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Stage Fright, Final Four years ago UGA marketing professor George Zinkhan fired point-blank into the heart of the Town & Gown Players and murdered three of its most creative and hard-working members: Ben Teague, Marie Bruce and Tom Tanner—all of them actors, directors and set designers. In the aftermath, many wondered if this community theater could survive the loss of beloved friends with so much expertise and enthusiasm.

We know now that Town & Gown did survive—prevailed— and continues its 60-year tradition of mounting productions to entertain Athens audiences. If you’ve been reading this column, you know that I had the opportunity to be in the most recent Town & Gown play, and I’ve been trying to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to turn a script into a performance. My motive is two-fold: the hard and creative work that goes into plays by all the theater companies in town deserves a wider audience, and that wider audience needs to know the enjoyment of live theater.

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p. 12 August: Osage County turned out to be one of those occasions when a production reaches its fullest potential and shows us what theater can be. The play itself is a masterpiece, a slice of life as rich as a fruitcake, so masterfully written that you laugh all the way through, while the playwright and the actors are hitting you (and each other) with life at its extremes.

Those who were in the play and those who saw it came away with a head full of pithy lines for just about every occasion.

“Well, hindsight’s 20/20, idn’t it?” “Never know when somebody might need a kidney.” “I’m running things now!”

You had to be there—and that’s just the point. If you were there, you saw theater at its best: a magnificent script fully realized by excellent acting on a well designed set with perceptive directing. If you don’t believe me, ask somebody who was there. The play is three hours long, and the time flies by.

I tried, in the other installments of this series, to give you some idea of just what it takes to put on a production like this—the physical work of constructing the set, the mental work of learning the lines and making them come alive, the audience’s active participation and how it affects the actors.

Just as Athens is full of musicians who play in various bands, so Athens is full of actors who play in various theater companies. The cast of August comprised players with experience in Rose of Athens, Athens Creative Theatre, JV Productions, Oconee Youth Playhouse and other local companies. When you go to the theater in Athens, you can be sure that you’ll be seeing experienced actors who know what they’re doing and are doing it because they love it. They’ll be well directed, too.

If you didn’t see August: Osage County, you missed a classic, and you can’t go back and make it up. The play ran for seven performances, and now it’s gone. Don’t despair, though: you can go see The Psychosis of the Psock, Town & Gown’s Second Stage production that runs for three performances only: May 3, 4 and 5. (See Theatre Notes on p. 16.) Psock is more madness from Jeremy Miller and friends; it is “adult” puppetry, and it is hilarious. Then, May 8-17, Rose of Athens presents the familyfriendly Ramona Quimby in the Seney-Stovall Chapel. There’s more coming after these, including The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Hamlet and Gods of Carnage.

Okay, I’ll shut up. Get into the habit of seeing live theater.

It is a different and more lively experience than television or the movies. See it while you can; go to the first performances, because something always comes up to make you miss it if you wait. Live theater happens, and then it’s gone, like magic. Be there when it happens.

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city dope Genuflecting to Wealth at UGA God and Mammon: The University of Georgia broke ground Broun Roundup: Ron Paul—the former Texas congressman, Friday, Apr. 26 on Correll Hall, the first of five buildings that presidential candidate and founder of the modern libertarian will make up a new Terry College of Business complex at the movement—endorsed the other Dr. Paul, our own Rep. Broun, corner of Baxter and Lumpkin streets. Along with the Special for U.S. Senate last week.

Collections Library and the new Bolton Dining Hall, the comIt made sense. Broun has been comparing himself to Paul plex will constitute a new West Campus for UGA. for years, and when the latter retired last year, the former The good news is that the Terry College raised $35 million took up the “End the Fed” mantle by reintroducing a bill to for the building—named for former Georgia-Pacific Chairman audit the Federal Reserve. Ol’ Crazy Uncle Liberty has built up and Terry alum Pete Correll—from private donors, so it didn’t a devoted following on the far right political fringe that Broun cost taxpayers a dime. (Future buildings will bank on state can now tap into to replenish his nearly empty campaign cofsupport.) The bad news is, as UGA President Michael Adams reminded those in attendance, that the university is going to have to continue to lean heavily on corporate benefactors.

“Given the government’s inability to provide everything we may need in these recessionary times, I believe we’ll have to call on our friends more often for their support as we move forward,” Adams said.

Dan Amos, the chairman and CEO of Aflac who is heading up the fundraising efforts, said the college has raised $50 million of its $70 million goal and, from the podium on Friday, half-jokingly issued an “altar call” for the rest.

Which leads to the question: Why does Correll Hall look so much like a church?

Associate Vice President for Facilities Planning Danny Sniff laughed when I asked him. Others have pointed it out, too.

Come and worship with us at the Terry College of Business.

The building—designed by the respected firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects—originally had one tower, but it didn’t look right, Sniff said. And a fers. (He had about $200,000 on hand a month ago, a tenth of single-cupola design is reserved for libraries. So a second Rep. Phil Gingrey and Rep. Jack Kingston’s war chests.) tower and cupola were added, one to emphasize the entrance As Broun tries to move toward the center of the Georgia near Baldwin Street and the other the entrance off Hull Street.

Republican Party’s right wing, associating with Paul could Academic buildings have long been influenced by ecclesiastic cause him problems. Libertarians recently tried and failed to structures, but Correll Hall’s church-like qualities will be downwrest control of the state and county parties from establishplayed in the final design, Sniff said. ment Republicans, angering many in the process. Broun will Correll joked that he prayed at the Holy Shrine of the Keg need their volunteer hours, money and votes to win the priTap during college. “If they dedicated the parking lot down mary, as they greatly outnumber Paul supporters in Georgia. there by Sigma Chi to beer drinking, I’d be more honored,” he said.

10th District Sneak Peek: On to Broun’s current seat, where And that reminded me of the fraternity houses that used to a familiar face, retired Army Lt. Col. Stephen Simpson, is stand on Lumpkin Street where Correll Hall will be in 2015. So poised to enter the race. if one of the ones that got kicked off Lumpkin Street moves Simpson has filed paperwork with the Federal Election next to you, you know who to blame.

Commission to form an exploratory committee and had raised

$46,000 as of the end of last month—including $1,000 from former Gov. Sonny Perdue, which also constitutes an endorsement, according to Simpson. That’s nearly half the amount he raised for the entire 2012 campaign, when even donors who disliked the incumbent were scared to open their checkbooks for fear of incurring his wrath.

He’d be the third candidate to enter what is shaping up to be a close race. State Rep. Donna Sheldon (R-Dacula) can no doubt count on support from others in the legislature. Walton County pastor Jody Hice—best-known for fighting to post the Ten Commandments in the Barrow County Courthouse—will have the inside track on the evangelical vote.

Simpson is a “common-sense conservative,” a defense hawk who nonetheless supports a process to close some overseas military bases to save money and otherwise wants to use a scalpel to cut the federal budget, not sequestration’s chain saw. He’s a Catholic who’s anti-abortion and pro-gun rights but has an evolved, as they say, view on gay marriage, believing that religious institutions ought to be able to marry whomever they choose, and the government should stay out of it.

Is this Regina Quick Part II? We already know that Simpson can do well among Republicans in Clarke and Oconee counties.

He nearly won Clarke last year, and Simpson says Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry has endorsed him this time around. If there’s nothing going on in the Democratic primary in 2014, Athens Dems could do a lot worse than to cross over and vote for Simpson.

Human Rights Festival: The 35th annual celebration of tie dye and liberal politics returns to College Square this weekend. In the past, the festival has brought in such bigname speakers as Jesse Jackson and former Weatherman and Obama BFF (haha) Bill Ayers.

This year, the headliner is Ward Churchill.

Churchill is the Dixie Chicks of academia.

The tenured University of Colorado professor was fired in 2007, ostensibly for research misconduct, after he argued in a paper that “ongoing genocidal American imperialism” provoked the 9/11 attacks and compared World Trade Center office workers to Nazis. A jury later found that he was really fired for expressing an unpopular opinion (one that I don’t endorse, to be clear, although I support his right to say it). But courts ruled that the university had immunity and would not reinstate him.

In light of the Boston Marathon bombing allegedly committed by two Muslims who were radicalized by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it might be interesting to hear Churchill’s current views on U.S. foreign policy. He’s scheduled to speak at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 4.

For more details on the festival, see our Calendar Picks on p. 18 or go to athenshumanrightsfest.org.

Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

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capitol impact Why Our Kids Aren’t Learning The dedication of George W. Bush’s presidential library last week reminded me of one of the former president’s most memorable public comments. During a speech on education reform, Bush once remarked, “Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?�

All too often, the answer to that question has been that Georgia’s kids isn’t learning very much. There are many reasons why student and teacher performance is so disappointing, but I would argue that much of the fault lies in the people who have been elected to set policy for our public schools.

The problem goes back beyond the days of former state school superintendent Linda Schrenko, but she serves as a good example.

Rather than improve Georgia’s schools, Schrenko spent her time stealing federal education funds that were used to pay for a facelift and an unsuccessful political campaign.

Schrenko’s replacement, Kathy Cox, was more honest but unfortunately was somewhat lacking in intellectual capacity. Cox ordered the word “evolution� to be deleted from the science curriculum, along with any mention of the “Big Bang� theory, the theory of plate tectonics, and the concept of the descent of living organisms from a common ancestor. Cox eventually reversed herself after the public protested and the national media gave Georgia a lot of embarrassing coverage.

A few years later, when the state was being sued for not spending enough money on public schools, one of Cox’s top deputies testified during a deposition that Georgia’s students did not need to take classes in science or social studies to receive an adequate education. “I think you can do without science,� the Cox aide said under questioning from lawyers.

She added later: “I think you can fail social studies and get an adequate education.�

With that kind of leadership at the top, it’s not difficult to figure out why Georgia ranks near the bottom in academic performance.

I am reminded again of the state’s failings in education with the recent debate over the “Common Core� curriculum standards. They are guidelines that are intended to give students a more rigorous education in English, math, history, science and social studies as they progress through the K-12 public school systems. The standards were developed by educators from 45 states so there would be some consistent goals for teaching our students.

The standards are now the center of a controversy in which some political figures are demanding that they be junked because they are supposedly part of a conspiracy by the Obama administration and assorted radicals to carry out a federal takeover of education.

Elected officials and GOP activists from Cobb County have now joined the fight, calling for Georgia to reject the standards because they are supposedly the product of “liberals� and “communists� working in cahoots with the White House.

Gov. Nathan Deal, to his credit, has pushed back against the madness. During a trip to Cobb County for an unrelated bill signing, the governor was asked by a local reporter about the curriculum standards. Deal defended the standards and pointed out that they were crafted by state-level educators. “The federal government did not mandate it, they did not control it, they did not dictate its content,� Deal said.

Conservative political figures like Deal, former Gov. Sonny Perdue and current School Superintendent. John Barge all support the idea of Common Core standards. But we are now being asked to believe that they are part of some radical scheme to bring about federal control of education. It’s absurd and silly, of course, but it is another example of how some people try to score political points rather than work to give our kids a decent education. We are a poorer state because of it.

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Downtown Master Plan The Future Takes Shape he downtown Athens master plan is coming together, and most people seem to like it so far—at least out of the 150 or so who attended a public hearing at the Classic Center Thursday, Apr. 25.

But that’s just a small fraction of the number of people who care about the future of downtown, so here’s a guide to what’s in the plan and how to make your voice heard. Allow us to explain the confusing jumble of dashes and arrows at the top of the page.

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Rails to Rails The biggest single project in the plan is converting a littleused Norfolk-Southern freight line running along East Campus Road through the University of Georgia campus. University of Georgia professor Jack Crowley, who is in charge of the master plan, recommended pushing the state Department of Transportation to buy the entire line from Commerce to Madison, but his proposal focuses on a 4.4 mile stretch between the Multimodal Transportation Center and the State Botanical Garden, with eight stops in between. With upgrades, light rail could transport students between East Campus and North Campus, professors from their cars to their classrooms and football fans from downtown to Sanford Stadium and back.

Bike and walking trails could run beside it.

It was the most popular idea in the plan, winning 94 percent approval from an audience of about 150 that voted on touch-screen pads.

“This is what we need,” attendee Randall Abney said. “It almost makes too much sense for anyone to do.”

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Walking and Pedaling The plan includes many other pedestrian-oriented projects.

Trestles along the future rails-to-trails between Dudley Park and the bypass would be rebuilt, creating a level path from the Eastside to downtown. Another path would link it to Carr’s Hill.

Other greenway plans already on the books would tie together the North Oconee River Greenway, the Oconee Steet park-and-ride lot, Firefly Trail and East Athens Community Park.

“It’s a commuter issue,” Crowley said. “It taps into the whole east side of Athens.”

Another proposal would take city-owned land on the east side of Jackson Street—now surface parking lots—use some of it for a new 50-foot-wide linear park connecting downtown to the Lyndon House Arts Center and Lay Park, and lease the rest to develop as small stores and art studios.

“People can get (to the Lyndon House and Lay Park) now as a pedestrian, but they’re not drawn to it,” said Jennifer Martin Lewis, another attendee. “It seems very far away when you’re downtown.”

Brent Buice, a Newtown resident and executive director of Georgia Bikes!, said cyclists and pedestrians need connections between North Athens and downtown. “That’s a natural corridor for encouraging that type of transportation,” he said.

But College Avenue has an intimidating hill, Pulaski Street is “dysfunctional” and should be one-way with a pedestrian and bike path, and the Pulaski Creek Greenway that’s in the works ends at dangerous Dougherty Street, Buice said.

The master plan also calls for converting unused spaces between buildings into little walkways connecting Clayton

Street, Washington Street and Hancock Avenue mid-block.

“They can be very intimate urban spaces—small retail, small pubs, things like that,” he said.

One thing that’s not an option, though, is closing College Square to cars. It wasn’t in the plan shown Thursday. “That’s a dicey issue,” Crowley said, because, whether it’s perception or reality, retailers believe the loss of on-street parking would kill their businesses. He did recommend removing one lane to widen the sidewalk on The Grill’s side of the street and said a new pocket park and plaza on the City Hall block could serve the same function as a pedestrians-only College Square.

City Hall Park Crowley said he’s often asked where is the family-friendly space downtown? “It’s not in front of the 40 Watt, with all due respect,” he said.

And so the master plan proposes ripping out a parking lot next to City Hall and replacing it with a pocket park. Another city-owned lot next to the yellow (currently vacant) Costa Building would be leased to a developer for a new building and a plaza, providing a gathering place for family-oriented events.

Unlike most proposals in the master plan, this one already has funding. ACC set aside $1 million in SPLOST 2005 funds to redo the City Hall block, but commissioners could not agree on whether to remove on-street parking, so it was put on hold.

The master plan calls for replacing a lane of traffic on Washington Street with a wider sidewalk. Bus bays would be removed and replaced with diagonal parking, resulting in a net gain of 17 spaces, Crowley said.

Don’t Forget Cars Dougherty Street would get a makeover, with a roundabout at its intersection with Thomas Street and a median that would slow traffic and provide a refuge for pedestrians crossing it.

