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FEBRUARY 11, 2009 · VOL. 23 · NO. 6 · FREE

Saxby Go Home Senator Chambliss Speaks to Chamber of Commerce—Why? p.3

Otis in Athens UGA Music Biz Program Hosts a Tribute to the Big O p.20

More College Square p.8 · Gay Marriage Matters p.9 · Cabaret p.11 · Arthur Russell p.17 · Dr. Dog p.19

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pub notes Saxby Go Home! Put aside the fact that Senator Saxby Chambliss, who sat out the Vietnam War on draft deferments for bad knees, in his first election to the Senate used the Republican lie machine to insinuate a connection between terrorists and his opponent, triple-amputee Vietnam veteran Max Cleland, who has no knees. Put aside the fact that Chambliss was one of the chief enablers of President George W. Bush’s disastrous policies, including the war in Iraq and the shambles of our economy. Put aside the fact that Chambliss has repeatedly voted against benefits for the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Put aside the fact that Chambliss has repeatedly voted against health insurance for Georgia children. Put aside the fact that Chambliss pushed privatizing Social Security, which would have allowed our previously guaranteed government retirement funds to be lost in the stock market. Put aside the fact that Chambliss voted against funding Amtrak, the only passenger rail system we have left. Put aside the fact that Chambliss is a servant of the big corporations who finance his campaigns and Senator Saxby Chambliss that he answers their every call, such as supporting drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Put aside the fact that Chambliss personifies the Georgia Republican Party’s disdain for government programs that help Georgia’s people—education, health and hospital care, police protection, transportation. Putting all that and more aside, the fact remains that Saxby Chambliss’ appearance in Athens to address the annual meeting of the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce is a slap in the face to Athens voters who just three months ago twice voted overwhelmingly for his opponent. Saxby Chambliss’ appearance here at this time is also a slap in the face to all those Athenians who voted overwhelmingly for President Barack Obama. Saxby Chambliss’ role in the Senate at this time is to obstruct, delay and attempt to defeat the initiatives that we elected President Obama The Chamber means to carry out on our well, and a U.S. Senator behalf. It is disgraceis always a crowd-draw, ful to celebrate Saxby Chambliss at this time in but this is the wrong Athens. In this time of ecosenator at the wrong nomic turmoil brought time in the wrong place. about in large part by the kind of look-theother-way hands-off-the-big-guys government policies sponsored by the Bush administration and heartily supported by Saxby Chambliss, what is Saxby going to tell us at the Chamber meeting? As the celebrated saviour of the filibuster-proof Senate, the ally of those prepared to thwart President Obama’s economic recovery programs, what is Saxby going to tell us that will help us through this economic mess he helped create and was elected to perpetuate? What credentials does he have that qualify him to give us any words of wisdom to guide us out of this quagmire he led us into? How can our business community sit there with straight faces and pretend that Saxby Chambliss has anything to say that will help us through this depression he enabled? The Chamber means well, and a U.S. Senator is always a crowd-draw, but this is the wrong senator at the wrong time in the wrong place. To speak to the concerns of business in Athens we could have had a business leader, an economist or even Joe the Plumber: but instead we’ve got a political hack who will only tell us what Rush Limbaugh wants us to hear. What I want Saxby Chambliss to hear is that in my considered opinion, he is not welcome at this time in Athens. Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

THIS WEEK’S ISSUE: News & Features City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Athens News and Views

Campus items from wages and jobs to PB & J. Plus: WBKZ’s fire, City Hall news and more.

Athens Rising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 What’s Up in New Development

Taking a closer look at the idea of a pedestrian mall for downtown Athens.

Arts & Events Theatre Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Glüklich zu Sehen

The Town and Gown Players bring the saucy musical Cabaret to the stage.

Film Notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

COVER DESIGN by Kelly Ruberto featuring a photograph by Ian McFarlane on display at Big City Bread Cafe

News of Athens’ Cinema Scene

Ciné screens the classic romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany’s for the Valentine’s Day crowd.

Music Meticulously Ramshackle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Dr. Dog Loosens Up by Tightening Up Its Sound “The idea isn’t to sound old; it’s to sound timeless.”

Know the Big O? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Find Out at the UGA Music Business Program’s Tribute to Otis Redding The Macon-born legend had his share of ties to Athens.

CITY DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CITY PAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CAPITOL IMPACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ECO HUSTLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ATHENS RISING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 COMMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 THE READER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 THEATRE NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 MOVIE DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 MOVIE PICK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 FILM NOTEBOOK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

THREATS & PROMISES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 RECORD REVIEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 ARTHUR RUSSELL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 REDUX NATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 DR. DOG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 OTIS REDDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 THE CALENDAR!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 BULLETIN BOARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 ART AROUND TOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 COMICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 REALITY CHECK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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city dope Athens News and Views Heads Up: If you see a ruckus on the UGA campus this Thursday afternoon, don’t be afraid—it’s just the good folks who are still pushing for the university to increase the wages of the custodians, foodservice workers and others at the low end of the campus pay scale. The word is that a living wage rally beginning outside the Tate Center around 3 p.m. that day will lead into a march over to President Adams’ office. As for Adams, he hasn’t forgotten those low-wage workers in his remarks to reporters over the last few months about the dire fiscal straits which the university faces. He realizes, he’s said, that holding off on pay increases (while fortunately avoiding layoffs, at least) hurts these workers the most. But any way you slice it, the low pay is a problem—one that now has a backdrop of stiffer competition from UGA students for foodservice jobs—and without question it deserves campus activists’ attention.

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School News: Although City Dope is firmly in the “What took so long?” camp on this one, the Clarke County Board of Education deserves a pat on the back for finally voting to revise the school district’s sex ed policy to include, you know, strategies other than abstinence in what’s taught in the schools. It’s easily said by a non-parent, true enough, but this is a welcome change, and the times require it.

Let ’Em Eat Sandwiches: Of course, if Adams is in a mildly generous frame of mind on Thursday, he might at least have some more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on Condolences: It’s not a good time to be in hand with which the protesters might fortify the business of media anywhere these days, themselves. He had a whole party platter full and locally we’ve had some stark reminders of of ’em to share with that fact. First were the reporters at last week’s layoffs at the Athens press conference—all Banner-Herald, and last for the purpose of statweek brought the fire ing that the peanut that partially burned the butter problems so much building housing WBKZ in the news lately can 880 AM radio. Home to be chalked up to one Rick Dunn’s “Community dirty, poorly-run plant, Forum” among other and not to the whole of shows, the station is an the huge Georgia peaimportant voice for the nut industry which UGA local African American research so steadfastly community, and here’s supports. Outside of hoping it gets back on that, there was little its feet quickly. news from Adams that day; he said he expects Groundhog Day: Nearly to know little more half of the ACC Mayor money-wise from the and Commission’s state Capitol before February voting meeting By a stroke of luck, city crews have found lots April at the earliest. was taken up with arguMeanwhile, one wonders more old brick sidewalk along Hancock Avenue ments over the proposed than they expected was still there. As time alif UGA hopes for an adaptive re-use of the lows, they’re unearthing the historic walkways. even greater monetary historic former Athens contribution from its First Bank building Athletic Association than the $6 million that downtown for new Public Utilities Department has been put on the table for the next three office space and a customer service center. years. If the times get tough enough, maybe And? City Dope is taking bets on whether athletics will come through again. Go Dogs! the March meeting’s discussion of the same topic—placed on a 30-day hold last week— Out ’n About: Thanks to Flagpole columnist will be longer or shorter than this month’s. Kevan Williams for noticing the old-school Truth be told, City Dope doesn’t feel strongly brickwork sidewalks being unearthed along either way about the argument over allowHancock Avenue just west of downtown. ing other city departments to use the buildThanks, too, to the ACC Transportation and ing, too, but it was interesting to note that Public Works Department, whose staffers both newbie commissioners, Mike Hamby put shovels in the ground there a couple of and Ed Robinson, went with Kelly Girtz and months ago to deal with a parking issue, and the majority vote to table the matter at risk were “pleasantly surprised to see how much of of annoying city staffers. In fact, the vote the old brick sidewalk was still intact,” accord- broke down sort of cleanly along “years on the ing to department Director David Clark. “It Commission” lines, with Commissioners Kathy just kept going and going and going,” he says. Hoard and George Maxwell in the minority There’s no big restoration project planned, along with David Lynn and with Harry Sims, and the money’s not there to bring the bumpy, who uttered memorably, “We’ve beaten this wavy brick sidewalk up to modern-day stanhorse to death, I think, tonight.” Too bad for dards, but the idea is to take advantage of Harry that that dead horse is trotting back an opportunity and “within reason, make it into the Council Chamber next month. as functional as possible,” Clark reports. “We always knew that at one time there was brick Ben Emanuel sidewalk there, but it was always everybody’s assumption that it was gone.” Send your city dope to ben@flagpole.com. Kevan Williams

Looking Forward: Speaking of local boys, former state Senator Brian Kemp had a nice chat with the UGA College Republicans last week, and told City Dope he’s forming the team now for his recently-announced campaign for Georgia Secretary of State in the 2010 election cycle. Amazed at how early the jockeying for ’10 has gotten started, Kemp said it’s “going to be a critical election for the Republican party in Georgia,” adding, “We can’t take anything for granted.” One other tidbit of Brian’s talk bears repeating: “We’ve got to run races that people respect,” he told the kids.

city pages Feral Cat Forum Foretells Commish Difficulties None of Athens-Clarke County’s elected Bettinger said that there are “dozens of case officials were present at a Feb. 5 forum on studies“ in which ”there were many animals feral and free-ranging cats presented by the and now there is a managed… population of Oconee Rivers Audubon Society, but had any far fewer animals.” A population goal of zero, attended they would have seen first-hand the she said, is not realistic in a place like Athens. level of emotion at play among interested parBettinger likened the legalization of TNR to ties. That’s not to say that elected officials putting “another tool in the toolbox” in dealhaven’t heard directly from advocates for and ing with local feral cats. She and fellow TNR against the strategy known as TNR (Trapproponent Dr. Will Mangham, a veterinarian, Neuter-Release). But if the present debate said that not allowing wider TNR application going on in the community does in fact evolve is essentially inaction on the issue. That’s into a policy discussion of some sort at City probably true in the absence of widespread Hall, the ACC Mayor and Commission would do “trap-and-kill” activity, which—though it well to note beforehand the live wires running would be in accordance with local ordinances, beneath the issue. if not the enforcement protocol behind local The discussion at the meeting, moderated ordinances—might not recruit volunteers with by local Audubon president Vanessa Lane, nearly the same success as TNR programs do, was by and large respectful, though, and was to say the least. marked by an openness and honesty that bade Though that line of reasoning might be well for the ongoing debate. One attendee, for presumed to carry weight with elected officials instance, described the TNR work he’s been on the basis of its pragmatism, TNR opponents conducting on private property, which is presseem to disapprove of the approach in part ently illegal in Athens because local ordinance because of the worry that a successful, widedefines anyone feeding outdoor cats as effecspread local program could mean that abantively their owner. (Daily feeding is a standard doners of pets—who are common here—might part of what’s considered by TNR practitioners do so with less compunction, assuming that to be part of responsible their pets will be cared management of a feral “The ordinance treats dogs for to a degree. They also cat colony.) This stood in disapprove, of course, contrast to the TNR being and cats the same, and because TNR application practiced by the group means that living, reguit’s a matter of resources.” larly-fed cats still roam at Campus Cats on UGA land not subject to county large—even if in lesser ordinances, and discussed by panelist Kelly numbers—where they can kill wildlife. Bettinger. Panelists and attendees on all sides agreed But another panelist at the forum, Steve that the sources of the problem—the “dumpHolzman, told the story of encountering a liting” of unwanted pets, and a general lack of ter of feral kittens with their mother in a strip knowledge about responsible pet ownership— mall. He brought up the story to describe his would be the ideal targets of community concern about rabies or other diseases and the resources. Bettinger, for example, suggested safety of his young daughter, who was with programs to encourage landlords to promote him at the time; but when pressed about what spaying and neutering by their tenants who he planned to do about the cats, Holzman adopt pets here. But working more strenuously paused, then said that the property owner had to reduce pet dumping would be key and, said asked him to trap them, and that he would. one attendee, “Somebody needs to give [the (Most trapped ferals are taken to the Athens Athens Area Humane Society] the money to Area Humane Society, or AAHS, which euthabe able to do that, in a ’humane’ community.” nizes them unless they are young enough All agreed, also, that better promotion of to be socialized and adopted. These cats are programs like the American Bird Conservancy’s not included, for example, in the number of “Cats Indoors!” campaign is needed here. “adoptable cats euthanized” in each week’s That’s because even keeping pet cats “Adopt Me” listings in Flagpole.) indoors all the time is a new concept to many. More to the point of his participating on ACC Central Services Director David Fluck, who the panel, though, Holzman, a member of oversees the Animal Control division, attended the Georgia Ornithological Society, asked poithe meeting, and talked with Flagpole aftergnantly at one point which is more humane: ward about what one person termed a “double caring for feral cats, which are an exotic spestandard” in Animal Control when it comes to cies in North America, or caring for native free-ranging cats as opposed to dogs running migratory birds which suffer numerous severe loose. “The ordinance treats dogs and cats the threats to their survival as individuals and, in same, and it’s a matter of resources,” Fluck some cases, as species. (Cats may not be the said, admitting that Animal Control doesn’t very topmost threat to native migratory birds, have the staff to address such cats according he said, but their impact is significant.) “One to the ordinance. That’s why cat issues have is not more humane than the other,” Holzman long been delegated to the private, non-profit said. “Let’s not pretend that it is.” AAHS, which receives local government funds. Bettinger, meanwhile, said that “no one Fluck said that in addition to reflecting availwho promotes the responsible application of able department resources, the status quo TNR disputes the fact that cats kill wildlife.” enforcement policy at Animal Control reflects, The goal of Campus Cats and other “responin part, “community values” about dogs runsible TNR” programs, she said, is to have manning loose as opposed to cats. aged colonies of feral cats with suppression of disease and a reduction in cat numbers. Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

A Loss for Wings Air in the Local Airline Wars Given the nearly soap-opera-style drama But regardless of the outcome of the dissurrounding recent months’ competition over pute between the carriers—and even of any passenger air service between Athens and revisiting of the subsidy by the federal DOT— Atlanta, the strange abruptness of last week’s Wings Air’s suspension of service may be an suspension of service by Wings Air is in a way occasion for Athens-Clarke County officials to unsurprising. The small Georgia-based comquestion the efficacy of the local government’s muter airline, which began offering service support for passenger service to Atlanta. here last Nov. 1, put out a press release Feb. 5 Former ACC Commissioner Elton Dodson served titled simply, “Wings Air temporarily suspendas an ex officio member of the ACC Airport ing some service.” Authority before starting Firefly Aviation, a But the thrust of the press release was to flight academy and maintenance shop that continue the line of reasoning that has charhe’s now almost completely sold. He says he’s acterized Wings Air’s earlier public stances always pushed for economic development at this winter: that the federal Department of county-funded Ben Epps Airport to be focused Transportation’s “Essential Air Service” subon local, small businesses and job training sidy for its competitor, Georgia Skies (part of opportunities for certified airplane mechanics, Hawaii-based Pacific Wings), makes it imposfor whom there’s high demand nationwide— sible for a non-subsidized line to compete in not on passenger service to an airport that the local market. can be reached in just over an hour by car. “There are other non-subsidized markets Dodson says, “We just have to ask ourselves: that we will now focus on that are in need of What are we accomplishing by subsidizing a our type of service and provide a level playing route between Athens and Atlanta?” field,” said Wings Air President Charlie Mintz He adds, “The second question we need in the press release. “It is unfortunate that to be asking ourselves is: Why is this route the DOT failed to see not profitable?” The the illogic in subsidiz- “We just have to ask ourselves: answer is essentially ing a carrier that was that Atlanta is too What are we accomplishing providing inferior serclose. And based on vice. It’s just not posa cursory look at the by subsidizing a route sible for us to compete numbers—keeping between Athens and Atlanta?” in mind that such a against pricing that has no other purpose short flight means the than to drive us from the market while they plane operates only in the most inefficient exist on federal funds.” The release also said part of its “flight envelope,” in low altitudes that half of Wings Air’s staff has been laid off where the air is thickest and fuel use at its or furloughed. highest—Dodson guesses that it might take Despite Wings Air’s higher prices, its main a half-dozen flights daily between Athens and advantage to customers had been that its gate Atlanta before a non-subsidized line would access at Hartsfield-Jackson International approach the point of profitability. Even Wings Airport in Atlanta allowed passengers to go Air’s passenger rates, which were higher than through security checks at Athens-Ben Epps Georgia Skies’, were probably not nearly high airport rather than in Atlanta. The Athens enough. “You’d have to charge at least $200 Banner-Herald reported Feb. 7 that Wings Air round-trip to make it work, and nobody’s had lost that gate access, prior to suspendgoing to pay that, in my opinion,” he says. ing its Athens and Macon service, due to an In addition to funding airport operations, unpaid bill there. That paper also reported Athens-Clarke County also has construction of that Wings bounced a $21,000 check to the a new commercial terminal on the project list Athens airport. for the 2005 SPLOST (special-purpose localMeanwhile, true to its own style to date, option sales tax). Estimated at $4.7 million Georgia Skies put out a press release on and scheduled for design work beginning next the afternoon of Feb. 5 titled “Stranded year, the 10,000 square-foot facility would Passengers Get a Lift,” offering free seats to include its own parking area and an entrance Wings Air passengers whose flights had been on the Lexington Road side of the airport, cancelled. “We’re happy to help out,” the press where the new terminal would be located. release quotes company president Gabriel Kimbrell as saying. Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

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It won’t be a huge surprise to readers when I note that state legislators are more concerned about the interests of corporate CEOs than the problems of ordinary Georgia citizens. That’s the way the world works, whether we like it or not. Even so, what our lawmakers are being asked to do for Georgia Power Co., the electric utility that has always had an outsized influence on state politics, is breathtaking in its enormity. Georgia Power plans to add a pair of nuclear reactors to the ones already in place at Plant Vogtle near Augusta to generate electricity for future needs. The cost to Georgia Power of those new reactors is estimated at $6.4 billion. So far, no problems. Georgia is among the fastest-growing states, and at some point more electricity will be needed. You can make a case for the construction of new power plants. Georgia Power, however, wants to start charging consumers for at least $1.6 billion of the cost of building those new reactors in 2011—six full years before the project is scheduled for completion and is actually producing electricity. The company wants to add a surcharge to your power bill for power plants that haven’t been built, haven’t received the go-ahead to operate, and won’t generate a single kilowatt hour of electricity for at least six years. If that sounds like a sweet deal for Georgia Power, it is. Most corporations that undertake a large capital project assign the costs and risks of that venture to their shareholders. If it succeeds, they make money. If it fails, they write it off as a business loss. Georgia Power wants to save its shareholders all that risk and let the average Georgia homeowner assume it instead—if the project goes bad or the new reactors don’t work, the money at stake would be those early payments from consumers. We have seen this tactic before. In the early 1980s, when the utility was planning the

first two nuclear units at Plant Vogtle, Georgia Power tried to get the General Assembly to approve the same “Construction Work in Progress” procedure that would allow the company to start collecting early from rate-payers. Those initial nuclear units, we were told back then, would cost $660 million to build. By the time the nuclear generators were actually in operation, however, the cost had escalated to nearly $9 billion—13 times higher than originally estimated. If they’re telling you that the new units will cost $6.4 billion, you can bet that the cost will have at least tripled by the time 2017 rolls around—with a corresponding increase in any “Construction Work in Progress” surcharge that has been added to your monthly bill. “That’s the bombshell of the session,” said Sen. George Hooks, who has seen the legislative carnival in action for many years. “It’s going to mean a huge rate increase for the people back home and they’re going to be mad when they find out. Why are we doing this?” While there is some uneasiness among a few legislators, there are powerful lawmakers working to please Georgia Power. If the bill goes to Gov. Perdue, he likely will sign it. It’s a great deal for Georgia Power and its shareholders. For the consumers who will get the tab, maybe not so much. I am told by a veteran lawmaker that a prominent utility executive has been calling legislative leaders about SB 31 and asking, “Where’s my hamburger?” “They’re asking us for hamburger,” the legislator said glumly, “and they’re going to give us a Whopper.” Tom Crawford Tom Crawford is the editor of Capitol Impact’s Georgia Report, an Internet news service at www.gareport.com that covers government and politics in Georgia.

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The local state of the art about “what green conclusive by their answers, are indicative of means” was on display in Athens during the the relative maturity of a movement and, thus, last weekend of January. With shadows of old issues with which our sustainable business thinking and related sins stretching out like community needs to grapple. monuments to an uncivil past, the conglomeraAnd these secondary issues will come tion of events was a kind of Groundhog Day for into focus, unless maturity of the movement the new epoch. “Ferget, Hell,” as it were. is less important than its posture of activWe as a society are becoming relatively ism. Unconnected but highly calculated to open to, if not comfortable with, the trappings piggyback onto the Green Life Expo was the of eco-enlightenment. We now recognize many exhibit at the ATHICA art space during the of the habits we should have had all along— same weekend. The conceptual show, “Running using less, conserving more—and we’re beginon Empty,” offered a group of disparate works ning to understand how we might navigate developed and brought together to comment consumer society with these responsibilities on the present state of environmental degraintact. We’re learning the powers of ridicule dation and ecological cataclysm. The formulain service of compelling the delinquent and tion itself offered no choice but to err on the shaming the laggards. Athens is pretty proud side of raising awareness at the expense of the of itself, and its merits are only contestable— media used in the process, typically known in there’s a city of the future in here somewhere, this construct as the artwork. poking its head out of the present. Anything enlisted in adding to the stateThe Green Life Expo at The Classic Center ment was deemed art, its extents knowing no brought much of this humble pride out for a bounds or limits in the service of the idea. In public test spin. Corporate and government this megacosm, the execution and aesthetic sponsors in media, construction, energy, waste appeal of the artwork itself must take a backdisposal and recycling, plus myriad local serseat to its concept and meaning, becoming vices, put on an informative and earnest display of their current practices and hopes for the future, couched in the term “green.” A few openly embraced the affirmative promotional angle of saving the Earth and what it can do for you and your business. To the passing entrepreneur, this unmistakable component wouldn’t make it back to the office before it was customized for your outfit, and maybe that was the point. The profit aspect of green, after all, will prove the ultimate viability of viability itself in The Green Life Expo at The Classic Center. a capitalism-only society. If nobody’s buying the future, well, it will just take a backseat to something materially less significant, less important, else lower-fat, better-tasting and all-natural than its underlying message. By this logic, the and sit there until it, too, gets recycled. Green Life Expo was also (just) an art show, as To others who have ingested and invested are the words on this page; as well the spaces themselves in sustainable practices, the Expo between the words—themselves a statement offered a great deal of information on “green” on the need for silence, or is it the limitations just beyond the marketing extravaganza phase, of written language? You see the problem here. if not yet very deep into the details. Many parOnce you subvert the essence and power ticipants agreed to speak on the record, with of art for any other purposes, you have, well, the glaringly odd exception of the folks manread the first part of that again. Any idea, ning the EPA booth (?), and revealed a profeseven our self-preservation, can become hossional integration of ecological thinking with tage to its own gimmick. This is what happens civic incentives toward reaping the benefits to the great corpus of conceptual art—unless of conservation. Companies representing solar the idea is to leave us feeling dull and empty. hot water and electricity for the home, innova- Once the door has been opened, one must tive roofing materials, even pest control, were admit that possibility. Conversely, we must present to extol the benefits of their products reserve the right to have some things stand for and services in the context of “being green.” nothing but our inability to comprehend them. But being green and banking on it remain “Running on Empty” wielded a perhaps uncomfortable occupants of the same space. inadvertent power in the service of its conPut to a few of these same concerns, quescept: As unconscious about what it was doing tions just below the sparkling emerald to art as we have been about what we are veneer proved frustrating. Questions of how doing to the planet. Like us, the organizers new profit streams could be created in the don’t really care because it all seems quite face of flagging markets for recyclables, harmless when in fact we already know what for example, were met with consternation. irreversible damage has been done. It’s an Questions concerning why the out-moded uncanny fusion I can’t help but cautiously photo-voltaic approach to solar was preferred recommend. in the American market to the more innovative practices and products available in Europe Alan Flurry were met with much the same, as was a query of whether a large, commercial organic farmAlan Flurry, an Athens writer and musician, is propriing operation is preferred to a network of etor of the website http://whatdoesgreenmean.net. many smaller ones. These points, while not He can be reached at aflurry@gmail.com.

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athens rising What’s Up in New Development Would a pedestrian mall be successful in downtown Athens? The idea has come and gone over the decades, and the pros and cons have been brought up time and again. A Jan. 28 article in Flagpole raised the question once more and polled some officials and business owners, with a range of responses. If another round of discussion of the topic goes forward, it may be worth stepping back and reevaluating the whole concept anew. Why do we want a pedestrian mall? What need would it provide that is not currently being met downtown? Where should it go?

