings and collages by 7th grader Audrey Hinkle.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (Gallery 101) “Torso Series” by June Yong Lee. Through Mar. 9.

• (Gallery 307) An exhibit of scientific illustrations.

Through Mar. 11.

Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) 36th Annual Juried Exhibition, featuring work by area artists in a variety of media. Through May 10.

Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (434 S. Main St., Madison) A collection of images of the high desert plains of the American Southwest. Through March.

Mama’s Boy (197 Oak St.) Representational and abstract paintings by Hoke Johnston. Through March.

OCAF (34 School St., Watkinsville) Egg tempera portraits, commanding landscapes and trompe l’oeil paintings by Christy Green. Through Mar. 25. • Featuring works of art from Oconee County public and private schools, grades K–12. Through Mar. 18.

Republic Salon (312 E. Broad St.) An exhibit featuring your favorite animals in embroidery and print mixed-media works by Lea Purvis.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia (2450 Milledge Ave.) “Forged from Nature” is an outdoor series of sculpted garden gates by artist Andrew T. Crawford.

The Globe (199 N. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Laura Connely. Reception Mar. 10. Through Mar. 24.

The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) In celebration of youth art month, student work from David C. Barrow Elementary art teacher Rita Foretich. Through Mar. 20.

This-Way-Out (T-W-O) (680 W. Broad St.) AHA! (AthensHasArt!) features paintings and drawings by Robert Sparrow Jones. Open 6-8 p.m. on the 10th20th of each month, or by appointment. Through Mar. 20.

Town 220 (220 W. Washington St., Madison) “Large Format Wall Paintings” presents the works of painter Richard Olsen and works in clay by Rick Berman.

Through April.

Trace Gallery (160 Tracy St.) New works by Atlanta ceramic sculptor Christina West. West addresses the idea of the human object as a toy by creating nearly life-size porcelain and fabric dolls.

Through Apr. 8.

Transmetropolitan (145 E. Clayton St.) Photographs by Jessica Schramm. Through March.

White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates (217 Hiawasee Ave.) An exhibit featuring work by over 50 young artists from Chase Street Elementary School. Through March.

family members of soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder.

770-725-4527 Sapph.Fire The newly formed social, support and volunteer organization for lesbian and bisexual women.

Email sapph.fire@yahoo.com to learn about the next meeting.

ON THE STREET Frankenstein Lives! Rose of Athens Theatre chronicles the life of young gothic novelist Mary Shelley.

The show is available for booking through March. 706-340-9181, www.roseofathens.org Adult Kickball Now registering for the spring season! Games are played Sundays in local parks. For ages 21 and up. Register by Mar. 13. www.gokickball.com/athens Antebellum Trail Pilgrimage (Various Locations) A 100-mile trek through seven communities. Visit historic homes, experience authentic battle sites, view impressive architecture and tour museums. Tickets can be purchased at the Athens Welcome Center or onliine. Apr. 27–May 1, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $25. www.atpilgrimage.com

Film Athens Filmakers, crew members and production support services: Get listed in Film Athens’ new searchable Production Directory at http://filmathens.net.

FREE! Tax Preparation Assistance (Various Locations) Now scheduling appointments for low- to middle-income families at the Epps Bridge Parkway Kroger and Oconee County Library.

706-543-9511 UGA Alcohol Study UGA is conducting a study on a medication for treating alcohol problems.

Participation includes five in-person assessments. No cost. Call for more information. 706-542-8350 Wee Read Preliminaries (Various Locations) High school and college students compete in Wii sports including boxing, baseball, tennis and Rock Band. Winners of each will compete Apr. 30 at the Classic Center. All proceeds provide children with free books. $15. weeolympics.weebly.com Zoo Atlanta Family Passes (Various Locations) Zoo Atlanta and the Athens Regional Library System have partnered up to grant family passes to patrons with library cards.

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins What is wrong with the dating scene in Athens? I moved here a couple of years ago thinking that the diversity of a college town would make for happy hunting grounds for a divorced woman in her 40s. So far, nothing could be further from that.

My first experience dating an Athens man was going just fine, that is, until we went back to his place and the dumbass forgot to hide the pictures of his wife and kids. Strike one.

The next time I was more savvy. At least I thought I was. And to be honest, he wasn’t a creep or liar. The problem started when we became lovers. As soon as we got intimate he hoisted his freak flag to the top of the flagpole. Now, I am an open-minded gal, but I don’t dig guys that wear women’s shoes in bed.

Strike two.

My most recent gaffe involved a nice man with a great job and beautiful home. We dated for a few weeks and things were going great.

Then his ex-wife moved back to town, and he asked if she could join us in bed. Strike three.

OK, I get it. It is me! Right? Or could it be that in this town everybody has to have some kind of angle? No one can be upfront or normal.

You know, vanilla ain’t always bad. Where are the decent men? Are they hiding in their mom’s basement or have they moved to Saneville? Please tell me.

Love, Millie Millie, I have no idea what made you think that a college town was a ripe hunting ground for a divorced woman in her 40s. In fact, I can’t think of any place that is. It’s a cold cruel world out there, and to be honest with you, I don’t see how any of these circumstances is more or less likely to happen in a college town. For that matter, any of these things could have happened to a person of any age. What you have to do is try to filter some of this stuff out ahead of time, by asking more questions or being more upfront in your profile about what you’re willing to put up with and what is totally off the menu (i.e., three-ways and cross-dressing). Maybe you could advertise that you are looking for something more vanilla? I don’t know. Aside from that, you just have to keep trying.

Is it ever fair to be dismissive of a friend’s engagement?

A good friend of mine recently got engaged to a guy she’s only known for a couple of months and who lives halfway across the country. After discussing it, my friends and I are split on how to handle it. Some say we should be supportive, regardless, since she seems happy. Others say that it’s a ridiculous idea, and we should urge her to practice extreme caution—even if that means upsetting her.

Where do you fall on this?

Unless you think this guy is some kind of freak, or is somehow going to screw her over, I think you should let it go. Long-distance relationships are very difficult to maintain,

and they’re probably doing whatever they have to do to make themselves feel better about the distance. I doubt very seriously that they’re going to get married without spending time living in the same place. In the meantime, they’ll get to know each other better, they’ll spend more time together, and the relationship will either grow or it won’t. If you tell her right off the bat that it’s never going work out, she’s just going to get pissed off and she won’t listen to you anyway. Have you ever broken up with someone just because somebody else told you it wasn’t going to work?

