July 2010

VENICE IS SINKING’S

KAROLYN TROUPE ALSO INSIDE

SCREENPRINTING + ICE CREAM FRESH FOOD FROM FARM TO TABLE CLOCKED: A NIGHT OUT ON THE TOWN

JULY 2010

Executive Director SARAH MADEBACH Assistant Director KATIE HART Creative Media Director PR Director Assistant PR Director Social Media Director

KELLYN EVANS KATIE HART MORGAN INGRAM LAUREN CLELAND

Production Coordinator KAMILAH LEWIS Executive Assistant AUSTIN DEFOOR Public Relations and Events IVEY HAMBY ASHLEY TANKS Advertising and Sales MATT CHEIJ ASHLEY SWEENEY Style Interns RACHEL BABIN CHRISTOPHER BENTON GEOFFREY BROWN KATE DAVIS JEFFERSON HOPKINS HOLLY JONES MEGAN KLUTTZ TIA NICOLAE Editorial Interns KATE DAVIS MYREDITH GONZALEZ ANNA HARMS MEGAN KLUTTZ ALEXANDRA LAING JESSICA ROBERTS LILLY WORKNEH ALINA YUDKEVICH Design Interns CATE HUGHES NATHAN PAK ASHLEY UDELL Photography Interns RENEE AYLWORTH CHELSEA GOFF MELISSA HARWARD DAVID CHEROF Web Interns JESSICA ROBERTS ALINA YUDKEVICH Cinematographers CAEL OLSEN RYAN PANNELL Production Assistant MEREDITH JONES

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SUMMER SUITS ART: A SCIENCE FROM FARM TO TABLE HERBAL COCKTAILS SILKY SCREENING VENICE IS SINKING CLOCKED TEN THINGS

LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Welcome to BLVD’s first full-length digital issue. This issue celebrates the long

BLVD’s fashion-spread, Clocked, chronicles an all-

Sunday brunch spot. In this issue, we bring you content featuring local talents

The revelers stay out all night in local bars styled in

days and late nights of Athens summer. I encourage you to enjoy quiet streets, extra downtown parking and shortened waiting times at your favorite local in music, photography, food, fashion and design.

BLVD’s team was honored with the opportunity join Venice is Sinking within

the remains of the Georgia Theatre. Be sure to check out the footage captured

by BLVD’s video staff of the band’s impromptu performance of “Tugboat,” a haunting and beautiful track off their album Sand & Lines.

July’s artist spotlight is on local talent, Galen Burke. His fascination and respect

for nature fuels his craft. After having a five-minute conversation with Galen, you realize that art is not always intentional, yet no less beautiful.

Farming is no longer just for Eli Whitney or John Deere. A growing number

of young Athenians take interest in growing their own produce. BLVD takes a

cue from Jake Francis of Farm 255 and enlightens us on the best ways to take produce from the farm to the dinner table.

Men’s fashion is tricky during the summer months. In Summer Suits, BLVD

stylist Geoffrey Brown shows every tailored gentleman how to how to look sharp and keep cool in the blazing summer months.

nighter in Athens. Follow five young Athenians as they cause mischief on the quiet streets of downtown.

silky dresses, sharp blazers and punchy colored pencil skirts.

In Silky Screening, Shirtworks owners Jackie Moran

and Kathy Moran-Howe give us a behind the scenes look at their screen-printing company. If you get to

know the group behind the shop, you conclude that

this crew is the reason they stay busy after 12 years in business.

This summer, I have three pieces of advice for you.

Cool off with an herbal cocktail. Avoid the Ten Things that Shouldn’t Exist like the plague. And lastly, be sure

to check out the latest videos and content on BLVD’s new and improved website. I hope you enjoy our July issue.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BLVD

R E V O C E H T ON ICE IS SINKING N E V F O E P U O R T N LY

KARO

ON THE COVER Dress: Private Gallery Necklace and belt: Cillies ON THIS PAGE Top: Pitaya Skirt: Dynamite Watch and ring: Cillies CREDITS Photographer: RenĂŠe Aylworth Stylist: Geoffrey Brown and Rachel Babin Hair: Callie Huskins of Republic Salon Makeup: Megha Agrawal

SUMMER

SUITS

DON’T LET THE HEAT RUIN YOUR LOOK. U YOU’LL STAY LOOKING SHARP EVEN ON

BY GEOFFREY BROWN

ABOUT THIS LOOK Jacket: George Dean’s Shirt: Dynamite Glasses: Ray-Ban

USING THESE TIPS, THE HOTTEST DAYS.

