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Journal of a Storyteller Country Book You may remember Terry Burger from his growing up here and graduating from UGA, or from some of the pieces we’ve published by him from time to time, such as his hilarious account of standing naked on the front porch of his shack near here on Turkey Creek, firing his .22 rifle at a man with a knife.

Which reminds me of another piece of his we published about his mother getting her hair done by a country stylist who shot at the squirrels in her bird feeder between rinses.

Terry is still living on a creek—Marsh Creek, on the fringes of the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania, the area he has inhabited for the last 30 years, not too far from where his parents grew up. After driving ambulances and trucks and jackhammers, Terry finally found steady work as a newspaper reporter in Gettysburg and stuck with it until his retirement a couple of years ago.

Terry gardens when he’s not writing and both endeavors lead him to reflect on the world around him, particularly the part focused around Marsh Creek. Now, he has collected some of his ruminations into a volume he has titled, The Year of the Moon Goose, as a tribute to the fowl that adopted him as a meal ticket.

These reflections are organized around the seasons of the year, beginning in winter, but they range all over, in time and place (and even include the piece about the deadeye beautician). There’s a lot about life on the creek, and there’s a lot about life in general. Terry has the writer’s temperament of thinking about things— mulling things over, and his book is a kind of mull itself; he has thrown in a lot of thought and experience and cooked it into a well seasoned melange.

It’s probably a good thing that Terry found that newspaper job, because it pushed him out into the world and got him off the porch overlooking the creek, where he probably would have been content to feed his goose and watch the raindrops make circles on the surface. What you get in The Year of the Moon Goose is the feeling of sitting on that porch with Terry, sheltered from a gentle rain, having a long, rambling conversation with a guy who thinks about things and sees connections among them, and they remind him of a funny story or a sad one, and he has the ability to let you share in his experiences and insights.

Terry will start out writing about the rock he was trying to excavate from under his house and end up meditating on what it means to own property. Of course, the fact that he lives in the country and by a creek gives this book much of its flavor. A guy writing from the city is not going to observe nearly as many herons, eagles, squirrels and honeybees as Terry describes, not to mention the close attention to the seasons and what they mean for the garden. Even if Terry did live in New York City, though, he would still write a book filled with his thoughtful insights, because he’s just that kind of guy.

Reading The Year of the Moon Goose is like visiting with Terry, but you can actually do that in person this Saturday, Apr. 27 from 2 p.m.–3 p.m. at Avid Bookshop on Prince Avenue. Terry will be there signing his book, so you can get your own copy signed by the author and find out that he is just exactly the warm and thoughtful person you expected.

City Book For a contrast to Moon Goose, get over to the UGA Chapel at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 to hear Jeff Speck talk about his book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time. He’ll sign his books afterward at Avid Bookshop’s reception upstairs Transmetropolitan downtown.

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The Aldeanocalypse: On Apr. 13, Athens residents cowered backbones of our local economy. And if twangy Metallica covin their homes, fearful of the giant, radioactive, Canadian tuxers are what the kids want to pay money to hear these days, so edo-clad cowboy who was coming to stomp all over our footbe it. ball stadium, clog up our roads and take all our parking spaces.

Just one thing. Next time, please book Radiohead.

There was much rending of garments and posting of Facebook statuses. Who is this guy? Why didn’t they get R.E.M.? (Hint: But Wait! There’s More: Adams had a lot to say during because they’re broken up.) his monthly press conference last Thursday, weighing in on Jason Aldean isn’t my particular cup of Coors Light. To me, coal, a recent tuition hike, next year’s budget, security in the “Night Train” is a James Brown song, and country music ceased to exist after Gram Parsons died. But there is a time and a place for judging people by their taste in music, and it’s called high school.

Aldean and pals sold out Sanford Stadium in an hour. How many acts can move 66,000 tickets, let alone that fast? Somebody out there must like them. Even Flagpole’s (other) resident curmudgeon, Threats & Promises writer Gordon Lamb, had a good time.

Dire predictions of rednecks overrunning West Washington Street didn’t come to pass. Sunday’s police blotter told the story of nothing more than a run-of-the-mill classy Athens weekend. An overindulging gentleman taken to the hospital.

A couple of fistfights. Two teenagers peeing in a parking deck.

“I have to say, it was wonderfully behaved crowd,” said University of Georgia President Michael Adams, who attended the concert.

“Probably better behaved than a typical football crowd.”

Parking and traffic weren’t great, of course, but not any worse and probably better than a football game. Assistant Athletic Director Josh Brooks, Hey, at least he’s not Colt Ford and David Richt. who organized the event, said he didn’t field any complaints. Nor did Athens Downtown Development Director wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and rumors that the Kathryn Lookofsky.

UGA-Georgia Tech football game would be canceled. Read it at “The bars and restaurants had a gangbusters weekend,” Flagpole.com/blogs/in-the-loop.

Lookofsky said, a welcome shot in the arm during the slow time between football season and Twilight, graduation and Landmark Tree: The owners of one of Athens’ most famous AthFest. trees cut it down earlier this week after the Athens-Clarke When I spoke to Brooks last week, he was too exhausted County community forester noticed it was dying. to even contemplate putting on another concert at Sanford. A The white oak on Old Jefferson Road, once owned by longfew days later, incoming UGA President Jere Morehead wasn’t time tree advocate Mary Anne Hodgson, was at least 200-250 ready to commit to one—planning it would take a year or two, years old and was believed to be the second-largest white oak he said—but nothing happened that would rule one out. “I am in the state. certainly open to replicating this in the future,” Morehead said.

ACC Community Forester and Environmental Coordinator To me, it’s a no-brainer. We have a taxpayer-funded facility Andrew Saunders said he rode by the tree recently and saw that sits empty 357 days out of the year. Tourism is one of the vertical cracks in the trunk. The tree had simply grown too big.

“That is a sign of the tree literally pulling itself apart,” he said.

On further inspection, Saunders found that the tree had been wounded somehow about 30 or 40 years ago and hadn’t been able to compartmentalize the damage. Two-thirds of the tree had decayed, leaving it hollow inside with only the new growth since the injury remaining.

Saunders said he “agonized” over the decision, but after consulting with three other arborists, all four recommended that the Hodgson family cut the tree down so it didn’t fall over and hurt someone.

Occupy Ordinance: Athens-Clarke commissioners continue to consider an ordinance once aimed at last year’s Occupy Athens protest at City Hall, but the debate has shifted to keeping homeless people out from under bridges.

A February fire in a homeless camp underneath the North Avenue bridge could have caused a gas line to explode, and local officials resurrected the moribund Occupy ordinance as a way to clear out homeless people if they pose a hazard to public safety.

Parks already have set hours, such as sunrise to sunset, but they’re not enforced on the North Oconee River Greenway, and the law doesn’t cover right-of-way that’s not part of the greenway. The commission’s Legislative Review Committee asked ACC Attorney Bill Berryman last week to draft language extending the power to set hours to other public spaces besides parks.

Conversation at the Apr. 16 meeting at times took turns toward the surreal. Girtz raised the specter of “a midnight picnic” outside that most romantic of date-night hotspots, the county planning department building. “Good bottle of wine, some hummus,” Girtz said.

Police Chief Jack Lumpkin also provided this interesting tidbit: When police respond to complaints about panhandlers at intersections, they sometimes find hundreds of dollars on them. “It’s a business,” he said. “It’s not just people trying to find a means to live.”

The LRC will continue its discussions next month.

Meanwhile, the Government Operations Committee made little progress on expanding where people can start community gardens and sell produce grown in them.

Don’t Forget: A public hearing where we’ll be able vote on concepts for the downtown master plan is 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 25 in the Classic Center’s Grand Hall. GO! If you can’t make it, check Flagpole.com to find out how if went.

In addition, the ACC Planning Department is taking public comment on its Prince Avenue corridor study through April 30. Go down to their office on Dougherty Street or visit the department’s website at athensclarkecounty.com/index. aspx?NID=4278 to check it out.

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capitol impact Big Spenders in Senate Race If Phil Gingrey, Jack Kingston and Tom Price all end up running for Saxby Chambliss’ Senate seat next year, you can be sure of one thing: they won’t have to worry about a lack of money. Each of those U.S. House members is already sitting on a pile of campaign cash that is close to or exceeds the $2 million level.

Kingston, a Savannah Republican, raised more than $843,000 from individuals and political action committees during the first quarter of 2013 and now has a cash balance of $1.75 million. That’s an impressive amount, to be sure, but Kingston only qualifies for third place among his colleagues when it comes to dialing for dollars.

Price raised more than $541,000 during the first quarter and had $2.07 million in cash that he could use in a Senate race.

Gingrey pulled in more than $666,000 during the first quarter and has $2.4 million to spend.

With another year to ask for contributions, there is no telling how much money Kingston, Gingrey and Price would be able to raise. By the time this race is over, they’ll have spent so much cash, they’ll probably revive Georgia’s stagnant economy all by themselves.

The fourth Republican House member in the Senate race, Paul Broun of Athens, would have to be classified as the non-moneybags candidate in this race. Broun, who was the first person to actually announce his candidacy, reported contributions of about $209,000 during the most recent reporting period. He had just $217,136 in his bank account as of March 31.

Broun supporters should not worry about that–he has a history of running campaigns on a shoestring. Broun went heavily into debt when he won his first House race in 2007. In 2008, while running for a full House term, he burned through his congressional staff budget by spending most of it to print and send literature to potential voters prior to the

election. He still won that race going away. A lack of money has never been a major problem for Broun.

Karen Handel, the former secretary of state and an unsuccessful candidate for governor three years ago, could complicate the Republican primary even more. If Price decides not to run for the Senate, you can look for Handel to become a challenger to Broun, Kingston and Gingrey. If Price does run for the Senate, Handel could easily switch lanes and run for Price’s 6th Congressional District seat.

There will be a Democratic candidate in the Senate race as well, but that person’s identity has yet to be determined.

U.S. Rep. John Barrow of the 12th Congressional District, who’s claimed three different residences in the past decade as Republicans kept redrawing his district boundaries, doesn’t have a lot of money, unlike the GOP frontrunners. He had to spend everything he had to hang on to his House seat last year.

Barrow has always been an effective fundraiser, however, and he was already bouncing back in the first quarter, raising a respectable total of $416,000. He will be able to raise much more if he decides to enter the Senate race.

Another possible Democratic contender is Michelle Nunn, the daughter of former senator Sam Nunn. If Nunn gets into the Democratic primary, her well-connected father could help her raise some significant money. Barrow would probably bow out at that point and run for the House again.

There are many strategy sessions to be held and a lot of decisions to be made before we know what the final field will be for the Senate race. The one thing we do know is there will be boxcars full of money spent on this race–more than has probably ever been seen in a Georgia election.

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athens rising Walkable Downtowns and More Speck Lecture: I’m very excited to attend the Jeff Speck lecture at The Chapel on Wednesday, May 1 from 6-7:30 p.m. with a book signing afterwards upstairs at Transmetropolitan. Speck is a city planner, urban designer and advocate for smart growth and sustainable design. He worked for years with Andres Duany and Elizabeth PlaterZyberk, leaders in New Urbanism. His lecture will cover his most recent book Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time.

Attorney Bill Berryman. Ellis angered neighbors because a behemoth addition to his house at 321 Dubose Ave., in the Boulevard Historic District, is five feet taller than plans approved by the Historic Preservation Commission.

Hands on Athens: I’m in luck, because for my last birthday two of my friends bought me a gift certificate for a manicure. After a weekend of scraping, sanding and painting with Hands On Athens, I’m ready to use it.

I worked with a group led by house captain Ben Liverman on 170 Lyndon Avenue in Boulevard that was undergoing a significant change. The nearly 90-year-old house had previously been covered in asphalt siding to help with insulation. Prior to my arrival, the siding had been removed, holes had been drilled in the original wood siding and insulation had been pumped into the walls. So, by the time I arrived late (slept through the alarm) that Friday morning, a group was already hard at work scraping paint from the original wood siding. Since I felt guilty about being late, I lied and said I was fine working on a ladder, so I climbed up, pretended the height didn’t make me want to vomit and began scraping paint off the eaves.

Since lead paint was used up until the 1970s, most paint scraped off during Hands On Athens weekend contains lead, and volunteers have to wear face masks and put plastic around the house to catch the paint chips.

Five Points Ranch: On a sad note, Athens’ first (and perhaps best-designed) ranch house, located at the corner of University Drive and Pinecrest Drive, is going to be demolished.

Allison Wright, the ACC commissioner in the Five Points area, had put a 30 day hold on the demolition in hopes that someone would come forward willing to relocate the house.

Two parties were interested in relocating the house, but neither inquiry “went very far in planning the move. It will be a said sight to see this unique house that used to be a well kept home torn down,” Wright said.

321 Dubose: Developer Tom Ellis is scheduled to be arraigned in Athens-Clarke Municipal Court on Thursday, May 2 on charges of failure to comply with a Certificate of Appropriateness and violating a Feb. 2 stop work order issued when the COA violation was discovered, according to Athens-Clarke

Hands on Athens volunteers paint a Boulevard house.

Between the face mask and foggy goggles, being able to see what I was doing became a luxury.

Then the entire house had to be sanded for priming, which consumed the majority of Saturday. There are a few finishing touches left before the house receives its final coat of paint. While the house already looks drastically different from a month ago, when it was covered in asphalt siding, it will look even more different in just a few short weeks.

Hands On Athens is made up of volunteers throughout the community. This year, I worked with Liverman and Emerging Green Professionals, a group of students and young professionals interested in sustainable design and construction, who have volunteered

together with Hands On Athens in the past.

Ben Hornsby, third-year volunteer and master scraper, says he enjoys working with Hands On Athens because it can be hard to find time to give back to the community with the demands of everyday life. Emily Wirt, also a third-year volunteer, said, “Hands On Athens is always on a beautiful weekend in April, and it’s a great way to welcome in spring and be outside.”

And it is.

And it wasn’t just Hands On Athens volunteers working on the house. Neighbors joined in and, at some point, every member of the Mattox family that owns the house had helped to paint it.

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A local Chick-fil-A came through with 70 biscuits. And just like that, the Athens community reacted the way it always responds to calamityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with an outpouring of support.

The fireâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the community responseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; was reminiscent of the one at the Georgia Theatre that rocked Athens (no pun intended) in 2009. The exact cause remains unknown, but investigators are sure it was accidental.

A call came in at 10:18 p.m. Monday, Apr. 15, according to Athens-Clarke Assistant Fire Chief Kyle Hendrix. Firefighters responded within four minutes; by the time they arrived, flames were already shooting through the roof. Little but the damaged steeple, the altar and the brick exterior walls remain.

After word got out about the fire, people donated so much food and supplies that Action Ministries has nowhere to store it all.

First Baptist Church stepped up, offering its kitchen and fellowship hall to Our Daily Bread for the next six months. The Oconee Street congregation will worship, for now, at Young Harris UMC. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our sister church,â&#x20AC;? said the Rev. Richard Moeller, the pastor at Chapelwood UMC. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to take. We offered any help we can give them.â&#x20AC;?

Last Wednesday, it was Chapelwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turn to dish out sloppy joes and potato salad at Our Daily Bread, except at First Baptist this time instead of Oconee Street. (Local churches rotate monthly, preparing and serving meals.)

Diners gathered on Oconee Street, and a Milledge Avenue Baptist Church shuttle bus drove them to Hancock Avenue. (First Baptist asked the media not to interview people eating there.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;My prayer would be that the day would come when Our Daily Bread can â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;return homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to the church that has hosted it for so long,â&#x20AC;? the Rev. Paul Baxley, First Baptistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pastor, wrote in an email to its congregation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the same time, so many in our church have cooked and served meals at Our Daily Bread, and you

are well aware of how critical this ministry is for the community. It is the primary source of nourishment for many, and for some its presence is what keeps individuals and families from becoming homeless.â&#x20AC;?

Oconee Street UMCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pastor, the Rev. Lisa Caine, is still working with the insurance company, but she already knows rebuilding will be expensive. The church has set up a fundraising website at www.rebuildoconeestreetumc.org. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We definitely will rebuild on the same spot,â&#x20AC;? Caine said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The church has been in that location for 110 years. Athens wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be Athens without the church on the hill.â&#x20AC;?

Oconee Street UMC has a long history of worship and social activism. Founded closer to downtown and across the river in 1871, it moved to its present location in 1903. It was expanded in 1920 and again in 1968, then renovated in 1979.

A year later, the Rev. Carolyn Morris became the first female pastor in Athens. In 1989, the church partnered with Athens Urban Ministry to open Our Daily Bread, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first â&#x20AC;&#x153;noon kitchen.â&#x20AC;? Church members have also raised countless dollars and donated many hours of their time to other local charities, and the church often hosted neighborhood meetings.

Now run by Atlanta-based Action Ministries, Our Daily Bread serves 55,000 meals annually. It also distributes health and hygiene items and provides legal services, case management, nursing care, GED and computer classes, veterans assistance and help with job searches.

While Barger is grateful for all the support, due to limited pantry space, what the agency needs now most of all is money, she said. Taxdeductible donations can be made at actionministries.net/donate/ or sent to 717 Oconee Street, Athens, GA 30605. (Action Ministriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offices werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t damaged by the fire.)

Worried that support will dry up once the fire is out of the headlines, Barger also urged people to sign up for nonprofitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Action Dash 5K race on Labor Day weekend at actiondash.org. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it would be a wonderful opportunity to celebrate what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been through and where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Once the smoky dust settles, both Caine and Barger said, they hope to bring Our Daily Bread back to the rebuilt Oconee Street UMC. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We still consider them our home,â&#x20AC;? Barger said.

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Solving the Mystery:

What’s a Criterium?

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t’s Twilight Weekend in Athens, and that means races, recreational beverages and revelry, culminating in the big race Saturday night: the Terrapin Twilight Criterium.

The streets of downtown will be filled to capacity as 150 cyclists tear through the town at 40 miles per hour in an explosion of color and speed blowing past the crowd who cheer at… whatever, they have no idea, they’re just having fun watching and cheering.

So what is actually going on in the race? It turns out, some cool stuff.

You know that first group of cyclists that breaks away from the main field and races as a small pack? Even though they’re individual competitors, they’re actually working together as a team most of the night.