All this new infrastructure is going to bring more development downtown, in addition to several apartment buildings already coming up, and yes, new residents are going to need places to park. In addition, Crowley noted that, while the Classic Center has been expanded, its parking deck wasn’t,

creating a need for 500 spaces for convention-goers. He proposed offices and apartments wrapped around a parking deck on the lot behind the federal building. Based on the audience’s comments, that idea didn’t go over too well. One person suggested selling “I Like Big Decks” t-shirts to raise money.

A downtown streetcar is another way to meet the Classic Center’s parking needs. While not fully fleshed out yet, the circulator would run from the West Washington Street deck to the Classic Center and back.

Traffic flow in and out of downtown is also addressed in the plan. Meigs Street would be converted to one-way toward

downtown, and the block of Newton Street near Prince Avenue would be closed and converted into an outdoor cafe, eliminating dangerous left turns from Prince onto Meigs and Newton onto Prince. Florida Avenue would be realigned to connect to Pulaski Street, creating a new connection to campus that was lost when part of Hull Street was closed to make way for the Special Collections Library.

But Crowley punted when it came to fixing West Broad Street and Prince Avenue. They need their own studies, he said.

Paying for It Several sources of funding could be tapped to pay for actually putting what’s in the master plan on the ground.

One is sales taxes. About $43 million is set aside for downtown infrastructure in the current round of SPLOST, which runs until 2020. Some of that money could be directed toward projects in the master plan, and so could money from future SPLOSTs. (The plan will guide development through 2030.)

ACC leasing unused public land for development would also bring in revenue.

Another source could be a TAD, or tax allocation district.

Revenue from increased property tax collections due to new development would be earmarked for infrastructure within downtown, rather than put into the general fund. A TAD in the eastern part of downtown could pay back a $20 million bond in about 15 years, Crowley said. The drawback is the extra revenue wouldn’t be available for services like education.

But Crowley urged local officials to act fast, before tax assessors set property values on developing land Jan. 1. “I would highly recommend you really take a serious look, and soon,” at a TAD, he said.

The next step is to submit the final plan in June to a steering committee appointed by the Athens Downtown Development Authority. It will then go to the ADDA board, the ACC Planning Commission and the ACC Commission.If you didn’t make it to the public hearing, comments are still being accepted at www.downtownmasterplan.wordpress.com. “Up until the very day the city commission hopefully adopts the plan, we’re open to comments,” Crowley said.

Alternative transportation projects in the downtown Athens master plan. The full presentation is at Flagpole.com.

UGA College of Environment and Design

Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

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Immigrant Rights Are Civil Rights

Undocumented Students Fight Higher Education Ban T he past two years have seen an explosion of advocacy, events and activism around issues faced by Athens’ immigrant community. According to one organizer and founder of Dignidad Inmigrante en Athens, just a couple of years ago there was barely any awareness or civic dialogue around immigration issues in the city. Today, even if you are one of the hundreds of people in Athens now volunteering time and energy to immigrant issues, it’s almost impossible to keep up with the proliferation of panel discussions, film screenings, rallies, training sessions and strategic convergences popping up this spring.

Athens is showing up almost weekly in national media for the robust efforts of a wide range of people working to push back against mounting pressures on immigrants living here. In March, more than 100 young people marched through the University of Georgia campus opposing a Board of Regents policy banning undocumented immigrants from attending UGA. Several weeks ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz focused his entire interview with Stephen Colbert on celebrating Athens’ Freedom University, spotlighting the efforts of Georgia’s undocumented youth and UGA faculty and students to address barriers to post-secondary education.

the forefront of work on the pressing issues of immigration reform.

A testament to the power of seemingly small local actions generating momentum, MacMillan said that she was inspired to become an advocate for immigrant rights after attending an immigration and education forum sponsored by UGA’s College of Education in October 2011.

at the five most competitive public universities to make sure the federal initiative would not have its intended affect. Like Alabama’s legislative attempts in the 1950s to circumvent the Brown decision’s requirement to desegregate schools, Georgia leaders are scrambling to defend intolerant and hostile policies directed at young people whom we have reared and educated here in Georgia, who face overwhelming obstacles to establishing an adulthood with stability and dignity in the only country they have ever really known.

DREAMFest featured powerful testimony by undocumented students from Cedar Shoals and Clarke Central high schools about the effects of recent anti-immigrant laws and policies in Georgia, such as the Arizona copy-cat legislation—House Bill 87—and Board of Regents

Columbia, SC, Du Bois said, “White youth in the South is peculiarly frustrated. There is not a single great ideal which they can express or aspire to that does not bring them into flat contradiction” with the institutional inequality and injustice experienced by their peers.

Many of the local participants at DREAMFest shared the experience of hearing from UGA administrators that the flagship university’s hands were tied in regards to the Board of Regents ban. UGA’s largest faculty and student government organizations, including the University Council, the Unfortunately, if you look at state leaderFranklin College Faculty Senate, the College of ship in a national context, you’d likely have Education faculty organization, the Student just the opposite impression. As national senGovernment Association and the Graduate timent seems to be moving steadily towards Student Association, among other campus addressing the travesty of at least 11 million bodies, have all passed resolutions stating opposition to the ban.

But so far, the administration has not taken a public stand about the detrimental affects of the policy on the educational environment, the reputation of the institution and broader community relations. Maybe university leaders could take a cue from Clarke County high school students and use their clout to emphasize this point.

The question is not whether UGA will continue to enforce the BOR policy, which it is compelled to do, but whether the university can follow the courageous leadership of its students, faculty and the Athens community to formally and publicly disclaim the the policy and its affect on the reputation of the university.

Most recently, more than 250 peo“The Board of Regents sets policy, ple attended DREAMFest on Saturday, and we will follow that policy,” says Apr. 20 at Clarke Middle School. The UGA Vice President for Public Affairs event featured a powerful group of Tom Jackson. speakers, including the director of The success of initiatives like the Georgia’s ACLU, Azadeh Shahshahani; one organized by Clarke Central’s one of Georgia’s first Latino state DREAMTeam depends in part on “a representatives, Pedro Marin; Freedom much larger movement, nationally but University teachers and students; leadalso locally, in support of these stuing immigration lawyers in the state; dents,” MacMillan said. But the presa recently formed UGA student solidarsure to achieve historic institutional ity group called the Undocumented Undocumented students and Freedom University organized a rally on Mar. 6, asking the administration to explain why they cannot changes like the 1964 Civil Rights Act Student Alliance; and leaders from attend UGA with their peers. also arises from the swarming rise of community groups in Athens such as everyday folks to address injustice, a the Athens Latino Center for Education and souls living and working on unnecessarily policy 4.1.6, which bans undocumented point made abundantly clear in Martin Luther Services. dangerous and unjust margins of society, the students from the five most selective public King Jr’s Why We Can’t Wait, which gives a The organizers of the event themselves Georgia legislature, Gov. Nathan Deal and the colleges and universities, including UGA. But detailed account of the day-to-day work of were as impressive as the large attendance University System Board of Regents continue the event also demonstrated the negative building a social movement that can achieve and high-caliber array of panelists. The event with anti-immigrant policies intended to make effects of these policies on the community institutional change. was put on by the DREAMTeam, a group of life harsher and more unbearable for nearly as a whole, something the student organizers Two years ago, in a bitter irony, UGA celClarke Central High School students who work half a million folks in Georgia who don’t have seemed to understand clearly. ebrated 50 years of desegregation just as to advocate for immigration reform and to their immigration papers in order. the Board of Regents established the ban support their undocumented peers. DREAMFest As the nation seems poised to take historic on undocumented students and the state was made possible, in part, through the action to remedy the ills of its production of legislature began escalating anti-immigrant help of the Bezos Family Foundation’s Bezos and reliance on an undocumented immigrant rhetoric and legislation. This spring marks the Scholars Program, a leadership development underclass, Georgia officials seem dead-set “As a citizen, I disagree with the [anti50th anniversary of the nonviolent strategies program which selects students and their on positioning the state in a role frightenimmigrant] laws and policies, but I think of Project C in Birmingham that broke the teachers to attend the Aspen Ideas Festival ingly parallel to the one George Wallace and that also, as a student, I realize that they back of segregation by staging a confrontaand challenges them to create their own Local Eugene “Bull” Connor staged for Alabama 50 negatively impact me,“ MacMillan said. “My tion that unequivocally exposed the plight of Ideas Festival. Clarke Central High School years ago under the bitter, cornered snarl of experiences with my peers are some of the the nation’s 20 million African-Americans. As senior Dory MacMillan was selected as a Bezos “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, reasons my education has been meaningful. national leaders seem poised in the threshold Scholar and attended the Aspen Ideas Festival segregation forever!”

The idea that [undocumented] students could of another historic juncture, it’s worth recogwith the Clarke Central English Department For example, after the Obama administrabe excluded not only hurts them, but hurts us, nizing the crucial role of a rising movement chairman, Ian Altman, last June. tion implemented its Deferred Action for the students who are still eligible to go to the for immigrant justice sustained by courageous Passionate about immigration issues, Childhood Arrivals policy earlier this year in [five most selective] universities.” local groups like Clarke Central’s DREAMteam MacMillan and Altman, with the help of the an attempt to assuage some of the desperaMacMillan’s sophisticated position echoes a in getting our leaders to address the plight of DREAMTeam and other immigrant rights orgation faced by undocumented young people speech given by W.E.B. Du Bois late in his life 11 million among us who have been pushed nizations, were able to bring Athens its own graduating from our secondary schools, the at the dawning of the Civil Rights movement. into the shadows for much too long.

Local Ideas Festival, adding to the growing Board of Regents quickly moved to alter the Addressing more than 800 black and white buzz of national recognition that our city is at wording of its ban on undocumented students members of the Southern Youth Legislature in Melissa Hovanes and Richard Milligan

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urrently in its seventh year, Indie South Fair (formerly Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa) is Athens’ largest bi-annual handmade market and a true testament to the strength and pervasiveness of the modern craft movement as a growing economic and cultural force.

On Saturday, May 4, from 11 a.m.–7 p.m., nearly 100 local and regional vendors will set up booths to sell their handcrafted treasures at “A Lovely Spring Day.” Among paintings, jewelry, homewares, bath and body products, clothing, ceramics, photography and more, the selection ranges from functional works like the bike panniers by Audra Rich of Tiny Tank Tech, to the mesmerizing bronze and natural stone jewelry of Laurel Hill.

In a post-industrial culture with an excess of cheaply mass-produced goods, consumers value the handmade, because it signifies a return to meaningful artisanship and quality over quantity.

“I think a big part of the growth is owed to the national DIY/handmade movement that’s educating people, not just about the value of handcrafted pieces and a love for beauty and art, but about how local economies work, and how keeping your money in the community makes sense in every way,” says Indie South Fair founder Serra Ferguson.

Like most fairs of its scale, the goal of “A Lovely Spring Day” is not necessarily to present rare items that you can’t find anywhere else—although there will certainly be several—but to reveal the delicate craftsmanship behind each product, promote the ability and value of directly supporting artists, and create a networking opportunity for the local community.

Ferguson says that when she reviews vendor applications, “I look for originality, presentation, materials used and the theme of the work. I favor things that I find quirky [care for a crocheted cupcake by MochiBaby, anyone?] and that use environmentally sustainable materials and production methods. I like there to be a story behind why someone makes the things they do.”

Several of this year’s participants focus on sustainable practices or humanitarian principles to guide their operations. Ties That Matter, a fair trade and 501(c)(3) nonprofit, creates employment for low-income women living in Haiti by teaching them how to sew items out of recycled neckties and t-shirts.

Beth Carter of Beca Designs claims to have diverted approximately 10,000 glass bottles from landfills over the past six years by recycling discards from local bars and restaurants into jewelry. Both projects exemplify a trend in which crafting and economics merge with activism to make a positive impact on the planet and create resourceful alternatives to unethical business practices.

While the fair has formerly been hosted in a downtown parking lot and at Ben’s Bikes, its new move to the giant Medical Center of Athens parking lot at 660 N. Chase St., in-between Prince Ave. and Boulevard, will likely be its most accessible spot yet. Its space is large enough finally to accommodate parking—an important aspect to consider when mobility issues could otherwise hinder an “art is for everyone” philosophy—and its proximity to nearby neighborhoods confirms the fair’s goal to serve as a community-driven event.

“I hope we will be embraced by the surrounding Boulevard and Normaltown areas as their own neighborhood arts festival, both as attendees and participants. I love how newer places like Heirloom, White Tiger and the network of creative businesses at Chase Street.

Warehouses have been incorporated seamlessly into the fabric of the neighborhood, sort of a throwback to a time when people didn’t have to drive everywhere to get what they needed,” Ferguson says.

In Athens—a town that hosts few industries but does offer relatively low living expenses—crafting is a viable, fulfilling way to generate income during difficult economic times, often by taking advantage of popular websites like Etsy and Pinterest, blogs, boutiques and markets.

“Our city has a great base of support in our large creative community,” Ferguson says, “that includes a demographic of young people who are open to emerging designers and new ideas, as well as an overall progressive mindset in more established adults who have families and choose to make it a permanent home.”

Attendees are encouraged to view the fair as more than just a producer-to-consumer shopping stop, but as a full-fledged social experience that offers a chance to meet and learn from the artists. Leighlou’s Frozen Yogurt, the Good Food Truck and Hip Pops will be on site to serve snacks, and a few collectors plan to share a vintage market together.

DJ Mahogany will create the aural backdrop, and a designated kids’ area, “Kindie South,” will include a photo booth as well as stations to make crafts such as sun prints, crowns and Mother’s Day cards.

Through Indie South Fair’s large bi-annual fairs—and smaller markets that are planned to pop up periodically throughout the year— local artists have a chance to flourish.

“Personally, doing the craft show circuit was my first experience at ‘fitting in.’ Traveling the country and meeting people who were passionate about being creative and make a living with their hands gave me a feeling of belonging I did not get anywhere else, and I suspect many other artists feel the same way,” says Ferguson.

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As a teenager going to the movies in the 1980s, I learned three very important lessons: a) never fall in love with Molly Ringwald, because sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always end up with the rich kid, while you smile wanly and helplessly from the Friend Zone; b) never be a dick to Bill Murray, as your comeuppance will be as humiliating as it is inevitable; and c) the Apocalypse is easy.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to say the actual Apocalypse would be easy, but in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s you could film it for the cost of a used car. While postcataclysmic scenarios had been a staple of science fiction and horror films for decadesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Charlton Heston starred in at least three of themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the world after the end of the world always required a great deal of expensive set dressing. After all, a fallen Statue of Liberty doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come cheap. Then, along came George Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s low-budget but highly successful Mad Max and its higher-octane sequel The Road Warrior, two movies that made a star out of Mel Gibson and showed a generation of young filmmakers that all you needed to make a movie about the Apocalypse was a stretch of open space, a nearby junkyard, and a lot of football shoulder pads. And hair spray, as Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s post-Poc punks had these fantastic mohawksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;gas and water are scarce enough to go to war, but apparently there will be vast reserves of Aqua-Net in the white can.