CREDITS Model: Dustin Elliot Stylist: Geoffrey Brown

ABOUT THIS LOOK All items: Dynamite OPPOSITE PAGE Tie: Sean John Shirt: BCBG Max Azria from Cillies Jacket: Members Only from Dynamite

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Summer is officially here, and Athens is blazing hot. For most men, this is the season when fashion falls apart and style is traded for practicality and comfort. In the heat, guys usually opt for simple T-shirts, tanks or Polo shirts with shorts and sandals.

Purchasing the perfect summer outfit can be a

daunting task and a very expensive one at that, but don’t fear – it’s easy to find clothing that will not only keep you looking cool, but feeling cool as well.

Putting together the perfect look can be made

easy by simply utilizing staple wardrobe items. A

few things that every man should have in his closet

include a white dress shirt, a tie, loafers, slacks, vest,

blazer and a dark pair of jeans. These items can transform

any summer outfit from casual to dressy without breaking the bank. When it comes to purchasing designer labels, don’t

stress it. Creating a great look is more about wearing clothes

that compliment the body, while incorporating a couple highend pieces.

FAR LEFT Jacket: George Dean’s Shirt: Cillies Pants: Cilles Tie: Brooks Brothers MIDDLE Tie: Meeting Street Shirt: Cillies Pants and vest: Dynamite FAR RIGHT All items: Dynamite

When life calls for a suit, start with comfortable items and then add in what

flatters your body type. Contrary to common belief, wearing a suit does not necessarily mean dressing to the nines. Focus on the essential items that make

each suit unique. Whether it is a tie clip, a chain, sunglasses, or a hat, distinguish this formal look with special accessories that compliment you.

Relying on key accessories such as watches, ties and bow ties can make regular,

dull outfits stand out with unique style. When adding color to outfits, do it in

small doses; no one likes to see an Easter egg in the middle of the summer. Mix accessories of different colors and textures, like pocket squares, ties or even bags, to polish any look.

Recall this article as a guide or a jumping off point, but don’t forget to be

creative when creating that perfect summer look. n

ART: A SCIENCE

written by KATE DAVIS photos by RENﾃ右 AYLWORTH

“I attempt to do things I haven’t seen before,” explained Galen Burke, photographer, sculptor, inventor and

“communism done right” and the sense of community that is

tures, and instead contains useful sculptures and deals with

colors that would never be expected in a wasp’s eye.

self-described jack-of-all-trades. As a “science nerd,” Burke’s collection of work goes beyond the normal set of pretty picsubject matter rarely addressed by fine-art photographers.

Burke makes it very clear that even though he has had fine-

art training, he doesn’t want to become what the public associates with a fine-art photographer. “They end up with a dull attitude; popular photography seems repetitive,” Burke said.

Highlighting his unique science and art background, Burke

draws inspiration from animal locomotion pioneer Edward

Muybridge and Harold E. Edgerton, an engineer at MIT who captured fascinating scenes by implementing strobe lighting.

Both did not see their works as art, but that doesn’t make the pieces any less beautiful or complex. The sentiment that art doesn’t have to be useless is a passion for Burke, who feels that

craft and architecture are no less art than a painting hanging on the wall.

Along with functioning works, Burke creates pieces that

incorporate larger social commentary into his micro studies.

His series of projections focusing on wasps and other insects, though close-up shots, emphasizes what Burke describes as

working within a hive. One projection shown is of the ocellum,

the simple eye of the wasp, containing a beautiful collection of Burke is great at seeing potential in the oridinary that oth-

ers usually do not, including that of a Graflex Crown Graphic

from 1955 or 1956 that he found in the plant sciences building. For his Girls in Trees collection, Burke used the Graflex by shooting his digital camera through it to get unique framing

and lighting effects that would be impossible to replicate using a Photoshop application.

With Girls in Trees, Burke uses one of his favorite past-times,

climbing trees, to study what he describes as innocence: “It’s

not immaturity, but the childlike innocence of climbing a tree.