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The Lay of the Land: Athens was a city planned without a town square; our town founders may have imagined that the university’s quads would fulfill that role, or perhaps the lack of a courthouse in the town’s earliest days (when Watkinsville was county seat for a larger county) meant that Athens would do without. Regardless, there is no real focus for civic activity. Further, given Athens’ role as a music mecca, downtown merits some sort of perennial outdoor performance space. The sound of local bands and street musicians should always be wafting through the streets. The small crowds that those performers attract need proper accommodation. We’re also known for arts, and good food as well. Currently our farmers’ market happens on some basketball courts at Bishop Park, miles from downtown. A daily market atmosphere might be a great addition to downtown; the pedestrian density of the area could likely sustain it.

Avenue block. Oftentimes, the conversation focuses on whether people or cars come first, without acknowledging that in many cases, having cars nearby can actually increase the quality of a pedestrian space by adding to the sense of security through “eyes on the street.” The failure of multi-block malls may lie in the lack of direct views into the malls by motorists; with cars only crossing the pedestrian mall at a perpendicular angle, there is less visibility on the malls. The bent mall allows for views from cars into both pieces, and may be a viable option. Consider cars making the turn at the mall’s “bend” at night: headlights would shine down the legs of the mall, lighting up the area, whereas a car crossing a mall perpendicular to pedestrian flow would shine no light on pedestrian areas. I saw this model successfully implemented along Manners and Cuba streets in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Try It Out: The most successful mall spaces require a high degree of pedestrian density to make them work. Nowhere else in Athens has a greater density than College Square, as it is often . d St called, thanks in part to Broa an easy crossing at Broad and frequent bus service nearby. The widening of City Hall’s sidewalk along St. N O INGT Washington Street won’t WASH be successful as a pedestrian space and is, frankly, a waste of money. Those funds would be better spent providing additional sidewalk space across the . d St street for the restaurants Broa and businesses there. We’ll never know how this thing would work until we try it, but tryt. ON S INGT ing it out doesn’t require WASH a multi-million dollar streetscaping project. There Are Options: This spring, the city College Avenue between could put out some trafClayton and Broad streets fic barricades, roll out is the location most the AstroTurf, and take . d St often suggested for a back the street for a week Broa pedestrian mall. The to see what happens. Options for a pedestrian mall downtown minority proposal is for Temporary parks are cercould be more varied than simply closing Clayton between Lumpkin tainly not a new thing, off College Square. In these potential conand Jackson or Thomas having been used as a streets. The Clayton Street figurations, the arrows represent car traffic, form of protest and activand the hashed areas pedestrian malls. version sounds more ism in cities across the typical of the multi-block globe in the Park(ing) malls which have often failed in other cities. Day campaign. Nobody’s yet closed a whole The multi-block pedestrian malls usually main- block, though, that I’m aware of; such a contain traffic at cross streets, but they remove cept might at least get Athens in the news such a large piece of the urban fabric from and draw a few tourists. The bottom line is daily traffic that it’s easy to see why those that if I had a nickel for every time someone places become forgotten. These pedestrian suggested College Avenue be turned over to plazas ought to be little gems in the city, pedestrians… well, I could feed the parking rather than barren and sprawling. meters for a week to try it out myself. One thing to consider is that such a mall need not be linear. There’s no reason a pedesKevan Williams trian mall couldn’t turn to incorporate one block of Clayton in addition to the College Reach Kevan Williams at athensrising@flagpole.com. . N St

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comment Gay Marriage: The Issue

Jason Crosby

Marriage matters, no matter that skeptics like Bob Ostertag would have it otherwise [Comment, “Why Gay Marriage Is the Wrong Issue,” Jan. 14]. While straight conservatives would agree about the importance of marriage and use that as an argument to exclude gay men and lesbians from the institution, from the opposite side we have gay liberals who would deny the premise and eliminate marriage altogether. As that is not likely to happen, the practical effect of their arguments is the same: heterosexuals will continue to enjoy access to marriage and its benefits, with gays remaining strangers to this right. Ostertag is far from the first gay man to belittle the push for same-sex marriage. Michael Warner made the same arguments both earlier and better in his The Trouble with Normal (Free Press, 1999). What these jaded naysayers have in common is membership among a social elite who view marriage either as a way for others unfairly to claim part of their material wealth, or as a hindrance to their promiscuous pleasures—what Ostertag euphemistically refers to as his “various men.” While these are valid reasons for any individual to refrain from choosing marriage, the error comes when, without comment, they are offered as reasons to eliminate marriage altogether. Mired in their self-centered values, they would elevate their personal preferences to a normative social good. The mistake Ostertag makes is to assume that he is somehow representative of most other gay men and lesbians in his disdain for marriage. Most “of us won’t marry even if we have to right to,” he tells us, and therefore the pursuit of that right is a “stupid issue.” Even if it is true that most gay men and lesbians will not marry, it doesn’t follow that this is because we are uninterested in marriage. It may be that we haven’t found anyone worth marrying. We would dearly love the option of marrying, should we find ourselves in that fortunate position. More to the point is a 1994 Advocate poll in which only 15 percent of gay men were utterly uninterested in the possibility of marrying someone they loved. While Ostertag may be sincere in the description of his own desires, he represents only a very small slice of the gay community. Contrary then to Ostertag’s claim, most people, both gay and straight, aspire to marry. This hope is far from an irrational indulgence. It is trite, but still important, to recognize that with marriage come the benefits of the 1,049 federal laws identified by the Government Accountability Office “in which marital status is a factor,” with a similarly large number to be found in state statutes. But the truly powerful benefits are not the ones legislated, however useful they may be. The indirect, intangible effects are far more profound. The first of these is the impact of marriage upon the relationship itself. The anthropologist Margaret Mead observed that there “is no society in the world where people have stayed married without enormous community pressure to do so.” The expectation that you will stay

with your spouse can give an added motivation to try to stay together during inevitable stormy periods, a motivation lacking when everyone views a relationship as transient. Domestic partnerships are nice, but no one is surprised that they are more fragile than marriages, simply because they are not marriages. In both cases social expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies. To exclude gay couples from marriage thus denies to them this broader support that straight couples take for granted. We learn more about the specialness of marriage in other empirical data showing married men earn higher average salaries than single men and enjoy significantly longer life expectancies. These benefits come from marriage, not from cohabitation. It merits repeating: Marriage matters. Such realities go unnoticed by Ostertag. For him marriage is nothing but a mélange of political and social “privileges denied to others,” rights that can be effectively reproduced outside of that context to tear “down the walls of privilege enjoyed by the nuclear family” and attain “equal rights for all.” He offers the naïvely simple opinion that the pursuit of marriage distracts from goals he considers more important. He mentions “job discrimination, housing discrimination, health care discrimination, immigration discrimination,” as just a few. What he fails to realize is that many of these problems would be well on their way to solution if marriage were more widely available. The injustices he criticizes involve not just the individual, but our relationships. Companies will hire a gay person, but not give his partner equal benefits given to heterosexual spouses; the landlord willing to rent to the single person might refuse a lease to a lesbian couple; and immigration discrimination is wholly about the right to bring our alien partners into this country. A nationally recognized marriage will solve these problems almost automatically due to the deeply entrenched cultural value placed on true marriage, a deference we know does not exist for marriage substitutes like civil unions. If these inequities are his genuine concerns, he should recognize that rather than an uncertain piecemeal approach, the most efficient single solution is a universal right to marry. While the fight for marriage has always been part of the “gay agenda,” the need became critical during the AIDS crisis when our relationships were torn asunder and ignored, just when most needed by the desperately ill. Gay criticisms of the pursuit of marriage are therefore even more galling than those from religious conservatives with whom Ostertag admits he is now “ready to make common cause.” But they are equally wrong. James M. Donovan James M. Donovan is Faculty and Access Services Librarian at the UGA Law School, and is editor-inchief of Sexual Orientation and the Law: A Research Bibliography (Hein, 2006).

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the reader Dreams, They Complicate My Life Whenever I’m approached by a salesman for some brand of evangelical Protestantism, I’m always amazed when he or she expresses the unknowable and ineffable nature of God and then proceeds to tell me just what God is thinking. Take, for example, the notion that the Lord really wants me to vote Republican. This seems incredible to me a.) because I can’t imagine that He makes those kind of distinctions, and b.) even if He did, the Gospels tell us that back when He was Jesus He was most definitely a liberal. (I can discuss this here—the Bible’s a book. Good one, too. Highly recommended.) To the Point: Where I’m going with this is that there is a platitude, suitable for framing, concerning crises of faith: “God answers all prayers; sometimes the answer is no.” It’s meant to rationalize our belief in a God who remains concerned with our well-being even as we’re getting screwed by life. Personally I prefer to give God his props for having a more complex process than that. The fact is that fairy tales, Walt Disney and Creflo Dollar aside, most of us will never, never see our dreams come true. Our innate nobility, our heroism, our grace is that we know this and continue to carry on. Brendan Short’s debut novel Dream City (MacAdam/Cage, 2008) is about carrying on in the face of dashed hopes and unfulfilled aspirations. It’s about lifetimes spent staring into the abyss and our daily decision to step back from the edge or jump in. It’s about the most depressing book I’ve read in a very long time, and one of the most impressive first novels I’ve ever encountered. The novel begins in Depression-era Chicago, where Michael Halligan lives with his father Paddy, an ex-pug turned legbreaker for the Irish mob, and his mother Elizabeth, chafing at the trap her life has become. When Elizabeth dies from an ugly, bloody mishap, Michael is left in Paddy’s care and exposed to his world of bars, B-girls and crime. His only solace, to which he clings with the fervor of a drowning man, is his collection of Big Little Books, those thick, square volumes of pulp adventure and recycled comics that many people of my age or older may remember. Collecting “Big Littles” becomes Michael’s driving obsession, a lifeline to his happy childhood while his adolescence and adult life continue to, well, suck. After Paddy discovers that Michael is skimming off the top of the numbers money Paddy collects for his boss; Paddy throws his son out into the street. Always good with numbers, Michael becomes an accountant, a ’50s Man in the Grey Flannel Suit. He meets a girl and marries her, and they have what, according to the American Dream, is supposed to be happiness. The problem is that, unless it comes in a cheap, boxy paperback, Michael has no idea what happiness is. He has rage and lust and all the spiky and flaring emotions in the human palette, but his early life has left him nigh-sociopathic, and his tragedies beget more tragedies. Faring no better are the people moving in and out of Michael’s life. Short gives us glimpses into the fortunes of Paddy, whose big-time ambitions are continually thwarted by his small-time intellect; of Michael’s aunt, an aging perfume-

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counter girl caught between her attraction to other women and her crippling Catholic guilt; of Oswald Knoll, the boxer who ended Paddy’s career back in the day and went on to become the pitchman for Whitman’s Big Little Books, watching helplessly as his ideals of heroism are trampled by the cynical march of the 20th century and in his own failures as a father; and Sara, Michael’s wife, who hangs on as long as she can as her love is drained by the emotional black hole inside her husband. Like I said, not a happy book—there’s enough alienation, despair and pathos here for three Bergman films—but a beautiful book nonetheless. Short’s writing is evocative, from the sights and wonders of the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair to the stinking back alleys where Paddy does his work to the almost pornographic detail Short lavishes upon the objects of Michael’s obsession. Every scene in the book’s impressive span, 72 years all told, has an immediacy to it that draws the reader in completely. Just as urgent is Short’s gift for characterization, his ability to make us feel his players’ pain as it happens again and again. It’s a harrowing novel and brilliant for it. Other critics have compared Short favorably to Michael Chabon, and I can’t disagree. This is not to say there is no redemption in the novel. There is, and it comes at just the right time, but it’s a long and thorny hike to get there. This may seem like a negative, but it’s really not. Dream City does exactly what the best novels are supposed to do, change the reader in a way he or she never expected. The best dreams are like that, too. Yet Another Memoriam: One of our greatest American dreamers passed away on Jan. 27. John Updike, prolific man of elegant letters and bold humanity, died of lung cancer in his home in Massachusetts. Updike was a writer’s writer, insightful and eloquent, never content to rest on his laurels, no matter how prestigious those laurels may have been (he won the Pulitzer Prize twice). I first discovered Updike in his remarkable 1963 novel The Centaur and revisited him often, lingering over his novels about the crass and flawed but complex car dealer named “Rabbit” Angstrom, in Rabbit, Run and its sequels. Those who don’t know Updike at least know The Witches of Eastwick from the film version with Jack Nicholson; the sequel

to that delightful book just hit the shelves last month, and his final book, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories, is due out this summer. Really, it should be enough to simply say “John Updike has died” and let the nation’s mourning ensue—go find any of his novels, his stories, or his essays and you’ll see why he will be sorely, sorely missed. Items Over the Wire: The University of Georgia Libraries have announced this year’s selection for the Georgia Writers’ Hall of Fame, and the headliner is Coleman Barks, local poet and professor. Barks taught at UGA when I was a student during the Pleistocene Era and was already raking in the accolades for his excellent original work, but as a explicator of the 13thcentury Sufi poet Rumi, Barks became a freakin’ rock star. As anyone who has read a bad translation of Dante or Homer can attest, the translation of poetry, particularly across the span of centuries, requires the consummate skill of another poet. It’s not like working at the UN—the beauty and intricacies of the original don’t always translate well into English, which is often the most hamfisted of languages. For Rumi’s mysticism and lyricism to come across the way they do in Barks’ work is a testament to the poet’s skill, and Coleman Barks deserves all the props he gets. The other living winner (Hall of Fame honors go to two living and two deceased writers every year) is former Georgia poet laureate David Bottoms, while the posthumous awards go to Robert Burch, the author of several books for young people, and novelist Raymond Andrews. How Andrews, the author of such amazing novels as Apalachee Red and Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee is only now being given this honor is beyond me— maybe it’s a rules thing—but he was a writer with genuine soul, and anyone aspiring to write real Southern fiction would do well to see what Andrews did in his (tragically) few books. And while we’re on the subject of what local writers can teach us, this item came across my desk: “Terry Kay—The Anatomy of a Novel—Workshop on Writing, hosted by Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation Mar. 21–22. This workshop will be conducted in three two-hour sessions… Fundamental writing techniques—including outlining, rhythm, character development and self-editing—will be emphasized. The workshop fee is $100. Advance registration is recommended as space is limited. For more information, call 706-769-4565 or email info@ ocaf.com.” Writing lessons from Terry Kay, author of To Dance with the White Dog and the recent The Book of Marie, among many others, and one of the reasons Athens rocks so frigging hard. Go. Learn. Make more good writing for the rest of us. John G. Nettles

theatre notes Glüklich zu Sehen The Banality of Evil: Town and Gown tackles a toughie for its next Mainstage production: Kander and Ebb’s landmark Cabaret. The musical inspired by Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin—recently named by Time as one of the 100 greatest English-language novels written since 1923—was one of the first of its kind. Though over 40 years have passed since its Broadway debut, Cabaret retains all of its relevance; it’s a “message musical” with no expiration date. Though set during a very particular historical moment—the rise of Hitler’s Third Reich—the narrative’s thematic concerns have a far broader appeal. The show is interested not in the big movers and shak-

after opening night with my thoughts on the production. Stay tuned for the full skinny. Another History Lesson: As part of UGA’s Darwin Day festivities, the Performing Arts Center brings an L.A. Theatre Works production of The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial to Hodgson Concert Hall for a single performance on Feb. 15 at 3 p.m. The play recreates the pivotal 1925 trial of Tennessee high school science teacher John Scopes through a script by Peter Goodchild based on original transcripts from the case. Scopes sparked a national debate (that has yet to die down) when he bucked the system to teach evolution rather than the creationism curriculum mandated by the state’s Butler Act. Ed Asner, best remembered for his iconic turn as the surly Lou Grant on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” stars as the lead lawyer for the prosecution, William Jennings Bryan, while stage veteran Michael Winters, recognizable from his seven-year stint as Taylor Doose on “Gilmore Girls,” plays Bryan’s opposition, Clarence Darrow. Tickets range from $20–$25, with a half-price discount available for UGA students. Call 706-542-4400 to reserve a seat.

V-Season, Valentine’s and Vance: As part of the global movement that gears up annually during the Valentine’s season, Project Safe has a full slate planned for this year’s V-Season, a series of events designed to raise funds for the local non-profit that works to combat domestic violence. First up is a two-performance run of Eve Ensler’s A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer, a compilation featuring pieces by a wide range of contemporary voices, from Maya Angelou to Howard Emmy-winning actor Ed Asner stars in The Great Tennessee Zinn, on Feb. 12–13 at 8 p.m. at the Monkey Trial on Feb. 15. Seney Stovall Chapel. The following weekend the organization mounts a ers behind the dark chapter in Germany’s hisproduction of Ensler’s more vag-tastic work. tory. Instead, Cabaret points a finger at the The Vagina Monologues plays at 8 p.m. Feb. singing, dancing, good-time-having patrons 19–21 at the UGA Chapel with a cast that of the Kit Kat Klub. While the Nazis consoliincludes Mayor Heidi Davison and the state’s date their power and turmoil pervades the Democratic Party chair, Jane Kidd. Tickets for country, Sally Bowles and company remain both plays can be secured in advance at the blithely uninterested. “It’s only politics,” Project Safe Thrift Store, Frontier and Urban Sally remarks, “and what has that got to do Sanctuary Day Spa. with us?” The show’s central characters live Alongside Project Safe’s awareness-raising in a cabaret bubble where “life is beautiful” enterprise, Athens Creative Theatre celno matter what’s happening outside. Over the ebrates Valentine’s Day in a more traditional course of the musical, reality gradually creeps chocolate-and-romance way. On Feb. 13–15 up on the characters (and the audience), and the company will have its second dessert thethe effect of their willful ignorance and apaatre production, Love Letters by A. R. Gurney. thy becomes chillingly clear. Nathan Altman The 1988 play’s plot is in the title: it’s all takes center stage for the Town and Gown about a romance told through a couple’s writPlayers as the Emcee, the host of the Kit Kat ten correspondence. Tickets for the evening Klub’s raunchy debauchery. Rebekah Williams of sweets and sappiness are $15. Get ‘em in takes on the part of the Klub’s star, “the advance by calling 706-613-3628. toast of Mayfair,” Sally Bowles. Also playing a JV Productions follows-up Valentine’s major role in the proceedings is Matt Noller weekend with a Tony Award-winning play by as Cliff Bradshaw, the young American novelAnthony Shaffer. Sleuth stars John Vance as ist who enters the seedy world as an outsider Andrew Wyke, a mystery writer who entraps before falling in love with Sally. The show’s his wife’s lover (Allen Rowell) in a series other romance—the pineapple-sweet pairing of real-life deceptions during an evening of of Herr Schultz and Fraulein Schneider—will game-playing at an English country house. The be portrayed by Barry Wolk and Amy Miller. line between fiction and reality gets blurred Justin Sanders serves as the production’s as the plot twists and turns. Try to keep up guiding hand during its two-week run. The Feb. 20–21 at 8 p.m. at Seney Stovall Chapel. show plays at the Athens Community Theatre Tickets ($8 for students and seniors, $10 for Feb. 13–14, 19–21 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 15 & 22 everyone else) are available at the door. at 2 p.m. Call 706-208-8696 to make reservations. I’ll check back in at www.flagpole.com Jennifer Bryant

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movie dope Some releases may not be showing locally this week. BEST FRIEND FORGOTTEN (NR) 2004. Hosted by David Duchovny (“The X-Files”), The Humane Society of the United States’ “Best Documentary of 2004” deals with the growing problem of pet overpopulation. Watch as Oreo the cat and Clover the dog experience the harrowing lead up to either the controversial procedure of euthanasia or its alternative, the “no-kill” movement. The screening is sponsored by Speak Out for Species as part of Through Other Eyes, their fourth annual Film Festival on Animals & Society. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (NR) 1961. As high-priced New York escort Holly Golightly, Audrey Hepburn practically bottles beauty, along with the disappointment of living that shatters the fragile container. Breakfast at Tiffany’s remains the most deservedly beloved film in Audrey Hepburn’s body of work. BRIDE WARS (PG) Lifelong best friends Liv and Emma (Hudson and Hathaway) have dreamed of June weddings at the Plaza since they were little girls. When their boyfriends propose, the duo begins preparations to make those dreams a reality. But when New York’s hottest wedding planner, Marion St. Claire (Candace Bergen), screws up and books the ceremonies on the same day, Liv and Emma’s friendship turns to bitter rivalry. Potential brides of every shape and size will gladly go to battle over these Wars. A CHRISTMAS TALE (NR) When the story opens Catherine Deneuve’s matriarch, Junon Vuillard, has been diagnosed with a malady of the blood

that needs to be discussed in great detail with her extended family over Christmas. Mortifyingly inappropriate conversations are par for this family’s course, and their appalling behavior toward one another is countenanced with hilarious ease. It’s the best film I’ve seen in many months—amazingly well-written, beautifully acted by its ensemble cast and a great showcase for director Arnaud Desplechin’s growing talent. [Marr] k CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC (PG) Winter movie blues got you down? More PG-rated chick lit to the rescue! Out-of-control fashionista Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) gets a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine, where she meets potential love interest in Luke Brandon (Hugh Dancy). Muriel’s Wedding director P.J. Hogan helms this adaptation of the Sophie Kinsella bestseller. With a whole slew of familiar faces, including Joan Cusack, John Goodman, Kristen Scott Thomas and Lynn Redgrave. CORALINE (PG) See Movie Pick. CURE (NR) 1997. In this thriller from Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to legendary director Akira Kurosawa), a string of gruesome murders are linked by a large “X” slashed across the victims’ bodies. Part of the Japanese Film Festival presented by the Japan Foundation, New York. DOUBT (PG-13) Though she has no evidence, a hard-nosed nun, Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Golden Globenominee Meryl Streep), accuses the parish priest, Father Flynn (Golden

Globe-nominee Philip Seymour Hoffman), of misconduct with the parochial school’s first black student. What should be an intense moral crucible never gets white-hot despite the combined wattage of Streep and Hoffman. The only doubts raised by Doubt are about itself. FRIDAY THE 13th (R) I’m pumped for the remake/reimagining/reboot/recrap from Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes. Though Bay and director Marcus Nispel may have missed the mark

I’m shopping my Ath off! with their popular remodeling of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, they have less to mess up with Friday. Teenagers drink, smoke, have sex and die. GRAN TORINO (R) A retired Ford employee and Korean War vet, Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) still lives in the same Michigan neighborhood in which he and his now deceased wife, Dorothy, raised two ungrateful sons.