A flood of no-budget Mad Max clones came out in the following years, some more successful than others, but while they may have been a blast to make, very few of them were fun to watch. Maybe it was because we were still mired in the Cold War, but very few creators saw the potential for dark humor in works set after the Great Catastrophe.

If indie film refused to see the comedy in the cataclysm, indie comics stepped up, most notably in a ballsy piece of hand-drawn chaos called Tank Girl. Created in 1988 by Alan C. Martin and Jamie Hewlett as a strip in the UK punk comics magazine Deadline, Tank Girl was a gleefully profane mishmash of pro-anarchy, quasifeminism and ultra-violence that bridged the underground comix of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s with grafitti styles of the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s. Ostensibly set in a post-apocalyptic Australia, the comic followed a tattooed ragamuffin who lived and travelled in a grotesquely tricked-out tank with her mutant kangaroo boyfriend, often accompanied by other hot girls in their own vehicles of destruction (Jet Girl, Sub Girl).

Together theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d spend their time boozing, getting high and blowing things up. No deep meanings here, no angst-ridden adventuresâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; this comic was pure, joyous mayhem. Many people may recall the 1995 film version with Lori Petty and a pre-stardom Naomi Watts, but few who do recall it fondly.

As much as I enjoyed Tank Girl back in the day, my relationship with comics in the years since has been sporadic and limitedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face it, serious geekery is time-consuming and expensiveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and I honestly had no idea this particular comic was still around until I walked into the Flagpole offices and found a copy of Everybody Loves Tank Girl (Titan Books, 2013) sitting in my box.

This new collection, written by Martin and drawn this time around by Jim Mahfood (best known for his work on Kevin Smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comics version of Clerks), is just a whole lot of fun.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy, filthy, bloody, sexy and damn funnyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;everything one would expect from Tank Girl. As it turns out, even though I walked away, she left a light on and a cold one out for me. Then she drank the beer and shot out the light.

The main story, such as it is, that runs through the collection, concerns Tank Girl and her friends babysitting an obnoxious, troublemaking little pisser of a seven-year-old neighbor kid who draws attention wherever they go.

Unfortunately, our heroines have just taken down some gang members in a bar shootout, and attention is the last thing they need right now. What ensues is the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bloodiest sit-

com, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only part of it. The rest of the book is packed with stories and vignettes from the TG universe: Tank Girl and Booga fighting it out with a street gang of incontinent kids on tricycles in a grocery store with shishkabab skewers and marital aids; The Sixteenth Annual Australian Swearing Competition; the Ozâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest superhero, Alan; our gang drops acid and parachutes into an enemy compound with katanas and crowbars and grenades. And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poetry, too.

Anyone who tells you anarchy is easy is a liar. As many people whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tried to dip their feet into the churning, piranha-filled waters of punk art and failed can attest, it is damn hard to do social commentary and comedy and non-linearity and somehow make it all look unforced. Martin and Mahfood do it splendidly here. The art is often hard on the eyes and easy on the brain, and then it switches, delightfully. Full-on, balls-to-the-wall fun from start to finish. In the end, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just impossible to stay in a bad mood reading Everybody Loves Tank Girl, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a funnybook doing what funnybooks do best.

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Five Essential Birdhouse Releases Want to explore the Birdhouse Collection, but don’t know where to start? Here’s a list of some of the collective’s best work so far. Visit Flagpole.com to hear these and other sounds from the Birdhouse.

1. Muuy Biien: This is What Your Mind Imagines

Brief, blistering and vise-tight, the debut full-length from these local hoodlums was a chilly ode to their hardcore and post-punk heroes that also interspersed thunderclouds of ambient noise. The result was one of the most indispensable Athens albums of the past decade.

2. k i d s: These Days EP

Jared Collins writes love songs, but they’re delivered with an eerie detachment that renders them more elegiac than amorous.

His is a lush, reverb-heavy aesthetic; much of the Birdhouse betrays a debt to Deerhunter, but k i d s is the most obviously influenced, embracing doo-wop and psych with equal fervor.

3. Pretty Bird: HOUSE

The daring and divisive Pretty Bird (there seem as many who adore the group’s music as who find it unlistenable) has called what it does hip hop, but this ain’t V-103 material. Born of leader David Chandler’s faith in the transcendental power of repetition, the group’s latest finds it exploring deep-house rhythms in a skillfully deconstructive way.

4. Green Gerry: Egg Nog

Behind the Birdhouse The Local Collective,

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peak the words “artistic collective” in mixed company and you’ll likely get reactions ranging from hostility (the preciousness of such a thing!) to shrugged indifference. However, in Athens, your listener likely already knows somebody involved with one. And that, to turn a phrase, might make all the difference: inside baseball is a lot more fun when almost anyone can be an insider.

The latest, and perhaps most intriguing, musical collective of the past several years in Athens is the Birdhouse Collection.

Its various sound tentacles—from Pretty Bird’s toe-dip into hip hop and rhythmic experimentation to Muuy Biien’s hardcore punk—all have their roots in self-propelled psychedelia and bedroom pop. Populated at its core by Pretty Bird, Muuy Biien, Green Gerry, Velocirapture, k i d s, RITVALS and Cottonmouth, this largely faceless group of artists has released tunes steadily since early 2011, but only now seems ready to take the mask off. Or, at least, to allow people a peek underneath it.

But let’s back up to the beginning. “The genesis was when we all lived together at [former laundromat] the Wash House, on Cleveland Avenue,” says k i d s mastermind Jared Collins.

It has a birdhouse outside it that is exactly the shape of the house. So, we called it the Birdhouse Collection.”

The pace at which the Birdhouse records and releases music is a testament to both its restless spirit and the digital age in which it was born. As of press time, there were over 30 recordings available at thebirdhouse.bandcamp.com, ranging from singles to multi-band compilations. As an example of the collective’s proficiency, newest Birdhouse inductee Velocirapture recently released a full album, Recreator, one

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day after deciding to put it together. (Says Winston Barbe, Velocirapture’s frontman, in his typically unassuming tone, “I decided on a Sunday to put it out, and it was on the site Monday. I had some [songs] collected and added some others I thought would be cool to put out. I plan to record and release another album in May.”) For all its immediacy and accessibility, however, the Birdhouse Collection is slippery and largely indefinable.

Recordings are released with only first name or nicknames credited, communication occasionally takes the form of unreadable, multi-colored emails and album artwork features obscured faces. When the question of willful obfuscation is posed to Collins, he says, “It started that way, I think, because we thought we were all strange. And our parents liked our bands so there was some stuff, explicit lyrics and such, that we wanted to shroud, and being shrouded lent itself to creativity.

The relative anonymity frees us up to be creative. I don’t really see that changing.”

Songwriter Gerry Green, who writes and performs as Green Gerry, concurs. “I don’t think it hinders anything, really.

The people who respond to it don’t know who or what’s really behind it. And, besides, most things in the Birdhouse Collection are weird as fuck, and presented as such… I guess I just enjoy the mystery. I still don’t even know everyone who’s a part of [the collective].”

Indeed, the Birdhouse is no commune: each entity is in charge of its own output. Bands record on their own, and when that’s insufficient, they head to The Glow Recording Studio with engineer Jesse Mangum. If there’s any competition, it’s one of mutual inspiration.

Egg Nog is a psychedelic sleeper, a strange, beautiful bummer of a record. Wistful downer-folk tunes like “Pupil Patterns are Crazy” are testaments to the mysterious Gerry Green’s unmatchable ear for both melody and texture; there’s a reason Green is considered the collective’s unofficial captain.

5. Cottonmouth: .period

When he’s not playing rapid-fire drums in Muuy Biien or exorcising unspeakable demons onstage with Pretty Bird, Jacob Deel records as Cottonmouth. The frightening .period is a lo-fi mix of harsh noise, industrial rhythms and tape manipulation. It’s evasive, indulgent and unforgettable.

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“It’s definitely [been] an artistic competition, but everyone brings something completely personal and new to the table all the time,” says Collins, “whether it’s a song or a drawing or an idea or an emotion. That’s what keeps us going as a group: the will to create within a supportive community.”

The Birdhouse Collection will take over Flicker Theatre & Bar in May for a series of Wednesday night shows alternately headlined by Pretty Bird, Ritvals, Valerie and the Vaginas, Liquor Shits (the collective’s all-star country band), k i d s and Cottonmouth. The undercard for each night will be curated by the collective, and the goal is to get a budding record label off the ground. Says Collins, “All the shows will be $3, except for May 22 [which will be more], due to hosting a touring band…

We’re using the door money to get the label going.”

Growing pains are normal for any artist, especially when the snowball really starts rolling, and there is no shortage of egos involved with the Birdhouse. “We get in arguments, like any intense relationship,” says Collins. But successes are coming easily. “HHBTM [Records] picking up Muuy Biien is good,” he says, “and k i d s being on the Wuxtry Record Store Day compilation is good. We’ll be on the AthFest comp, too and we’ll play AthFest this year.”

Still, the collective shows no signs of falling under its own spell. There may be a brighter light shining on the Birdhouse Collection now, and that’s edifying, but Collins recognizes this as a byproduct of the collective’s activity, not the reason for it.

“We just keep on doing what we do,” he says, “and sometimes people pay attention.”

Gordon Lamb

WHO: Birdhouse Collection Presents: Pretty Bird, Tree Spirit, Gecko, Bong Marley Song System WHERE: Flicker Theatre & Bar WHEN: Wednesday, May 1 HOW MUCH: $3

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rowing up on the north side of Memphis, Juicy J and his family, â&#x20AC;&#x153;six people in a two-bedroom apartment,â&#x20AC;? he explains, would routinely stop eating dinner or watching television to drop to the carpet at the sounds of gunshots. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ducking on the floor every night, you know?â&#x20AC;? he remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a lot of crazy close calls back then. I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afraid; that was just my environment. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know nothing else.â&#x20AC;?

In It Came From Memphis, music journalist Robert Gordon writes that the city is â&#x20AC;&#x153;the sort of environment where great art develops in obscurity. The ideas are strong, because, like weeds growing in a concrete sidewalk, they must force themselves through.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a bad place to start when thinking about Juicy J. As an exercise, you might try keeping the image in mind the next time you listen to his music. Not the reality-TV bluster or syrup-blurred hedonism. Weeds growing in a concrete sidewalk.

Having courted chart success, controversy and Hollywood as a co-founder of Memphisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; evil rap empire Three 6 Mafia, Juicy (born Jordan Houston) is today in the middle of a career resurgence almost unheard of for a rapper nearing 40. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pretty much working with everybody in the game right now,â&#x20AC;? he says proudly, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only a slight exaggeration. Ask him where it comes from, this persistence and resilience, and he will tell you about Memphis.

It took long enough, but the city is finally getting its due as a sort of Southern rap skeleton key, the fertile crescent of buck, crunk, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Triggermanâ&#x20AC;? and the gangsta walk.

While New Orleans and Atlanta were building and profiting on such Tennessee exports all through the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s and early aughts, Memphis struggled to keep pace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a smaller city,â&#x20AC;?

Juicy says, addressing the oversight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to be heard. You gotta keep making noise, making noise, making noise.â&#x20AC;?

The son of an itinerant preacher, Juicy started DJing at 16, ditching his birth name after an epiphany prompted by a stick of Juicy Fruit chewing gum. He idolized local soul legend Isaac Hayes, but emulated guys closer to his own frame of reference, like DJ Spanish Fly, who helped solidify Juicyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ambitions with his late-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s anthem, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Smokinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Onion.â&#x20AC;?

In the early â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s, Juicy linked up with his South Memphis counterpart DJ Paul and gathered a rotating roster of friends and relatives (including Juicyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s older brother, Project Pat) to convene what was first known as the Triple Six Mafia, a collective that ostensibly embraced Satanism. Roleplaying the brutal extremes of their favorite horror films, as well as the early gangsta rap of Geto Boys and N.W.A., the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s members gave their music a distinctly

Memphian twist, harnessing the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dreary vibes in nihilistic celebrations of degeneracy and hopelessness. As Pat would later put it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in it, represent it.â&#x20AC;?

The tape hiss, morbid fantasies and cold 808s of the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early work have since become fetishized by collectors and nostalgists, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not hard to see why; there is a melancholy and a desperation there that is unique in hip hop. The goal, to borrow one of Juicyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s phrases from Prophet Posseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1998 single â&#x20AC;&#x153;Favorite Scary Movie,â&#x20AC;? seems to have been to â&#x20AC;&#x153;tape record the face of death.â&#x20AC;?

Juicy rarely thinks about this aspect of his music today, having spent the last decade assuring the press that he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually worship the devil. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Memphis is such a dark city,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the music just came out dark.â&#x20AC;?

Three 6 Mafia went pro with a string of high-energy call-and-response chants like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tear Da Club Upâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who Run It,â&#x20AC;? fight songs that launched them beyond the chitlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; circuit for good. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People would go wild, with mosh pits and everything,â&#x20AC;? he says of their shows from this period. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Except this was the hood. Hood mosh pits are something else.â&#x20AC;?

After winning an Oscar for a contribution to the Hustle & Flow soundtrack, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hard Out Here for a Pimp,â&#x20AC;? the group began leaning broad, starring in reality shows and alienating its original base with radio-pandering poprap production. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a move Juicy regrets, though he does view his recent solo output as a kind of corrective measure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When people get out of the circle, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when they get off track,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I try to keep my ear to the streets, to stay around younger, up-and-coming people. I adapt.â&#x20AC;?

In his case, of course, adapting to the times means moving closer to where he started, as many of the younger producers heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked with, like Lex Luger and Mike Will Made It, grew up listening to Three 6. Still, the goal here isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily progressâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relevance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I grew up with nothing, man, absolutely nothing,â&#x20AC;? Juicy says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, no matter how much money I made, it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never felt comfortable. I gotta keep working. Because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like things are going backwardsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting better. So, why would I stop?â&#x20AC;?

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s In A Name?: The long-awaited new album by El HollĂ­n will drop online this week in a not-yet-final version. After the recordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s completion, Elephant 6 troubadour Nesey Gallons offered to master the album properly, but the band, having already promised a release date of Apr. 30, decided to go ahead and give fans the raw goods. (The band hopes to have the final version by the end of May.) As of press time, bandmembers were â&#x20AC;&#x153;not releasing the title of the album yet,â&#x20AC;? which either means they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t decided on a title, or they think this bit of intrigue is enough to get you to hold your breath. El HollĂ­nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bedroom pop has always been some of the most consistently satisfying music associated with the Athens Horse Party label. Check out the rest of the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s catalog at elhollin.

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Stop The Clock: OK, so this is a few weeks off, but the reunion show by The Normaltown Flyers at the Melting Point on Saturday, May 25 will assuredly sell out, so pay attention.

Tickets are $12 in advance, with reserved tables for two and four going for $60 and $120, respectively. The three sets of music will include an acoustic one from original members Brian Burke, Greg Veale and Mike Cronic and another from the Mercury Records-era lineup of Burke, Veale, David Blackmon and Cal Hale. Finally, the current lineup of Burke, Tom Ryan, Davis Causey and Deane Quinter will play more recent songs and loads of rock covers. The band, which hit its 30th anniversary back in 2009, is billing this show as its â&#x20AC;&#x153;33 and one-third year reunion.â&#x20AC;? If any Athens transplants have ever wondered what a beerdrinking night at the dearly departed Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hamburgers actually sounded like, this is as close as youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ever going to get. For tickets, see meltingpointathens.com.