You can’t pose in a tree.” This return to childhood pleasures is

valued greatly by Burke, as seen in one of his frequent hobbies

– North Campus squirrel chases. “Those squirrels never see me coming, because no self-respecting 20-somethings chase squirrels, except for me.”

For Burke, every day is an experiment. From squirrel chases,

creating working art out of found objects, to getting up-close and personal with wasps, he strives to learn something new. n

While you may not get to enjoy dancing around a maypole at a harvest festival, there is still a way to enjoy farm fresh foods right here in the Classic City.

By Myredith Gonzales Photography by Melissa Harward

FROM FARM TO TABLE

A

s

more

people

become

true

locavores—those who attempt to eat only foods grown and harvested

locally—Athens continues its support by

providing accessibility to locally-grown,

organic ingredients. The Athens Farmers Markets, Locally-grown.com and Farm

255, feature an array of seasonal and sustainable fruits, vegetables and food products. This month, farms and gardens

are sure to yield vine-ripened tomatoes,

sweet corn, crisp cucumbers and much

sourced from Full Moon Cooperative,

course, you happen to be a farmer.

also shares the responsibility as a farmer.

more. Obtaining farm fresh produce for locals has never been easier—unless, of So what’s the best way to utilize your

fresh, locally-grown ingredients?

Jake Francis deals with this question

frequently as the sous chef for Farm 255, a restaurant dedicated to serving high

quality, locally-grown, hyper seasonal food. Most of their ingredients are

an organic, biodynamic animal and vegetable farm in Athens, where Francis

For Francis, gardening is in his

blood. Growing up with a big garden, he remembers weeding through the crops as a child. As an adult he revels in having

access to high quality vegetables and eating his own homegrown vegetables.

Each morning Francis is not out waiting for a

it is the selection of vegetables and the availability

farming and maintaining the vegetables, finding

have and be creative with what we don’t have,” said

delivery from the same truck that delivers to every

other restaurant in town. Instead, he can be found out what’s ripe for picking, and creating dishes and

specialty products that cannot be simply bought from

any restaurant supplier. “We don’t buy pate; we make pate,” said Francis. “We don’t order sausages; we grind and make them ourselves.”

Although their menu changes according to his

and head chef Matthew Palmerlee’s creative whims,

of food products that will ultimately dictate Farm

255’s menu. “We’re just trying to best utilize what we Francis.

Francis and Palmerlee’s resourcefulness and

culinary creativity have inspired them to create local,

seasonal favorites such as their house-made ricotta crostini with grilled asparagus and their very popular

charcuterie board featuring chicken sausage, housemade pastrami and chicken liver mousse.

After bringing home your own farm fresh, locally-

be fresh vegetables and [you] can just threaten them,”

water, and boil those vegetables until they are pale

right away, pickling is a great alternative to preserve

grown green beans, you might be thinking it is time

to pull out that giant stock pot, fill it to the brim with green and lifeless—wrong! One of the most common mistakes when it comes to cooking fresh, high quality produce is simply over-cooking.

To celebrate the freshness and quality of local,

seasonal produce, Francis suggests a simple technique when it comes to cooking vegetables— cook it hot and cook it fast. “A lot of the [harvest] will

Francis said. “Just kiss them on the fire a little bit.”

If you do not have time to cook or eat your produce

farm-fresh fruits and vegetables. By using a brine, a combination of water and salt, or a marinade

containing acid—vinegar is the most popular—you can enjoy your summer harvest all year-long.

This pickling recipe can be used for cucumbers,

peppers, beets, asparagus, beans and other produce available this summer. n

Mama G’s Pickles 2-3 cucumbers, sliced into coins ½ bell pepper, cut into strips 1 small onion, quartered 1 1/2 cup sugar 2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. celery seeds 1 cup vinegar

Combine cucumbers, bell pepper and small onion in medium-sized bowl. Season the vegetables with salt and set aside for 10-15 min-

utes. Squeeze and strain the liquid released from the vegetables and discard the liquid. Mix the vinegar and sugar in a small bowl.

Pour the mixture over the vegetables and season with celery seeds.

Store in a glass jar and chill in the refrigerator over night.

And, remember – don’t kill it, just kiss it!

