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Maybe it’s a good thing more races aren’t contested this year, because this may be the most confusing election we’ve ever had. A mantra of Republicans and Democrats alike is that voting is our solemn, God-given, patriotic obligation. Then, no matter who’s in power in Atlanta, they constantly shift election districts around to maximize their party’s advantage, and the voters can just be damned. This year’s damage happens to have been wrought by one man, Rep. Doug McKillip, with the rest of the delegation tagging along. Democrat-turned-Republican McKillip singlehandedly redrew every ACC commission district and every House of Representatives district to further his own political agenda over the expressed and considered wishes of our local citizens and our local government. Local voters in House District 117 have a unique opportunity to step in and help vote McKillip out of office before he can do any more damage to Athens-Clarke County. Unfortunately, for many Democrats in District 117 it will be more important to cast a useless Democratic ballot on July 31 with no contested Democratic races on their ballot. They could, instead, cross over and vote alongside District 117 Republicans for local attorney Regina Quick, the honest though conservative choice against McKillip. The other contested House race is in District 118, where Democrat Keith Heard is the longtime incumbent, primarily because the Republicans couldn’t touch his district, since he is African American. Instead, the Republicans have turned House District 118 into a Democratic The Democratic ghetto, pushing as many Democrats as possible out of the other districts and Republican and into the 118th. So, it’s a pretty safe bet that primaries are a Democrat will win the 118th, July 31. although there are two young Republican candidates vying in the Republican primary for the right to run against the Democrat in the General Election in November. Heard’s opponent in the Democratic primary is Spencer Frye, who ran a good race in the last mayoral campaign but narrowly missed the runoff. This time around, Spencer is running against Keith and painting him as out-of-touch with his constituents and in the bed with special interests. It is true that Heard lives in Atlanta, though he keeps a house here and technically satisfies the requirements legislators wrote for themselves. Spencer has raised some money, has already mailed two full-color flyers and has been out knocking on doors. Regardless of where he lives now, Keith Heard grew up here and is a successful insurance executive. It is tremendously important to the black community here to have him in the Georgia legislature. Patterns are changing, though, and what used to be black East Athens has seen a lot of whites moving in and blacks moving out—though a lot of those whites are college students. The 118th has the white liberal enclaves of Cobbham, Boulevard and Normaltown as well as the extensive white suburbs on the east side of town. Will the 118th turn out to be a black-white vote in the Democratic primary? District 118 is even more interesting because of the two candidates in the Republican primary, Carter Kessler and Chris Perlera. Keep in mind that they are contesting for the privilege of running against the Democratic candidate in the General Election in the last remaining bulwark of Democratic voters in Athens-Clarke County—in other words, a suicide mission. But you have to start somewhere in politics, and more power to them. Carter is a Ron Paul Republican at odds with his local party: the outsider’s outsider. Chris grew up here from the age of 12, the son of Salvadorian-immigrant parents. He went through the public school system and the University of Georgia (with a degree in Romance languages) and works for First American Bank battling credit card fraud. He is a leader in the local Hispanic community, a fiscal conservative and what I would have to call a moderate on social issues. Mail-out voting has begun. Last day to register is July 2. Early voting begins July 9. The Democratic and Republican primaries are July 31. Get to the board of elections through the “departments� on www.athensclarkecounty.com, and all your questions will be answered. (Or call them at 706-613-3150.) Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com
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Ready for Our Close-Up: It’s been just a few Athens Banner-Herald to the positions of local short months since Athens was abuzz over and nearby state legislative candidates on downtown’s takeover by a full-scale film crew the upcoming T-SPLOST referendum, which shooting scenes from the upcoming film will appear on the ballot along with the priTrouble with the Curve, which brought Clint mary elections for said candidates’ House and Eastwood, Justin Timberlake, Amy Adams and Senate seats. Your once and current Dope (the a bunch of other professional film people into Lame Dope?) has been collecting opinions our midst for a few days. At the time, it was from that group, as well, and some of them roundly declared that we should try to do are illuminating—if in rather a banal, unsurthis more often, to see if the jolt of energy prising way—of the cynicism and intentional and cash that had accompanied Eastwood and dysfunction that plague our representation on Co. to town could be turned into a sustainable the state level. feature of our local character and economy. Incumbent Keith Heard and his House It’s now apparent that some among us got District 118 Democratic primary challenger right on that, and we’re about to see some of Spencer Frye both support passage; the two the fruits of their efforts—with the serious Republicans running for the seat, Carter possibility of further bounty down the road. Kessler and Christopher Perlera, are both Last week, a call went out for local against it. As Blake has reported, both District crew to work on The Spectacular Now, the 117 Rep. Doug McKillip and his Republican third feature film by Athens native James primary opponent Regina Quick oppose the Ponsoldt, which will tax, as does Danny star Shailene Woodley Yearwood, Sen. Frank (George Clooney’s teenGinn’s opponent in the aged daughter in The District 47 Republican Descendants) and which primary. Ginn supports will be shot entirely it, as does unopposed in Athens for about District 119 Rep. Chuck five weeks beginning Williams. Sen. Bill in mid-to-late July. Cowsert, unopposed in Furthermore, Film District 46, is against Athens, in coordinathe tax. tion with the AthensWhat’s interesting Clarke County Public is that of the three Information Office, legislators (Heard, has been organizing McKillip and Cowsert) a series of sponsored who were in office and guided tours of when the referendum the city for Georgia’s was created in 2010— top location managers, who all voted at the seven of whom have time to put it on the accepted an invitation ballot—the two who Here's about the closest view we'll get of these to the first two-day are now Republicans Corinthian capitals before they're placed atop the tour, which will take (McKillip, of course, place sometime in July. new columns being erected at the front of UGA's was a Democrat until Holmes-Hunter Academic building as part of a “The biggest thing 2011) now oppose it. major restoration. The capitals are fabricated we want to do,” says The Republican legisfiberglass, but the columns will be of poured, Film Athens’ Danielle lature declined to fund fluted concrete. Robarge, “is get all the billions of dollars in decision makers and infrastructural needs groups who have a stake in this on the same because the majority members are inflexibly page regarding how important and beneficial prohibited by the “R” after their names the film industry can be to the local economy, to contemplate any kind of legislated tax and what we need to do to attract and assist increase. Instead, they passed the buck to local film productions.” voters, who are now asked to pull the trigger This is an aggressive and highly realiswhile those same legislators are free to throw tic economic development initiative being up their hands and protest that they’re not undertaken largely by creative-minded people for it. outside of the professional structure that’s “It’s frustrating to see legislators who supposed to be in charge of getting things supported the ballot, who are now against it like this done around here, and they need when it’s up for a vote,” says former mayor help. “Right now we are scrambling to get and Athens Area Chamber of Commerce some funding to host the location managers,” President Doc Eldridge, a Republican who calls says Robarge. “I can’t think of a much better T-SPLOST “probably the single most imporinvestment for the community than wooing tant vote in the last 50 years” in Georgia. these folks. These people have a huge influSupporters of the referendum have said there’s ence on where a movie shoots, and this is no “Plan B” if it doesn’t pass, but Eldridge the most pro-active thing that any county [in disagrees. “’Plan B’ is local governments pay Georgia] has tried to do.” three times as much for road projects” as they Local businesses and leaders should be currently do, he says, an outcome that would lining up to sponsor these visits. The folks at be “highly punitive.” Film Athens are happy to do the work, but And he’s right, but why should the legthey’re not a wealthy organization. More local islators care? They’ve ensured they’re not buy-in for this effort is going to be necesaccountable either way—a nice trick. If they sary—if you want to help or find out more, can use it to avoid making the tough calls email Robarge at danielle@filmathens.net. necessary to pay for roads and bridges, maybe they could figure out how to avoid funding You Pay for It—No, Don’t!: Rising City Dope things like public education! Oh, wait… Blake Aued has devoted a couple of entries in his closing string of dispatches for the Dave Marr news@flagpole.com
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George Washington Plunkitt was born too soon. For those who aren’t familiar with the name, Plunkitt was a New York state senator of the 19th century who coined the phrase “honest graft” to describe his political activities. Honest graft, as Plunkitt explained it, occurred when a politician’s personal interests happened to coincide with his constituents’ interests. For example, Plunkitt would purchase a tract of land in an area where a public project, such as a park, was going to be developed. He would then sell his property, which would be needed to complete the public project, at an inflated price. “They couldn’t make the park complete without Plunkitt’s swamp, and they had to pay a good price for it,” Plunkitt would say. “Anything dishonest in that?” Plunkitt was born in 1842 and benefited from his association with the Democratic Party’s Tammany Hall machine. If he had only been born here in 1962 or 1972, he would have really prospered in Georgia’s current political environment. We’ve seen Gwinnett County officials get involved in suspicious land deals like Plunkitt’s—and also get indicted by local and federal grand juries. We’ve seen elected officials get free trips to Europe for themselves and their family members that are provided by generous lobbyists willing to pay out $17,000 for the junket. We’ve seen governors sign bills that gave themselves a tax break on their property worth an estimated $100,000. Although much attention is being paid to the dollars that lobbyists spend to entertain legislators, the really big money in Georgia politics comes in the form of campaign contributions. Let’s look at state Sen. Don Balfour (R-Snellville), an executive with the Waffle House restaurant chain, and Stan Wise, a wellfed member of the Public Service Commission. Lobbyists have treated Balfour to so many
baseball games, football games and golf tournaments over the years that he has acquired the nickname “Donnie Ballgame.” The lobbyist gifts are but a drop in the bucket, however, when compared to the campaign contributions Balfour received. Balfour’s latest disclosure report reveals that, as of Mar. 31, he had received $993,108 in contributions. A lot of that money came from fundraisers attended by capitol lobbyists. As a PSC member, Wise regulates utilities like Georgia Power and Atlanta Gas Light. When there is an issue before the PSC where commissioners must choose between the interests of the utilities and the interests of consumers, Wise nearly always votes for Georgia Power and Atlanta Gas, and against the consumers. This should not be a surprise. A recent analysis of Wise’s campaign contributions revealed that he got 91 percent of his contributions from people who work for companies regulated by the PSC or whose law firm represents a PSCregulated company. House Speaker David Ralston is unopposed this year, yet his campaign coffers are overflowing. His last disclosure report showed he had received nearly $532,000 in contributions and still had $318,000 in the bank. The last report filed by Sen. David Shafer (R-Duluth) disclosed $936,000 in contributions, with $515,000 still resting in his campaign bank account. He is unopposed. Senate President Pro Tem Tommie Williams (R-Lyons) has amassed $340,000 in contributions and still has $183,000 cash on hand. He has no opposition this year. The scandal of Georgia politics isn’t that the huge amounts of money given to Balfour, Wise and their colleagues is illegal. The scandal is that this financial gusher is allowed under current state law. Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com
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Prince Avenue has the third-highest crash rate in the state for bicyclists, says a Georgia Department of Transportation safety study, and other Athens streets—Baxter, Oconee and Broad—also made the top 20. That could be because Athens has more bicyclists than other For the past few years, immigration has places, and since bicyclists aren’t registered been a particularly divisive issue in Georgia. or counted like cars, no one really knows how The state gained national attention for its many people ride. But most reported crashes harsh and controversial Arizona copycat are in metro areas, and many involve “angle” immigration law (HB87) and the University crashes with cars making turns. The state’s System Board of Regents’ ban on undocuhighest bicycle crash rate has been along mented students. But Georgia has also been Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta. a significant site of resistance to these types Most Georgia bicyclists don’t wear helmets, of regulations, and to the Obama administrathe report said (Georgia law requires helmets tion’s aggressive deportation initiative. Athens for riders under 16). There are more than a played a notable role in being the home of dozen bicyclists killed in Georgia most years, Freedom University, which began last fall in and over 90 percent of fatalities are to ridresponse to the BOR ban, offering a free uniers without helmets. “I don’t see a lot of versity-level class taught by four UGA faculty helmet usage in the Athens area,” said James members. Barlament, a researcher in the University of Immigration was sure to be a hot-button Georgia’s College of Public Health who has issue in this year’s presidential race, but it studied accident data statewide. Barlament’s has suddenly taken center stage in national numbers show nearly one bicycle fatality per news. “It literally came out of nowhere,” said year in Athens-Clarke County, and an averCharles Kuck, a prominent immigration attorage of about 27 ney, speaking about reported accidents the new Department Numbers show nearly one with injuries. The of Homeland Security (DHS) policy on immifoot of Baxter hill (at bicycle fatality per year in gration at a panel held Lumpkin Street) is a particularly accidentAthens-Clarke County, and an on the UGA campus prone location. June 21. On June average of about 27 reported 15, President Obama More frequent than outlined a policy bicycle accidents are pedestrian accidents— accidents with injuries. directive that will give certain undocumented more than 50 a year immigrants between the ages of 15 and 30 in ACC, with 16 people killed between 2006 and 2010. Lack of sidewalks contributes to the the opportunity to apply for deferred action status: temporary relief from the possibility dangers, Barlament said, and so do “alcoholof deportation, as well as the opportunity for impaired” pedestrians. Only 7 percent of work authorization. Between 800,000 and 1 Georgia’s streets and roads have sidewalks. million people will be eligible to apply. “There’s also an issue with being visible” at To qualify, the individual must have night, both for pedestrians and bicyclists. Most pedestrians killed are hit while crossing a entered the United States before the age of 16; must have been in the country on June street—usually not at a crosswalk—and most 15, 2012; must not be convicted of a felony, a die at night, state statistics say. “serious” misdemeanor or 3 or more separate But better enforcement of seatbelt laws has cut overall traffic fatalities in Georgia, misdemeanor offenses; and must be enrolled in school, have a high school diploma or GED, Barlament says—plus motorists are speeding or have served in the U.S. military. Of course, less “because they don’t want to use as much gas.” applicants must be able to prove, through “verifiable documentation,” that they meet Retired middle school principal Ken these criteria. Sherman has for years led local group rides, More than 50 people attended the Office of including the annual Athens-to-Savannah bike International Education’s informational panel ride to support local schools. (He’ll be leading about the new directive, and about half of the Teardrop Metric Century ride in September to support the Interfaith Hospitality Network.) those in attendance were young (presumably undocumented) students and their parents. Those rides—and the frequent Nitty Gritty The OIE sponsored the panel less than one Bike Band rides around Athens—are routed week after the policy’s release. “One of the along back roads and low-traffic state highreasons we tried to [hold this forum] quickly ways, Sherman said. is because there is a lot of misinformation Problems with aggressive drivers have out there,” said Robin Catmur, director of been “exceedingly rare,” he said. The twoUGA’s International Student, Scholar and day Savannah ride attracts some 70 riders, Immigration Services within the OIE. Catmur and “they get spread out over many miles.” Incidents with drivers have been few; most are stressed the importance of consulting an attorney before making the decision to apply patient with bicyclists. “It’s more than just to the program. tolerating each other—it’s good for the whole There is not yet an application process in community,” Sherman says—as it has been place, Kuck explained, and there are already for Portland, Oregon, where the popularity of known instances of fraudulent schemes bicycling has “helped make it a destination claiming to file for applicants. Though it where people want to come and live and set
went into effect immediately following its Moreover, the directive does not provide legal announcement, the policy gives United States status or a path to citizenship. Citizenship and Immigration Services and This policy could have a significant impact Immigration and Customs Enforcement 60 days in Georgia. The state is again in the national to implement the application process. spotlight for controversy surrounding HB87 The announcement has been a major issue and for the Board of Regents ban. Last Friday in the news media for obvious reasons. While on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” two UGA professome, most notably presumptive Republican sors talked about what this policy means for presidential nominee Mitt Romney, claim undocumented students who want to attend Obama’s announcement was merely a political college, particularly students in the three ploy to gain the Latino vote, others view the states that ban those without documentation. policy in a more positive light. The policy does not mention access to higher Elizabeth, an undocumented student and a education, and the Board of Regents has not recent graduate of Clarke Central High School answered any questions about how this policy who will be enrolled at Syracuse University in change will affect its ban. the fall, explained that she was “bombarded While the directive has a lot of gray area, by an array of emotions” as she watched the there was consensus among the panelists president’s address. about one certainty: “The first thing I Obama’s announce“This directive may very well felt was relief; it felt ment opens the as though a mask had door to new discushave been a political move been removed from sions on the issue of my face and the world for this party or that party, but immigration. was suddenly aware Elizabeth says she to those affected it signifies of my existence,” said is excited to continue Elizabeth, who has the discussion, and to much more than that.” lived in the U.S. since fight for a more just she was five. However, immigration policy. she said, “after the excitement came a wave of “The most gratifying aspect of the president’s confusion.” announcement was the notion that a group Many undocumented immigrants had of students could make the leader of the free similar reactions. While the policy seems to world stop and listen,” she said. “This direcbe a step toward immigration reform, it also tive may very well have been a political move creates a new set of uncertainties for undocufor this party or that party, but to those mented youth. affected it signifies much more than that. Though little is known about the applicaThis directive means time; time for us who are tion process, it is certain that the federal no longer in the shadows to campaign even government will collect information not only harder to Congress to pass the DREAM Act; about applicants, but also about their famitime for us to focus on more comprehensive lies. To a community that lives with the daily immigration reform for those people who no threat of deportation, this is a significant risk longer fit the age bracket of under 30; and to take. However, Kuck does not believe that time for us to lead this movement because, in the DHS will use the policy as a way to bring the president’s words, ‘it’s the right thing to undocumented immigrants out of the wooddo.’” work with the intent of deporting them. DHS However, the possibility of the inauguraofficials are so busy, he said, “they are looking tion of a new president next January means to cut cases out.” that how much time the directive will buy is The deferred action status obtained still in question. through this process is temporary. Every two years, applicants must reapply for the status. Melissa Hovanes