If you make her mad, she won’t turn to you for advice if things really do start to go wrong. This thing isn’t for you and your other friends to judge. You don’t have to take it seriously. Just don’t tell her that you don’t.

I am freaking out and I need your help. My boyfriend and I moved in together a couple of months ago. We have only been dating for about six months. There was a short period (two weeks or so) before we actually moved in together where I was kind of freaking out. This is the first time either of us has ever lived with a significant other, and I started to worry whenever he left the toilet seat up at my apartment that something small would make me freak out and ruin everything. The problem is that my lease was coming up and he didn’t have one at all, and neither of us knew what we wanted to do.

I was worried that he would be a slob and I would go crazy.

But I got over it, and we moved in, and things have been pretty great. He is actually cleaner that he seemed when he lived at his friends’ house.

Then, all of a sudden, things went bad. He started staying out late after work, making excuses not to hang out with me and, generally, not being a good boyfriend. When I asked him about it, he got defensive. Then he was good for a couple of weeks. But now he’s back to his bad behavior, and I am really unhappy.

I can’t decide if this isn’t working because he doesn’t want to live with me, or if it isn’t working because it isn’t working.

What should I do? I know I need to talk to him about this, but I can’t decide if I should just ask him to move out or if we should actually break up. Does that make sense? Like, is it possible that our relationship would be OK if we had waited longer to move in together? And if that is the case, is it too late to go back?

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Just be honest with him. Tell him that you realize he isn’t happy as your roommate, that you understand and that you aren’t really happy either, and then just ask him. Tell him that moving in together as quickly as you did was obviously an error, but that you still like him and you would still like to try to make your relationship work. Ask him how he feels.

You have nothing to lose except a crappy living situation and a questionable relationship.

Changing one might end up saving the other.

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Call Staci, (706) 296-1863 or (706) 4254048. $470/mo. 1 extra lg. BR, walk–in closet, lg. LR, HWflrs., on–site laundry facilities, 650 sq. ft. 18–unit complex off Milledge.

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2BR/1BA apts. Great in–town n’hood. Walk everywhere. Water & garbage paid. $655–$795/mo. www. boulevardproperty management.com or call (706) 548-9797.

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8/1! 2nd story of commercial bldg., 999 Baxter St., huge den, custom kitchen & BAs, huge closets, $1600/ mo. No dogs, cats OK. Chris: chris@ petersonproperties.org, (706) 202-5156.

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On bus route. Pets welcome. Avail. now.

Only $1000/mo. Aaron (706) 207-2957.

Avail. 8/1: 2BR/1BA renovated apt.s walking distance to Dwntn, campus & Mama’s Boy! $500 to $550/mo. incl. water & trash. Lg. apt.s, small & quiet complex perfect for grad students!

Chris: chris@petersonproperties.org, (706) 202-5156.

Available now. Barnett Ridge, 2BR/2BA flats. Eastside. $625/mo. Lots of room for the price. W/D, DW incl. www. joinermanagement.com, text “barnett” to 41513, Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868.

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Avail. now & pre-leasing for Fall! Total electric. Eastside. Must see. 5BR/3BA. Trash & lawn paid for. Modern/huge rooms. Approx. 2800 sq. ft. $995/mo.

(706) 621-0077.

Downtown business space w/ 2 covered parking spots in Game Day Condos. 250 W Broad St #108, zoned C-D, across from UGA. Asking $239K. Call Jim Paine, (706) 372-7300.

Dwntn., 1BR/1BA flat, $465/mo.

Units avail. for immediate move-in & pre-leasing for Aug. 2011. Water, gas, trash pick-up incl. On-site laundry.

Joiner Management, (706) 3536868.

Eastside offices at 1060 Gaines School Rd. Rent 1200 sf. for $1200/ mo., 450 sf. for $600/mo. & 150 sf. for $300/mo. (706) 546-1615 or athenstownproperties.com.

Downtown. University Tower, across from N. campus, corner of Lumpkin & Broad. Lg. 1BR/1BA, LR, kitchen.

Avail. June 1, 2011. $750/mo. Call (706) 255-3743.

For rent: 1 room efficiency apt. in 5 Pts. $410/mo., incl. water. Email emilycolson@yahoo.com.

Free rent 1st month! No pet fee!

2BR/2BA apartments close to Dwntn., 3BR/2BA duplexes in wooded n’hood avail. W/D, DW in all units. Easy access to loop. (706) 548-2522. www. dovetailmanagement.com.

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Office/warehouse space avail. immediately. 1500 sf., 1600 sf., 2200 sf., & 4500 sf. (can combine). $750/mo. to $2300/mo. Located.5 mile from the Loop, great co-tenants, flexible space. Call Bryan Austin, (706) 3531039.

Retail, bar, or restaurant for lease at Homewood Shopping Center. 3000 sq. ft. Call Bryan Austin at (706) 3531039.

Go to flagpole.com to place an ad!

Unique 40’ x 80’ space at Chase Park artist complex. Open space ready for talented entrepreneur. Zoned E-O. Live/work optional. (478) 290-6283. $129,000. Pictures on Facebook “Bracewell Lofts.”

Loft, 640 sf. Chase Park artist complex.

Granite, ceiling fans, washer, storage.

Nice! Nathan (478) 290-6283, (478) 274-8141. Was $600, now $549.

Pictures on Facebook “Bracewell Lofts.”

Warehouse/office/studio. Fenced yd., A/C, great light, roll-up door, view of river, perfect for service industry. Rent 25% to 100% of 3500 sf. bldg. $2001250/mo. Cole, (706) 202-2733.

Reduced rent! $600/mo. 1BR/1BA, LR, study, modern kitchen, pool, gym, gated, ground floor corner unit.

Stadium Village close to UGA. Ideal for single/couple. Rob, (706) 338-4984, wimberlyme@bellsouth.net.

Condos for Rent

Studio & 2BRs Dwntn., across from campus. Avail. for Fall. Call (404) 5575203.

2BR/2.5BA townhome less than 1 mile to campus. $650/mo. W/D downstairs. Pool on site. Avail. Aug. 1. Pets OK w/ fee. (706) 207-4953.

Westside condos, 2BR/2BA, $550/mo.