HERBAL COCKTAILS It is hot outside. Besides sitting in a kiddie pool full of ice, cocktails are a

wonderful way to try to cool down and forget the heat. The nice thing about summer is fresh herbs are plentiful, whether it is from your friend’s garden or from the local farmer’s market. A little herb makes everything better . . . that is in your cocktail. Basil, mint and rosemary are common in gardens and are easy to use in refreshing alcoholic drinks. n

Written by Katie Hart Photography by Chelsea Goff

Rosemary Infused Salty Dog

This cocktail combines fresh ingredients and infused vodka.

Infusing vodka is an easy and simple process. All you really need is patience and self-control to not drink it before it is ready.

Once infused, pair the vodka with grapefruit juice for unique take on the Salty Dog cocktail.

Ingredients: 1 shot of rosemary infused vodka 1 sprig rosemary 1 cup fresh squeezed grapefruit juice or store bought juice

Preparation: •Combine grapefruit juice, vodka and ice.

•Mix and garnish with a rosemary sprig.

Cucumber, Mint Gin and Tonic

Cucumbers. You can use them on salads, on puffy eyes and in yummy beverages. Mix cucumbers with mint and gin, and you have drink that will have you refreshed and cool.

Ingredients: 2 slices of cucumber 5 mint leaves 1 shot Hendricks Gin ½ cup tonic water

Preparation: •Muddle mint and cucumber in a glass.

•Add gin and tonic. Stir. Garnish with a cucumber and mint sprig.

Basil Mojito

Mojitos are usually made with mint. While the classic is delicious, substituting basil for mint is a delightful twist.

Ingredients: 1 shot of Bacardi Limon 6 basil leaves ½ lime, juiced 1 tsp. sugar ½ cup soda water

Preparation: •Place basil leaves and a splash of rum in a glass.

•Muddle the basil with a wooden spoon to release aroma and taste.

•Add rum, lime juice and soda water.

•Stir and garnish with a lime.

SILKY SCREENING

Written by KATE DAVIS Photography by RENÉE AYLWORTH “We do have some rules here,” says Jackie Moran as she walks over to a well-stocked ice cream cooler, where customers are required to grab a sugary treat.

Ice cream in hand, I follow Moran around Shirtworks to learn about screen-printing, a process that decorates the vast majority of students’ wardrobes with various symbols of university pride, thoughtful placements of 5K sponsor logos, and memory jogging lists of stops on last week’s bar crawl.

It is immediately evident that the shop has a hangout feeling, somewhere between work and play. The atmosphere isn’t that of a sweatshop, even though the temperature lends itself to abundant perspiration. The guys handling the printing are given freedom over their area, decorating it with various torn out magazine and catalog images, many which are embellished with thoughtful narratives.

“The people that work here - every time I think we’re losing somebody I get so sad,” said Moran.

“You’ll never have the same crew again. It’s such an interesting breed of people. These guys are all thick as thieves. These guys all work together, eat together, sleep together, breathe together.”

Beyond the daily visual representations of this tight-knit group’s work on tees around campus, most know nothing about the printing process walking into Shirtworks. Customers seeking shirts first need to head to the in-house graphic designer Cathie Cabe with a design idea.

“A lot of times I get stick figure drawings,” said Cabe. “Sometimes they want me to make it an actual

good drawing; sometimes they want the stick figures. It’s best when they tell you which one.”

After Cabe turns the customer’s idea into a printable piece of artwork, Moran takes the image to the darkroom, the area that houses screens covered in light sensitive emulsion. When the screens are exposed to light they create a negative image that is used to transfer the artwork onto the shirt. After the screen is prepared it is taken to the downstairs workspace and put to use printing up an order.

The printer lines a shirt up on the press and the screen is lowered over top of the shirt after the ink is evenly spread across the screen. The ink is then pushed across the screen with a squeegee, seeping through the tiny holes that make up the negative image and transferring the positive image onto the shirt. To create a multi-colored print, multiple screens are used to layer each color of the design.

When it’s my turn to wield a squeegee, I, like most beginners, never find the right amount of pressure with which to transfer the ink onto the shirt. It takes two or three times to produce my sub-par print.

My sad excuse for a shirt is sent through a dryer that heats up to 320 degrees, bonding the ink and making it possible to wash the shirt without the print budging.