Twenty Dollars In My Pocket: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that time again where you collect all your folding money, head over to Kurt Woodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house and blow it all. Yes, kids, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for Woodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Front Porch Record Sale. Known around the country by record dealers and rock fans as one of the most ardent and authoritative record collectors on the scene, Wood sells off a whole bunch of his stuff a few times each year.

Literally tens of thousands of LPs and 7-inch singles are available, and Wood reports that over half of this is new. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be frightened by the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;collector,â&#x20AC;? either, as Wood has tons of $1-$2 records mixed in with the appropriately higher priced stuff. The sale runs this Saturday, May 4 (9 a.m.-6 p.m.) and Sunday,

Heads Up: The multi-DJ night at the 40 Watt Club on Saturday, May 4 is free, but advance tickets are being distributed, so you might want to hop online and grab one if you plan on going. The Study Break show, billed as such in tribute to all you students hitting the books so diligently this week, features Immuzikation, DJ Z-Dog, Steve Twerkle, Twin Powers and more. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bet a sawbuck right now that Twin Powers will spin tracks from the new Daft Punk LP that nightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and likely for the next decade, tooâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so prepare for summer in the correct manner and be there. For more info and the ticket link, see 40watt.com.

This-N-That: The Powder Room recently went into the studio with Kyle Spence (Harvey Milk) and plans to do more tracking with Joel Hatstat at Joel Hatstat Audio. The band seems to be getting busier all the time, and although there are no solid plans for a release yet, the warning signs are all there. Keep checking facebook.com/powderroomga for updatesâ&#x20AC;Ś Titans Of Filth released a new EP this week. Winners And Losers can be streamed at titansoffilth.bandcamp.com. Although the band has encompassed a veritable cast of thousands over the years, the telltale vocals and lyrics of good olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sam Grindstaff should be pleasantly up frontâ&#x20AC;Ś A â&#x20AC;&#x153;hats offâ&#x20AC;? goes out to Jack Logan and Scott Baxendale for their collaborative album Bones in the Desert. The limited edition LP is available at local record stores, and more info on the oddly uplifting yet deeply moody album can be found at facebook.com/JackLoganAndScottBaxendaleâ&#x20AC;Ś YouTube uploader Neo Bands Of Athens advised us of its new URL, youtube.com/ user/NeoBandsAthens. Head there for clips of Monsoon, Tunabunny and other stuff.

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• indicates new review 21 AND OVER (R) Two pals, played by the appealing duo of Miles Teller (Footloose) and Skylar Astin (Pitch Perfect), take a third friend, Jeff Chang (Justin Chon), out to celebrate his 21st birthday. But Jeff Chang cannot celebrate too hard, as he has an important med school meeting the next morning. So what does Jeff Chang do?

Gets wasted. 21 and Over mixes a plot left over from the transitional Weekend at Bernie’s period, with the raunchy, we can do anything gags of today.

The resulting concoction doesn’t go down well.

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.

• THE BIG WEDDING (R) The Big Wedding should be celebrated as a strong candidate for worst film of the year. The Bucket List scripter Justin Zackham has delivered an Americanization of France’s Mon frère se marie where Brit Ben Barnes is acceptably ethnic enough to play one of the film’s central Hispanic characters and the opening gag combines an exwife stumbling upon her former spouse and his girlfriend in the midst of sex.

Oh the guffaws! They can only be matched by a grown daughter throwing up on her dad. Hilarious! Seriously, The Big Wedding, in which a longdivorced couple (Diane Keaton and Robert De Niro) must act married for their adopted son’s wedding because the grown man will not tell his devoutly Catholic birth mother (Patricia Rae) that they are divorced, is populated by offensive, meanly unfunny characters (a role in which Katherine Heigl does excel) differentiated by their virginity or lack thereof. The entire family acts like a hormonal, randy teen. The sinking ship of a movie has nary one likable, nuanced character to grab onto like a life raft. Avoid these nuptials at all costs.

• THE COMPANY YOU KEEP (R) You’ve seen a Robert Redford movie before, right? A River Runs Through It, Quiz Show, The Horse Whisperer, something? Then you know what to expect from The Company You

Keep. It’s a little slow, thoughtful, possesses an even, steady tone and pacing. Fortunately, the adaptation of Neil Gordon’s novel benefits from an un-Redford-like, thriller-ish sharpness thanks to Lem Dobbs’ script. A lawyer (Redford, as stalwart and slightly wooden as ever) goes on the run after a young reporter (Shia LaBeouf, who reminds us of his appeal) outs him as a member of the domestic terrorist organization, the Weather Underground.

Naturally, the newspaperman discovers more to the story than first thought.

The mystery isn’t terribly hard to solve (the clues are dropped a bit too obviously), but the decrease in tension is made up for by onscreen talent. The Company You Keep isn’t hip (though one might wonder how Redford’s nearly 80-year-old fugitive doesn’t break one).

It’s a natural, narrative extension of Redford’s career.

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.”

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

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Tokyo Olympics approach, a group of teenagers in Yokohama seek to save their school clubhouse. The Englishlanguage voice cast includes Gillian Anderson, Sarah Bolger, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Christina Hendricks, Chris Noth, Aubrey Plaza and Anton Yelchin. Japan’s biggest domestic hit of 2011 won the Best Animation Film prize from the Awards of the Japanese Academy. (Ciné) 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.

was a contract killer who had killed 100 people since 1964. Renowned for his intensity (some might say crazy), Michael Shannon should make a great Kuklinski, and I cannot wait for the summer double shot of The Iceman and Man of Steel. Writer-director Ariel Vromen won the Capri Breakout Director Award. With James Franco, Chris Evans, Ray Liotta, Winona Ryder and David Schwimmer.

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 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

I dropped acid… on my shirt!

GINGER & ROSA (PG-13) Two teenage girls grow up in 1960s London as inseparable friends, but as the Cuban Missile Crisis and nuclear annihilation loom, Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert, Beautiful Creatures) clash over love. Writer-director Sally Potter has not done much high profile work since 1992’s Orlando with Tilda Swinton. The film has picked up a few awards including a couple of awards for Fanning’s work, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Virtuoso Award and the Valladolid International Film Festival’s Best Actress prize.

With Christina Hendricks, Timothy Spall, Annette Bening, Oliver Platt and Alessandro Nivola. (Ciné) 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.

HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (NR) The Oscar-nominated documentary tells the true story of young activists from the 80s and 90s who infiltrated government agencies and pharmaceutical companies to stop the AIDS epidemic from becoming a death sentence. (Ciné) m THE ICEMAN (R) In 1986, Richard Kuklinski was arrested; unbeknownst to his wife and daughter, Kuklinski

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.

IRON MAN 3 (PG-13) Robert Downey Jr., the most surprisingly perfect match of actor to superhero/alter ego, returns for a third Iron Man. Tony “Iron Man” Stark must battle his greatest foe, The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), a terrorist who is bent on destroying the superhero’s world. Jon Favreau turns over directing duties to Shane Black, who made his name writing great 80s action flicks like Lethal Weapon (and my personal favorite, The Monster Squad).

With Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce and Don Cheadle.

JACK THE GIANT SLAYER (PG-13) While far from a bad fantasy film, this retooled telling of the classic children’s stories, Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk, does little to fire the imagination once the credits roll. We all know the story: young Jack (Marcus Hoult, whose romzom Warm Bodies showed loads more creativity) gets some magic beans, from which a giant beanstalk grows. At the top of the leafy, green ladder is a land full of giants who have a taste for human flesh. Of course, this new telling has to involve a love interest, headstrong Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson), who Jack sets out to rescue.

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-disaster pic, based on Michael Crichton’s giddy sci-fi adventure, has aged much better than your last home viewing experience has you remembering it.

KISS OF THE DAMNED (R) Despite her better judgment, vampire Djuna (Joséphine de La Baume, Ron Howard’s upcoming Rush) falls for human screenwriter, Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia, “Heroes”), but trouble brews when her sister, Mimi (Roxane Mesquida, Rubber), arrives. Suddenly, the entire vampire community is threatened. Xan Cassavetes, daughter of John and sister of Nick, makes her feature directing debut with this pulpy, genre flick that looks like it would make a great double bill with Rubber or any of Rob Zombie’s oeuvre.

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 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.

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.

• PAIN & GAIN (R) Sure, bagging on Michael Bay is a fun pastime of cinematic snobs. I’ve taken my share of digs at his more galling efforts (the technically marvelous, emotionally destitute Pearl Harbor and the offensively assaultive Transformers 2/3). Add Pain & Gain to the list of Bay films I’ll defend (Armageddon, The Rock, Bad Boys). With the subtlety of an 18 wheeler, Pain & Gain chronicles the true story (of which we are constantly reminded)

of three bodybuilders—Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg), Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson) and Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie)—who turn to crime in order to achieve the American Dream. If you were hoping Bay had a quirky indie crime caper in him, he doesn’t.

P&G detractors will find many of the (whether you like him or not) auteur’s flaws on display. The film is too long, sledgehammeringly artless and mindnumbingly dumb. It’s a film created in the image of its characters and equally as appealing as those amateur criminals. Would I have preferred a shorter, pulpier, Elmore Leonard/Carl Hiaasen version of this tale (or better yet, an award winning documentary)? Yes. Will I accept this musclebound, meathead movie? Certainly, but only once.

A PLACE AT THE TABLE (PG) This new documentary from the same production company that released Food, Inc. examines the hunger pangs felt by millions of Americans every day.

Thankfully, filmmakers Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush also offer solutions. The inimitable Jeff Bridges appears as himself, as do five-time James Beard Foundation Medal winner Tom Colicchio, Ken Cook and Raj Patel. A Place at the Table was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. The music is coolly provided by The Civil Wars and T Bone Burnett.

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.

RENOIR (R) 2012. On the French Riviera in 1915, future filmmaker Jean Renoir (Vincent Rottiers) returns home to convalesce from an injury suffered in World War I. While there, he meets Andree Heuschling (Christa Theret), the last model for Jean’s father, the Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste (Michel Bouquet). Fascinatingly, director Gilles Bourdos used the skills of convicted art forger Guy Ribes to recreate Renoir’s paintings on screen. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.

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, set in another North Carolina paradise, 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.

SNITCH (PG-13) Construction bigwig John Matthews (The Rock, nĂŠ Dwayne Johnson) will do anything to lessen his son Jasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jail time after a drug arrest.

Matthews convinces one of his ex-con employees, Daniel (Jon Bernthal, late of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Walking Deadâ&#x20AC;?), to introduce him to a drug dealer, Malik (Michael K. Williams), in order to cut a deal with federal prosecutor Joanne Keeghan (Susan Sarandon), who could use a big bust to boost her congressional campaign. Refreshingly, Johnson spends most of the movie in desperate dad mode as opposed to real life action figure. Appearances be damned, Snitch is no â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s action rehash; the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more serious than youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expect and has too much gravitas for Ah-nuld, even in his prime.

TRANCE (R) Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think too hard about Tranceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mesmerizing complex plot, or else risk smashing the exquisitely designed psycho-thriller.

Academy Award winner Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) reunites with his 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 (donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Trance is hypnotically watchable; just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try and recall too much of it once youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been awakened.

TYLER PERRYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TEMPTATION (PG-13) Is it possible for a filmmaker to â&#x20AC;&#x153;jump the shark?â&#x20AC;? He cast Kim Kardashian, for goodnessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sake. And wait for Brandyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s climactic reveal. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sort of melodramatic gem that could turn this dreck into popular camp

were it less dull. A marriage counselor (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), who feels neglected by her nice guy, pharmacist husband (Lance Gross), waltzes off with a handsome, ripped billionaire (Robbie Jones). By the time Judithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s religious mother (Ella Joyce) wanders in to preach at her daughter (and the audience), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too late.

UPSTREAM COLOR (R) Writerdirector Shane Carruth has not directed a film since 2004â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Primer (check it out via Netflix Instant, if you missed it), but he has done well with his second feature, which was nominated for Sundanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grand Jury Prize. Not only did Carruth direct, he also wrote, produced, acted, photographed, edited, composed, cast and designed the production and sound, for which he won a Sundance Special Jury Prize. Forgive the lack of a description, but I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t figure out what the movie was about from its trailer. Yet, I really want to see it, if just to listen to the score. (CinĂŠ) Drew Wheeler

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theatre notes IN-BETWEEN DAYS May is always a dry month for theater in this town. Between finals and graduation at UGA and the end of the public-school year (and suddenly having to keep the kids occupied), most live-performance outfits and outlets tend to lay low until the stampede passes and the dust settles.

The theater and live-performance calendar is, therefore, a bit light this month, but what we do have on tap are some exciting and important events to check out if you can.

Rape Culture: Much has been made, particularly during last year’s ghastly election cycle, over what has been called America’s rape culture, the societal zeitgeist that continues to Steven Carroll

gloss over the horrific and dehumanizing crime of sexual assault with such disgusting tropes as “boys will be boys” and “she was asking for it.” It’s this dynamic that leads to the underreporting of rape, the stigmatization of the victim rather than the predator, and rampant public misinformation about the true scope of the crime. Some people, many of whom sit in places of power (and lay claim to knowledge about the arcane powers of the uterus despite not having one), deny that rape culture exists even as we watch it play out on the daily news in stories of girls’ lives ruined or lost in the wake of some boy’s sense of entitlement and lack of impulse control. But real it is and in college towns like ours, too common.

Local performer and director Sellers Webb will present a performance event on this issue called Every 2 Minutes in the Lab space at Ciné at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 2. The show will consist of short works written and performed by UGA students and a staging of Until Someone Wakes Up, a 1992 play

by Carolyn Levy and students of Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) that has been making the rounds of college and high-school campuses for the past 20 years. The performance promises to be harrowing but absolutely vital, an example of what live-performance does and should do best. The Lab space is small, certainly, but it will be worth rubbing shoulders to get as many folks in as possible.

There will be a talk-back after the show.

Admission is free, but a $5 donation is suggested, with proceeds going to The Cottage Sexual Assault Center and the Children’s Advocacy Center.

Psyck Psocks: The Town & Gown Players continue their tradition of experimental Second Stage shows with a presentation of original sketches performed by an all-star cast of… sock puppets. One hesitates to characterize Psychosis of the Psock as a “puppet show,” because it’s not. It is, rather, a series of short pieces with often very grownup themes, but with puppets in place of fleshand-blood actors. This is not the first time the troupe has done this, and from all reports the last show was wonderfully surreal and entertaining.

Psychosis of the Psock runs Friday–Sunday, May 3–5, at the Athens Community Theatre on Grady Ave. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. on Sunday.

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Kid and Fun Friendly: Because geeks love puns, May 4 has become universally known (get it?) as National Star Wars Day. To celebrate, the Rose of Athens theater company will hold a family-friendly Star Wars-themed fundraising event called “May the Fourth Be With You” in Bishop Park, 705 Sunset Dr. The event will feature performances by bands for kids and bands for grownups, along with jugglers and fire-throwers. There will also be craft tables for the kids, including a “lightsaber creation station,” and catering

by Zaxby’s and Terrapin. Everyone is encouraged to dress up and get their Jedi, Sith, or scruffy-looking nerf-herder on.