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Due to production deadlines, Carmike movie times are only accurate through February 12. Visit www.Flagpole.com for updated times. Bride Wars (PG) 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45 Coraline 3-D (PG) 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 He’s Just Not That Into You (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Hotel for Dogs (PG) 1:30, 4:30 My Bloody Valentine 3-D (R) 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 New in Town (PG) 1:45, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Paul Blart: Mall Cop (PG) 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Pink Panther 2 (PG) 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Push (PG-13) 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 Slumdog Millionaire (R) 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Taken (PG-13) 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40 Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (R) 7:00, 9:30 The Uninvited (PG-13) 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30

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But the old neighborhood has changed. Immigrants have invaded Walt’s shores. The film paints a poignant portrait of entrenched racial hatred overcome by human kindness and interaction. Walt’s transformation proves you can teach an old dog new tricks. Gran Torino proves Eastwood is already a master of them all. HEARTBEAT DETECTOR (NR) 2007. The ubiquitous Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Quantum of Solace, A Christmas Tale) stars as

2/15) (no 2:00 show F. 2/13) (no 7:15 show Su. 2/15) A Christmas Tale (NR) 7:00 (ends Th. 2/12) Doubt (PG-13) 4:45 (ends Th. 2/12) Let the Right One In (R) 9:55 (no shows Su. 2/15) Milk (R) 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 (add’l time Sa. 2/14–Su. 2/15: 1:30) (no 9:45 show Su. 2/15) (starts F. 2/13) The Reader (R) 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 (new times F. 2/13: 4:30, 7:15) (no 7:15 show Th. 2/12–Sa. 2/14) The Towne of Nightfalle (NR) 9:00 (F. 2/13) Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (NR) 7:30 (Th. 2/12)

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Due to production deadlines, Georgia Square Five movie times are only accurate through February 12. Visit www. Flagpole.com for updated times. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (PG) 5:20, 7:30, 9:40 Marley & Me (PG) 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Punisher: War Zone (R) 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 The Tale of Despereaux (G) 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 Yes Man (PG-13) 4:05, 7:05, 9:45

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Cure (NR) 6:00 (W. 2/11) Heartbeat Detector (NR) 8:00 (M. 2/16) Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (R) 8:00 (Th. 2/12) Mind Game (NR) 6:00 (W. 2/18) Zack and Miri Make a Porno (R) 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 (F. 2/13–Su. 2/15)

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Simon, a psychologist who undergoes a personal and professional crisis while investigating an executive. Former Bond villain Michael Lonsdale won a César for Best Supporting Actor for his turn as Mathias Jüst. Part of the seventh Annual French Film Fest, the film will be introduced by Richard Neupert, Wheatley Professor of the Arts and Coordinator of Film Studies. HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (PG-13) Based on the self-help/ chicklit bestseller by Greg Behrendt (a “Sex and the City” story editor) and Liz Tucillo, He’s Just Not That Into You is too long, cinematographically desolate, and fashioned solely out of genderdefined traits and hang-ups. A bunch of Baltimoreans, representing every white, hetero demographic, navigate the stormy waters of love. HOTEL FOR DOGS (PG) Nickelodeon Movies’ new doggie flick is no Beverly Hills Chihuahua, and that is not a compliment. The gadget-enhanced antics of Hotel for Dogs, based on a novel by Lois Duncan, will please the tykes; adults must fend for themselves as foster kids, Andi and Bruce (Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin), join forces with the teens at the local pet store to save the city’s strays. The kiddies’ sedated happiness is all that really matters with a movie like this. THE INTERNATIONAL (R) Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) try to break up an international arms dealing ring financed by a high profile bank. Run, Lola, Run director Tom Tykwer finally helms a Hollywood action movie, starring no less than Owen, finally getting his Bond on, and the ever lovely Watts. Why then does the preview look so disappointingly directto-DVD? With Armin Mueller-Stahl. JAY & SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK (R) 2001. When Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and writer-director Kevin Smith) learn they will receive no profit from the film adaptation of “Bluntman and Chronic,” the comic based on their lives, they set out for

Hollywood with malicious intent. Overstuffed with famous faces, this film almost goes overboard with the selfreferential in-jokes. But the joke’s are really, really funny, so all is forgiven. LAST CHANCE HARVEY (PG-13) See Movie Pick. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (R) Though unabashedly horrific, Swedish director Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel (Lindqvist also contributed the screenplay), Let the Right One In, is a beautifully haunting tale of first love that cannot be locked in the genre closet. Let the Right One In is the year’s boldest horror film that offers so much more. MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA (PG) On the beautiful savannas of an animal reserve, these not-so-wild animals get in touch with their roots. Alex meets his parents (v. Bernie Mac and Sherri Shepard); Marty learns zebras share a strange collective mind; Gloria finds a hippo, Moto Moto (v. Will.i.Am), looking for some big loving; and Melman becomes a witch doctor. The animal antics are cute, and the PG jokes are harmless. MARLEY & ME (PG) Two newlyweds, John and Jennifer (Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston), learn a lot about life, love and loss from their lovable, boisterous, uncontrollable Yellow Lab, Marley. Based on John Grogan’s autobiographical novel, Marley & Me boasts the purebred screenwriting pedigree of Oscar-nominee Scott Frank (Get Shorty, Out of Sight, The Lookout) and Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex, Happy Endings). With Haley Bennett (Music & Lyrics, College), “Grey’s Anatomy”’s Eric Dane, and Academy Award-winner Alan Arkin. MARNIE (NR) 1964. Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery star in this Alfred Hitchcock thriller about compulsive thief Marnie Edgar, a psychologically damaged woman forced to confront her larcenous ways and her past by her husband and employer, Mark Rutland. When I’m in the mood for Hitch, Marnie does not often spring to mind. Janice Simon, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in Art at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, will introduce the film. Part of the Classic Film Series: Hitchcock. MILK (R) When Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) became the nation’s first openly gay elected official, he changed the world. A year later, he and mayor George Moscone (Victor Garber) were dead, assassinated by former city supervisor Dan White (Josh Brolin). Oscar-nominee Gus Van Sant gives independent filmmaking (Elephant, Last Days, Paranoid Park) a break, and the result is a multiple Oscar nominee. With Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna and James Franco. MIND GAME (NR) 2004. This animated feature follows Nishi, a porn-addicted loser looking to break his addiction after meeting an old friend. After a run-in with the Yakuza, Nishi travels to heaven and back in a psychedelic adventure. The directorial debut of Masaaki Yuasa (Cat Soup), Mind Game is adapted from the comic by Robin Nishi. Winner of the Ofuji Noburo Award from the Mainichi Film Concours. Part of the Japanese Film Festival presented by the Japan Foundation, New York. MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D (R) My Bloody Valentine might be the one

slasher flick that pleases both old and new fans, both of whom are looking for nothing more than gratuitous nudity, bloody violence and a sense of humor. MBV3D knows exactly what sort of movie it is, aims appropriately low, and hits the bull’s eye. NEW IN TOWN (PG-13) Renée Zellweger plays Lucy Hill, an executive from Miami sent to small-town Minnesota to restructure a local manufacturing plant. Though the locals (including Harry Connick, Jr.) are initially frigid, they warm to Lucy and she to them before a change of plans forces her to reorder her priorities. You’ve probably already guessed that Connick’s character plays a key role in Lucy’s transformation. With Frances Conroy (“Six Feet Under”), J.K. Simmons (Juno) and Nathan Fillion, whom I’ll watch in anything. OUT OF CONTROL (NR) 2006. ABC News’ Peabody Award-winning documentary, Out of Control: AIDS in Black America, looks at how African Americans make up 50 percent of all new cases of HIV infection though they only total 13 percent of the U.S. population. The special, begun by Peter Jennings before his death and reported by Kelly Moran, proposes ways of stopping this deadly disease. Followed by a discussion. PAUL BLART: MALL COP (PG) Paul Blart: Mall Cop rings in the New Year with mild, unobjectionable humor. January usually suffers through flicks much less funny and much more painful than this. Paul Blart: Mall Cop is as likable and funny (more the former than the latter) as its star. THE PINK PANTHER 2 (PG) More amusement to you if you can find the laughter in Steve Martin’s second investigation as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. Martin is/used to be a wild and crazy guy, but he lazily cobbles Clouseau together from a pitiable “Freench” accent and weak slapstick left to white-haired doubles. PUNISHER: WAR ZONE (R) Thomas Jane has been replaced by Titus from HBO’s “Rome,” Ray Stevenson, for what should probably be a straight-toDVD sequel to the 2004 mini-hit. Frank Castle AKA the skull-clad Punisher (Stevenson) continues his vigilante elimination of New York’s criminal underworld. PUSH (PG-13) Paul McGuigan (Wicker Park, Lucky Number Slevin) directs this knockoff-cum-mashup of X-Men and “Heroes” with enough style to distract viewers from the scrawny script. (The story could make for a compelling YA series.) The new nobodies-turned-heroes of Push don’t hold a candle to the known spandexclad crowd, but in a pinch, they might be able to save the world (if by save the world, you mean amusingly waste two hours). THE READER (R) A serious literary film from the Oscar-nominated writingdirecting duo of 2002’s The Hours, Stephen Daldry and David Hare, The Reader will please filmgoers looking for a sobering award contender. Fifteenyear-old Michael Berg (a smart David Kross) has a graphically sexual, secret affair with the much older Hannah Schmitz (five-time Oscar nominee Kate Winslet). Hannah disappears, and Michael does not see her again until he is in law school and she is on trial for crimes committed when she was a guard at Auschwitz. Ralph Fiennes, the film’s other star, admirably swallows the grown Michael’s guilt with quiet intensity, a quality that describes the film itself. Between The Reader’s covers is an unfamiliar, compassionate look at someone responsible for one of the world’s darkest hours. REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (R) Frank and April Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) feel destined for something better, more fulfilling than

their hopeless, empty suburban existence. But two kids and a mortgage later, and these former idealists are at each other’s throats, their love burned away by the constant heat of angry disappointment. Those who hated American Beauty won’t warm to it; neither will the modern suburbanites Mendes vilifies by proxy. Nevertheless, mature filmgoers will revel in the craft and wince at the pain. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (R) If Charles Dickens had set any of his littlest-orphan-makes-good epics in the slums of Mumbai and on the uncomfortable future-chic stage of the Indian TV show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,” Slumdog Millionaire, winner of the Golden Globe for Best Drama, would be a near perfect adaptation of that unwritten classic from one of literature’s most popular mack daddies. This film is an uncommon feel-good movie that accomplishes its uplifting objective without resorting to clingy clichés that leave the emotions sugar-sticky from their manipulative fumblings. SWEPT FROM THE SEA (PG-13) 1997. Based on the story by Joseph Conrad, Swept from the Sea stars Vincent Perez and Academy Awardwinner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) as Yanko Gooral, a Russian émigré and the only survivor of a shipwreck, and servant Amy Foster. After Gooral stumbles into town, Amy is the only person who will help the stranger; soon they fall in love. Part of the ACC Library’s iFilms series. TAKEN (PG-13) Former spy Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) uses his formidable skills to hunt down the slave traders that kidnapped his daughter (Maggie Grace, “Lost”). Written by Luc Besson and his Transporter cohort, Robert Mark Kamen, and directed by Pierre Morel (District B13), Taken could be a lot more than the Commando update

it so classily resembles. With Famke Janssen. THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX (G) The Tale of Despereaux is an admirable effort that won’t displace the year’s top three animated family flicks. Still, parents need not despair; with its excellent lessons about courage and forgiveness, Despereaux is a respectable celluloid babysitter. THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (NR) 1974. Braggingly billed as the first film ever to be banned in Sweden, Thriller: A Cruel Picture follows a young woman, Frigga/Madeleine/One Eye (Christina Lindberg), left mute by a childhood sexual assault, who is trained to seek violent revenge against those who harmed her after being kidnapped and forced into prostitution. Director Bo Arne Vibenius’ flick sounds like a rare gem of a screening for those of us that enjoy a good ‘70s exploitation pic. THE TOWNE OF NIGHTFALLE (NR) Chris Bishop’s musical/comedy/ sci-fi/mystery anthology series set in a fictional southern town features seemingly random and unrelated vignettes that come together to tell a classic story of love and danger. Mildly adult and mildly disturbing. TWILIGHT (PG-13) Fortunately, Twilight isn’t the unmitigated disaster I anticipated. Thanks to a writer and director who took the Romeo and Juliet courtship of a vampire and a human seriously, the film rises above giggleinducing dialogue, groan-inducing vampire super-speed and strength, and a simplistic makeup-and-snarl depiction of its central monsters. UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS (R) Probably the best entry in this underwhelming franchise, Underworld won’t win any new fans but should please those already in like with the eternal war between vampire and werewolf.

THE UNINVITED (PG-13) The ghost of Anna Rydell’s (Lemony Snicket’s Emily Browning) dead mother warns her that her father’s new girlfriend, Rachel (Elizabeth Banks), isn’t what she seems to be. I won’t hold The Uninvited’s being a remake of A Tale of Two Sisters against it considering the connection is pretty tenuous. WILD COMBINATION (NR) 2008. Filmmaker Matt Wolf paints the big screen with the life of the avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer, who died in 1992 from AIDS. Wolf uses archival footage and commentary from Russell’s closest friends, family and collaborators. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Doc at the Dublin Gay Film Festival. THE WRESTLER (R) Academy Award-nominee and should-be winner Mickey Rourke may be the best thing in The Wrestler, but he’s also the worst. His performance, one of the strongest in recent memory, is so brilliant that it eclipses the overall excellence of acclaimed filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s fourth feature. The Wrestler leaves 2008’s squared circle with the championship belt held high in the air. YES MAN (PG-13) In Jim Carrey’s latest high-concept comedy, the former Ace Ventura plays Carl Allen, a man known for saying no, who commits to saying yes to every request for an entire year. The trailer supplies a few laughs, but even at that truncated length, the premise wears thin. ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO (R) 2008. Zack and Miri Make a Porno is exactly as smutty and as funny as its title implies. Lifelong friends Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) are in big-time debt. To stave off homelessness, Zack, Miri and a cast and crew of friends and local losers decide to make a porno. Drew Wheeler

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CORALINE (PG) Blue-haired Coraline (v. Dakota Fanning) has recently moved into a new home with her busy parents (v. Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman). The Pink Palace Apartments are old, dingy and BO-ring. Not even the Russian gymnast who lives upstairs, Mr. Bobinski (v. Ian McShane), or the two old actresses living in the basement, Misses Spink and Forcible (v. Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French), can entertain the sapphire-coiffed lass. But like any curious child, Coraline’s curiosity is piqued by a small door, locked and covered over by wallpaper. And it should be, for that door leads to another world where Coraline’s Other Mother and Other Father (also Hatcher and Hodgman) welcome her with open arms, delicious food and button eyes. Any reader of fantasy fiction should know alternate worlds that appear too good to be true are really dark prisons lorded over by an evil dominating spider witch that lures little children into her web and replaces their eyes with buttons. Duh. Coraline may just be next year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar. Most surprising is the medium with which the 3D Coraline bests

animation’s dominant creative force. Coraline pits its old-fashioned analog of animation, stop-motion, against the technological, digital marvel of CG and wins. The filmed adaptation of the novel by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Stardust) virtually adds a third sense to the moviegoing experience. A visual, sonic marvel, Coraline, brought to life from real stuff (puppets and miniature trees and toy trains), has a tactile dimension. Every object, every surface has a texture of which CG can only dream. Wonderful new 3D technology reinforces the actual existence of the denizens of Coraline’s fantastical adventure. Writer-director Henry Selick perfects the flaws in his previous stop-motion masterworks, 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and 1996’s James and the Giant Peach. Coraline has more imagination than either. The film is also extremely creepy, more intense than Nightmare, in the manner of childhood horror like Something Wicked This Way Comes. The 3D ably amps up the film’s more startling moments, but it’s nothing a tough youngster can’t handle and enjoy.

This Is Going to Sound Familiar: I guess it’s unlikely anyone who reads this column just really doesn’t care for French movies, but if that description fits you, then I apologize for continuing to harp on the UGA French Film Festival. It’s gotten off to a wonderful start, with big, happy crowds; and since Coeurs, the second film in the series, is the last film I saw, I’m beholden by my own edict to write about it here. Alain Resnais’ comedy of the tragically absurd, adapted from the Alan Ayckbourn play Private Fears in Public Places (also the film’s English-language title), is an achingly sympathetic but firm rebuke to the notion that human beings can ever hope to be anything but pathetically alone in the world. Did I mention it’s a comedy? Whatever—the film’s faded pastel color palette and perpetually snowy Paris were completely entrancing on the Tate Center Theater’s giant screen, and ironically, it made my life feel good. If

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Ciné Stuff: I’m not sure I can think of a better Valentine’s Day activity (provided you’re an observer of the holiday) than to go out and see Breakfast at Tiffany’s on a big screen, and that’s exactly what our lovable friends at Ciné are offering the weekend of Feb. 13–15. I’m not afraid to admit Blake Edwards’ chic, decadent romantic comedy is one of my favorite movies, that I cry at the end (“Cat!!”) every time I see it, and that between my wife Krista and me, I’m the one who bugs her to watch it. You can’t lose… You get another chance to see the Arthur Russell documentary Wild Combination, directed by Matt Wolf, on Thursday, Feb. 12—see Jim McHugh’s fine article in this issue for more on that… A Feb. 12 screening of Abby Epstein’s documentary Until the Violence Stops, about the social impact of Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues, will benefit Project Safe… And finally, look on the Ciné website for forthcoming details on the Aux Experimental Arts Festival on Saturday, Feb. 21. There will be several video artists featured, and the brilliant Heather McIntosh is involved. Go to www. athenscine.com for info and showtimes. l

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LAST CHANCE HARVEY (PG-13) The trailromance. The incredibly sweet story never lowers for Last Chance Harvey weren’t personally ers itself to cloying. Even the cutesy subplot appealing. An aging, divorced New Yorker, with Kate’s mother and her maybe murderous Harvey Shine (two-time Oscar-winner Dustin neighbor delights. Most all of Hopkins’ sucHoffman), travels to London for the marriage cess can be traced to his leads. Hoffman and of his daughter. While in England, he discovers Thompson are two astounding performers. just how lonely he is. Sure, poor Harvey may be the protagonist, Concurrently, single, 40-something Kate but his exile is self-imposed. He wasn’t a Walker (fellow two-time Oscar winner Emma great husband or father. In Hoffman’s hands, Thompson) is marching through life, flashing Harvey is tired and sad, knowledgeable of the that stiff upper lip for role he played in his which the British are own isolation and famous. Her divorced more sympathetic for mother calls her conit. His fumbling early stantly, nagging her attempts to court about her love life Kate become that and the Polish nextmuch rewarding. You door neighbor who want to cheer, “Good may be burying body for you, Harvey.” parts in the backyard. Simultaneously, you Meeting in an airplane feel a tug toward Kate. bar, Harvey and Kate Before Harvey, she is get one more (last?) all tearful close-ups. chance at love and Thompson and Kate happiness. Wandering Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson light up when she the streets of London meets Harvey. The two on a lazy Saturday, they wind up back at the pros generate wondrous chemistry, a worn-out reception for Harvey’s daughter. Obvious melo- idiom reinvigorated by the film. dramatic conventions plot to derail their Affair Hopefully, Last Chance Harvey will hang to Remember-ish plans to meet at a fountain around for Valentine’s Day. I can’t think of at noon. Will they risk everything on this a better movie couple with whom to spend last chance or play it safe, returning to their next Saturday than Hoffman’s Harvey and lonely, known lives? Thompson’s Kate. Writer-director Joel Hopkins charmingly invites us into Harvey and Kate’s burgeoning Drew Wheeler

This Just In: In a bit of less encouraging news for Athens film, it’s just been announced that the Sprockets Music Video Competition will not be held as part of this year’s Athfest Music and Arts Festival. Sprockets, which has been instrumental in encouraging local bands and filmmakers to create cheap, fun, good music videos for the past five years, will be taking this year off—and hopefully no more—in order “to rethink and restructure… in such a way that it can continue to be an annual Athens event,” according to Sprockets’ Danielle Robarge. Sounds like they’re looking for two things: more people to help with the operation (planning, marketing, fund-raising, video editing) and more money to pay for it, hopefully, in the form of a “presenting” sponsor. If you or anyone you know want to help get Sprockets back in the game for 2010, make contact with them at sprockets@film athens.net.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s will screen at Ciné Feb. 13–15. you missed it, rent it. Festival screenings are Monday nights at 8 p.m. with introductions from curator Dr. Richard Neupert; Feb. 16 is La Question Humaine (Heartbeat Detector) by Nicolas Klotz, and Feb. 23 is Hou HsiaoHsien’s Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (Flight of the Red Balloon). Can I just say it’s worth the two bucks? Even More French Film: The busy Richard Neupert, who moonlights from his job as French Film Festival director to head up UGA’s film studies department, has organized a Cinema Roundtable discussion entitled “The French New Wave: 50 Years Later,” to commemorate the golden anniversary of the “official” launching of the movement at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, where François Truffaut won the Best Director award for The 400 Blows. Panelists will include Dr. Chris Sieving, Dr. Rachel Gabara and Dr. Laura Mason, with Neupert as moderator and an open Q&A session following the discussion. Any opportunity to hear Neupert talk about the New Wave is exciting: his authoritative and captivating book A History of the French New Wave Cinema is, as far as I can tell, the most comprehensive thing out there on the subject. The event is free and open to the public; it’s at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20 in Room 148 of UGA’s Miller Learning Center.

Quickly, but Fondly: Screenings in the ACC Library’s iFilms series will be Swept from the Sea, Beeban Kidron’s 1997 drama with Ian McKellen and Rachel Weisz, based on the story “Amy Foster” by Joseph Conrad, on Feb. 12 and Crossing the Line, Daniel Gordon’s 2006 documentary about an American soldier who defected to North Korea in 1962, on Feb. 19. Screenings are Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the main library at 2025 Baxter St.; for more information go to www.clarke. public.lib.ga.us. Now That It’s 2 a.m., I Must Be Done: Yeah, that’s how I roll. Send your emails to film@ flagpole.com… if you dare. Dave Marr

threats & promises Music News And Gossip As a midnight-movie crowd once remarked at a screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, we don’t need no stinkin’ introductions. My sentiments exactly. So jump in, navigate slowly and come out on top below… A Crack on the Head Is What You Get: Remember back when you drank your head off on a blistering hot, decommissioned Air Force parking lot and then caused a riot because you were young and that girl you arrived with ran off to get a drink with that guy in the metal-ball necklace? Well, you can at least bring your ears back to that time by going to see Athens/Atlanta band Beatrix Kiddo who will host a show at Ciné on Friday, Feb. 20 with Athens/New Orleans/Tallahassee band Sounds of Silence and totally local In the Lurch. Both Beatrix Kiddo and Sounds of Silence plow the field first fertil-

In the Lurch ized, if you will, by all those “alternative” hard rock/metal bands whose songs you can still sort of recognize but have never really known their names. In the Lurch plays a weirdo metal-blend of, um, metal and funky-bass à la Primus but actually pulls it off in an interesting and sinister manner. In other news, Beatrix Kiddo is currently working on a new EP. The band also plans to show action flicks behind them as they play this show, so maybe drop them a line and let ‘em know what you’d like to see. Check everyone out via www.myspace.com/inthelurch, www.myspace.com/soundsofsilence and www.myspace. com/beatrixkiddomusic. We All Live Downstream: A couple of weeks ago, Of Montreal performed a killer show at Paradiso in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and you can stream the entire thing via www.fabchannel.com/ of_montreal_concert. It’s the real deal, too, complete with costumes, theatrical vignettes and a very focused and road-tight Of Montreal. Also, each song is tagged as the video streams, so you casual fans can identify a song if you like it. While at the site be sure to dig around for the archived Drive-By Truckers show at the same venue from Aug. 21, 2008. Dig. Wash Me and I Will Be Whiter Than Snow: Local band Scarlet Snow will release its new EP The Needle at the Melting Point on Friday, Feb. 13. Advance tickets are $5, and it’ll cost you $8 at the door should you choose to be lazy. This release follows the band’s 2007 album Inclined. It should be noted, though, that at nine tracks the band is really pushing it by calling it an EP. Copies will be available for purchase at the show, and for $10 you get that and a copy of the album from 2007. The band has taken a more introspective route with this release and channeled a little (read: slight amount) Death Cab for Cutie into its sound. This, along with the band’s stated influences— Coldplay, Jars of Clay, et al.—is what makes Scarlet Snow a paradox for me. This all sounds like something I would normally stay far away from, yet I find myself repeatedly impressed with this band. Scarlet Snow exhibits an honesty, a lack of

pretension and a non-cloying sincerity that is normally lacking in this type of music. Check it out via www.scarletsnow.com. Now with People: The formerly unnamed members of local project Eureka California have now been deemed to be Jake Ward, Wyatt Strother, Tom Eisenbraun, Peter Levedahl and Kimberly Ess. The band next plays its brand of deliberate indie rock at the Flicker Theatre & Bar on Saturday, Feb. 21 with Waylon Thornton & the Heavy Hands and Gemini Cricket. Early Notice, No Excuses: The folks behind the annual Athens Human Rights Festival will host their annual Battle of the Bands at Tasty World Apr. 11. The reason you’re getting this information over two months early is because interested bands should let them know now if they’d like to participate. Unlike years past, there won’t be separate categories for bands this year. However, two bands will be chosen from this event to play the festival. One band will be chosen by audience votes and one by a group of local music industry judges. The Athens Human Rights Festival, now in its 31st year, will happen May 2 & 3 in downtown Athens. Bands interested in competing for a chance to play should drop a line to ahrf_bob@ yahoo.com or call 770-725-2652. Worth the Living: The new film by former Athenian Astra Taylor, Examined Life, had its premiere in Toronto a couple of weeks back, and it looks to be as invigoratingly relevant as her first full-length documentary Zizek! which chronicled the history and day-to-day life of philosopher Slavoj Zizek. The new film is, literally, a walk with a portion of the current crop of “rock star” philosophers, namely Cornel West, Peter Singer, the aforementioned Zizek, Judith Butler, Avital Ronell, Michael Hardt, Anthony Appiah and Martha Nussbaum. But beyond this, the reason Athens music fans should care is because the soundtrack features tracks from Paul Thomas, W. Cullen Hart, former Athenian Brian Horst (AKA Noisettes), Heather McIntosh, Hannah Jones, Desk Pussy and Brian Burton’s (AKA Danger Mouse) early-2000s project Pelican City, among others. The film will have its U.S. premiere on Feb. 25 at the IFC Center in New York. To catch a glimpse of the film, please head to www.sphinxproductions.com/pages/examinedlife.html where you’ll see controversial Harvard professor Cornel West channeling Martin Heidegger in the back of a taxi. This must come to Athens! Ciné? Anyone? Keep Hope Alive: Music industry executives from performing rights organization BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) will host a meet and greet at the Melting Point on Wednesday, Feb. 18. The event is free and open to all singers, bands, songwriters and anyone interested in learning about BMI and the business of performing rights. One major downer is that it runs from 9–11 a.m., which is generally a block of time that Athens musicians are either still asleep or slugging away at a day job. One major pro is that coffee and pastries will be served, which demonstrates BMI’s sensitivity to the caffeine and sugar needs of Athens musicians. For more information, please drop an email to the Associate Director of BMI Atlanta, David Claassen, via dclaassen@bmi.com or call 404-261-5151. As always, be sure to keep your news coming in, and always mention either Threats & Promises or my name in the subject line of all emails. Rainy, Rainy won’t you give me a sign via email to threatsandpromises@flagpole.com, voicemail at 706549-9523, ext. 203, or by post to P.O. Box 1027, Athens, GA, 30603. Gordon Lamb

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The aptly titled “Day I Die Demo” sets the tone for The Kitchen Tapes EP, blocky around the edges and sounding like it came from some stowed-away coffee can on the top shelf, forgotten for years and just now rediscovered. “Pick Up Your Pen Lucy” sticks mostly to a simple banjo-and-guitar melody with sweetly harmonized vocals and unfussy love lyrics. And that’s how things go with the EP—simple songs, presented simply, but with lots of heart. There’s not much to The Kitchen Tapes; its six songs barely span 15 minutes, but it’s an aptly titled offering from the Massachusetts duo of Tommy Allen and Sarah Cronin: these songs were recorded on a four-track in their home. The relative (Internet) popularity of bands like Drug Rug always makes me wonder how groups like Olivia Tremor Control or Neutral Milk Hotel would’ve done if they’d been around 10 years later. There’s a shared analog aesthetic in the fuzzed-out guitars, warped-tape sounds and to-the-point, emotive vocals; the bands often seem more concerned with emotional impact than with technical excellence and are just as proficient when stripped down to acoustic instruments or when working under piles of layered sound. Things come along when they do, though; it’s just a thought. Either way, the brief tracks—only two break the three-minute mark, and just barely—on The Kitchen Tapes EP go by quickly and leave little impression. But that quick quarter-hour immersed in their sparse sounds and plentiful charm is time well spent. Chris Hassiotis Drug Rug is playing at Tasty World on Friday, Feb. 13.