Next we move on to a job most can handle: folding and sorting by size and gender. The day of my visit, Shirtworks was sending out shirts for the Shears for Our Shores benefit. The next batch may be for the Special Olympics, or for a family reunion. Moran explains that Shirtworks has a diverse client base, including other screen-printing companies who act as middlemen, outsourcing the sweating to the Shirtworks team and selling the completed shirts.

Over the past couple of years, while the retail industry has been gasping for breath, Shirtwork’s obvious sense of teamwork has left the company comfortably and increasingly busy.

“We’ve lost two fellow screen printers since the beginning of the year, one was illness and one just didn’t make it,” said Moran.

“We’ve been so lucky. We keep it small and there’s something to be said about that.”

Owned and operated by Moran and her twin sister Kathy Moran-Howe for the past 12 years, Shirtworks prides itself on being family run and completely local.

“My twin’s husband owned it, and we had our own restaurant and bar that closed down right after the Olympics, “Moran said. “I came to help out with the paperwork. I never loved anything as much as I loved this.”

When asked why Shirtworks has survived for so long, where others have quickly failed, Moran simply replies, “Maybe it’s loyalty, maybe they know we guarantee our work, maybe it’s the ice cream." n

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VENICE IS SIN

NKING

Article by Megan Kluttz Photography by Renée Aylworth

Thick, sticky air saturates the roofless brick box of the Georgia Theater. The evening sun casts soft light onto the cement floor, heating the stagnate air and inviting Georgia’s infamous mosquitoes in to feast. The sextet of Venice is Sinking hastily hauls instruments, amps, a water cooler, and a 1950s box-style fan into the remains of Athens’ oldest and most beloved music venue.

Viola vixen Karolyn Troupe and guitar maven

Daniel Lawson take the reigns on vocals, while bassist Jeremy Sellers and keyboard masher James

Sewell croon in the background. Aaron Esposito adds his supreme trumpeting skills to the mix and Lucas Jensen keeps the music in check with his drumming.

The original five members will celebrate their

seventh year together this August. Esposito is the

most recent addition to the band, coming on last November to play with the band at the 40 Watt.

“Almost a decade, that’s weird,” Jensen remarked.

“I was 28 when the band started, the difference isn’t as big now, but when you are 28 versus 21—they

had just finished college—that was like, woah, you’re

playing with college kids. We keep bringing in the young guys.”

The eclectic sound of Venice is Sinking comes

from the diversity of age and interests of the band

members. By day, Troupe is a biochemist. Sellers and Lawson play with plants at landscaping and

landscape architecture companies. The other three

members of the band are increasing their knowledge at the University of Georgia. Esposito and Sewell are

immersed in music—Aaron is getting his masters degree in trumpet performance and James is earning his in music composition. Jensen rounds out the

band’s variety of skills with his pursuit of a PhD in learning, design, and technology.

Through mutual friends and a common love for

making music, the band formed and started cranking

out songs. Their initial sound was dark, influenced by their love for The Cure.

“We were a sheer rip-off band,” Lawson commented.

“We had a song that was basically ‘Lovesong,’” Troupe added. “We had a lot more of a gothy sound. Then we realized we were really southern.”

The band became more exposed to British,

country and experimental music. This combined with extensive traveling evolved the sound of Venice Is Sinking without changing the dark attitude.

Sorry About the Flowers is Venice is Sinking’s

debut album, released in 2006. Its tracks express

medium tempo pacing with orchestral elements as Troupe and Lawson mesh the instrumentals with

their luminous, ethereal voices. The essence of this

chamber pop album was taken and expanded upon in 2009, when the crew recorded and released AZAR.

AZAR is laden with an experimental pop ambience

that is infused with heavier orchestral elements. This

album thematically focuses on location’s ability to influence one’s mind, and in the band’s case, one’s

sound. The aforementioned increase of traveling in spired the eerie, dreamy nature of AZAR, which in effect takes its listeners’ ears and minds on a journey

of the South by way of orchestral flourish and densely layered arrangements.

As twilight approaches, the equipment is finally arranged in the center of the Georgia Theater. With a handful of friends, including the men of Packway Handle Band, Venice is Sinking begins to play ‘Bardstown Road’ off their latest album Sand & Lines. Sewell sedately plays a few chords on the organ before Jensen

adds a calm beat with his drum and tambourine. Then

Lawson begins singing in his smooth, low voice while Troupe bounce-sways from side to side and Esposito looks on smiling.