“It’s a gentlemen’s agreement that they’re going to work together to get through the race,” says Christian Foster, coowner of Athens’ amateur Team United Healthcare of GA/706P, “and then in the last few laps, it’s every man for himself.”

As is the case with all of the riders, wind is the enemy, and like geese, in that breakaway each cyclist takes turns riding in front to allow the other cyclists to draft behind him and conserve energy just to get to the end of the race. It also explains why they race so close.

“The closer you are, the less energy you have to expend.

That’s why the pack is so tight,” says Foster. “You want to be as close as possible to that wheel ahead of you in order to maintain the draft. You’re toeing the line between advantage and disaster.”

It’s also why the field breaks apart early in the race, with the seasoned amateurs and pros riding together in front. In the back of the field, the less seasoned riders struggle to stay on track, each unable to ride smoothly and closely enough to the rider ahead of him to draft effectively, and unable to offer a draft to the cyclist behind him.

But the riders are part of six-man race teams, and those teams also take care of their own. One of their riders may be the “sprinter,” so the other riders work different angles to allow him to conserve his energy for the final sprint.

“We need to protect him with our riders to keep him out of danger or wind or from having to do work so at an opportune time, he’s fresh and can be in position to go for the win,” says Brian Molloy, co-owner of 706P and Athens’ The Hub Bicycles.

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There are also other challenges.

“There are shadows and the constant dilation cycle your pupils are going through, from dimly lit stretches to bright flood lights on the Start/Finish line to ‘black holes’ on the course,” says Foster. “These guys are riding at speeds of up to 35–40 miles per hour down Clayton Street all within a few feet, sometimes inches, of one another, and the lighting scenario is changing every 50–100 meters or so. The shadows play tricks on your peripheral vision.”

Then comes the strategy of the wind and drafting. The teams may have a strong “lead out man” who battles the wind at the end of the race, letting their sprinter draft behind him until the moment is right for the lead out man to drop off and the sprinter to speed to the finish line. Or the sprinter is alone in the breakaway pack in the front, and he slingshots around another team’s cyclist he’s been drafting and crosses the finish line.

“The closer you are, the less energy you have to expend.

That’s why the pack is so tight.”

Foster offers another scenario: “The most dominant team in the game is United Health Care Pro Cycling, sponsored by the national entity,” says Foster, whose amateur team is in the Georgia division and hopes to upset the pros Saturday night. “What the Blue Train will probably do if there’s a breakaway at the end of the night and they don’t have one of their sprinters in that breakaway, they have the confidence to let the breakaway sit out there.

“And with 20 laps to go, they will amass all their riders at the front of the main field and they’ll make the race fast to discourage any more attacks [attempts to create a breakaway].

They’ll steadily reel that breakaway back. With 10 laps, the breakaway will be 20 seconds ahead of the main field. With five laps, the breakaway could be 10 seconds ahead. Inside the last lap, the breakaway is three seconds ahead. Guaranteed, the main field is going to catch the breakaway, probably on the backstretch.”

Momentary chaos as the field absorbs the breakaway and…

“Lead out man rides as fast as possible, delivering his sprinter through the final turn, and from there, the sprinter does what he does best—he just goes flat-out to the finish line,” says Foster. “There are a billion different ways the race can go down, but I’d bet that’s the way it will go down Saturday night. That’s a textbook scenario.”

Other possibilities are cool, too, though. If, with 10 laps to go, there is no breakaway, just the entire field racing toward the finish line, Foster offers a scenario of cyclists versus wind.

“It’s so fast and furious, the riders are probably single file,” he says. “When it’s slower, it bunches up, and when it’s fast, it strings out to single file. With the top 30–40 guys going 40 miles per hour single file, the guys in the front in the wind are going to blow up—they’re done, they’re fried. So those guys are going to keep moving out of the wind and vaporize, and it just gets whittled down until about two laps to go with the top 10 guys, not a lot of position changes. The guy in front is going as fast as he can go.”

There will be plenty going on during the hour leading to the finish to keep onlookers entertained. Throughout the race, the emcee will announce primes (pronounced “preems”—French and European is the style of the cycling world), which are one-lap mini-races within the race. Each prize may be cash or points toward the year-end championship for the winning rider.

And then there’s the crowd participation from the racers’ perspective.

“The crowd can lift you to a whole new level,” says Eric Murphy, co-owner of 706P and a Twilight weekend contender.

“I personally won a few of the smaller run-up events to the main event, and hearing your name or just the screams as you go around the course can really lift you up. It’s very motivating.”

But the evening’s bottom line is the race to the finish line.

“Then it becomes very challenging and dynamic,” says Foster. “You’ve got guys fighting for those top 30 positions for the money, and probably 10 guys fighting for the podium going 37 miles per hour down the front stretch.”

And when the race is won, everyone knows how to celebrate.

Marilyn Estes

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he Athens Americana Music Festival, our annual showcase for all things rootsy, folky and twangy, has come a long way since its early days at Little Kings Shuffle Club, and this year it’s partnering with Twilight Criterium for the first time. The result is impressive growth for the event’s sixth iteration: with nearly 40 artists playing eight stages over four days, the newly re-christened Twilight Americana Music Festival is sure to be a grand celebration of the music that runs through this country’s veins.

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Now Even More Rad Record Store and Skate Shop Join Forces Downtown

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C.J. Bartunek

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ow Yo Yo Stuff Records doesn’t look quite the same inside anymore. Though they were already able to fit an impressive cache of records, tapes, CDs and other media into a small space, the record store’s employees have managed to clear room in the front for a new breed of cool stuff—decks, trucks, wheels, bearings and other paraphernalia belonging to their new roommate, Get Rad skateboard shop.

Though he initially kept the planned move quiet, Get Rad owner Chris Bradley began moving in with Low Yo Yo on Washington Street in March, much to the delight of skaters who remember the store Amped, which was once housed in the same building.

Bradley first opened Get Rad in 2011 in his native Gainesville, which has its own small skate community. A musician and former welder, Bradley had never owned a business before, but he was excited to turn his passion for skating into his livelihood.

Unfortunately, the original shop’s proximity to the Mall of Georgia and the surrounding chain stores made it vulnerable to corporate competition, and it didn’t thrive as Bradley had hoped. He decided to move to Athens, with its active skate scene and ethos of supporting small businesses. He’d been coming to Athens to skate since high school and had lived here for several years in the early 2000s.

“Ever since I can remember, coming back to Athens, there’s always been a skateboard shop,” he says. “Whether big or small, there’s always been one here.”

The store’s first Athens location was on the Eastside near the skate park, but when Bradley had the chance to move downtown last summer he jumped for it, moving into the space near the corner of Hancock and Hull Street, where Gig Worn had been.

Then, one day when he was in Low Yo Yo Stuff browsing the cassettes, one of the record store’s owners suggested the possibility of sharing a space. “Something just told me to go for it, because I knew that this was the best location possible,” Bradley says.

Get Rad is the latest in a series of shops that have supported the evolving local skate scene—previous incarnations have included Moonlight, Amped, Ray Gun, Pie, Low J’s, Feral and Skate Shop of Athens. But none of the stores was able to stay open more than a few years. For several years after Amped closed, Sunshine Cycles sold skateboards and gear. Owner Jimmy Marbut is a skater himself and was happy to fill the need, though he phased them out around the time Bradley returned to Athens.

“There’s always been one of us who has kind of stepped up,” Marbut says. “Skate shops are really hard businesses. The margins are really bad, and the mail order is so competitive.”

But local skaters agree that a good shop in town is a necessity. “Who wants to buy stuff online when you could fit it and ride out of the store?” says Sonni Brickhouse.

“For people to skate, there needs to be a skate shop.”

Frequent turnover in stores “hasn’t really helped build the scene,” Bradley says. “Back when Amped was here, there was a scene that went along with it. I’m working to rebuild that. I want to actually create a scene that goes along with it, other than just random kids skateboarding here and there.”

Decades before skateboarding became a mainstream sport and Athens boasted a well-designed and challenging skate park, an informal community existed in Athens, centered downtown.

“Athens has always had a good skate scene,” says local The DIY skate park flourished where the Chastain Building and the Chamber of Commerce Building now stand next to Ciné. photographer Jason Thrasher. “It’s always been kind of DIY and lo-fi.”

Many skaters fondly remember the unofficial skate park “It was a legit, home-brewed skate park,” says Marbut. “It on the corner of Hancock and Pulaski, where the Chamber of was a really thriving scene for years and years, because it was Commerce and the Chastain building now stand. For several a great downtown centrally located place for all the skaters years, beginning in the mid-‘90s, there were two abandoned to congregate. You knew you could skate for free; there were foundation lots on the property, and the city had a tacit agree- going to be fun ramps that were always being changed, and ment with the skaters that as long as they kept the spot clean people were always bringing new ramps in… It was this evolvand safe they could build ramps to their hearts’ content. ing, always changing skate spot. Really cool.”

Chris Bradley and Spencer Rich discuss their joint merchandise.

In 2005, the Skate Park of Athens opened at Southeast Clarke Park after much advocacy and input from local skaters, with momentum built from the loss of the downtown spot when new construction began. One of the best in the region, it draws skaters from all over Georgia. According to older skaters, the park is so challenging that Athens kids who learned to skate there are already quite advanced. A few even seem poised for skating careers, including Kaden Campbell, a local teen who has already won some major competitions in the Southeast. “He will be the first pro out of Athens,” Thrasher says.

Thrasher, Bradley and others have been active in raising money for Phase Two of the park. Last year’s “Endless Summer of SPOA” fundraisers were a success, and other efforts continue.

Jittery Joe’s designed a special coffee can for Get Rad, and profits from the coffee sold benefit SPOA. Get Rad also sells shirts designed for the cause. More events are in the works.

Even though skating isn’t allowed downtown anymore, it’s still the right location for a shop. “The downtown scene is going to draw people,” Marbut says. “Somebody like Chris has the potential to sell a lot of stuff to non-skaters. Amped did so well downtown because they sold tons of stuff to college kids who weren’t skaters at all.”

Bradley has enjoyed doing business in the new spot, and operating out of the record store has given him a chance to discover new music. “I’ve only scratched the surface,” he says.

“I’m like a kid in a candy store.”

While Bradley works to get his stuff set up, Low Yo Yo employee Spencer Rich works on thinning some of the record store’s stock and finding homes for the crates of records that line the floor. Music and skating seem to be a natural partnership, and Bradley has already seen his friends and customers checking out the records.

“My friend was in here, and he was like, ‘You’ve opened my eyes up to a whole new world,’” Bradley says. For his part, Rich says that even though he hasn’t skateboarded in years, he’s starting to want to again.

C.J. Bartunek

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More Mex Ameri-Mex, Part One: It can be hard to get enthusiastic about yet another Americanized Mexican restaurant, especially when we have so much of the real stuff around town. From Tlaloc to Los Reyes, Mi Tierra to La Rosita, you can get cócteles, seafood soups, mole and more. Elsewhere, La Estrella and Sr. Sol (more below) do a nice job balancing authentic but less crowd-pleasing options like buche tacos with the more familiar combo platters most of us grew up eating.

Los Coyotes (1155 Mitchell Bridge Rd., 706-850-3333, www.loscoyotesmexicanrestaurant.com) is firmly in the gringo-friendly genre, with a giant menu that involves many combinations of the same few ingredients, an emphasis on the bar and not much that’s particularly impressive. The space is the one vacated by the Iron Grill and Harry Bissett’s before that, in the large, architecturally postmodern blue building just after Cofer’s, and it is massive. It’s hard to see how anyone could sell enough food and drink to make it profitable, and even when the staff makes an effort to seat all the customers in the same area, it can feel empty.

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Los Coyotes The outdoor seating, both ground floor and second level, seems like a nice option when the weather is pleasant, and it’s not that easy to find a Mexican restaurant with a patio in Athens, so it’s a good selling point.

The inside also feels hastily taken over, with the super-fancy sinks in the restrooms contrasting with the flatscreen TVs mounted in the dining rooms and the two different radio stations audible. Some aspects of the place— the inability of some staff, admittedly new, to work the cash register; the amazing Flashbased website that features loud music and coyotes moving slowly across the bottom of the screen; a Facebook page devoted largely to baby pictures—feel as though it’s operated by folks new to the business, but, in fact, they appear to also own both Acapulcos in Watkinsville and Panchos in Winder.

The food is mostly fine, and the Mexicanstyle tacos (soft, served flat and topped with, in my case, a mixture of chorizo and asada, onions, a mountain of cilantro and limes on the side) are surprisingly well executed, meaty and not wussy. The torta, on the other hand, has a weird cinnamon flavor that seems to come from the bread, a rounder and softer loaf than is usual for the sandwich. The refried beans were fine on one occasion and terrible

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Los Coyotes is open for lunch and dinner every day. It does beer and margaritas, offers take-out, has specials on food and drink Wednesday and Thursday and takes credit cards. It also has butter mints by the door.

Ameri-Mex, Part Two: In the same vein is La Cabaña de Don Juan (995 Hawthorne Ave., 706-613-3535), which took the place of the Westside La Fiesta, next to Bell’s, a few months ago. It, too, is not the first rodeo for its owners, who have a place of the same name in Washington, GA. Its menu is maybe a little less adventurous but almost equally sizable and printed on a cheery yellow background. If you’re looking for a basic burrito filled with ground meat and not much else, the restaurant does a classic version. If, however, you order the “La Cabaña special” hoping for something more exciting, you may be disappointed. It’s not that the plate of grilled chicken and shrimp, onions and pineapple, with a side of refried beans, is bad (except for the guacamole, which is).

It’s more that it’s just not very ambitious.

The place is clean, the people who run it are nice and professional, they seem to mix a wide variety of drinks (the Bulldog Margarona appears to be a frozen margarita with a bottle of Corona emptied into it) and it may very well be exactly what you want on a Friday night. The kids’ section of the menu should please picky eaters, and the decoration of the space is fun. If that’s what you’re looking for, then you will be happy with either of these restaurants. La Cabaña is open for lunch and dinner every day and takes credit cards. No butter mints, though.

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The Faltering Fourth Amendment Courts Threaten Our Defense Against Government Tyranny The Background

On March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Florida v.

Jardines, an amazing landmark case involving the Fourth Amendment, the part of the Bill of Rights which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and also requires arrest warrants and search warrants to be issued only by judicial officials and only upon a showing under oath of probable cause for the warrant’s issuance.

The facts giving rise to Florida v. Jardines: Down in Miami, FL, an unknown individual called the crime hotline and provided an unverified tip that Joelis Jardines, a local resident, was growing marijuana inside his home. Acting on the anonymous tip, and without a search warrant, a team of federal and local narcotics police officers descended on Jardines’ neighborhood and placed his house under surveillance for a while. Two of the local officers stationed themselves around the residence, while the federal officers served as backup. Two other local officers then walked up to Jardines’ front door, stood on the porch, and knocked but got no response. One of the officers on the front porch had brought with him a trained drug-detection dog on a six-foot leash.

Under the supervision of the officer, the dog sniffed the base of the front door and “alerted” to the smell of live marijuana emanating from inside the residence. After about two minutes on the porch, the officers and the dog left the premises.

This warrantless police investigation of Jardines’ residence presents intriguing legal questions, including: Did the use of the drug-sniffing dog amount to a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment? And if it was search, was it unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment?

These questions are no-brainers. Of course the use of the dog was a search. Drug-detection dogs exist to search for illegal drugs; that is what they are trained to do; that is what they do day by day; and that is what the dog did here. The whole purpose of the police visit to the home and their use of the dog was to search for possible drugs inside the home. And of course the search was unreasonable. How can it possibly be reasonable—or, indeed, anything other than Orwellian—for police, without a warrant, to come onto your front porch and use a dog to sniff under your front door to find out what is going on inside your home?

Setting forth in an affidavit the information the officers had learned from their warrantless investigation of Jardines’ home, one of the officers applied for and obtained a search warrant

from a judge. Officers then entered Jardines’ residence pursuant to the warrant and found a marijuana-growing operation within. Jardines was arrested and charged with trafficking in cannabis.

Prior to his trial in a Florida state circuit court, Jardines filed in that court a motion to suppress—that is, he applied to the court for an order preventing the state from introducing into evidence at the trial the incriminating items seized when the search warrant was executed at his residence. Traditionally,

under what is known as the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule, which came into existence no later than 1914, if a search is conducted under a search warrant issued in violation of the Fourth Amendment, or if the search otherwise violates the Amendment, the evidence seized during the illegal search is excluded from evidence. The exclusionary rule applies only to illegally obtained evidence and does not bar the admission of any evidence that has been obtained in compliance with the Fourth Amendment. As long as police operate within the law, the exclusionary rule is no problem for law enforcement.

The rule hampers effective law enforcement only to the extent that police violate Fourth Amendment rights, and only on the assumption that effective law enforcement requires police violations of the Fourth Amendment.

The Trial

The trial court conducted a hearing on the motion. Both the dog handler and the officer who went with him onto Jardines’ front porch testified at the hearing. The state contended that the dog drug sniff was not a search and that if it was a search it was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. The trial court ruled, however, that the use of the drug-sniffing dog was a search, and that the search was illegal under the Fourth Amendment. Since the search warrant had been issued on the basis of information acquired by the illegal search, the court found, the warrant was invalid and consequently the search pursuant to that warrant was illegal. The trial court granted the suppression motion.

The state, at all times represented by able prosecutors and government attorneys, then took a pretrial appeal of the trial court order to a state intermediate appellate court, the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida. It reversed the trial court, holding that there had been no search in violation of Jardines’ Fourth Amendment rights. What the police had done did not even constitute a search. The court’s holding was based in large part on prior U.S. Supreme Court decisions, particularly U.S. v. Place (1983), containing language which appears to suggest that drug-dog sniffs are not searches under the Fourth Amendment.

Jardines then appealed to the Florida Supreme Court which, by a vote of 5-2, reversed the appellate court and upheld the trial court’s order suppressing the evidence taken from Jardines’ home. The Florida Supreme Court majority agreed with the trial court that the dog sniff test at Jardines’ front door was a search, that this search violated the Fourth Amendment, and that, because the request for the search warrant was based on information obtained by the prior unlawful search, there was no lawful basis for issuing the search warrant which led to the discovery of the evidence incriminating Jardines. And the warrant being invalid, the search pursuant to it violated the Fourth Amendment.