Eastside quadraplex, 2BR/2BA, $500/ mo. & 2BR/1BA, $475/mo. Eastside duplex, 2BR/1BA & FP, $475/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700 or cell (706) 540-1529.

Commercial Property

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1400 sf. Beautiful space near Dwntn. Originally Cantrell’s Grocery, this turn of the century building has high ceilings & lg. windows. Near the Leathers Building & the Railroad Arts District but w/ very high traffic volume & visibility. Excellent space for law office, architect, professional or production. Zoned E-I. Add’l 1200 sf. avail. (706) 614-3557.

Athens executive suites. Offices available in historic Dwntn. bldg. w/ on–site parking. All utils., internet & janitorial incl. Single or multiple offices avail. Call Stacy, (706) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863.

Ar tist studio for rent in dwntn.

Watkinsville. 11.5 x 18 ft. Slanted 9-12 ft. ceiling, sink, concrete flr., heat, A/C, small bathroom, free pkg., $200/mo.

(706) 547-5927.

2BR/2.5BA, Stones Creek Condo. $700/ mo. Barnett Shoals Rd. (706) 743-3111 or (706) 224-1400.

2 tenants needed. 3BR/2.5BA at Milledge Place. UGA Athens busline. $350/mo. utils. incl. Close to campus.

No smoking/pets. Swimming pool.

Avail. this summer! (909) 957-7058, williamsreza@gmail.com.

2BR/2.5BA town homes on Old Epps Bridge Rd. Each spacious condo is 1200 sq. ft. Units ranging from $625$800/mo. Prelease for Fall. (706) 2029905. athensarearentals@gmail.com.

3BR/3BA townhouse for rent in the Woodlands. $460/mo. per rm. Incl. utils.

All rooms avail. LR & kitchen furnished.

Avail. Aug. 1. (404) 314-9318.

Unbelievable deal! $900/ mo.! 3BR/2.5BA townhouse on Milledge. Pool, sand volleyball, basketball. W/D, all appls incl.

On busline. Don't wait, won't last!

(678) 462-0824.

Condos For Sale Downtown. University Tower on Broad across from N. Campus. Lg. 1BR/1BA, $84,500. Agents welcome 3%. Call (706) 255-3743.

Prelease Now for Fall

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Duplexes For Rent 2BR/1BA. Eastside. W/D, fireplace, new carpet, everything nice! $550 + utils. and dep. Avail. now! Call Mike (706) 540-7574.

Brick duplex, 2BR/2BA, very clean, all extras. Just 2 mi. to campus on north side Athens. Grad students, professionals welcome, pets OK. Call Sharon at (706) 201-9093 or email m o s s . p ro p e r t i e s @ y a h o o . c o m f o r photos.

East Athens. Great 2BR/1BA duplex.

On city busline. Fresh paint, W/D, DW, range, fridge, trash & yd. service incl.

Pets OK. Avail. now! $550/mo. Call Mike (877) 740-1514 toll free.

Eastside, 2BR/1BA, convenient shopping & UGA. CHAC, DW, W/D hook-ups & FP. Clean & ready. $515 deposit, $515/mo. N/S, no pets (seeing eye dogs OK). Judson, (706) 5400268. http://athensga.craigslist.org/ apa/2240846466.html.

Houses for Rent $650/mo. 3BR/1BA. 121 E. Carver Dr. Fenced–in yd. Tile & HWflrs. CHAC, W/D hookups, DW. Pets welcome. Avail. now! (706) 614-8335. $900/mo. Blocks from UGA & Dwntn.

Athens. 3BR/1BA, CHAC, totally remodeled, tall ceilings, HWflrs., tile, W/D, front porch. 500 Willow St. Avail. now. Owner/Agent, call Robin (770) 265-6509.

160 Mcleroy Dr. 3BR/1BA. Avail. April 1st. CHAC, carport, huge fenced yd.

Pets OK. No pet fees! Nice area. $775/ mo. Other homes avail. (706) 372-6813.

1, 2, 3 & 4BR houses & apartments, avail. Fall, historic Boulevard n’hood.

(706) 548-9797, boulevardproperty management.com.

1BR/1BA in the Boulevard n’hood & overlooking Dwntn., freshly renovated, all electric, great places to live. $490-$695/mo. boulevardproperty management.com or call (706) 5489797.

2BR/1BA 5 Pts. HW & tile flrs., LR, kitchen, spacious BRs w/ good closets, W/D incl., quiet area on Highland Av e . $ 6 9 5 / m o . ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 6 - 6 9 0 0 , valerioproperties.com.

2BR/1BA, 340 Ruth St. Cool old house w/ HWflrs., all appliances, pet-friendly, $800/mo., avail. 8/1. (706) 713-0626, www.newagepropertiesathens.com.

251 Magnolia St. 2BR/1BA. Pets welcome. Newly remodeled, fenced-in yd. $650/mo. Call (706) 714-4603.

2BR/2BA Lyndon Ave.! FP, HWflrs., high ceilings, lg. rooms, open kitchen & LR, tile BAs, nice back deck, blocks from Dwntn! $1060/mo. (706) 546-6900, valerioproperties.com.

2BR/1BA, 2795 Danielsville Rd. 5 mi. north of Dwntn. Fenced yd., good closet space, W/D avail. $535/mo. + 1 mo. security dep. Avail. now. (706) 424-1571.

2BR/1BA house, 2 min. to Athens Tech, $650/mo. 3BR/2BA house, Winterville city limits, lg. deck & yd. Call (706) 2471398.

2 & 3BR super nice houses in the Boulevard n’hood. Walk to town & campus. 535 and 545 Satula, 255 Boulevard Heights, 135 Glencrest. boulevardpropertymanagement.com or call (706) 548-9797.

2, 3, 4 & 5BR houses for rent! Many locations & options to choose from. Call (706) 340-1215 or check us out at www. athensrealestategroup.com.

3BR/2BA house in Normaltown. Fenced yd. Pets ok. $1000/mo. Call Ryan, (706) 254-7678.

3BR/1.5BA. Pets welcome. Carport, newly remodeled, fenced-in yd. $795/ mo. 255 Magnolia St. Call (706) 7144603.

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3BR/2BA, great n’hood close to Medical School campus/ Normaltown. HW/tile flrs. Fresh paint inside & outside. Huge landscaped/ fenced yd. All new appliances. Must see! $850/mo. Call Helen Martin, (706) 540-2010.

3BR/2BA house close to campus.