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all the possibilities that going this route has to offer. In order to make this process into a true and effective partnership, its parameters have to be defined a bit more broadly than one faculty member and one document. The College of Environment and Design has a world-class faculty and a world-class Community Design Center, and those are resources that Crowley didn’t really discuss as he described his team of one, plus some unnamed grad students. Perhaps it’s worth slowing down for just a moment to consider that Crowley’s services might be only one ingredient in a successful, sustainable and accountable process. If Athens is going to partner with its university to plan for the future, the partnership should be much fuller, so that as needs change over time, the plan that Crowley authors can be updated and truly evolve. Crowley’s eagerness and enthusiasm should be taken note of in a town so frequently paralyzed by inaction and indecisiveness, but we should make sure that we can guarantee this isn’t just the work of a single person. Crowley claimed that he’s been on “all the sides of the table that deal with urban development,” listing off his resume of real estate, planning and development jobs and projects. But there are so many other variables that define downtown Athens as something other than a development site. There are the dishwashers, bartenders and line cooks; musicians and artists and baristas; studiers, partiers and procrastinators; panhandlers and streetpreachers and a global network of expats who all love this city and call it home, even when they haven’t been back in years. Has Crowley sat on all of those sides of the table? This project is a serious exercise in trust, with the entire notion of downtown planning on the line, along with the university’s and the Can Professor Jack Crowley's one-man master plan really capture the diversity of College of Environment experiences that makes Athens so vital? and Design’s reputations as community would be largely informal but “absolutely partners. If the process isn’t accountable transparent.” The first step, he said, will be enough or doesn’t produce enough buy-in to define the actual boundaries of downtown across the broad network of Athenians, it’s as it functions, which differ from the legally unlikely we’ll get a second try. Athens’ reputadefined zone that ADDA is charged with tion is that of a creative city, and downtown managing. (Given that the study area would Athens is, in a way, our collective work. likely spill beyond the area of ADDA’s purview, Crowley appears finally to have spurred us to Mayor Nancy Denson seemed eager to put up action to protect and enhance it. ACC’s fair share of the cost, supplementing the On the front end, we need to be creatauthority’s money.) From there, he’d go about ing the necessary partnerships among the meeting with business and property owners, university’s various resources, local business block by block. groups and local governmental departments, There are some deficits that were noted: to make sure all are part of the team and on this plan won’t provide a thorough market the same page… We also need to explore new analysis or a detailed study of infrastructure. input techniques that harness the creative Last fall, the Mayor and Commission put a and crafty ethic of Athens. Rather than sittemporary moratorium in place to consider the ting back and watching Crowley work, we need capacity of downtown sewer lines. Perhaps to make sure that we’ve crafted a plan where they should look at spending a little more to we’re all sharing the load. hire consultants to complete those suppleIf you’ve got ideas about the downmental analyses, ensuring that Crowley has town master planning process, the Athens the most accurate and up-to-date information Downtown Development Authority is eager as he conducts this plan. to hear them. Send them an email at masterThis a big opportunity, and while Crowley plan@downtownathensga.com. is an enthusiastic and competent resource, it’s worth asking whether we’ve fully considered Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com
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“If we find that SCAF [the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces] stands firm against us as we try to fulfill the demands of the revolution,” said Fatema AbouZeid of the Muslim Brotherhood as the final results of Egypt’s presidential election last weekend rolled in, “we will go back to the streets and escalate things peacefully to the highest possible level. “Now we have a new factor in Egyptian politics, the Egyptian people themselves.” she continued. “[They] will not accept a return to the old regime in any form, not after so much Egyptian blood was shed to remove it.” Well, maybe. There’s nothing like an election to make things clear. Now all the cards are on the table in Egypt, and the last round of bidding has begun. The army has opened with a very high bid in the hope of scaring everybody else off, and now the other players have to decide whether to call or fold. Sometimes, even in long-established democratic states, the players simply fold in order to avoid a destructive constitutional upheaval. That’s what the Democratic Party did when the United States Supreme Court awarded the state of Florida and the presidency to George W. Bush in the disputed election of 2000. It was an outrageously partisan decision by the 5-4 Republican majority in the Supreme Court, but if the Democrats had rejected it the United States would have faced months or even years of political turmoil. If they had foreseen the devastation that the Bush presidency would cause, they might have done otherwise, but at the time their decision seemed wise. It is possible that the Egyptian “opposition”—an uneasy amalgam of the secular and leftist young who overthrew the dictator Hosni Mubarak on Tahrir Square 16 months ago and the Muslim Brotherhood (which initially avoided direct confrontation with the old regime)—will also just fold. After 16 months of upheaval, so many ordinary Egyptians just want “stability” that the army might win a showdown in the streets. The problem is that the Egyptian army has bid much higher than the U.S. Supreme Court ever did—so high that if the other players fold, they lose almost everything. This is a brazen bid to revive the old regime, minus Mubarak, and restore the armed forces to the position of economic privilege and political control that they have enjoyed, to Egypt’s very great cost, ever since Gamal Abdel Nasser’s coup in 1952. On June 14, just 48 hours before the polls opened for the second round of the presidential election, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court announced that last year’s parliamentary election, in which Islamic parties won almost three-quarters of the seats, was conducted by rules that contravened the constitution. There was a legitimate question about whether the political parties should have been allowed to run candidates in the seats reserved for independents. No, said the court, all of whose judges were appointed by the old regime. But rather than just ruling that there
must be by-elections in those seats, they declared that the whole parliament must be dissolved. This bizarre decision presumably meant that the 100-person constituent assembly created by the parliament to write Egypt’s new constitution was also dissolved. The army still swears that it will hand power over to the new democratically elected president on June 30—but he will now take office with no parliament and no constitution to define his powers. Might there have been some collusion between the Supreme Council of the Armed Ramy Raoof
We are the closest we’ve come to getting a downtown master plan in decades, with Athens Downtown Development Authority board members and Athens-Clarke County commissioners both seeming eager, at a meeting last week, to hire Jack Crowley (and a couple of plucky grad students), Atlas-like, to singlehandedly shoulder the job of determining the future of downtown Athens. Crowley, the former Dean of the UGA College of Environment and Design and current head of its Environmental Planning and Design program, made clear at a presentation to the ADDA board that he would operate primarily as a professional consultant, and not as an academic, if contracted to produce the master plan. He rattled off a list of many of his previous projects around the hemisphere, most notably a downtown master plan for Tulsa, OK. Crowley has also lent his name to some controversial projects in Athens, including his pitch for streetcar service along the little-used rail line through downtown and the UGA campus, and a proposal for two highrise apartment buildings on the edge of Dearing Street. Likewise, Classic Center Director Paul Cramer repeatedly invoked Crowley in pitching the currently under-construction convention center expansion. Crowley offered to do the work essentially for free, with a $30,000 price tag to support a few graduate students and provide materials. He also described an input process that
Forces and the Supreme Constitutional Court in this matter? Is the Pope a Catholic? On June 17, only three days after the Court handed down its judgement and just as it was becoming clear that the old regime’s candidate, Ahmed Shafiq, would probably lose the presidential election, the SCAF issued an “interim constitutional declaration.” It effectively gives the military legislative powers, control over the budget, and the right to pick the committee that writes the new constitution. Since that committee will not report until the end of the year, in the meantime there will be no election for a new parliament. There will be an elected president, but he will not even have authority over the armed forces: the army’s “interim constitution” strips him of that power, and no doubt its tame committee will write it into the new permanent constitution as well. The SCAF can’t have come up with all this in just 72 hours after the decision of the Supreme Constitutional Court on the 14th. There had to be a lot of coordination between the military and the Court beforehand. You could call this a “constitutional coup,” but the more accurate phrase is “military coup.” So what can Egyptians do about it? They can go back to Tahrir Square, this time student radicals and Muslim Brothers together, and try to force the army out of politics. That will be very dangerous, because this time, unlike February of last year, the generals may actually order the soldiers to clear the square by gunfire. Or the opposition, aware that the mass of the population has no appetite for more confrontation and instability, may just submit and hope for a better day. If it does that, the Egyptian revolution is dead. Gwynne Dyer Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
Which Comes First–a Home or a Job? Foundation Seeks to Stop Homelessness Before It Starts T
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he mother and her teenage daughter were Economic Development office. The total numBut every situation is as varied as the faced with a decision: make the car payber of individuals without a place to stay—in possible solutions, Steele said. Which is why ment or pay the rent. a shelter or otherwise—remained the same, the goal of Housing First, while important, At least by paying for the car, they figured, while the overall number of people in emerisn’t the total solution, she cautions. “I tend they would still have transportation, and a gency and transitional shelters decreased, to find that no movements in one direction place to stay at night. It’s the kind of decision according to the county’s annual homeless work,� she said. “Housing First seems to be a that’s made nearly every day in Clarke County, count. great idea for a good amount of people. So, especially in a slow economy. On any given The Housing First model is in place around I think we’ll push ahead with this and have night, according to county numbers and social the country, and the ACC government receives some successes—and some failures—and then workers, between 350 and 1,000 men, women about $690,000 a year in federal grants to we’ll find a model that suits both.� and parents with children don’t have a reliable implement the idea, primarily through a One thing to note about shelters in the place they can call home. program run by Advantage Behavioral Health Athens area is that each one caters to a But Paul Lazzari believes he’s found the Services. The grants pay basic utilities and specific demographic. The Healing Place solution. Lazzari, director of The Stable subsidize rent for an apartment, based on the is a shelter only for men, while AAHS only Foundation, says the nonprofit’s three-pronged displaced family’s income. A partnering social shelters women and children. Which is why approach addresses not just the issue of service agency, such as Advantage or The Lazzari has put so much faith in The Stable homelessness, but also the underlying causes Stable Foundation, provides a case worker to Foundation’s plan to keep people in their own that get people or families into that situahelp the family set up a plan to get back on homes, followed up with counseling and comtion. Using a model called “Housing First,� the track, financially and otherwise. munity support: it’s a less expensive solution. foundation works with people on the verge of But what makes The Stable Foundation Since 2008, the foundation has helped 25 being evicted to help them keep their homes, different is the involvement of community families and 80 individuals retain roofs over with the idea that once their heads, at an averyou lose a permanent age cost of $10.50 per place to live, going to night. Lazzari noted the work or school—or even $7.9 million, earmarked eating a meal—becomes to a coalition of local increasingly difficult. homeless groups to “We’re changing build a “one-stop shop� the focus to prevenfor homeless services, tion, working with that came from the families with an eviction University of Georgia notice,� said Lazzari. in exchange for the “With as little as $1,000 former U.S. Navy Supply or $1,500, a lot of these Corps School campus, families can be selfwhich the university is sufficient.� using for a new health The issue of homesciences campus. For a lessness is complex. fraction of that cost, Erin Barger, execuhe said, The Stable tive director of Action Foundation could find Ministries and chair of housing in the comthe Northeast Georgia munity for 100 families Homeless and Poverty a year and keep money Vance Snow cooks sausage on a recent Friday morning at Action Ministries’ Our Daily Bread kitchen. Coalition, said she tries flowing into the existing to look at the issue form The kitchen provides breakfast and lunch during the week to anyone in need of a hot meal and relies on local economy, rather volunteers like Snow to help cook the food. the standpoint of a phithan using it to build lanthropist who wants another building. to tackle the problem with as many resources in its mission. Hundreds of volunteers make A typical family in The Stable Foundation’s as possible. phone calls or drop by to visit the families program transitions out of subsidized housing “Providing shelter is very important,� she in the program, simply checking up on them, after six months. “For $700,000, you can pay said, “but I think some people are interested getting to know them and making sure the rent for 100 families—it’s about $7,000 a year in addressing the bigger picture, trying to families know they are valued members of our [per family], fully subsidized,� he said, noting move them out of homelessness. That needs to community. the even higher cost of incarceration or hospihappen in a really comprehensive way.� With “When people face homelessness condital stays as a result of living on the streets. Action Ministries’ Our Daily Bread program, tions, they become untethered. If one of Lazzari said the foundation is putting which provides two meals a day for anyone those pieces isn’t there, change happens really together a cost-benefit analysis of the amount short on food and cash, “I see people who are quick,� said Lazzari, noting that once you’re individuals without a consistent home cost homeless and experience poverty every day, evicted, it’s more likely you’ll be late to work the local government in terms of health care, and I see being homeless is a part-time job,� or even lose your job because you’ve lost that emergency services and incarceration. Within she said. “So, to expect someone who doesn’t foundation. “We saw the Housing First model the next few months, he plans to present know where they’re sleeping at night to go out and said, ‘We can bring more to this.’� the results of the study to the Mayor and and find a job is not a realistic expectation.� Kerri Steele, the program director at the Commission, along with his foundation’s proFrom 2011 to 2012, according to AthensAthens Area Homeless Shelter, smiled knowposed solution. Ideally, he said, the county Clarke County statistics, the number of homeingly when asked about the Housing First would be on board with dedicating resources less individuals—including children—without model. At AAHS, the mothers and their chilto keeping families—and an estimated 330 a reliable place to live has decreased, from dren who are housed there follow a strict set children—in permanent homes rather than 407 to 361. And when you take into account of rules and a personalized action plan to get looking for room in shelters. two shelters—Walk on Water and Bigger back to independent living. Sometimes it’s a “You still have people who need intervenVision—that together housed nearly 100 matter of refocusing monetary priorities—no tion, but there’s proactive solutions that can people on any given night but have not been buying designer jeans, for example—while solve this problem today,� he said. “We’d like open this year, 2012’s lower number is even other times, a resident needs job training or to fix it and not be here in four years.� more significant, said Evan Mills, community child care in order to get her family back on development specialist with ACC’s Human and its feet. Kristen Morales
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adds, “We had some kids here the other day who didn’t have boards or anything, they just wanted to fight us. We told them to get out. That’s not part of the family. That’s not part of the park if you want to do that. That’s not how we do things around here.”
It’s How They Roll Thirteen-year-old Eleaza Rodriguez’s fellow SPOA skaters compare his natural skill on the board to another SPOA skater, 13-year-old Kaden Campbell, whom many consider a young Tony Hawk. According to B.B., Rodriguez “has only been skateboarding a year, but he’s already better than me.”
and he said it’s amazing, but you need more street.” Case in point, Tyner returned to the skate park one evening after being thrown off the UGA campus for skating a ledge. “Everyone was in class. There was no one walking around, no chance of anyone getting hurt,” he says. “Then they tell us we can go downtown and skate, and we get caught there, too. There’s nowhere to skate in town. And our street spots are all gone, so we have a bunch of ramps to skate, but no stair sets. Because there are so many different types of skaters and so many different personalities and styles, one amount of ramps can’t support everybody. SPOA has a ton of variety, but it’s basically around tranny [transition] skaters, and that
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even years ago, a group of skateboarders, tired of having nowhere in Athens to practice their sport, got organized. They made a plan, took it to the city, put together over a quarter of a million dollars, and built the Skate Park of Athens at Southeast Clarke Park. More than just a place for skateboarders of all ages to cruise the concrete, SPOA gives back to the city, from keeping kids off the street, both literally and figuratively, to garnering national attention, like the young Athenian whose championship career may take her to the Olympics. This summer, SPOA’s hitting the streets again with celebratory events that everyone, even people who wouldn’t dream of jumping on a skateboard, can take part in to raise money for Phase 2. “The park is seven years old. It’s in need of a little love and repair,” says Jason Thrasher, a first-generation street skater, current transition skater and local photographer, who was the point person for the building of Phase 1. “Also, we lost a beloved skater, Ian Brussack, last year to a tragic accident that was not skate-related. We decided right away to raise money for an addition or memorial to celebrate something he loved doing.” The words “love” and “repair” are as much of the park’s vocabulary as “rad” and “gnarly.” The skaters and their friends share a sense of community and continually look out for one other. “Skateboarding brought me back to life,” says 23-year-old Brandon Barnett—but everyone at the park calls him B.B. “I always wanted to skate, but, y’know, growing up in the ‘hood…” B.B. once saw three kids walking out of a skate shop and asked them about skateboarding. They told him about SPOA and taught him everything he needed to know about the sport. “It kept me staying out of trouble. I don’t know where I’d be right now if I didn’t have skateboarding.” Now B.B.’s paying it forward to other skateboarders and their friends by making sure they have a safe place to skate, ride bikes or just hang out by hosting gatherings every weekend at the park. “We’re just a family. It really is just one big family,” says 16-year-old Harrison Tyner, a student from Madison County High School who first heard about the park from his mother. He comes to the park four or five times a week after a 15-minute drive. “I come out here to skate, but these are also some of my closest friends because I know them so well. It’s a whole different experience. People say it’s not an organized sport, but I think it’s very organized. We all play as a team, pretty much. I’ve been coming out here three years now. When I got my first skateboard, everyone was completely nice. Everyone helped me with everything.” He
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And then there’s 15-year-old Lindsea Lumpkin, a national snowboarder and six-time USASA National Champion—twice in slopestyle, twice in halfpipe, once in giant slalom and once in boardercross—who calls SPOA “a super fun park with a great learning vibe.” “I watched her start her skate career at SPOA the year it opened. That was about the time the Tony Hawk Wasteland Tour stopped here,” says her father, Tommy Lumpkin. “Since then, she’s been on the podium 20 of 34 attempts at Nationals.” She is also invited to train with the U.S. Development Team in snowboarding for the fourth consecutive year this year with an eye on the 2018 Winter Olympics. As with Lindsea, the skill level of the current SPOA skaters has grown, along with its population, and the park needs to expand. “If it were up to me, I’d just build more bowls, more transitions, more pools, more stuff that they can all skate when they get older,” says Thrasher. “But this phase needs to be more street. Tony Hawk was here, and I asked him what he thought of the park,
just doesn’t give all the needs to people who want to jump down stair sets or grind rails. For Phase 2, I’ve heard a bunch of different ideas that just sound amazing, that would add so much to this park for all the locals here.” Concerning additions, Thrasher says: “I do have a pretty clear idea of one thing we want to do that’s cool [which] is a replica of the China Banks from Chinatown in San Francisco that’s a really famous bank wall with sets of benches built into it out of bricks. We’re selling bricks to individuals for $50 and to businesses for $100, where we’ll have your name put on a brick, so the bricks we sell will actually be built into the skate structure as a replica of this famous skate spot. So, I think that’s kinda cool. It all depends on how much money we raise.”
SPOA Events With “The Endless Summer of SPOA,” Thrasher and the SPOA team are working up a series of fundraising events and
opportunities that will run all the way into October. Different venues in town, including Farm 255, the 40 Watt Club and the Georgia Theatre, will host a variety of shows, including performances by Dead Confederate, Twin Tigers, Brothers, SheHeHe and Grass Giraffes. Currently at Ciné through July 25 is “Concrete Culture,” a photography exhibit by Bob Brussack, Chad Osburn, Kent Pierson, Porter McLeod, Ian McFarlane and Thrasher. Those photographs will be available for purchase. Additional items for sale at the events include t-shirts and the personalized bricks. The biggest event in September will be “The Board Room,” an auction of decorated skateboard decks and one of Phase 1’s most popular fundraisers, returning with even more entries for Phase 2. Over 50 local artists, including Lou Kregel, Dan Smith, Michael Lachowski, Nina Barnes and James Barsness, have painted, carved and reconstructed skate decks that are currently on display at Hotel Indigo until they’re auctioned off the walls on Sept. 9. See Art Notes. The Phase 1 skateboard auction raised $17,000 in a riotous evening of fun bidding. Then comes the big finale weekend beginning Oct. 5, with a rock show at Hotel Indigo, followed on Oct. 6 with a huge show at the park itself. “The city is bringing out the big AthFest stage for a rock festival at the skate park. We hope to have skateboard and BMX pros in town and an all-star rock show,” says Thrasher. As soon as the budget is set and the plans are approved, construction will begin and Phase 2 will be complete as soon as possible. “This was the first concrete skate park in the state of Georgia, and the first really good one in the South outside of Florida,” says Thrasher. “It’s twice as big as it should have been for our dollar price. The guys who built this, Grindline, got here and just loved Athens, and the city took care of them. We treated them right, and they showed up and gave us one of the best parks in the world. We now have this great advantage with some local people who built the Atlanta park with the same Grindline crew that built SPOA. So, we have some people in Atlanta that grew up skating this park who want to come over and help us expand it.” “We’re looking for a new generation of skaters,” says Tyner. “We encourage every kid to come out here and skate.” “Men, women, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, whatever… all that good stuff,” adds B.B. “The more the merrier.” Marilyn Estes For more info on The Endless Summer of SPOA events, check the Skate Park of Athens Facebook page.