SCARLET SNOW The Needle EP Independent Release The locals of Scarlet Snow do not comprise your typical Christianrock band, if such a thing even exists anymore. The group’s new EP, The Needle, hits you with its shadowy, defensive mood right from the get-go and doesn’t abandon such trappings for sun-drenched interludes as the album progresses. As with Scarlet Snow’s previous release, Inclined, frontwoman Samantha

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Cowan’s husky vocals are out in front, though the rest of the bandmembers— Ian Canalis, Michael Cowan and Zach Robbins—do appear to have kicked their arrangements and instrumentation up a notch, oftentimes attaining a new-metallic crunch or a sudden wave of distortion, effects and additional vocals not unlike contemporaries Evanescence. The songs are not sappy or glad-handing, which have become calling-card qualities of many Christian rockers. Instead, it would appear that Scarlet Snow would like to make clear that, no matter your particular faith, we all bleed, get disappointed or subsequently disappoint others and are all capable of having our insides ripped apart by love or by loved ones. Instead of offering up faith as a requirement for eventual salvation, songs like “Bandage or Love Me More” and “Everybody Has a Broken Heart” gain added strength and perseverance from that devotion. Faith isn’t something Snow is pushing on you. But, within The Needle’s darkened corners and sometimes-anguished scenarios, the band is simply letting you know it may help one in overcoming a difficult situation. At that, one has to read more than passingly into The Needle’s lyrics to even ascertain that Scarlet Snow is a faith-based group. If you don’t praise that way, Snow isn’t out to damn or convert you. But, if you do agree or sympathize with the band’s beliefs and battles, that’s perfectly OK, too. Michael Andrews Scarlet Snow celebrates its CD release at the Melting Point on Friday, Feb. 13.

PEGASUSES-XL Electro Agitators Ernest Jenning Record Co. One word comes to mind while listening to Pegasuses-XL’s newest release: beautiful. Sure the beauty may be hard to locate underneath the layers of distortion and shouts, but there’s something beautiful about the chaos going on inside. What Pegasuses-XL do may be the musical equivalent to a pretty girl with a black eye: twisted and bruised, but fading into softness that is almost more beautiful because of the juxtaposition. The aggression that the album displays isn’t quite up to the levels of some metal acts or of the late, great Atari Teenage Riot, but the feeling is there. This isn’t dancehall electronic music, this is dark and creepy hardcore for the black latex set. The really amazing part about Electro Agitators is that it never feels repetitive. The album, really a remastered compilation of the band’s three EPs, manages to keep finding new structures to weave the band’s furious drumming and synth sounds through. Instead of recycling beats and sounds, Pegasuses-XL create 17 rather disparate and remarkable soundscapes. The highlight of the album is the stirring and shifting “Major in

Business/Minor in Art” which shifts between the fury of a long-forgotten Minor Threat song and the nerdcore Moog drenched sounds of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Dare to Be Stupid.” Clocking in at just under two-and-ahalf minutes, the song perfectly distills Pegasuses-XL’s fury and wizardry into a near perfect storm. Jason Bugg

NAT BALDWIN Most Valuable Player Broken Sparrow The word “pleasant” can be one of those back-handedly complimentary words that you apply to something to suggest it is generally enjoyable while also being generally unremarkable. Nat Baldwin’s latest album is pleasant in only the best ways, and very often not only enjoyable but quite remarkable. Baldwin’s startlingly emotional performances on the double bass have graced recordings with Anthony Braxton and the Dirty Projectors, and on “Most Valuable Player” he extends the reach of his gift for the poignant to the voice. From someone whose resumé reads mostly avant, here we have an album that is supremely palatable and entirely re-listenable. “Out” jazz it’s not. Recorded by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and featuring contributions from members of New York City guitar wizards Zs, the album employs the haunted-gymnasium sense of space of the former and precise (but totally tasteful) fretwork of the latter. But the centerpiece is always Nat Baldwin’s melodic bowed bass and world-pained vocals. When unaccompanied, Baldwin evokes the open-diary-on-the-dresser starkness of Arthur Russell. The delicate horn arrangements are, like everything else on “Most Valuable Player,” subdued enough to allow the album’s beauty to stand unmolested. It is melancholy but without misery, and in an interview with Gothamist.com, Baldwin explains: “I started singing with the bass one night a few years ago in my parents’ basement. I was sad and it felt good.” Lucky for us. Jeff Tobias

THE OLD CEREMONY Walk on Thin Air sonaBLAST! The Old Ceremony from Chapel Hill is back with its sophomore effort and first release on filmmaker Gill Holland’s sonaBLAST! Records. Walk on Thin Air

is a restrained and moodier version of the group’s debut, self-titled and selfreleased record. While the self-titled album boasts a number of pop gems, including the irrepressibly catchy “Papers in Order,” Walk on Thin Air is, well, thin on superficial pop hooks, and heavy on lyrical and aural introspection. Songwriter Django Haskins sings in a voice that conveys depth of emotion, while his lyrics are flirtatiously dark. Perhaps more so than many modern singers, Haskins is equally comfortable singing about the sacred as he is the profane. On “Boy Prince” Haskins channels the innocence of a post-Beatles John Lennon, while on “The Disappear” he sounds downright devilish. “Til My Voice Is Gone” is the closest thing the album has to a pop single. On the more fleshed-out songs, Ceremony is theatrical like Coldplay without being pretentious, and melodic like Fastball and The Killers. Perhaps influenced by Haskin’s namesake— Django Reinhardt—the group’s songs also have elements of jazz. Though The Old Ceremony hasn’t yet figured out how to channel the energy of its live shows onto tape, it makes it up with stellar musicianship. The air might be thin up where The Old Ceremony dwells, but it’s worth a visit for the 48 minutes this album lasts. John Seay

DILLON The Southern Scramble Independent Release The Southern Scramble is a bizarre, breakfast-obsessed, confusing, 32-track long album. Unfortunately, there’s not an album in existence that’s 32 tracks long that’s good from start to finish. Secondly, the album has 10 producers. I know everyone has to get their name out there for props and exposure, but with 10 different producers and over 32 tracks, everyone’s name is lost, and the listener can’t remember which song they liked, who produced it, or if Dillon even rapped on it. The good news? The music that Dillon and friends are rapping over is amazing. It’s really, really good. The sampling and mixing found here is at times as good as you’d find with Wu-Tang or even DJ Shadow. One of the challenges Dillon ultimately succeeds at is managing to sample really interesting music throughout. Unfortunately, a lot of this music is buried under pointless answeringmachine recordings of Dillon’s pals calling and ordering omelets from him. I’m not joking. After what feels like the 50th person calling to tell Dillon what they like in their eggs, the listener becomes a little too inclined to skip to the next track to try to find an actual song. The rapping is decent, Dillon’s especially, but an instrumental version of this same album would be amazing. Dillon’s an adept rapper, with great taste in background music, even hilarious album art; he just needs to “trim the fat” from his next project. Noel Wurst

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Wild Combination A Portrait of Arthur Russell

he notion of a feature-length documentary focused on the brilliant cellist and singer-songwriter Arthur Russell would certainly elicit deep joy from those longstanding, awestruck admirers of his, regardless of its quality, scope, budget or availability; if said film turned out to be a short-run Dadaist mélange of impressionistic camerawork set to Russell’s rehearsal tapes and breathing patterns, it would be hunted down, pored over and savored tenaciously. It’s a blessing, then, that director Matt Wolf’s Wild Combination is a film of immense emotional impact, enjoyable and heartrending not only to those in Russell’s thrall, but to the sensitive filmgoing public outside of it as well. Not to downplay his wonderful film in any manner, but it should be noted that Wolf hit the cinematic goldmine in his choice of subject matter. In regard to the soundtrack alone, Wolf couldn’t lose: Arthur Russell’s amazingly diverse, rarefied music could turn the most banal sentimental dog food into something magical. And, as obscure as he turned out to ultimately be, Russell was not the classic music-business failure who has lately attracted so much reeltime, à la Townes Van Zandt or Shane MacGowan; he was no existentialist loser-saint whose career was curbed by drug addiction, record company politics, the fickle tide of public opinion or a systemic personal apathy founded on a combination of the three. Rather, his humble roots, his indefatigable work ethic and the resultant sonic majesty, and his untimely death due to AIDS make Russell a deeply sympathetic figure on a truly universal level. Russell’s resolute dedication to music took him through a remarkably variegated litany of cultural scenes. He was a commune-dwelling psychedelic Buddhist in summer-of-love San Francisco who toured as mantra-accompanist to Allen Ginsberg. He participated in the early punk scenes of both New York and Boston, recording and performing with Talking Heads and members of Modern Lovers. He acted as director of the venerable downtown avantgarde institution The Kitchen and collaborated with Philip Glass and Robert Wilson. And, perhaps most improbably, Russell was a legitimate disco-era dancefloor sensation whose independently released singles not only moved asses in New York, but reached a larger public consciousness beyond. Simply put, the breadth

of Arthur Russell’s influence and achievement makes this film of interest to a wide audience. That said, Wolf accomplishes much in the film’s spare running time. He utilizes archival performance footage, intimate interviews with Russell’s loved ones, and an atmospheric verisimilitude via scene-reenactment to construct a revelatory experience that’s equal parts biography and nuanced interior topography. His decision to cast an actor to silently portray Russell amid his daily rituals is a brilliant one: hearing of this man’s unwavering commitment to his vision engenders admiration; watching Russell worry over mixes on his Walkman during his obsessive rides on the Staten Island Ferry casts his loneliness and self-doubt in real-time, eliciting sympathy and imparting a subtly authentic understanding of how he operated. Through his own interstitial footage of Russell’s native Iowa and his various adopted hometowns, Wolf rightfully essays a mimetic pace as meditative and otherworldly as the music which accompanies it. With Wild Combination, Wolf achieves a unique synthesis of informative biography and portrait, as was his goal; he fashioned a filmic atmosphere which, at times, feels nearly as unclassifiable and moving as Arthur Russell’s best music. And this, to me, feels like the final, daunting criterion in judging this film: is the experiential afterglow of Wolf’s film redolent of the fleeting, singular power which embodies the most affecting work of its subject? Is it a holistic portrayal of the unbending will and complex psyche of an isolated visionary? I feel, in essence, it works on both counts, and that it will communicate purely and greatly to audiences of every stripe—for this is as much a film about family, devotion and compulsion as it is about the extraordinary genius of Arthur Russell.

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WHAT: Wild Combination screening followed by live music from Grape Soda, Dead Elephant Bicycle, Memory Gospel Dancers and Thin Hymns in the CinéLab WHERE: Ciné WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. HOW MUCH: $5

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redux nation Reissues: New Then, New Again BEE GEES Odessa: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Rhino

Perhaps the most tragic result of the Bee Gee’s disco-era comeback, aside from the Brothers Gibbs’ newly liberated chest hair, was that it overshadowed the group’s earlier forays into orchestral pop. Odessa, from 1969, has since been either praised as a masterpiece or damned as overwrought fluff. Now packaged as a 3-disc, 40th anniversary edition, the greatly expanded Odessa offers arguments for both sides. Planned as a double concept album—concerning what is anybody’s guess—the strained Odessa sessions eventually resulted in a two-year split between the brothers, with Barry and Maurice Gibb continuing under the group moniker as the high-singing Robin bowed out. It doesn’t take listening past the first few tracks to discover whatever conceptual framework the Gibbs sought to build got lost amid the album’s construction. The songs, however, provide some of the Bee Gees’ most densely arranged and carefully crafted work when taken as individual pieces of a confounding puzzle. Odessa begins slow and dreary, with the title track’s sailor lost at sea. From there, we’re presented with a situational potluck—a “family on the skids” who can’t stop adopting orphans (“Marley Purt Drive”), a brief sketch of electrical pioneer Thomas Edison (“Edison”), a traveler bidding farewell to those he’d befriended (“Give Your Best”)—all of which would appear to set the stage for the ever-rotating concept to finally take hold. That firm grasp, though, is never really attained. It may be hindered by too much preplanning and not enough subsequent focus, but Odessa’s soaring melodies, intricate string arrangements and stylistic genre-hopping do not fail. The string section, presented in conjunction with the Gibbs’ trio of immaculate vocal harmonies, creates a mighty and resounding lead instrument. Robin Gibb’s quavering falsetto sends tracks like “Lamplight” into the emotional stratosphere with Barry and Maurice providing a safety net for the comedown. Many of the lyrics, sometimes as brow-furrowing as The Monkees’ Head or The Beatles’ White Album, are textbook examples of the Bee Gees’ tendency to set dark lyrical concepts against warm, inviting melodies. Loves are ripped apart, hearts are trampled and nobody’s dreams unfold like they’d hoped. But, the album is, somehow, not a downer.

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Though the repackaged Odessa suffers from too much expansion—with both stereo and mono mix discs of the original—the third disc of demos and alternates is a smart, revealing addition. Often, the skeletal sketches have a more lasting impact than the layered final versions. Boiled down to three harmonizing voices accompanied by softly strummed guitars, a basic layer of strings and slow, steady drums, the sketches are often more rewarding experiences than the final portrait. Sometimes referred to as the Bee Gees’ Sgt. Pepper—a fair comparison as the group’s members were admitted students of The Beatles’ melodic smarts—in retrospect Odessa sounds more like the missing link between the acid-era Fab Four and the then-still-embryonic E.L.O., which would later cherry pick ideas from both camps. Strange, turbulent waters it may present, but, 40 years on, Odessa’s re-release assuredly confirms two things. One: the confines of pop music, a niche market long synonymous with the Bee Gees, has actually narrowed since the original release of Odessa, which maneuvers nimbly between dense chamber pop, catchy pseudo-country and suave white-boy soul. Two: though sometimes overwritten by decades of pop-culture revision, there was always much more to the Bee Gees than simple jive talkin’.

HANK WILLIAMS The Unreleased Recordings Time/Life

Time has added greatly to the mystique of Hank Williams, country music’s archetypical father figure who passed away quietly between stops in the back of his Cadillac. However, Williams’ artistic legacy has been boosted considerably by the glut of recordings left behind. Three-disc box Unreleased Recordings is the latest to posthumously dig into Williams’ reserve file and is exactly the type of compilation you should hand somebody that questions why, over 50 years after his death, performers are still cribbing style and substance from smilin’ Hank, Sr. Unreleased patches together radio performances Williams recorded, often from the road, for Nashville station WSM’s Mother’s Best Flour-sponsored programs. Reading through the set’s 54 track listing, it’s apparent that Williams and his accompanying Drifting Cowboys sought to not phone in their setlists, often tossing in an old church spiritual or mountain folk song that Williams may not have recorded elsewhere. Whether extolling the transportation virtues of the “California Zephyr” or foreshadowing his own eventual fate (“The Pale

Horse and His Rider”), Williams was a master of conveying complex emotion within deceptively simple songs. One minute he’s attempting to butter up a nubile lass, the next he’s scaring the snot out of you for skipping church or neglecting your loved ones. At the rapid pace they traveled, it’s amazing how refined, relaxed and seemingly off-the-cuff Williams and his stellar Cowboys sound. Few of today’s country torchbearers could come across so “together” under such strain. So, who can blame them for stealing a few pages from old Hank?

WILLIE NELSON Naked Willie Sony/Legacy

Despite its cringe-worthy title, Naked Willie is a project that should be of interest to diehard Nelsonites. For years, Nelson has bemoaned the fact that his early, pre-Outlaw era recordings suffered from too many studio add-ons like lush strings and overpowering backup singers. Naked Willie presents 17 classic sides from 1966–1970 stripped of post-production sweetening and presented in more of the sparse, sometimes delicate style for which Nelson has since come to be known. Perhaps the most surprising revelation is that, by removing the arguably “uncountry” strings, horns and vocal backing, most of the remixed tracks end up sounding even less like country songs. Instead, their new mixes illustrate that Nelson’s grasp of jazz, blues and even adult pop was in check years before his beard and braids began to sprout. “The Party’s Over” and “Local Memory” take on a feel more akin to Tony Bennett than Ray Price, while “Sunday Morning Coming Down” is wrapped in a driving, almost rock and roll context. If you didn’t know any better, thanks to the way that Nelson’s forever nasal vocals have aged gracefully over time, you might swear that these are new recordings of old material. But, they aren’t. Instead, they represent a correction long envisioned by Nelson—though staunchly personal and maybe inconsequential to few but Willie himself—finally come to pass.

SAM MYERS & ANSON FUNDERBURGH My Love Is Here to Stay Hepcat

Nothin’ but the blues is what’s offered up by Mississippi harp master Sam Myers and gritty Texan guitarist Anson Funderburgh with his Rockets on the 1985 collaboration My Love Is Here to Stay. The album was the first to feature Myers as sit-in harp player and vocalist for Funderburgh’s group, but it would not be the last as the two converged many times over the next several years. It’s easy to see why. Myers was the kind of authentic, grizzled bluesman idolized by Funderburgh and company, while Funderburgh and the Rockets were exactly the type of young, studied pickup band that a traveling gun like Myers needed. Whether spicing up an old Myers tune like “Poor Little Angel Child,” churning out new collaborations like the wily “Suggestion Blues” or paying homage to greats like Willie Dixon and Skip James, this is real blues for real folks. No mic-heavy ‘80s drums or out-of-place synths here. Just Myers’ mighty bellow leading one of the Lone Star State’s hottest and most underappreciated blues combos. Michael Andrews

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Dr. Dog Loosens Up by Tightening Up Its Sound W e’ve seen the bumper stickers on the backs of minivans and in head shops everywhere: “If You Can Remember the ‘60s—You Weren’t There.” It’s a rather idiotic statement that time and editorial concerns prevent from dissection, but the underlying statement is this: if you remembered the ‘60s as anything, it was an artificial time and place that probably didn’t exist. The members of Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog aren’t subscribers of this theory. They are a bit too wet behind their collective ears to remember those days of social unrest and our national colors being orange, brown and green, but they do hold the music and the spirit of adventure that grew from within near and dear. In fact, the band’s sound is dripping with ‘60s overtones, from the lazy Ringo-is-too-stoned-to-keep-up drum beats to the fuzzy electric piano lines that would make The Guess Who proud. The band’s sound has elicited praise from Pitchfork to Letterman (those two great musical and cultural barometers), and fans are starting to climb on board the band’s beautiful balloon. But if it sounds like Dr. Dog is going to let go of the yoke and let the ship crash into the ground, fear not—according to bassist Toby Leaman, it’s all by design. “[Our sound] isn’t something that we achieve by writing [the songs]. When we are recording, we try to make it feel like it’s not stifling or too uptight or anything,” says Leaman. The fear of the uptight causes the band’s ramshackle yet precise sound to bubble to the surface. It’s a sound that may lead the uninitiated to think that Leaman and company are making it up as they go, but don’t worry—the guys in Dr. Dog like it when their songs sound that way. “It’s more interesting this way. If every time we played a verse and it had the exact same instrumentation playing the exact same part, it’d get really boring,” says Leaman. In fact, the band’s songwriting credo is less about the sense of economy that a lot of punk- and pop-derived bands tend to embrace and more about taking the listeners on a challenging and yet minimalist ride. “There’re no two parts that are the exact same thing; we try to cut the dead space out of our songs. Sometimes it might sound loose, but it’s less direct,” says Leaman. Even if Leaman’s description of the band makes the cynical reader think that Dr. Dog is pure jam-band musical

masturbation, throw those notions away. Dr. Dog is less about musicianship and more about songcraft and creating a musical ambiance, unlike most acts. “Everybody’s capable of being a ‘musician,’ but we got over that when we were kids. We’d rather play the simplest thing that actually sounds good with the other parts. That’s really important,” says Leaman. Dr. Dog’s latest album, Fate (Park the Van Records), is the perfect showcase for these aesthetics. Almost-funky drums, Leaman’s nimble, McCartney-inspired bass lines and a swirl of guitars, piano and organ provide a background for some of the catchiest songs that sound straight out of a slab of longforgotten vinyl fished from a dollar bin at a record show in Valhalla. That attention to songcraft is the result of Dr. Dog’s rather meticulous self-editing process. “The parts of the songs are interesting, but they are also fluid to help move the song along. It’s all about what works with whatever is going on in the song,” says Leaman. But just because Dr. Dog’s sound is ‘60s-obsessed doesn’t mean that Leaman and company are a Lenny Kravitz for the seven-inch collecting sect; instead, the band’s sound and aesthetic are a means of self-preservation. According to Leaman, the band is more comfortable with the “retro” tag than an “outdated” one. “The idea isn’t to sound old; it’s to sound timeless, because otherwise you’re going to sound dated. I heard so many bands that I thought were so cutting-edge when I was a kid, and now they are just stuck sounding like bands from that era.” Instead, Leaman is comfortable with making his music sound just as good on an iPod in 2009 as it would on AM radio in 1969, and that’s the magic.

Jason Bugg

WHO: Dr. Dog, Drug Rug, Futurebirds WHERE: Tasty World WHEN: Friday, Feb. 13 HOW MUCH: $14

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hink you know the Big O, the late, great electric soul-shouter Otis Redding? On Feb. 17, you’ll be able to find out whether your Otis IQ flips, flops or flies. That Tuesday afternoon the UGA Music Business Program will hold a tribute in honor of the man who, though his life and barely five-yearlong recording career were cut short at age 26 by an untimely 1967 plane crash, has since been considered by many to be the preeminent soul singer of the 20th century. Redding’s early years growing up and hustling gigs in Macon, GA have been well documented. It was there that he began playing backup for the likes of Little Richard after dropping out of high school, was befriended by eventual manager and business associate Phil Walden, and established an early reputation as a no-nonsense performer whose suave demeanor and kinetic energy could light fires ‘neath even the dullest of audiences. However, Redding also had some oft-overlooked ties to Athens. It was here, in the former television studio that’s now home to WUGA 91.7, where a feisty young Redding recorded the seminal man-vs.-bear soul-screamer “Shout Bamalama” as a fledgling member of rhythm and blues road crew Johnny Jenkins and the Pinetoppers. So swift was the record/release process back then that the record was pressed under the amended credit of The Pinetoppers featuring Otis Redding. Perhaps this was simply because actual bandleader Jenkins was not present during the session, explains WUGA Program Director Robb Holmes, but the recording nonetheless set the stage for Redding to blossom into a household name. “As far as I have been able to find out, nobody knows for sure exactly when the session where Otis Redding recorded ‘Shout Bamalama’ took place,” says Holmes. “The studio used to be the home of WGTV public television channel 8, back when it was operated by the university, for about 22 years or so. The most likely date for the recording is June or July of 1960, though some rock historians suggest a date as late as April of 1962, even though some confirm that the record was already in circulation before that time. It was a session for Johnny Jenkins and his band the Pinetoppers, but it wasn’t the usual band— instead, a couple of ringers were sitting in—and it’s been said that Jenkins, himself, wasn’t there, either.” Administrative Director of the UGA Music Business Program Bruce Burch says that the Redding tribute is shaping up to be a diverse and memorable afternoon. The tribute is the second of its kind from the music business program. Last year, a similar function was held for country and western’s “Whispering” Bill Anderson. Burch says that the tribute program will be an annual tradition highlighting both well-known and more obscure Georgian artists.