“May the Fourth Be With You” runs from 3:30–7:30 p.m. Tickets are $16 for guests 21 and older, $8 for 20 and younger. All proceeds will benefit Rose of Athens’ educational and school-outreach programs. For more information visit www.roseofathens.org or call 706340-9181.

Precocious and Aggravating: A good example of the kind of program Rose of Athens puts on is its upcoming production of Ramona Quimby, based on the beloved children’s books by Beverly Cleary. The story of precocious and often aggravating Ramona and her older sister Beezus comes to life in a show that will run for school audiences WednesdayFriday, May 8–10 and May 15–17, at 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., and for the general public on Friday & Saturday, May 10 & 11 and May 17 & 18, at 7 p.m. All shows are at Seney-Stovall Chapel. Tickets for the evening shows are $18 and may be purchased at www.athensmusic. net. If you need further information about booking a show for schools, contact www. roseofathens.org.

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Drivin’ N’ Cryin’, Shelly Colvin, Scarred But Screening Smarter Melting Point · 7 p.m. · $20 (adv.), $25 (door),

$15 (w/ UGA ID) It’s unusual that a rock and roll band lasts one decade, let alone nearly three, but Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ continues to persevere despite the odds. A somewhat tragic victim of circumstance, the talented and hardworking Atlanta-based group enjoyed moderate success in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s with singles like “Straight to Hell” and “Fly Me Courageous” before being chewed up by an increasingly fickle music industry. “Regular Guy” Eric Von Haessler’s new documentary, Scarred But Smarter, examines the group’s checkered history through unflinching interviews with charismatic bandleader Kevn Kinney and his contemporaries, as well as younger musicians who followed in his footsteps (including Dead Confederate’s Hardy Morris). At the Melting Point Thursday, the doc screens at 7 p.m.

Singer-songwriter Shelly Colvin plays at 9, and Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ goes on at 10. [Gabe Vodicka] MUSIC | Thursday, May 2

Xtra Colours, Future Ape Tapes, John Fernandes Flicker Theatre & Bar · 9 p.m. · FREE! Brooklyn transplant Keith Beaver has begun making waves around Athens with his Xtra Colours project, wherein he balances minimalist electro-dance structure with staccato synths.

The resulting sound is not unlike early Caribou (then Manitoba) or Four Tet. But Beaver knows the power of negative space; his music’s ominous emptiness also calls to mind newer producers like The Haxan Cloak.

Tightly coiled and texturally rich, the few Xtra Colours tunes already available suggest that the project’s upcoming album will be an immersive experience. Local beat-psych duo Future Ape Tapes recently released a gem in the Somnambuland cassette, a sure-footed step forward for the group. Experimental mainstay and good-natured session dude John Fernandes opens with a set of his outthere loops and instrumental explorations.

[Gabe Vodicka] MUSIC | Saturday, May 4

Cousin Dan Amici · 11 p.m. · FREE!

Cousin Dan’s faux-glitzy, 808-fueled new wave, skin-tight animal print pants and glittery codpiece have led some to dismiss his sparkly steez as mere East Atlanta hipster bait. But his sensorial style is the result of a purer sort of impishness: rather than a wink, Dan’s music sports a wide and honest grin. (“F-Bomb,” a much-hyped 2012 single, was, counterintuitively, quite

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clean.) Late last year, in a cruel twist of fate, Dan (real name Daniel Scoggins) was shot at point blank outside a well-known Cabbagetown watering hole. Thankfully, the injury wasn’t life-threatening—the victim Instagrammed a self-portrait en route to the hospital, and has since recovered.

It’s a testament to Dan’s zest for life that he’s back to doing what he loves best, and doing it better than ever. [Gabe Vodicka] EVENT | Saturday, May 4 & Sunday, May 5

Athens Human Rights Festival College Square · 10 a.m.–12 a.m., Sat. & 2–10

p.m., Sun. · FREE! Continuing its 35-year tradition, AHRF creates a platform for political and social discourse through an outdoor celebration of local culture. This year’s featured speakers are State Representative Tyrone Brooks and social activist Ward Churchill, and several others are slated to discuss current issues surrounding undocumented students, health care, LGBT rights, homelessness and more. Performances, which alternate in between speakers, run the gamut from the whimsical Dancing Flowers for Peace to saucy Lacie and the Glitter Cabaret. Musical headliners include Beatles cover band Abbey Road LIVE! on Saturday and the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd cover band, Dark Side of the Dead (formerly Cosmic Charlie), on Sunday. As always, the square will be lined with informational booths presented by various local organizations, and an area with face painting, games, art projects and llamas will help keep kids occupied. [Jessica Smith]

Dancing Flowers for Peace

MUSIC | Sunday, May 5

Broad River Watershed Association Benefit Broad River Outpost · 12 p.m.–10 p.m. · $5 The second annual Broad River Outpost spring benefit for the Broad River Watershed Association, which works to keep the Broad River clean and safe, offers an incredible amount of live music in a natural setting. The Outpost offers canoes and kayaks, food, coolers, showers and more, and the music is perfect for a long day outside. Mellow moments come courtesy of Sea of Dogs and Jacob Morris, while Bubbly Mommy Gun, The B-53s, Casper and the Cookies and many more will help rouse you from the beer- and swimming-induced daze. Affordable, low-key and familyfriendly, the event keeps the good parts of outdoor music festivals and leaves the rest.

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Tuesday 30 ART: Decked Out (Top Level of North Campus Parking Deck) An exhibition and sale of works by Phi Beata Heata, UGA’s organization for jewelry students. 7 p.m. www.art.uga.edu 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 FILM: How to Survive a Plague (Ciné Barcafé) The Oscar-nominated film tells the story of young activists who stopped the AIDS epidemic from becoming a death sentence.

Proceeds benefit AIDS Athens. 8 p.m. $10. www.athenscine.com GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia (The Office Lounge) Compete for prizes! Every Tuesday.

7:30 p.m. www.facebook.com/ officeathens GAMES: Trivia (Fuzzy’s Taco Shop) Compete for prizes and giveaways.

Every Tuesday. 9–11 p.m. 706353-0305 GAMES: Movie Quotes Trivia (Max) With host Cora Jane every Tuesday. Everyone’s a winner. 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392 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 LECTURES & LIT: Every Two Minutes Monologue and Poetry Reading (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Readings from selected works address the issues of gender inequality, sexual assault and rape culture. If interested in participating, pieces may be submitted ahead of time via email. 5:30-7 p.m. FREE! sellersw@uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Belly Dancing Show (40 Watt Club) Watch belly dancers “rak” the 40 Watt. 7 p.m. $5–8. www.40watt.com

Wednesday 1 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 CLASSES: One Color Screenprint Workshop (Double Dutch Press) Learn the basics from image production to finished product and reclaimed screen. 6–8 p.m. $50. www.doubledutchpress.com CLASSES: Spicy Salsa Dancing (Jerzee’s Sports Bar) Learn how to Salsa. 9–10 p.m. (lesson), 10

p.m.–1 a.m. (dancing). $3, $5 (under 21). dg2003@yahoo.com 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.

4–7 p.m. www.athensfarmersmarket. net EVENTS: Rescue Me! Dog Meet & Greet (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Meet some adoptable dogs. Wellsocialized, non-aggressive dogs welcome to attend. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenshumanesociety.org GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Trivia with a DJ! Every Wednesday. 8–10 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: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Jeremy Dyson. 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 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: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. For ages 2–5.

Every Wednesday. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes & Noble) Stories appropriate for all ages. Children receive a free treat from the cafe. 11 a.m. FREE! 706354-1195 LECTURES & LIT: Author Talk (UGA Chapel) Jeff Speck, author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, shares excerpts. Followed by a book signing at Transmetropolitan downtown. 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! www. achfonline.org LECTURES & LIT: Friends of the Library Book Sale (ACC Library) Thousands of gently used books. All proceeds benefit the Athens-Clarke County Library. May 1, 2–6 p.m. (members’ preview, $25), May 2, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. May 3, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. May 4, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. www. athenslibrary.org

Thursday 2 ART: Opening Reception (Town 220, Madison) For “Woman,” selected works by Katie Brick, Jill Brody, Kristin Casaletto, Abner Cope, Patrick McGannon, Richard Olsen, Betti Pettinati-Longinotti and Jean Westmacott. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.madisonartistsguild.org ART: Opening Reception (Ciné Barcafé) For artwork by Julia Allen.

6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine. com ART: Going Away Party (Georgia Museum of Art) Congratulate and bid farewell to chief curator and curator of American art Paul Manoguerra. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org 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: Drinking Liberally (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Calling all lefties: beer and political talk. First Thursday of each month. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.facebook.com/groups/ athensdl FILM: The Anonymous People (Morton Theatre) A pre-screening of the feature documentary film by Greg Williams about the 23.5 million Americans living in long-term recovey from alcohol and other drug problems. 6 p.m. $8. www.mortontheatre.com GAMES: Trivia (The Volstead) Every Thursday! 7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-5300 GAMES: Trivia with a Twist (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Throw a lime in your Coors Light and compete! Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 706354-1515 KIDSTUFF: Teen Art Studio (Georgia Museum of Art) ATHICA manager Hope Hilton leads a gallery tour of “Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina” and a workshop in making face jugs.

5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Teen Studio (Georgia Museum of Art) Teens are invited to participate in an art workshop and gallery tour of the exhibition “Face Jug: Art and Ritual in 19th Century South Carolina,” lead by local artist and teacher Hope Hilton. Followed by a craft. Email to reserve spot.

Pizza will be served. 5:30–8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-8863, mrackley@ uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Friends of the Library Book Sale (ACC Library) See May 1 description. May 1, 2–6 p.m. (members’ preview, $25), May 2, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. May 3, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. May 4, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. www. athenslibrary.org

An opening reception for ceramic works by artist Cheri Wranosky will be held at Farmington Depot Gallery on Saturday, May 4.

MEETINGS: Young Professionals Network (Hilltop Grille) Mike Morris, the new Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Board, is the guest speaker. 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7667 MEETINGS: Oconee Rivers Audubon Society (Sandy Creek Nature Center) The meeting will feature a screening of PBS segment “Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air.” 7 p.m. FREE! www.oconeeriversaudubon.org MEETINGS: LGBT Community Center Meeting (Holiday Inn, Redfearn Grille) For citizens interested in establishing a safe space for LGBT youth and adults. 7-8 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-4433 PERFORMANCE: Athens Choral Society (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Performing Schubert’s “Mass in G” and other songs. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenschoralsociety.com THEATRE: Every Two Minutes (Ciné Barcafé) A performance that explores the topic of rape culture on college campuses. Donations benefit The Cottage Sexual Assault Center and Children’s Advocacy Center.

7:30 p.m. $5 (suggested donation). sellerswebb@gmail.com

Friday 3 ART: An Evening of Writing and Art (Georgia Museum of Art) Professor Judith Ortiz Cofer’s advanced creative writing class presents an evening of readings inspired by works of art in the museum’s permanent collection. Reception to follow. 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org

EVENTS: “Madison in May” Spring Tour of Homes (Madison, GA) Self-guided tours of private homes and gardens that are within walking or short driving distance of each other. Artists will be stationed near various homes in a “Plein Air Paint Out.” Check website for details. May 3–4, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $15–30. 706-342-4743, www. mmcc-arts.org EVENTS: BikeAthens Group Ride (Athens City Hall) A slow-paced bike ride leaves from City Hall and passes through the Boulevard and Cobbham neighborhoods. A social at Little Kings Shuffle Club follows.

6 p.m. FREE! www.bikeathens.com EVENTS: Trash to Treasure Yard Sale (1005 College Ave.) Items saved from an early death in the dump based on their functionality and kitsch value. Funds raised support Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful. May 3, 4–7 p.m. $3. (pre-sale) & May 4, 8 a.m.–12 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3501 EVENTS: Line Dancing (Bootleggers Country & Western Bar) Countrywestern-style line dance lessons. Every Friday. Come ride Pandemonium, the mechanical bull!

8–10 p.m. 706-254-7338 FILM: Science on the Screen Series: Upstream Color (Ciné Barcafé) Shane Carruth’s film will be introduced by parasite expert Dr. Donald Harn and followed by a conversation about edible insects with Harman Johar of World Entomophagy. 7 p.m. www.athenscine.com KIDSTUFF: Friday Night Paddles (Sandy Creek Park) Experience the moon over Lake Chapman as you

paddle around in a canoe or kayak.

For ages 12 & older. Pre-registration required. 8:30–10:30 p.m. $8–12.

706-613-3631, www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreekpark LECTURES & LIT: Friends of the Library Book Sale (ACC Library) See May 1 description. May 1, 2–6 p.m. (members’ preview, $25), May 2, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. May 3, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. May 4, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. www. athenslibrary.org PERFORMANCE: Athens Symphony Pops Concert (The Classic Center) Featuring members of the Athens Symphony Chorus.

Selections include popular musical pieces such as Les Miserables. May 3–4, 8 p.m. FREE! (tickets required) www.athenssymphony.org Theatre: Psychosis of the Psock (Athens Community Theatre) Town & Gown Players present an adult puppet show. May 3–4, 8 p.m. & May 5, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org

Saturday 4 ART: Art Show (Nuçi’s Space) Curated by Jeffrey Whittle and featuring music by Daratzki, Brothers, Sad Dads, Clara Hoag, Davis Lloyd and Cody Z. 7–10 p.m. www.nuci. org ART: Opening Reception (Farmington Depot Gallery) For “Heads Up,” sculptures by Cheri Wranosky. Live music by Hawk Proof Rooster, Louis Phillip Pelot, Sam Burchfield, Andrew Leidner and Austin Green. 5–9 p.m. FREE! www. farmingtondepotgallery.com k continued on next page

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ART: Art Performance (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA)) Ted Kuhn performs his final installment of the performance series, “Give the People What They Want.” Part of the current exhibit, “Worked.” 6 p.m. www.athica.org ART: “A Lovely Spring Day” Artist Market (660 N. Chase St.) Indie South Fair presents an arts festival with nearly 100 vendors selling handmade arts and crafts ranging from jewelry, accessories, painting, ceramics and more. Multiple food carts and a vintage market, too. See story on p. 9. 11 a.m.–7 p.m. www. indiesouthfair.com CLASSES: Zine/Journal Making (Double Dutch Press) Learn how to screenprint a cover and bind five journals or zines. 2–4 p.m. $65. www.doubledutchpress.com EVENTS: Human Rights Festival (College Square) Speakers, live performances and information booths.