The Board Room Local artist Didi Dunphy has launched into her new role as curator of the Gallery@Hotel Indigo’s gleaming art space with considerable aplomb. Her previous exhibitions, “DRAWN: From Athens” and “The Flower Show,” clearly illuminated Dunphy’s willingness to draw exclusively and expertly from the talent immediately surrounding her. “DRAWN: From Athens,” a lively, kaleidoscopic group show examining the medium itself, paired old mainstays like Art Rosenbaum and Jim Barsness with younger artists like Jaime Bull and Jessica Wohl. (An expanded version of this show is currently on display at the Hudgens Center for the Arts just outside of Atlanta.) “The Flower Show” took an equally diverse approach towards its notoriously played subject matter with truly exciting results: Ranging from the boldly graphic to the obsessively manipulated, the austere, the baroque and everything in between, the exhibition made plain that Dunphy was in her element at Indigo. However, Dunphy’s current curatorial effort, “The Board Room,” is her most ambitious to date by far.
times for this very column. Jennifer Hartley’s trademark blend of quirky figuration and local narrative comes together to create a deck honoring the late Fred Birchmore, centenarian athlete-extraordinaire and legendary aroundthe-world cyclist. True to form, Hartley’s work neatly evokes her subject’s likeness, but more compellingly portrays her subject’s presence: an optimistic, youthful-looking Birchmore poses like a boxer and invites his audience to put up their dukes. Furniture designer and builder Jay Nackashi mosaics together the cast-offs and excesses from what I imagine to be a busy woodshop in order to create an abstract skate deck composed of rectilinear shapes—maybe not too terribly functional, but damn if it doesn’t look great. Several artists deviate from the functional aspect of their forms entirely, using the deck itself as a launching point towards inventive sculptural creations. Donald Cope brings his impressive metalworking skills to the project, crafting a minimalist chair around the deck, which itself becomes the seat. Local whiz kid Ted Kuhn, whose recent performance pieces Sarah Gutierrez
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The designs of 56 local artists on raw skateboard decks comprise “The Board Room” exhibition at the Gallery@ Hotel Indigo through Sept. 9. See cover. With a roster of 56 Athens-based artists, “The Board Room” could easily fall apart through lack of cohesion; fortunately, it’s the form of the work itself that ties the whole thing together. Several months ago, Dunphy distributed blank wooden skate decks to participating artists, asking each to transfer whatever his/her practice is (painting, tattoos, ceramics, furniture, photography, etc.) onto a handmade skateboard. The results are surprising: despite the unity of form, the variety of vision here is vast. Many of the artists’ decks will be immediately recognizable to anyone who’s only marginally familiar with the Athens art scene, although, in a show this large, it goes without saying that there will be many surprises. I found myself marveling at the transition so many of the artists were able to make between their normative modes of working and the unfamiliar territory of skateboard art—marveling, that is, at the success of the leap. The lyrical abstract paintings of Erin McIntosh shift perfectly, matching soft geometry and saturated color with the rounded edges of the deck itself. McIntosh’s mark-making and forms take on a distinctly urban feel when placed upon this ground—an association that I’ve never before made, despite having scrutinized her work numerous
and installations show a rigorous mind in the early stages of unfolding, balances a pair of metronomes on either side of his piece, directly referencing the balance and timing necessary in skating. Across the room, an image of blood, photographed at a microscopic level, spreads over Kathryn Refi’s deck; it’s hard not to immediately associate the piece with injury. Towards the back, Graham Bradford and Chris Parry, two Athens-based tattoo artists, bring their considerable talents to the show. Bradford’s work showcases his elegant wood-stain painting technique, while Parry’s conjures the Grim Reaper. This is all great stuff; so great in fact, it may be easy to sidestep the fact that “The Board Room” is actually a fundraiser for our own SPOA. Sept. 9 marks the closing of the exhibition, when every piece will be auctioned off to raise money for the park. I’m consistently impressed with the level of commitment Athens artists show towards these types of causes—so impressed, I might have to take home a couple myself. “The Board Room” is on view in the gallery at Hotel Indigo, which is available for viewing 24 hours a day. Visit www.indigoathens.com/ theboardroom.html for additional details. Brian Hitselberger
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movie dope Some releases may not be showing locally this week. • indicates new review • ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (R) The historically playful Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter gets most things right until it whiffs on a tremendously silly climax that involves the 16th president personally overseeing a secret mission to save the Union Army at Gettysburg. Unfortunately, Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of the book upon which AL:VH is based, is proving far less resourceful as a screenwriter than as a historical revisionist (see Dark Shadows). A quick perusal of the book’s plot reveals a much more believable retelling of the Lincoln mythology; the movie not so much. Requiring fewer leaps of stylistic logic than director Timur Bekmambetov’s last movie, Wanted, the Russian helmer of Nightwatch/Daywatch still throws in a smattering of ridiculously unrealistic fight choreography. Little-known Benjamin Walker, who resembles a young Liam Neeson, acquits himself adequately as Lincoln. No other performance—all villainous vamps and useless sidekicks—matters. Had Grahame-Smith stuck more closely to his novel, AL:VH might have worked better. The key to historical revisionism is to hew as closely to the truth as possible. Then again, some whimsies— say, a stovepipe-hatted president fighting vampires on a train—might be better off left on the page as they look far too ridiculous in the cinematic light. ANNIE (PG) 1982. The classic musical starring Aileen Quinn is part of Ciné’s Classic Kids Series. Little Orphan Annie sings and schemes her way out of an orphanage and away from its drunken house mother, Miss Hannigan, in search of her real parents, befriending a shaggy dog and a generous millionaire along the way. With Albert Finney and Carol Burnett. THE AVENGERS (PG-13) The various Avengers—Robert Downey, Jr.’s Iron Man, Chris Evans’ Captain America, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, another new Hulk (this time Mark Ruffalo gets to unleash the beast) and the rest—have assembled, and together they are a blast. But before they can battle Thor’s mischievous brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who is intent on enslaving the world with his other-dimensional army, Earth’s mightiest heroes have to sort out a few things among themselves. Joss Whedon and Zak Penn capture the bickering essence of a super-group. Every single one of these heroes benefits from Whedon’s trademark snappy banter and his way with ensembles. The Avengers lives up to all the hype and expectation. BATTLESHIP (PG-13) For a giant, dumb summer movie that could only be called Bay-esque, Battleship doesn’t sink itself. Earth gets more than it bargained for after scientists send signals into space in an attempt to add some extraterrestrial Facebook friends. The ETs that answer are not friendly, answering with massive Transformer-y ships and personality-less shock troopers. Fortunately, Earth has Taylor Kitsch, Landry from “Friday Night Lights,” Rihanna and Brooklyn Decker to fight the giant peg-bomb launching invaders. BERNIE (PG-13) Richard Linklater’s latest film stars Jack Black as Bernie Tiede, a local Texas mortician who
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strikes up an unlikely friendship with wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine). When Bernie kills Marjorie, the model citizen (choir member, Sunday School teacher, all around helping hand) goes out of his way to make the townspeople believe she is still alive. Sound like another Bernie you know? I find certain Linklater comedies to require a specific sense of humor; we’ll have to see if Bernie is one of those films. With Matthew McConaughey. THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG-13) No better Avengers counterprogramming could exist than this British dramedy starring Oscar winner Dame Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Oscar winner Maggie Smith and Oscar winner Tom Wilkinson and directed by Shakespeare in Love Oscar nominee John Madden. A bevy of Brits travel to the subcontinent to stay at the posh, newly renovated Marigold Hotel, but the adverts prove misleading. Still, the hotel does begin to charm its English patrons. Based on the novel by Deborah Moggach. • BRAVE (PG) A good, not great, Pixar film, Brave strays into traditional Disney territory after a tremendously magical first act. Headstrong Scottish Princess Merida (wonderfully voiced by the lovely Kelly Macdonald) wants to choose her own destiny. She does not want to marry the first-born of one of the clans allied with her father, the Bear King, Fergus (v. Billy Connolly), but her mother, Queen Elinor (v. Emma Thompson), will hear none of her complaints. In typical stubborn teenage fashion, Merida short-sightedly asks a wood-carving witch (v. Julie Walters) for a spell to change her mother. The aftermath of the spell leads to some heartwarming and charming derring-do, but the sitcom-ish mix-up is a bit stock for what we’ve come to expect from the studio that gave us Wall-E and Up, two animated features that transcended their cartoonish origins. Still, Brave is leaps and bounds more impressive than Cars 2 and would have fit nicely in the Disney Renaissance of the 1990s. THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (R) Horror movies do not come much more perfect than The Cabin in the Woods, written by geek god Joss Whedon and one of his strongest protégés, Drew Goddard. A sublime tweaking of the entire slasher genre, Cabin’s deconstruction may be less meta than Scream, but its elaborate mythology—a staple of the Whedonverse—is transferable and adds a brand new reading to nearly every modern horror film. Five college friends (the most familiar face is the beardless one of Chris “Thor” Hemsworth, who can be seen in Whedon’s The Avengers) take a weekend trip to the woods that ends in a bloodbath. DARK SHADOWS (PG-13) Having tried but never quite sunk my teeth into both previous versions of Dan Curtis’ gothic soap opera, I had few preconceptions going into Tim Burton/Johnny Depp’s high-concept reimagining. Sadly, the duo merely delivered a pretty-looking, rather dull oddity. (Burton’s output has become increasingly missand-hit.) Tossing much of the soap’s suds and upping the camp, the big
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screen Dark Shadows still involves many of the series’ major players: vampire Barnabas Collins (Depp), Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer), Dr. Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), Angelique (Eva Green), Willie Loomis (Jackie Earle Haley), Victoria Winters (Bella Heathcote) and Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Grace Moretz). That list of names will mean little to the scores of uninitiated young Burton/ Depp fans looking for another Alice in Wonderland, which this horror comedy most certainly is not. DINER (R) 1982. Rain Man Oscar winner Barry Levinson announced his writing-directing presence in a big way, and received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, with this nostalgic look at impending adulthood in 1959 Baltimore. The cast of potential stars—Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Daniel Stern, Tim Daly, Paul Reiser and Ellen Barkin— may have dimmed, but the film itself has not. Part of the GMOA’s Summer Film Series, held in conjunction with the exhibit, “John Baeder.”
(Riley Thomas Stewart), and runs afoul of her ex/Ben’s dad (Jay R. Ferguson, who excels at clueless d-bags), a deputy sheriff and son of big-time local judge/prospective mayor. The war scenes are thankfully short, making me wonder how much worse they could have been on the page, and director Scott Hicks (some fine films like Shine and Snow Falling on Cedars) illustrates this romance with some gorgeous, magazine spread cinematography (word to Alar Kivilo, whose work to date has never betrayed this artistic an eye). Will love conquer all or is this another one of Sparks’ tearjerkers? Only 141 minutes of your life stand between you and the answer. MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (PG) By now, franchise fans know what to expect from the adventures of Alex the lion (v. Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (v. Chris Rock), Melman the giraffe (v. David Schwimmer) and Gloria the hippo (v. Jada Pinkett Smith). These four former denizens of the New York Zoo team up again with those wacky penguins and
Who you callin’ a Care Bear, mofo? DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (PG) Released on Dr. Seuss’ 108th birthday, this pleasant animated adaptation of the beloved children’s author’s environmental fable fails to utterly charm like the filmmakers’ previous animated smash, Despicable Me. The Lorax may visually stun you, and Danny DeVito’s brief time as voice of the Lorax could stand as his greatest role, one that will go unrecognized by any professional awards outside of the Annies. HYSTERIA (R) (NR) Maggie Gyllenhaal stars in this period sex comedy about the invention of the vibrator by Dr. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy, last seen in Our Idiot Brother and Martha Marcy May Marlene). Joining Maggie G and Dancy are Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones (Like Crazy), Rupert Everett and Ashley Jensen. Hysteria may be the third movie from director Tanya Wexler (Ball in the House and Finding North), but it’s the first one to get a wide release. THE LUCKY ONE (PG-13) The Notebook it is not, but The Lucky One will not disappoint Nicholas Sparks’ fans looking for some sappy romance and a shirtless Zac Efron. A Marine named Logan (Efron) survives several incidents after finding a picture of a woman. When he returns to the states, he seeks out this woman, whom he learns is named Beth (Taylor Schilling, still recovering from Atlas Shrugged: Part I) to thank her for saving his life. But things get complicated when he falls for her and her young son, Ben
some nutty Lemurs (voiced by Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer and Andy Richter) in an aborted attempt to return home. This time, the gang is waylaid in Europe by a circus featuring animals voiced by Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad” season five cannot get here fast enough), Jessica Chastain and the reliably funny yet equally annoying Martin Short. But a crazed French animal control officer, Captain Chantel Dubois (v. Frances McDormand), is hot on the animals’ trail. No one should be coming into Madagascar 3 blind. This third entry proffers more cute fun in a long first act chase than either of its predecessors, and that’s before any of the appealing new characters are introduced. Madagascar 3 should keep the kiddies happy until Pixar’s Brave on June 22. MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION (PG-13) Tyler Perry has needlessly overplotted his latest Madea pic. According to the jam-packed logline, an investment banker is relocated to Madea’s house. Just the idea of Eugene Levy interacting with Perry’s Madea is entertaining. Toss Denise Richards, Tom Arnold and Doris Roberts into the mix, and you have the most exoticsounding Madea movie yet. It might not be good, but the curiosity quotient has been raised. As usual, TP writes, directs and stars as Madea, Joe and Brian. MAGIC MIKE (R) A stripper comedy, starring Channing Tatum, upon whose pre-star life the story is based, and
directed by Steven Soderbergh, who already directed Tatum once this year (Haywire)? You’ve got my attention. This flick sounds like interesting counterprogramming to the summer’s superhero jams. With Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four and Beastly), Matthew McConaughey, Olivia Munn, Wendi McLendon-Covey (the “Reno: 911!” alum who made an impression in Bridesmaids) and Mircea Monroe (Showtime’s underrated Matt LeBlanc vehicle, “Episodes”). MARLEY (PG-13) Academy Award winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (the award winning docs One Day in September and Touching the Void, as well as the award winning feature The Last King of Scotland) documents the life, music and legend of Bob Marley. The feature documentary makes use of rare footage, live performances and interviews with the family, friends and Wailers that knew Marley best. A can’t miss for Marley fans. Part of the Athfest Filmfest 2012 Rock Docs series. MEN IN BLACK III (PG-13) Confession time: I never saw Men in Black II. I’m OK with that oversight. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones reprise their roles as Agent J and Agent K. Apparently, Smith’s J time travels back to 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his partner, whose younger version is played by Josh Brolin. Director Barry Sonnenfeld returns and could really use a hit. With Alice Eve, Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson and Bill Hader as Andy Warhol. MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Not much clicks in 2012’s first reimaging of Snow White (the darker Snow White and the Huntsman is out now). Julia Roberts does not an Evil Queen make; the anachronistic dialogue is wincingly unfunny and the live action cartoon, overflowing with Stooge-y slapstick, is a tonal decision only pleasing to undiscriminating children, many of whom found Mirror Mirror to be rousingly delightful. It’s not. PROJECT X (R) As a responsible adult, I lament how this teen comedy, produced by The Hangover’s Todd Phillips, condones the Internet era’s hedonism as teenage rite of passage. Three unpopular high schoolers (Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper and Jonathan Daniel Brown) throw a party so wild (sex, drugs, alcohol, fire, a midget; it’s like the boys go to Bret Easton Ellis High) that not even the cops can stop it, a conceit that play rights into teenagers’ already overinflated egos. As a former teenager, I wish I’d been invited. The appeal of Project X truly depends on the perspective—adult or teen—from which you view it as the party supplies few surprising acts of debauchery. It does add a novel running gag about two overzealous, overmatched teen security guards. Their misadventures had a sense of freshness from which the rest of this slightly tired party flick could have benefited. PROMETHEUS (R) A beyond competent, philosophical science fiction film, director Ridley Scott’s return to the Alien universe he helped create in 1979 is good without ever fulfilling its promise to be great. Prometheus, co-written by “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof, is so fueled by mystery that you may want to avoid the Internet and this review until you’ve seen it. Even with series tropes like androids,
corporate shenanigans and body horror, Prometheus is not quite the Alien prequel fans may be expecting/hoping for, but the feature is one of the most thought-provoking, recent science fiction films released by a major studio. THE RAVEN (R) American acting institution John Cusack stars as American literary institution Edgar Allan Poe in this fictionalized version of the poet’s final days, spent hunting a serial killer that is recreating the deaths from Poe’s own stories. V for Vendetta director James McTeigue helms this entertaining sounding historical thriller. Ironically, this Poe flick is cowritten by a woman with the last name Shakespeare. With Alice Eve (She’s Out of My League), Luke Evans and Brendan Gleeson. ROCK OF AGES (PG-13) Warning: Anyone with a keen knowledge of rock and roll from 1977–1987 will be endlessly sidetracked by this popular jukebox musical’s utter disregard for the chronological progression of the period’s rock music. Early ‘80s Journey hits are supposedly written in 1987; Guns N’ Roses favorites were popularized in the era of KISS’ “Alive II”; songs from 1989 are included as diegetic music. Yet the musicological stupidity matters little when Tom Cruise takes the stage as Stacie Jaxx, an Axl Rose-ian fallen rock god. Cruise inhabits the insular American idol, generously giving him unexpected extra-dimensionality, and the star can belt out the hits to boot. Even with the stage musical’s rough edges and rougher characters (Jaxx in particular) worn down and its lack of nudity (or hard drugs), Rock of Ages could still have earned an R rating for thematic elements alone; one wonders if the MPAA does more than look for nipples and listen for f-bombs. • SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (R) A preapocalyptic, blackly comic romance starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley does not quite scream summer movie, but the directorial debut of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist scripter Lorene Scafaria could possibly turn out to be summer 2012’s overlooked gem. While an asteroid careens fatally toward the planet, Dodge (Carell, who continues to show above average instincts when it comes to picking projects), whose wife has recently and suddenly deserted him, and Penny (Knightley), freshly broken up with yet another boyfriend (Adam Brody), escape the riot-filled city on a mission to reunite Dodge with his high school sweetheart. On their road trip, this unlikely duo meets some odd cats played by familiar television pals. This rambling, romantic travelogue is more comfortable quietly musing about the end of the world amid interludes of subtle comedy than one would expect from a summer romcom. Its final destination is near impossible to predict, and getting to that unmarked end is both sadly romantic and redemptively full of life. However, like NBC’s quirky, unfairly underwatched Thursday night offerings, “Community” and “Parks and Rec,” what Seeking a Friend… might really be looking for is a paying audience. SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (PG-13) 2012’s second Snow White movie (she’s also a television star on ABC’s “Once Upon a Time”) tweaks the fairy tale with the pale beauty (Kristen Stewart, Twilight) and the huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, Thor), sent by Charlize Theron’s Evil Queen to kill her, instead teaming up to overthrow her majesty. Director Rupert Sanders is an unknown entity. Written by Drive’s Hossein Amini. m TED (R) A grown man (Mark Wahlberg) has a childhood wish come true when his teddy bear comes to life. This comedy comes from “Family Guy” impresario Seth MacFarlane,