Sand & Lines takes a generous step back from the

heavily produced sound of AZAR. Recorded at the previously in tact Georgia Theater with only two

microphones and no post production, the songs carry a twangy pop vibe mixed with a magically raw, haunting sound. The ten songs emphasize simple

instrumentals, powerful vocals and easygoing arrangements.

The group was approached by Wilmot ‘Wil’ Greene,

owner of the Georgia Theater, to record an album on

the empty stage sans interference from a crowd or computer. They rehearsed every Sunday over two months and recorded the album in four days.

“It’s an interesting record because it’s not live but

it can’t be defined on a lot of those terms,” Jensen described. “It’s only on two microphones so it has

an unusual sound. When people hear it, it’s hard to tell if this is in a studio or if this is live. They hear the studio chatter to remind them of that. It’s unusual in a unique way.”

The album’s digital release came out on June 15.

Vinyl records are on the way, but no CDs will be made and distributed. “We’re really trying to stay away from CDs,” Jensen said. “That population is dwindling.”

“There’s another reason for that, because of

Wil’s request,” added Troupe. “It sounds better on vinyl. Everything was recorded analog, so it sounds

amazing when played on vinyl. It’s really dynamic, crescendos and decrescendos. It has a soft and loud dynamicity.

The debut of Sand & Lines coincides with the one-

year anniversary of the Georgia Theater’s demise,

June 19. Greene’s generosity to Venice is Sinking will

come full circle, as sales of this album will go back to the Theater and help the rebuilding process.

High notes of the organ and electric guitar echo among the steel beams, remnants of ‘Tugboat’, one of the covers on Sand & Lines. Dripping with sweat, Lawson begins to pack up his guitar. Troupe and the others follow suit, eager to load up and find air conditioning.

What is the next step for these high-octane musi-

“I prefer the torturous studio time,” Sewell said,

cians? After their sixth year performing at Athfest,

“and I like playing with people and not playing in a

another album, that is something the members will

think it’d be fun to find a cool-sounding room.”

the band will hit the road for a series of shows in

the Southeast, including a CD release party. As far as

put on the back burner. Contemplation and debate among the band make it seem that their future album

will combine the sounds and lessons learned from AZAR and Sand & Lines.

room by myself.”

“I like the studios as well,” Troupe chimed, “but I “I think we learned it pays off to really figure out

what you’re doing live before trying to go off into a

studio,” Lawson concluded. “Give yourself a deadline and stick to it.” n

In a midsummer night’s dream, pretty young things go out for revelry and fun.

Late nights are set off with form fitting pencil skirts, silky little numbers and sharply dressed men.

ON KATIE Slip: Free People Intimates from Flirt Boutique LOCATION The Tiffany’s Room (Ste. 606) The Residences at 755

Getting ready for the night ahead. Keeping your legs silky

6:02PM smooth is a good start.

7:12PM

What’s a girl to do? Dress up or dress down for this evening’s activities? Decisions, decisions.

ON KATIE Slip: Free People Intimates from Flirt Boutique Skirt (held by model): LK Clothing Clutch: Private Gallery LOCATION The Tiffany’s Room (Ste. 606) The Residences at 755

ON KATIE Jacket: Whitney Eve by Whitney Port, courtesy of Allison Brod PR Dress: McColly’s Belt: Flirt Bangles: Private Gallery Necklace: Cillies ON KYLE White Oxford shorts: Cillies Blazer: George Dean’s Glasses: Adam’s Optics Shoes and belt: Model’s own LOCATION The Tiffany’s Room (Ste. 606) The Residences at 755

Time to head out. We’re running a little late, but that’s OK. They can wait.

8:37PM

9:05PM Meeting with friends. Dinner and drinks in the wine cellar at Flight.

ON KATIE Bag: Dior ON KATHLEEN Top: Joie from Heery’s Earrings and bangles: Private Gallery Clutch: Dynamite Watch: La Mer from Flirt ON WHITNEY Feather top: BB Dakota from Private Gallery Earrings, necklace and bangles: Private Gallery LOCATION Flight Tapas and Bar

11:57PM Inhibitions wane as the night rolls on. Things get a little heated at the Shokitini karaoke bar.