Quiet street off College Cir., lg. yd. w/ deck, garage. HWflrs., appls, W/D, CHAC. 1 mi. from campus. Avail. Aug 1. $855/mo. Call (706) 247-3708.

3BR/2BA in Hull. $625 dep., $625/ mo. Near Athens Tech, UGA. Newly refurbished. CHAC, W/D hook-ups, DW, shed. N/S, no pets (seeing eye dogs OK). Judson, (706) 5400268. http://athensga.craigslist.org/ apa/2240815043.html.

3BR/1.5BA. Renovated home on 1 acre.

HWflrs., pet friendly, CHAC. $695/mo.

Avail. now! 715 Whitehead Rd. Call Tom, (706) 254-1634.

3BR/1BA, lg. rooms, W/D, DW, deck, screen porch, alarm system, pets OK, in-town Athens off First St. $695/mo.

Call Mike. (706) 202-5259.

4BR/4BA. New, Dwntn. 1 mi. from Arch. Stainless, HWflrs., tile, covered porches. Choose from multiple homes.

W/D incl. Avail. Fall. $1900/mo. Aaron (706) 207-2957.

4BR/4BA new house on S. Milledge, $1700/mo.! 4BR/3.5BA, $1600/mo.

Hardwoods, granite, tile, stainless appliances, walk-in closets & large BRs! Call (706) 340-1215 or www. athensrealestategroup.com.

4BR/4BA houses! Great Dwntn. location! Lg. BRs, tile, HWflrs., $ 1 8 0 0 / m o . , a v a i l . 8 / 1 . w w w. newagepropertiesathens.com, (706) 713-0626.

4BR/3BA historic home in Blvd. area.

High ceilings, HWflrs., new everything. $2000/mo. Call Valerio Properties, (706) 546-6900, valerioproperties.com.

580 Aubrey Dr., Bogart. 3BR/1BA. HWflrs., carpet, CHAC, W/D hook-up, lg. yd. Sec. sys., landlord mows lawn, GRFA welcome. $800/mo + dep. Avail. now! (770) 725-7748.

5BR/2.5BA on Milledge! Spacious house w/ large yd. just 2 min. from campus. $2000/mo. athensarearentals@ gmail.com or (706) 202-9905.

5 Pts. Leasing for fall. 1, 2, 3 & 4BR houses & apts. See at bondrealestate. org. Owner/broker Herbert Bond Realty & Investment. (706) 224-8002.

6BR/3.5BA off Prince Ave. on King Ave. Avail. 8/1, fully renovated, 2 custom kitchens w/ granite, custom BAs, 2 dens, huge yd.! $2700/mo., no dogs, cats OK. Chris: chris@petersonproperties.org, (706) 202-5156.

685 King Ave. 3BR/2BA, Huge den, tons of space! CHAC, pets OK, no pet fees! Other homes avail. $865/mo. (706) 254-2569.

Eastside 4BR/2BA home. $700/mo. incl. trash & lawn care. All appls incl.

Fenced-in back yd., pets OK. Call (706) 201-2121.

Eastside 2BR/1BA split lvl. Lg. lv. area splits BRs. Lg. kitchen. Private drive.

Big back yd. Storage bldg. Appls. incl. $625/mo. + dep. Pet negotiable. (706) 248-7338.

Homewood Hills brick ranch. 3BR/2BA, LR, DR, den, gas FP, fenced back yd.

All appliances incl. W/D. $950/mo. Call Teri, (706) 717-0479.

Now leasing 3 & 4 BR brick homes w/ private baths for Fall 2011. Pet friendly student community close to Dwntn. www.deklerealty.com, (706) 548-0580.

Students welcome. Corner of Madison Heights/North Ave. 4BR/4BA. HW/tile flrs. All appls. 5 min. walk to Dwntn, on busline. $425/BR + one mo.’s rent dep.

Call Lynette, (706) 202-4648.

Pre-Leasing 1BR/2BR/3BR/4BR units throughout N o r m a l t o w n , B o u l e v a rd , A R M C , & 5 Pts. Avail. Fall. Please visit valerioproperties.com or call us, (706) 546-6900.

1BR/1BA Hillside Apt. $475/mo. $550/ mo. w/ W/D. Water incl. Blocks from campus. Joiner Management: (706) 353-6868, or text “hillside” to 41513. www.joinermanagement.com.

1BR/1BA, LynnRock Apts. $490/mo. w/ DW, water incl. Blocks from campus off Baxter St. Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868, or text “lynnrock” to 41513. www.joinermanagement.com.

2BR/2.5BA townhome, Cedar Bluff, Eastside. $670/mo. w/ W/D, DW, lg. rooms. www.joinermanagement. com, text “cedar” to 41513, Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868.

2BR/2BA flats & town homes. Patriot Park, $625 w/ W/D, DW, quiet, small 7 unit bldg. Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868 or text “patriot” to 41513. www.joinermanagement.com.

2BR/1.5BA w/ office/guest room. In quadraplex 2 blocks from campus. 5 Pts. area. W/D, CHAC, nice patio. Very cool layout. $900/mo. Avail. 8/1. Pets ok. Call (706) 369-2908.

3BR/1BA, close to campus, HWflrs., DW, W/D, HVAC, fenced back yd., pets OK, $1000/mo., call (706) 369-2908.

4 B R / 4 B A , $ 1 9 5 6 / m o . CHA C , a l l appliances incl., access to community pool & pool house, convenient to Dwntn. Athens, UGA campus, house is on busline. 2020 Lakeside Dr. Avail.

8/1/11. Call (706) 207-9295.

5 Pts. 2BR/1BA. Great location. Great for grad student. Walk to campus. W/D, CHAC, nice patio. Pets OK. $650-$700/ mo. Avail. 8/1. Call (706) 369-2908.

You can go to www.flagpole.com to place your ad or call (706) 549-0301!

Students welcome. North Ave. 5BR/4BA. 4 car garage, 5 min. walk to Dwntn, on busline. All appls. HWflrs. $450/BR. Call Lynette, (706) 202-4648.

Awesome renovated Victorian 3BR/2BA house. High ceilings, HWflrs., DW, W/D, HVAC. Great yd., pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1275/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Westside 3BR/2BA & Eastside 3BR/3BA. Totally renovated incl. granite breakfast bars & wd. flrs. 2 yr. lease discount.