who is making his big-screen debut. Will film MacFarlane be the same as TV’s MacFarlane? I guess we’ll find out. Expect lots of family guy regulars and MacFarlane pals like Mila Kunis, Giovanni Ribisi, Patrick Warburton, Laura Vandervoort (“Smallville”’s Supergirl) and Joel McHale (who deserves a starring role in something). • THAT’S MY BOY (R) Is That’s My Boy, Adam Sandler’s latest cinematic atrocity, as bad as the trailer lets on? It’s worse, but in a can’t look away from the accident sort of way that leads a viewer to keep watching until the end, imagining and finally hoping that it doesn’t get any worse. Sandler completely reverts to “SNL”-level character creation as Donny Berger, a guy who ascended to the top of the pop cultural slide after banging (a bit of sexual slang that has never fit better) his hot middle school teacher (Eva Amurri Martino) and getting her pregnant. Now all grown up and flat broke, Donny
hopes to hook up to its rising star of a son, Todd (Andy Samberg), and get the money he needs. But Todd wants little to do with his “young” man, what with his impending nuptials to pretty, uptight Jamie (Leighton Meester). Expect the expected, but don’t expect to laugh. Every rude, crude, R-rated joke you can imagine Sandler and crew (Allen Covert, Nick Swardson, etc.) had saved up over the years is included. A gross-out comedy in which no one appears to be trying, That’s My Boy might not be the year’s worst, but it’s close. THINK LIKE A MAN (PG-13) Anything I wanted to like about Think Like a Man is tainted by the casual homophobia, sexism and racism the movie attempts to pass off as comedy, and that’s a shame for the hilarious Kevin Hart, who is finally, smartly given a showcase role. Based on Steve Harvey’s romantic self-help tome, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man,
the movie, written by the scripters of Friends with Benefits, sometimes feels like a late night infomercial for Harvey’s patented way to win a man. We have six unbelievably mismatched buddies— Hart’s divorced dude, Romany Malco’s “playa,” Michael Ealy’s “dreamer,” Jerry “Turtle” Ferrara’s noncommittal white dude, Terrence J’s “mama’s boy” and some other white married guy—and the women (Gabrielle Union, Taraji P. Henson, Meagan Good and Regina Hall) who want them to settle down. Begin the chapter scenarios. Woody Allen attempted something like this to funnier results when he adapted Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex; a more relevant and even less successful adaptation would be 2009’s He’s Just Not That Into You. If you really want to take romantic advice from Steve Harvey, filtered through Turtle, it’s your love life. Drew Wheeler
movie pick Natural Mystic MARLEY (PG-13) Calling Bob Marley simply a reggae musician is like calling The Beatles a boy band. When he died of cancer in 1981 at the age of 36, Marley was immensely popular around the world. His albums with his band The Wailers, like Catch a Fire, Burnin’ and Exodus, were huge successes, and he helped popularize the Rastafari movement through his songs and image. He was from the Third World, and his music addressed the struggles of the poor and disenfranchised. It’s probably safe to say that Mitt Romney isn’t down with Bob. Directed by filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, State of Play), Marley is the first official documentary on
aggressively dismantle the man’s mystique, but he doesn’t serve up a hagiography either. We learn about young Marley’s life growing up in the Jamaican countryside. Marley’s father, a rich white Jamaican of English stock, was never in his life. At the age of 12, Marley moved to Kingston with his mother and they lived in the Trenchtown slum, where gangsters, musicians and the country’s soccer players came from. Marley never forgot his roots, and even when he moved to his posh Hope Road residence he was always in contact with Trenchtown. The movie’s most gripping moments, however, focus on Marley’s role as a social voice
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and how the country’s political factions tried to exploit his influence for their gain. Jamaica in the 1970s was violent, and Marley was not immune from it. In 1976, unknown assailants shot him, his wife and his manager at Hope Road two days before a free concert. More violence followed him during his first trip to Africa, and the footage of a show in Zimbabwe is stunning and moving. It would’ve been nice to have songs played in their entirety, but there are enough great clips to satisfy. Derek Hill
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Hello, people. I hope everyone enjoyed their AthFest weekend and associated activities. While you’re re-hydrating and treating your sunburns, it’d probably be a good idea to catch up on the ongoing scene by catching some shade and reading this page. I made it just for you. So, look below for the haps… Welcome Aboard: This week marks a changing of the guard here at the ol’ Flagpole music department, and I’d like to take a moment to welcome Gabe Vodicka aboard as our new music editor. He first came to Athens in the middle of the last decade, played in several bands—including Long Legged Woman and Erutrevo—and then moved away. Now, he’s back and at the helm of everything you’ll experience in the music section. He’s a heck of a good guy and thoroughly knowledgeable. I’ve been happy to know him as a friend in the past and am glad to welcome him as a new colleague. He can be contacted directly via music@flagpole.com. And Thanks for Everything: After the above paragraph, it’d only be appropriate to say a hearty thanks to exiting Music Editor Michelle Gilzenrat Davis. She’s leaving this position to begin law school at UGA in the fall, so she’ll still be around town. Hopefully, everyone will get hip to this and make a mental note not to file verbal complaints with her—see above paragraph—when she has a rare moment to
Upper Cuts: Two tracks from the new, upcoming full-length album by experimental hardcore proprietors Muuy Biien are available over at www.muuybiien.bandcamp.com. I mean “experimental” in the best sense of the term. That is, pushing the boundaries of a form, not simply wanking around, flexing supposed dexterity. It’s titled This Is What Your Mind Imagines, and the two songs available (“Uncle Tony” and “Fallin’ Out [Reprise]”) are a nice aural apéritif. Get yourself together and go listen to them.
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Two Sides of the Same Coin: Band of stars Supercluster released a new single last week. The A-side (“Things We Used to Drink”) features vocals by member Kay Stanton (Casper & the Cookies), and the flip side (“Memory of the Future”) has vocals by Hannah Jones (New Sound of Numbers). The melodies for each were created by Vanessa Briscoe Hay and fleshed out by the entire band. The 45 RPM, 7-inch vinyl record has national distribution behind it, so you should be able to grab it easily at your favorite record store. You do still have a favorite record store, don’t you? Well, you should.
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Sweep Out the Ashes: Athens musician William Chamberlain has shut the door on his threeyear-running band Vestibules. The band played its final show last week at the Flicker Theatre & Bar during AthFest. If you’d like to
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Supercluster go outside in between hitting the books. She’s been fabulous to work with, and I can’t sing her praises highly enough. Good luck, Michelle! Grandpa Would: The debut album from The Welfare Liners is due out Sept. 18. The oldtime group recorded the album, High on a Hilltop, at member Russ Hallauer’s Ghostmeat Studio in Watkinsville, and the album will come out on Hallauer’s Ghostmeat Records label. The album’s mastering was handled by Andy LeMaster at Chase Park Transduction. You can download a song (“That’s What She Said”) from the record over at www.thewelfareliners.com. That’s also where you should check for information on the band’s rumored Kickstarter campaign, which I’ve been told about but could not find hide nor hair of as of press time.
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pick over their bones, just visit www.reverbnation.com/vestibules for their songs, photos, etc. Fangs for the Memories: Careful listeners might have noticed a bit of Athens in the season premiere of HBOs True Blood. Local songwriter Ken Will Morton had his song “Devil In Me,” from his 2008 album of the same name, appear in the episode. I haven’t personally seen the episode in question, so I can’t tell you when it appears, so you’re on your own there. For ongoing information concerning Morton and his happenings, see www.kenwillmorton.com. You can also fill your home or office all the live long day with streaming Morton tunes courtesy of www.kenwillmortonmusic.bandcamp.com. Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com
he phrase “power imbalance” means nothing to Street Eaters. The Berkeley, CA-based power duo of John No and Megan March organize their creative work as a complete collaboration. No’s chainsaw bass guitar and March’s sparkplug drumming find time to shine while making equal space for one another. And there is not a single song on their most recent full-length, Rusty Eyes and Hydrocarbons, that doesn’t include both musicians hollering, harmonizing and generally making a tightly knit lattice of their voices. After forming four years ago and releasing a slew of 7-inches, the pair have figured out how to work their partnership as two lockstep elements forming one solid unit. Flagpole reached Street Eaters at the outset of a short tour; they’re used to being out on the road for five or six weeks at a time. When asked how the four years of steady touring have improved the nature of their collaboration, March immediately offers: “I think we’re a lot less shy.” Her bandmate, No (speaking to Flagpole alongside March on speakerphone), agrees. “I don’t think there’s any self-consciousness about it anymore; this is kind of what we do. We put a lot of time and energy into it. With the whole picture—the music, the lyrics, the art, we do all the video work ourselves—it’s very strongly in-house. It’s all more and more along those lines.” While two musicians working together on their music isn’t rare, the complete collaboration on lyrics is far less common. (And as anyone who witnessed the brainstorming sessions featured in the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster would agree, this method rarely garners much in the way of quality results.) As the duo met 10 years ago as volunteers at 924 Gilman St. in Berkeley, the DIY space that fostered countless punk bands, Street Eaters work hard to keep their lyrics socially relevant as well as personally resonant. And as anyone who’s spent innumerable hours arguing over coffee (or 40s) will
attest, finding common ground can be hard even when it isn’t being set to music. “It’s actually really personal, in the sense that one of us will come up with an idea for a song and we may have different takes on what that means,” says March. “It’s interesting to put the two different ideas together and hash it out. It’s really liberating, actually, to write with someone else.” “Part of it… is that we also spend most of our waking hours together and we have lots of conversations and a lot of emotional discussions—discussions of all kinds,” says No. “The discussions can produce thoughts or ideas that we’ll end up translating later into lyrics. For the most part, we end up dovetailing on a concept. We do find a place where we come together usually.” While this all might sound heavy-handed, a quick survey of the work Street Eaters do in the real world proves the opposite is true. Addressing the issue of the oil spill in the Gulf, the video for “Livid Lizard” finds No hollering at oil pump jacks and windmilling his arms like a madman, while March is seen in what appears to be a lizard costume. It’s obvious that the collaboration isn’t a forced leveling of any sort of playing field, but rather the natural outcome of the kind of kinetic fun that is generated when the right two people come together. “We like to make space for each other in each other’s lives normally, and it makes sense to have that process be transparent through the writing as well,” says No. “It seems really natural. We don’t really think about it that much; it just kind of happens because, I guess, that’s just the way that we communicate.” Jeff Tobias
WHO: Street Eaters, Antlered Aunt Lord WHERE: The Globe WHEN: Thursday, June 28 HOW MUCH: TBA
record reviews an unexpectedly beautiful tune, subtle and stark, helped along by a gnarled organ drone and a resigned sort of late-night punch-drunkness. “I should drink some water/ But I think I’ll stick with liquor,� Ireland coos defiantly on closer “Whiskey Song.� It’s no PSA, but hey: if that’s the secret dark force behind Helen Scott’s burgeoning brilliance, please, someone buy ‘em another round. Gabe Vodicka
RAINBOW GHOST Tell Us How You Really Feel Independent Release On his debut four-song EP, Tell Us How You Really Feel, Daniel Clark (under the guise of Rainbow Ghost) produces saccharine indie-pop that lyrically embraces its own emotions in ways not frequently seen among current bedroom artists. Foregoing studio layers and affected vocals, Clark makes peppy synth-pop with deeply contrasting, downtrodden lyrics. Opener “What Went Wrong� finds Clark breathily lamenting that “All of my friends are getting married/ and finishing degrees/ I’m still here flipping burgers/ and adding extra cheese,� before more potently responding “What to do with myself?� The contrast presents a positive transition in the song, but throughout the record it is clear that Clark leans too heavily on his slightly fanciful softer singing. The rest of the EP follows similar suit, with major-key synth melodies forming a foundation for reflective lyrics. The songs are suitable for fans of acts like The Magnetic Fields and Say Hi to Your Mom, but with song titles like “Falling Apart� and “Brittle,� save this one for a rainy day. Nick Kogan
HELEN SCOTT Flattery & Bright Lights EP Independent Release “Mercury appears to be in retrograde/ ‘cause I’m feeling pretty low again,� Emileigh Ireland sings over a jaunty butterfly rhythm on “Listen Leo,� the astrologically obsessed opening track from Helen Scott’s Flattery & Bright Lights EP. At flighty moments like this, the local group, which consists of Ireland plus drummer-vocalist Hannah Weyandt and multi-instumentalists Lindsey Jane Haddad and Dena Zilber, veers dangerously close to tweekitsch overload. Thankfully, though, the women of Helen Scott possess an intriguingly darker side, as evidenced foremost by the deceptively titled “B Is for Bugs.� Unlike “Listen Leo,� the track finds the band in a truly dreary, heavy-psych mood. Ireland’s lyrics here carry a general sense of malaise and decay (“I watch the mold grow sweet and sour/ noting the changes hour by hour�) and are damn near catatonic; meanwhile, the song’s sad, swirling backdrop circles lazily around her. It’s
YE OLDE SUB SHOPPE The Troll Independent Release Ukulele and toy store keyboard underpin Ye Olde Sub Shoppe’s plaintive songs of anxious love and low-wage malaise. The album lingers at mid-tempo, a mellow soundtrack for a lazy, rainy Sunday—or any other day of the week, as is more likely the case for the album’s underemployed characters. The recording has a laptop lo-fi quality that flattens out the sound. The plinky instruments are pleasant, but no single song or melody is really memorable. Lyrically, the band struggles, hamstrung by clichĂŠs, and the group seems partially aware of this; at times the singer himself seems to call attention to a hackneyed line in order to question it, but the effort falls flat. The worst cases are those in which overused lines undermine the singer’s clear sense of conviction. On opener “Yellow,â€? Christopher Ingham sings, “Ownership is slavery/ but you had me at hello.â€? In context, the lyric suggests that the singer’s attraction is so strong that it calls his ideals into question, but the clichĂŠ of the latter line reveals the hollowness of the former, more slogan than firmly held belief. This is a problem throughout the record: the lyrics hint at a level of sincerity that the band’s too-casual execution fails to match. Marshall Yarbrough
ALL CITY CANNONBALLERS All City Cannonballers Independent Release Sometimes you just want to thrash your arms about while tossing your sweat-drenched hair in every direction. Well, at least I do, and local three-piece
All City Cannonballers’ self-titled debut lets me do just that. Maybe not at home, but I’m certain that’s how a live Cannonballers performance would go down. The majority of the seven-track album assaults with good oldfashioned punk rock. Recorded at the local Japanski Studio, the album gets in your face right off the bat with “All City Anthem,� which introduces J.S. Dillard’s vocals, sounding something akin to how I imagine Kurt Cobain would if he tried singing the chorus to “Smells Like Teen Spirit� with a particularly nasal head cold. The Ramones are an obvious influence, lending their style more clearly than other punk staples. Dillard’s guitar functions mostly as rhythm, but the occasional classic rock channeling allows for moments like the last minute of “Apocalypstick,� which evokes memories of Eric Clapton’s iconic “I Feel Free� guitar solo. The music is simply constructed, and the vocals aren’t perfect, but that’s OK. It’s loud, proud and in-your-face: everything that punk rock should be. Bo Moore
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THE KENNEY BLACKMON STRING BAND The Singing Tree Cowboy Angel Music Get off the grid. Buy gold. Subscribe to a pre-Industrial Revolution standard of living. Become a pedestrian, maybe ride a horse. We’re living in anomalous times, friends. Eating bananas from Costa Rica, taking phone calls from anywhere and plugging in electric guitars without having to leave our futons. None of this is normal. Our greatgreat grandparents didn’t enjoy these complicated luxuries. So, before the reset button sends us back to a world where leaves were raked and letters written, get prepared. Start by becoming familiar with The Kenney Blackmon String Band, purveyors of a haimish, batteriesnot-included brand of music that pairs nicely with muscadine wine and the sounds of a meadow not being mowed. Recorded during a three-day run at John Keane Studios, the album features singer/songwriter Jason Kenney, joined by the Blackmons (multi-instrumentalist Caroline Noel and her husband David on fiddle) with bassist Chris Enghauser. The versatile quartet performs Irish jigs (“Banish Misfortune�), bluegrass standards (“Kentucky Mandolin�) and even a waltz, but it’s the album opener (and Jonathan Byrd cover) “Jesus Was a Bootlegger� that immediately captures the listener’s attention. Kenney originals “I’ll Follow You� and “Long Way from God� hold that attention and leave us curious to see what the future holds for this talented young storyteller. David Eduardo