He points out, too, that the future WUGA studio was also used as a recording site for Whispering Bill’s hit “City Lights” and “Last Kiss,” originally recorded by Redding’s fellow Georgian Pinetopper Wayne Cochran and his C.C. Riders. So far, the list of performers includes native Athenian T. Graham Brown, Randall Bramblett, Wet Willie frontman Jimmy Hall, singer/songwriter John Berry and The HEAP/ Kevn Kinney bassist Bryan Howard. The afternoon will also feature addresses from such guest speakers as Mayor Heidi Davison and Georgia Music Hall of Fame Executive Director Lisa Love. Members of the Redding family have also been invited to attend the event, which will be broadcast live on university channel 15 and taped for rebroadcast. The same night, several of the tribute’s participating performers—including Brown, Bramblett and Hall—will take part in a songwriter’s roundtable performance at the Melting Point. Bramblett, a longtime lover of R&B and soul music who grew up in the South Georgia town of Jesup, not too far from Redding’s old Macon stomping grounds, says that, as a performer and singer, Redding was virtually in a league of his own. “I’ve always loved his music,” says Bramblett. “Through high school and college that’s all that (I and my friends) did was play soul music. I couldn’t sound like Otis—his voice was so unique, so I had to sound like somebody else back then. He just had an amazing voice, and there’s just so many great songs that he did. He was also playing with these white guys from Memphis, which made such a unique combination. Guys like Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn and all the horns playing with him made it all work, too. But, it was his voice that pulled the whole thing together.” Burch, who wrote songs for such artists as Reba McEntire and George Jones before teaching at UGA, shares that high regard of Redding. “He just had one of those voices that was so emotional—raw, but so emotional,” says Burch. “I think that was what made him appeal to so many people. When he sang a song, man, he felt it! It was like the music came through him from another place. He wasn’t just there singing the notes and making them fit. He obviously felt the emotion of his songs. You can’t teach somebody to sing like that; you have to be born with it.” Michael Andrews

WHAT: Tribute to Otis Redding WHERE: Mahler Auditorium at the Georgia Center WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 17 HOW MUCH: FREE!

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Tuesday 10 EVENTS: Peabody Archive Screening (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 348) In observance of Black History Month, the Peabody Awards Collection screens “Dateline NBC: The Education of Ms. Groves,” which chronicles the experience of an idealistic Teach for America volunteer assigned to a tough middle school in Atlanta. Discussion to follow. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8983, www.peabody.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: UGA Idol (UGA Hodgson Hall) Proceeds benefit Prevent Child Abuse Athens. Presented by Sigma Delta Tau and the UGA Music Business Program. 7:30 p.m. $7 (advance), $10 (door). ugaidol2009@gmail.com* KIDSTUFF: Chapter Book Revue (Madison County Library) A program for elementary ages. This month: Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Old Clock. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Deco Boxes for Teens (Oconee County Library) Decorate an ordinary cardboard box in this decoupage workshop. Pictures, stickers, beads, decoupage and paint will be provided; bring your own box. Call to register. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) For ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: AfricanAmerican Authors Book Club (ACC Library—Small Conference Room) This month: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama. Newcomers welcome. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Bulldog Book Club (UGA Student Learning Center—Jittery Joe’s) Discussion of The Known World by Edward P. Jones. UGA students, faculty, staff and local residents are welcome. 4 p.m. FREE! fteague@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “Freshwater Bivalves: Diversity, Distribution and Extinction” (UGA Ecology Building—Auditorium) Art Bogan of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences gives the talk. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-6013 LECTURES & LIT.: Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard (UGA Chapel) Dr. Dan Colley, director of the UGA Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, speaks. 5 p.m. FREE! 706542-5038 LECTURES & LIT.: Paul Rusesabagina (UGA Tate Center) A presentation by the hotelier and author who saved the lives of more than 1,200 civilians during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The film Hotel Rwanda is based on his story. 7:30 p.m. FREE! (UGA students), $5 (non-students). www.uga.edu/union

GAMES: A.P.A. Pool Tournament (Fat Daddy’s) Sponsored by the American Poolplayers Association. 7 p.m. 706-353-0241 GAMES: Beginner’s Pool School (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Learn the basics, every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706354-7829 GAMES: CornHole League (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Drunken Bingo (283 Bar) Great prizes and fun all night long. 10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Alibi) Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. 706-549-1010

Wednesday 11 EVENTS: Inherit the Wind (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 101) Screening of 1960 film based on the Scopes monkey trial of 1925. Introduced by Betty Jean Craige and Richard Neupert. Part of Darwin Day at UGA. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.uga. edu/darwinday EVENTS: Cartoon PJ Party (Flicker Theatre & Bar) It’s Saturday morning all Wednesday night! Have a brew and enjoy a slew of classic cartoons. PJs encouraged, but entirely optional. 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace. com/flickerbar ART: Open Studio: Life Drawing (Georgia Museum of Art) No instruction offered. Participants must provide own supplies. Adults only. Ed & Phoebe Forio Studio classroom. 5:30–8:30 p.m. $5. 706-542-4662 PERFORMANCE: Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy (The Classic Center) Show directed by Neil Goldberg featuring an international cast of aerialists, contortionists, acrobats, jugglers and musicians. The theatrical, acrobatic and musical spectacle debuted on Broadway in 2008. 7:30 p.m. $10–$75. www. classiccenter.com* PERFORMANCE: “Homeopathic Grafting” (Ciné Barcafé) Multimedia artists Alejandro Crawford and Hank Sullivant present “Homeopathic Grafting: This Awakening Dream of Communication.” See Don’t Miss on www.flagpole.com for more. 9:11 p.m. $5. www.athenscine.com PERFORMANCE: St. Olaf Choir (First Presbyterian Church) National tour of the pioneer a cappella choir in the U.S. Anton Armstrong conducts. Tickets available online. 7:30 p.m. $25 (adults), $15 (students). www.stolaftickets.com* KIDSTUFF: Eatin’ with the Critters (Sandy Creek Nature Center—ENSAT) Bring a sack lunch for an hour of learning about “Past

to Present.” For ages 3–5 with an adult. Call to register. 12:30 p.m. $0–$13 (scholarships available). 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (ACC Library) Led by UGA student volunteers from the Department of Language and Literacy Education. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) For ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Belly Dance Workshop. Ages 11–18. Space is limited. 4 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650. LECTURES & LIT.: “Beauty and the Beast: How Orchids Act as Parasites on Insects and Fungi” (UGA Biological Sciences Building—Room 404A) Richard Shefferson gives the talk. Part of Darwin Day at UGA. Noon. FREE! www.uga.edu/darwinday LECTURES & LIT.: Black History Month Keynote (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 102) Dr. Fran Dorsey, artist and assistant professor of Black American studies at Kent State University, discusses the evolution of black cultural centers in the U.S. Sponsored by the AfricanAmerican Cultural Center. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8468 LECTURES & LIT.: “Epigenetics and Human Health: Was Lamarck Right?” (UGA Life Sciences Building—Room C127) Panel discussion with Richard Meagher, Fazal Khan and John McDonald. Part of Darwin Day at UGA. 4 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/ darwinday LECTURES & LIT.: Bob Googe (UGA Student Learning Center— Room 148) Bob Googe tells his story as founder of Jittery Joe’s and talks about how to succeed in today’s economy as an entrepreneur. Sponsored by the Students in Free Enterprise at UGA. 6 p.m. FREE! papillon@uga.edu MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) This month’s new project is different techniques of rug making. The group will also be crocheting baskets. Every Wednesday. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 GAMES: Athens Dart League (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Every Wednesday! 8 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Stan’s Famous Trivia Nite (Alibi) Get a team together and test your knowledge of the trivial. Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Fat Daddy’s) Every Monday and Wednesday. Mondays, 6 & 9 p.m. Wednesdays, 7 & 10 p.m. 706353-0241

The Town and Gown Players will perform Cabaret Feb. 13–15 and Feb. 19–22 at the Athens Community Theatre.

Thursday 12 EVENTS: Judgment Day (UGA Psychology-Journalism Auditorium—South) Screening of Peabody Award-winning film that documents the events leading up to the 2005 Dover, PA trial over the teaching of intelligent design. Postscreening discussion with Edward Larson, J. Randy Beck and Donald E. Wilkes follows. Part of Darwin Day at UGA. 7 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/ darwinday EVENTS: Clips for a Cause (UGA Tate Center—Rooms 139 & 145) 18 stylists from City Salon, Bob Salon, Republic, Honey Salon and Revive give haircuts to raise money for the upcoming student-led AIDS Walk/ Run Athens. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $10. 404-451-5180, www.aidswalkrunathens.org EVENTS: Valentine’s Wine Tasting (Earth Fare Café) With Rose Adams. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706227-1717 ART: UGA Art Auction (The Globe) Live auction of art donated by UGA faculty, students and alumni as well as several pieces from Dr. Janice Simon’s African Art Collection. Benefits the 2009 MFA Thesis Exhibition. 7 p.m. 706-296-7307 PERFORMANCE: Fred Mills and the Georgia Brass (UGA Hodgson Hall) Fred Mills conducts the 15-member group with guest artist Joe Alessi, principal trombonist with the New York Philharmonic. 8 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/pac PERFORMANCE: Amanda Jane (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Local standup comedienne. 8:30 p.m. $5. www. myspace.com/flickerbar PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Jong

Ah Moon, violin. 6 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu THEATRE: A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Award-winning playwright Eve Ensler’s compilation of monologues from contemporary authors and poets. Proceeds benefit Project Safe. Tickets available at Frontier, Urban Sanctuary Day Spa and Project Safe Thrift Store. Feb. 12–13, 8 p.m. $10. www.project-safe.org KIDSTUFF: I Have a Dream (Morton Theatre) Dramatization of the life and times of MLK. Presented by Theatre IV America. Geared to students grades 3 & up. Advance tickets only. 9:30 & 11:30 a.m. $10. 800-275-5005* KIDSTUFF: Babies & Beasties Series (Sandy Creek) Help your toddler discover nature. Ages 18 months–2 years, with adult. Call to register. 10 a.m. $7. 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Black History Program (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Learn about historical figures whose actions changed history. Ages 6–12. 3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3603 KIDSTUFF: Chapter Book Revue (Madison County Library) A program for elementary ages. This month: Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Old Clock. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: “The Lion and the Seven Little Lambkins” (Oconee County Library) Puppet show. Feb. 12, 4 p.m. Feb. 13, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: “From Dayton to Dover: Celebrating Darwin’s Birthday with a Brief History of the Evolution Teaching Controversy in America” (UGA Plant Sciences Building—Room 2401) Dr. Edward Larson presents

the seminar. Part of Darwin Day at UGA. 12:30 p.m. FREE! www.uga. edu/darwinday LECTURES & LIT.: “Malaria: The Killer Plant” (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 150) Mark Farmer gives the talk. Part of Darwin Day at UGA. 4 p.m. FREE! www.uga. edu/darwinday LECTURES & LIT.: “The Role of Evolution in Medicine” (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 150) Panel with Corrie Brown, Pat Thomas and David Lockman. Part of Darwin Day at UGA. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/darwinday MEETINGS: Athens Area Newcomers Club (Central Presbyterian Church) New Orleans artist Anne Jenkins and her husband Lee Nelson discuss their new gallery in Union Point, GA. 9:30 a.m. FREE! 706-353-2660 MEETINGS: Athens Human Rights Festival (Red Rooster) Committee planning meeting. Any volunteers who want to help organize this year’s festival are welcome. 7 p.m. 770-725-2652, www.athenshumanrightsfest.org MEETINGS: New Mamas Group (Full Bloom Center) Meet other new moms and get non-judgmental support and reassurance. Babies welcome. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Free every Thursday and Friday! 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. 706-354-7829

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in this year’s Empty Bowl Silent Auction to benefit the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia. The local artists who handcrafted the bowls will be on hand to answer questions about their pieces. 5–8 p.m. FREE! 706354-8191, www.foodbanknega.org ART: MFA Painting and Drawing Open Studio Night (Lamar Dodd School of Art—Room S365) Meet 16 emerging artists in their normally private studio workspaces. 7–10 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Double Bass Symposium: ARCO Chamber Orchestra (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Featuring solos by Milton Masciadri (double bass) and Levon Ambartsumian (violin). Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m. FREE! www.music. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Tri-County Talent Show & MLK Celebration (Oconee County Civic Center) Talented young singers, dancers, poets, steppers and bands from the public high schools of Athens-Clarke, Oconee and Walton Counties compete for cash prizes. Proceeds benefit Moore’s Ford Memorial Scholarships. 7 p.m. $10 (adults), $5 (students). 706-3540321, www.mooresford.org* PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Pawel Kozak, violin. 3:35 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu THEATRE: Cabaret (Athens Community Theatre) Town and Gown Players present the classic Kander & Ebb musical. Directed by Justin Sanders. Discounted tickets: $15 for students, seniors and members. Feb. 13–14 & 19–21, 8 p.m. Feb. 15 & 22, 2 p.m. $18. 706-208-8696 THEATRE: Love Letters (Memorial Park Quinn Hall) Athens Creative Theatre presents a dessert theatre production of the A.R. Gurney play that chronicles the relationship of a couple solely through their correspondence. Feb. 13–14, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15, 3 p.m. $15 (includes desserts). 706-613-3628 THEATRE: A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Presented by Project Safe. See Feb. 12 Theatre. Feb. 12–13, 8 p.m. $10. www.project-safe.org* KIDSTUFF: Afterhours @ The Library (ACC Library) Teen coffee house and open mic. Come sing, dance, play an instrument or read poetry. Refreshments provided. Ages 11–18. 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Fantastic Fridays (Bishop Park) Obstacle courses and other activities in an unstructured environment. Drop-in any time. Ages 6 months–4 years. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $10/day. 706-613-3589 KIDSTUFF: “The Lion and the Seven Little Lambkins” (Oconee County Library) Puppet show. See Feb. 12 Kidstuff. Feb. 12, 4 p.m. Feb. 13, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Little Miss Sweetheart Pageant (Broadacres Community Center) A pageant competition for girls ages 6–12 to display their talent, poise and composure. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3600 KIDSTUFF: Movie Day (Madison County Library) Three different PG movies will be played during the afternoon. Come for one or see all three. Light snacks provided. 12–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for

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literacy-based fun. Ages 2–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: “Different Worlds and Divergent Paths: Academic Careers Defined by Race & Gender” (UGA Memorial Hall—Adinkra Hall) Juanita Johnson-Bailey and Ronald Cervero speak. Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies. 12:20–1:10 p.m. FREE! 706-542-2846 LECTURES & LIT.: Jack Davis Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art) Sergio Aragonés, an early contributor to MAD magazine, speaks. Recipient of the Will Eisner Hall of Fame Award, Aragonés is one of the world’s most honored cartoonists. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-1511 MEETINGS: Knitting Mamas (Full Bloom Center) Relax and knit with other moms. 2 p.m. FREE! www. fullbloomparent.com GAMES: Roleplaying Games Demo Night (Tyche’s Games) Space is limited. 6 p.m. FREE! 706354-4500, www.tychesgames.com GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Free every Thursday and Friday! 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. 706-354-7829

Saturday 14 EVENTS: African-American History Tours (Athens Welcome Center) Two-hour bus tour led by Bernard Turner includes stops at the Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery and Morton Theatre. Seating is limited; reservations encouraged. 2 p.m. $10. 706-353-1820* EVENTS: Athens Psychic Fair (Village Herb Shop) Traditional Tarot, psychic readings, palmistry, Reiki, color therapy, astrology, mas-

sage and more. Barbara Odil leads a drum circle at 3 p.m. 1–5 p.m. $10 (for 15 minute reading). 706540-1689 EVENTS: Differently-Able BowlA-Thon (Various Locations) Fundraising event at both Kingpins Bowl and Brew and Showtime Bowling Center designed to raise awareness and resources for the differently-able. Hosted by the Multiple Choices Center for Independent Living. Contact Multiple Choices to reserve your lane. 12–3 p.m. 706549-1020, info@multiplechoices.us EVENTS: First Annual Lonely Hearts Club (Blur) Drag show and dance party featuring DJ Isaac McCalla. Boybutante AIDS Benefit. 9 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ blurathens EVENTS: Puppy Adoption Drive (Pet Supplies Plus) Puppies from Oconee Regional Humane Society and Circle of Friends. Also featuring Valentine’s pet photos. Proceeds benefit Athens Area animal charities. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. 706-353-0650 EVENTS: Spaghetti Supper and Silent Auction (Oconee Street United Methodist Church) Proceeds benefit AIDS Athens. Participants receive a ticket to the Festival for Life dessert and music reception at the Botanical Garden on Mar. 7. 6 p.m. www.oconeestreetumc.org EVENTS: Valentine’s Day Pet Photos (Entourage Clothing & Gifts) All proceeds benefit Hope’s Haven Rescue. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. $6. 706-546-7090 PERFORMANCE: Double Bass Symposium (Edge Recital Hall) Works by Frescobaldi, Granados Rabbath, Amato and Pao-Yuan. Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu THEATRE: Cabaret (Athens Community Theatre) Town and Gown Players present the classic Kander

& Ebb musical. See Feb. 13 Theatre. Feb. 13–14 & 19–21, 8 p.m. Feb. 15 & 22, 2 p.m. $18. 706-208-8696 THEATRE: Love Letters (Memorial Park Quinn Hall) Presented by Athens Creative Theatre. See Feb. 13 Theatre. Feb. 13–14, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15, 3 p.m. $15 (includes desserts). 706-613-3628 KIDSTUFF: Love Bugs and Kissing Fish (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Show your love for animals on Valentine’s Day with SCNC. Program will include learning about sweetheart animals, playing games, going on a hike and making crafts. Ages 4–12. Call to register. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $6. 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Origami Valentines (Georgia Museum of Art) Hijiri Hattori, outreach coordinator for the Center for Asian Studies, and volunteers will teach families how to make hearts and boxes using origami. 10 a.m.–noon. FREE! 706-542-4662 KIDSTUFF: Second Saturday Storytime (Sandy Creek) Join Center staff for nature stories. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Sweets for the Sweet Kids (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Valentine’s party with crafts, cookies and sweets. 4 p.m. $2. 706613-3602 KIDSTUFF: Winter Craft Daze (Sandy Creek Park) An afternoon of craft activities in tune with the season. Ages 5–12. Call to register. 3–4 p.m. $3. 706-613-3631 MEETINGS: Saturday Parent Group (Full Bloom Center) Meet other parents and talk about raising babies. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-3533373, www.fullbloomparent.com MEETINGS: Zen Discussion Group (Village Herb Shop) Weekly philosophy/spirituality gathering in a nonsectarian, inclusive environment. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-254-6122 GAMES: APA Jr. Billiard Leagues (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Welcoming

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Zelazowa, The Boxing Lesson, Rat Babies, Days of Hysteria Tasty World As of press time, it remains unclear how Paul Waclawsky (vocals and guitars), Jaylinn Davidson The Boxing Lesson (vocals and synthesizers) and Jake Mitchell (drums and samples) feel about boxing and its battle to remain relevant in a world that prefers roughnecks to be of the Ultimate Fighting variety. Flagpole apologizes for being unable to deliver the rock-and-jock perspective. We’re also (almost) embarrassed to admit to nearly letting band handlers fill this space with 300 completely biased and hyperbolic words in exchange for a couch to surf at next month’s SXSW Music Conference. Resisting the corrupt nature of our inner Blagojevich, we’ve instead elected to report only the facts and offer a few informed opinions. Wild Streaks & Windy Days (Big Bigness Records), the latest offering from Austin-based intergalactic-goth trio The Boxing Lesson, is a Moogy, manic and somewhat imaginative album that simultaneously strives for mainstream acceptance and indie-rock credibility. Boxing, the sport, has been afflicted with similar conflicting aspirations for years. There are too few household names in the post-Holyfield and Tyson era, and the current generation of total badasses instead mix martial arts while perfecting grappling techniques rather than search for the eye of the tiger in air conditionless inner-city gyms. Grammy-nominated producer Tim Gerron (The Gourds, Lick Lick, Seth Walker) was at the helm producing, engineering and mixing Streaks, and the end result is emotive, esoteric and safety-scissors edgy. The album is pleasantly nostalgic for fans of the new rock and ‘90s alternative-radio stations that used to dominate the dial. Songs for the maladjusted kid boarding the bus on the first day of middle school (“Hopscotch & Sodapop”) or the same kid spending the afternoon in detention (“Hanging with the Wrong Crowd”) would have been surefire hits, and may very well be in a parallel universe where teen angst dictates program directors’ playlists. Regardless of their radio-readiness, by all accounts these are songs best appreciated in live environs. [David Eduardo]

young billiard players aged 7-17 years old every Saturday! 11 a.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Free every Saturday! 5 p.m. & 8 p.m. 706354-7829

Sunday 15 EVENTS: Darwin Day 5K Fun Run (UGA Stegeman Coliseum) Proceeds benefit the Georgia Citizens for Integrity in Science Education. 8:30 a.m. $20 (shirt and race), $15 (race only). www.active.com, pbgsa@ plantbio.uga.edu EVENTS: Frog Hop 5K Road Race (Sandy Creek Park) Help support the Nature Center by entering the 11th annual 5K run/walk (2:30 p.m.) and 1 mile Tadpole Fun Run (2 p.m.). $20/person, early registration $15/ person (before Feb. 7). 706-6133615, www.active.com THEATRE: Cabaret (Athens Community Theatre) Town and Gown Players present the classic Kander & Ebb musical. See Feb. 13 Theatre. Feb. 13–14 & 19–21, 8 p.m. Feb. 15 & 22, 2 p.m. $18. 706-208-8696 THEATRE: The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial (UGA Hodgson Hall) L.A. Theatre Works presents the play based on the original transcripts of the 1925 trial of science teacher John Scopes, who challenged the state law in TN by teaching evolution instead of creationism. Ed Asner stars. Half-price for UGA students. 3 p.m. $20–$25. www.uga.edu/pac* THEATRE: Love Letters (Memorial Park Quinn Hall) Presented by Athens Creative Theatre. See Feb. 13 Theatre. Feb. 13–14, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15, 3 p.m. $15 (includes desserts). 706-613-3628* KIDSTUFF: Zoo Animal Feeding Tour (Memorial Park) Explore the world of Georgia wildlife at Bear Hollow and learn all about the resident animals. 2 p.m. FREE! 706613-3616 GAMES: APA Pool Leagues (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Join anytime, any skill level! 1 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Allen’s Bar & Grill) “The lord of all that is trivia,” Bobby Nettles, commutes from Duluth, GA to pick your brain. Sports-themed rules with diverse categories. 9 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill.com GAMES: Team Trivia (Wild Wing Café) Every Sunday at Wild Wing! FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Free every Sunday! 2, 4, & 8 p.m. 706-3547829

Monday 16 EVENTS: Through Other Eyes Film Fest (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 101) Festival continues with screening of Best Friend Forgotten, a documentary that takes a look at the crisis of pet overpopulation. Discussion to follow. Sponsored by Speak Out for Species. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.uga. edu/sos/filmfest PERFORMANCE: UGA Symphonic Band (UGA Hodgson Hall) Under the direction of Dr. Michael C. Robinson, the UGA Symphonic Band performs wind band works by Husa, Spittal and Rudin. 8 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Movie Day (Madison County Library) 12–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) Infant storytime (10:30 a.m. & 2 p.m.) and bedtime stories (7 p.m.). FREE! 706-613-3650

LECTURES & LIT.: Stillpoint Literary Magazine Open Mic Reading (UGA Demosthenian Hall) Share your poetry and short fiction and hear the work of your peers. Readers limited to 3–5 pieces. Refreshments provided. 7:30–10 p.m. FREE! LECTURES & LIT.: “Georgia Drought Trouting Tips and Conservation Activism” (Locos Grill & Pub—Barnett Shoals Road) 45-minute program by state fisheries expert Jeff Durniak. 7 p.m. FREE! www.orctu.org GAMES: APA Billiards Leagues (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Join anytime, any skill level! 7 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Ping Pong (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Get your paddle ready for a game of table tennis! 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/flickerbar GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Fat Daddy’s) Every Monday and Wednesday. Mondays, 6 & 9 p.m. Wednesdays, 7 & 10 p.m. 706353-0241 GAMES: Trivia (Beef O’ Brady’s) Get a team together, order some burgers and test your knowledge of the trivial. Every Monday! 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916

Tuesday 17 EVENTS: Peabody Archive Screening (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 348) In observance of Black History Month, the Peabody Awards Collection screens “Out of Control: AIDS in Black America,” an ABC News report that explores why African Americans account for 50% of all new cases of HIV infection. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8983, www. peabody.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Music Learning Community Service Project (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Benefit for the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia featuring UGA students performing rock, R&B, folk, jazz, classical, opera and musical theatre. 8 p.m. Donation or two nonperishable food items. www.music.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Book Discussion for Home-School Students (ACC Library) Come and discuss any of the books nominated for the Georgia Children’s Book Awards. For homeschool students in grades 4–8. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Chapter Book Revue (Madison County Library) A program for elementary ages. This month: Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Old Clock. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) For ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: “The Big Implications of Small Scale Fuel Heterogeneity on Fire Behavior and Ecological Processes” (UGA Ecology Building—Auditorium) Joseph O’Brien, USDA Forest Service, gives the talk. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-6013 LECTURES & LIT.: Child and Family Policy Initiative Brown Bag (UGA Tate Center—Room 138) Dr. Lance Rodewald discusses vaccinations for children. 12–1 p.m. FREE! hagues@cviog.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “Maybe Nothing Ever Happens Once and Is Finished: Some Notes on Recent Southern Writing and Social Change” (UGA SLC—Room 148) Richard J. Gray, professor of literature at the University of Essex, gives the talk. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-2248 LECTURES & LIT.: VOX Reading Series (Ciné Barcafé) An evening of poetry featuring the works of Andrew k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! Zawacki and Donna Stonecipher. Presented by the UGA Creative Writing Program. 8 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com LECTURES & LIT.: Joel-Peter Witkin (Lamar Dodd School of Art—Room S151) The photographer speaks as part of the Lamar Dodd School of Art’s Visiting Artist/ Scholar Series. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Friendship Christian Church) Chester and Gail Karwoski present a program titled “Stones, Statues, Seaman and Salt: Our 2008 Journey Across the West.” Visitors can bring their rocks to be identified. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-8082 GAMES: Beginner’s Pool School (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Learn the basics, every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706354-7829 GAMES: CornHole League (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Drunken Bingo (283 Bar) Great prizes and fun all night long. 10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Alibi) Play every Tuesday. 8 p.m. 706549-1010 * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 10 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $6 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE CLASSIC BASTARDS Members of the Primus Cover Band offer original songs with a similar cheeky, funk-metal, bassophilic swagger. And if they sneak in a few covers… is it luck? JOKER “Southern rock band with Athens bar experience,” says the band.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DAN NETTLES The guitarist in the jazz band Kenosha Kid.

its kind in Athens. Members went on to play in bands like Sump and ****Volcanic, but in 2005 revitalized The Plague, their early, rough and energetic creation. SOLAR Heavy metal purism from a new local trio.