ON KATIE Jacket: Whitney Eve by Whitney Port, courtesy of Allison Brod PR Necklace: Cillies LOCATION Flight Tapas and Bar

ON KATHLEEN White Oxford shirt: Cillies Dress: McColly’s Belt: Flirt Watch: La Mer from Flirt Jewelry: Private Gallery ON JOVAS Blazer: George Dean’s Pocket square: Dynamite Hat: Minx

ON KATHLEEN Dress: McColly’s Belt and watch: Flirt White Oxford: Cillies Bangles and earrings: Private Gallery

Outfit swap! What’s yours is mine, what’s mine is yours.

1:17AM

ON KATIE Feather top: BB Dakota from Private Gallery Blue skirt: Pitaya Necklace: Pitaya Bangles: Private Gallery ON JOVAS Blazer: George Dean’s Pocket square: Dynamite ON KATHLEEN Dress: McColly’s Belt and watch: Flirt ON KYLE Blazer: George Dean’s Glasses: Adam’s Optics ON WHITNEY Jacket: Whitney Eve by Whitney Port, courtesy of Allison Brod PR Clutch and bracelets: Private Gallery LOCATION Flight Tapas and Bar

Closing time. Last call for alcohol. Quick, finish your martini, whiskey or beer, so you can fit in one more.

2:02AM

ON KYLE Blazer: George Dean’s Glasses: Adam’s Optics

ON KATIE Top: BB Dakota from Private Gallery Bag: Dior from Agora Scarf: Dynamite

ON WHITNEY Jacket: Whitney Eve by Whitney Port, courtesy of Allison Brod PR Skirt: Tracy Reese Clutch: Private Gallery

ON KATHLEEN White Oxford shirt: Cillies Dress: McColly’s Jewelry: Private Gallery

ON JOVAS Blazer: George Dean’s Pocket square: Cillies

Kids, if you drive after you booze, you most certainly lose.

Ms. Designated Driver tries her best to keep her friends in line.

3:17AM

Nothing better than an impromptu late night pool party.

4:27AM

5:43AM Sleep creeps up unexpectedly

as another long summer night comes to a close. Boundaries were crossed, risks were taken, and a good time was had by all. n CREDITS Beauty Megha Agrawal Hair Sarah Brasher and Callie Huskins of Republic Salon Production Ivey Hamby Tia Nicolae Kamilah Lewis Style Megan Kluttz Geoffrey Brown Holly Jones Kate Davis Photography Renee Aylworth Chelsea Goff David Cherof Melissa Harwood

ON WHITNEY Jacket: Whitney Eve by Whitney Port, courtesy of Allison Brod PR

Models Katie Thornhill Whitney Knight Kathleen Brewton Kyle Peters Jovas Booker

TEN THINGS THAT

SHOULDN’T 1

BAD BEER

2

ILL-FITTING UNDERGARMENTS

Beer’s been around for like, bajillions of years. Just imagine

The concept of underwear is a good one: supportive clothing

of workers. What beer were they drinking, you ask? Oh,

unsuspecting individuals whose concerns are solely invested

the pharaohs of Egypt sitting back and enjoying a brewsky while watching their temples being built by thousands

you know, Natty Light. What’s this you say? The pharaohs

wouldn’t enjoy drinking beer that tastes like it’s been swished around the mouth of a stranger before being spit back into

the bottle? Well then why the eff is it the national beverage of all of the upstanding gentlemen in Sigma Epsilon Whatever?

Buying bad beer to enjoy its taste is like renting “Bring It On” to explore its universal themes of love and sportsmanship.

that goes underneath your outerwear to protect your most intimate areas. The concept gets less good, however, when

in proper support and hygiene find themselves with elastic strings invading what were previously thought to be un-

invadeable areas. For females, what were once bouncy melons are now sad, slowly deflating water balloons. Moments of seclusion are welcome opportunities to end excruciating

discomfort in places that (for most) have never seen sunlight.

Men are forced to tackle extreme self-exploration and are

contemplating the possibility of never having children. While these experiences are both eye and leg opening, it’s best that they be avoided at all costs.