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Campbell’s voice, even if faint, coming in through sister Claire’s phone as she took home yet another Flagpole Award for best folk act. Host Caleb Synan kept pit band Kenosha Kid on their toes all night, and he got the crowd on their feet for a little pre-show dance party. We were witness to a few hidden talents Reptar as well: who knew Akeeme Martin, host of WUOG’s “Half-Time Hip-Hop you awoke Friday with blurred visions of glow sticks Show,” could sing and bust a move like that? Maybe he’ll be up and dancing bananas in your head… don’t worry. for an award himself next year! It wasn’t the drink or the drugs; it was just the After just a few months living in Brooklyn, Flagpole writer Flagpole Athens Music Awards. Jeff Tobias decided he is almost too cool for us, choosing to speak mostly through his “personal assistant” as he took the On Thursday, June 21 the Morton Theatre was filled with wild costumes, music and love as Athens came together to stage to present a handful of awards. (We could see through honor the best and brightest local talent. Like Totally! kicked you like you could see through those shades, Tobias. Nobody who foregoes a Central Park gig in favor of attending AthFest things off with their quirky brand of kid-friendly pop, and their adorable dancers stuck around all night to give out awards. could ever be seen as a traitor in this town.) Although off stage the bandmembers scoffed at their placeWe got a serious case of the warm fuzzies several times during the night. DJ Mahogany went all teary eyed with his sweet ment in the “punk” category, winners Manray proved their and sincere acceptance speech, and we loved hearing Page punk ‘tude by climbing over the balcony to accept their award, only to give their thanks from behind the curtain before diving head-first into the pit. So, they’re probably banned from the Morton now… There’s always one. But it was actually a non-Athens resident who completely stole the show. Kishi Bashi’s gut-wrenchingly beautiful set of layered vocals, electronics and violin stunned the crowd into awed silence… a silence only broken by an eager and apt “Holy shit!” exclamation from a fan at the end of the set. In between songs, Kishi Bashi showered our town with praise and said he hoped to move his family down here from Virginia in the near future. Yes, please. Cicada Rhythm was another breathtaking moment; the couple’s smoky harmonies were a perfect fit for the warm acoustics of the Theatre. We were also honored to have legendary keyboard player Ike Stubblefield onstage, laying down some funky, free-form jams while Kishi Bashi decked out in his finest tie-dye tee. Bow-tied
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World: Grogus Jazz: Kenosha Kid Jam: Dank Sinatra Folk/Singer-songwriter: Hope for Agoldensummer Electronic: Velveteen Pink Experimental: Tunabunny Session Player: Adam Poulin Cover Band: The B-53s DJ: Mahogany Hip-Hop: Showtime Country: Lera Lynn Southern Rock: Futurebirds Pop: Reptar Best Cover Art: The District Attorneys: Slowburner Metal: Music Hates You Punk: Manray Live Band: Reptar Rock: Don Chambers + GOAT Album of the Year: The District Attorneys: Slowburner Upstart: Grass Giraffes Artist of the Year: The District Attorneys
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bandleader Patrick Morales offered two lovely Viking Progress songs enhanced by a full band set-up. And Upstart of the Year winners Grass Giraffes closed out the night with their addictive, propulsive rock. Dang, that 16-year-old drummer tore it up! Hope he drives less recklessly than he plays… This year marked the introduction of a brand-new award— best session player—which was deservedly taken home by fiddler Adam Poulin. The big winners of the night, with three total awards, were The District Attorneys. I swear that it has nothing to do with my law school plans, but it does prove the young group has a strong and dedicated following. Reptar, our 2010 Upstart Band of the Year, added Best Pop Band and Best Live Band to its Flagpole Award collection. And if such a thing existed, Reptar keyboardist William Kennedy would have easily scored an award for Best Top Knot, as well. Overall, it was a delightful night and a fine kickoff to a hot and lively AthFest. You can watch video of the entire show online now at www.flagpole.com. Michelle Davis
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FOURth Annual Classic City
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know them all too well, these Southern summers, when the air is too thick to breathe and time stands cruelly still. There is something about the stasis of this season that melts brains into puddles of goopy nostalgia. Heat-drained and homesick, we Southerners conjure up echoes from our collective past, the sugary sounds of well-worn stringed acoustic instruments: fiddles, banjos, guitars. It’s the sort of old-timey music often referred to as “Americana.� In Athens, this music endures through generations. For the fourth year in a row, the Classic City American Music Festival sets up shop at the Melting Point for a long day of classic musical stylings and family-friendly fun. Troy Aubrey, president of Foundry Entertainment, which is co-presenting the event with bluegrass institution Packway Handle Band, explains the reasoning behind the down-home focus. “There is an amazing [number] of musicians in Athens that have been here for 20 [or] 30 years that still perform
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Americana music,� Aubrey says. “Folks like [Curley Maple fiddler] David Blackmon and Tommy Jordan of String Theory have been performing this type of music for decades.� But for some, “Americana� is a loaded term. “‘Americana’ [is] a difficult one,� says Packway Handle Band fiddler Andrew Heaton. “Many people consider all American roots music to be ‘Americana,’ while [others] consider it a form of alt-country.� It’s one reason why, unlike the Athens Americana Festival, which takes place each spring at Little Kings, CCAMF organizers choose to forgo the term in its official description. Regardless of semantics, the laid-back environs of Athens provide a perfect incubator for this music. And recently, a not-so-distant stylistic relative has infiltrated the mainstream and inspired a new generation of folks to put down the gadgets and pick up the guitars. As Aubrey notes, “I can’t think of [another] time when there were all these amazing acoustic acts... that appealed to such a large demographic.� The commercial success of groups like the Avett Brothers ensures that like-minded young acts can readily receive the attention they deserve. But, like the music itself, this process is still highly organic; for instance, first-time CCAMF performers The Four Thieves joined the bill after festival organizers discovered the group busking on a downtown Athens street. The lineup for this year’s CCAMF is all-inclusive. Alongside headliners like Mountain Heart are names like Jim White, the vagabond songwriter of a twisted and captivating brand of Southern Gothic folk. White has resided in Athens for several years but performs here infrequently. For artists like him, CCAMF provides a welcoming home. For all of us, it is both a loving ode to and a brief respite from this sweet, sweltering season. Gabe Vodicka
WHAT: Classic City American Music Festival WHERE: The Melting Point WHEN: Sunday, July 1, 1:30 p.m. HOW MUCH: $15 (adv.), $20 (door)
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Tuesday 26 EVENTS: Lupulin Ladies Tasting (UGA Horticulture Research Farm, 1221 Hog Mountain Rd.) A ladiesonly beer tasting and education group focused on exploring the expansive world of craft beer and providing a social network for women with craft beer as a common interest. June’s meeting will meet at the farm to learn about hop cultivation, then head to Chops & Hops at 6:30 p.m. for a tasting. 5:30 p.m. $16–20. lupulinladies@terrapinbeer. com FILM: The Taiwan Oyster (Ciné) Screening and benefit for The Taiwan Oyster, a film about two American expat teachers driving across Taiwan with the corpse of an acquaintance in their van while searching for a proper burial place. Followed by catered reception by The National and a Q&A with the filmmakers. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). 7:30 p.m. www.athenscine.com GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (Chango’s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles. Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706546-0015 GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways. Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack) (College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub ) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com KIDSTUFF: Little STEM Scientists (Madison County Library) Conduct fun experiments and learn how real-world scientists, engineers and farmers use technology and math. All ages; under 6 accompanied by an adult. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-7955597 LECTURES AND LIT: Special Collections Library Tour (UGA Russell Library) Explore interactive kiosks with access to oral history interviews, historical film, video and sound recordings. Look for familiar faces from the state’s political history in Art Rosenbaum’s mural, “Doors.” Every Tuesday. 2 p.m. FREE! 706542-8079 LECTURES AND LIT: Lunchtime Learning: Vegetable Gardening Through the Summer Heat (ACC Library) Learn tips and techniques for keeping a summer vegetable garden healthy during the extreme summer heat. Amanda Tedrow speaks
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on mulching, watering, pruning and general plant care. Feel free to bring a lunch. 12:15–1 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 OUTDOORS: Gardening at Night (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Water, weed and harvest by the light of the moon. Discussions on lunar planting, biodynamics and plant lore. 6-8 p.m. FREE! www.botgarden. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Joke-a-Go-Go (Go Bar) Come see local yuksters sharpening their skills, blundering first-timers and traveling pros at this comedy open mic hosted by Nate Mitchell. Last Tuesday of the month. 9 p.m. FREE! (performers). 706-546-5609 SPORTS: Street Hockey (YMCA) Street Hockey (on foot, no blades) for all skill levels. Every Tuesday and Thursday. 6:30 p.m. FREE! athensfloorhockey@gmail.com
Wednesday 27 ART: Drawing in the Galleries (Georgia Museum of Art) Open hours for visitors to sketch in the galleries using graphite or colored pencils. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: How to Search the Web (Oconee County Library) Beginner class offering instruction on how to effectively search the web using a wide variety of search engines, Internet directories and library databases. Must already know how to use a mouse and keyboard. 6-7 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (City Hall/ College Avenue) An afternoon market featuring local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music at every market. Every Wednesday through the end of October. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892
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GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night. 8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: How to Steampunk Anything (ACC Library) Any ordinary object can be “steampunkified” with paint, glue, sculpy and a little bit of know-how. Boxes available to decorate, or bring an item from home. 2–4 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650, ext. 329 KIDSTUFF: Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of age-appropriate nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts. For parents and children. Every other Wednesday. 3:30–4:30 p.m. $24. 706-613-3515, www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter KIDSTUFF: Glow Art Party (Oconee County Library) Create glow-in-thedark pillowcases, t-shirts, magnets, buttons and more to celebrate all things night-related. Supplies provided. Ages 11–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Storytelling Concert (Madison County Library) Storyteller Carol Cain’s stories and songs help kids dream big and read for the fun of it. All ages. 2 p.m. FREE! 705795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Storytelling Concert (Oconee County Library) Storyteller Carol Cain’s stories and songs help kids dream big and read for the fun of it. All ages. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Summer Reading Program Storytime (Madison County Library) Check out the books on the summer reading list. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES AND LIT: Buddhist Book Study (Body, Mind & Spirit) Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-351-6024. LECTURES AND LIT: Oconee Democrats Book Group (Piccolo’s Italian Steak House) The community book group sponsored by the Oconee Democrats will discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman. 7 p.m. FREE! patricia.priest@yahoo.com
Thursday 28 CLASSES: Covered Up (Madison County Library) Tips on home organization from WOW (the Well Organized Woman) Claire Kurtz and Allison Workman. 6:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597
Eric Lindell plays the Melting Point on Monday, July 2. EVENTS: Reiki Circle (Healing Arts Centre) A Japanese massage technique for stress reduction, relaxation and healing. Every Thursday. 7–8 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-3386843 GAMES: Trivia (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (El Azteca) Every Thursday. Check the restaurant’s Facebook page for weekly updated categories. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. tinyurl.com/d5dp2qq KIDSTUFF: Pajama Storytime (Madison County Library) Bring your pajama-clad kids in for a set of stories and a bedtime snack. 7–8 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Storytelling Concert (Clarke Central High School) Storyteller Carol Cain’s stories and songs help kids dream big and read for the fun of it. All ages. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES AND LIT: A Midsummer’s Reading and Open Mic (Avid Bookshop) A reading of poems, essays and manifestos by Piedmont College students. Participants may bring their own writing to share. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com MEETINGS: Clarke County Democratic Committee Meeting (Athens Clarke Heritage Foundation) State-wide Democratic
public service commission candidate Steve Oppenheimer is the featured speaker. All interested persons welcome. 6 p.m. FREE! 706202-7515, ccdc.communications@ gmail.com PERFORMANCE: Music of Passion and Fire Encore (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) An encore performance of a past favorite. Chris Rex, Susie Park, Elizabeth Pridgen and members of the Linden Quartet perform passionate crowd-pleasers. Dinner at Town 220 at 6 p.m., not included in price. 6 p.m. (dinner), 7:30 p.m. $25. 706752-1445, www.mmcc-arts.org SPORTS: Street Hockey (YMCA) Street Hockey (on foot, no blades) for all skill levels. Every Tuesday and Thursday. 6:30 p.m. FREE! athensfloorhockey@gmail.com
Maker. Create, print and mail a zine. Learn basic video filming, editing, sound technology, typesetting, layout and more. Ages 12–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES AND LIT: Poetry Reading (Avid Bookshop) Ben Kopel and Kim Vodicka read their poetry and sign copies of their poetry collections. 6:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com OUTDOORS: Friday Night Paddles (Sandy Creek Park) Experience nighttime on Lake Chapman and paddle around the moonlit waters. Every other Friday night through summer. Participants may bring or rent a canoe or kayak. For ages 12 & up. Call to pre-register. 9–11 p.m. $5–12/family. 706-613-3631, www. athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreekpark
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ART: Opening Reception (OCAF) For “From a Woman’s Hand,” a collection of sculpture by Annie Evans, Cynthia Schoner and Dinah Stonis. 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.ocaf.com CLASSES: Genealogy 102: Census Records Online (Oconee County Library) This class covers navigating the genealogy databases Ancestry Library Edition and HeritageQuest Online. Participants must have basic computer skills. Registration required. 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Own Your Media (Madison County Library) Film and edit a movie with Windows Movie
EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Every Saturday through midDecember. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Rewired (Nuçi’s Space) A music thrift sale featuring drum sets from high-end to beginner level, guitars, amps, effects, keys and more. Donations accepted. All proceeds benefit Nuçi’s Space. 12–5 p.m. www.nuci.org EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Oconee County Courthouse) Fresh produce, meats and other farm prod-
ucts. Every Saturday. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. www.oconeecountyobservations. blogspot.com
Sunday 1 GAMES: Trivia (The Capital Room) Every Sunday! Hosted by Evan Delany. First place wins $50 and second place wins $25. 8 p.m. FREE! www.thecapitalroom.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Amici) Every Sunday. First place receives $50 and second place receives $25. 9 p.m. www.amici-cafe.com GAMES: Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest CafĂŠ) “Brewer’s Inquisition,â€? trivia hosted by Chris Brewer every Sunday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-3546655, www.buffaloscafe.com/athens GAMES: Trivia Sundays (Blind Pig Tavern) At the West Broad location. 6 p.m. 706-208-7979 PERFORMANCE: Classic City Band (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A patriotic concert from the oldest continuously functioning community band in Georgia, featuring popular and classical music. 3–4 p.m. FREE! www.botgarden. uga.edu
Monday 2 GAMES: Rock and Roll Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Get a team together and show off your extensive music knowledge every Monday! Hosted by Jonathan Thompson. 9 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes! Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Every Monday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706543-8997 KIDSTUFF: Movie on the Lawn: Dracula (Oconee County Library) Celebrate the hot summer with popcorn, soda and a giant viewing of the original, 1931 version of Dracula. Rated PG. Bring a blanket to sit on or borrow one from the library. Ages 11-18. 9-11 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 MEETINGS: Federation of Neighborhoods Meeting (Athens Clarke Heritage Foundation) The ACC Commission Candidate Forum hosts Republican candidates for Georgia House District 117 Doug McKillip and Regina Quick and Democratic candidates Keith Heard and Spencer Frye, and Republican candidates Carter Kessler and Chris Perlera for Georgia House District 118 to participate in a moderated Q&A forum. The audience may submit questions through the moderator or in advance by emailing contact@ accneighborhoods.com. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.accneighborhoods.org
Tuesday 3 EVENTS: Annual Independence Day Concert and Picnic (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Presentation of the colors followed by a patriotic concert on the lawn. Participants are welcome to bring their own picnic items, tables and chairs. 7 p.m. FREE! www.mmccarts.org GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub ) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways. Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305
GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (Chango’s Asian Kitchen) Learn facts, eat noodles. Every Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706546-0015 GAMES: Trivia (Shane’s Rib Shack) (College Station) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-543-0050 LECTURES AND LIT: Special Collections Library Tour (UGA Russell Library) Explore interactive kiosks with access to oral history interviews, historical film, video and sound recordings. Look for familiar faces from the state’s political history in Art Rosenbaum’s mural, “Doors.� Every Tuesday. 2 p.m. FREE! 706542-8079 PERFORMANCE: OpenTOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Voted by Flagpole’s readers as Athens’ “favorite comedy night� in 2011 and 2012, this comedy show allows locals to watch quality comedy or perform themselves. Email to perform. First and third Tuesday of every month! 9 p.m. FREE! (performers), $5. calebsynan@yahoo.com, www.flickertheatreandbar.com SPORTS: Street Hockey (YMCA) Street Hockey (on foot, no blades) for all skill levels. Every Tuesday and Thursday. 6:30 p.m. FREE! athensfloorhockey@gmail.com
Wednesday 4 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Word of Mouth Open Poetry Reading (The Globe) Sign up, mouth off, pay attention. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721, www.athenswordofmouth.com EVENTS: Star-Spangled Classic (Bishop Park) Kids ages 3–12 are invited to decorate their wagons, strollers, tricycles and bicycles and join the Patriotic Parade through the park. Music, food, family-friendly activities and a fabulous fireworks display continue throughout the evening. 5-10 p.m. FREE! 706-6133620 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (City Hall/ College Avenue) An afternoon market featuring local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music at every market. Every Wednesday through the end of October. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net GAMES: Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night. 8 p.m. (Baldwin St. & Broad St. locations). 706-548-3442 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Every Wednesday night. 7:30 p.m. www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Five Points location) Open your piehole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-7424
GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 LECTURES AND LIT: Buddhist Book Study (Body, Mind & Spirit) Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-351-6024.