See Calendar Pick on p. 18. May 4, 10–12 a.m. & May 5, 2–10 p.m. www.athenshumanrightsfest.org EVENTS: Kurt Wood’s Front Porch Record Sale (1080 Oconee St.) Find a cool record! May 4, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. & May 5, 12–6 p.m. 706-5469602 EVENTS: Mangria Tasting Party (Aromas) Sample the new fortified orange sangria created by comedian Adam Carolla. 5 p.m. www.aromascraftworks.com EVENTS: May the Fourth Be with You (Bishop Park) Rose of Athens Theatre presents a Star Wars-themed fundraiser with food, live music, jugglers, fire-throwers and a lightsaber creation station. Costumes encouraged. 1–5 p.m. $8. www. roseofathens.org EVENTS: Gardens of the World Ball (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) “Midnight in Paris…an Elegant Soiree” features a seated dinner with French cuisine, live jazz music and dancing. 6:30 p.m. aparris@uga.edu EVENTS: Trash to Treasure Yard Sale (1005 College Ave.) See Friday listing for full description May 3, 4–7 p.m. $3. (pre-sale) & May 4, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3501 EVENTS: Pet Blessing (Memorial Park) Interfaith ministers will give companion animals a blessing of love and well-being. Reiki practitioners will be available for pets with health challenges. 3–5 p.m. FREE! 404-432-1976 EVENTS: Food Truck Rodeo (Specialty Ornamentals) Various food trucks will serve local food among the display gardens.

Live music by Matt Joiner, Isaac Bramblett, Scott Baston and CJ Hoty.

Music for kids (4 p.m.) includes Jerry Zee and the Boogie Woogie Bullfrog. 3–7 p.m. 706-310-0143, www.specialtyornamentals.com EVENTS: Mule Day (Shields Ethridge Heritage Farm) Tour the outdoor agricultural museum that functions as an educational and interpretative facility. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. $10–15. www.shieldsethridgefarminc.com EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (The Old West Broad School) Held the first Saturday of the month. Fruits, veggies, crafts and more. EBT holders receive half-off on staple foods. This week features a sustainable gardening workshop at 10:15 a.m. 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslandtrust.org/ community-gardens/west-broadfarmers-market EVENTS: First Saturday Contra Dance (Lay Park) Beginner instruction at 7:15 p.m. Free Association

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performs. With caller Deena Kushner. 7:30–10:30 p.m. $4–8. www.contradanceathens.com EVENTS: Focus Autism Foundation Center Grand Opening (The Church at College Station) A screening of Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives, various speakers and BBQ. 8 a.m.– 3:30 p.m. FREE! saxonroadchurch@ gmail.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts.

This week features a chef demo from Josh Aaron of The Savory Spoon.

Live music by Scott Baxendale and the Burning Angels. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: “Madison in May” Spring Tour of Homes (Madison, GA) See Friday listing for full description May 3–4, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $15–30. 706-342-4743, www. mmcc-arts.org EVENTS: CCRG vs. Gate City Rollergirls (Athens Arena) The Classic City Rollergirls take on Greensboro, North Carolina’s Gate City Rollergirls. A portion of the proceeds benefit Nuçi’s Space. 6 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12. www.classiccityrollergirls.com

EVENTS: Comic Book Day (Mr. Comic Shop) Over 50 free titles to choose from. Featured titles include Star Wars, The Walking Dead, Simpsons, Adventure Time and special titles for kids. 11 a.m.–7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ mr.comicshop FILM: What I Love About Concrete (Flicker Theatre & Bar) In this homespun high school fairy tale screwball comedy, Molly Whuppie is on a quest to revive a magical dead swan. Followed by a Q & A with filmmakers Alanna Stewart, Katherine Dohan and Brett Hanover.

5 p.m. FREE! www.whatiloveaboutconcrete.com FILM: What I Love About Concrete (Ben’s Bikes) Evening screening. See description above. 9 p.m. FREE! www.whatiloveaboutconcrete.com GAMES: Shadowrun RPG Demo (Tyche’s Games) Visit Seattle in 2069, when magic meets technology. 12 p.m. FREE! www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Clarke Celebrates the Arts (Cedar Shoals High School) AthFest Educates and the Clarke County School District present 25 performances, as well as a panel of arts professionals including Jared Bailey, David Barbe, Michael Lachowski and more. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! www.athfest.com

PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Little Kings Shuffle Club) A unique drag show featuring performances by local drag artists. 10 p.m. $5. 706-369-3144 PERFORMANCE: Meridian Women’s Chorus (Emmanuel Episcopal Church) Presenting “Musica Sacra,” including works by Rheinberger, Durufle, Mendelssohn and more. Accompanied by organist Sam Polk and pianist Rebecca Bonas. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1294 PERFORMANCE: Athens Symphony Pops Concert (The Classic Center) See Friday listing for full description May 3–4, 8 p.m.

FREE! (tickets required) www.athenssymphony.org Theatre: Psychosis of the Psock (Athens Community Theatre) Town & Gown Players present an adult puppet show. May 3–4, 8 p.m. & May 5, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org

Sunday 5 ART: Spring Artists Market (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) Local artisans present handmade jewelry, metalsmithing, pottery, illustration, fibers, photography, letterpress and more. Rescheduled from Apr. 28. 10:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. www.heirloomathens.com

Casper and the Cookies play the BRWA benefit at the Broad River Outpost on Sunday, May 5. See Calendar Pick on p. 18.

EVENTS: Yoga Festival (Om Studio) Yoga, pilates and barre classes, massages, food, kids’ activities and other mind/body vendors. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! www.theomniclubathens. com/class-om-studio EVENTS: The 1919’s Mint Jubilee (Ashford on Main, Watkinsville) A Derby Day event benefiting ARMC’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Casual supper and mint juleps, music by the Now and Then Band and live feed of the Kentucky Derby. 5–8 p.m. $45. 706-475-3428. www.athenshealth.org/derbyday EVENTS: Cystic Fibrosis Fundraiser Weekend (Chase Street Yoga) Master yoga teachers lead classes to raise awareness and funds for people living with cystic fibrosis. Check website for schedule.

All day. www.chasestreetyoga.com

KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes & Noble) Children receive a free treat.

11 a.m. FREE! 706-354-1195 LECTURES & LIT: Friends of the Library Book Sale (ACC Library) See May 1 description. May 1, 2–6 p.m. (members’ preview, $25), May 2, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. May 3, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. May 4, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. www. athenslibrary.org OUTDOORS: Tai Chi in the Park (Athens Regional Medical Center) Free lesson in Tai Chi. All skill levels welcome. No experience necessary.

9:30–10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenshealth.org/mbi OUTDOORS: Naturalist Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for a walk around the property. Bring a camera or binoculars. All ages. Call to register. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615

CLASSES: Stoneware Clay for Homesteaders (Good Dirt) Clay projects that are useful for the home, including utensil crocks, bowls, pots and a butter churn. 2-5 p.m. $50–55. www.gooddirt.net COMEDY: Sean Patton (The World Famous) Standup comedian Sean Patton has cut his teeth performing on “Live at Gotham,” “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and “Conan.” 8 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10. www.theworldfamousathens.com EVENTS: “Double Dollars” Fundraiser (The National) A fivecourse dinner with wine pairings to support the doubling of federal and state nutrition benefits at the West Broad Farmers Market. Chef Peter Dale will prepare dishes featuring items from the market. 6:30–8 p.m. $120. kate@athenslandtrust.org

EVENTS: Cystic Fibrosis Fundraiser Weekend (Chase Street Yoga) See Saturday listing for full description All day. www.chasestreetyoga.com EVENTS: Broad River Watershed Association Benefit (Broad River Outpost, Danielsville) An all-ages benefit with camping, kayak races, food and live music. See Calendar Pick on p. 18. 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. $5. broadriveroutpostga@gmail.com EVENTS: Human Rights Festival (College Square) Speakers, live performances and information booths.

See Calendar Pick on p. 18. May 4, 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 a.m. & May 5, 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. www.athenshumanrightsfest.org EVENTS: Kurt Woodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Front Porch Record Sale (1080 Oconee St.) Find a cool record! May 4, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. & May 5, 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. 706-5469602 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 GAMES: Trivia (The Capital Room) First place wins $50. 8 p.m. FREE! www.thecapitalroom.com

most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility. 7 p.m. FREE! www. thedirtmovie.org GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) Win house cash and prizes!

8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; toughest trivia. $100 grand prize! 8 p.m. FREE! 706-543-8997 MEETINGS: Athens Federation of Neighborhoods (Old Fire Hall #2) Panelists provide updates on their participation and contributions to the most recent legislative session.

7:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. FREE! www.accneighborhoods.org

Tuesday 7 EVENTS: Compost Bin Sale (ACC Solid Waste Department) Recycle Mother Nature style. Proceeds benefit Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. $49. 706-6133501, ext. 312 EVENTS: Tuesday Farmers Tailgate Market (West Broad Market Garden) A produce stand of locally grown fruits and vegetables.

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Thrasher, Wanda White and Homer Wilson. Arrive early to order food. 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com 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 (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Crows Nest Trivia (Dirty Birds) Every Wednesday in the Crows Nest. 8 p.m. FREE! 706546-7050 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: 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: Sports Trivia (Beef â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) Test your sports knowledge

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GAMES: Trivia (Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CafĂŠ) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brewerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inquisition.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. FREE! www.buffaloscafe.com/athens KIDSTUFF: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come Togetherâ&#x20AC;?

Family Craft Day (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Art activities for children.

Co-sponsored by Arrow, ATHICA, GMOA, Lyndon House Arts Center and Treehouse Kid & Craft. 11 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org Theatre: Psychosis of the Psock (Athens Community Theatre) Town & Gown Players present an adult puppet show. May 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4, 8 p.m. & May 5, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org

Monday 6 CLASSES: Yoga on the East Side (St. Gregoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church) For all levels. 7 p.m. $5. www.charlottespage.com CLASSES: Writing a Business Plan for Small Businesses (UGA Small Business Development Center) A course for potential small business owners. Register by May 2. 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 p.m. $29. www.athenssbdc.org EVENTS: 3rd Annual Buddy Christian Memorial Golf Tournament (Athens Country Club) A four-player, best-ball scramble format with a shotgun start. 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 p.m. $85. www.buddychristianfoundation.org FILM: DIRT! The Movie (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Explore the wonders of soil, earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

month. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 p.m. 706-613-0122, www.athenslandtrust.org GAMES: Trivia (The Office Lounge) Compete for prizes! 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. 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-254-3392

Wednesday 8 COMEDY: The Beards of Comedy (The World Famous) Touring comedians Andy Sandford (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aqua Teen Hunger Forceâ&#x20AC;?), Dave Stone, TJ Young (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Squidbilliesâ&#x20AC;?) and Joe Zimmerman. 8 & 11 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15. www.theworldfamousathens. com EVENTS: Rabbit Box â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silver Boxâ&#x20AC;? (The Melting Point) This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stories from Our Elders,â&#x20AC;? and features stories told by Ernie de Pascale, Joyce Downing, John English, Millard Grimes, Sandra Huszagh, A.R. Killian, Mary

every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes & Noble) For all ages. Children receive a free treat from the cafe. 11 a.m.

FREE! 706-354-1195

LIVE MUSIC 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.

On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THE GOLD PARTY Local band plays original, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s-inspired electro new wave jams.

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

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

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

Little Kings Shuffle Club 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub WIDE ANGLES Aggressive pop-punk group from Chicago.

KATER MASS Local, gritty pop-punk band.

DJ LOZO Spinning punk anthems.

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

Mirko Pasta 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5641 (Gaines School Road location) LEAVING COUNTRIES Local singersongwriter Louis Phillip Pelot performs folk and country.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com ALAN EVANS TRIO Groovin’ jazz with dark rhythms and blues licks.

Nowhere Bar Tuesday Night Confessional. 9 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-4742 FESTER HAGOOD This local songwriter sings in a soft drawl.

LEVI LOWREY Storyteller and singersongwriter from Dacula.

RON KIMBLE Atlanta-based country singer.

DANNY MCADAMS Local guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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

The Volstead 9 p.m.–1:30 a.m. 706-354-5300 KARAOKE Every Tuesday!

Wednesday 1 Amici 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 LIVE BAND KARAOKE Sing your favorites as a live band backs you up.

Athens City Hall Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net MEGANNE STEPKA Singersongwriter from Cleveland, OH. 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.

Flicker Theatre & Bar Birdhouse Collection Presents. 9 p.m. $3. www.flickertheatreandbar.com PRETTY BIRD Local a capella/hip hop/anti-pop group. See story on p. 11.

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TREE SPIRIT Solo set from a member of Pretty Bird.

GECKO New local hip-hop project.

BONG MARLEY SONG SYSTEM “VHS-funk” from a member of Basshunter64.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $25. www.georgiatheatre.com JUICY J Legendary rapper/producer and Three 6 Mafia founder. See story on p. 12.

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.

ISLAND DOGS New project from William Chamberlain (Vestibules).

ANDREW KLEIN Sam Sniper singer plays a solo set.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com RAND LINES TRIO Original compositions of pianist Rand Lines with drummer Ben Williams and bassist Carl Lindberg.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 JACK & THE BEAR Folk-rock band from Michigan.

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.

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

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

Thursday 2 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. www.40watt.com JONNY & SHIM Local pop-rock group with hip-hop tendencies.

CAMERAS, GUNS & RADIOS Augusta-based rock band delivering energetic, hook-driven rock in the style of the Foo Fighters.

THE AVIATORS Hard rock with a hint of funk and a lot of power.

Amici 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 OPEN MIC NIGHT Showcase your talent! Email amiciopenmic@gmail. com to get a spot.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com KILL KILL BUFFALO Grungy, hardrock duo featuring Kara Kildare’s powerful, seductive vocals.

Incendiaries Ladies of pedigree enforcing angular sensibilities.

Daffodil This local trio plays hardhitting, noisy rock.

Crow’s Nest 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-7050 KEN WILL MORTON With his gritty, soulful rasp, Morton trudges through Americana’s roots with rock and roll swagger and a folksinger’s heart.

MICHAEL BOWMAN Local altcountry/blues singer-songwriter, originally from Harrisonburg, VA.

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DePalma’s Italian Cafe 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1237 (Timothy Road Location) THE WELFARE LINERS This fivepiece bluegrass unit blends classic tunes with originals while focusing on brother harmonies for that authentic high lonesome sound.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com XTRA COLOURS Local artist creates “shadowy beats that meet with synth melodies and ambient textures to create a futuristic blend of dance electronica.” See Calendar Pick on p. 18.

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

JOHN FERNANDES Olivia Tremor Control bassist and local experimental fixture plays a solo set.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com OLD YOU Jazz-funk/rock band from Charleston, SC.

Go Bar 11 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. 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.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com DRIVIN’ N’ CRYIN’ Hard Southern music from these legendary Atlanta rockers. The night will open with a screening of Scarred but Smarter, a new documentary on the band. See Calendar Pick on p. 18.

SHELLY COLVIN Singer-songwriter with a ‘70s country-rock vibe.

Normaltown Hall 8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ NormaltownHall HAMELL ON TRIAL New York-based musician Ed Hamell performs politically minded, folk-tinged punk rock music.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 AVERY DYLAN PROJECT Southern rock and Texas blues, originals and covers.

The Office Lounge Blues Night. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-5460840 THE SHADOW EXECUTIVES Get your fill of straight-up, authentic blues covers from this skilled Athens five-piece. This is an open jam and guests are welcome!