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After the Florida Supreme Court decision, the state appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case, but only “the question of whether the officers’ behavior was a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.”

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Fortunately, on the merits the Court resolved the issue before it correctly: it concluded that indeed there had been a search insofar as the Fourth Amendment is concerned. But it did so only by a 5-4 vote.

The first sentence of the opinion for the five-justice U.S. Supreme Court majority stressed the narrowness of the single issue before the Court: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We consider whether using a drug-sniffing dog on a homeownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s porch to investigate the contents of the home is a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;searchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.â&#x20AC;? The majorityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conclusion, formally announced in the last sentence of its opinion, was: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use of trained police dogs to investigate the home and its immediate surroundings is a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;searchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.â&#x20AC;? The U.S. Supreme Court therefore affirmed the Florida Supreme Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision.

Why is the U.S. Supreme Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Florida v. Jardines decision important?

To begin, the Court, thankfully, eliminated previous doubts about whether drug-dog searches are subject to the Fourth Amendment. They are.

Second, and amazingly, Justices Scalia and Thomas, who routinely reject Fourth Amendment claims, saved the day for the Fourth Amendment rights of a criminal defendant who had been illegally cultivating marijuana! This happened before, in the Kyllo case, where the votes of these two justices also were crucial to the five-justice majority (and where, as in Jardines, Justice Scalia wrote a vigorous opinion for the Court upholding Fourth Amendment rights!). For their willingness to protect the homes of Americans from snooping, prying government agents, Justices Scalia and Thomas deserve our praise and respect! It is stirring to observe Justice Scalia, contrary to his usual practices, using his brilliant intellect to advance rather than retard our Fourth Amendment liberties! Good job, Justice Scalia! Good job, Justice Thomas!

Third, and finally, the Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s holding in Florida v. Jardines must be regarded as striking a definitive blow in favor not only of the sanctity of private homes, but also, more broadly, of Fourth Amendment privacy rights.

Frequently overlooked in public discourse, the Fourth Amendment is of inestimable significance, and it is the source of some of the most important protections for individuals in the Bill of Rights. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Its great purpose,â&#x20AC;? Justice Frank Murphy wrote in 1942, â&#x20AC;&#x153;was to protect the citizen against oppressive tactics [and] its protecting arm extends to all alike, worthy and unworthy.â&#x20AC;? The Fourth Amendment is the principal constitutional reason why American police are not supposed to be allowed to act like the Gestapo in enforcing criminal laws.

The Amendment

In recent years, however, the Fourth Amendment has been faltering. The rights secured by the Amendment have steadily narrowed as a result of U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to the 1980s. In cases in which a citizen claims the police violated his Fourth Amendment rights, the Court usually sides with the police. Most people have no idea how vastly the Court has broadened the power of police, without a warrant, to accost, detain, arrest, search, interrogate, eavesdrop upon or conduct surveillance of Americans. The Court has watered down the Fourth Amendment probable cause requirement. The Court has made it extremely difficult, both procedurally and substantively, for citizens to successfully sue police for violating the Fourth Amendment, The Court also has attenuated the exclusionary rule, thereby encouraging police to violate the Amendment and vesting government with the illegitimate power to try and convict criminal defendants based on unconstitutional searches and seizures. The Court has made it impossible for a citizen to obtain post-conviction habeas corpus relief in cases where, in violation of the exclusionary rule, evidence obtained in violation of Fourth Amendment was admitted at the citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s criminal trial.

Defendants who have committed minor offenses or who have done nothing more than fail to obey a policemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s verbal order. These sinister developments, manifestations of the nationwide militarization of our police forces and the transformation of police officers into warrior cops dressed like Darth Vader, would never have occurred if the Court had been guarding rather than gutting the Fourth Amendment. But to expect that the current Court will cease curtailing Fourth Amendment protections and will begin siding more with the citizen than the police may be as unrealistic as most of the Hollywood endings.

Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. is Professor Emeritus in the UGA School of Law. A longer version of this article can be found at www.flagpole.com.

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• indicates new review 42 (PG-13) Something about the challenges faced by Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) as he broke the color barrier in professional baseball feels so much more singular than your average true tale of successfully bucking the odds. Boseman’s performance is not a skilled mimicry like so many other portrayals of famous persons; he imbues Robinson with such strength of character and composure. k AT ANY PRICE (R) The trailer sports a lot of impressive critical quotes, including one from the sorely missed Roger Ebert, but its two-minute reduction of this tale of fathers and sons, farmers and race car drivers feels a bit too familiar. Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron star as a farmer and his rebellious, racing son. When a crisis threatens to take everything from this family, their bond is tested more than ever.

THE BIG WEDDING (R) A strong cast highlights this wedding comedy from The Bucket List screenwriter, Justin Zackham. Divorced couple, Don and Ellie Griffin (Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton), must play happily married for the wedding of their adopted son (Ben Barnes), when his conservative biological mother decides to attend. The Big Wedding is a remake of the 2006 French film, Mon frère se marie.

THE CALL (R) Until a final act that is so predictably out of character for Halle Berry’s heroine, The Call knows exactly what it is; a pulpy genre thriller; and excels at its sole task of generating as much entertainment as possible via suspense.

THE CROODS (PG) Despite its underwhelming trailers, The Croods stands out as one of the best non-Pixar animated family films released in the last few years. A family of cavemen— dad Grug (v. Nicolas Cage), mom Ugga (v. Catherine Keener), teen daughter Eep (v. Emma Stone), dumb son Thunk (v. Clarke Duke), feral baby Sandy and grandma (v. Cloris Leachman)—are forced on a cross-country road trip after their cave is destroyed by the impending “end of the world.”

EVEN THE RAIN (NR) 2010. Icíar Bollaín directs this Spanish film based on a true story about a film crew that spurred protests in Cochabamba, Bolivia in 2000 over privatization of the water works. With Gael Garcia Bernal.

(Ciné) EVIL DEAD (R) 2013’s Evil Dead, a remake of Sam Raimi’s cult classic, puts five new young people through the

horrific, maddening, limb-threatening paces. When will young people learn not to read from a book bound in human skin? What Evil Dead gets right is the massive amounts of blood poured upon its actors. Director Fede Alvarez also shows (borrows) the stylistic imagination of a young Raimi. Still, the importance of Bruce Campbell’s Ash was underestimated.

FRENZY (R) 1972. Screening as part of Ciné’s 6th Anniversary Celebration, Frenzy is Alfred Hitchcock’s penultimate film. A serial killer, whose M.O. is strangling young women with a necktie, is on the loose in London. Too bad the police have the wrong man.

That description makes this Hitch flick sound very Giallo-like. (Ciné) FROM UP ON POPPY HILL (PG) 2011. Legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki collaborates with his son Goro’s second feature. (His first was Tales from Earthsea.) As the 1964 Tokyo Olympics approach, a group of teenagers in Yokohama seek to save their school clubhouse. Japan’s biggest domestic hit of 2011 won the Best Animation Film prize from the Awards of the Japanese Academy.

G.I. JOE: RETALIATION (PG-13) G.I. Joe: Retaliation is everything that G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was not.

Mostly ignoring Stephen Sommers’ 2009 misfire, this franchise reboot introduces three new lead Joes: Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson), Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki) and my childhood favorite, Flint (D.J. Cotrona).

Featured Cobra players plot to break Cobra Commander from a super-secret prison. But the plot is inconsequential.

G.I. Joe blows stuff up real good.

A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (R) Do audiences find Bruce Willis’ New York Detective John McClane running into trouble for a fifth time, in Russia, with his CIA operative son (Jack Reacher’s Jai Courtney), believable?

R-rated action is not doing so hot, with Arnold’s The Last Stand and Sly’s Bullet to the Head both underperforming their already low expectations. Respectable but unexciting action director John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines, Flight of the Phoenix) should be better than Live and Let Die Hard’s Len Wiseman.

IDENTITY THIEF (R) With two kids and another on the way, Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman) is struggling to make ends meet. Having his identity stolen by friendless Diana (Melissa McCarthy) only further

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aggravates his financial distress.

Strangely, the gags work best when Bateman’s straight man and McCarthy’s manic criminal bond rather than fight.

Too bad the mean-spirited comic scenarios cooked up by screenwriter Craig Mazin (Scary Movies 3 and 4 and The Hangover: Parts II and III) lack originality. Director Seth Gordon (The King of Kong and Horrible Bosses) and his hilarious stars have done and will do comedy better.

JURASSIC PARK 3D (PG-13) Some movies are made to be watched dozens upon hundreds of times at home on TV; Jurassic Park is not one of those movies. It deserves, nay, requires being seen on a big screen, accompanied by booming theatrical sound. One thing JP does not require is 3D; a 2D theatrical screening of Steven Spielberg’s last classic blockbuster will suffice. This 20-year-old, effects-laden, dino-disas-

NO (R) Pablo Larrain’s fourth feature is one of the Academy Award nominees for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1988 Chile, ad exec Rene Saavedra (Y Tu Mama Tambien’s Gael Garcia Bernal; think Don Draper en Español) plots to defeat Augusto Pinochet. Larrain’s previous features Fuga, Tony Manero and Post Mortem have yet to break through in the United States; this Oscar nominee could be it. (Ciné) • OBLIVION (PG-13) The new Tom Cruise action, sci-fi spectacle is a doozy of a looker. Everything from the set design to the vehicle design to the music (scored by M83) is stylishly crafted and a visual/aural knockout.

After fighting off an alien invasion via nuclear destruction, humanity has moved off-planet to Titan, a moon of Saturn. Two people, tech Jack Harper (Tom Cruise, who is arguably the best preserved man on the planet) and

That’s his “I’m-gittin’-a-corndog” face. ter pic, based on Michael Crichton’s giddy sci-fi adventure, has aged much better than your last home viewing experience has you remembering it.

THE LAST EXORCISM (PG-13) 2010. Charismatic preacher Rev. Cotton Marcus makes plans to perform one last exorcism after years of swindling believers, and allows a film crew to capture his confession. When he arrives at the farm of Louis Sweetzer, whose daughter Nell is possessed by a demon, he finds that he may not have the experience he needs for the job.

LOW BLOW (R) 1986. Joe Wong (Leo Fong) is a private investigator hired by a rich dude to save his daughter from the cult, led by blind, wheelchair bound Yarakunda (Cameron Mitchell, best remembered for the TV series “The High Chaparral”), who has brainwashed her. Teenage heartthrob Troy Donahue appears, but nobody cares.

The old VHS box sports the great tagline, “The Deadliest Weapon Is Still Your Fist.” Director Frank Harris has a filmography that would not recommend his hiring. Part of Ciné’s Bad Movie Night. (Ciné) MUD (R) Writer-director Jeff Nichols hit the critical, if not commercial, jackpot with his last film, Take Shelter.

His latest stars Matthew McConaughey, who is on a hot streak with the critics himself (Bernie, Killer Joe and Magic Mike really helped his profile), as Mud, a fugitive trying to reunite with his girlfriend, Juniper (Reese Witherspoon). Mud gets help from two Arkansas teens, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland). Nichols received a Palme d’Or nomination for this film, for which anticipation is building thanks to a powerful trailer.

his communications liaison Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), have been left behind, tasked to protect the giant hydroreactors that power Titan using remnants of the alien invaders. But Jack’s world is turned upside down by the arrival of a NASA scientist (Olga Kurylenko) of whom Jack has been dreaming, and by the discovery of human survivors, led by Malcolm Beech (Morgan Freeman). Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski co-scripted Oblivion from his own graphic novel, and despite its derivative pieces, the whole narrative coheres rather well. It’s the rare video game-inspired movie that I enjoyed watching alone; I never once thought I’d rather be playing Oblivion. This late-April, pre-summer salvo has set the blockbuster bar higher than expected; hopefully summer 2013’s entrants can clear it. Hear that, Iron Man 3?

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (R) Olympus Has Fallen feels like a relic from the bygone era of the 1980s, where audiences were satisfied by old-fashioned, bloody, action movies wherein stone-faced heroes faced off against despicable bad guys without obfuscating their violent exploits with frenetic camerawork. Too bad director Antoine Fuqua’s latest flick isn’t the new Die Hard, as this Gerard Butlersaves-the-president actioner easily bests John McClane’s latest misfire.

OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (PG) First and foremost, Sam Raimi’s The Wizard of Oz prequel is no Wizard; it’s not even Return to Oz, the very dark, very underrated 1985 sequel. Carnival magician and con man Oscar Diggs (James Franco, whose performance is nothing if not inconsistent) meets

three witches—Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams)—who believe him to be the great wizard whose appearance in Oz was prophesied. In the void left by the recently deceased king, Oscar must determine which witches are wicked and which are good.

PAIN & GAIN (NR) Against my better judgment, I get a kick out of the Pain & Gain trailer, despite it being a Michael Bay film. But Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie seem delightful as bodybuilders turned criminals in a get rich quick scheme that goes comically awry. The script, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (multiple Narnias and both Captain Americas), is based on a true story.

PAY IT FORWARD (PG-13) 2000.

I have avoided this sentimental film (how was it not directed by Lasse Hallstrom?) ever since it was scathingly reviewed by critics. Based on the novel

by Catherine Ryan Hyde and directed

by Mimi Leder (Deep Impact), Pay It Forward sought to capitalize off Haley Joel Osment’s Sixth Sense success.

A young boy is encouraged by a new social studies teacher (Kevin Spacey) to come up with a project to change the world. The boy devises a scheme to pay good deeds forward.

THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (R) Writer-director Derek Cianfrance’s follow-up to Blue Valentine is constructed like three short stories, all connected by one major event. In the first story, Ryan Gosling stars as Luke Glanton, a stunt bike rider who turns to bank robbery to take care of his young son and baby mama (Eva Mendes).

The second story stars Bradley Cooper as Avery Cross, a rookie police officer turned hero turned whistleblower. The final arc connects the two men via their similarly aged sons in ways much less profound than the somber film or its imperious running time imply. An ambitious character study of fathers and sons, The Place Beyond the Pines isn’t an easy watch, but is ultimately more rewarding than arduous.

QUARTET (PG-13) In his directorial debut, Dustin Hoffman fashions a delightful trifle filled with deliciously British performances. At Beecham House, a home for retired musicians, plans are afoot for a gala to celebrate Verdi’s birthday. Drama arrives in the form of an aging diva, Jean Horton, who is also the ex-wife of another resident (Tom Courtenay). Maggie Smith is her usually grand self (and as her actual age, not older, for once!).

Renowned scene stealer Billy Connolly is up to his old tricks as aged horndog Wilf. Anyone who enjoyed their stay at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel should also enjoy the performances of Quartet.

THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST (R) A Pakistani immigrant (Riz Ahmed) under suspicion of involvement with the kidnapping of an American citizen, recounts his experiences on Wall Street before and after 9/11. Early buzz isn’t quite sure what to make of The Namesake director Mira Nair’s turning Mohsin Hamid’s novel into a thriller. The trailer is intriguing, and the film did win the Audience Award for Favorite World Feature at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

With Kate Hudson and Liev Schreiber.

THE ROOM (R) The Room, from baffling “auteur” Tommy Wiseau, might be

the Mona Lisa of bad movies; its greatness lies in its mysterious smile, which a laughing Wiseau trots out at the oddest moments. Johnny (writer-producer-director-star-charlatan Wiseau) is engaged to “beautiful” blonde Lisa (Juliette Danielle), who embarks on an affair with Johnny’s “best friend,” Mark (Greg Sestero). The Room will leave you with so many questions that don’t need answering. Why am I in a theater at one in the morning watching this strange, hysterical man vomit drama on the big screen? (Ciné) SAFE HAVEN (PG-13) One thing I enjoy about reviewing movies is having a readymade excuse for watching sappy romances like Safe Haven.

Unfortunately, the latest Nicholas Sparks adaptation is one solved mystery away from just being one couple’s two hour “how we met” story.

Pretty, young Katie is on the run from a constantly drunk, really sweaty cop (“Revolution” star David Lyons). Lucky for her, a hot widower, Alex (Josh Duhamel), with two cute kids is ready to love again. Wondering how this romance is ultimately different from Sleeping with the Enemy? Then prepare for the laughable, Shyamalan-esque, climactic twist.

SCARY MOVIE V (PG-13) A Paranormal Activity/Mama mashup provides the frame that is rattily covered by an hour and thirty minutes of puerile, scattershot jokes. A Black Swan B-plot? Real timely. The Scary Movies simply tosses pop culture references and cameos by celebrities who have passed their sell-by date with no real interest in spoofing the genre they allegedly came to spoof; if Mike Tyson meets Fifty Shades of Grey jokes make you giggle, be my guest.

The absolutely frightening aspect of this movie is the thought that enough people might venture to see it to warrant a sixth entry.

TRANCE (R) Do not think too hard about Trance’s mesmerizing complex plot once it’s over, or else risk smashing the exquisitely designed psycho-thriller. Academy Award winner Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) reunites with his Shallow Grave and Trainspotting writer, John Hodge. What starts as an art heist flick, starring James McAvoy as an art auctioneer and Vincent Cassel as a criminal, ends as a head trip about hypnosis, memory, domestic violence, pubic hair in classical art (don’t ask unless you really want the answer) and more. Boyle gets every last stylish drop out of this film.

The set designs, lighting and wickedly danceable soundtrack mask any narrative flaws.

TYLER PERRY’S TEMPTATION (PG-13) Is it possible for a filmmaker to “jump the shark?” He cast Kim Kardashian, for goodness’ sake. And wait for Brandy’s climactic reveal. It’s the sort of melodramatic gem that could turn this dreck into popular camp were it less dull. A marriage counselor, Judith (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), who feels neglected by her nice guy, pharmacist husband, Brice (Lance Gross), waltzes off with a handsome, ripped billionaire, Harley (Robbie Jones), after he offers her the good life of shopping, drugs, sex, etc. By the time Judith’s religious mother (Ella Joyce) wanders in to preach at her daughter (and the audience), it’s too late.

WARM BODIES (PG-13) Warm Bodies is not your usual end of the world via the flesh-eating living dead flick. Blessed (or cursed) with a rather rich inner life, R (Nicholas Hoult) still munches brains but he’s conflicted about it, especially after meeting Julie (Teresa Palmer). She kickstarts his heart, starting a chain reaction amongst all the corpses, except for the too far gone Boneys.