Down the Line EVENTS: Reiki Circle 7/5 (Healing Arts Centre) A Japanese massage technique for stress reduction, relaxation and healing. Every Thursday. 7–8 p.m. Donations accepted. 706338-6843 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist 7/5 (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia 7/5 (El Azteca) Every Thursday. Check the restaurant’s Facebook page for weekly updated categories. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. tinyurl.com/d5dp2qq GAMES: Trivia 7/5 (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 KIDSTUFF: Enter Portentia 7/5 (Madison County Library) Learn how to interpret dreams, read palms, tell fortunes and become open to the secret messages around and within us. Ages 12–18. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Storytelling Concert 7/5 (Clarke Central High School) (Auditorium) The children’s area staff of the ACC library presents a storytelling trip around the world. Part of the Summer Reading Performance Series. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Library Crew 7/5 (Oconee County Library) The library is seeking volunteers ages 9-12 to assist with craft projects, help take care of the library and have a good time! Thursdays in July. 10:30 a.m.– 11:45 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 SPORTS: Street Hockey 7/5 (YMCA) Street Hockey (on foot, no blades) for all skill levels. Every Tuesday and Thursday. 6:30 p.m. FREE! athensfloorhockey@gmail. com THEATRE: Steel Magnolias 7/5 (Ashford Manor) The Circle Ensemble Theatre presents a production of the 1989 movie about the lives of six women in a small town in Louisiana. 8 p.m. $10–15. 706362-2175 KIDSTUFF: Own Your Media 7/6 (Madison County Library) Film and edit a movie with Windows Movie Maker. Create, print and mail a zine. Learn basic video filming, editing, sound technology, typesetting, layout and more. Ages 12–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 THEATRE: Steel Magnolias 7/6 (Ashford Manor) The Circle Ensemble Theatre presents a production of the 1989 movie about the lives of six women in a small town in Louisiana. 8 p.m. $10–15. 706362-2175 THEATRE: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 7/6 (Arts! Oglethorpe) Arts!Oglethorpe presents the 2005 Tony Award-winning musical. Rated PG. July 6–7 & 12-14, 7:30 p.m. & July 8, 3 p.m. $12–15. 706-3541339, www.artsoglethorpe.org EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market 7/7 (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music at every market. Every Saturday through mid-December. This week Farm to School presents gourd painting and a recipe handout. Cooking demonstration by
Lisa Slater. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market 7/7 (Oconee County Courthouse) Fresh produce, meats and other farm products. Every Saturday. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. www.oconeecountyobservations.blogspot.com EVENTS: Pet Care Clinic 7/7 (Pet Supplies Plus) The Athens Area Humane Society hosts a monthly pet care clinic where pets can receive low-cost services such as a rabies vaccination, flea treatment, microchip identification and more. 1–4 p.m. www.athenshumanesociety.org FILM: Described Film: To Kill a Mockingbird 7/7 (Oconee County Library) View a movie augmented with a narration track to make it accessible to the visually impaired. Open to the visually impaired and anyone who wants to experience a described film. Popcorn provided. All ages. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 PERFORMANCE: Appalachian Song and Dance 7/7 (MadisonMorgan Cultural Center) April Verch, the first woman to win both of Canada’s most prestigious fiddle championships, plays with her bluegrass band. 7:30 p.m. $5–25. www. mmcc-arts.org THEATRE: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 7/7 (Arts! Oglethorpe) Arts!Oglethorpe presents the 2005 Tony Award-winning musical. Rated PG. July 6–7 & 12-14, 7:30 p.m. & July 8, 3 p.m. $12–15. 706-3541339, www.artsoglethorpe.org THEATRE: Steel Magnolias 7/7 (Ashford Manor) The Circle Ensemble Theatre presents a production of the 1989 movie about the lives of six women in a small town in Louisiana. 8 p.m. $10–15. 706362-2175 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia 7/8 (Amici) Every Sunday. First place receives $50 and second place receives $25. 9 p.m. www.amicicafe.com GAMES: Trivia 7/8 (The Capital Room) Every Sunday! Hosted by Evan Delany. First place wins $50 and second place wins $25. 8 p.m. FREE! www.thecapitalroom.com GAMES: Trivia Sundays 7/8 (Blind Pig Tavern) At the West Broad location. 6 p.m. 706-208-7979 THEATRE: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 7/8 (Arts! Oglethorpe) Arts!Oglethorpe presents the 2005 Tony Award-winning musical. Rated PG. July 6–7 & 12-14, 7:30 p.m. & July 8, 3 p.m. $12–15. 706-3541339, www.artsoglethorpe.org
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Featuring Seth Hendershot on drums. Every Tuesday! Highwire Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge. com PATRICK MORALES AND FRIENDS Every Tuesday in June! Morales will curate an improvised set of experimental instrumental numbers with a different musical guest each week. Featured artists include Matt Whittaker (Young Benjamin), Ryan Moore (Borthers), McKendrick Bearden (Androcles and the Lion) and Jason Payne. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub KRINGLE Punk band from Austin. DETHRONE Austin hardcore quintet. GRIPE This Athens thrash, grind and powerviolent band is known for the intensity of its live show. DJ LOZO Spinning punk rock! The Mad Hatter 7–11 p.m. 706-372-2455 LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk and country. The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday series. 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com DIRTY BOURBON RIVER SHOW Eclectic New Orleans group draws from that city’s rich musical heritage and a wide range of other influences to create a unique and energetic live experience. The Volstead 9 p.m.–1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Come out and rock the mic! Every Tuesday!
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COWBOY MALOGNA Acoustic project from Paul Maloney. KADE KAHL Lyrically focused acoustic tunes à la The Mountain Goats.
Athens City Hall Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net LAVON SMITH Local songstress plays original music with gentle melodies.
Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com TIMI CONLEY Kite to the Moon’s Timi Conley will be playing at Hendershot’s every Wednesday in June.
Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com DAIKAIJU Hard rocking psycho-surf from Alabama. SHEHEHE Vanguards of New American Jet Rock. Punk back beats and indie gang vocals all overlaid with arena leads. GRIPE This Athens thrash, grind and powerviolent band is known for the intensity of its live show. YOGURT SMOOTHNESS Two-piece noise rock band from Orlando.
The Melting Point Female Songwriters in the Round. 7:30 p.m. $5 (adv. or w/UGA ID). $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com CLAIRE CAMPBELL Gorgeous folk tunes from half of Hope for Agoldensummer. KYSHONA ARMSTRONG This engaging local songwriter and music therapist performs a unique fusion of acoustic folk and soul. HANNAH MILLER Sultry folk and rockabilly from a North Carolina singer-songwriter.
Farm 255 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DIAL INDICATORS Local act featuring George Davidson on tenor saxophone playing cool jazz.
The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!
Georgia Theatre On the rooftop! 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THE EASTERN SEA Indie rock band from Austin, TX. See Calendar Pick on this page. POWERKOMPANY Local husband and wife duo playing sincere, bittersweet lullabies with gorgeous vocal harmonies over guitar and viola. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 MONKEYGRASS JUG BAND Featuring Brandon Nelson McCoy, Don Auber, Adam Poulin and more.
The Winery 7–11 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0095 LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk and country tunes. Every Wednesday night.
Thursday 28 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com KARBOMB High-speed local punk band. DEATH OF KINGS Metal group out of Atlanta.
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The Eastern Sea, powerkompany Georgia Theatre Rooftop Up-and-coming Austin act The Eastern Sea has received a steady stream of glowing reviews over the past few years; the band’s tense, moody indie-rock has been compared favorably to everyone from Holopaw and The Mountain Goats to Death Cab for Cutie and Iron and Wine. Upon hearing Plague, The Eastern Sea’s first full-length The Eastern Sea record (set for a June 26 release via WhiteLabBlackLab), it’s easy to understand what all of the buzz is about. The young band boasts a sort of staggering passion and a level of introspective maturity that isn’t usually present in the cookie-cutter indie scene. “The music I make isn’t a puzzle,” says frontman Matthew Hines on the complexity of Plague. “It’s just that it won’t make any sense to people who haven’t really dealt with hard situations.” Don’t get the wrong idea; the band isn’t all sappy balladry and doom and gloom downerism. On the contrary, the seven-member outfit, which includes two drummers, presents an energetic show marked by booming percussion and auditory “scene changes.” The Eastern Sea aims to keep things fresh because, according to Hines, the group isn’t setting out to be an ultra-hyped, one-hit-wonder. Instead, it is determined to create something ever-evolving. “Our music changes naturally, because we’re people,” Hines says. “[Bands] strive to come up with a record that Pitchfork will like, but they’re not putting their focus in the right place; they’re just along for the ride.” Rather than putting their energy into becoming a hit machine, Hines says the members of The Eastern Sea are focused on making lasting art and gaining listeners’ respect. “This is something we’re taking on the road with a lot of enthusiasm,” says Hines. “This is the beginning of a really long story.” [Carrie Dagenhard]
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THEY STAY DEAD Punk rock featuring members of Wretch Like Me and Screeching Weasel. SADISTIC RITUAL Thrash metal from Atlanta. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com AMI DANG Dang, a sitarist, vocalist, and producer from Baltimore and New Delhi, fuses North Indian classical music with electronica and dance-pop to create a new genre she calls “Bollywave.” See Calendar Pick on p. 19. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com KATE MORRISSEY Best known for her dark velvet voice, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her conversational live shows come punctuated with an offbeat sense of humor. CRYSTAL BRIGHT & THE SILVER HANDS Like a psychedelic cabaret in a David Lynch movie. BETWEEN NAYBORS Local duo Greg Benson and Melanie Morgan play folky acoustic tunes. The Globe 10 p.m. $4. 706-353-4721 STREET EATERS Duo from Berkeley, CA playing melodically driven punk songs. See story on p. 12. ANTLERED ANTLORD Fuzz-pop guitar/drums duo featuring featuring local producer and songwriter Jesse Stinnard. BOBBY JOE EBOLA Punk rock with raunchy and sometimes political satire. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee.com THE ODD TRIO One of Athens’ finest original jazz ensembles, this innovative group often incorporates looped audio into is original jazz compositions. The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $5 (adv. or w/UGA ID). $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com WILDCAT BRIDGE Madison County duo plays a blend of country, rock and blues. FESTER HAGOOD This local songwriter sings in a soft drawl that accents his simple, plucked country songs. The Office Lounge Open Blues Jam. 8:30 p.m. 706-5460840 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Get your fill of straight-up, authentic blues covers from this skilled Athens five-piece. This is an open jam and guests are welcome! Your Pie 8–Midnight. FREE! www.yourpie.com (Downtown location) LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk and country. Every Thursday!
Friday 29 40 Watt Club “4 on the Floor.” 10 p.m. www.40watt. com VINCAS Energetic, erratic garage punk with growling guitars, howling vocals and a bit of rockabilly blues swagger.
GARBAGE ISLAND Loud, metallic and edgy, the band dips into krautrock and progressive thought, earning it the “experimental” tag. GRASS GIRAFFES Driving, melodic pop painted with lush shoe gazeinspired washes of psychedelic atmospherics. These local up-andcomers- have been heralded as the next “band to watch.” MUUY BIIEN Bedroom pop turned noisy, old-school punk rock. Caledonia Lounge New Metal Order Presents. 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BY THE SWORD Local group plays “fast, melodic groove death metal.” 10 FINGERS STRONG Local band recently released an album titled Pork Chop’s Bedroom. BLACK TAR PROPHET Doom-rock band from Nashville, TN. DESTRUCT THE NIGHT Local fivepiece metal outfit. THE FALLOW Rock and roll band from Indiana. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE KNOCKOUTS This local group of all-star musicians plays original tunes that pack all the punch of punk rock with diverse, worldly melodies that draw on polka, bluegrass, Cajun and Irish folk music. LOWDIVE This local band explores ska, reggae and rock and roll. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com MICHAEL BOWMAN Blues/country/ soul singer and acoustic guitarist will be joined by Evan Sarver on upright bass. THE DOMINO EFFECT Smooth reggae from Savannah infused with cool funk and soul. Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $12. www.georgiatheatre.com ABBEY ROAD LIVE The local cover band delivers a start-to-finish performance of The Beatles’ Abbey Road and tosses in other high-energy, later-era Beatles rockers. Sgt. Pepper 45th anniversary show! The Globe 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 BLUE DIVISION Punk meets violin care of John Fernandes (Olivia Tremor Control). THE RODNEY KINGS Scuzzed out punk. DUDE MAGNETS Noisy chaos. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. hosts a dance party featuring high-energy electro and rock following the Athens Cabaret Showgirls. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com NATIONAL HOTEL SOUND SYSTEM Louisville band marked by groove-driven experimental and electronic sounds with deep bass tones, warm synths and tribal funk. Highwire Lounge “Friday Night Jazz.” 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com RAND LINES Original compositions of pianist Rand Lines with drummer Ben Williams and bassist Carl Lindberg. The Melting Point Patio stage. 8 p.m. $7 (adv. or with UGA ID), $10 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com JEFF SIPE GROUP Esteemed drummer and session player has
performed with everyone from Lucinda Williams to Bela Fleck and beyond. For this show, his group is augmented by local jazz mainstays Neil Fountain (Kenosha Kid) and Matt Slocum. CHAMPAGNE FOR REGINALD Local progressive jazz-fusion group features members of TAJ, Fuzzbucket, Mama’s Love and Tumbleweed Stampede. The Office Lounge 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 CLAY LEVERETT & THE CHASERS Some of Athens’ finest country music! The Roadhouse 8 p.m. 706-613-2324 LOUIS PHILLIP PELOT Local singer-songwriter performs solo folk and country.
Saturday 30 40 Watt Club 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.com MANGER Speed thrash metal “with a dash of Satan.” The band harks back to the days of NWOBHM: ripping solos and screeching vocals. GEAR JAMMER Dual-lead, riff-heavy rock with classic metal influences. Music for the open road. IN THE LURCH Local three-piece that cranks out crunchy guitar riffs and sinister basslines, citing Primus and Tool as influences. Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net SCOTT BAXENDALE Guitar dynamicism from the owner of Baxendale Guitars. Classic bluesy riffs and a lot of soul. WHISPER KISS Acoustic project featuring multi-instrumentalist Michael Wegner (Abbey Road LIVE!, Fuzzy Sprouts, Sunny-Side Up Band) and Shelley Olin (DubConscious, Grogus). Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com HAYRIDE This long-running Athens trio has maintained a steady output of melodic, prog-and metal-influenced rock. ROOT SPIRITS New local band plays a mix of rockin’ original tunes and distinctive takes on classic songs from the ‘50s–’70s. MOTHER THE CAR New local band. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com SENSUAL PREDATOR Expect noisy, experimental rock from this local band. JEFFERS MORNING This local rock trio plays lots of fun, danceable pop-punk. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com MONAHAN Ryan Monahan is backed by Josh McMichael on bass and Lemuel Hayes on drums. Monahan has a gorgeous, expressive Jeff Buckley-esque voice that soars and sighs with equal grace. SHIVERY SHAKES Chill beach-pop from Austin. BOBBY JEALOUSY Indie punk-pop from Austin. Front Porch Book Store 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 DODD FERRELLE Former Tinfoil Stars frontman and longtime Athenian Dodd Ferrelle pours heart and soul into his sweeping, anthemic ballads and alt-country rockers.
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Ami Dang Farm 255 Ami Dang (pronounced “uh-mee�) has been mixing music since she was little. The Americanborn daughter of East-Indian parents, Dang grew up listening to classical Indian and Sikh religious music. She Ami Dang and Kate Levitt went on to study electronic music at Oberlin College, experimenting with noise and ambient sounds, all the while improving on the sitar. Dang‘s songs are not necessarily a mixture of Eastern and Western influences; rather, she places vocals inspired by traditional Indian melodies next to soft drones, tribal drumming and the sitar, diluting no distinct part of the composition. “It’s something I’m really grappling with, blending the sitar with things that I write,� says Dang. “When I study with my sitar guru, I don’t bring anything electronic or anything having to do with my own composition to the lesson. When studying with her, it’s just about classical music.� Everyone, especially artists, struggles to reconcile background and influences with what’s appealing and contemporary. “I think something that’s inspired my music is that I’m always present, whether or not I’m actively trying to draw inspiration from something.� Dang recently began collaborating with two Baltimore musicians (producer/drummer Kate Levitt and producer/DJ Schwarz) to “juice everything up a little bit.� “I’m kind of all melody and treble, and with both of them, their focus is on the beat. When they came in it just made a lot more sense to add a variety of beats and use polyrhythms and interesting drum sounds.� Sitar is not a sound often heard on the deck of Farm 255, but Dang’s awareness of modern music and her beat-conscious collaborators make the ancient twang as experimental as anything to come out of that alley. [Sydney Slotkin]
Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $8. www.georgiatheare.com HOLMAN AUTRY BAND An original mix of Southern rock and a hardcore sound. ROLLIN’ HOME This local group jams with a Grateful Dead groove and a Southern rock leaning. The Globe 9 p.m. $3–$5. ADAJE Memphis post-hardcore/ screamo combining beauty and heaviness. DUCK, LITTLE BROTHER, DUCK! Mathy, melodic emo from Portland with intertwining dual guitars. NURTURE Local post-hardcore with melodic guitars and passionately shouted-sung vocals. NAKUSA New Athens screamo influenced by bands like Portrait and Funeral Diner. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 THE SKIPPERDEES Charming local acoustic duo with rich, folky vocal harmonies and a sense of humor. DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com CHRIS WILSON Acoustic singersongwriter from San Diego. MICHAEL BOWMAN Blues/country/ soul singer and acoustic guitarist will be joined by Evan Sarver on upright bass. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub COMMANDER CHAMELEON Longrunning Athens group plays quirky guitar pop with satirical overtones. GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH Fun-loving surf-punk band from Portland, OR.
TIMMY TUMBLE & THE TUMBLERS Tim Schreiber (Dark Meat, The Lickity-Splits) howls and spasms and literally tumbles over garage-y rock-anthems and retroinspired pop songs. The Melting Point Nashville Songwriters in the Round. 8:30 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com JOHN BERRY Country singer-songwriter whose songs are Christianthemed. RACHEL FARLEY Country rock with obvious influence from massive, classic rock vocals and orchestration. MIKE DEKLE Athens/Nashville songwriter has penned tunes for Kenny Rogers, Colt Ford, Brantley Gilbert and others. BRUCE BURCH Songwriter, music publisher and author. The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 PICK YOUR SWITCH Americana group out of Asheville featuring the songwriting talents of Paul Edelman.
Sunday 1 The Melting Point Fourth Annual Classic City American Music Festival. 1:30 p.m.-12 a.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com THE HOBOHEMIANS This six-piece acoustic band utilizes banjo, ukulele, flute, accordion, saxophone, piano, various percussion, drums and bass to perform popular American and European roots music of the 1910s, ‘20s, and ‘30s. (2:30 p.m.) ADAM KLEIN & THE WILD FIRES Local songwriter playing a rustic blend of country, folk and Americana. (3:30 p.m.) STRING THEORY Fusion and funkoriented progressive rock. (4 p.m.)
Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com BABY BABY The music of this charismatic Atlanta band is upbeat and danceable, and the banter is cheeky. TUNABUNNY Local act featuring hazy and warped experimental psychedelia. THE GOONS Local indie-pop-rock trio featuring members of The Glands, Casper & the Cookies and Marshmallow Coast. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 RADAR VS WOLF Nashville duo plays brash, folky pop. The Grotto 6 p.m. FREE! 140 E. Clayton St. THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR Smooth jazz played by DJ Segar from WXAG 1470, the light radio station. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10:30 p.m. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub HARD FEELINGS Snotty punk vibes from Minnesota. POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS Femalefronted Chattanooga punk band. CAPITALIST KIDS Pop-punk group from Austin plays fast, catchy tunes. WADE BOGGS Local punk band featuring lots of catchy hooks. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $10 (adv. or w/UGA ID), $15 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com ERIC LINDELL R&B-inspired singersongwriter from New Orleans via northern California.
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THE FOUR THIEVES Energetic acoustic folk band sure to get your boots stompin’. (4:45 p.m.) JIM WHITE Local singer/songwriter with a rising national profile, noted for his masterful storytelling in the Southern gothic tradition. Think Marc Ribot-era Tom Waits. (5:15 p.m.) HIGH STRUNG STRING BAND High-energy sounds building on the originality of folk-grass with a tinge of edginess. (6:45 p.m.) SEVEN HANDLE CIRCUS A rowdy and fun modern interpretation of traditional bluegrass and folk. (7:30 p.m.) THE CORDUROY ROADAlthough rooted in classic Americana, with lots of foot-stomping, banjo-plucking and pedal steel, The Corduroy Road also has a knack for endearing pop melodies. (8:15 p.m.) MOUNTAIN HEART This Nashvillebased sextet is at the forefront of modern bluegrass. (9 p.m.) THE DARNELL BOYS The three Darnell brothers play and sing country blues originals backed by upright bass, singing saw and junkyard percussion. (10:30 p.m.) PACKWAY HANDLE BAND Packway’s “gather around the mic� approach to bluegrass provides sly, hearty original songs and renditions of classic tunes. The band’s close four-part harmonies are backed by high energy, and the contemporary lyrics are delivered with an engaging sense of humor. (11 p.m.)