EXIST

BY JESSICA ROBERTS

3

THE HUMAN BOT FLY

4

KIDZ BOP

Since Hollywood has apparently lost the skill to effectively

Children are tomorrow’s leaders who today are forcing their

mares.” The bot fly’s a fun little guy, whose hobbies include

joy are already ruining restaurant dining and plane rides for

scare anyone these days, nature has stepped in and given us

the bot fly, or as I would like to call it, “The Creature of Night-

flying, flying, flying and laying its eggs inside the human body.

Having problems sleeping too much? Read up on this sweetnatured insect (don’t forget to look at pictures!) and enjoy

never sleeping again, much less going on another camping trip in the jungles of Costa Rica.

parents to spend money for groceries on Jonas Brothers

backpacks and stuffed animals. Because these little bundles of the rest of America, Razor & Tie Entertainment has created Kidz Bop, so children can now destroy music, too. Nothing

says “family friendly” like listening like a group of tone-deaf

11-year-olds singing about their humps. Don’t worry though, if you’re into that kind of thing there are a whopping sev-

enteen Kidz Bop albums to choose from. I know what Dad’s getting for his birthday…

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UNDERAGE “IT” GIRLS

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HEIDI MONTAG AND SPENCER PRATT

For whatever reason, the media has decided to support the

I think I’m beginning to understand the appeal of Speidi. I’m

about famous jailbait. Stories about Miley Cyrus dating un-

posing for pictures, setting up shots with cameramen and

habits of pedophiles nationwide by inundating our airwaves, magazines and PTA meetings with unending information

derwear models and leaked naked pictures of Disney stars

abound, and it seems there is no escaping them. As their 18th birthdays draw near and the creepy men in your local Chuck

E. Cheese become giddy with excitement, I can’t help but hope that legality will diminish the underage appeal of these girls, even though that Justin Bieber chick is pretty hot.

guessing it’s something like watching a horrible, fatal car

accident, but instead of screaming for help the victims are

tweeting about their injuries. Meanwhile, these misguided, maimed souls refuse help from government organizations

and their families, and feel that the road to recovery lies in

acting batsh•t crazy and getting craploads of plastic surgery.

The victims also have a combined IQ of approximately 73 and rate the importance of their life decisions on how much press they’ll get. Actually, that sounds pretty entertaining, maybe even enlightening… Do we have cable? Hold on a sec, the remote’s gotta be around here somewhere…

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ED HARDY AND UGGS

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SEE-THROUGH BATHING SUITS

These items seem to be used almost exclusively by the follow-

Because I wasn’t worried enough about how I look in a

ionable people feel like they’re wearing couture masterpieces,

won’t realize this until the first time you wear said swimsuit

ing groups: guidos and hung-over sorority girls. While I com-

mend these brands in their attempts to make entirely un-fashthey have failed. I say this because both of these products are horrendously ugly; that is, unless you like looking deformed below the knees or like you just jumped out of the VH1 uni-

verse to invade our homes and lives. If Jersey Shore has taught us anything it’s that the best accessories for Ed Hardy are a turd-brown tan, trashy tattoos and a Bumpit.

bathing suit, some designers have felt the need to produce

swimwear that leaves little to the imagination. Of course, you

at your 7-year-old cousin Sally’s birthday party. You try not to remember that fateful day when Sally suddenly started cry-

ing as you got out of the pool and Grandpa decided that “that hussy” was no longer in the will. What began with the inten-

tions of looking cute and wearing white to look tan eventually resulted in robbing children of their innocence and losing the respect of your elders. Good times.

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MULLETS

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BIRD POO

While their comedic value cannot be denied, mullets probably

Because it apparently only exists in the hour after you’ve

mention it automatically makes you liable to own/live in a

totally didn’t deserve that. Because teens all over America are

shouldn’t exist. Business in the front, party in the back – while practical – is unflattering on pretty much everyone, not to

trailer in the eyes of the rest of society. Even if you do live in

a trailer, having a mullet surely won’t improve your living situation, and you’ll still look like a douche.

gotten your car washed. Because nothing else makes a bench downtown look less inviting. Because that nice bald guy

finding increasingly creative ways to use it to their advantage, at the expense of others. Because you literally just walked

out of the hair salon when pigeon-lady decided it was feeding time. Because you were totally psyched about eating that hot dog. Because poo sucks. n

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