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A Cathode Rainbow NO (R) It’s 1988, and the brutal Chilean dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet (who overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende by military coup in 1973) is starting to show signs of tempered exhaustion. Pinochet is being forced to allow a referendum on his rule. The public will have a chance to vote either “yes” or “no” on his government, and both sides will get 15 minutes a day on television to air their support or grievances. If Pinochet gets enough “yes” votes (which everyone believes is likely), his dictatorship will continue to smother democracy for another eight years.

If the “no” side wins (an unlikely situation), Pinochet will only rule for another year before new elections are held.

A hyperactive apolitical advertising executive, René Gael García Bernal Saavedra (Gael García Bernal), is swayed by politician José Tomás Urrutia (Luis Gnecco) to commandeer the anti-Pinochet ad campaign. Saavedra feels like the wrong choice at first, better equipped to sell the fantasy of guzzling soft drinks to the masses, rather than convincing the populace to swing left and boot Pinochet to the curb. He knows it, as does his estranged wife (Antonia Zegers), a politically active leftie

who dumped Saavedra and their son. But Saavedra’s manic enthusiasm winds up being perfect for the job, and he crafts a peppy, banal yet effective ad selling the idea that democracy is much more fun than the deadly, earnest images of government terror and oppression that had been used earlier in the campaign. Have a vote and a smile.

Director Pablo Larrain (Tony Manero, Post-Mortem) and screenwriter Pedro Peirano (co-writer of The Maid) create a wonderfully entertaining, wise and sometimes absurd political movie. Much like Argo, another 2012 feature about a little known historical event (at least unknown for many of us in the amnesiaprone United States), No is slippery when it comes to getting the facts straight. The historical reality of ending the Pinochet regime was far more complicated. Regardless, it’s a better movie than Ben Affleck’s Oscarwinner, and Bernal anchors the movie with a quietly stunning performance. Last year ended up being a surprising one for overtly political commercial cinema, and Larrain’s No is one of the more engaging productions to seek out.

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Never Fade

Yo La Tengo Resists the Flow “Ohm,”

the first track on the 13th full-length from Hoboken, NJ indie rock heroes Yo La Tengo, opens with the following lyric: “Sometimes the bad guys come out on top/ Sometimes the good guys lose/ We try not to lose our hearts/ Not to lose our minds.”

The album, Fade, is another impressive mile marker for the nearly 30-year-old band, which gets more exciting as it mellows out; its three members are easing into musical middle age with quiet confidence, an arresting calmness that makes you wonder what kind of secrets they’re not sharing.

The band’s longevity owes to its deliberateness, says Jesse Jarnow, the New York Citybased writer and musician whose recent book Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock chronicled the group’s history from its 1984 beginning as the husband-and-wife duo of Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley.

“It helped that they existed inside a very rich music scene,” says Jarnow, “but they did things at their own pace, which has a lot to do with what they’re trying to get out of the experience of being in a band. Not many bands are patient enough to wait six years to find their third member.”

That member, bassist James McNew, assesses the group’s creative trajectory in simpler terms.

“I don’t think about it, really,” he says, in response to Jarnow’s theory. “I think there’s certainly truth to that. It just instilled a way of working in us—we made music for ourselves, and for each other, before anyone else.

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I think it’s just kinda who we are. We didn’t set out to be a traditional success—’Let’s start a rock band and get rich and famous.’ It was more, ‘Let’s be in a band because we can, and this is what we wanted to do since we were little kids.’”

Yo La Tengo has always done its own thing.

Whether soundtracking underwater nature documentaries (The Sounds of the Sounds of Science) or releasing an album of half-baked, fan-requested cover songs (Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics), the band approaches its work with a tenderness that permits its more esoteric tendencies. (Two recent examples: the concert where the band table-read an entire “Seinfeld” script onstage; the music video for “I’ll Be Around,” which segues from footage of a lip-syncing Mac McCaughan to Yo La Tengo cooking tortilla soup together, complete with recipe overlaid on-screen.)

Yo La Tengo is dichotomy. Warm and weird.

Quiet and loud. In fact, though many bands have explored the latter dynamic—the crux of the ‘90s alt-rock explosion—few have done so as effortlessly, as profoundly. To wit, McNew recalls first hearing the President Yo La Tengo EP, released in 1989.

“That was the record that really blew my mind about this band before I ever started playing with them,” he says. “It just sort of showed that they could do anything. It was this very wide range of moods and yet it still [kept] their personality and identity intact. I thought that was amazing, because people are like that. People have different moods over the range of a day.” He pauses, then laughs.

“Or, over the range of 40 minutes.”

At the Georgia Theatre, Yo La Tengo will play two sets: one quiet, one loud, a way for the band to lay itself bare while also allowing its songs to breathe. “We’ve been playing songs that really never get played,” says McNew. “Separating the show into those two sets, in a way, is really freeing… All of the sudden, some of these songs can really find a home, and make sense.”

In a press release, Yo La Tengo’s longtime label, Matador Records, lauds Fade as a “career-defining statement,” a line that makes McNew cringe. (“Matador came up with that, not us,” he clarifies.) The praise is nice, McNew says, but as with Jarnow’s book, the canonizing feels a little macabre, a little premature. “I thought Jesse did a fantastic job,” he says. “But yes, it’s very strange… When the book ends, you get a feeling of, ‘Oh, well I’m dead now, right?’

“In the Houston airport,” McNew continues, “there’s a giant statue of George Bush Sr., and he’s, like, 12 feet tall and made of gold, and holding a lightning bolt in one hand and, like, a puppy in the other hand.

It’s the most grotesque thing I’ve seen in my life.” The jocular bassist admits he “might be exaggerating” the details. Still, he says, “It’s hard to get that out of your head, in terms of immortalization.”

In fact, when its career-spanning biography hit booksellers’ shelves, the band had just finished the sessions for Fade and were looking eagerly toward its release and beyond.

But therein, Jarnow explains, lies his reason

for writing the book in the first place. “There are plenty of bands who’ve existed for two or three decades,” he says, “but how many of them have stayed fully engaged for their entire careers and never gone onto autopilot?”

With the rise of the Internet and the ensuing cultural shift, which has (arguably) led to a decline of the regional “scene” and (inarguably) a dramatic increase in the pace that we create and consume, it’s fair to ask if there can ever be another Yo La Tengo, a band that has slowly, surely carved out a legacy of movement and memory.

“Ohm” ends with a mantra, a human loop: “Resisting the flow,” Kaplan sings, until he fades into oblivion. The duality of the song title, the album title, the band itself, becomes clear. Electricity and peace. Ohm and om.

Fade, but never fade. Yo La Tengo is never satisfied, but mostly, actually, pretty pleased to still get to do the only thing that has ever mattered.

“Every day that I wake up, I think it’s amazing,” says McNew. “I never take that for granted. No way [laughing]. It seems incredible. It makes me insanely happy.”

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lthough Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; homegrown hip hop scene has been ebbing and flowing for many years, the first annual Athens Hip Hop Awards ceremony is coming to town courtesy of a Florida couple new to town.

Jasmine â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mokahâ&#x20AC;? Johnson founded Chocolate City Live Marketing and Management, a hip hop promotions company, around the turn of the century in central Florida, where her future husband, Knowa Logic, was working as an artist and songwriter.

Logic joined up with CCL in 2005 for the purpose of promoting larger live events and to launch the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DVD magazine. In 2012 the duo formed an Athens-based subsidiary, United Group Of Artists (UGA) Live, as a way to help independent artists gain exposure and rally support regardless of their locale.

As Logic attests, Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; place on the international music map is of little value to local hip hop and R&B artists. If one were to go by the official story, it would be easy to assume thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no hip hop presence at all. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We love the music and arts scene here in Athens,â&#x20AC;? says Logic, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but noticed the lack of support and unity involving local artists and urban business owners. I guess partly because [hip hop carries] a negative image to nonparticipants and [gets] overshadowed by other genres. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Athens seems to have a disenfranchised hip hop scene,â&#x20AC;? he continues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Partly because the native artists and business owners who carry the spirit of the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history are not involved enoughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and, in some cases, [not] invited. So, we wanted to make sure theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re included. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to separate the community; we want to bring everyone together [and make] it stronger.â&#x20AC;?

Backing up the notion that hip hop is but one part of a multi-faceted culture, Logic and Johnson packed the ballot with categories that include local barbers, restaurants and more, as well as musical categories.

Says Johnson, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hip hop is a culture. It is a lifestyle thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not confined to the African American communityâ&#x20AC;Ś we can clearly see its unifying attributes at work worldwide. [But] as individuals, we have to stay grounded, never forgetting where we came fromâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so should hip hop. It started in the urban community and should always have a connection there.â&#x20AC;?

It must be said that folks like Logic and Johnson who blow into town and try to make things happen often wind up alienating the

very people theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ostensibly supporting. But UGA Live seems committed to the idea of hip hop as community, and is actively embracing those who have long been shaking things up in Athens. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Local promoter] Montu Miller has been a part of every UGA Live meeting since weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been here, and the Athens Hip Hop Awards board [is] composed of the most publicly active promoters and movers and shakers,â&#x20AC;? says Johnson.

Also, there is the matter of retention.

Anyone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s followed the Athens hip hop scene knows that its cycle goes like this: artists woodshed, someone starts a studio, someone else becomes promoter and hype man. A collective is formed, events are planned. Some happen, some donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, and then the whole thing fizzles out. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

This cycle often comes at personal expense of time and money for the organizers involved.

Flagpole asks Johnson how she hopes to maintain her enthusiasm and focus in a scene where turnover is so high. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Faith, passion and family is what keeps us going,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The promotions game [and] the music business can be overwhelming and very cut-throat at times, but we pray and let God guide us. [Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve] been in this business for years, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned not to get attached to the outcome, good or bad. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the losses discourage you, and do not let the wins go to your head.â&#x20AC;?

The awards ceremony is a gala affair. The dress code is â&#x20AC;&#x153;hip hop with a twist,â&#x20AC;? says Logic; the rules state that no T-shirts or jeans are allowed. Live entertainment will be provided by various local artists, including Jet Squad, Black Nerd, Cassie Chantel, Showtime, Swank and Tony B. (Longtime Athens rappers Lo Down & Duddy are scheduled to appear, but arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t slated as official performers.)

Johnson says there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a particular artist sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most excited about, instead lending support unilaterally: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just looking forward to having a good time and changing peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perspective on Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hip hop scene.â&#x20AC;?

Gordon Lamb

WHAT: Athens Hip Hop Awards WHERE: Georgia Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mahler Hall WHEN: Sunday, April 28, 6 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $10 (adv.), $20 (door)

threats & promises Music News And Gossip In The Woodshed: Athens music enthusiast Jay Steele has been working steadily and somewhat quietly on his ongoing, multi-tentacled project Athens Provisions. From designing his iconic flyers full of white space to promoting an increasingly rapid stream of shows, Steele has had his hands full. And next month, Athens Provisions will release the debut recording by The Hernies. Described pretty accurately as â&#x20AC;&#x153;weirdo pop,â&#x20AC;? thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a whole lot of stuff happening here: un-self-conscious psychedelia Ă la a poor manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beatles or a more modest Frank Zappa, half-remembered 1990s indie influences and basically just a whole lot of personality. The next live Athens Provisions production happens at the Caledonia Lounge on Saturday, Apr. 27 with Savannahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Casket Girls, Atlanta/Athens group Ponderosa, Velocirapture and Murk Daddy Flex.

Keep up with it all via athensprovisions.com.

music at the Melting Point on Sunday, May 5.

The event, dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;May Day,â&#x20AC;? is a class project where the students deal with all legal contracts, create a compilation album and oversee every aspect of the live production. The event runs from 1-9 p.m. and tickets are $5. Two stages will be used to accommodate the 18 (!) acts performing, including The Ginkgos, Allie Windom, New Wives, Dylan Sheppard, Brock Shanks, Ricky Digits, Casey Elliott, Velocirapture, T.S. Woodward, Jonny & Shim, Will Entrekin, Street Rhythm & Rhyme, Boomfox, Bear Left, Reign, Universal Sigh and the staff and educators of MBUS. Specific questions can be sent to Jackie Citero via jccitero@gmail.com, and all other general information can be found at the nicely laid out website mbusmayday.com. (I know everyone and their brother likes absurd graphics but never underestimate readability, folks.)

Download And Dig: Will Donaldson, the man behind the Next To Last Festival, has a cool DJ alter-ego named ChamberMusic. His newest mix, Classic City War Ups, was uploaded last week and is described by Donaldson as â&#x20AC;&#x153;classic WBMX type shitâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;referring to Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long-gone 102.7 FM WBMX (AKA

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Jason Gridley Black Music Experience)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;plus some newer stuff. After listening to the entire hour and a half mix, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d concur that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fitting tribute and worth your time. Donaldson has several mixes, new and old, available over at soundcloud.com/worldwar420, and he can be reached easily via worldwar420@gmail.com.

Bleep Bloop: Fans of straight-up, synth-driven tunes may get a treat with the debut performance of Cruise on Thursday, Apr. 25 at the Caledonia Lounge. Composed of Shane Davis (Spring Tigers), JT Bringardner (Oh Fortuna) and Jay Murphy (Up Until Now), the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songs sprint the short gamut between dark and moody Crystal Castles-esque music and happier synth-pop. The name comes from the mood evoked from night driving, Davis says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like cruising music. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no guitars or bass. Just two keyboards, two synths and samples.â&#x20AC;? Other bands on the bill are Orlandoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Loud Valley and quickly rising duo Dream Boat.

Doinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; All Right, Gettingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Good Grades: The students of the Music Business Program at UGA will present an entirely self-organized day of

These? These Are Good Boys: Although this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normally the type of thing that pricks my ears, I want you to turn your attention to the music of local singer-songwriter Jason Gridley. His debut EP, Wherever the Wind Blows, was released a full year ago but my head mustâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in the sand at the time.

The record features breezy and occasionally emotionally impactful acoustic guitar tunes backed by a variety of instruments including tropical percussion, lush orchestration and more. Gridleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice is just the right timbre of sensitive without being cloying or whiny.

Truth be told, this type of thing has to hit me at just the right time to get to me, so I suppose this is the right time. Gridley will perform at the Melting Point on Monday, Apr. 29. Sharing the bill that night is another Athens homeboy, Sam Burchfield, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s currently working on his first EP. Burchfield himself plays nicely plucked acoustic tunes with a decent amount of empty space, but his vocals are more directly derivative of the usual suspects (Mraz, Matthews, et al) and, as such, leave me wanting in a bad way. Your mileage may vary, of course, and you can check them both out via jasongridleymusic.com and samburchfield.com. Atlantaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Riley Biederer opens the show. UGA students get in for $5, but the rest of you have to cough up $7 at the doorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;unless you get in on the pre-sale at meltingpointathens.com.

Final Notes: If you can click only one link this week, make it saddadstheband.bandcamp.com.

Sad Dads is one of those uniquely Athens phenomena thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so silly and dumb that it works and winds up being a real thing. Lo-fi disco? Check. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Experimental?â&#x20AC;? Check. Just click it. Warning: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a screamo band from Memphis named Sad Dads, too, but no one ever said this was the most original name in the world. Just make sure you stick to the right one.

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art notes Art is Everywhere Sense of Place: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The World All Aroundâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;currently on display electrical knowledge of Matty Goldsteinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who initially began at Gallery@Hotel Indigo through Sunday, June 9â&#x20AC;&#x201D;explores his experimentation with electric art after studying sculpture both natural and manufactured environments through scientific at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and working investigation and subjective understanding. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ontological in a commercial sign store in south Florida. The collaboration Road Mapâ&#x20AC;? series by Robert Waldenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;topographical illustrayields light boxes with a distinctive style and an idiosyncratic tions in precise ink lines that represent not only the existence aesthetic. of a physical place but the labor-intensive process of mapmakStrongly influenced by both pop and subculture, seving itselfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;complement the oil paintings of simple suburban eral pieces borrow images from the likes of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Battlestar landscapes by Meg Aubrey, which Galacticaâ&#x20AC;? and The Shining, as assign significance to seemingly well as a bare-breasted Wendy O. mundane markers like sidewalks, Williams, punk icon and lead singer mailboxes and manicured lawns. of the Plasmatics. In a tribute to Michael Marshallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lunar Cycles,â&#x20AC;?

Re-Animator, a wood-stain portrait a large photograph of a luna moth of a woman warily eyeing a syringe spread on a colorful, aged map stands beside a fluorescent green, above a series of panels depicthissing cat and real vials of glowing ing the phases of the moon, and liquid. A more light-hearted piece, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Constellations,â&#x20AC;? a tattered black and seemingly housed within an old TV blue butterfly similarly presented box, features â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Price is Rightâ&#x20AC;? among starry skies, both contrast host Bob Barker on wood, with the humble, delicate organisms with the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s iconic number wheel in a vast, incomprehensible universe. vibrant, glowing background. Over â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nest,â&#x20AC;? a collaborative photographic the past two-year course, while patchwork by Jim Fiscus and Chris sharing skills and motivating each Bilheimer, collaged images of archiother to stay focused, Goldstein and tectural structures by Dayna Thacker, Bradford have also held photo shoots and the meticulously textured drawto capture their own original images, ings of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wild Bird Gameâ&#x20AC;? board including a sword-wielding Viking game by Alex Murawski all take a and two topless women with power subjective approach to reflecting on tools and a severed pig head. the environment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like being in a band,â&#x20AC;?

The exhibit also includes a describes Goldstein. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is an iniseries of videos: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cosmic Microwave tial idea, and we work on it together Backgroundâ&#x20AC;? by Michael Oliveri; until we have a song, or a piece of A light box installation by Matty Goldstein and Graham â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fox,â&#x20AC;? which was recorded by Justin art in this caseâ&#x20AC;Ś I love the vast Bradford.

Plakas using a motion detection span of our processes. From sawing camera to capture nighttime activity wood to large-format printing techin the woods near a suburban neighborhood; and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Port and nologies, we use what is available to us without losing the Starboard,â&#x20AC;? created by Adriane Colburn while on a seafloor rawness of the hands-on process.â&#x20AC;? mapping expedition during one of the warmest recorded summers in the Arctic.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Les Enfants de la Terreâ&#x20AC;? by Jim Neel is on display at OCAF. landscape by Elizabeth Barton (also on display at ATHICA), an abstract stoneware piece by Jorie Berman, a vibrantly hued painting of a neighborhood scene by Mary Porter, a threedimensional steel wire portrait by Noah Saunders and a photograph by Ginger Goekjian.

In OCAFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side gallery resides the annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choiceâ&#x20AC;? exhibit, this year featuring â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ghosts in the Field,â&#x20AC;? a showcase of works by Jim Neel. Unsettling prints of horrific representational figures, such as young boys sporting assault weapons in a scorched field and a tarnished portrait of a double amputee child, line the walls alongside an eight-part narrative describing â&#x20AC;&#x153;ghost-boys led by a half-blind zealot.â&#x20AC;? Occupying the center of the space is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Les Enfants de la Terre,â&#x20AC;? a sculpture series of terracotta children standing on weapons. Neelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;influenced by his experience as a photojournalist covering warfare in El Salvador and other Central American countries during the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s, a time when it was not unusual to see young children among the fighting forcesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;delivers a strong and confrontational message against the widespread, modern-day exploitation of children in armed combat.

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The Lone Eagle and His Mate As I write this, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a year since Felix Baumgartner of Austria stepped out onto a platform on the edge of space and jumped.

He had no advisors persuasive enough to convince him that it was a bad idea, no official sanction save his corporate sponsor, the makers of that stuff frat boys mix with Jägermeister to make sure theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re awake when they throw up on their girlfriendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shoes. He jumped with only a parachute to prevent him from becoming the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous puddle of goo. The man jumped from space, hurtling toward the planet fast enough to break the sound barrier, and we let him do it.

Maybe Baumgartner didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the memo that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just not the sort of people who do things like that anymore, that our enthusiasm for pitching our bodies into the void died after Neil Armstrong. Since then our missions in the air and beyond have become blurbs on the nightly newsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;another shuttle mission to fix a glitchy satellite or add another module to the space station we mistake for an especially bright star. We spill more ink and Internet chatter about Beyonceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance at the Super Bowl than about building a spaceport in Oklahoma, talking again about sending people to Mars, conceiving a starship at DARPA. We no longer want to be astronauts when we grow up.

In 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh took off from Long Island in an airplane made from little more than sticks and cloth and flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean, landing 36 hours later in Paris. He left the ground an anonymous mail pilot and returned to it as the most famous man in the world. Afterward, he could not go anywhere without the press at his heels. He received medals and honors and accolades from every country that would give them. The Lindy Hop was named for him, and he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dance. In the last age of heroes, Lindbergh was the hero.

Lindbergh had his pick of prizes and a world full of women clamoring to be Mrs. Lucky Lindy, eager to feather the Lone Eagleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nest. Thus, it was a shock when Lindbergh chose as his mate Anne Morrow, second and far less-favored daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico. Anne was shy, reserved, bookish, a Smith girl and aspiring poet, hardly the odds-on choice for someone like Lindbergh.

What Charles saw in Anne, however, was a seriousness and inner courage that matched his own. He chose her as someone who would, and could, follow him anywhere, and she did, through more turbulence than either of them could have imagined.

Melanie Benjamin chronicles the Lindberghsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; marriage through Anneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes in her new novel The Aviatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wife (Random House, 2013), and the result is remarkable.

Beginning with their first meeting in 1927 through Charlesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; death from leukemia in 1974,

Benjamin tracks Anneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey from starryeyed girl to woman of the world and of her own mind, a life of changes in the shadow of a larger-than-life husband who fought change and diminution with every fiber of his being.

In public they were a storybook romance, the First Couple of the Air. In private they were anything but, and Benjamin tells this story with grace and insight and rare skill.

Life with Lindbergh was to be, by definition, an adventure, and Anneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oft-ignored part in it is detailed here: flying and navigating with Charles as they charted air routes all over the globe, becoming an accomplished pilot herself before anyone had heard of Amelia Earhart and the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first female glider pilot, all while dodging the hordes of the press eager for any piece of the Lindberghs they could get. The same qualities that drove Charles in his exploits, however, guided him as a husband and a man: coldly logical and inflexible, a maker of lists and plans and rigid schedules, a man who needed everything just so and would not be persuaded otherwise.

While Benjamin takes pains not to portray Charles as a villain of any sort, he was someone who resisted emotion or empathy, a man it took Anne considerable effort to love.

And then there is the Lindbergh baby, Charles and Anneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first child, kidnapped in 1932 in what was called then the Crime of the Century.

Benjamin follows Anne through every heartbreaking incident of the investigation and its tragic end and shows us the wedge driven between the Lindberghs forever.

Even though they had five more children, Charles Jr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ghost becomes a virtual character in the novel, a shade as powerful as Charlesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fame and Anneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing discontent.

As the 20th century marches on and Charles finds himself more alienated, both by the pre-WWII anti-Semitic stance he took in the name of isolationism and in his fading relevance in the age of jets and rockets, Anne finds her own inner voice of discontent rising. It is here that Benjamin really shines in capturing an authentic voice for Anne as she begins to find herself, both as the writer of the classic Gift from the Sea (among many others) and as a woman finally deciding what she wantsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and what she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. As Anne begins to accumulate secrets and discovers that Charles has a devastating secret of his own, Benjaminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel is at its best once the Lindberghs exit the spotlight and the only history they make is their own.

The Aviatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wife is an amazing book, not just as novel or fictional biography but as an authentic-feeling look into the inner lives of the kind of heroes we just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anymore, and the cost of being them.

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Gun Outfit, Muuy Biien, Stupid Idiots, Custody Battle Farm 255 ¡ 11 p.m. ¡ FREE!

Drenched in a shroud of ramshackle beauty and DIY ethos, noise/garage-pop trio Gun Outfit is very much a product of its native Olympia, WA. While the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s older material recalls a more focused and updated take on Beat Happening, with male/female vocal play delivered charmingly over dirty, unpolished (read: unpracticed) pop gems, new songs like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flyinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Low, Mariaâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lau Bluesâ&#x20AC;? offer a darker sentiment, with streaks of Sonic Youthstyle distortion and Electrelaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sustained coolness. Think HĂźsker DĂź or Dinosaur Jr if K Records overthrew SSTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reign of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s noise and hardcore scenes. Now touring in support of their Hard Coming Down LP, recently released via No Age drummer/vocalist Dean Spuntâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PPM imprint, the band plays Farm 255 on Wednesday.

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Museum Mix Dance Party Georgia Museum of Art ¡ 8 p.m. ¡ FREE!

Athenians, rejoice! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for the Georgia Museum of Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tri-annual latenight art and dance party, Museum Mix. This springâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s party features DJs William Kennedy and Jace Bartet from Reptar, with drinks and food, plus dancing in the sculpture garden and viewing in the galleries. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all free! Last fall, over 400 people joined in the party until midnight, and it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just museum regulars. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good venue for singles to come to, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to a club where the only activity is drinking and dancing,â&#x20AC;? says Michael Lachowski, who created epic Athens dance parties before joining the museum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shared interest in visual art, and you can see a situation where the conversation could be started about the art.â&#x20AC;? So come raise the roof at the GMOA to kick off the Twilight weekend. [Marilyn Estes] MUSIC | Friday, Apr. 26

Life in Color The Classic Center ¡ 8 p.m. ¡ $36, $67 (VIP) The inevitable, though not unwelcome, evolution of electronic music and rave culture over the past two-plus decades has witnessed the arrival of the romanticized, word of mouth all-nighters that helped define â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s subculture into the mass-marketed festivals and easily accessible arenas of today. Asserting itself as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest paint party,â&#x20AC;? Life in Color (formerly Dayglow) is an elaborate, world-touring production that often incorporates aerial

artists, costumed dancers, fire shows and video wall imagery into its most essential non-auditory element (no, not drugs): cannon that splatter blasts of glowing neon paint onto a sea of dancing bodies. The night features sets by English dubstep producer and DJ, RUSKO, and Two Fresh, with supporting acts Fullhaus and Will Weber.

[Jessica Smith] MUSIC | Friday, Apr. 26

Dangfly!, The Bearfoot Hookers Caledonia Lounge ¡ 10 p.m. ¡ $5 (21+), $7

(18-20) The Adam Payne-led Dangfly! celebrates the release of its new album, Good Luck, Curiosity, at the Caledonia with a Very Athens Rock Bill also featuring the bluesy â&#x20AC;&#x153;beer-drinkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gospelâ&#x20AC;? of long-running locals The Bearfoot Hookers. Good Luck, Curiosity is a fine outing from Payne and company that skirts the usual townie jamericana trappings in favor of concise bursts of melodious pop-rock. Payneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice is as strong and startling as ever, always threatening to extend beyond its reach but navigating each soaring melody with surprising agility. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most effective weapon, but Adam Poulinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s violin has to be a close second; the talented local session player adds unexpected but welcome levels of both grace and tension.

[Gabe Vodicka]

The Casket Girls

MUSIC | Saturday, Apr. 27

The Casket Girls, Ponderosa, Velocirapture Caledonia Lounge ¡ 9:30 p.m. ¡ $7 (21+), $9

(18-20) What happens when Black Moth Super Rainbowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ryan Graveface stumbles upon two sisters in a Savannah square, playing bizarro autoharp tunes for the general public? He saunters up to the ladies and asks them to start a band, of course. The resulting threesome, The Casket Girls, is a rather dark project born of Gravefaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love of The Shangri-Las and Phaedra and Elsa Greeneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love of writing lyrics about such topics as embracing death. On their debut album, Sleepwalking, bandmembers present a dark, murky take on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s girl-group pop without taking themselves so seriously that it ruins the fun. Wrapped in the Greene sistersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sense of humor, The Casket Girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; grim qualities feel much more like mischief than melancholy. [Rachel Bailey]

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Tuesday 23 CLASSES: So You Want to Start a Non-Profit? (Lyndon House Arts Center) Learn about the Athens Area Arts Council’s umbrella sponsorship program that lets organizations accept tax-deductible donations under the non-profit status of the Arts Council. 5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.athensarts.org EVENTS: Recycling Happy Hour (UGA Intramural Fields) Bring in old electronics, batteries, bulbs and used cooking grease for recycling.

5–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com EVENTS: 19th Annual Entree of Hope Ten percent of the day’s sales from participating restaurants will benefit local charities The Ark United Ministry Outreach Center and the Athens Area Emergency Food Bank. Visit website for list of restaurants. 12–11 p.m. http://on.fb. me/117A3NA EVENTS: No Waste Dinner (UGA Ecology Building) Featuring dinner, live music and a panel discussion about the local food initiative. Bring your own plate, cup and utensils.

7–9 p.m. $5. www.sustainability.uga. edu/earthweek FILM: Bad Movie Night: Low Blow (Ciné Barcafé) Joe Wong is a private detective hired to track down a missing daughter and rescue her from the Universal Enlightenment, a cult lead by the cloaked and perpetuallysinglassed Yarakunda. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub 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 (The Office Lounge) Compete for prizes! Every Tuesday.

7:30 p.m. www.facebook.com/ officeathens 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: Movie Quotes Trivia (Max) With host Cora Jane every Tuesday. Everyone’s a winner. 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 KIDSTUFF: AKF Martial Arts Demo (Oconee County Library) A demo class for children ages 4–10.

3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT: World Book Night (Multiple locations) Part of a nationwide campaign that gives half a million free books away to light or nonreaders in over 6,000 towns. Friends of the ACC Library will distribute books at Our Daily Bread, the Athens Nurses Clinic and

the Project Safe Thrift Store. All day. www.athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Garden Travels (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Discussion of British Columbia and the Yukon. 7 p.m. FREE! www. botgarden.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: UGA Philharmonia and University Band (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Both groups performing are primarily comprised on non-music majors.

8 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu SPORTS: Recreational Disc Golf Doubles Night (Sandy Creek Park) All skill levels of disc players are welcome. Discs provided. May bring a partner or be paired up. 6–8 p.m. FREE! (w/ $3 admission). www. athensdiscgolf.com

Wednesday 24 ART: Life Drawing Open Studio (UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries, Room S370) An opportunity to draw or paint the human figure from life. No instruction provided. 5:30–8:30 p.m. $8. www. art.uga.edu ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the museum’s collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Athens City Hall) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music at every market.

Live music by the Tre Powell. 4–7 p.m. www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Farewell to UGA President Michael Adams (UGA Tate Student Center) All are invited to a farewell ceremony. 4 p.m. FREE! mamstutz@uga.edu EVENTS: Bike Safety Training (UGA Myers Hall) BikeAthens hosts a program about bike safety, helmet fittings and cycling etiquette. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.sustainability.uga.edu/earthweek FILM: Even the Rain (Ciné Barcafé) An idealistic Spanish film director aims to make a revisionist epic abouth the conquest of Latin America, while in real life “Water Wars” are fought against the privatization of Bolivia’s water supply. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

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

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (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 pie-hole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday.

7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night. 8 p.m. Both locations. 706-548-3442 GAMES: Crows Nest Trivia (Dirty Birds) Every Wednesday in the Crows Nest. 8 p.m. FREE! 706546-7050 KIDSTUFF: Back to the Future (ACC Library) Star Wars crafts, games of Pac-Man and dancing to Thriller. Dress in your favorite ‘80s garb. For ages 11–18. 4–5:30 p.m.

FREE! www.facebook.com/acclyoungadult KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oconee County Library) Enjoy a morning of stories, songs and crafts. For kids ages 2–5 and their caregivers. Every Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes & Noble) For all ages. Children receive a free treat from the cafe. 11 a.m.

FREE! 706-354-1195 KIDSTUFF: Teen Yoga (Oconee County Library) A certified yoga instructor demonstrates some basic moves and poses to stretch and relax the mind and body. Healthy treats provided. Bring your own mat or beach towel. 7–8 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 LECTURES & LIT: Origin of Mankind (UGA Chapel) Norm Thomson explores details of mankind’s hominin ancestors. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.originslectures.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Oconee County Democrats Book Club (Tlaloc El Mexicano Restaurant, Watkinsville) A discussion on Eyal Press’s book Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times.

Newcomers welcome. 6:30 p.m. (dinner) 7 p.m. (meeting) FREE! patricia.priest@yahoo.com PERFORMANCE: UGA Symphonic Band (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Spring concert featuring Johann de Meij’s “Lord of the Rings” suite, Norman Dello Joio’s “Variants on a Medieval Tune” and more. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Saxophone Studio Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Featuring students of Connie Frigo in solo and chamber music settings. 6 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu

Thursday 25 ART: Museum Mix (Georgia Museum of Art) View the museum’s galleries and dance to a DJ set by Reptar members William Kennedy and Jace Bartet. 8 p.m. www.georgiamuseum.org

NBC’s Al Roker will deliver the 2013 Holmes-Hunter lecture at the UGA Chapel on Thurday, Apr. 25 at 2:30 p.m.

CLASSES: Genealogy 102: Census Records Online (Oconee County Library) Learn how to navigate the genealogy databases Ancestry Library Edition and HeritageQuest Online to access census records. 12:30–2 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 CLASSES: Scottish Country Dance Classes (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Social dancing at its liveliest with jigs, reels and strathspeys. Bring your dancing shoes. Every Thursday, 7–9 p.m. $3. dabmillier@google.com EVENTS: “Honor Your Staff, Honor a Child” (Trumps Ballroom) Employers are invited to treat their office staff to a luncheon that raises funds to help abused or neglected children in the Athens area. RSVP. 12–1:30 p.m. $25, $180 (table of 8). 706-613-1922, ext. 6. www. childrenfirst-inc.org EVENTS: Sr. Sol’s Fifth Anniversary Party (Sr. Sol) Specials all day in celebration.

Live mariachi band at the Broad St. location. 10 a.m.–10 p.m. 706-5461570, 706-850-7112 EVENTS: Rendezvous (The Globe) Sapph.fire presents a new social gathering for lesbian and bisexual women in Athens. Live music by Ricky Simone and a special drag king performance. Benefiting Project Safe. Ages 18 & up. 9 p.m. $5. www. facebook.com/sapphfire.athens EVENTS: Earthfest (Terrapin Beer Co.) Local green organizations share their missions and volunteer opportunities. Food available from Farm Cart. 5:30–7:30 p.m. $10. www. terrapinbrewery.com EVENTS: Recycling Facility Spring Open House (ACC Recycling Facility) Tour the facility to see how material is sorted, processed and made ready for its role as a new product. Bring an empty aluminum can to support the special

collection for Gus the Groundhog.

5–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com FILM: Pay It Forward (UGA Tate Student Center, Tate Theatre) A young boy launches a good-will movement. 8 p.m. $1–2. www.tate. uga.edu/movies 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 (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 KIDSTUFF: Baby Music Jam (ACC Library) Children ages 1-3 and their caregivers can play instruments, sing and dance together. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 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 LECTURES & LIT: Workers’ Rights Meeting (Oglethorpe Co. Library) Learn about employment discrimination and workers’ rights in all types of situations, with special guest Terrie Dandy of the Equal Employment Commission. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-353-7272 LECTURES & LIT: Georgia Leaders in Sustainability Panel (UGA Dean Rusk Hall) Speakers from Novelis, Ignition, Intercontinental Hotels Group and Southface. 3:30–5 p.m. FREE! sustain@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Al Roker (UGA Chapel) Best known as a host and weather man on “The Today Show,” NBC’s Al Roker delivers the 2013 Holmes-Hunter lecture. 2:30 p.m.

FREE! www.peabodyawards.com LECTURES & LIT: Mandala Journal Launch (Avid Bookshop) The 2013 issue of the UGA

student-run literary journal, entitled “Shelter,” features local poetry, art and prose. 6:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Georgia Leaders in Sustainability Panel (UGA School of Law) Georgia-based leaders in sustainability participate in a panel discussion. 3:30-5 p.m.

FREE! www.sustainability.uga.edu MEETINGS: CCDC Meeting (Multiple Choices for Independent Living) Spencer Frye will be the featured speaker of this month’s meeting of The Clarke County Democratic Committee (CCDC). Open to the public. 6 p.m. FREE! www.clarkedemocrats.com MEETINGS: Public Hearing (The Classic Center, Grand Hall) A public hearing on the downtown master plan. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.classiccenter.com OUTDOORS: Full Moon Hike Series (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) See the Garden come alive at night this winter. Each hike will focus on a different topic such as the moon, constellations or nocturnal creatures. Call to make reservation.