Ashford Manor 6 p.m. FREE! (ages 6 & under), $5–15. 706-769-2633 SONS OF SAILORS A Margaritavillebound train of Jimmy Buffett hits.
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Georgia Theatre Rooftop Rendezvous! 7 p.m. $30. www. georgiatheatre.com DJ SEGAR WXAG radio’s DJ Segar specializes in smooth jazz tunes that provide a casual, relaxing atmosphere. JOHN DUNN AND THE JAZZMAN BAND Local jazz group. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ WILL STEPHENSON Also known as DJ Champale, this WUOG DJ brings the booth to the bar. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee. com IKE STUBBLEFIELD AND FRIENDS Soulful R&B artist Ike Stubblefield is a Hammond B3 virtuoso who cut his teeth backing Motown legends like the Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. Featuring drummer Seth Hendershot! The Volstead 9 p.m.–1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Every Tuesday!
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CLASSES Bellydance & Bollywood Classes (Floorspace) Basic and advanced bellydance for women of all ages. Thursdays, 5:45 p.m. & 7 p.m. Bollywood class. Sundays, 3 p.m. $12 (drop-in), $60 (6 classes). www.floorspaceathens.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7-9 p.m. “Family Try Clay” classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2-4 p.m. $20. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Dance Classes (Dancefx) Ballet, tap, hip-hop, Zumba, contemporary, foxtrot, Western dancing, strip aerobics, pilates and more. Check website for schedule. 706-355-3078, www.dancefx.org Gentle Hatha Integral Yoga (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) All levels welcome. Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m. $9/class. 706-543-0162, mfhealy@bellsouth.net, www.mindfuliving.org High-flying Trapeze Class (Leap High-Flying Trapeze School) All levels welcome. www.leaptrapeze. com Lori’s Boot Camp (Fitness at Five) Get in shape in time for sum-
mer. Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. & Saturdays, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 706353-6030, www.fitnessatfive.com SALSAthens (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes. Every Wednesday, 6:307:30 p.m. (intermediate), 7:30-8:30 p.m. (beginners). $8 (incl. $3.50 drink). 706-338-6613 Therapeutic Yoga (Healing Arts Centre) Led by Rhett Crowe. Mondays, 7:15–8:45 p.m. $60/6 weeks. or $14/class. www.healing artscentre.net 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 Donate Blood (Red Cross Donor Center) Give the gift of blood! Check website for local donor locations. 1-800-RED CROSS, www.redcross. org Foster Dog Parent Program (The Athens Area Humane Society) The Athens Area Humane Society offers the opportunity to foster a dog, taking it from a euthanization center before placing it in a permanent home. All supplies for the dogs are provided. Email or visit website for more information. dogs@athens humanesociety.org, www.athens humanesociety.org Georgia Museum of Art Shop Volunteers (Georgia Museum of Art) Volunteers are needed to help staff the GMOA gift shop. Activities include creating and maintaining store displays, ringing up sales and basic customer service. Weekday and weekend shifts available. 706-
542-0450, millera@uga.edu, www. uga.edu/gamuseum/info/shop.html. Litter Index Survey (Athens, Ga) Keep Athens Beautiful invites ACC residents to complete a litter index survey to inform educational programs in the community. Print a survey and map of roads to be rated, and walk, bike or drive through the city. Surveys accepted until July 6. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com/ index.aspx?
KIDSTUFF Arts in the Afternoon (East Athens Community Center) Afterschool program teaches arts and crafts and allows children to create original artwork. Ages 6–15. Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30– 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3593 Babies and Beasties (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Toddlers ages 18 months to two years and their parents are invited to discover nature with hands-on activities, hikes and crafts. Registration required. Thursdays in August. 10–10:45 a.m. $12–18. 706-613-3615, www.athens clarkecounty.com/sandycreeknature center Back to School Bingo (Parkview Community Center) Play bingo and win school supplies! Ages 6–13. Call to register by July 20. July 24, 10–11:30 a.m. $2. 706-613-3603 Creative Art Summer Camp (Chase Street Warehouses) Sign up for week-long sessions. Ages 6–12. June 4–July 16, 12–3 p.m. $100. 828-577-4125, lostdogbob@ gmail.com Dream Team Youth Triathlon Club (Athens, Ga) Meets weekly for running and cycling sessions with a certified coaching staff. For ages 5
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Willie Jinks’ artwork is part of the Southern folk art from the GMOA’s permanent collection, on display through July 22. to mid-teens. Group and individual training available. www.dreamteam triathlon.com Half-Pint Summer Art Camp (Pints and Paints) Week-long camps for ages 5-8 and 9-13. Participants will learn basic painting techniques and show off their masterpieces on the last day of the session. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $45 (day), $255 (week). www.pintsand paints.com Pop-In Playtimes and Summer Camps (Pump It Up) Kids can drop in and bounce on big inflatables. Ages 11 & under. Check website for times and costs. 706613-5675, www.pumpitupparty.com Summer Academy at UGA (The Georgia Center) Educational day camps for ages 11–17 including Adventure Travel Camp, Digital Film School, Engineering Academy, GameWerks1: Video Game Design, Secret Agent Camp, Robotics1 and Mini Medical School. Visit website for dates and details. Summer Art Camp (MadisonMorgan Cultural Center) “Things with Wings” art camp led by Julie Noland offers sessions for kids in
grades 1-12. July 16–26. $75. dlamar@mmcc-arts.org Summer Camps (Good Dirt) Now registering for week-long clay camps for ages 4–18. Each week has a different theme. Check website for program descriptions. Call to register. $125-165. 706-555-3161, www.gooddirt.net Summer Camps (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Now registering for camps offered in natural crafting, DIY, 2D art, 3D art, weaving, stop-motion animation, creative play, knitting and more. Check website for dates, age requirements and costs. $125 (ages 3–5), $165 (ages 6–12). www.tree housekidandcraft.tumblr.com Summer Reading Program (Clarke Central High School) Students and families can sign up for the summer reading program to read books and earn prizes. Meetings held in CCHS auditorium due to construction. Thursdays, May 24–Jul. 26. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Zoo Exhibit Hall (Memorial Park) The community can explore Bear Hollow’s exhibit hall and visit some of the animals used in programs,
such as amphibians, reptiles, fish and more. Saturdays, 1–4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3616, ext. 22.
SUPPORT Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, Ga) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.com Athens Mothers’ Center Support Group (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Mothers’ support group. Children welcome. Dads welcome on Fridays. Tuesdays and Fridays, 9:30–11:30 a.m. FREE! athensga.motherscenter.org Emotional Abuse Support Group (Athens, Ga) Demeaning behavior and hateful words can be just as harmful as punches and kicks. Childcare provided. Call for location. Every Wednesday. 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! 706-543-3331, 706-613-3357, ext. 771. GRASP: Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing (Athens, Ga) Support group for those who have lost a friend or loved one to
substance abuse or addiction. Call for location. 706-248-7715, www.grasphelp.org
ON THE STREET Athens Library Survey (Athens, Ga) The Athens Regional Library System invites users and non-users of the libraries to take its annual survey to garner feedback for future library developments. Surveys available online, in Spanish and at each library branch. Available until June 30. www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us Family Fishing (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Bait, poles and tips provided for fishing on Claypit Pond. All ages. Pre-registration required one day in advance. Jun. 21 & July 12, 6–7:30 p.m. $7–$10. 706-6133615, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ sandycreeknaturecenter Free Chair Massages (Foundry Park Inn & Spa) Sit down for a midweek massage break at The Spa. Call to reserve spot. Every Wednesday in
June and July, 12-2 p.m. 706-425-9700 Friends of the Garden Flea Market (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Accepting donated items Aug. 13-17. No clothing. Sale Aug. 18, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. 706-542-6138 Humane Society Pet Calendar Photo Contest (The Athens Area Humane Society) Submit a photo of your pet to be voted on for inclusion in the 2013 Athens Area Humane Society calendar. Each submission is $10. All proceeds benefit the AAHS. Submit by July 31. www.athenshumane society.org National HIV Testing Day (AIDS Athens) In honor of National HIV Testing Day, AIDS Athens offers a day of free, walk-in HIV testing. June 27, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE! 706-549-3730 Open Table Tennis (Oconee Veterans Park) Equipment provided. Wednesdays, 6–9 p.m. FREE! (Oconee Co. residents), $5. 706769-3965
ART AROUND TOWN AMICI ITALIAN CAFÉ (233 E. Clayton St.) New illustrations by Matt Bahr. Through July. ANTIQUES & JEWELS ART GALLERY (290 N. Milledge Ave.) Paintings by Mary Porter, Christine Shockley, Dorthea Jacksen, Lana Mitchell, John Gholson, Greg Benson and Ainhoa Bilbao Canup. Art quilt by Elizabeth Barton and handmade jewelry by various artists. ART ON THE SIDE GALLERY AND GIFTS (1011B Industrial Blvd., Watkinsville) A gallery featuring works by various artists in media including ceramics, paintings and fused glass. ARTLAND LOFT GALLERY (2 S. Main St., Watkinsville) “Through the Red Door,” colorful narratives, self-portraits and imaginary worlds by Lisa Freeman. Through July. AURUM STUDIOS (125 E. Clayton St.) Two- and three-dimensional artwork created by MFA students from the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Through July. THE BRANDED BUTCHER (225 N. Lumpkin St.) Paintings and drawings by Sanithna Phansavanh. CINÉ BARCAFÉ (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “Concrete Culture: Part of the Endless Summer of SPOA” features photography by Bob Brussack, Jason Thrasher, Chad Osburn, Kent Pearson, Ian McFarlane and David Franklin. Through July 18. EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Digital artwork by Greg Harmon. Through June. • Artwork by Jul Skelton. Through July. ETIENNE BRASSERIE (311 E. Broad St.) Paintings by Andy Cherewick. Through July. 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 Larry Hamilton, Cheri Wranosky, John Weber, John Cleaveland and more. FIVE STAR DAY CAFÉ (229 E. Broad St.) Paintings on tin and wood and drawings by Rick Littlefield. Through July. FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Digital photography by Sarah Beckwick and largescale paintings by Christopher Nelms and Jason Matherly. Through June. GALLERY @ HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “The Board Room,” part of the 2012 Summer of SPOA (Skatepark of Athens), includes skateboard decks designed by 55 different artists. • In The Glasscube, an installation by Deanna Kamal, “Collosphaera,” is a hybrid of interior design and marine biology. Through Sept. 9. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “John Baeder’s American Roadside” contains photographs of street signs, diners and off-interstate structures. Through July 22. • “A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings.” Through July 29. • “Victory Lap: Time-Based Winners of the Kress Project.” Through Sept. 7. • “Defiant Beauty: The Work of Chakaia Booker” consists of large-scale sculptures created from tires. Through Apr. 30. • An exhibition of 41 prints and drawings by Gerald L. Brockhurst. Through Sept. 16. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (East Campus Rd.) A collection of mounted game animals
Our Stories: A Dance/ Theatre Project (online) Local choreographer and dance artist Kelly Ozust has submitted a grant proposal to create a unique dance and theatre work that highlights stories gathered from the local community. Voting on proposed grants ends July 3. To cast your vote, visit stories. maker.good.is/projects/Kozust Seat in the Shade: Poetry Reading Series (The Globe) Summer poetry reading series hosted by the Poetry for Educators founder, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, in conjunction with her summer poetry workshop. Featuring readings by Ida Stewart, Ginger Murchison, Ayodele Heath, Alice Friman and more. July 9–13, 7 p.m. FREE! (706) 353-4721, www.teachersactup.com Tomcat Tuesdays and Puppy Packages (The Athens Area Humane Society) Athens Area Humane Society offers discounted male cat neuters and discounted puppy neuters. Through July. www. athenshumanesociety.org f
featuring lynxes, African leopards, Alaskan bears, water buffalo and elk, as well as live corn snakes, tarantulas, and other live animals. GEORGIA THEATRE (215 N. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Walker Howle (of Dead Confederate) and his father, William Howle. Through July. THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Drawings by Cara Beth Satalino and mixed media by Josh McCauley. Through July 14. HEIRLOOM CAFE AND FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Mixed media works by Lea Purvis. Through June. • Modern paintings and mixed media works by Will L. Opening reception July 3. Through July. JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE DOWNTOWN (297 E. Broad St.) Video game inspired paintings and prints by Noah McCarthy, Lea Purvis and Keith Rein. Through July 7. JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE EASTSIDE (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd.) The photography of Michael LaHood illuminates the beauty of nature. Through June. JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE FIVE POINTS (1230 S. Milledge Ave.) “Reflection” features sustainable art by Justin and Jul Sexton. Through June. JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) Photography by Robert Lowery. KUMQUAT MAE CAFE (18 S. Barnett Shoals Rd., Watkinsvile) Large mixed-media and oil paintings by Pam Congrove. Through June. • Metalsmithing work by Elizabeth Tong. Through July. LAST RESORT GRILL (184 W. Clayton St.) Paintings by Bob Davis. Through June. LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) Georgia Artists with Disabilities presents over 50 pieces of art. Through July 7. MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY (1315 Hwy. 98 W.) A wooden bowl created by Jack Hudson, leather goods by Terry Brown and hand-blown glass vases by Paul Benzunas. OCAF (34 School St., Watkinsville) Annual Members’ Exhibit featuring sculpture, paintings, drawings, textiles, jewelry, pottery and photos by OCAF members. Through July 20. • “From a Woman’s Hand” includes sculptures by Annie Evans, Cynthia Schoner and Dinah Stonis. Opening reception June 29. Through July 27. OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Still life and landscape oil paintings by Nancy Roberson, watercolors and original prints by Connee Flynn and landscape and horse oil paintings by Judy Buckley. Through June. • Paintings by Manda McKay. Through July. SEWCIAL STUDIO (160 Tracy St) Hand-dyed art quilts by Anita Heady and rust and over-dyed fabric on canvas by Bill Heady. Through July. STRAND HAIR SALON (1625 S. Lumpkin St.) “The Smoke Series” features photography by Blake Smith. Through June. TOWN 220 RESTAURANT AND GALLERY (220 W. Washington St., Madison) “Three Points of View: Landscapes” features landscape paintings by Greg Benson, Kim Shockley Karelson and Jill Schultz McGannon. Through June 28. TRANSMETROPOLITAN (145 E. Clayton St.) Prints from UGA art student Greg Stone. Through June. WHITE TIGER GOURMET (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Artglass works by Annette Paskiewicz. Through June.
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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins I own a house. I no longer live in it, since my fiancé has a perfectly lovely house in a nicer part of town than mine. I rent my house out to a very good friend of mine. This friend, whom I will call John, is a former boyfriend and a total fuck-up, but he is incredibly endearing and we have known each other for years. I really do love him, but he also drives me crazy (hence our lack of relationship). He is in his 40s, a PhD student in something that he will never make money at, and he can never hold down a job. He is also an alcoholic who likes recreational drugs (more reasons it couldn’t work between us). He sublets two of the rooms in my house to a rotating lineup of people who vary in levels of dependability, to put it mildly. There have been times before where he was late with the rent, and he would come to me and tell me he was waiting for a loan check, or waiting for the next tenant to move in, or whatever. I am in decent financial shape, so I have always been accommodating, and I know that he will eventually pay me when he can because he values our friendship as much as I do. (I know I am making him sound like shit, but that’s because his problems are the reason I am writing to you. I won’t bother with all the flowery prose about what a good friend he has been to me, etc., but know that he has and that he doesn’t totally suck as a human being or a friend.) Also, I like knowing that he is the one in my house because despite all of his faults I know he won’t cause any damage or let anyone else cause any damage, he will tell me when things need fixing and, more often than not, fix them himself. He takes care of the place like it’s his own. Anyway, the last couple months have been rough. I recently had a baby, so I am not seeing as much of John or anyone else. He has missed the rent in both May and June, and he has called and said he wanted to see me and explain it and set up a payment plan, etc. I have actually failed to call him back because I am busy and tired and I know he will pay me eventually. So, yesterday I finally got around to calling him back, and he asked me to either come over or meet him somewhere. I stopped by the house and he explained to me that he was not going to be able to continue school next semester (he described it as “taking a semester off”) due to a grant being cut or something, and he also told me about his current roommate. She apparently moved in at the end of May, and he told her she could start paying rent on June first. She has not paid him yet. He has confronted her, left her notes and stopped by to see her at work. She is not paying. He did
get another tenant for the other room, so he was able to pay me more than half of May. He asked the non-paying tenant to get out and gave her until the end of the week—all well and good. So, he made a payment plan with me, but he has no job, so I don’t know how he intends to keep it. He then started talking about a great new woman he’s dating, and how much fun he has been having with her—drinking on his credit card, he said—and he thought there could be a real future here. All great news. Then he went to the bathroom, and I noticed a bag of what I know damned well was cocaine sitting in the kitchen. I know he does it, and when I used to see him out and obviously high, I just assumed he was mooching it off of one of his friends, but seeing that bag there just kind of made me sick. I mean, part of the problem is that I care about him and I wish he would get his shit together, but now all I can think about is the fact that he is a month behind on his rent and that money is sitting in a small plastic bag next to the fucking toaster oven. I don’t want to get all holier-than-thou on him, but what the fuck? Can I say something? Should I? And what should I say? Frustrated Landlord Money and friends are a very difficult combination, FL. I won’t go into how shitty this is, and how it makes him seem as a person to the rest of us. I know you are close to the man, FL, but this is pretty bad. If you are more concerned about preserving the friendship than you are about getting paid on time, I would keep your mouth shut. You said you were financially pretty comfortable, so it may be less bother to just put the money and the drugs out of your mind and hope for the best. You don’t know where the coke came from. Maybe it was a gift from his delightful new ladyfriend? Maybe they belong to a roommate? In any case, if you choose to say something, you should not base what you say on the drugs. What you should do is tell him that you need the money, and give him a deadline and stick to it. If he can’t pay, tell him that you need the money and that you don’t want the stress of it to affect your friendship, and ask him to move out. I know it seems like I am oversimplifying, but those are your only choices. When you’re friends with an asshole (and no matter how great he is in other ways, FL, the guy is an asshole), sometimes you’re going to get shit on.