Fat Daddy’s 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 KARAOKE Hosted by Lynn.

Fat Daddy’s 10 p.m.—1 a.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 OPEN MIC Every Wednesday.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar ALEXANDRIA Solo folk act on tour. CELESTE Solo folk act on tour. ELLIOTT Solo folk act on tour. YE OLDE SUB SHOPPE New band headed by Christopher Ingham (Christopher’s Liver).

Georgia Theatre Atlanta Electronic Showcase. 9 p.m. $7. www.georgiatheatre.com ELEMENTAL HARMONIC Instrumental electronic fusion. INFERNO Hot electronic trance from Atlanta. RANDOM RABBIT Dense, psychedelic trance from Atlanta, with a flare for improvisation. SYSTEM OBSOLETE Electronic duo in the vein of Squarepusher. Elemental Harmonic’s bassist Paul Knight and laptop wizard Ryan Noise create an innovative and ballistic barrage of live dubstep.

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The Library 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-8869 HELLO MISTER Alternative rock. The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3 www.meltingpointathens. com JIMMY DRIFTWOOD AND HIS LEGENDARY SIDEMEN Local guitarist and mandolinist Jimmy Driftwood is known for his skillful flat pick attacks and soft vocals. Joined by his four-piece backing band, Driftwood plays bluegrass and honky-tonk country. Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net B-SIDE REVOLUTION Local piano pop-rock fronted by Kyle Rogers. NEON MADMEN Big, blues-based riffs, high-energy tales and KISSstyle strutting from the local group formerly known as The Cool Swap. SMALL REACTIONS Light, upbeat tunes in the vein of Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born when piano-driven and Sky Blue Sky when their backbone is a catchy electric guitar exercise. Tasty Bar Downstairs. 10 p.m. FREE! www.tastyworld.net HIP-HOP DJs spin your favorite hiphop tracks all night.

Wednesday 11 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com THE PLAGUE In the 1980s, this punk band formed as one of the first of

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Go Bar 10:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DANCE-Y DANCE Featuring DJs Triz, No Sound and Shin[y] spinning “awesome and amazing things that make you want to dance all night long.” Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 KIP JONES Many of Jones’ tunes split between the reflective acoustic territory of Harvest-era Neil Young and the country-infused rock of ‘80s-era Steve Earle. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com JUKE JOINT DUO Blues featuring Cedric Burnside & Lightnin’ Malcom. Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net THE BOXING LESSON Voluminous space-rock from Austin. DAYS OF HYSTERIA Local metal band formerly known as Stereo Gun. Ask for a copy of the new self-titled EP! RAT BABIES Athens duo Rat Babies plays hit-you-in-the-gut dirt metal, care of Mux on bass, Chodd on

Friday, February 13

Empty Bowl Art Opening Good Dirt Studios & Gallery Ever since a high school art class in Michigan raised funds for a local food drive by making ceramic bowls in 1990, food banks across the country have held Empty Bowl Luncheons to aid in the fight against hunger. With the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia anticipating the local need for food to reach record levels in 2009, this year’s fundraiser is especially critical. The 11th annual event, which includes a simple soupand-sandwich lunch and a silent auction of symbolic “empty bowls” donated by local artists, is scheduled for Mar. 18 at The Classic Center. This Friday from 5–8 p.m. Good Dirt hosts a free reception that will give the public the chance to preview the one-ofa-kind bowls handcrafted for the cause by local potters. The 12 participating artists— Sheila Bradley, Jasey Jones, Soonbae Kim, Kelly King, Allya McDonald, Ron Myers, Andy Nassise, Ted Saupe, Michael Schmidt, Rob Sutherland, Tiffany Whitfield and Rebecca Wood—will be on hand to discuss their work with attendees. The kick-off event also provides an opportunity to purchase $15 tickets to the upcoming Empty Bowl Luncheon. If you can’t make the art opening, you can still get a sneak peak at the pieces up for bid in the weeks to come. The bowls will be on display at the Athens Country Club, Casa Mia, Farm 255, the Georgia Club, The Grit, Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill, Healthy Gourmet, Hilltop Grill, Last Resort, Mirko Pasta (Eastside), The National and Shokitini through Mar. 17. Visit www.foodbanknega.org to learn more about this year’s Empty Bowl event and other ways to help combat local hunger. [Jennifer Bryant]

drums, and an assortment of other collaborators. ZELAZOWA Polymorph, the new album from Philly band Zelazowa, sports riffy hard alt-rock crafted in an early-’90s, “120 Minutes” vein. Tasty Bar. 10:30 p.m. FREE! www. tastyworld.net DJ PHILIP RICH House music every Wednesday! Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com OPEN MIC NIGHT Come down for a “wild wild Wednesday” as Wild Wing opens its stage to newcomers.

Thursday 12 40 Watt Club 9:30 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com THE CUBISTS Dense shoegaze psychedelia from Augusta, with a flare for the orchestral and electronic. JOHN COUGAR TRAININGCAMP Featuring members of Dead Confederate, The Dumps, Gift Horse and more! Three drummers, two guitarists and a rotating array of bassists, vocalists and special guests blast out everything from the Melvins to The Beach Boys.

THE NEW FLESH Fuzzy, driving Baltimore post-hardcore like a slowmotion bullet to your eardrum. Alibi 9 p.m.–1 a.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 “STAN’S ALMOST FAMOUS KARAOKE” Karaoke lady Lynn is your energetic host for the night. Every Thursday. Blur 9 p.m.–2 a.m. $5. 706-543-8283 ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE DANCE Costume contest presented by UGA PSA.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com HANK VEGAS Macon singer/songwriter and guitarist Chad Evans fronts this band formerly known as The White Lightning. He’s joined by Rob Evans, Justin Smith and Athenian John Neff as they turn out some spacious alt-country for fans of Gram Parsons, Bruce Springsteen and Centro-Matic. LOWRY Downtrodden, upbeat indiepop band from Brooklyn that just released its latest LP, Love Is Dead, last fall. SLEEPY HORSES Nic Goodson’s band Sleepy Horses specializes in West Texas alt-country rock and feedback-and-loop-laced shoegazey soundscapes. New album out now! Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com PAGE CAMPBELL Vocalist for celebrated local folk act Hope for Agoldensummer performs her solo material.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net AA BONDY August Arthur Bondy (ex-Verbena) celebrated the release of his debut solo album American Hearts last spring. By turns sardonic and innocent, Bondy’s heartfelt songs draw equally from Ryan Adams and Elliott Smith. RICHARD SHERFEY AND ALL GOD’S CHILDREN Fronted by local singer Richard Sherfey, All God’s Children includes members of the bands Hey, Revolution! and Modern Skirts. Sherfey trucks in some squarely American, impassioned pop-rock songs.

From 5pm-8pm at the ClaSSiC Center

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com NAPOLEON SOLO The multitasking one-man rock band who handles it all.

celebraTe 25 years of communiTy connecTion with our birthday CaKe Competition

Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar “DR. FRED’S KARAOKE” Every Thursday. José’s Restaurant 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-310-0410 (Venue formerly known as Girasoles). SONNY GOT BLUE Local jazz group featuring James Goodhand (bass), George Davidson (tenor sax), Andrew Murdison (trumpet), Steve Key (piano) and Karl Friday (drums) plays swing and Latin jazz standards for the dinner crowd every Thursday.

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com CROSSTOWN ALLSTARS Southern rock pioneer Tommy Crain is perhaps best known for his work with The Charlie Daniels Band. The Crosstown Allstars provide a strong rhythm section to back his heartfelt vocals and bluesy guitar licks.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub MOTH VAMANA Members of Ham1. OWL BEAR Solo acoustic singer/ songwriter based here in Athens whose plaintive voice is reminiscent of Jeff Mangum’s.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BAMBARA Citing both dreamy and aggressive bands as influences, this local band has a sound that is truly right in between—Slowdive-like atmospherics matched occasionally with Fugazi ferocity. IRON HERO Intricate poetry sung over propulsive, reverb-laden rock. KEBERT XELA Chris Howe and Doug Saylor are dwarfed by their mountain of equipment, utilizing looped sonics, shimmering atmospherics, guitar, piano, electronic and acoustic drums, cello, vocoders, occasional vocals and plenty of keyboards to create danceable, hypnotizing electro-rock. SHAPIRO Melodic, memorable pop with an indie slant. See Calendar Pick on p. 27.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar MANDY JANE AND THE JAWS OF LIFE Amanda Crouse heads up this tongue-in-whiskey-soaked-cheek country ‘n’ western-inspired act. Ken Manring works the guitar as the duo swings through tunes influenced by Gram Parsons and Loretta Lynn.

The Melting Point 8-10 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens.com 2ND ANNUAL SWEETHEART DUET HOOT Musical couples take the stage, each doing 10 minute sets. Featured couples include: Don Chambers & Sanni Baumgärtner; Dodd & Cameron Ferrelle and more. See Don’t Miss online for more info. No Where Bar 11 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 FREE LUNCH Dynamic jazz band. SUMILAN New local band plays funky, soulful rock with a touch of progressive ambience. Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens PHOLKSINGER JOSH The sound of Pholksinger Josh is described as “gangsta folk,” incorporating a combination of folk, country, blues, hip-hop and spoken word.

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Friday 13 40 Watt Club Adult Swim-themed costume party! 10 p.m. $8. Proceeds benefit Rock Against Cancer. www.40watt.com IMMUZIKATION Local deejay Immuzikation is Alfredo Lapuz, Jr. He just wants you to know that “he mixes music together.” Learn more about the mix master at www.immuzikation.net. KITE TO THE MOON Timi Conley (Aqualove, Fuzzy Sprouts, etc.) heads up outfit Kite to the Moon, handling vocals and guitar for the noisy pop cacophony. Expect a dizzying array of visual stimulation to accompany the set—from video projections to ladies in tiger suits and other quirky costuming. VELVETEEN PINK This matchingoutfit-clad quartet of funksters (including DJ Alfredo of Immuzikation) plays electro-based, groove-laden, upbeat stuff in the Prince, Stevie Wonder and Jamiroquai style.

Fat Daddy’s 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 CLIFTON WILLIAMS AND THE BLUE JAMES BAND Heavily touring roots rock outfit that recently released its latest album Will.

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Farm 255 11 p.m. www.farm255.com GAY AFRICA Jim McHugh, joined tonight by other members of Dark Meat and Colin Langenhaus of USAISAMONSTER. “Psych-drone reverb mellow mind-out,” McHugh says. PINCHE GRINGO Stomping oneman garage band featuring itinerant

TickeTs on sale now! ParticiPating restaurants aromas barberitos Southwest Grille big City bread Café brett’s Casual american Careaway Cakes Casa mia Cecilia Villaveces Cakes Copper Creek brewing Co deborah’s Specialty Cakes depalma’s italian Café donderos’ Kitchen earthfare east west bistro Farm 255 Five and ten Five points deli and more Five Star day Café Foundry park inn and Spa Gnat’s landing hallie Jane’s Catering

Beverage offerings harry bissett’s new orleans Café hilltop Grille Jennings mill Country Club Kelly’s Jamaican Foods Kingpins bowl and brew la dolce Vita last resort Grill locos Grill & pub mama’s boy mirko pasta porterhouse Grill Savannah room taste of india thai Spoon the basil press the daily neighborhood deli the Grill the national weaver d’s

1000faces Coffee angeline wines boutier winery Coca Cola General wholesale Jittery Joes leon Farmer and Company martin ray wines northeast Sales distributing inc. pepsi bottling Group Quality wine & Spirits righteous Juice terrapin beer Company tiger mountain Vineyards waterman Spring water

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 An Evening of Motown and R&B with

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THE CALENDAR! Mexico City badass Josh Johnson, former all-out rhythm machine drummer for Thee Spinns, Thee Griefs, Thee High Heels and other ‘60s-inspired cavemen. Fat Daddy’s 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 THE BOOTLEG COWBOYS Southern rock cover band formerly known as the Tanner Brothers. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar BRIAN CONNELL Local guy Brian Connell’s original songs are in the classic spirit of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. ANGI WEST Love Is a Special Way of Feeling—that’s the name of the new disc from Asheville, NC, strongvoiced singer Angi West. It should find a home with fans of mid-tempo, country-influenced, piano folk-rock. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $17 (adv), $20 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com* ROBERT EARL KEEN The veteran Texas folk-country songwriter balances thoughtful storytelling with rowdy drinking tunes. STEWART & WINFIELD Low Country drawlin’ Athens songcraftsmen Stewart Marshall and Winfield Smith are vets of the Athens rootsrock scene, turning out tuneful, easy-going hits, one after another. Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar BALLET Local designer and DJ Kim Kirby spins a hyperactive set of sounds better suited to jumpstart a Lamborghini than revive the nostalgic/ironic tunes of days not yet passed. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers. The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5 (adv), $8 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com* RACHEL FARLEY Performing since the age of five, 13-year-old Farley’s decadently rich vocals swoon over country-flavored acoustic numbers. SCARLET SNOW Local band Scarlet Snow (Ian Canalis, Mike Cowan and Suzanne Cowan) offers melodic Christian rock in a Coldplay/U2-lite vein. Mercury Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.mercuryathens.com LIVE JAZZ Call for this week’s lineup. Rye Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens THE FALCON LORDS Costumed space-marauders from planet Atlanta offer pop in their native language: throwback psychedelic twang. WARREN STEELE This local musician performs some of his own experimental and “avant-garde” tunes. WITNESS THE APOTHEOSIS Three-man new wave-industrial band based here in town. Tasty World 10 p.m. $12. www.tastyworld.net* DR. DOG Experimental, clever, upbeat pop from Philadelphia. New album Fate out now! See feature on p. 19. DRUG RUG Classic psychedelic rock collective from Massachusetts. See record review on p. 16. FUTUREBIRDS Local folk-rock collective with a tattered, raspy edge.

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Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com TROPICAL BREEZE STEEL BAND Newly formed local outfit that is exactly what it claims to be: a spicy, tropical band whose melodic emphasis is entirely in its proficient steel drums section. Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com RESERVOIR DOGS Four-piece cover band handling a wide range of classic rock anthems. WUGA 91.7 FM 4 p.m. FREE! www.wuga.org “IT’S FRIDAY!” Resident Patient and Angi West will perform on the local radio station’s weekly program. University Cable Channel 15 will also broadcast the show.

Saturday 14 283 Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B, and a whole lotta faves as DJ Mahogany dips into his bag of goodies from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80 for tonight’s Valentine’s Day dance party. DJ STRAWBERRY JULIUS Spinning music from the ‘50s and ‘60s including early soul, R&B, garage-rock, rockabilly, British invasion, psychedelia, doo-wop, rock and roll and girl groups. 40 Watt Club Songs of Love and Hate. 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.com DANCER VS. POLITICIAN Band/ recording project (formerly known as Panda) fronted by Sanni Baumgärtner; the songs, sung in both German and English, are gentler and more pop-oriented than the cabaret of Baumgärtner’s former band Audition with Max Reinhardt. LOST IN THE TREES Making its Athens debut tonight, this melodic folk band from Chapel Hill features an 11-piece orchestra with horns. STILL SMALL VOICE AND THE JOYFUL NOISE A revolving lineup of family and friends pounding out garage rock spirituals. Athens Arena 9 p.m. $15 suggested donation. gabriela@peopleofhope.us LATIN MUSIC DANCE BENEFIT Featuring salsa, cumbia, quebradita and duranguense dancing. Proceeds benefit People of Hope. Blur Boybutante AIDS Benefit. 9 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/blurathens FIRST ANNUAL LONELY HEARTS CLUB Drag show and dance party featuring DJ Isaac McCalla. Caledonia Lounge TNEB-RCP Music Group Presents. 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com KYSHONA ARMSTRONG Local songstress Kyshona sings soulful ballads over acoustic guitar. She has been compared to the likes of Tracy Chapman and Dionne Farris. BLAC STONE No info available. DII JAI Teenage R&B singer, dancer and Athens native who hates impostors, and whose haters are his motivators. ELITE THA SHOWSTOPPA Gravelvoiced rapper Elite tha Showstoppa won fans last year with his video “Liquor.” His mixtape is packed with upbeat party tunes prime for summer bouncing.

DJ KILLACUT Local deejay Killacut is the guy manning the wheels of steel for many of Athens’ hip-hop showcases, and his style focuses on oldschool spinning and beat matching while incorporating newer sounds. BEN STEVENS Local acoustic soul/R&B artist. SUBURBAN SOUL Funk- and soulinfluenced acoustic rock, incorporating both sung and breathy spoken/ rap vocals care of Andy Greene Ball. Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BUBBLY MOMMY GUN Local band featuring members of Sleeping Friends, The Lickity-Splits and Ice Cream Socialists. HORSE EGGS Julian Bozeman of Quiet Hooves plays solo and new material. TITANS OF FILTH This local band combines droll Southern voices with easy-rolling, efficient and uncomplicated indie-pop rock about the ups and downs of teenage love. Fat Daddy’s 8 p.m. 706-353-0241 THE ALLMAN-TYLER BAND Classic Southern rock featuring Michael Allman, eldest son of Gregg, and 22-year-old guitarist Tony Tyler. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar DON CHAMBERS This local favorite’s whiskey-soaked bootstomps capture a certain dusty closing-time chic. Rough and tumble vocals scratch and howl over rootsy guitars, banjo and pedal steel. DARE DUKES Acoustic folk singersongwriter from Savannah whose passionate musics flow over intricate melodies full of twists, turns and depth. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15 (advance), $20 (door). www.georgiatheatre.com BENJY DAVIS PROJECT Folk-rock band based out of Louisiana that has supported such acclaimed artists as John Mayer, Better Than Ezra, and The North Mississippi All-Stars. SISTER HAZEL Radio-friendly and similar to any number of mid-’90s college “alternatives,” the longrunning Sister Hazel’s been steadily on the road for more than a year. Go Bar WUOG Valentine’s Dance. 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar STEGOSAURUS Usually witty, sometimes danceable and always raw, this local trio plays songs about down-and-out characters who crash on “14 Couches,” don’t want to roll cigarettes or feel as ancient as a dinosaur. TWIN POWERS Dan Geller (Kindercore Records, Ruby Isle, etc.) has an affinity for spinning danceable new wave and Britpop tunes, as well as contemporary electro-rock dance stuff. Little Kings Shuffle Club Nuci’s Space “Heartbreaker’s Ball” Benefit. 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub BUDDY SYSTEM The Buddy System features the adorable projected animation of Lauren Gregg’s illustrations to go along with the gently grooving indie-pop tunes delivered by Kindercore stalwarts. HORSE PARTY Almost-epic Casio pop with a self-described “melodramatic” tendency. The Melting Point $155 (couples). 706-549-7051* FRANCINE REED The acclaimed jazz legend performs while Executive

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Iron Hero, Bambara, Shapiro, Kebert Xela Caledonia Lounge “Apparently, it’s like the Smiths of Jewish last names,” says Shapiro drummer John Granofsky in reference to the popularity of his band’s name. “I read somewhere that the translation of Shapiro means ‘good’ or ‘pretty’… I guess that’s means we’re pretty good.” Granofsky laughs at the feebleness of the compliment. “We’re not trying to change the world,” he jokes. “We’re just trying to be Shapiro pretty good.” Well, this is no self-fulfilling prophecy. Shapiro has absolutely failed at mediocrity, instead excelling into the reaches of “very, very good” with its delectable indie pop. The tunes are accessible yet inventive, garnering comparisons anywhere from Bowie and Queen to Spoon. “There’s definitely a pop aspect; we’re not trying to be weird for the sake of being weird,” says Granofsky. “Not so much top-40 pop, but we definitely listen to things like The Beatles and Beach Boys. We like to write memorable hooks you can’t get out of your head. We like to annoy people like that.” Shapiro will be taking over our minds come April with the release of its debut fulllength produced by John Mark Painter (Ben Folds Five, Death Cab for Cutie, John Mayer). It’s a far cry from the band’s earlier jam-inspired experimentations, recorded “in such fine places as dorm rooms.” This project actually took two years to get onto tape, as the D.C.based band had to make time to travel down to Nashville to record with Painter. It’ll be well worth the wait, however, and Athenians are in store for an exhilarating performance, as Granofsky insures the band puts “110 percent” of its energy into its shows. Local acts Iron Hero, Bambara and Kebert Xela round out the bill. [Michelle Gilzenrat]

Chef Martin Smetana prepares a four-course meal brimming with favorite menu selections. RPM 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-0428 DJ DIAMONDSTAR HALO Local bassist Tommy Salmon takes over the sound system with some rock and punk selections. Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens CATAWBA Local four-piece playing mellow indie rock. TREES LEAVE Nashville duo offers alt-folk originals and traditionals, via guitar, fiddle and dual vocals. Tasty World 8 p.m. www.tastyworld.net LIVE SALSA BAND Cut a rug with live salsa music and dancing! Music Matters Presents. TASTY BAR. 9 p.m. $15. www.tastyworld.net BALLERS’ BALL: MMIX The ninth in the Ballers’ Ball series, tonights events include a DJ battle between DJ Rootz (Boulder, CO) and Dave Murphy of STS9. Also performing is electro-funk talent Da Ticklah. Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com CHUCK HOLT No info available.

Sunday 15 Lucky Dawg Billiards 8 p.m. 706-354-7829 LUCKY DAWG KARAOKE Every Sunday!

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Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BRAVE CITIZENS Ethereal yet slightly edgy melodic pop band from California featuring emotional anthems that call to mind at times U2, Sunny Day Real Estate and Mute Math. Not be confused with local act Brave New Citizen. IDIOT SLOWDOWN Sound-wise, Idiot Slowdown has more in common with the alternative rock found on Pablo Honey. ROMANENKO Local band influenced by everything from folk standards and classic country to riot grrrl and ‘70s pop.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (8+). www.caledonialounge.com ELASTIC KNIGHTS No info available. IN THE LURCH Local three-piece cranking out crunchy guitar riffs and sinister basslines for just over a year. WRATH OF THE GIRTH Gnarly oldschool hardcore, like a stoner Dead Kennedys.

Fat Daddy’s 7–10 p.m. FREE! 706-613-7817 OPEN JAZZ JAM Calling all jazz musicians. Now you can join local jazz group Sonny Got Blue every Monday for an open mic jam.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com BENJI HUGHES This singersongwriter’s warm, expressive vocals and eclectic backing music sounds something like Badly Drawn Boy. JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT Soul- and blues-inspired rock group featuring the former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net KILL LEBARON First known as October Falls and then known as Sincerely Yours before taking on its current moniker, this local group plays hardcore/screamo. ABBANNA LEBON Hilariously bratty and perverted lo-fi swing-punk, like Yeah Yeah Yeahs meets the Cramps. SHOOTOUT THE STARS Old-school pop-punk trio. STEGOSAURUS Usually witty, sometimes danceable and always raw local band.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DAN NETTLES Jazz guitar. Fat Daddy’s 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 KARAOKE Hosted by Lynn.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $12 (adv), $15 (door), $10 (w/ UGA ID). www.meltingpointathens. com THE NEW FAMILIARS Soulful, moving folk ballads with a bluesy energy. T. GRAHAM BROWN & JIMMY HALL Classic country artist T. Graham Brown and Jimmy Hall of the late ‘60s Southern rock group Wet Willie perform.