(706) 540-0336 or see pictures & video: www.kampropertiesllc.com.

Adorable 3BR/2BA, close to campus.

New master BA w/ double sink. HWflrs., fenced back yd. W/D, DW, CHAC. Avail.

8/1. $1250/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Houses for Sale

Arbor Creek: 1 & 2 BRs, $550 to $655/mo. W/D, DW, pool. www. joinermanagement.com, text “arbor” to 41513, Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868.

Artist inspired 3BR/2BA home w/ wraparound porch & studio on Dearing St. just off of Milledge. $439,900. Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty, (706) 372-4166.

Awesome in-town 2BR/1BA. Fenced back yd. w/ cool deck in historic Cobbham. Between Milledge & King. $150,000. Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty, (706) 372-4166.

Char ming, classic, updated cottage in Normaltown. 2BR/2BA w/ sunroom. $188,000, 248 Georgia Ave. Antique heart pine, high ceilings. (706) 850-1175 or (678) 358-5181. By appt. only.

Land for Sale Arizona land liquidation, $99/mo., 1 & 2.5 acre ranch lots. 1 hr. from Tucson Int’l Airport. No credit check!

Guar. financing, money back guar.

(800) 631-8164, code 4054, www. sunsiteslandrush.com (AAN CAN).

Own 20 acres, only $129/mo. $13,900.

Near growing El Paso, TX. Safest city in America! Low down, no credit checks, owner financing. Free map/pictures.

(866) 257-4555, www.sunsetranches. com (AAN CAN).

Parking & Storage UGA parking spaces. Across the street from campus, law & library. $30/mo. 6 mo. minimum. Contact Susan, (706) 354-4261.

Best rentals in Athens! 1–5BR houses, apts., condos. In the heart of UGA/ Dwntn./ 5 Pts. Avail. Aug. Going fast, call today! (706) 369-2908 for more info.

Dearing Garden, 1 & 2BR flats. $550 to 650/mo. W/D, DW. Block from campus off Baxter St. Joiner Management, (706) 850-7727, text “dearing” to 41513. www. joinermanagement.com.

Royal Oaks Townhomes. 2BR/2BA, $685/mo., W/D incl., pool & volleyball.

Joiner Management: (706) 353-6868, www.joinermanagement.com, or text “royal” to 41513.

Stonecrest, 2 & 3 BRs, $800 to $1050/ mo. W/D, DW, microwave, pool. www.joinermanagement.com, text “stonecrest” to 41513, or call Joiner Management, (706) 850-7727.

Shoal Creek: 1 & 2 BRs, $575 to $675. W/D, DW, ice-maker, pool. www.joinermanagement.com, text “shoalcreek” to 41513, or call Joiner Management, (706) 850-7727.

Do you remember when I said that you can go to www.flagpole.com to place your ad or call (706) 549-0301?

Specials on S. Milledge Ave.!

Only 9 left to pre-lease!

Hunter’s Run. 2BR/2BA, $700/mo. 3BR/2BA, $800/mo.

4BR/4BA, $1100/mo. W/D, alarm system, pets welcome. hancockpropertiesinc.com.

(706) 552-3500.

Roommates F w/ rooms to rent. Private BRs w/ BAs in 4BR home. All amenities. Free cable, internet! Mile from UGA. $460/mo. Must see. Jenny, (843) 229-4483.

Huge room for rent w/ private entry. $450/mo. Pay weekly or monthly. W/D, utils. incl. Bigger than master BR. (678) 698-4260.

Rooms for Rent Room in 3BR/1BA house. $300/mo. + utils. 1 mi. from Dwntn., HWflrs., CHAC, W/D incl., covered porch, lg. closets, built-in bookcases. Avail. April 1. Wyatt, (706) 224-2472.

Sub-lease Avail. now! 2BR/1BA in historic Boulevard area. CHAC, W/D, back yd., pets OK. $850/mo. 1285 Boulevard.

Call (706) 372-2548.

For Sale Antiques Antiques & jewels sale! Antique fur niture, estate jewelr y, fine oil paintings, Persian rugs, silver, china, stained glass & more. Open 12-5 daily except Sun. & Mon. by chance or appt.

(706) 340-3717. 290 N. Milledge Ave. Athens. Antiques-jewels.com.

Furniture All new queen mattress set, $170. Sofa & love-seat, $549. 5-piece bedroom set, $399. (706) 612-8004.

Miscellaneous Go to Agora! Cool & affordable! Your favorite everything store! Specializing in retro goods, antiques, furniture, clothes, records & players plus more! 260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

Leyland Cypress, fast-growing evergreen hedges. 100 trees, 8-12 in., $88.94. 50 trees, 8-12 in., $59.94. 12-18 in., $82.94 per 50. Incl. shipping. www. auckersnursery.com, (352) 528-3889 (AAN CAN).

Yard Sales Giant yd. sale! Sat., 3/12, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. 335 North Ave. Big house next to CVS. Vintage, books, art, men/ women’s clothes, fabric, kitchen stuff, art materials, tools, furniture. Rain date 3/19.

Sell your cool old stuff in the Flagpole Classifieds! Go to www.flagpole.com!

Moving sale! 863 N. Chase St. Electronics, TV, furniture, clothes, vintage items. Saturday at 9 a.m.!

Music Announcements SXSW laminate for sale: check out thousands of exciting bands in Austin at this year’s SXSW March 15-20 for a reduced price. AthFest is selling a prepaid laminate for the music conference portion of SXSW worth $750 for $600, or make your best offer to Jared Bailey at director@athfest.com. www.sxsw.com.

Equipment

Massage

Opportunities

Borders! Print version of the Classifieds. Pictures! Check them out at www.flagpole.com.

Lowest rates in town!

Therapeutic massage. 20 yrs. exp.

Voted best in Athens. Deep tissue or light pressure according to client. 1st time client discount! Nationally cert.

Lics. #401605-00. Call Elizabeth at (706) 338-2001.

Booth rental avail. for esthetician, hairdresser or massage therapist in fun salon on S. Milledge. Close to campus & Dwntn. Call (706) 255-1969 or (706) 354-0104.

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 www.AthensSchoolofMusic.com, (706) 543-5800.

Music Services Athens’ best old school band. For weddings, reunions, frat. parties, etc.

Playing classic mo-town, R & B, soul, & beach music. Call (706) 612-8842 or www.classiccitysoul.com.