7–8:30 p.m. $5. 706-542-6156 PERFORMANCE: The Hodgson Quartet (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Featuring Josh Holritz and Lucas Scalamogna on violin, Maria Kindt on viola and Justin Dougherty on cello. 8 p.m. FREE! www.music. uga.edu

Friday 26 ART: BFA Exhibition (UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries) For students in ceramics, painting/drawing and jewelry. 7 p.m. FREE! www. art.uga.edu ART: 2nd Annual Art fair (Central Presbyterian Church) OLLI@UGA hosts a fair with painting, fiber art, k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! photography, jewelry and more. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. www.olli.uga.edu ART: Art in the Garden: A Celebration of Art and Latin American Culture (UGA Latin American Ethnobotanical Garden) Featuring samples of art from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reflections of the Latin American Natural Environment,â&#x20AC;? beverages and music. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. FREE! www. lacsi.uga.edu EVENTS: Confederate Constitution Exhibition (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) A display of the only copy of the permanent constitution of the Confederate States.

8 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. FREE! jclevela@ uga.edu EVENTS: Dawgs After Dark (UGA Tate Student Center) Skeeball, a moon bounce, petting zoo, giant cake, pizza and more. 10 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 a.m. FREE! (w/ UGA ID), $5. www. union.uga.edu EVENTS: Line Dancing (Bootleggers Country & Western Bar) Countrywestern-style line dance lessons.

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area, food court, demonstrations, kids activities, music and more. Apr. 26â&#x20AC;&#x201C;27, all day. www.athenstwilight. com FILM: Nourish (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Narrated by Cameron Diaz, this documentary explores how food connects to biodiversity, climate change, public health and social justice. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! wolpers4@aol.com FILM: Django Unchained (UGA Tate Student Center, Tate Theatre) A freed slave and a bounty hunter trek across the country to rescue his wife from a cruel plantation owner.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino. 2:30, 6 & 9:30 p.m. $1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2. www.tate.uga. edu/movies KIDSTUFF: Japanese Storytime (ACC Library) Bilingual program led by volunteers from UGAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Japan Club. Learn about Japanese culture through literacy-based activities. All ages. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: MLB Pitch, Hit and Run Competition (Lay Park) A competition that tests baseball pitching, hitting and base running. Ages 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;14. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3596

preacher whose son wants to follow in the footsteps of his father, a jazz musician. Apr. 26 & 27, 7:30 p.m. & Apr. 28, 2:30 p.m. $5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7. www. mortontheatre.com

Saturday 27 ART: Spring Sale (R. Wood Studio) View the ceramics studio and select from the new collection of functional pottery. 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. www.rwoodstudio.com ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) A discussion on Thorton Dialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s large painting, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spirit of Grand Central Station: the Man that Helped the Handicapped.â&#x20AC;? 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum. com ART: A World Away Market (A World Away) A gathering of craftspeople, collectors, growers and creators features handcrafted and vintage treasures. The market benefits Sweet Olive Animal Rescue.

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EVENTS: Inaugural Community Crawl (The Grotto and Pita Pit) Mention PHIL-Athens and 33% of proceeds will benefit one of eight local non-profits of your choice. All day. www.phil-athens.com EVENTS: Bear Hollow Day (Terrapin Beer Co.) Custom Bear Hollow pint glasses, crafts, live animal encounters, silent auction and more. A portion of the proceeds benefits Bear Hollow Zoo. 5:30-7:30 p.m. $12. www.terrapinbeer.com EVENTS: A Southern Symphony Celebration (Fair Havens Plantation) Southern-style dinner and drinks, silent auction and live music from members of the Athens Symphony. Proceeds benefit the Athens Symphony and their four free symphonic concerts throughout the year. Call for tickets. 6:30 p.m. $100.

706-546-1042 EVENTS: Red Bull Chariot Race Teams of three will build and race chariots through the streets of downtown Athens. The race takes place on E. Clayton St. between N. Lumpkin Street and N. Jackson Street. 6:30 p.m. FREE! brandonnelson@redbullu.com EVENTS: Twilight Criterium (Downtown Athens) Annual bike race through downtown with an expo

LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation, Firehall #2) Natalie Goldberg speaks about her new book, The True Secret of Writing. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:30 p.m. FREE! www. avidbookshop.com OUTDOORS: Floating River Clean Up (Big Dogs on the River) Paddle around to clean up the banks of the Middle Oconee River. Followed by live music and local food. 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m.

FREE! sustain@uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Burlesque Beta (Go Bar) What a tease! Open-mic variety show featuring singers, dancers, musicians and comics in the vaudeville tradition. 10 p.m. $3.

706-546-5609 PERFORMANCE: Athens Master Chorale (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Joseph Napoli directs a performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Requiemâ&#x20AC;? by Faure and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Solemn Vespersâ&#x20AC;? by Mozart. 8 p.m. $5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10. 706-546-0023 PERFORMANCE: An Evening with Mark Twain (ACC Library) Impersonator Dave Ehlert provides a live portrayal of Mark Twain and a reenactment of a portion of Huckleberry Finn. 7 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 THEATRE: The Amen Corner (Morton Theatre) A play about a mother and Harlem store-front

The Branded Butcher and 3 Porch Farm. Proceeds benefit Wholesome Wave Georgia and the Athens Farmers Market SNAP doubling program. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. www.farm255.com EVENTS: Jackson Eco Farm Open House (Jackson Eco Farm) Educational activities about raised bed gardens, aquaponics, beekeeping and vermiculture. 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 p.m. FREE! www.jacksonecofarm.org EVENTS: Third Annual Strawberry Festival (Washington Farms) The all day, outdoor event includes fresh strawberries, live music, fun farm activities, arts and crafts and a strawberry cook-off contest. 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. www.washingtonfarms. net EVENTS: Trans Jam BMX Contest (Athens City Hall) Top professional BMX riders from the southeast compete on the ramp and in freestyle flatland. Featuring kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities.

Part of Twilight 2013. 11 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. FREE! www.athenstwilight.com, www.transjambmx.com EVENTS: Twilight Criterium (Downtown Athens) See Friday listing for full description Apr. 26â&#x20AC;&#x201C;27, all day. www.athenstwilight.com EVENTS: Farmhouse Pop Up Shop (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Rinne Allen, Kristen Bach, Amanda

Kapousouz and Rebecca Wood have curated a shop inspired by farm life.

10 a.m.–6 p.m. www.treehousekidandcraft.com EVENTS: Athens Psychic Faire (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Featuring tarot readings, other divinations, a demonstration ritual and live music from Cath & Embreis, Anni Paisley and more. All proceeds benefit Athens Pagan Pride Day. 5–11 p.m.

FREE! www.athenspaganpride.com EVENTS: World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Celebration (Athens YWCO) Demonstrations and activities. No experience necessary. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! martilea@aol.com EVENTS: Wing Eating Contest (Dirty Birds) First annual fundraising competition. Compete in 30-minute challenges for prizes. Proceeds benefit Habitat for Humanity. 2 p.m. www.facebook.com/dirtybirdsathens EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts.

Live music by The Skipperdees and Klezmer Local 42. This week features the Campus Kitchens Greens Cookoff, in which contestants make a dish to be judged, and a kids’ scavenger hunt. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Farmer for a Day Tour (Blue Moon Farms, Madison) A work session on the farm followed by lunch and a guided tour. RSVP. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! broadriverpastures@gmail.com FILM: Django Unchained (UGA Tate Student Center) See Friday listing for full description 2:30, 6 & 9:30 p.m. $1–2. www.tate.uga.edu/ movies KIDSTUFF: Save the Frogs Day (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Learn about the importance of frogs through a guided hike and amphibian hunt. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter KIDSTUFF: Autism UGA Carnival (Barnett Shoals Elementary School) Students and families affected by Autism are invited to a resource fair with games, crafts, refreshments and information. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! autismuga@uga.edu, www.autism. uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes & Noble) For all ages. Children receive a free treat from the cafe. 11 a.m.

FREE! 706-354-1195 LECTURES & LIT: Futures of the Book Symposium (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) Brian Croxall presents “Harder Better Faster Stronger: Books from the Future.” Includes a workshop, art exhibit and panel discussion. 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! www.willson.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Book Signing (Avid Bookshop) Former Athens resident Terry W. Burger has recently released the first in a series of books called The Year of the Moon Goose.

2–3 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop. com THEATRE: The Amen Corner (Morton Theatre) See Friday listing for full description Apr. 26 & 27, 7:30 p.m. & Apr. 28, 2:30 p.m. $5–7. www.mortontheatre.com

Sunday 28 ART: Spring Artists Market (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) Local artisans present handmade jewelry, metalsmithing, pottery, illustration, fibers, photography, letterpress and more. 10:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. www.heirloomathens.com EVENTS: Dedication Ceremony (ACC Library) For the Jon & Virginia Appleton Auditorium and other

named rooms. 3 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 EVENTS: Athens Hip Hop Awards (Georgia Center Hotel, Mahler Hall) First annual “tribute to Urban culture, musical talent and business owners in Athens, GA.” Featuring live performances by local artists.

See story on p. 18. 6 p.m. $10 (adv.), $20 (door). www.chocolatecitylive.com EVENTS: Scavenger Hunt at the Landfill (ACC Landfill) Hunt around for nature’s best recycler: the vulture. Dress for a trail hike. 9–11 a.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty. com EVENTS: Athens Canine Rescue Mutt Strut (Bishop Park) Dogs of all kinds show their stuff. Visit website to register a dog, or register 30 minutes in advance of the show. 2–4 p.m. $15. www.athenscaninerescue. com/mutt-strut FILM: Django Unchained (UGA Tate Student Center) See Friday listing for full description 2:30, 6 & 9:30 p.m. $1–2. www.tate.uga.edu/ movies 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: Trivia (Buffalo’s Café) “Brewer’s Inquisition,” trivia hosted

by Chris Brewer every Sunday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655, www. buffaloscafe.com/athens GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Broad Street location) What do you really know? 6 p.m. 706-548-3442 GAMES: Trivia (Amici) Test your skills. 9 p.m. 706-353-0000 OUTDOORS: Spring Bird Ramble (ACC Landfill) Look and listen for spring migratory birds on a walk with the Oconee Audubon Society.

8 a.m. FREE! www.oconeeriversaudubon.org OUTDOORS: Roving Garden Party (Young Harris Methodist Church) Join the Boulevard Gardening Club on a tour of four private gardens in the Cobbham neighboorhood.

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3–5:30 p.m. $15–20. 706-461-5510 THEATRE: The Amen Corner (Morton Theatre) See Friday listing for full description Apr. 26 & 27, 7:30 p.m. & Apr. 28, 2:30 p.m. $5–7. www.mortontheatre.com

Monday 29 EVENTS: Home Runs for Hometown Rivals (Foley Field) Clarke County Special Education students compete against each other in a game of baseball while partnered with UGA student atheletes.

Hosted by Special Olympics at UGA. 6–7:30 p.m. $5. ugaspecialolympics@gmail.com GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Athens’ toughest trivia. $100 grand prize every week! All ages. 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-543-8997 GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Grab some friends and compete for house cash and prizes!

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FREE! 706-850-1916 LECTURES & LIT: Last Monday Book Group (ACC Library) This month’s discussion is on Sophie’s World: a Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT: “Gettysburg: America’s Greatest Battle” (Oconee County Library) Retired Colonel Lawrence Saul delivers a lecture on the battle, key personalities of the soldiers and the tactics employed by both armies. 7 p.m.

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ART: Life Drawing Open Studio (UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries) See Wednesday listing for full description 5:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. $8. www.art.uga.edu ART: Drawing in Nature (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Artist Toni Calucci teaches fun and effective tips for drawing plants and other objects of nature. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu ART: Visiting Silhouette Artist (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Tim Arnold creates silhouettes of children, adults and pets. Cuttings can be done from a photograph or from life. Contact Treehouse to make an appointment. 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. 706850-8226, treehousekidandcraft@ gmail.com EVENTS: Campus Memorial Service (UGA Chapel) UGA President Michael Adams leads a memorial service in honor of the students, faculty and staff of the university who have passed away this year. 7 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu GAMES: Trivia (The Office Lounge) Compete for prizes! Every Tuesday.

7:30 p.m. www.facebook.com/ officeathens GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 (Fuzzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Movie Quotes Trivia (Max) With host Cora Jane every Tuesday. Everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a winner. 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 LECTURES & LIT: Every Two Minutes Monologue and Poetry Reading (Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar) Readings from selected works address the issues of gender inequality, sexual assault and rape culture. Pieces to read may be submitted via email. 5:30-7 p.m. FREE! sellersw@uga.edu MEETINGS: Nature Writing Workshop (Athens Land Trust) This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting covers books for kids, as well as writing about the natural world. Newcomers welcome.

4:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. patricia.priest@yahoo.com PERFORMANCE: Belly Dancing Show (40 Watt Club) Watch belly dancers â&#x20AC;&#x153;rakâ&#x20AC;? the 40 Watt. 7 p.m. $5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8. www.40watt.com

Wednesday 1 CLASSES: One Color Screenprint Workshop (Double Dutch Press) Learn the basics from image production to finished product and reclaimed screen. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. $50. www.doubledutchpress.com CLASSES: Spicy Salsa Dancing (Jerzeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sports Bar) Learn how to Salsa. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. (lesson), 10 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 a.m. (dancing). $3, $5 (under 21). dg2003@yahoo.com EVENTS: Rescue Me! Dog Meet & Greet (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Meet some adoptable dogs. Wellsocialized, non-aggressive dogs welcome to attend. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. FREE! www.athenshumanesociety.org EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Athens City Hall) Local and sustain-

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able produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music at every market.

4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. www.athensfarmersmarket. net GAMES: Trivia (Willyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 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 pie-hole for a chance to win! Every Wednesday.

7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-7424 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

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DUQUETTE JOHNSTON A blend of roots music and modern singersongwriter sensibilities from this Alabama-based artist. k i d s Reverb-washed melodic pop led by songwriter Jared Collins.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com ATHENS COWBOY CHOIR Local group featuring members of James Husband, of Montreal, The Glands and Elf Power singing songs from the frontier.

ORANGE TWIN FAMILY BAND Various members of the longrunning local collective perform.

Amici 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 LIVE BAND KARAOKE Sing your favorites as a live band backs you up.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $13. www.georgiatheatre.com AER David von Mering and Carter Schultz create music that finds its roots in reggae, acoustic pop and indie rock, with smooth guitar riffs and a strong rap component.

LONG MILES Dance-minded, reggae-influenced jam band out of Philadelphia.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com REPTILE DYSFUNCTION Band led by local luthier and songwriter Scott Baxendale.

SETH WINTERS Local singer-songwriter combining the pop sensibilities of mainstream songwriting with a guitar-driven sound.

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Shawn Mullins plays the Melting Point on Friday, Apr. 26.

GAMES: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Jeremy Dyson. 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub GAMES: Crows Nest Trivia (Dirty Birds) Every Wednesday in the Crows Nest. 8 p.m. FREE! 706546-7050 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? Test your knowledge every Wednesday night. 8 p.m. Both locations. 706-548-3442 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes & Noble) For all ages. Children receive a free treat from the cafe. 11 a.m.

FREE! 706-354-1195 LECTURES & LIT: Author Talk (UGA Chapel) Jeff Speck, the author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, discusses his book. Followed by a book signing at Transmetropolitan downtown.

6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:30 p.m. FREE! www.achfonline. org

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 23 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com DANA SWIMMER A montage of garage rock with sweet, soulful undertones.

WATER LIARS Rootsy, simplistic, gritty folk-rock duo out of Mississippi.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com JONNY & SHIM Local pop-rock group with hip-hop tendencies.

The Melting Point Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. meltingpointathens.com THE WELFARE LINERS This fivepiece bluegrass unit blends classic tunes with originals while focusing on brother harmonies for that authentic high lonesome sound.

THE BURNING ANGELS Local country-rock band led by songwriter Mark Cunningham.

HARTLE ROAD Straight-forward rock and roll from Water Valley, MS. Mirko Pasta 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5641 (Gaines School Road location) LEAVING COUNTRIES Local singersongwriter Louis Phillip Pelot performs folk and country, solo or with the help of some friends.

Nowhere Bar Tuesday Night Confessional. 9 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-4742 TUESDAY NIGHT CONFESSIONAL Fester Hagood hosts this weekly series showcasing a series of acoustic solo sets from some of the most talented singer-songwriters in town and across the country.

Sundown Saloon 8 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1180 AVERY DYLANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OPEN MIC NIGHT All musicians, singers, songwriters and/or bands welcome!

KIMBERLY MORGAN Local acoustic singer-songwriter embracing the rootsy, twangy appeal of traditional country music.

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

11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com GUN OUTFIT Olympia, WA-based trio whose driving, guitar-based music rivals the best of the SST crowd. See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

MUUY BIIEN Local band plays â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80sstyle punk rock thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equal parts Minor Threat and The Fall.

CUSTODY BATTLE Arizona-based punk band.

STUPID IDIOTS Alias of local experimental artist Ash Rickli.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com DAN WILL No info available.

JOSH MAYFIELD Nashville-based singer-songwriter.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 5 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com KINKY WAIKIKI Relaxing, steel guitar-driven band following the traditions of Hawaiian music.

Twilight Americana Music Festival. 8 p.m. $20 ($10 w/ wristband). www. georgiatheatre.com LEFTOVER SALMON Boulder, CO bluegrass jam band playing self-described â&#x20AC;&#x153;Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass.â&#x20AC;?

THE PIMPS OF JOYTIME Soul band incorporating elements of funk, afrobeat and reggae.

The Globe 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 THE LUCKY JONES Athens-based three-piece playing self described â&#x20AC;&#x153;rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rhythm and blues.â&#x20AC;?

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ BLOWPOP Joe Kubler (Bubbly Mommy Gun) spins a set of tunes.

Green Room 10 p.m. $7. www.greenroomathens. com THE DAVID MAYFIELD PARADE Energetic live performer from Ohio playing rootsy Americana.

MICHAEL BOWMAN Local altcountry/blues singer-songwriter from Harrisonburg, VA. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub LITTLE GOLD Local trio fronted by Christian DeRoeck, formerly of Woods, playing garage rock with pop sensibilities.