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Call for Submissions (Gallery RFD) Gallery RFD in Swainsboro seeks submissions for two upcoming exhibitions: “Sweet Escape: Interpreting Freedom in the Modern World” (Feb. 26 deadline) and “Seeking Solitude: Isolation in Art” (Mar. 26 deadline). www.galleryrfd@ gmail.com, www.galleryrfd.org Call for Submissions (Red Eye Coffee) Now accepting submissions for artwork to be displayed in the Prince Avenue shop. Gregg Carey, red.eye.coffee@gmail.com “Crafting Romance” (ATHICA) ATHICA seeks work addressing the construction of romance in contemporary culture. Deadline: Feb. 14. www.athica.org/callforentries.php

AUDITIONS Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Athens Community Theatre) Town and Gown is casting for its upcoming production of the 1899 play by William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Feb. 16 & 17, 7 p.m. www. townandgownplayers.org Classic City Sounds (Athens Creative Theatre) Athens Creative Theatre seeks singer/songwriters under the age of 21 to audition for an upcoming show hosted by a local recording artist. Each act can be a single performer or a group with up to five members. Submit CDs, website and photo to ACT, attention T.A. Powell, 293 Gran Ellen Drive. 706-714-6516 Seeking Poets (Call for location) Try out for local poetry event to be held monthly downtown. Must have

CLASSES “The Anatomy of a Novel” (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Writing workshop led by Terry Kay. Fundamental writing techniques— including outlining, character development and self-editing—will be emphasized. Mar. 21 & 22. $100. 706-769-4565, info@ocaf.com Athens Tai Chi (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Offering traditional Yang style tai chi chuan. All levels welcome. Thursdays, 6 p.m. $10. 706-353-2749 AWC Classes (Athens Wellness Cooperative) Offering yoga, Pilates, tai chi and salsa classes. Full schedule online. $14 drop-in, $60/6 classes, $108/12 classes. 706-3698855, www.wellnesscooperative.com Bridge Class (Oconee County Library) Four-part class. Thursdays, through Feb. 26, 4–6 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” class every Friday from 7–9 p.m. “Family Try Clay” every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. $20/person. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Comfort Yoga (YWCO) Easy, meditative yoga for all ages. Mondays, noon & 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, noon. $7/class. 706354-7880 Computer Classes (ACC Library) “Mouse and Keyboard Skills” (Feb. 12, 7–8:30 p.m.) and “Introduction to Microsoft Word” (Feb. 19, 10–11:30 a.m.). In the Educational Technology Center. Call to register. FREE! 706-613-3650 Computer Workshop (Madison County Library) Four-part series on surfing the web. Pre-registration

required. Tuesdays, 2-3 p.m. & 7–8 p.m., Wednesdays, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 Contra Dance (Memorial Park) Old-time contra dance presented by the Athens Folk Music & Dance Society with live music and calling. FREE! lesson at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21, 8–11 p.m. $7 (18+), FREE! (ages 17 & under). www.athensfolk.org Cooking Class: The Ultimate Breakfast (Earth Fare Café) Led by Chef Michael Perkins. Call to reserve a spot. Feb. 25, 6 p.m. FREE! 706-227-1717 Cooking in the Garden (State Botanical Garden) This session: Cupid’s Kitchen. Work with wine, chocolate and other treats. Feb. 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $27. 706-542-6156 Couples Trapeze Workshop (Canopy Studio) An intro to partner aerial dance. Feb. 15, 4–5:30 p.m. $40/couple. 706-549-8501 Craft Classes (Native America Gallery) Offerings include “Intro to Beading,” “Intro to Wire Wrapping,” and “Create Your Own Dream Catcher.” $25–$35. 706-543-8425 Dance Club (Village Herb Shop) Learn a new dance from around the world each week. Thursdays, 7:15 p.m. Donations. 706-540-1689 Dancefx Classes (Dancefx) Now registering for spring classes. Adult and youth classes in hip-hop, jazz, tap, ballet, ballroom, salsa, Pilates and more. 706-355-3078, www. dancefx.org Dog Agility Classes (Lucky Dog Agility—Winterville) Introductory Dog Agility class starts Mar. 10 at 7:30 p.m. Dog Sports Foundation class starts Mar. 16 at 5:30 p.m. luckydogagility@alltel.net, www. luckydogagility.com Drumming for Fun and WellBeing (Athens Regional Medical Center—Mind Body Institute)

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Inside Pet Supplies Plus at Alps Shopping Center 706.353.2287

The languidly draped kitty above is Calvin, a handsome butterscotch tabby with black-lined eyes. He’s quite entertaining and full of unique tricks. He’s declawed so would need an indoor only home. The three cats below have one thing in common, all have spent some time on their own fending for themselves in a tough world. They are each very nice, laid back guys who are grateful for a warm, safe shelter, regular meals and affection. Hayden is the big orange guy who loves to be held and has a motor purr. Piccolo is a bit shy but hums when happy and loves feathered toys. Oleander has huge, sad eyes but is super affectionate and loves bellyrubs.

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From Jan. 29 to Feb. 4

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ACC ANIMAL ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY CONTROL 20 Total Cats Received

26 Dogs Received 20 Dogs Placed

12 Cats Placed 0 Adoptable Cats Euthanized

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OLEANDER More cats and information at athenshumanesociety.org

Mrs. Florette Smith’s exhibit of hand-crocheted doll apparel is at the Madison County Library through Febuary. Led by Dr. Arvin Scott. 2nd & 4th Saturday, 2–3:30 p.m. $10/class. 706-475-7329, www.armc.org/mbi The Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education (Earth Fare Café) Led by Michael Moore. Feb. 18, noon. FREE! 706-227-1717 Full Bloom Center Classes (Full Bloom Center) Upcoming courses include Breastfeeding, Preparation for Birth and Prenatal Yoga. Full schedule online. Also offering “Staying Connected: After Baby Makes Three,” a couples workshop. 706-353-3373, www. fullbloomparent.com Genealogy on the Internet (ACC Library) A brief intro to Internet resources for genealogy. Databases in Galileo will be introduced. Feb. 12, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Getting Started with Genealogy (ACC Library) Monthly informal class to walk you through the basics of researching family history. Bring a pencil and paper. In Heritage Room. Feb. 19, 2–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Homebuyer Education Seminar (Fourth Street Apartments) Athens Land Trust offering a series of seminars covering the homebuying process, mortgage financing and credit. Call to reserve a space. Thursdays, 6 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0122 LEED Seminar Series (UGA Caldwell Hall—Room 501) Hosted by Athens Emerging Green Builders. Series will familiarize attendees with the LEED for New Construction rating process and prepare them for taking the LEED AP Exam. Wednesdays, through Mar. 18, 7–8 p.m. $25 (students), $75 (professionals). bliver@uga.edu Martial Arts Class (American Black Belt Academy) Call to register. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11 a.m. 706549-1671, www.athensjiujitsu.com Photoshop/Lightroom Workshop (Email for Location) 50-year photography veteran leads 6-hour class that will cover data management, image manipulation, synchronizing and more. Sponsored

by The Athens Photography Guild. Feb. 28. $100. fm2dev@hotmail. com Pilates Classes (Balance Pilates and Wellness Studio) Schedule and details online. Private lessons also available. 706-546-1061, www. balancepilatesathens.com Tae Kwon Do & Jodo Classes (Live Oak Martial Arts) For kids and adults, beginner–advanced. Chase St. Warehouses, next to Canopy and ATHICA. Mondays–Thursdays, 3:30-8:30 p.m. 706-548-0077, www. liveoakmartialarts.com Traditional Karate (AKF Itto Martial Arts) Beginners and visitors welcome. Schedule online. FREE! www.athensyk.com Vinyasa Teacher Training Certification Program (Five Points Yoga) Rolf Gates to lead 200hour program over seven weekends starting in March. Call to register. 706-355-3114, www.athensfivepointsyoga.com, www.rolfgates.com Voice and Acting Workshop (Georgia Center) Perfect your technique, improve your range and build audition skills. Ages 16 & up. Thursdays, Feb. 12–Apr. 23, 6:30–8:30 p.m. 706-542-3537 Weapons Defense Clinic (Classic Martial Arts Club) Certified defensive tactics instructors introduce techniques for real world self-defense. Feb. 14, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. $25. 706-353-3616, www. classic-mac.com The Winter Pruning Process (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Join the International Garden Curator and other staff to learn various pruning techniques. Feb. 20, 9:30–11:30 a.m. $12. 706-542-6156, www.uga. edu/botgarden Winter Tree Identification (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn the basics of identifying deciduous trees in their dormant condition. Feb. 21, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $45. 706-542-6156, www.uga. edu/botgarden Yoga (Village Herb Shop) Drop-in yoga ($5–10 donation) meets Wednesdays (7:15 p.m.) and Thursdays (8:30 a.m.). Six-week

flow yoga series meets Saturdays (9:30 a.m.), starting Feb. 21. 706540-1689 YWCO Classes (YWCO) Offerings include Bellydance, Triathlon Training, Teen Pilates, Gentle Yoga and Hatha Yoga. Schedule online. 706-354-7880, www.ywco.org

HELP OUT! American Red Cross (Red Cross Donor Center—3525 Atlanta Hwy.) This month donors will be entered for a chance to win two Delta Airlines domestic round-trip tickets. 706-546-0681, www.redcrossblood. org Donations Needed (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) OCAF seeks new or used items for its annual Thrift Sale Fundraiser Mar. 13–14. Drop off items from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Saturdays at Rocket Hall. 706-769-4565, info@ocaf.com Foster Homes Needed (Athens Area Humane Society) AAHS is looking for dependable foster homes for dogs and cats. Download an application at www.athenshumanesociety.org or contact the Foster Care Coordinator at foster@ athenshumanesociety.org or 706424-4900. Tutors Needed (Various Locations) The UGA Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE) is now recruiting tutors for school and community tutoring programs that help the local Latino community, especially English learners. www.coe.uga.edu/ clase/tutoring Volunteers Needed (ATHICA) ATHICA needs gallery sitters from February through mid-summer. Visit www.athica.org/volunteer.php for info and email volunteers@athica. org to start.

KIDSTUFF Black History Week (Various Locations) Learn about AfricanAmerican leaders, heritage and

SUPPORT Al-Anon Family Group (Young Harris United Methodist Church) 12-step program. Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays, 12:10– 1:10 p.m. www.al-anon.alateen.org Athens Transgender Advocacy Coalition (Email for Location) New group to serve the needs of local transgender people. transgenderathens@gmail.com Domestic Violence Support Group (Call for location) Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and group at 6:30 p.m. Childcare is provided during group. Call Project Safe hotline at 706-543-3331 for location. 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month in Clarke County. 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month in Madison County. 6–8 p.m. Emotional Abuse Support Group (Call for location) Childcare is provided. Call Project Safe’s hotline at 706-543-3331 for location. Wednesdays, 6:30–8 p.m. Mental Health America of Northeast Georgia (Various Locations) Weekly social group. 706-549-7888, www.fightthestigma. com Mental Health Support Group (St. Mary’s Hospital) Meets in the lobby conference room. Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. 706-7835706, www.athensmentalhealth.org Overeaters Anonymous (Various Locations) Mondays, 5:30 p.m. at Nuçi’s Space. Thursdays,

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (Young Adult/Browsing) “Cartoons, Comic Books & Graphic Novels: The History of an American Art Form.” Through February. Athens Academy (Myers Gallery) “Point of View,” featuring paintings by John Ahee that explore his fascination with American icons. Through Feb. 13. (Bertelsmann Gallery) Artwork by students from North Oconee High School. Through Feb. 13. ATHICA “Running on Empty,” an examination of fossil fuel dependence. Exhibit includes photography, print, large-scale painting, mosaic and video. Curated by Bart King. Through Mar. 22. Big City Bread Cafe Photography by Ian McFarlane. Through February. bob(SALON) Mosaic artwork by J. Elizabeth Wright. Through February. Brick House Studio Paintings by Andy Cherewick and new sculpture in the garden by Doug Makemson. Gallery open by appointment through February. www. lamarwood.com Ciné Barcafé “Dimensions,” a multimedia show of collage-assemblage photography and sculpture by local artists Margaret Rhodes-Basham, Joshua Jordan and Amy Lipham. Through Feb. 27. City Salon + Spa “A Series of Jars,” an exhibition by Lauren Harrell. Through April. Espresso Royale Caffe Paintings by Adrian Cox. Through February. Five Star Day Café Work by Sara Nguyen. Through February. Five Star Day Cafe—Eastside Photography by Mark Mooney. Through February. Flaunt Photography by Heather Fletcher. Through March. Photography by Joshua Payne. Through February. Just Pho and More “Resurrection,” a series of acrylic and watercolor paintings by Mary Padgelek. Through Mar. 15. Krimson Kafe Mosaic artwork by J. Elizabeth Wright. Through February. Lamar Dodd School of Art (Bridge Gallery) “Paradise Lost,” featuring new work by Jessica Wohl that investigates the nature of the family. Through Feb. 18. Lyndon House Arts Center 34th Annual Juried Exhibition, featuring work by area artists in a variety of media. Feb. 22–May 9. Reception Feb. 22. Madison County Library Doll apparel made by Florette Smith. Through February. Monroe Art Guild The MAG Annual Winter Art Show features a variety of work by local artists. Through February. www.monroeartguild.org

7 p.m. at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. at Princeton United Methodist Church. FREE! www.geocities.com/athensoa Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Call for location) Support group for family members of service members and veterans with PTSD. Contact Jamie at 706725-1077 for details.

ON THE STREET Darwin Day 5K Fun Run (UGA Stegman Coliseum) Now registering for 5K to be held on Feb. 15. Proceeds will go to the Georgia Citizens for Integrity in Science Education. www.active.com, pbgsa@ plantbio.uga.edu FREE! Tax Assistance (Various Locations) Offered by AARP Tax Aide. For taxpayers with low to moderate income, with special attention to those 60+ years old. Mondays 1–5 p.m. at Oconee County Library. Tuesdays 1–4:30 p.m. at Oglethorpe County Library. Wednesdays– Saturdays 9 a.m.–1 p.m. at Kroger on Epps Bridge Rd. Thursdays 9 a.m.–1 p.m. at Athens Council on Aging. 706-543-9511 FREE! Tax Preparation (Hancock Community Development Corporation—300 Henderson Ext.) HCDC will help clients e-file or prepare a paper copy to mail. Mondays, 4–7 p.m. Saturdays, 12–4 p.m. 706546-1154 f

Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation “Cranes Aloft,” a collaboration between Stacy Koffman and Cynthia Lollis that is the result of a yearlong exploration into the world of cranes. Through Feb. 26. www. ocaf.com State Botanical Garden of Georgia Uniquely textured photographs by McGinnis Leathers. Through Feb. 23. The Classic Center “Step into Africa,” a 3,000 square foot interactive exhibit that through photography and an audio tour transports visitors into the lives of children affected by AIDS. Through Feb. 14, 11 a.m.–9 p.m. Feb. 15, 12–6 p.m. Register for a FREE! ticket online. www.africainathens.com The Grit Paintings by Ainhoa B. Canup. Through Feb. 15. Transmetropolitan (Downtown) New paintings by Joe Havasy. Through February. UGA Aderhold Local artist and UGA faculty member Jamie Calkin helps the College of Education recognize its centennial year with “Celebration,” a rotating exhibit of original watercolors of the UGA campus and downtown Athens. Through Aug. 30. UGA Campus Campus-wide poster exhibit featuring images of notable African Americans. Sponsored by Multicultural Services & Programs. Through Feb. 27. UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries (Gallery 307) Ceramic Invitational Exhibition featuring work by Debra Fritts, Michael Schmidt and Lauren Gallaspy. Through Feb. 27. (Art Education Gallery, 3rd Floor) Work by students from Clarke Middle School. Sponsored by the National Art Education Association UGA Student Chapter. Through February. (Gallery 301) “Garments Pleasing to God,” featuring Coptic textiles (ca. 300–700 C.E.). Curated by Dr. Asen Kirin. Through March 28. (Gallery 101) “Allegories and Metaphors,” an exhibit of selected works by 2008-09 Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair. Through Feb. 27. (Suite Gallery) Art donated by UGA faculty, students and alumni for auction to benefit the 2009 MFA Thesis Exhibition on display through Feb.11. Silent bids taken throughout the week. Various Locations View the 12 one-of-a-kind bowls that will be featured in this year’s Empty Bowl Silent Auction to benefit the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia. For the list of restaurants displaying the pieces, visit www.foodbanknega.org/events/emptybowl.php. Through Mar. 17. White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates Exhibition featuring photographs of Athens cats by Mark Steinmetz. Through Feb. 28. www.marksteinmetz.net Wild Child Arts (Monroe) “Teapots,” featuring work by local artists. January through February. www. wildchildarts.net

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history. Broadacres Community Center: Feb. 13, 4–6 p.m. Parkview Community Center: Feb. 16–20, 4–6 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3600, 706613-3601 Children’s Drumming Classes (Call for location) Led by Dr. Arvin Scott. Mondays, 4, 4:35 & 5:10 p.m. $25/month. 706-4259451, arvinscott5@hotmail.com Clay Workshop (Good Dirt) “All Students will create self-portraits in clay sculpture. Feb. 16, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $55. 706-355- 3161, www. gooddirt.net Creative Movement (Floorspace) Ongoing class for ages 3–5. Thursdays, 4 p.m. $40/4 classes. 706-850-5557, www.floorspaceathens.com Parent/Child Workshops (ACC Library) For children ages 1–3, plus their caregivers. Featuring toys, music, art activities and a different community resource guest each week. Feb. 12, 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Pre-K Party: Valentine’s Bash (Memorial Park) Learn about how animals demonstrate affection. Then make Valentine cards and enjoy a snack. Pre-registration required. Ages 3–5. Feb. 13, 10 a.m. $6. 706-613-3580 Yoga Sprouts (Full Bloom Center) Fun, playful yoga for kids ages 2–6 and their parents. Wednesdays, 3:30 p.m. $14/single class, $60/6 classes. 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins I dated this guy for about six months. In the beginning, everything was perfect: we were stupid in love, inseparable, called each other at work, spent every night together, he brought me little gifts all the time, etc. We made other people sick. It was great. So, four months down the line, he had a problem with his landlord and needed to get out of his place right away. My roommates liked him well enough and agreed to let him crash rent-free for a while. My roommates (they are both guys) and I were really old friends, and I think the boyfriend was uncomfortable around all of us because we knew each other too well and had too many inside jokes and whatnot. I tried to curb this stuff but it wasn’t easy. I tried to explain some of the jokes. Whatever. He was obviously unhappy with the situation, and so was I, but I didn’t want to make him feel bad, so I suffered through the suffocating part for two months while helping him find a place. At one point, he got really sick and couldn’t get out of bed for several days. My roommates and I all took care of him in between going to work and school. After that, he just kind of freaked out, complaining that he “can’t live like this!” Which was fine, because it wasn’t how I wanted to live either. When he found his own place, he moved all of his stuff out of our house, and I didn’t hear from him for a few days. I thought that was normal, since he had not been alone in so long. But after that, it never got any better, and within a month he went home for the holidays, returning to admit to me, tearfully, that he had cheated on me. So, now we’ve broken up, but I don’t really know why. I feel like he somehow thinks that I wanted us to live together and that I never need time alone. This isn’t true. I really believe that the relationship would have been fine if he hadn’t moved in, and I only let him move in because he was in a bad situation. My question is: What should I have done? Should I have left him to fend for himself? And is it too late to salvage this thing? I’m not happy about the cheating, but in my heart I think he just did it because he wanted me to get mad and break up with him. I still care about him and I would like to give it another try. Left Standing I don’t know what you should have done, LS, but I know what your boyfriend should have done. If he was unhappy with his rentand bill-free, friendly-yet-crowded existence (poor thing!), he should have hauled his ass to somebody else’s house. I know you are heartbroken, but you really need to stop blaming yourself. You guys went straight from the honeymoon phase to a full-on marriage, with the addition of two extra people. That would be difficult for anyone. It sounds like it must

have been pretty stressful, and you and your roommates were very nice to make the best of it, and hopefully your ex has some perspective on it. As for whether or not the situation is salvageable, I think you are going to have to wait and see. You may want to tell him how you feel now and how you felt at the time. Tell him you’re willing to give him some space but that you would really like to try again, without the constant company and instant cohabitation. It is possible that things will get better when he has had some time to himself. It is also possible that it was too much too soon and that there is no going back. I have a girl that I’m very interested in but every time I see her she is constantly on the phone or texting somebody, even when she is with a friend. This is frustrating because a.) I can never talk to her (she doesn’t know me well at all, but we see each other a lot downtown); and b.) I am afraid that she is one of those people who can’t live without her phone and her friends in constant contact. We have spoken a couple of times, very casually, but I want to get to know her better. I think. Am I asking for trouble? Am I old-fashioned for finding this rude and annoying? Disconnected I don’t think expecting a person to be able to interact socially with their friends or with strangers in a normal day-to-day setting without the use of their cell phone, iPod or other gadget is old-fashioned, D, but I’m kind of an old-fashioned girl myself. I believe in eye contact, small talk and the humane treatment of baristas and retail employees alike. I turn off my cell phone in restaurants and during movies. I am a person who feels uncomfortable wearing headphones even when I walk my dog, because I actually enjoy experiencing the things that are going on around me (with the exception of an airplane full of babies), so perhaps I am not the person to ask. Are you asking for trouble? I don’t know. You have already referred to this girl’s behavior as rude and annoying. You still want to ask her out? I think there is a lesson here, folks. Many, many people complain of being lonely, unable to meet anyone interesting, lacking any possible prospects for dating, and loathe to go out to bars to try and meet people. Maybe we should all be more aware of each other and open to everyday exchanges, more present in the moment, and more attentive to the people we are already with, rather than wondering what everybody else is doing. Maybe instead of “Turn on, tune in, drop out “ we should just “Turn off and tune in.” Jyl Inov Got a question for Jyl? Submit your anonymous inquiry via the Reality Check button at www.Flagpole.com.

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Real Estate Apartments for Rent $400/mo. 1BR/1BA Upper level unit located in Normaltown. A must see. HWflrs in lv. rm., din. rm. & BR. Kitchen w/ fridge, stovetop & oven. Great location, great price. Avail. Aug. 09. Current tenant willing to sublease. Call (706) 355-9961. By appt. only. $450/mo. Location, Location, Location! Taking reservations for Aug. move-in. 291 S. Finley Bluffs Apt.’s 1BR. 550 sq. ft. 2 blocks from UGA campus. (678) 613-5600. Email bluffs.apts@yahoo.com. 1BR starting at $435/mo. 2BR starting at $515/mo. 3BR starting at $705/mo. Very big, quiet, & pet friendly. On busline. Call now! (706) 549-6254. Restrictions apply. 1BR/1BA apt. in house. Beaverdam Rd. $450/mo. (706) 549- 6070. 1BR/1BA apt. in quiet, safe n’hood. CHAC, patio. $295/mo. Call (706) 548-5869. 1BR/1BA with study, stainless steel appls, granite counter tops, gated community, pool, fitness center. Convenient to campus & Dwntn. $625/mo. (678) 414-3887. 1BR/1BA. All elec., water furnished, nice! On bus line. Single pref. Avail. now! (706) 543-4271. 1BR/1BA. Close to campus. On busline. Just remodeled! Quiet area. Heat & water incl. $565/mo. (706) 540-3595. 1BR/1BA. Next to UGA. Walk to campus & Dwntn. HWflrs., A/C, some utils. incl. Free parking for residents. Cats OK, no dogs. $475–$500/mo. Call (706) 3544261, 10am–2pm. Get a roommate & live w/ us! 2BR/1BA Eastside on Cedar S h o a l s D r. A l l e l e c t r i c , remodeled, W/D hookup. $550/mo. (706) 202-2466.

2BR duplexes starting at $475/mo. (706) 549-6070. 2BR/1.5BA townhouse. Highland Park Dr. On busline. Close to UGA. Lg. BRs. FP, fenced backyd., W/D hookups. New flooring! 1 yr. lease. $595 mo./dep. (706) 207-4588. 2BR/1BA renovated apts., perfect for grad students, safe & quiet, close to campus & Dwntn. 225 China St. 2 avail. now! Also preleasing for fall, $400–$550/mo. Incl. water & trash, no dogs, laundry onsite. Chris (706) 202-5156. 2BR/1BA spacious apt. Nice condition. FP, CHAC, & DW. Near busline & park. $450/mo. Call (706) 548-5869. 2BR/1BA. $525/mo. FP, DW, CHAC. Close to town & UGA. Dogs OK. (706) 749-9141. 2BR/2BA condo on Baxter St. on UGA & City busline. New c a r p e t , n e w l y re d e c o r a t e d , W/D, patio, pool. $850/mo. Call Ann at (706) 401-1259. 2BR/2BA condo w/ new kit., flring, paint, etc. Screened porch, FP, tile flrs, 1200+ sq. ft. 1st flr, on busline. $600/mo. + utils. Avail. now. (864) 617-3317. 2BR/2BA. Riverfront, poolside, Westside condo. Huge 1300+ sq. ft. updated kitchen & BAs. FP, W/D, huge screen porch. Furnished. $900/mo., Unfurnished $750/mo. David (706) 202-8424, owner/agent. 2BR/2BA on College Station. Huge apt., FP, deck, lots of closets, DW, W/D, CHAC. Avail. 8/1. Pets OK. $575/mo. (706) 369-2908. 3 or 5 bedroom townhome on Eastside. $320–$450/BR. All electric. Double porches, HWflrs., ceiling fans, DW, W/D, trash incl., & a new pool. Now leasing. (706) 543-1910. Go to www.landmarkathens.com. 4BR/1.5BA. Walk to campus funky 2–story apt. in triplex. Great location. Historic n’hood. Pulaski near Prince. Remodeled tile, antique heartpine accents, W/D, CHAC. Avail. now! $750/mo. (706) 215-4496.