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

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

W e d d i n g b a n d s . Q u a l i t y, p ro f e s s i o n a l b a n d s . We d d i n g s , parties. Rock, jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. (706) 549-1567. www.classiccityentertainment.com.

Featuring The Magictones–Athens’ premiere wedding & party band. www. themagictones.com.

Misc. Services Ready to revamp your resume?

Renew your career? Certified coach now meeting clients Dwntn. at WorkSpace Athens. 1-on-1 coaching, assistance w/ resumes/cover letters/ grad. school applications. Visit www. higheredcareercoach.com or call Sean, (706) 363-0539.

Pawn

Do you have great communication skills? Are you money motivated? Are you dependable? Are you willing to do what it takes to make $1000/wk.? If you answered yes to all, give Chris a call!

(770) 560-5653.

Help wanted. 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).

You can go to www.flagpole.com to place your ad or call (706) 549-0301!

Need cash, get it here. Top dollar for scrap gold, firearms, & other items. GA Dawg Pawn, (706) 353-0799. 4390B Atlanta Hwy, across from Sam’s Club.

Photography Sell your auto with Flagpole Classifieds. Now with online pics at www.flagpole.com!

Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/day.

Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments. No exp. req’d. (800) 743-8535.

Paid in advance! Make $1K/wk. mailing brochures from home! Guar. income! Free supplies! No experience required. Start immediately! www. homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN).

Phone actresses from home. Best payouts, busy system, bilingual/spanish a plus. Wknds. a must! Land line/good voice, (800) 403-7772, lipservice.net (AAN CAN).

Jobs Full-time

Part-time

Musicians Wanted

Booth rent position avail. for hair stylist in a cozy salon in Chase Park Warehouses. Hours/days flexible, full/ part time. honeyssalon@gmail.com.

Singer wanted for established, working blues band in Athens. Influences are everything from Johnny Winter & Muddy Waters to Stevie Ray Vaughn. Call (706) 548-2874.

Call center representative.

Join established Athens company calling CEO’s & CFO’s of major corporations generating sales leads for technology companies. $9/hr.

BOS Staffing, www.bostemps.com, (706) 353-3030.

Nanny position for eclectic family w/ 2 young girls in Diamond Hill. $100 cash for 20 hrs./wk. plus “commission.” Email e@crimsonart.com for application/ questions. Psychology/education majors pref’d.

Studios SmallHouseCreative. Seriously high-end analog gear! Seriously affordable! Mix, master & track in ProTools HD2 Accel-based recording studio on Athens’ Eastside. Feel the love! www.roomfiftythree.com.

Services Cleaning If you are looking for a local reliable, trustworthy cleaner who uses earth-friendly products, call Nick.

I am thorough & efficient, therefore very easy on the budget! Phone or text (706) 8519087. Email Nick@goodworld.biz.

Also Pet Friendly!

Health Pregnant? Considering adoption?

Talk w/ caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers w/ families nationwide. Living expenses paid. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions, (866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN).

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Home and Garden Best priced, licensed plumber!

12 yrs. experience. New construction, re-model, & repair. Free estimates in local area. Senior citizen & 1st time customer discounts. If you’re interested in saving money, call Andrew, (706) 352-0891.

Hair stylist position avail. Are you a licensed stylist looking for a new home?

Come join the Emporium team & enjoy our friendly atmosphere w/ a guar. beg. salary & paid vacation. Call (706) 5467598 to learn more & see if you qualify.

House/server staff: Greyfield Inn, Cumberland Island. Come join our house staff & live/work on a beautiful Georgia island! Some dining & wine service experience helpful. In-residence position. $25,500/annum. Send letter of interest & application request to seashore@greyfieldinn.com.

H a i r s t y l i s t / D e s i g n e r. A re y o u a talented hairstylist/designer looking for a friendly, professional, laid–back studio space? Strand has an opening for a self-motivated designer. We offer rent control, no contract, in a friendly, established, high traffic studio in 5 Pts. Contact Michael at (706) 549-8074. All inquiries confidential.

Looking for licensed, experienced hair stylist to work 32-40 hrs./wk. Clientele a plus. Laid back, fun atmosphere. Email resume to rocketsalon@hotmail.com.

Movie extras to stand in backgrounds for major film production. Earn up to $200/day. Experience not required. All looks needed. Call (877) 568-7052.

Multi-tasking assistant for busy plant nursery. Must enjoy outdoors, self motivated & have green thumbs. FT potential. Apply at Thyme After Thyme, 550 Athens Rd., Winterville. Mon.–Fri. 9am–4pm only.

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The Economics of Immigration Reform

Andre Gallant

A typical human rights campaign pulls at heartstrings to ocial service strain. Scapegoat. Co-worker. Neighbor. draw support to its cause, using affecting tales, for instance, of While political leanings can influence how you tag unauthorized immigrants—and Townieconomy hopes you families ripped apart by deportations and harrowing accounts of the hazardous odyssey that is migrating to the United States only call them human—it’s clear that Georgia’s conservative from Mexico and Latin America. But times change, and so elected representatives are blitzing our state’s foreign-born should tactics. population with volleys of constricting legislation.

“We have spoken about the human rights concerns of this Included in the flurry of new laws weaving their way issue,” says Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia through the General Assembly are attempts to bar undocuAssociation of Latino Elected Officials, an organization that mented workers from receiving worker’s compensation benefits (SB 7), a bill to make driver’s license exams English-only (HB 72), and another restricting the manner in which day laborers can seek work, as well as punishing motorists who hire or transport them (SB 104).

And the list goes on. The count, I believe, now tallies eight bills, and there’s no telling how many more they’ll present by the time this paper goes to press. Honestly, by the time you’ve picked up this issue of Flagpole, some of these bills may have already moved out of committee and faced a full vote.