The Pub at Gameday 10 p.m. 706-353-2831 LEAVING COUNTRIES Local singersongwriter Louis Phillip Pelot per-

forms folk and country, solo or with the help of some friends.

VINCENT THE DOG Free-form power rock trio with a wide range of influences, including psychedelic and progressive rock, blues, metal, jazz, funk and pop.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com REVEREND DEBRUHL Steeped in the heritage of strong guitar leads, powerful vocals and a pocket rhythm section, this local rock quartet plays a bluesy Southern style with jazz and jam-inspired sounds.

Walker’s Coffee & Pub 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-1433 KARAOKE Every Thursday!

Friday 3 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com VELVET RUNWAY Playing ‘80s and classic rock tunes!

BENJAMIN TOWERS Pop-oriented local singer-songwriter.

SPENCER SMITH & MILES BENSON Local singer-songwriter duo.

Amici 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 SALEM LAKE Alt-rock band from North Carolina.

Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. 706-369-3040 LIARS & LOVERS Local ‘70sinspired rock band.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com NIGHT & DAY Local acoustic folk group.

TREY + THE MIGHTY HOPEFULS Psych-tinged lo-fi pop band from Columbus.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com MOONRISES Chicago-based progrock band.

MOUSER Exuberant garage-pop that experiments with noise jams.

BUBBLY MOMMY GUN Local experimental pop band that plays idiosyncratic, psychedelic tunes.

WHAT New local band featuring members of Shade and Bubbly Mommy Gun. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com DANA SWIMMER A montage of garage rock with sweet, soulful undertones.

ENGLAND IN 1819 An unusual combination of Southern edge and English introspection, with haunting lyrics and massive chamber rock unfurling in a sweeping, evocative surge of sound.

NEW WIVES Local indie rock band inspired by groups like Modest Mouse and Cursive, EP release show.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com YACHT ROCK REVUE Atlanta-based ‘70s soft-rock tribute band, covering everything from Billy Joel to Hall & Oates.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 JEFFERS MORNING Local rock trio plays fun, danceable pop-punk.

JUNA Sweeping local post-rock band with end-of-the-world instrumentation.

TONDA New and mysterious local band.

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

Green Room 10 p.m. $5. www.greenroomathens. com LINGO Jam band featuring heavy guitar melodies, African and Latin grooves, old-school funk and fusion jazz.

ANTIQUE FIREARMS Moody and atmospheric Asheville, NC group cultivating a psychedelic Americana sound.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com JOE CAT Local singer-songwriter tells stories about his life. Come get to know him!

Highwire Lounge 8–11 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. Every Friday!

Little Kings Shuffle Club 9 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub DJ THE KING/MC CORD/TOASTER Three of Little Kings’ beloved staffers spin your faves, from the ‘80s to the present.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com PACKWAY HANDLE BAND Packway’s “gather around the mic” approach to bluegrass provides sly, hearty original songs and renditions of classic tunes.

RED OAK SOUTHERN STRING BAND This Watkinsville-based band plays rootsy Americana tunes.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 BACK CITY WOODS Macon-based bluegrass/Southern rock band.

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

Sundown Saloon 8:30 p.m. $5. 706-850-1180 THE RAYS FEATURING CARLA LEFEVER This band, led by longtime Athenian LeFever, is back with a new lineup and a new, more rocking sound.

The World Famous 8 p.m. $5. www.theworldfamousathens. com THE GIVING TREE BAND Down home, folk-rock group from Chicago relying heavily on their rich vocal harmonies.

LITTLE FRANCIS Local garage-folk outfit led by songwriter Steven Grubbs.

Saturday 4 40 Watt Club Study Break DJ Night! 9 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. hosts a dance party featuring high-energy electro and rock.

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

Z-DOG Loveable local DJ spins top 40 hits, old-school hip-hop, highenergy rock and other danceable favorites.

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Amici 11 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 COUSIN DAN Atlanta-based electronic artist playing synth-based, “electro-hillbilly” R&B. See Calendar Pick on p. 18.

Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net SCOTT BAXENDALE Guitar dynamism from the owner of Baxendale Guitars. Classic bluesy riffs and a lot of soul. (8 a.m.)

THE BURNING ANGELS Local country-rock band led by songwriter Mark Cunningham. (10 a.m.)

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com PILGRIM Local rock band featuring Paul McHugh on vocals, guitar and keyboards along with Matt Stoessel on guitar, TJ Machado on bass,

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College Square 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 a.m. FREE! www.athenshumanrightsfest.org Athens Human Rights Festival Performances by Like Totally!, Odd Trio, Abbey Road LIVE, and more. Check website for full lineup. See Calendar Pick on p. 18.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com AAN Experimental surf-influenced band from Portland, OR. GLASSCRAFTS Power-pop-punk project featuring Grass Giraffesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Steven Trimmer and Robby Casso.

GRESHAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DISCO New local band.

TITANS OF FILTH Quirky local indiepop band anchored by songwriter Sam Grindstaff.

Farmington Depot Gallery 5 p.m. FREE! www.farmingtondepotgallery.org HEADS UP Opening reception featuring Hawk Proof Rooster, Louis Phillip Pelot, Sam Burchfield, Andrew Leidner and Austin Green.

The World Famous 9 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.theworldfamousathens.com GRAPE SODA This local duo plays spastic, psychedelic synthpop driven by organ and drums.

ANDY D Eclectic, Indiana-based party jams.

Sunday 5 ACC Library Live at the Library. 3 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org ATHENS JAZZ HOUNDS Traditional jazz/Dixieland band that plays jazz styles from the early 20th century.

Broad River Outpost 12 p.m. $5. www.broadriveroutpost. com BRWA BENEFIT An all-ages benefit concert featuring a stellar lineup, including the trippy psychedelia of Future Ape Tapes, avant-garde popsters Bubbly Mommy Gun, upstart post-punkers Shade and

The Melting Point 1 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com MAY DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL UGA Music Business students present a one-day festival featuring Allie Windom, The Karmaceuticals, Perfect Blue, Swamp, Dylan Sheppard, Brock Shanks, Ricky Digits, Casey Elliott, Velocirapture, Andrew Gialanella Trio, T.S. Woodward, Jonny & Shim, Street Rythm & Rhyme, Will Entrekin, Boomfox, Bear Left, Universal Sigh and a special performance by the staff and educators of the MBUS program.

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

Monday 6 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com FUTO Indie-pop band from Snellville.

The World Famous 8 p.m. FREE! www.theworldfamousathens.com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features bassist Robby Handley and drummer Marlon Patton. The group is packed with music, mischief, general mayhem, and offers a sound far from the middle of the road, serving noise-rock fans and jam band listeners equally.

Tuesday 7 Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com IKE STUBBLEFIELD & FRIENDS Soulful R&B artist Ike Stubblefield is a Hammond B3 virtuoso who cut his teeth backing Motown legends like the Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye.

CAROLINE AIKEN One of Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most talented and respected performing songwriters. Her bluesy voice and masterful technique guarantee a hypnotic performance.

JOHN KEANEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S STRAWBERRY FLATS Fun cover band drawing classics from the likes of Cream, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles.

On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. $2. www.georgiatheatre.com TUMBLEWEED WANDERERS Oakland, CA band plays dark,

Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. $25. www.georgiatheatre.com OPETH Swedish progressive metal band with roots in Scandinavian death metal and dark romanticism.

KATATONIA Metal band from Sweden considered the forerunners of the death/doom genre.

The Globe 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 THE HONEY SLIDERS Debut performance from this local power trio.

THE POINTED FIRS This power-pop trio â&#x20AC;&#x153;draws inspiration from woods, vines, haints, red soil, red birds, wet air and Spanish moss.â&#x20AC;?

Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 SCROUNGE LIZARDS Free-form jazz ensemble featuring Joe Kubler, Javier Morales, Aaron Gentry, Michael Jefts and Jason Coombs.

DJ BLOWPOP Joe Kubler (Bubbly Mommy Gun) spins a set of tunes.

The Melting Point 6 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com MOTHERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FINEST A mix of rock, gospel, R&B, metal and jazz with an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Afro-Euro mosaicâ&#x20AC;? sound.

THE ATHENS BAND Youthful rock band playing a mix of rock and roll originals and covers.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 CRAIG WATERS & THE FLOOD Local blues guitarist and songwriter.

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The Office Lounge 10 p.m. 706-546-0840 OVERNIGHT SENSATION Members of XXX Hardrive and the Lefty Williams Band play songs from the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s.

ist who combines folk, bluegrass and rock into songs with infectious grooves, memorable melodies and fun stories.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com MARK CUNNINGHAM Cunningham draws from classic country artists like Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons and Steve Earle.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com DREW KOHL Original singer-songwriter who plays bluegrass-inspired folk music.

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Boomfox plays the UGA Music Business Programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s May Day festival at the Melting Point on Sunday, May 5. a solo set from Patrick Carey, as well as Stupid Idiots, Sea of Dogs, Hot Fudge, Jacob Morris, Celestial Tide, Shoal Creek Stranglers, Casper & the Cookies and The B-53â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. See Calendar Pick on p. 18.

College Square 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m. FREE! www.athenshumanrightsfest.org Athens Human Rights Festival Performances by Tealvox, Shehehe, Dark Side of the Dead and more. Check website for full lineup. See Calendar Pick on p. 18.

RIGOLETTO Energetic alternative rock band from Chattanooga with heavy pop tendencies.

ANTHONY APARO Singer-songwriter from the band Mr. Mustache plays a solo set.

NEW WIVES Local indie rock band inspired by groups like Modest Mouse and Cursive. EP release show!

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.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CELESTIAL SHORE Experimental, spacey rock out of Brooklyn, NY. BUBBLY MOMMY GUN Idiosyncratic, psychedelic tunes.

THE DREAM SCENE Javier Moralesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lo-fi avant-garde pop project.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Local songstress Kyshona Armstrong hosts this open mic night every Monday! All musicians welcome.

Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 4:30 & 5:45 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com BOXTOP JENKINS Two shows from this fun-for-the-whole-family art-

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 BLUES NIGHT WITH BIG C Frontman for Big C and the Ringers plays lots of soulful riffs, covers and originals.

chaotic banjo-rock with energetic explosions of soul.

SWEAR AND SHAKE Brooklynbased indie-folk band.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 MOTHER THE CAR Local band playing fierce and heavy tunes.

ZAZU TIMES TWO Local MC with an experimental, underground style.

RABIES SCYTHE FIGHT Experimental/electronic local band.

Green Room 10 p.m. FREE! www.greenroomathens. com WIEUCA A fuzz-heavy, slightly countrified alt-rock version of the sort of wistful slacker-rock pioneered by Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. Hendershotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com NATHANIEL SQUIRES Local singersongwriter.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub FISTY Thrash punk band with the the motto â&#x20AC;&#x153;drunk before sunset.â&#x20AC;?

DJ LOZO Spinning punk rock anthems!

JOHNNY MONTARELLA Local singer-songwriter.

The Melting Point 6 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com BROWN BIRD Blues and roots duo with Middle Eastern, metal and psych-rock influences.

LAST GOOD TOOTH Americana folk quartet from Providence, RI with rootsy, melancholic and sparsely arranged tunes.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-4742 ANDREW KAHRS This UGA grad has a silky smooth voice and soulful style that is reminiscent of John Mayer or Jack Johnson.

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 Local Songwriter Fester Hagood presents this weekly series featuring local songwriter Ryan Boss, the soulful Kyshona Armstrong and the Monkeygrass Jug Band.

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

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

The World Famous 8 p.m. $5 (adv.), $8 (door). www.theworldfamousathens.com THE WHEELER BROTHERS Energetic Americana band from Austin, TX.

Wednesday 8 Amici 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 LIVE BAND KARAOKE Sing your favorites as a live band backs you up.

Athens City Hall Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net LARRY FORTE Local painter and songwriter.

Boarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Head Lounge 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC NIGHT Showcase your talent. Every Wednesday!

Flicker Theatre & Bar Birdhouse Collection Presents. 9 p.m. $3. www.flickertheatreandbar.com SAD DADS This sort-of supergroup of unaccomplished townies shares sad and goofy DIY songs influenced

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STRAYS No info available.

GYPS Experimental minimalist solo project of Muuy Biienâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guitarist Xander Witt.

LIQUOR SHITS New local country band featuring members of Muuy Biien.

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

Georgia Theatre On The Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com REPTAR DJ SET DJ set from members of Reptar.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 RYAN MOORE Member of local band Brothers plays a solo set.

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!

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com JIM COOK Local veteran performs an acoustic set of Delta blues, classic rock and a wide variety of Americana.

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

“Family Try Clay” classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. $20. 706-355-3161, www. gooddirt.net Computer Building Basics (Lay Park) A class for senior adults to build computers from scratch.

Course covers parts selection, operating system installation, troubleshooting, maintenance and more. Call to register. May 6–8, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $10–15. 706-6133596, www.athensclarkecounty. com/lay Dance Classes (Floorspace) Sulukule Dance and Music presents classes in bellydancing, Bollywood dance, fire dancing, yoga, theatrical “bellyesque,” burlesque, sewing and Middle Eastern drumming. See www. floorspaceathens.com for schedule.

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) Frequent introductionary courses to Mac, iPad, iPhoto and iCloud.

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FREE! 706-208-9990, www.peach mac.com/training Maymester Term (Good Dirt) Maymester pottery and clay classes of all levels begin May 11. See website for schedule and descriptions.

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net 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 and view class descriptions. May 3, 5, 17 & 18. $100/class. modglassgirl@ 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.

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Yoga (Chase Street Yoga) Taught by professional instructors. Check website for schedule. www.chasestreet yoga.com 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 5th Annual RED Day (Athens, GA) For “Renew, Energize, Donate,” a day of service, Keller Williams Realty is collecting food for the Northeast GA Food Bank. Call for info on how to donate. Donators receive a reusable red bag.

Through May 9. 706-316-2999, www.kw.com/redday AAHS Internship (Athens Area Humane Society) Seeking an intern to assist with the volunteer, Food Bowl and education programs, donor database and general administrative duties. 20 hours per week. Deadline May 3. amanda@athenshumane society.org 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 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

These two brothers would like to be adopted together and they have a reduced adoption fee for that lucky someone who will open their home and heart to them.

Otto is a little shy, but once he warms up, is full of love. Smokey is more outgoing and very playful. They both have two-tone fur that makes for gorgeous and very soft coats.

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ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY 1 Animal Received 3 Animals Placed, 0 Healthy Adoptable Animals Euthanized ACC ANIMAL CONTROL more pets can be seen online at 30 Dogs Received, 26 Dogs Placed athenshumanesociety.org 11 Cats Received, 3 Cats Placed

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“Elin” by Abner Cope goes on display at Town 220 in Madison on Thursday, May 2.

Free IT (Free IT Athens, Athens, GA) Volunteers wanted for help with computer instruction and repair.