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Available now. Barnett Ridge, 2BR/2BA flats. Eastside. $625/mo. Lots of room for the price. W/D, DW incl. Also pre-leasing for Aug. 2012. www.joinermanagement. com, Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868.
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Just reduced! Investor’s Westside condo. 2BR/2BA, FP, 1500 sf., great investment, lease 12 mos. at $550/mo. Price in $40s. For more info, call McWaters Realty at (706) 353-2700 or (706) 540-1529. Pre-leasing for Fall. 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. Quiet 2BR/2.5BA condo. Milledge, next to family housing bus, 1300 sf., W/D, FP, free wireless, cable, pool, yard, pets OK. Avail. Aug. $800/mo. (706) 461-4351.
Duplexes For Rent 1BR/1BA, $399 special! Avail. now. Spacious, quiet, very clean & well maintained. Great Eastside location. Will go fast. (706) 5466900 or valerioproperties@gmail. com. 2BR duplex in Bogart. Your room furnished. Students, retirees, construction workers welcome. $300/mo. + 1/2 utils. Lease + dep. req’d. (678) 879-9772. 2BR/2BA duplex w/ FP in Sleepy Hollow. Great location near 5 Pts. $700/mo. (706) 224-9358. 3BR/2BA duplex, $700/mo. Eastside. W/D incl., alarm system, pets welcome. $350 dep.www. hancockpropertiesinc.com. (706) 552-3500. 5 Pts. duplex, 2BR/1BA, CHAC, ceiling fans, W/D incl. Near Memorial Park. Avail. July 15 or later. Cats OK, no dogs. Professionals/grad. students preferred. $600/mo. (706) 202-9805. Nice duplex, 2BR/1BA. $425/mo. + dep. W/D hookup. No pets. Call (706) 296-4213 for appt.
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Houses for Rent $850/mo. House on Eastside. Less than 10 min. to U GA, 4BR/1-1/2BA, workshop in bsmt., 1 car garage, lg. kitchen, fenced yd., safe & quiet n’hood, W/D hookups, Avail. 7/1/12, 117 Crossbow Cir., Winterville. Agent/Owner, call Robin, (770) 265-6509. 120 Park Ave. Perfect house for 2 people @ $1000 or 3 people @ $1250. HWflrs., private yard, full basement, in Boulevard, walking distance to everything. (706) 548-9797. www.boulevard propertymanagement. com. 1 or 2BR, recently renovated, private, quiet location near Publix. All elec., CHAC, new appls., W/D, DW, HWflrs. Water & garbage paid. $650-680/ mo. www.boulevard propertymanagement. com, (706) 548-9797. 2/3BR house avail. now! Also pre-leasing for Fall. 1, 2 & 3BR houses. Close to campus & Dwntn. Call (706) 255-0066. 2BR/1BA cottage, Blvd. area. 133 Virginia Ave. HWflrs., W/D conn., Avail. Aug. 1. $700/mo. Professionals or grad students preferred. (706) 202-9805. 2BR/1BA house in Cobbham. Avail. July 1st. CHAC, HWflrs., ceiling fans, rocking chair porch. $600/mo. + dep. Call Mark, (706) 202-5110. 3BR/2BA in Normaltown. Av a i l a b l e J u l y 1 5 ! H W f l r s . , CHAC, quiet street. Grad students pref’d. Rent negotiable. (706) 372-1505. 3BR/2BA. Nor maltown/ARMC area. Convenient to everything! Front porch. Storage building. Pets welcome. Avail. Aug. 1. Water, trash & lawn care incl. $900/mo. Aaron, (706) 2072957. 3BR/2.5BA house, Homewood Hills. FP, fenced yd., deck, garage. Unfurnished. All appls. (incl. new stove). Quiet safe n’hood. Great for kids, pets OK. $1100/mo. (706) 224-9445.
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Parking & Storage Parking places for rent across from UGA. $30/mo. (706) 3544261. Storage Mart. We offer units from 5x5 to 20x35 in climate control & regular! Our facility is well lit, gated entry w/ sec. cameras & site managers on property! Located at 3985 Atlanta Hwy., (706) 548-2252, ext. 2 & 251 Collins Industrial Blvd., (706) 548-2611, ext. 2. Ask about military, federal & state employee discounts. Mention this ad for 20% off your 1st & 2nd mo. rent.
Pre-Leasing 1 & 2 BR apts. All elec., near 5 Pts. area, $450-550/mo. 3BR/1BA house off Milledge, near park & busline, $1100. Both pet friendly. (706) 424-0770. 1BR/1BA Hillside Apt. $475/mo. $550/mo. w/ W/D. Water incl. Blocks from campus. Pre-leasing for Aug. Joiner Management: ( 7 0 6 ) 3 5 3 - 6 8 6 8 . w w w. joinermanagement.com. 2 & 3BR, in-town & 5Pts. Super location. (706) 2070539 or vlow@prodigy.net for pics & info. 2BR/2.5BA townhome, Cedar Bluff, Eastside. $670/mo. w/ W/D, DW, lg. rooms. Perfect for grad. student/young prof. P r e - l e a s i n g f o r A u g . w w w. joinermanagement.com. Joiner Management, (706) 353-6868. Dwntn., 1BR/1BA flat, $465/mo. Avail. now or preleasing for Aug. 2012. Water, gas, trash pick-up incl. Free o n - s i t e l a u n d r y. J o i n e r Management, (706) 3536868. Pre-leasing for Fall. Take the bus to campus from Macon Hwy.: 5BR/2BA, 1055 Macon H w y. , $ 1 4 9 5 / m o . 3 B R / 1 B A , 1085 Macon Hwy., W/D incl., $795/mo. 2BR/1BA, 1095 Macon Hwy., W/D incl., $695/ mo. 2BR/2BA, 625 Whitehall Rd., $695/mo. 3BR/2BA, 1182 Whit Davis, $725/mo. Visual tour online. nancyflowers.com. Call, text or email Nancy, (706) 5401608. flowersnancy@bellsouth. net.
Roommates 2BR/1BA duplex in Bogart. Your rm. beautifully and completely furnished w/ TV. 6 mo. lease. $300/mo. + 1/2 utils. Deposit req. (678) 879-9772. Looking for a roommate? Still need a place to live? Call up Flagpole Classifieds and let the good people of Athens know. (706) 549-0301 or www.classifieds.flagpole. com. Male seeking roommate. $275/ mo. incl. utils. for policeman or public servant. $375/mo. otherwise. Nice 3BR home w/ deck in Winterville. No smokers. Bob, (706) 347-8889.
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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.
Roommate needed ASAP for house off Pulaski St. Screened porch, W/D. Only a 10 min. walk from Dwntn. Only $250/mo. (706) 548-9744.
W e d d i n g b a n d s . Qu a lit y, professional bands. Weddings, parties. Rock, jazz, etc. Call Classic City Enter tainm ent. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 9 - 1 5 6 7 . w w w. classiccityentertainment.com. Featuring The Magictones Athens’ premiere wedding & party band. www.themagictones.com.
Seeking personal assistant to help w/ errands in exchange for discounted rent. $150/mo. No smokers, no drinkers. Oglethorpe Co., Maxeys. (706) 759-3852.
Rooms for Rent Dashiell Cottages. Move–in, $75/ wk.! (706) 850-0491. 1BR, private entrance, all amenities, WiFi, long distance. Enjoy our river community, 5 blocks to UGA. Enjoy wildlife observation.
For Sale Miscellaneous Archipelago Antiques. 23 years of fine antiques, art & retro. Underneath Homeplace. At 1676 S. Lumpkin St. (706) 3544297. Come to Cillies, 175 E. Clayton St. for vintage Louis Vuitton. 20% off single purchase of clothing, sandals and jewelry (excl. J. Crew). 1/person. Go to A g o r a ! Awesome! Affordable! The ultimate store! Specializing in retro everything: antiques, furniture, clothes, bikes, records & players! 260 W. Clayton St., (706) 3160130. Instant cash is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition. Wuxtry Records, at corner of Clayton & College downtown. (706) 3699428. Sell your car, your bike, your records and your instruments with Flagpole Classifieds. Now with online pics! Go to www.flagpole.com today.
Music Equipment Nuçi’s Space needs your old instruments & music gear! All donations are tax-deductible. Call (706) 227-1515 or come by Nuçi’s Space, 396 Oconee St.
Instruction Athens School of Music. I n s t r u c t i o n i n g u i t a r, b a s s , drums, piano, voice, brass, woodwinds, strings, banjo, mandolin, fiddle & more. From beginner to expert. Instrument repairs avail. Visit http://www. AthensSchoolofMusic.com, (706) 543-5800. Guitar lessons! College instructor w/ doctorate in music. All styles, beginners too. Bass, theory & composition too. 1st lesson free. Call David, (706) 546-7082. davidguitar4109@ hotmail.com. www. mitchellmusicguitar.com.
Music Services Eady Guitars, Guitar Building & Repair. Qualified repairman offering professional set ups, fret work, wiring, finishing & restorations. Exp. incl. Gibson & Benedetto Guitars. Appt. only. (615) 714-9722, www.eadyguitars. com.
Services Cleaning House Cleaning.. She said, “You have cleaning down to a science!� I use the best earth-friendly products. Pets & family welcome. Reliable & very budget-friendly. Local & independent. Tell me how many BR/BA & I’ll give you a quote. Text/ email (706) 851-9087, Nick@goodworld.biz.
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Psychics International psychic Charley Castex. In-person sessions. Athens, summer 2012. “The real deal!� -New York TImes. Appt. requests & info, (828) 251-5043, Charleycastex.com. Local spiritual counselor will read your cards & guide you in ways to go forward in money, romance & health. Will help you achieve goals. Call Betty, (706) 534-2286.
Spa The location of Athens’ best massage therapists, estheticians & nail technicians is not classified. Call The Spa at Foundry Park Inn now at (706) 425-9700.
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hen you stop by the Booger Hill Bee Company “Scout bees come back to the nest and tell the other forstand at the Athens Farmers Market at Bishop agers where the pollen and nectar is. It’s a dance that they Park on Saturday mornings, you’ll find assorted jars of wilddo, and the motions have significance in regard to direction, flower honey, bottles of honey vinegar and beeswax candles. distance and quality,” says Harris. “It’s an amazing thing. They It’s bucolic. Calm. Sweet. do a little figure eight, and it’s called a wagged-tail dance. And The land around Booger Hill Bee Company just outside of the angle to vertical that their dance occurs gives direction. Athens in Danielsville, GA is also bucolic, calm and sweet. So, if it’s perfectly vertical, what they’re telling the audience is But trying to keep up with owner Dan Harris talking about his you go out of the entrance of the hive, look directly at the sun bees is like trying to keep up with a bee itself: speeding in and go toward the sun. If the direction of the eight is down, one direction, then zipping in another direction, then hanging they’re telling the audience go out and look at the sun and go momentarily before returning to the original destination. And the other way. Or if it’s 30 degrees to the right, go 30 degrees like the bees, he knows what he’s doing. Nervously anticipating walking around bee hives, I’d done my Internet research and arrived at his apiary wearing protective long-sleeved and longlegged light-colored clothing. I wasn’t there 10 minutes before he had me holding a frame of honey bees, barehanded. The bees were as relaxed as he was. “I talk to my bees,” says Harris. “The beekeeper’s rule used to be when a beekeeper passed away, it fell to his best friend to tell the bees that he’s passed on. You tell them what you’re doing. When people are buying my bees and I’m moving frames, I’ll be talking to them and telling them these are your new people. I just talk to them. I had a lady who bought bees from me one time, and she got them home and she had them for a month. Then she called me and said, ‘These bees are just mean.’ I said, ‘Well, they never were mean here.’ And she said, ‘Well, they’re mean.’ So, I went over and I smoked the hive and I opened it up, and they were just as calm as they could be. And she was mad. She said, ‘Those bees remember you!’” At 50 years old, Harris quit his job with General Electric, moved to Danielsville and went to UGA for a degree in horticulture, where he fell in love with bees. It was, in his words, “a tangled path that blossomed and bloomed.” He now owns approximately 200 hives, which he manages with his assistant Christian Hoadley, a graduate student in Forestry at UGA. In addition to selling bees and honey, Harris teaches a course for beginning beekeepers at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens and the Smith-Gilbert Gardens in Kennesaw one Saturday a month from December to June, with one more class in late summer to show his students how to get their hives ready for winter. “May and June is when people want to get bees, and that’s the end of the nectar flow,” says Harris. “Starting classes in December [teaches] people to Beekeeper Dan Harris pulls out a frame of his Danielsville bees. be prepared and have equipment ready in the spring, and have the bees ready when the cold weather arrives.” His experience has shown him right. The speed that they travel this figure eight tells them being unprepared leads new beekeepers to failed hives and lost how far it is. The faster they go, the closer it is. And then the enthusiasm. “There’s room for anybody who wants to do it, but vibration of their abdomen, which is why they call it a wag-tail you have to have passion.” dance, the vigor tells the quality.” When Harris explains the inner-workings of the bee comIn addition to an early spring speeding up his schedule by munity, it’s no wonder he has passion. Bees are fascinating three weeks, this past mild winter also presented Harris with creatures, especially when he talks about them. There’s the some interesting challenges. “Bees flew most of the winter, so biological side, like the queen bee having the power to lay they consumed a lot more honey. I bought two tons of sugar unfertilized (male) or fertilized (female) eggs on command, last year that I would not ordinarily buy, just to keep them since males are only required for springtime mating and yearalive all winter long.” On the other hand, he continues, “A cold round females handle all the other jobs. And there’s the way winter is physically hard on bees, so coming out of a hard winthe bees communicate with the rest of the hive, like the dance ter, it’s not uncommon to have a 10 or 15 percent loss. And I of the honey bee. probably had a 5 percent loss this year, so it balanced out.”
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But going to the store for two tons of 25-pound bags of sugar was a first-time fluke in his 10-year beekeeping career. “As a beekeeper, it’s our task to encourage their hoarding instinct so they’ll put up more than they need, and we can take some and leave some,” says Harris. “You give them room to put it or you give them wax combs. If they have empty wax combs, they have this instinct to fill them. Another thing you do is try to keep them from swarming. In the spring, they’ll want to swarm; it’s their instinct. “There are a gazillion different techniques (to prevent swarming), most of which keep beekeepers pretty busy in the spring,” says Harris. “You can remove the queen, and they’ll suddenly be queenless, and they’ll start making emergency queens. You interrupt the brood cycle—that just sets them back. You can also give them more space. If they’re really crowded and congested, they’re more likely to swarm. So, you’re constantly trying to make sure they have space without giving them too much. If you have too much space, they can become demoralized. It’s like a lot of people I know: if you give them too many jobs, they don’t know where to start and they’ll quit doing anything. Well, bees are kinda the same way. You give them all these empty boxes, they’re like, uhhh, they don’t do a thing.” Newer techniques with DNA research, like at the UGA Bee Lab headed by his friend, entomologist Jennifer Berry, have resulted in huge leaps in bee behavior and parasitic pressure studies. “It’s that kind of stuff that we didn’t know five years ago that may give clues to some of the massive bee failures,” says Harris. But for the rest of the community, it’s about the honey. “I like to put light honey and dark honey on the table,” says Harris about his Athens Farmers Market stand. “It’s good for conversation. I’d like people to think about what they’re buying—that it’s not that homogenized stuff that they see at the grocery store that’s all the same. Different things bloom, and different shades result and different flavors result.” Grocery store honey “has been pressure filtered, so they’ve gotten all the pollen out of it. It’s been heated hot enough that any of the proteins or enzymes or anything else of consequence are denatured. And if it’s made in this country, 90 percent is clover honey. Which is not bad if you like clover honey, but it’s kinda like a McDonald’s thing. It tastes the same no matter where you get it, whereas real honeys have a diverse range of flavors.” So, how is honey made? “The moment a forager ingests nectar from a flower, and she’s carrying it back to the hive,” explains Harris, “she’s actually adding enzymes to it at the same time. She transfers that to one of the house bees at the door so she can go forage again, and when it hits that second bee’s stomach, she continues to add those enzymes. They put that nectar in cells, and they move air around those cells to reduce the moisture content. So, it’s a team effort.” And in the beekeeping world, Harris is definitely a team player. Marilyn Estes For more information on Dan Harris and Booger Hill Bee Company, visit www.boogerhillbee.com.
everyday people Sherri King, Sales Representative Sherri King was quietly sitting on a bench downtown when I approached her, but I noticed her immediately—maybe it was her red shirt, red shoes and red hair. Sherri enjoys working as a sales representative to pay the bills, but her real passion is poetry. She seeks to motivate and inspire with her art and has recorded her own inspirational CD. Flagpole: What do you do here in Athens? Sherri King: I work for District Specialty Supplies. I sell school supplies to principals in all 50 states: elementary, middle and high school. I’ve been doing it for 11 years. FP: And what does your job entail? SK: I’m a sales representative. I do calls over the phone. FP: Do you sometimes find it difficult doing sales entirely over the phone?
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FP: What brought you to Athens? SK: Just [that] I like Athens, it’s a fun city, and Greene County was a little too small for me, because I like to be around different people, and I just thought [Athens] was more on my level. FP: Do you have any family here in Athens? SK: My baby sister lives in Athens and my brother lives in Athens.
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FP: And what do you like to do around town? SK: I just find anything of entertainment. I like poetry; I do a lot of poetry. I like to do poetry. FP: Oh, poetry, that’s awesome. SK: I do a lot of poetry. I like to do things like, most of the time [my friends and I] do a little of dance club, [we go to] bars—different things.
FP: So, [principals] will buy school supplies in bulk from your company‌ SK: Oh, yeah. They buy a lot from me. A lot. They deal with me. My customers deal with me. So, when they like me, that’s all I need. FP: Had you ever done [similar work] before you started working there? SK: Um, I had done customer service work, but I had never done anything like that before. But I was very strong in the customer service field. FP: Where did you work before? SK: I worked at Dial America. I was the top sales rep there‌ And I’m the top sales rep at District Specialty Supplies, also. And I also worked at HCS Marketing, which sold OSHA manuals to like different big-time jobs, telling them about safety skills‌ on the job and everything. So, I had a lot of experience in that field. FP: What kind of schooling do you have? SK: I did a lot of intake at Athens Technical Institute. I did some online at Kaplan University. FP: And was that customer service-oriented in some way, or did you study something else? SK: Yeah, I did some retail marketing at Athens Tech‌ [Classes] were pretty cool. It was pretty cool, pretty laid back.
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FP: Do you spend a lot of time with them? SK: Yeah. We go shopping, me and my sister. Me and my brother, we hang and we watch basketball‌ We watch football, just sports. We watch sports.
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