These proposed laws, echoing Arizona’s SB 1070, raise enough human rights and racial profiling concerns to keep the ACLU and Amnesty International camped out on the capitol steps for months, or a least until this legislative session ends. A Gainesville lawyer speaking at a rally at UGA’s Arch in protest of HB 59, a bill seeking to bar undocumented students from attending the state’s public universities, said these bills Signs placed in front of the UGA Arch at an August 2010 immigrants’ rights rally. would create Apartheid in Georgia, and the slogan-bearing t-shirts given has led statewide information campaigns against the proposed out by his fellow demonstrators echoed his cry: “Then it was legislation. “And we will continue to do so. However, the ecoJim Crow,” the screen printing reads, “now it’s Juan Crow.” nomic considerations are issues that will resonate with the ndocumented workers are stealing native-born workbroader set of Georgians.” ers’ jobs, Georgia’s immigration “reform” proponents With Georgia’s households and its House of Representatives claim, and they’re draining the state’s cash-strapped equally budget-conscious, pro-immigrant activists, includsocial services, too. But that’s just “smoke and mirrors,” says ing the newly formed Athens Immigrant Rights Coalition, are Taryn Jordan, an activist who traveled to Athens for the inauemphasizing Georgia’s budgetary woes when proffering their gural meeting of the newly formed Athens Immigrant Rights case in public, and making clear that the state’s immigrant Coalition to advise local organizers. As a founding member of population, documented and otherwise, is an integral part of the Arizona Repeal Coalition, Jordan battled that state’s antiGeorgia’s economy. A giant, in a way, that was never asleep, immigration campaign for three years before moving to Georgia just politely keeping quiet. seven months ago to take up the fight here. The claims are Before the economic downturn, immigrant-owned busijust an attempt by the political Right to make voters afraid of nesses employed over 70,000 workers and produced $12 billion immigrants, Jordan says, and voters often respond to rhetoric, is sales, according to research conducted by the Immigration not reality.

Policy Center. Georgia’s Latino and Asian populations, by 2009 Republicans rolled into office last November promising to counts, wielded a purchasing power of more than $24 billion. curb the state’s immigration problem, and they’ve not wasted Deporting or alienating Georgia’s foreign-born populations a moment. But opposition to the bills has come from unlikely could have drastic economic consequences. The center estisources. As legislators trotted out their proposals to force mates that the Arizona-style legislation currently being pushed businesses to electronically verify the immigration status of through the Georgia General Assembly could cost the state employees, leaders from the state’s agricultural industry and “$21.3 billion in economic activity if undocumented workers the Georgia Restaurant Association stomped out of the cotton [325,000 or 6.3 percent of the state’s workforce] were removed fields and stormed out of the dish pits to warn the politicians from the state.” of the traumatic effects such action would have on the state’s inety percent of the customers who come into Costa De economy. While big business, primarily in agriculture, may not Jalisco are Hispanic, says Juan Garcia, manager of the share ideological ground with left-leaning pro-immigrant activBarber Street carniceria, and perhaps 10 percent are ists, both groups, at least temporarily, are digging into the documented. Garcia says passage of these bills would “basically same defensive ground. put [him] out of business.”

“We’re learning a new language,” says one pro-immigrant On top of all the legal fees Arizona will rack up defending activist who asked that his name be kept out of print: “ecoSB 1070, the state has already lost untold amounts in tourism nomics.” Speaking inside his trailer in an Athens mobile dollars as national conventions boycott Arizona and foreign home park, he told me he’s confronting the usual obstacles travelers skip the Sonoran desert for less xenophobic locales. A in organizing the immigrant population against this legislastudy by the Center for American Progress estimates anti-tourtive onslaught: How to convince the powerless of the might ism blowback will cost Arizona over $250 million in revenue. their collective voices contain. Just outside his home on this Tourism is a $32 billion industry in Georgia, and Athens, which February evening, children careen through the mobile home by recent arguments can’t survive without an ever-expanding park’s lanes on BMX bikes, kept upright at their awkward Classic Center, can ill afford any out-of-towner embargoes. speeds by training wheels; their shouts and hurtling bodTourist boycotts wouldn’t affect Athens the same as ies chase down their fathers’ work trucks returning home for Savannah or Atlanta, says Chuck Jones, director of the Athens dinner.

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Convention and Visitors Bureau. Athens attracts statewide and regional conventions, so the impact would be marginal, if there were any at all. Jones adds that boycotting convention centers, hotels and other tourist destinations would “punish the wrong people”: maids, cooks and other staffers would really feel the brunt of such measures.

But by turning to dollars and cents to make their case, pro-immigrant activists are following the lead, in a way, of their immigration reform opponents, who claim that Georgia’s 425,000 unauthorized immigrants cost the state $2.4 billion in services each year. A recent “Truth-O-Meter” report conducted

by PolitiFact.com picked apart that claim—often made by antiimmigrant politicians, including Savannah’s U.S. Representative Jack Kingston and our new Governor Nathan Deal—and determined it to be “half-true.” The $2.4 billion figure used by antiimmigration activists comes from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and the imprecision of its assertions stems from its inclusion of all children of immigrants when making its calculations. Since 83 percent of children of immigrant families were born in the United States and are therefore U.S. citizens, those numbers are quite skewed.

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o justify, in a way, FAIR’s claims, the PolitiFact report points to Congressional Budget Office research that states that while undocumented immigrants do pay local, state and federal taxes, their contributions don’t “offset the costs to states and local government.”

But the PolitiFact report omits a few facts, including some very important background: the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League consider FAIR, a Washingtonbased “public interest” organization, a hate group. While operating under a “veneer of legitimacy”—one thick enough to earn citation by some of our state’s elected officials—FAIR maintains ties to white supremacist groups, according to the intelligence file kept on the group by the SPLC. If undocumented immigrants’ tax contributions don’t offset their burden on social services, it’s because they often work in low-paying industries, a statement included in the CBO study, but left out of most public discussion. If undocumented workers are burdens on the state, then so are all poor, hard-working Georgians.

Even still, the amount states spend on health care, education and law enforcement related to unauthorized immigrants is a minimal portion of overall service expenditures: it’s often less than 5 percent across the country, even in states with enormous immigrant populations.

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nyway, how can we consider someone who performs the sweaty, backbreaking labor that props up our state’s economy a burden?

Undocumented workers make up 50 to 70 percent of Georgia’s agricultural workers, the state’s largest industry, says GALEO’s Jerry Gonzales, who doesn’t believe the FAIR study “at all takes into account the economic impact undocumented workers have on our state’s number one industry.”

From an organizing angle, though, chasing dollar signs may not be the safest tack to follow, says Taryn Jordan, the formerly Arizona-based immigrant rights activist: It’s a “slippery slope” that can end up dividing the overall community of workers. Voters don’t respond to numbers; they’re just angry and more inclined toward simple bombast. The better plan, she says, is to follow a third pole: not outrage, not jobs, just plain old freedom. Paraphrasing the Repeal Coalition slogan, Jordan says people should be allowed to live where they want, love who they want and work wherever they want.