Free IT Athens provides technology resources to Athens residents and organizations. www.freeitathens.org MCHFH Board Members (Madison, GA) The Madison Co. Habitat for Humanity is currently seeking volunteers to serve as board members. Responsibilities include monthly meetings and a committment of two hours per week towards various projects. No experience necessary. 706-788-2609 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 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 Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A program of nature exploration, animal encounters, hikes and crafts. For children ages 3–5 and their parents. Every other Wednesday, May 8–Aug. 14, 3:30–4:30 p.m. $24–36. 706-6133515, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ sandycreeknaturecenter New Moon Summer Adventure Camp (Athens, GA) Now accepting registration for a summer camp that travels to different locations daily. Activities include hiking, swimming, boating and more. Fee includes all activities and travel expenses. For ages 6–12.

Weeks of June 10 & 17 and July 8 & 15. $150/wk. 706-310-0013 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 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.treehousekid andcraft.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 Yoga Sprouts Family Yoga (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) Easy yoga poses for children ages 2 & older with an adult. Sundays, 1–1:45 p.m. $60. yogasprouts@ gmail.com, www.athensfivepoints yoga.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

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, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m., in Clarke County. First and Third Mondays, 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;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. 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. FREE! 706-543-3331 (hotline), 706-613-3357, ext. 771 Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Sundays, 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m.

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

ON THE STREET AthFest Filmfest Call for Entries (CinĂŠ BarcafĂŠ) The AthFest Film Committee is accepting submissions to be screened as part of a local indie showcase during AthFest. Entries must be 20 minutes 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 Now registering through 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 Book Sale (ACC Library) The Friends of the Library Book Sale

ART AROUND TOWN A LA FERA (2440 W. Broad St.) Artwork by Cap Man. Through May. AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Outsider art by Travis Craig.

Through May. ANTIQUES & JEWELS ART GALLERY (290 N. Milledge Ave.) Paintings by Mary Porter, Christine Shockley, Dortha Jacobson, 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.) Prints by Annette Paskiewicz. Through June.

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.

BROAD STREET COFFEE (1660 W. Broad St.) Photography by Jeremy Ayers.

CINĂ&#x2030; BARCAFĂ&#x2030; (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Works by Julia Allen. Opening reception May 2. Through June 25.

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.) Works by Sally Ross. Through May. FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 14 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics and fine furniture. Permanent collection artists include Nick Joslyn, Peter Loose, PM Goulding and more. â&#x20AC;˘ In the lower gallery, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heads Up,â&#x20AC;? ceramic works by Cheri Wranosky. Opening reception May 4.

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FIVE STAR DAY CAFE (229 E. Broad St.) Black and white photographs by Theodore Lawrence. Through May. 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.) Colorful paintings by Hannah Jones. Through May. 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. Through June 9. 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;William H. Johnson: An American Modern.â&#x20AC;? Through

offers books, CDs and audiobooks at discounted prices. Visit website for full schedule. May 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4. 706-7955597, www.athenslibrary.org Cinco de Meow (Athens Area Humane Society) The AAHS hosts a fiesta with reduced adoption fees to help homeless cats find their forever homes. Apr. 29â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 5. 706-7052247, 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 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

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THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Employees of The Grit share their own works. Through May. 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.) Acrylic paintings by Ruth Allen. Through May. HIGHWIRE LOUNGE (269 N. Hull St.) Art by Tess Strickland. Through May 5.

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LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) BFA exit shows for painting/drawing, ceramics and jewelry. Through May 2.

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) Paintings by Brian Normal. Through May. 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 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 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.

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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.

SURGERY CENTER OF ATHENS (2142 W. Broad St.) Paintings by Nancy Carter. Through May. 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;Womanâ&#x20AC;? includes works by Katie Brick, Jill Brody, Kristin Casaletto, Abner Cope, Patrick McGannon, Richard Olsen, Betti Pettinati-Longinotti and Jean Westmacott. Opening reception May 2.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) Oil paintings by Dortha Jacobson. Through May. WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Paintings by Mary Porter. Through May.

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2BR apts. Tile, W/D furnished, air. Dwntn. & bus route. No deposit. Proper references, police background check & credit check. $525/mo. Call Louis, (706) 338-3126.

2BR/2BA. W/D, DW, all appls. incl. Spacious, clean. Great in-town find. Walk Dwntn. or campus, 1 block from Milledge. $700/mo. (706) 546-6900 or valerioproperties@gmail.com.

College Station. 2BR/2BA on bus line. All appls. + W/D, FP, extra closet space, water/ garbage incl. $550/mo. Owner/ Agent, (706) 340-2450.

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Eastside quadraplex, 2BR/2BA, $500/mo. & 2BR/1BA, $475/mo.

Eastside duplex, 2BR/1BA & FP, $525/mo. 3BR/2BA & FP, $700/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 353-2700 or cell, (706) 540-1529.

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Commercial Property Chase Park Paint Artist Studios. Historic Blvd. artist community. 160 Tracy St. Rent 300 sf., $150/mo. 400 sf., $200/ mo. (706) 546-1615 or www. athenstownproperties.com.

Eastside offices, 1060 Gaines School Rd. Rent 750 sf. $900/mo., 400 sf. $600/ mo. (706) 546-1615 or www. athenstownproperties.com.

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Brick duplex, 2BR/1BA, very clean. Just 2 mi. to campus on north side Athens. 2 units avail. Pets OK. Grad. students & professionals welcome. $500/ mo. + dep. (706) 351-3074.

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Avail. 8/1/13. Agent/ owner, 117 Crossbow Cir., Winterville. Call Robin (770) 265-6509 $575/mo. 2BR/2 private BA. 3 mins. to campus. Lg. LR w/ FP, kitchen w/ DW, W/D, deck, lots of storage. Water & garbage incl. in rent, Agent/ Owner, 145 Sandburg St. Avail 8/1/13. Call Robin (770) 2656509.

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

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3BR/2BA house. 493 Ruth St. $900/mo. HWflrs., large rooms, pets OK. W/D, DW, HVAC storage shed, deck & large front porch. Call Paul. (706) 714-9607.

3BR/2BA pet-friendly house in Normaltown. Incl. water, trash pickup & lawn care. Only $1000/ mo. Aaron @ Arch Properties, (706) 207-2957.

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Walk everywhere! W/D incl. fenced backyard. Pets OK. Short term lease at only $900/ mo. Aaron @ Arch Properties, (706) 207-2957 3BR/1BA 732 Pulaski St. $960/mo. W/D, DW, sec. sys., ceiling fans, CHAC. Incl. water. Avail. Aug. 1!

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4BR/4BA brand new house Dwntn. 3 stories, triple porches, off-street parking, HWFlrs., stainless, upgrades galore. W/D incl. Pets welcome. $1800/mo.

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114 Alpine Way. 4BR/2BA. $ 1 1 0 0 . 1 0 6 A l p i n e W a y.

3BR/2BA. $1000. Next to Alps Rd. School & Beechwood Shopping Center. (706) 2063350.

4BR/3BA Dwntn. off Oconee St. Newly renovated throughout.

2 LRs, huge yd., W/D incl., pets welcome. Avail. Aug. 1.

Only $1600/mo. Aaron @ Arch Properties, (706) 207-2957.

250 Laurel Drive. 3BR/1.5BA. CHAC, Hardwood floors.

Fenced yard. Pets OK. No pet fees! Nice, quiet area. Other homes avail. $835/mo. (706) 372-6813.

5BR/2BA Ski Lodge. Splitlevel, Cloverhurst Ave., between 5 Pts. & UGA. HWflrs., interior brick walls, fireplace. Must see.

Avail. Aug. $460/BR/mo. No pets, please. (706) 247-1963.

2 & 3BR houses pre-leasing for fall! Close to campus & Dwntn. All modern upgrades.

Call (706) 255-0066.

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Avail. fall. Neat 2BR house blocks from Dwntn. & UGA. Pet friendly w/ fenced yd. $700/mo. 163 Inglewood Ave. Owner/broker Herbert Bond Realty, (706) 224-8002. www. bondrealestate.org.

Brand new 3 & 4BR houses now pre-leasing for fall! Private BAs, walk-ins, lots of upgrades, walk to campus! (706) 713-0626, www.newagepropertiesathens. com.

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Boulevard 2BR/1BA, 135 Cohen St. HWflrs., high ceilings, porches, W/D, DW, some pets OK. Avail.

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Beautiful Boulevard nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;hood apt. in quiet home, 3 blocks from Dwntn. & walking distance to ever ything. HWflrs., lg. rooms, high ceilings, W/D, water & garbage incl., off street parking, a great front porch, no pets. Pease call (706) 2486770.

Cedar Creek: 4BR/2BA, partially fenced yd., $950/mo. 5 Pts.: Eastside: 5BR/2BA, large lot, $ 1 0 0 0 / m o . C a l l M c Wa t e r s Realty, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

Flagpole classifieds are online 24/7! classifieds.flagpole.com Great 4BR/4BA house. 1/2 mi. from campus. Front porch, back deck, nice yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. Special! $1350/ mo. Call (706) 338-9173 until 10 p.m.

Large 2BR/2BA, 2400 sf, furnished optional, gourmet kitchen, custom BAs, h/p flrs., wood burning stove, cnt vacc. Pets OK w/ dep. Avail.

3 mi from N campus. $1400/ mo. Call Richard, (706) 2151 5 6 1 . P i c t u re s a t w w w.

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Roommates Share 2BR townhome w/ male grad student near UGA & Dwntn. Excellent condition. $ 3 7 5 / m o . M o r e a t w w w. athensapt.com. (678) 887-4599.

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Instant cash is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition. Wuxtry Records, at corner of Clayton & College Dwntn. (706) 3699428.

Free intro to Tai Chi classes at the Banyan Tree Center. 5/7, 9:30 a.m. & 5/9, 5:30 p.m. 1 Huntington Rd., Suite 103, Athens. Call to reserve your spot. (770) 596-8170.

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Super cool sale. Vintage, vinyl, memorabilia, CDs, cameras, designer clothes and shoes.

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Music Equipment Music Go Round buys musical instruments & equipment every day! Guitars, cymbals, basses, banjos, microphones & more. (770) 9319190, www.musicgoroundlilburn. com. Huge, online inventory.

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Music Services Fret Shop. Professional guitar repairs & modifications, setups, electronics, precision fretwork.

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Wedding bands. Quality, professional bands. Weddings, parties. Rock, jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 9 - 1 5 6 7 . w w w. classiccityentertainment.com.

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Cleaning Spring cleaning! Deep cleaning or regular. Very pet & earth friendly. Local & independent. Check me out on twitter.com/homeathens & text or call Nick, (706) 851-9087.

Jobs Full-time C a l l c e n t e r representative. Join established Athens company calling CEOs & CFOs of major corporations generating sales leads for tech companies. $ 9 / h r. B O S S t a ff i n g , w w w. bostemps.com, (706) 3533030.

FT office position related to greenhouse production. Job consists of bookkeeping, re c o rd k e e p i n g & g e n e r a l office type work: filing, answering phones & production coordinating.

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House/server staff: Greyfield Inn, Cumberland Island.

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Now hiring. Companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home. No selling, any hours. $500/wk. potential. Info: 1 (985) 646-1700, dept.

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Seeking room attendants & housekeeping house aides to work 30 hr/wk. in Athens.

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Well established salon looking for mature, fun stylist. If you like photo shoots, community service & team environment, this may be the place for you.

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Opportunities Dependable person needed during the evening hrs. helping a young man confined to a wheelchair. In exchange for free apt. rent, utils. & other amenities. Call (706) 549-9456.

Part-time Fantasy World! Hiring private lingerie models. No exp. necessary. We train. Flexible scheduling. Call (706) 613-8986 or visit 1050 Baxter St., Athens.

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Matters Of The Heart And Loins Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m at a loss, and I hope you can help guide me, Jyl. About two years ago I ended a friendship with my closest friend, someone Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been friends with since I was four. We lived next door to each other growing up, and her father and my mother dated for years (and are still close friends). We grew up like sisters.

She has a diagnosed mental illness and a real sociopathic streak, which I learned to deal with over the years. I was her only close friend for a long time. A couple of years ago she really began to go off the railsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;she was arrested for theft, cheated on her husband (who is also a good friend Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known since childhood) and started acting erratic and drinking a lot. She lost her kids for a while.

I begged her to please get help, or at the very least see a therapist, and she turned on me. She threatened physical violence against my family and started calling and texting harassing messages to me. I had to change my phone number. The last time we spoke, I told her that I had to end the friendship because I feared for the safety of my family, and that I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t continue trying to help someone that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want my support. I encouraged her to seek help and told her that once she was better, a few years down the line, maybe we could try and talk.

I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen or spoken to her since. And honestly, things have been great. I never knew what a burden our friendship had been.

The only problem is, she has quite a presence around town. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known each other since we were four, and in this town, everyone knows everyone. We have so many mutual friends.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken the high road and havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really spoken to many people in my circle about what happened, but she has.

And I gather that her story is somewhat different, because slowly but surely most of our mutual friends have dwindled away from me.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s okay, too. I figure thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s their choice. I knew when I ended the friendship there might be consequences.

That being said, it seems like every time I make a new connection in this town and start to form new friendships, it always comes back to her. Eventually theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll meet her and become friends with her (sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very dynamic, charming person) and inevitably, after a time, they stop talking to me. This has happened three times over the past two years. I feel like a pariah. I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my own doing, because I chose to end the friendship, and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t force my former friend to just be quiet and stop talking about it. I know her well enough to know that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing it on purpose. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very manipulative, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great liar. I can only imagine what people are being told. I try not to care, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard.

I know I did the right thing for me, my family and for her. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m being punished for it, and have been for the past two years. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never tried to clear the air with anyone, or even brought her up amongst friends, because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to gossip or do anything vindictive.

The worst part is that my daughter is suffering for it. She doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get invited to her friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; birthday parties anymore, or on park trips, or out to do fun things. Our mutual friends shunned her when they shunned me, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lonely. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help matters that she goes to the same daycare as my former friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two girls.

Short of moving out of Athens, taking my daughter out of daycare and putting the kibosh on my social life altogether, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to do. I had to cut this friend out of my life for the well-being of myself and my family, but the consequences have really been awful, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really tired of being badmouthed all over town. Help me, Jyl! Are all of your other former friends unaware of her arrest, the temporary loss of her kids and the cheating on her husband? Or do you think she just lied, charmed and manipulated her way out of that? Do they just not care? Because I would think that at least after she went off the rails they would be smart enough not to listen to her bullshit anymore, much less cut you off because of anything she said. In any case, you have to make a decision. Do you reach out to some of these people and try to get some of your old life back? Are there any that you were particularly close to, people you can trust and can have a non-gossipy but very candid conversation with about the situation? Or do you walk away and hope/wait for her façade to crumble and for everyone to realize that she is toxic and you were a victim?

I realize that Athens can seem like a small town, especially if you grew up in it.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not exactly podunk. There are over 100,000 people, and not all of them are in the same social group. Most of them have never even heard of this former friend of yours. You arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t being badmouthed â&#x20AC;&#x153;all over town.â&#x20AC;? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being badmouthed to a relatively small group of people who used to be important in your life, by a mentally unstable person. You were smart enough to get free of her, and you are a happier person for it. Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there some way you can get your daughter into another daycare? And by doing so, wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you be moving yourself and your daughter into a different social situation?

It sounds like you could both use some new friends and a fresh start.

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