RIVER NECK Florida-based folkcountry band.

DAFFODIL This local trio plays hardhitting, noisy rock.

The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com AYMAN Local world fusion composer celebrating the release of his new album, Embers of Time, â&#x20AC;&#x153;fusing western and middle eastern music, exemplifying a world without bor-

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com KEITH KENNY New Jersey-based singer-songwriter.

UGArden 6 p.m. $2. www.facebook.com/ugardeners SXSM UGArden and WUOG present a spring concert at UGArden featuring the environmentally conscious Ecotones, The Barlettas and more. Bring a blanket to claim your spot on the lawn.

The Volstead 7 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 TRE POWELL Bluesy acoustic tunes with soulful vocals.

Thursday 25 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $8 (adv), $10 (door). www.40watt.com DEADSTRING BROTHERS Charismatic rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; blues with countrified guitar, drums, harmonica and vocals.

SHONNA TUCKER & EYE CANDY Former Drive-By Truckers bassist plays a set backed by her new band.

Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CafĂŠ 7:30 p.m. $5. 706-354-6655 BACKROOM WRITERS The areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most talented singer-songwriters, hosted by Bobby Compton.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com LOUD VALLEY Formerly known as Bananafish, this Orlando act plays

WALT MCCLEMENTS Frontman of Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? branches out on his own.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com HAND SAND HANDS Experimental, psychedelic pop-rock from Jonathan Miller. Every Thursday in January!

CULT OF RIGGONIA Experimental soundscapes with tribal, world music beats and ornate instrumentation.

FUTURE APE TAPES Local group creating psychedelic, experimental music driven by loops, beats, guitars and synths.

XAVII Macon-based noise/prog/ambient band.

Georgia Theatre Twilight Americana Music Festival. 8 p.m. $20 (FREE w/ wristband). www. georgiatheatre.com MIKE COOLEY A solo set from one of the Drive-By Truckersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; principal songwriters.

T. HARDY MORRIS Dead Confederate frontman performs a solo set.

Go Bar 11 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dr. Fredâ&#x20AC;? Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Green Room Twilight Americana Music Festival. 9 p.m. $10 (FREE w/ wristband). www. greenroomathens.com LARRY KEEL Virginia-based acoustic flatpicking bluegrass guitarist.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 SWEET KNIEVELThis four-piece jam band plays a variety of musical styles ranging from melodic psychedelic rock to funk and beyond.

The Office Lounge 10 p.m. 706-546-0840 EMILY MCCANNON BAND Singersongwriter blending elements of county and rock, citing influences like Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com DEAN JOHANESEN â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gypsy jazzâ&#x20AC;? singer-songwriter from Florida.

Walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee & Pub 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1433 KARAOKE Every Thursday!

Friday 26 40 Watt Club Twilight Americana Music Festival.

8 p.m. $25 (FREE w/ wristband). www.40watt.com DEER TICK Alt-country band from Providence, RI that incorporates elements of folk, blues and indie rock.

LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES Alabama-based rock band inspired by classic Southern rock, the energy and attitude of punk and the deep grooves of R&B. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS This Atlanta/Athens group plays breezy, beachy Americana.

Amici 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 DUXEDO Local group playing self described â&#x20AC;&#x153;swamp funk.â&#x20AC;?

Butt Hutt Bar-B-Q 8 p.m. FREE! www.butthuttbarbecue. com REGGIE STARRETT Enthusiastic blend of classic rock and country.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com DANGFLY! Local rock band featuring an all-star lineup, including Adam Payne, Shawn Johnson, Jay Rodgers, Scotty Nicholson and Adam Poulin. CD release show! See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

THE BEARFOOT HOOKERS Longrunning group combining traditional country, blues, and rock sounds into a self-described â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beer Drinkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gospelâ&#x20AC;?.

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Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 ATHENS FUNK HEAVIES Local funk band.

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

Porterhouse Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens is back for 2013! Join drummer Nicholas Wiles with bassist Drew Hart and pianist Steve Key for an evening of original music, improv and standards.

Tapped 9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-6277 KARAOKE Every Wednesday!

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CRUISE Locals Shane Davis and JT Bringardner (Oh, Fortuna) play synth-pop in the vein of Crystal Castles.

DREAM BOAT Page Campbell (Hope For Agoldensummer) and Dan Donahue play psychedelic, ethereal pop-folk.

Dirty Birds 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-7050 THE GROVES Southern alt-rock band from Tampa incorporating elements of blues and psychedelia.

CRAIG WATERS Local blues guitarist and songwriter.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CANDID COAL PEOPLE Three-piece local folk-rock group.

GUMSHOE Local alt-country band led

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THE WELFARE LINERS This fivepiece bluegrass unit blends classic tunes with originals while focusing on brother harmonies for that authentic high lonesome sound.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com ODD TRIO One of Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; finest original jazz ensembles, this innovative group often incorporates looped audio into its compositions.

The Melting Point 6 p.m. $35 (adv.), $40 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND Legendary country-folk-rock band from Long Beach, CA. MRJORDANMRTONKS Collaboration between longtime Athens musicians, Tommy Jordan and William Tonks, featuring rootsy guitar picking and paired vocal melodies.

College Square Twilight Americana Music Festival. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athensamericana. com THE WHISKEY GENTRY Toe-tapping country and bluegrass band out of Atlanta.

THE CORDUROY ROAD Rooted in classic Americana, with lots of footstomping, banjo-plucking and pedal steel and endearing pop melodies.

BIG C AND THE VELVET DELTA A modern take on traditional blues, rock and R&B from this local group.

Dirty Birds 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-7050 GRAY BRANTLEY & FRIENDS Local singer-songwriter playing with a few of his friends.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com VESPOLINA Local band fronted by Daniel Aaron that plays rich, evocative, country-tinged rock.

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SLAW AND ORDER Local drum and keys duo performs tambourine-rich pop tracks.

MATT CHASTAIN, JOSH MELTON & BEN SPRAKER Trio of local singer-songwriters.

Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. $22.50. www.georgiatheatre. com SLIGHTLY STOOPID Prolific jam band combining folk, rock, reggae and blues.

TRIBAL SEEDS Roots reggae band infused with the backbone of rock.

KANEKOA Hawaii-based, ukuleledriven five piece melding elements of rock, roots reggae and folk.

On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com VELVETEEN PINK This quartet of funksters (including DJ Alfredo of Immuzikation) plays electrobased, groove-laden, upbeat stuff in the Prince, Stevie Wonder and Jamiroquai style.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 THE DICTATORTOTS These longtime Athenian chaos cultivators stomp about and trash the night with postgrunge grooves.

Go Bar 11 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

DJ CHAMPALE Also known as Will Stephenson, this Flagpole contributor and former WUOG DJ brings the booth to the bar.

Green Room 5 p.m. FREE! www.greenroomathens. com DREW DAVIS Young singersongwriter playing heartfelt original music in the style of Fiona Apple and Eva Cassidy.

Twilight Americana Music Festival. 9 p.m. $10 (FREE w/ wristband). www. greenroomathens.com SAM SNIPER Local alt-country band playing rootsy, energetic and heartfelt tunes.

YO SOYBEAN Local â&#x20AC;&#x153;party-folkâ&#x20AC;? trio featuring upbeat, sing-along numbers with guests on guitar, banjo, mandolin, violin and more.

MONKEYGRASS JUG BAND Local roots music crew.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com THE NICE MACHINE Local surf-punk band.

Highwire Lounge 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge. com FRIDAY NIGHT JAZZ A set of jazz tunes for your dinnertime pleasure, usually led by pianist Rand Lines and featuring various guests.

Little Kings Shuffle Club Twilight Americana Music Festival. 9 p.m. $7 (FREE w/ wristband). www. facebook.com/lkshuffleclub THE DARNELL BOYS Country blues originals backed by upright bass, singing saw and junkyard percussion.

LITTLE COUNTRY GIANTS Oldtime folk, country and blues from Rome, GA. DAVE MARR The former Star Room Boys singer with a deep and resonant country twang plays a set of solo material.

W.B. GIVENS Nashville-based singer-songwriter pulling from rootsy Americana, blues and folk music.

The Melting Point 6 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com SHAWN MULLINS Atlanta based, adult-alternative singer-songwriter.

CALLAGHAN British-born, Atlantabased pop songwriter compared to Sarah McLachlan and Jewel.

The Office Lounge 10 p.m. 706-546-0840 THE ORIGINAL SCREWTOPS Crankinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the blues since 1962.

The Pub at Gameday 10 p.m. 706-353-2831 NATHAN SHEPPARD Talented local singer-songwriter with a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s pop style.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com RED OAK SOUTHERN STRING BAND This Watkinsville-based band plays rootsy Americana tunes.

Butt Hutt Bar-B-Q 8 p.m. FREE! www.butthuttbarbecue. com JIM COOK Rock and blues with screaminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; slide guitar, featuring Greg Veale and Bill Whitley.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE CASKET GIRLS Haunting, ethereal, psychedelic indie pop out of Savannah, featuring Ryan Graveface of Black Moth Super Rainbow. See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

PONDEROSA Atlanta-based Southern rock quintet fronted by songwriter Kalen Nash.

VELOCIRAPTURE Loud and brash local rock group that names Velvet Underground and Stooges among its influences.

MURK DADDY FLEX Laid-back, sample-driven, old-school hip-hop beats from Terence Chiyezhan.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com NEW SOUND OF NUMBERS Experimental pop and post-punk

TWIN POWERS DJ Dan Geller and friends spin late-night glam rock, new wave, Top 40, punk and Britpop.

Green Room Twilight Americana Music Festival. 6 p.m. $5 (FREE w/ wristband). www. greenroomathens.com SEVEN HANDLE CIRCUS A rowdy, fun and modern interpretation of traditional bluegrass and folk. (12 a.m.)

BETSY FRANCK Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility. (11 p.m.)

HIGH STRUNG STRING BAND High-energy sounds building on the originality of folk-grass with a rough edge. (7 p.m.)

BORDERHOP TRIO Local bluegrass trio. (6 p.m.)

Little Kings Shuffle Club Twilight Americana Music Festival. 9 p.m. $5 (FREE w/ wristband). www. facebook.com/lkshuffleclub RUBY THE RABBITFOOT Formerly Ruby Kendrick, this local singersongwriter has a sweet voice and prodding, poignant lyrics.

Carsie Blanton plays Flicker Theatre & Bar on Saturday, Apr. 27.

WUOG 90.5 FM 9 p.m. FREE! www.wuog.org FEMINENERGY 6 WUOGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Halftime Hip Hop Show presents an evening of performances by female artists, including Ali Doodle, Suni Solomon, Aviva, Kyshona Armstrong, Lesley G and Four Eyes.

The World Famous Twilight Americana Music Festival. 7 p.m. $5 (FREE w/ wristband). www. theworldfamousathens.com KENNY-BLACKMON STRING BAND Athens based acoustic group playing traditional Americana colored by the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard-driving fiddle, syrupy balladry and syncopated jazz.

DON CHAMBERS This local favoriteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whiskey-soaked bootstomps capture a certain dusty closing-time chic.

Saturday 27 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $15. www.40watt.com THE WHIGS Hard-driving rock trio with heavy pop sensibilities.

GRINGO STAR Atlanta indie rock quartet.

CLEAR PLASTIC MASKS Southern soul-rock band out of Nashville.

Boarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Head Lounge 9 p.m. 706-369-3040 BRENT GAFFORD BAND Local country band.

project led by Hannah Jones, visual artist and percussionist for Supercluster.

RANCH Local, darkly tinged cowboycountry band.

ABEDNEGO No info available.

WHITE VIOLET Local group playing haunting, brooding, atmospheric indie-pop.

DJ MAHOGANY Revered local DJ shifting gears to play a country music dance party.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com MATT HUDGINS & HIS SHIT-HOT COUNTRY BAND Local band playing â&#x20AC;&#x153;songs about drinking, jail, love and death, all done in the popular â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;country and westernâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; musical style.â&#x20AC;?

CARSIE BLANTON New Orleans and Philadelphia-based singer/ songwriter showcasing her classic, American pop music style.

LARRY FULFORD Florida-based comedian performs stand-up between music sets.

The Melting Point 6 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens. com THE SPLITZ BAND This bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s range encompasses classic Motown, funk, disco and both old-school and contemporary R&B.

Georgia Theatre Twilight Americana Music Festival. 10 p.m. $25 (FREE w/ wristband). www. georgiatheatre.com LEON RUSSELL Legendary country-rock singer-songwriter from Oklahoma.

LERA LYNN Former Athenian turned Nashville resident playing countryinfluenced music with distinctive, sultry vocals.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 RITVALS Junk-rock band featuring members of Muuy Biien.

RICKY DIGITS Local MC.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $8.50 (adv)., $12 (door). www. newearthmusichall.com RITMO LATINO Live music from Orquesta Macuba and a salsa lesson, too.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 THE WOODGRAINS Local band that plays a blend of funk, rock and soul featuring three vocalists.

Nuçiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Space 7 p.m. $5. www.nuci.org BATTLE OF THE BANDS The music act with the most votes or selected as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pickâ&#x20AC;? will receive a spot to play at the Athens Human Rights Festival.

The Office Lounge 10 p.m. 706-546-0840 WILD CARD Local country/Southern rock trio.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com CAMERAS, GUNS, & RADIOS Roots-rock three-piece from Augusta.

The World Famous Twilight Americana Music Festival. 7 p.m. $5 (FREE w/ wristband). www. theworldfamousathens.com RUSTY BELLE Amherst, MA junkroots act playing a mix of whiskey lullabies, blood ballads, busted bluegrass, folk-punk anthems and down-home porch-tunes.

CLAIRE CAMPBELL Hope For Agoldensummer singer plays a set of soft, haunting folk tunes.

BAIN MATTOX Local singer-songwriter and Shot From Guns frontman plays a solo set.

Sunday 28 Farm 255 9 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE HUMMS Local three-piece known for its loud and bizarre shows and a raunchy, grooving blend of psychedelic garage rock.

A GIANT DOG Garage-rock band from Austin, TX. Georgia Center Hotel 6 p.m. $10 (adv.), $20 (door). www. chocolatecitylive.com ATHENS HIP HOP AWARDS First annual ceremony featuring performances by Sweet Dreams Dance Team, Jet Squad, Citi Boi Rich, Black Nerd, Cassie Chantel, Spaceless, Showtime, The Swank, Tony B, Semi Ice, LLK & Taho, Deaundra Cole and Larry Gersham. See story on p. 18.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Twilight Americana Music Festival. 1 p.m. $5 (FREE w/ wristband). www. hendershotscoffee.com THE GRANFALLOONS Hum inducing, toe-tapping americana Athens group featuring members of the Randall Bramblett Band.

ADAM KLEIN & THE WILD FIRES Local songwriter playing a rustic blend of country, folk and Americana.

CAROLINE HERRING Atlanta-based folk and country singer.

JIM WHITE Local singer-songwriter playing alternative country with an experimental edge, along the lines of Tom Waits.

The Melting Point Twilight Americana Music Festival. 6 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door), FREE w/ wristband. www.meltingpointathens. com JOE PUG Chicago based country-folk singer-songwriter who has a modern take on the style that Bob Dylan and John Prine made famous.

ROADKILL GHOST CHOIR Folkinfluenced rock six-piece from Deland, FL. JOHN FRENCH & THE BASTILLES Sincere acoustic compositions backed by a group of musicians with country and rock influences.

Ten Pins Tavern 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-8090 BACK ALLEY BLUES BAND Paul Scales, Randy Durham, John Straw, Dave Herndon and Scott Sanders play blues jams.

Monday 29 Crow’s Nest 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-7050 SUSPECT RAPTOR Local four-piece draws inspiration from ‘90s rock and bass-driven post-punk.

THE MEAN SEASON Moody indie rock trio from Washington, D.C. BOYCYCLE Local band featuring Andre Ducote, Ashley Floyd, Austin Williams and Bryson Blumenstock playing dreamy, inventive tunes driven by various percussive instruments and synth.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com YO LA TENGO One of America’s most acclaimed indie bands plays two sets: one quiet, one loud. See story on p. 16.

On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THE BARLETTAS Local group plays cheeky, ‘60s-influenced rock with harmonies and honky-tonk overtones.

Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Green Room 10 p.m. FREE! www.greenroomathens. com ADAM FAUCETT Arkansas singersongwriter and self described “folk swamp soul brother” who falls somewhere in between Townes Van Zandt and Otis Redding.

DILLON HODGES Nashville-based flat-picking guitarist-singer-songwriter focusing on rustic folk and bluegrass.

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

The Melting Point 6 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com JASON GRIDLEY Local singer-songwriter in the style of Jack Johnson and Jason Mraz.

SAM BURCHFIELD Street Rhythm and Rhyme guitarist plays a solo set.

RILEY BIEDERER Female singersongwriter.

Tuesday 30 Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 6 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com OLD SKOOL TRIO Funk, blues, and jazz featuring Carl Lindberg on bass, Seth Hendershot on drums and Jason Fuller on keys. Playing original compositions and the music of The Funky Meters, Dr. John, War, Sly and the Family Stone, Billy Preston, Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic and more.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 EL HOLLIN This Athens band plays haunting pop music with minimal instrumentation and ethereal female vocals.

RENE LE CONTE Featuring Joe Kubler (Sleeping Friends, Bubbly Mommy Gun).

WILD OF NIGHT New band featuring members of Bubbly Mommy Gun. TITANS OF FILTH Quirky local indiepop band anchored by the droll vocal delivery of songwriter Sam Grindstaff.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com BRAD LYONS Indie acoustic rock performer with a Top 40 sound akin to Matchbox 20.

The Melting Point 6 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com ADAM EZRA GROUP Pop tunes with a roots vibe.

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Mirko Pasta 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5641 (Gaines School Road location) LEAVING COUNTRIES Local singersongwriter Louis Phillip Pelot performs folk and country, solo or with the help of some friends.

TUESDAY, APRIL 23RD

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com ALAN EVANS TRIO Hard driving and groovin’ jazz with dark funky rhythms and blues lick solos.

Jonny & Shim

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Odd Trio

FRIDAY, APRIL 26TH

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Nowhere Bar Tuesday Night Confessional. 9 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-4742 FESTER HAGOOD This local songwriter sings in a soft drawl that accents his simple, plucked country songs.