With Georgia’s business community stepping into the fight, the immigrant rights movement may have a shot at halting, or at least stemming, this marginalizing, human rights-stifling legislative onslaught. But organizers at the local level still must convince immigrants, hiding out in their oft-disconnected neighborhoods, to turn their fears into street action. “They say they’re scared to take the risk [to protest],” says a second, also anonymous, immigrants’ rights activist in the Athens mobile home. “But they’ve risked everything to be here. It’s a risk to go to work, to go to the store. It’s going to be dangerous. Why stop now?”

André Gallant townieconomy@flagpole.com

everyday people Betty Sabbath, Cooperative Extension Agent For more than 30 years, Betty Sabbath has taught Athenians about nutrition through University of Georgia Cooperative Extension’s Expanding Nutrition Program. Using the agency’s Broad Street office as a hub, Sabbath treks through our city’s many far-flung neighborhoods, instilling healthy eating habits and valuable survival skills like gardening and canning into Athenian bellies and brains. She has witnessed roads progress from dirt to asphalt, watched children become parents, and has tried to keep up as the world works itself into a dang hurry.

Flagpole: Tell me about your role here.

Betty Sabbath: I meet with groups and I go out in the field, into individual homes, and I teach them basic nutrition.

I try to teach them how to use their food stamps so they’ll last ‘til the end of the month, so they won’t be hungry… I teach them sanitation, and I teach them budgets. We have a curriculum, six lessons, that they have to go through so they can graduate. I’ve been doing it for 30-something years, since 1977.

FP: That’s a long time.

BS: Uh-huh. Everybody knows me as Miss Betty. I’ve got a University of Georgia bag, it’s black, and everybody says, “Here comes Miss Betty with her bag.” I try to have cookies for the children, or coloring paper, something to give them while I give the lesson to the parents. We need to start with our younger groups, our children. If they see the mothers preparing nutritious meals and snacks, then that will plant a seed in them to teach their children to do the same thing. In the summertime, if they have some space at their homes, I tell them to plant some tomatoes or collard greens; that way, they won’t have to buy it.

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FP: What interested you in nutrition originally?

BS: Well, I needed a job and I came and applied… like I say, I like people… I go out into the neighborhood and I can help somebody, that’s just a great feeling. I’ve seen three generations: I’ve taught their mommas, I’ve taught them, and then I have some of their children.

FP: If I have my facts straight, you grew up with six brothers and sisters. What was growing up in such a big family like?

BS: We had five, six, seven. You see, I didn’t grow up with my brothers and sisters. I grew up the only child.

FP: You were the first born?

BS: Yeah. Uh-huh. My grandparents lived on a farm and they grew everything that they ate. I remember my grandmamma, when she was ready to fix dinner, she’d go out and pull the cabbage, pull the corn, pick the turnip greens and we’d have that for supper. What you call “dinner,” we called it “supper” then. I’ve seen her churn the butter, milk the cows. I grew up on Billups Street, where I live now, but during the summertime I went home to my grandparents.

FP: What did that experience teach you?

BS: It taught me how to survive. I have three children, 14 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. I can go into the kitchen and they say, “You’re the only person I’ve seen that can go into the refrigerator, and I don’t see nothing, but you

can cook a full-course meal.” I learned how to make do with what I had. Like you don’t have to have meat with every meal, you can have pinto beans and a piece of cornbread, that’s a complete protein. I love to cook. I love to feed people. My grandmamma always had a basket of what we called teacakes back then. Her grandkids always knew they could have a teacake. What I have is a cookie jar: my kids always know they can have one of grandma’s sugar cookies.

FP: You grew up on Billups Street, and you’ve lived there almost all your life?

BS: Yeah, that house has been in our family over a hundred years. It started off as a one-room log cabin, which is my front porch now; I still have the round beams on the front of the front porch. My mother was 73 when she died, and she was born there. Her mother was 80-something and she lived there.

I’m 66 and I’ve been there almost all my life.

FP: How has your neighborhood changed over the years?

BS: Well, we have paved streets. Billups used to be muddy.

We owned property on Broad Street—there’s a church there now; we had a garage there. That’s where we parked our car and walked to the house, because Billups was muddy. That’s gone, we sold the property.

FP: You said that you’ve seen a lot of changes in Athens.

What are some of the things you’ve witnessed?

BS: When I started working here in 1977, I didn’t know anything about nutrition. I didn’t know anything about all the neighborhoods in Athens. I remember one time I went to this lady’s house and she had chickens, and the chickens were all in the house. Everywhere. I said, “Oh, my God. I can’t do this. I can’t go through this.” I toughed it out and I finally got her to get the chickens out of the house, into the yard, and cleaned up a little bit. My co-worker, she went out one day and she came back just a-crying, “I can’t do this. I can’t do this.” She had gone up to this white woman’s house, just looking for clients. We knocked on a lot of doors back then. We’d say, “Can we help you? We teach nutrition. It’s free.”

Well, this lady came to the door, she had a walking stick, and said, “N_____, get off my porch.” She came back crying. I laughed. It wasn’t funny, but I laughed. It tickled me. But she got through that.

FP: In your opinion, what are the most important issues facing our town?

BS: Cutbacks. Everybody is concerned. Are we going to have a job tomorrow, next week? I’m concerned about the black youth in Athens. The young boys are on the corner, they are trying to sell drugs, they’re trying to survive. We have some good law officers, but sometimes they don’t understand… I feel like there should be some kind of program where youth, not just black, any color, can come and express themselves. All the people would be there: police, fire department, housing authority.

Express themselves and let them know some of their concerns and see if they could work together to stop overcrowding the jails. There’s got to be a better way to do that. I haven’t thought of a way yet, but I’m working on it. There’s got to be something better than locking them up.

FP: You seem like a good person to figure this out.

BS: Athens is a compassionate town; it cares about its people, and I really believe that.

FP: What do you do to relax?

BS: Since I got old, I sit in the chair and sleep. I love helping people and I love working in the yard.

FP: What will you do when you retire?

BS: I don’t know, maybe I’ll get that youth group together.

FP: Maybe you should hurry up and retire.

BS: I might retire in April. I love my job, my supervisors and my co-workers. They’re just like my other family. I get mad at them sometimes, but I get over it.

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