LEVI LOWREY Storyteller and singersongwriter from Dacula.

RON KIMBLE Atlanta-based country singer.

DANNY MCADAMS Local guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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Pagan Pride Day SUNDAY, APRIL 28TH

The Granfalloons, Adam Klein & The Wildfires, Caroline Herring, Jim White MONDAY, APRIL 29TH

Open Mic with Kyshona Armstrong

Sundown Saloon 8 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1180 AVERY DYLAN’S OPEN MIC NIGHT All musicians, singers, songwriters and/or bands welcome!

TUESDAY, APRIL 30TH

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Amici 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 LIVE BAND KARAOKE Sing your favorites backed by a live band.

Boar’s Head Lounge 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Showcase your talent. Every Wednesday!

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

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $25. www.georgiatheatre.com JUICY J Legendary rapper/producer and Three 6 Mafia founder.

A$AP FERG Rapper and member of New York’s nebulous A$AP Mob. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 CANNERY ROW Country-rock with pop and R&B influences.

KADE KAHL Literate local singersongwriter.

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

Porterhouse Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT Join drummer Nicholas Wiles with bassist Drew Hart and pianist Steve Key for an evening of original music, improv and standards.

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Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com EMILY JACKSON Self-taught folk singer-songwriter on the rise.

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ART The Art Rocks Athens Foundation (Athens, GA) Seeking artists who were creating art in, or related to, Athens between 1975–1985 for a major retrospective exhibition at Lamar Dodd May 23–July 31, 2014. The retrospective will explore the relationship between visual arts and the birth of the Athens music scene. www.artrocks athens.com

CLASSES Armitage’s Herbaceous Perennials for the Sun (Georgia Center Hotel, Georgia Center for Continuing Ed) Dr. Allen Armitage teaches an online course on how to plant, propagate and care for 20 of his favorite perennials. Course is available to start at student’s convenience. $199–$249. www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/ppd/ courses/horticulturegreen-industry/ armitage-s-herbaceous-perennialssun Bellydancing (Floorspace) Sulukule Dance and Music presents classes in bellydancing, Bollywood dance, fire dancing, yoga, theatrical “bellyesque,” burlesque and Middle Eastern drumming. See www.floor spaceathens.com for schedule.

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 Feldenkrais Method (Leathers Building) A class promoting aware-

ness through gentle body movement. Wednesdays through Apr. 24, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $10. fieldcircle54@ gmail.com Fepic Yoga (New Earth Music Hall) Ashtanga style yoga led by Vibrant Life. Through Apr. 26, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. & 2–3 p.m. Donations accepted. 706-543-8283, www. newearthmusichall.com Healing Fridays (Body, Mind & Spirit) A combination of reiki, chant and other forms of holistic and spiritual healing modalities to assist with healing the body/mind duality. $10 donation. Fridays, 6 p.m. 706351-6024 Mac Workshops (PeachMac) Introductionary courses to Mac, iPad and iPhoto and “Let’s Talk iCloud.”

Call for dates. FREE! 706-208-9990, www.peachmac.com Mobile Computer Classes (Madison County Library) Mobile Computer Labs are held in vans fully outfitted with computer equipment and a trainer. 90-minute classes include computer basics, Internet and email, e-readers, Microsoft Office programs and social networking. Call to make reservation.

Classes held Wednesdays, 10 a.m. in The Comer Learning Center and 1:30 p.m. in the Sanford Community Center. FREE! 706-795-5597 Prenatal Yoga (Baby Belly Yoga) Prenatal yoga and mom & baby yoga with instructor Krista Jones, as well as labor and birth workshops and doula services. Check website for schedule. www.babybellyyoga.com SMALL SCALE GLASS FUSING WORKSHOP (Studio Mod Glass) Local glass artist Annette Paskiewicz teaches how to score, break and use brightly colored sheets of glass in various projects. Materials included.

Visit website to register. Apr. 27, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. $100. modglassgirl@

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gmail.com, www.studiomodglass. com Women’s Self Defense Classes (American Blackbelt Academy) Month-long courses in Sexual Assault Fundamental Escapes (SAFE). Call to register.

706-549-1671, athensjiujitsu.com Yoga (Chase Street Yoga) Taught by professional instructors. Check website for schedule. www.chasestreet yoga.com Yoga Classes (Thrive) Tai Chi, QiGong and yoga classes, including basic, vinyasa and samaritan yoga.

Visit website for class schedule.

706-850-2000, www.thrivespace.net Yoga Classes and Teacher Training (Yogaful Day) Various yoga classes and year-round RYT200hr teacher training. yogaful day@gmail.com, www.yogafulday. com

HELP OUT BikeAthens Bike Recycling Program (BikeAthens) BikeAthens seeks volunteers to recondition bikes for Athenians underserved by private and public transportation. No tools or experience needed. First-time volunteers begin with a commitment of 10 hours, or four work sessions, and should come on a Wednesday for an orientation session. Mondays & Wednesdays, 6–8:30 p.m. & Sundays, 2–4:30 p.m. Women’s night, Tuesdays, 6–8:30 p.m. www.bikeathens.com Donate Blood Give the gift of blood! Check website for donor locations. 1-800-RED CROSS, www.redcrossblood.org Free IT (Free IT Athens, Athens, GA) Volunteers wanted for help with computer instruction and repair.

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Joan Sowada’s quilt “Bella Acqua” is on display at OCAF through May 17.

Free IT Athens provides technology resources to Athens residents and organizations. www.freeitathens.org Twilight Criterium (Athens, GA) Volunteers needed for set-up, take-down and concessions during the annual Twilight Criterium pro cycling race, Apr. 26 & 27. www. handsonnortheastgeorgia.com/ twilight-habitat Volunteers Needed (Homestead Hospice) Help patients and their families living with terminal illness.

706-548-8444, www.homestead hospice.net/volunteers.html

KIDSTUFF ACC Summer Camps (Athens, GA) Now enrolling. Camps include zoo camps, sports camps, theater camps, art camps and more. Visit website for complete schedule. 706613-3616, www.athensclarkecounty. com/camps 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. Thursdays or Saturdays in May. 10–10:45 a.m. $12–18. 706613-3615, www.athensclarkecounty. com/sandycreeknaturecenter Creative Kids Summer Camps (Creative Kids Preschool) Arts and crafts, field trips and more. All day or half day. For preschool age.

Also offering “Saturday Mothers’ Morning Out.” 706-850-6709, www. creativekidssite.com Fantastic Fridays (Bishop Park, Gym) Various obstacle courses and activities for ages 10 months–4 years and their parents. Call to register. 10–11:30 a.m. $5. 706613-3589 Kids’ Craft Classes (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Mama/Papa & Me craft class for ages 1–3 (Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. & Saturdays, 10 a.m.), Craft Club for ages 6–10 (Wednesdays, 4 p.m.) and ages 3–5 (Thursdays, 4 p.m.) and Family

Crafterdays (Saturdays, 11 a.m.). $10/class, $30/4 classes. 706-8508226, www.treehousekidandcraft. com Ram Jam Battle of the Bands (Monsignor Donovan High School) Seeking local bands with members in middle or high school to register to compete. Winners receive cash, eight hours of professional recording time at Chase Park Transduction and a spot at AthFest. Visit Monsignor Donovan High School or website to register by May 3. Battle, May 11, 4–9 p.m. www.mdchs.org Spanish Lessons for Tots (Arrow) Spanish lessons with music, dancing and fun surprises led by Sarah Ehlers. For ages 2.5–4 years old. Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.–12 p.m. $10. ourarrow@gmail.com Summer Camps (Good Dirt) Pottery courses for ages 4–6, 7–10 and 11–18 begin May 20. Visit website to register. www.gooddirt.net Summer Theater Camps (Athens Little Playhouse) Camps focusing on improvisation, games and problem solving. Multiple week-long sessions available. www. athenslittleplayhouse.net Treehouse Summer Camps (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Space camp, collage & creative writing, natural crafting, woodland fairy themed, sewing, folk art, superherothemed, photography, puppetry, fiber & textiles and DIY crafts. Check website for dates, costs and age requirements. www.treehousekidand craft.com UGA Summer Camps (Athens, GA) UGA offers summer camps for kids ages 3–18 that include day camps and overnight stays. Camps include many athletic and academic options, as well as art, nature and computer camps. Visit websites for more information. www.georgiacenter.uga.edu, www.georgiadogs. com, www.fanning.uga.edu, www. terry.uga.edu, www.summercamp. uga.edu, www.botgarden.uga.edu, www.students.caes.uga.edu, www. georgiamuseum.com Youth Football Camp (Clarke Central High School) For ages 6–14.

May 20–24, 8:30 a.m.–12 p.m. $75–90. 706-357-5200, wardjo@ clarke.k12.ga.us Yoga Sprouts Family Yoga (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio)

For children ages 2 & older with an adult. Sundays, 1–1:45 p.m. $60. yogasprouts@gmail.com, www. athensfivepointsyoga.com

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 Domestic Violence Support Group (Athens, GA) Support, healing and dinner for survivors of domestic violence. Tuesdays, 6–8 p.m., in Clarke County. First and Third Mondays, 6:30–8 p.m., in Madison County. Childcare provided. 706-543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771 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 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771 Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Sundays, 4–5 p.m.

706-202-7463, www.emotions anonymous.org

ON THE STREET AthFest Filmfest Call for Entries (Ciné Barcafé) The AthFest Film Committee is accepting submissions for original short films to be screened as part of a local indie showcase during AthFest. Entries must be 20 or under and produced in Georgia or by a Georgian. Submit by May 1. Visit website for details. www.athfest.com/ music-festival/film AthHalf Registration Open Registration is now open and continues until Oct. 18, with discounts for early registration. Race, Oct. 20, 7:30 a.m. info@athhalf.com, www. athhalf.com Athens Game Jam (UGA CAGT) Teams or individuals can sign up to develop a video game in 48 hours for prizes. Register online. May 17,

5:30 p.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 19, 5:30 p.m. www. athensgamejam.com Athens Human Rights Fest Battle of the Bands (Nuçiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Space) The music act with the most votes or selected as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pickâ&#x20AC;? will receive a spot to play at the festival. Battle of the Bands will be held Apr. 27, 6 p.m. ahrf. battleofthebands@gmail.com, www. athenshumanrightsfest.org Cinco de Meow (Athens Area Humane Society) The Athens Area Humane Society hosts a fiesta with reduced adoption fees to help homeless cats find their forever homes.

Apr. 29â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 5. 706-705-2247,

adopt@athenshumanesociety.org, www.athenshumanesociety.org.

Compost Sale (ACC Landfill) Start a flowerbed or replenish the soils in your yard. May 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11, 8 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3 p.m. $6/cubic yard. www.athensclarke county.com Food Bank of Northeast Georgia Contest (Online) Residents can vote online for the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fighting Hunger Together,â&#x20AC;? a campaign between child hunger prevention organizations until Apr. 30. The winner receives a grant from Walmart. www.facebook.com/ walmart

ART AROUND TOWN A LA FERA (2440 W. Broad St.) Artwork by Cap Man. Through April.

AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Live music photography by Ryan Myers. Through April.

ANTIQUES & JEWELS ART GALLERY (290 N. Milledge Ave.) Paintings by Mary Porter, Christine Shockley, Dortha Jacobson and more. Art quilts 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.

ARTINIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ART LOUNGE (296 W. Broad St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Virtual Landscapes,â&#x20AC;? by Brian Macbeth, are iridescent paintings influenced by cosplay, street art and graphics imaging.

ATHENA JEWELERS (228 E. Clayton St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reality Remixed Collection,â&#x20AC;? photography by Bob Brussack.

ATHENS FORD (4260 Atlanta Hwy., Bogart) Works

by Larry Forte, Holly Brown, Dana Johns and Claire Clements.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Workedâ&#x20AC;? explores the labor involved in creating art. Pieces by Lauren Adams, Elizabeth Barton, Laura Tanner Graham, David Ross Harper, Scott Ingram, Ted Kuhn, Maria Lux and Leslie Snipes. Through May 12.

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

CINĂ&#x2030; BARCAFĂ&#x2030; (234 W. Hancock Ave.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Last Party,â&#x20AC;? photos by Mike Landers of 283 Barâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farewell party. Through April.

THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here & Thereâ&#x20AC;? includes photography by Thom Houser, Michael Marshall, Jim Fiscus and Chris Bilheimer, Rinne Allen, Michael Lachowski and Michael Oliveri. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Inhabitâ&#x20AC;? features paintings by Jennifer Hartley, Hooper Turner, Claire Dunphy and Art Rosenbaum.

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Paintings by Jamie Calkin. Through April.

ECO*ART*LAB (297 Prince Ave.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Climate Change: Conveying Realitiesâ&#x20AC;? includes works by over 20 visual, sound and video artists from across the country.

Through Apr. 27.

FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 16 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics and fine furniture. Permanent collection artists include John Cleaveland, Leigh Ellis, Matt Alston, Michael Pierce and more. â&#x20AC;˘ In the lower gallery, cartoonish paintings by Dan Smith. Through April.

FIVE STAR DAY CAFE (229 E. Broad St.) Paintings by Lance Moses.

FLASHBACK GAMES (162 W. Clayton St.) An exhibit of over 40 video game inspired works by local artists.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Erin Boydstun. Through April.

GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;The World All Aroundâ&#x20AC;? includes works by Michael Marshall, Jim Fiscus and Chris Bilheimer, Meg Aubrey, Alex Murawski, Robert Walden, Dayna Thacker, Adriane Colburn, Justin Plaskas and Michael Oliveri. â&#x20AC;˘ In the GlassCube, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Landscape for the Night,â&#x20AC;? an installation by Martijn van Wagtendonk.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Defiant Beauty: The Work of Chakaia Booker.â&#x20AC;?

Through April. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;William H. Johnson: An American Modern.â&#x20AC;? Through May 12.

THE GLOBE (199 N. Lumpkin St.) Light box installations and other collaborative works by Matty Goldstein and Graham Bradford. Through April.

THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Longing for Spring and Other Things,â&#x20AC;? paintings by Ruth Allen. Through April.

Monthly Fishing Contest (Sandy Creek Park) Aprilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contest at Lake Chapman is â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Largest Bass.â&#x20AC;? Open to all age groups.

Check website for contest rules. $2 (park admission fee). www.athens clarkecounty.com/sandycreekpark Nutrition Research Study UGA seeks non-pregnant woman ages 18â&#x20AC;&#x201C;40 weighing between 115â&#x20AC;&#x201C;160 lbs. or between 200â&#x20AC;&#x201C;300 lbs. for a four-session study totaling 11 hours. Includes blood collection, body composition and bone density measurements. Compensation of $20-150. 706-542-7689, dshade@ uga.edu f

HEIRLOOM CAFE AND FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Photographs by six-year-old Carmen Tong. Through May. HENDERSHOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE BAR (1560 Oglethorpe Ave.) Photographs of people, places and pets by Anne Yarbrough. Through April.

HIGHWIRE LOUNGE (269 N. Hull St.) Art by Tess Strickland. Through May 5.

IRIS PLACE (755 Epps Bridge Pkwy.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pets are People, Tooâ&#x20AC;? is an exhibit benefiting the Athens Area Humane Society. Through April.

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALPS (1480 Baxter St.) Paintings by Lucy Calhoun.

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DOWNTOWN (297 E. Broad St.) Light box installations and other collaborative works

by Matty Goldstein and Graham Bradford. Through April.

JITTERY JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FIVE POINTS (1230 S. Milledge Ave.) Paintings by Sarah Cook.

KRIMSON KAFE (40 Greensboro Hwy., Watkinsville) Paintings by Sandy Ellis. Through April.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Untitled, by Anonymous,â&#x20AC;? BFA exit show for painting and drawing. Reception Apr. 26.

LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES INSTITUTE (290 S. Hull St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reflections of the Latin American Natural Environment.â&#x20AC;? Through May 17.

LOFT GALLERY AT CHOPS & HOPS (2 S. Main St., Watkinsville) Quilts, paintings, pottery, sculpture and more by various artists. Through April.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Period Decorative Arts Collection (1840â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1890)â&#x20AC;? includes artifacts related to the historic house. â&#x20AC;˘ The 38th Juried Exhibition features 185 pieces by local artists selected by juror Mark Sloan. Through May 4.

MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY (1315 Hwy. 98 W., Danielsville) Handmade cornhusk dolls by Beth Kelly Zorbanos. Through April.

MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) Thomas Gonzalezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illustrations from â&#x20AC;&#x153;14 Cows for America,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The House on Dirty Thirdâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ghandi: March to the Sea.â&#x20AC;? Through July 28.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Watercolor paintings by Radha Murthy, Cindy Malota and Judith DeJoy. Through April.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) In the Main Gallery, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Southworks: 18th Annual National Juried Exhibition.â&#x20AC;? In the Members Gallery, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ghosts in the Field,â&#x20AC;? a showcase of works by James Emmette Neel.

Through May 17.

PERK AVENUE (111 W. Jefferson St., Madison) â&#x20AC;&#x153;France: City and Country,â&#x20AC;? photography by Livy Scholly. 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.

TECH STOP COMPUTERS (390 Atlanta Hwy.) Abstract expressionist acrylic paintings by Frances Jemini. Through June.

TOWN 220 (220 W. Washington St., Madison) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Earthly Abstractionâ&#x20AC;? features works using natural materials

by Jack Kehoe, Kipley Meyer, Brian Rust and Dwight Smith. Through Apr. 28.

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA OCONEE CAMPUS (1201 Bishop Farms Pkwy, Watkinsville) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Graduating Art Students & Scholarship Awards Exhibit.â&#x20AC;? Through Apr. 26.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) Oil paintings by Dortha Jacobson. Through May. WALKERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE AND PUB (128 College Ave.) Artwork by Cricket Burwell. Through April.

WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Paintings by Mary Porter. Through April.

THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 Hull St.) Artwork by Chris Hubbard, Frances Jemini and others.

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G â&#x20AC;˘A â&#x20AC;˘M â&#x20AC;˘E â&#x20AC;˘D â&#x20AC;˘A â&#x20AC;˘Y CLAYTON ST. NEXT TO SHOKITINI â&#x20AC;˘ 706-850-3300 Friday, April 26 - Live music with NATHAN SHEPPARD