3BR/2.5BA townhouse on Milledge. Unique flrplan, W/D, pool, sand volleyball, on busline. Great location, great value! Call Paul (678) 462-0824. 5 Pts. basement apt. for rent. 1BR, priv. entrance, W/D incl., quiet n’hood. 3 blocks from UGA. $485/ mo. + share of utils. 221 Morton Ave. Call (706) 354-6039 & if no answer (706) 254-2526. Avail now! 2BR/1BA located in sm. 4–unit complex on S. Milledge. Very close to campus, on UGA/Athens busline. Quiet location. CHAC, W/D conn. $700/ mo. (706) 202-1999. A v a i l a b l e n o w ! Next to campus & Downtown. 4BR/2BA condo. W/D, DW, HVAC. Wood balcony overlooks sm. creek. 4 parking spaces! $985/mo. (706) 546-5659. Beautiful 2BR/2.5BA townhouse condo. Newly renovated, HWflrs, tile, granite, stainless apps, W/D conn. Quiet setting w/ riverwalk. Must see to appreciate! $900/mo. (706) 202-1999. Blvd area. 2 apts. in historic duplex house. 1–2BRs, W/D, lg. porches, H2O. Piano in 1 apt. $575–$625/ mo. (706) 247-3463. Brick duplex. 2BR/1BA w/ all e x t r a s , v e r y c l e a n . J u s t o ff M i t c h e l l ’s B r i d g e R d . 2 m i . f ro m P u b l i x . $ 5 0 0 / m o . G r a d students & professionals welcome. (706) 254-0478. Cobbham historic district. 1BR apt. Heart pine flrs. + ceil. fans. CHAC, W/D, garage w/ auto opener. NS. No pets. Call (706) 340-1283. College Station 2BR/2BA. All appls + W/D, FP, xtra closet space, water/garbage incl. $575/mo. Owner/Agent (706) 340-2450. Condo near UGA, Appleby Mews. 2BR/2.5BA. Priv. balcony. Good landlord looking for good tenant! No pets. $600/mo. (706) 3169886, before 6:30pm. Free month’s rent. Stadium Village 2BR/1BA gated community, close to campus. Water, trash, lawn incl. Pool, gym. $575/mo. (706) 549-6070. Live next to your buddies! Huge duplex. 4BR/4BA on each side 1/2 m i . f ro m c a m p u s . P l e n t y o f p a r k i n g . F ro n t p o rc h , b a c k deck, W/D, DW, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1800/mo. per side. (706) 369-2908.

Garage apts. in heart of 5 Pts. 1BR/1BA, 2BR/1BA. Lv. rm., & kitchen incl. No pets. HWflrs. $550/ mo. Call (706) 548-4358. Gigantic 5BR/3BA condo. End of Lumpkin St. 2500 sq. ft. 2 lv. rms, huge laundry rm., din. rm., FP, big deck. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. $1550/mo. (706) 369-2908. Preleasing special! Move in Feb. get first month free & 2nd mo. 1/2 off all 1BR & 2BR apts. 3BRs 1/2 off 1st mo.! Pet friendly, on busline. Call today (706) 549-6254. Restrictions apply. Reduced! $550/mo. 1BR luxury on-campus studios. Rent incl. water, gas, pest & trash. Built–ins, HWflrs., tile, & laundry facility. City & UGA bus stop. Pets OK. No sec. dep.! kaceyprice@hotmail. com, (706) 540-2829. S o u t h M i l l e d g e duplex! 4BR/2BA, W/D, D W, f e n c e d b a c k y d ! C l o s e to everything yet priv. Rates neg. (706) 296-3835, email rentalmgt@yahoo.com. Electronic flyers avail. Tall Oaks. Close to campus. 1BR/1BA. $500/mo. (706) 549-6070. Ver y cool layout! 3BR/1.5BA apt. in quadraplex. 2 blocks from campus. 5 Pts. area. W/D, CHAC, nice patio. $1125/mo. Avail. 8/1. Pets OK. Call (706) 369-2908. Westside condos. 2BR/2BA, $600/mo. 3BR/2BA, $700/ mo. Converted clubhouse i n t o a h u g e o p e n f l r. p l a n . 4BR/2.5BA, $1200/mo. Eastside quadraplex 2BR/2BA, $525/mo.2BR/1BA, $490/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700.

Commercial Property 1K–2K sq. ft. of dividable warehouse/studio space available Dwntn. On Broad St. Multi-use, great price, 24 hr. access. Call for info. (706) 546-7814. 200-400 sq. ft. studios/offices. Natural light, CVAC, BRs, common area w/ kit. $250-450/mo. Call (706) 338-0548. 4,500 sq. ft. office/shop. 1.5BA, 3 12 ft. overhead doors. 4K sq. ft. of outbuilding storage. 2+ ac. Fenced. Lexington, GA. $795/mo. (706) 549-9456.

Athens Executive Suites. Offices avail. in historic Dwntn bldg. w/ on–site parking. All utils., Internet, & janitorial incl. Single or multiple offices avail. Call Stacy (706) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863. Eastside offices for lease. 1060 Gaines School Rd. 1200 sq. ft., $1200/mo. 500 sq. ft. $625/mo., 150 sq. ft. $300/mo. (706) 5461615 or athenstownproperties.com. Retail Suites for lease at Homewood Village. 1K–12,500 sq. ft. avail. For more info. Call Bryan Austin at (706) 353-1039 or visit www.sumnerproperties.net. Thornton Realty & Construction (Since 1973). Do you have 1031 funds avail. or just looking for secure income producing investment? Why not give me a call & see what I have? Bill Thorton (706) 353-7700.

Houses for Rent $1075/mo., 3BR/2BA, lg. house, only 5 min. to campus. Popular Eastside, safe n’hood, exc. cond., no pets. 475 Crestwood Dr. Call Mike at (706) 207-7400 or email mikejoyner@charter.net. $1900/mo. 3BR/3BA. Very cool home, over 3K sq. ft. on 3.5 ac. Open flrplan, vaulted ceilings, skylights, game rm., sun rm., great master suite. Covered back patio w/ wet bar, 2–car garage, shed, fenced yd. Pets welcome! Located in highly desirable Cherokee Forest in N. Athens. 122 Featherwood Ct. For lease/sale $259K. Call Anne (706) 354-6620, or www.anneshouses.com. $350–$1950/mo. 1BR, 2BR, 3BR, 4BR, & 5BR. Prices reduced! Awesome walk & bike to campus & town! Pre–leasing for Fall! Many historical houses w/ lg. rms, high ceilings, big windows, HWflrs., old–world charm, modern amenities. Porches, & yds. Pet friendly. These go fast! Email for list: luckydawg96@yahoo.com. $675/mo. 2BR/1BA cottage for $675/mo. located in Normaltown. 2 mi. to UGA. BRs, lv. & din. rms. have HWflrs. Kitchen w/ all appls. incl. micro & W/D. Great location, great price. By appt. only. (706) 355-9961. Avail. Aug. 09. $680/mo. 2BR/2BA. 115 E. Carver Dr. 1.5 mi. from UGA Arch. Fenced–in yd. HW & tile flrs., CHAC, W/D hookups, DW, garbage disposal. Pets welcome. (706) 614-8335. $700/mo. Near Dwntn. Athens & UGA campus! Sublease needed soon! Quiet n’hood, pet friendly. 2BR/1BA, HWflrs, W/D, DW, huge screened–in porch, huge backyd. Off–street parking. Call Kelly at (423) 400-9279 or email to kpreslar@gmail.com. $725/mo. 2BR/1BA charming house in town. HWflrs, W/D, DW, CHAC. Recently updated. Lg. yd. Rocking chair porch. Deck. Nice! 1 month dep. 285 Rocksprings (267) 847-1687, or beverlydale@yahoo.com.

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$800/mo. 3BR/1BA charming brick home 1 block from Navy/New Med School at 350 Willow Run. HWflrs, beadboard ceiling, CHAC, total electric, shed for storage. W/D incl., pets welcome! For lease/ sale $129,500. Call Anne (706) 354-6620. More houses at www.anneshouses.com. $875/mo., blocks from town & campus, 3 huge BRs, 1.5BA, 12’ ceilings, HWflrs., tall windows, no traffic, big yd., pets. 127 Elizabeth St., Avail. 4/1. Agent/Owner. Call Mike at (706) 207-7400 or email mikejoyner@charter.net. $900/mo. Nice house in country. 3BR/2BA. Safe n’hood. 15 min. to town. 186 Bridges Dr. Call Mike (706) 207-7400. 102 Overlook Dr. 2BR/1BA house on Eastside. Fenced–in yd. Pets OK. $750/mo. Call (706) 549-6070. 175 Sylvan Dr. 3BR/1BA home w/ great location near ARMC. $850/ mo. Newly painted BRs. Avail. now! Pls. call (706) 540-1810, (706) 433-2072, or email cbolen@ upchurchrealty.com. 1BR up to 4BR houses. Pre-leasing for next school yr. Close to UGA & Dwntn. Call (706) 714-4486 or email at hathawayrichard@hotmail.com. 1BR/1BA, pre-leasing. 525 Reese St., close to Dwntn. & UGA. 1 block to busline. CHAC, W/D, DW. $500/mo. (706) 714-4486. 2 or 3BR. Huge outside storage building. Fenced yd. Pets OK. No pet fees! Quiet dead-end street. $695/mo. (706) 254-6260. 2.5 ac. homestead, $900/mo. 2BR/1BA. DW, CHAC, HWflrs., 2 separate 1 ac. fenced in yds. Excellent for people w/ dogs. Avail. now! Call (706) 247-1137. 285 Clark Dr. Newly remodeled. Fenced yd, pet friendly. $900/mo. (706) 549-6070. 2BR/1.5BA East Athens Duplex for rent. Fresh paint, new carpet, W/D, DW, range, fridge, trash & yard service incl. Pets OK. Avail. now! $550/mo. Call Mike (877) 740 1514 toll free. 2BR/1BA Dwntn. CHAC, W/D. Pets welcome. Avail. now! $550/mo. Call (706) 714-4603. 2BR/1BA Nor maltown. W/D, HWflrs & tile. Carport, CHVAC. $650/mo. Drive by 260 Pound St. & call for appt. to see inside. (706) 549-7372. 2BR/1BA beautiful Loft house 1 block from Dwntn. $950/mo. (706) 540-8461. 2BR/1BA cool, old shared house! $800/mo. 0.5 mi. from Dwntn. All appls. 340 Ruth St. Apt. B. Avail. 8/1. (706) 713-0626. 2BR/1BA. 1 mile to Arch! Bright, sunny, HWflrs, sm. screened porch, CHAC, W/D, sec. sys. Fenced yd., great for dogs! $625/ mo. Call Britt (770) 713-4278. 2BR/1BA cottage. 1 block from 5 Pts. Quiet street, lush private fenced yd., DW, W/D, CHAC, HWflrs, sunrm. Walk/ bike everywhere. $975/mo. (706) 338-7364.

2BR/1BA pre–leasing. CHAC, W / D , D W, h i g h c e i l i n g s , HWflrs., 2 porches. Close to Dwntn. $700/mo. Email hathawayproper ties@gmail. com, call (706) 714-4486. 2BR/2BA mobile home. Only 3 yrs. old! Close to UGA on Inglewood Ave. All appls. incl. W/D. $575/mo. No pets. Avail. now! Call (706) 540-0472. 2BR/2BA in-town house 1 mi. from Dwntn. Fenced backyd. HWflrs., tile, oil– rubbed bronze fixtures, stainless appls, groovy c o n c re t e c o u n t e r t o p s . $ 9 5 0 / m o . Ho lly re m a x @ y a h o o.c o m , (706) 255-4440. 2–3BR/2BA. 2 decks & front porch, countr y setting, high ceilings, HWflrs., lg. rms, Good dog is OK! Avail. now! $800/ mo. (706) 202-2733 or (706) 548-9797. 3BR/1BA in ARMC. Beautiful HWflrs., lots of natural light, new W/D. Covered porch, fenced backyd., pet friendly. 6 mo. lease avail. $800/mo. Call (706) 549-6070. 3BR/1BA in Blvd. district. Less t h a n 0 . 5 m i . f ro m D w n t n . & campus. $995/mo. CHAC, W/D hookup. Great house. Avail. now! Jeani at Valerio Properties (706) 546-6900. 3BR/1BA, pre–leasing. 5 Pts., 1 block to UGA & Milledge Ave. Beautiful home. Includes u t i l i t i e s . $1575/mo. $525/ BR. Email hathawayproperties@ gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486. 3BR/1BA. Close to campus. Fenced backyd., HWflrs., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1K/ mo. Won’t last! (706) 369-2908. 3BR/1BA. Pets OK. $800/mo. 220 Habersham Dr. (706) 613-2317. 3BR/2.5BA houses. Brand new! $1200/mo. Avail. now! Near Prince Ave. Call Kelly (706) 254-3250. 3BR/2BA w/ lg. fenced–in yd. $800/mo. All appls. Eastside, close to Dwntn. Sec. sys. optional. Avail. 3/1. 150 Binion Rd. (706) 713-0626. 3BR/2BA, pre-leasing. 886 N. Chase St. High ceilings, wood flrs., CHAC, W/D, DW, fenced yd. Pets OK. $825/mo. $275/BR. (706) 714-4486. 3BR/2BA, pre–leasing. Blvd area, on busline, lg. house, oak flrs., fenced. Pets OK. $1050/mo. $350/BR. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486. 3BR/2BA, pre–leasing. 5 Pts., walk to bus. Lg. house, screened porch, lg. deck, fenced, sec. sys., garage, family rm. oak flrs. $1350/mo. $450/BR. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486. 3BR/2BA. 493 Ruth St. Lg. yd. Pets welcome. HWflrs. CHAC, W/D, DW. Lease neg. $800/mo. Call Paul (706) 714-9607. 3BR/2BA. CHAC, W/D, DW. Close to Dwntn. Pets & bands OK. $600/ mo. Avail. now. (706) 714-4486. 3BR/2BA pre–leasing. Close to Dwntn & UGA. HWflrs., W/D, DW, fenced. $300/BR. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486. 3BR/3BA brand new houses i n 5 P t s . & D w n t n . Wa l k t o campus! W/D incl. Preleasing for Fall 09. $1500/mo. Call Aaron (706) 207-2957.

3BR/3BA Eastside. Quiet n’hood. $1100/mo. All appls. 213 Springtree St. Avail. 8/1. (706) 713-0626. 3BR/3BA w/ nice yd! All appls. 0.5 mi. to Dwntn. $1200/mo. 4 7 0 Atla n ta Ave . Ava il. 8/ 1. (706) 713-0626. 3BR/3BA. Available immediately! 221 4th St. CHAC, W/D, DW., lg. front porch, HWflrs., ceiling fans & tile BAs. Sec. sys. $1200/mo. Call (706) 208-1181. 3BR/3BA. Huge house on Greenway! $1400/mo. All appls. 978 MLK Pkwy. Avail. 8/1. (706) 713-0626. 49 Gail Drive. Cute 3 or 4BR. HWflrs., CHAC, fenced yd. Pets OK. No pet fees! Always rents quickly! $795/mo. (706) 372-6813. 4BR/2BA house on Eastside for rent. HWflrs., carport, lg. yard. $1K/mo. www.infotube. net/152273. Call (706) 369-9679 Pam (706) 540-3809 lv. msg. 4BR/2BA quaint house in country. 9 mi. from Dwntn Athens. Avail. now! $1K/mo. (706) 540-8461. 4BR/2BA quaint house in country. 9 mi. from Dwntn Athens. Avail. now! $950/mo. (706) 540-8461. 4BR/2BA pre–leasing. CHAC, W/D, DW, sec. sys., fenced, bands OK. 341 Athens Ave. & 327 Atlanta Ave. $800/mo. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486. 4BR/3BA. Very close to campus. Brand new construction! $1600/ mo. Go to www.Reignsold.com for more info or call Reign (706) 372-4166. 4BR/4BA brand new house Dwntn. Walk to the Arch! W/D incl. Now pre-leasing for Fall 09. Only $1900/ mo. Call Aaron (706) 207-2957.

Best rentals in Athens! 1–5BR houses, apts., condos. In the heart of UGA/Dwntn/5 Pts. Avail. Aug! Call (706) 369-2908 for more info. Cozy country cabin. $650/mo. 2BR/2BA screened porch. 9 mi. from Athens. (706) 540-8461. Dwntn Athens historic occupancy. Renovated Aug. 1st. Bus line in front. 3 huge BRs/1 lg. BA. Extra shower stall. 4 FPs, HWflrs. W/D. DW, stove, fridge, CHAC, din rm. lv. rm. Front wrap around porch. Back screen porch. No pets. $1185/mo. 225 N. Ave. (706) 296-9873. See bulldogrent. com. More than 2 unrelated OK. Parking spaces. Dwntn. Athens area. Huge 3 B R / 2 B A h o m e . 2 l v. r m s . , FP, HWflrs., big BRs. Tons of space. Great entertaining area w/ lg. deck & patio. $1500/mo. Michelle (706) 433-2712. Excellent 4BR/3BA. 1/2 mi. to campus. Lots of character! Big rms. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1775/mo. Call (706) 369-2908. First month rent free. Huge 2BR/2.5BA townhouses in a quiet area blocks from campus; 5 mins. to Athens Tech, W/D, DW, priv. back deck. Pets welcome. No pet fees! Dep. only $150! (706) 548-2522, www. dovetailmanagement. com. Restrictions may apply. Five Points. Fall pre– leasing. 1, 2, 3, & 4BR houses & apts. See at www.bondrealestate. org. Herber t Bond Realty & Investment. (706) 224-8002.

4BR/4BA. 2K sq. ft.! $1800/mo. All appls. 144 Ruth St. Avail. 8/1. (706) 713-0626.

Flagpole Classifieds! $9/ wk. for your merchandise, $13/wk. for your house, $15/ wk. for your business! Go t o w w w. f l a g p o l e . c o m o r c a l l (706) 549-0301. Deadlines every Monday at 11am.

Adorable 3BR/2BA, close to campus. New master BA w/ double sink. HWflrs., fenced backyd, W/D, DW, CHAC. Avail. 8/1. $1250/mo. (706) 369-2908.

G re a t 4 B R / 4 B A . C l o s e t o campus! Front porch, back deck, nice yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1550/ mo. (706) 369-2908.

Amazing 5 B R / 3 B A . 1/2 mi. f ro m c a m p u s . 2 l v. r m s . , 2 kitchens, big BRs, huge deck, plenty of parking. DW, W/D, C H A C . P e t s O K . Av a i l . 8 / 1 . $2200/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Griffeth St. Near Dwntn. New construction. 3BR/2BA house. Bamboo flrs, tile BA, p r i v. m a s t e r p o r c h , m e t a l roof, new IKEA kitchen. W/D, fridge. Perfect for roommates or family. $1K/mo. Purchase also possible. Call David (706) 202-8424.

Avail Aug. Eastside 3BR/1.5BA, lv. r m., dining area, sunr m., garage, lg. fenced yd. Ansley Dr. Lawncare provided. $1000/mo. (706) 338-6716. Avail Aug. Spacious 3BR/2BA, lg. kit., lv. rm. area, HWflrs., W/D, close to Dwntn. & campus. Cleveland Ave. Lawncare provided. $1200/ mo. (706) 338-6716. Available now and Fall! 2BR, 3BR, & 4BR properties next to campus, 5 Pts. & Dwntn. Also avail.: 3BR townhomes w/ fenced yd. 5 m i . f ro m c a m p u s . $ 7 5 0 / m o . W / D , H VA C , D W. ( 7 0 6 ) 2 9 6 9546, (706) 296-9547, or go to www.cityblock.biz. Awesome 1BR/1BA old shared house! $650/mo. Recently remodeled. Lg., 800 sq. ft., HWflrs., all appls. 340 Ruth St. Apt. A. Avail. 8/1. (706) 713-0626.

Northside 2BR/1BA, lg. lot, $600/mo. Hospital a r e a , F e n c e d – i n y d . Av a i l . June. $800/mo. Eastside 3BR/2BA. Lg. yd., on dead–end street. $1100/mo. Cedar Creek 4BR/2BA $1100/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700. O n e c a l l , t h a t ’s a l l ! 2BR/2BA 625B Whitehall, $675/mo. 4BR/2BA, 322 Whitehall Rd., $750/ mo. 3BR/2BA, 739 Beaverdam Rd. $850/mo. 3BR/2BA, 276 Oak Meadows $995/ mo. 3BR/2BA, 125 E v e r g r e e n Te r r a c e $ 9 9 5 / mo. 3BR/2BA, 1060 Macon H w y. $ 9 9 5 / m o . 5 B R / 2 B A , 2045 Robert Hardeman $995/mo. 6BR/2BA, 1065 M a c o n H w y. $ 1 6 9 5 / m o . (706) 714-7000, (706) 5467946. FlowersRentals@ b e l l s o u t h . n e t . See vir tual tours www.nancyflowers. com. One level 3BR/2BA + formal liv. rm., din. rm., den w/ FP, breakfast rm. & sunrm. in Forest Heights. Lots of wood flrs., new carpet in BRs & den. New paint throughout. No pets. $1K/mo. Lawn maintenance incl. Owner holds GA real estate license. (706) 202-7135. Preleasing for Fall! Awesome 3BR/2BA Victorian. Close to campus. High ceilings, HWflrs., big yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1325/mo. Call (706) 369-2908. View the sunset from your lakeview lg. deck in country. 2 story, 5BR/2BA. Stove, fridge, DW, W/D, CHAC. New carpet, tile, paint. $1200/mo. Call (706) 202-2260.

Houses for Sale $100–$300’s. Urban Lofts. 1BR/.5BA’s to 4BR/3BA’s avail. Some units w/ basements & garages. Visit us Sat. & Sun., 2pm–5pm. Agents also onsite during week. Call for appt.! (706) 372-4166, (706) 5434000.

$104,900. 2BR/2BA Townhome near GA Sq. Mall. New floors, new paint. Must see. Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000 or Go to www.Reignsold.com for more info.

$214K. 3BR/2BA 2–story brick home w/ finished basement. Gated golf course community. Go to www.ReignSold.com for more info or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, or (706) 543-4000.

$124,987. 3BR/1BA home located off of Whitehead. FP, 2 lv. rms., 2 worksheds. Go to www.Reignsold. com for virtual tour, or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

$219,987. 4BR/3.5BA. Provides all that Oconee Co. has to offer at 1/2 the price. See it online at ReignSold.com or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 543-4000, (706) 372-4166.

$129,900. 3BR/2BA. CHAC, W / D , D W. F r o n t p o r c h . 4 blocks to Dwntn & UGA. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

$269,900. Better than new! 4BR/2.5BA. Athens. Jackson Co. Schools. See it online at ReignSold.com or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch R e a l t y. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 3 - 4 0 0 0 , o r (706) 372-4166.

$139,900. 4BR/3BA home in Oglethorpe Co. New construction, split lvl. flr. plan. G o t o w w w. R e i g n s o l d . c o m for more info or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000. $139,900. 4BR/3BA in Arnoldsville, mins. from Athens. Completely new construction! S a f e n ’ h o o d . G o t o w w w. Reignsold.com for more info or call Reign at Coldwell Banker U p c h u rc h R e a l t y ( 7 0 6 ) 3 7 2 4166, (706) 543-4000. $163,487. Reduced again! 3BR/2.5BA condo conveniently located on the Eastside. Priv. & less than 5 mi. to Dwntn. Athens. See it online at ReignSold.com or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000. $209,900. 4BR/3BA 2–story Oconee Co. Cul-de-sac lot, huge yd. Go to www.Reignsold. com for more info or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000. $214K. 3BR/2BA 2–story brick home w/ finished basement. Gated golf course community. G o t o w w w. R e i g n S o l d . c o m for more info or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

$295K. 3BR/2.5BA overlooking pond in traditional Oak Grove n’hood. Lots of amenities. Close to town. Go to ReignSold.com or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000. $299,987. 3BR/2BA. Awesome W h i t e h a l l M i l l u n i t . To n s o f upgrades, won’t last long! G o t o w w w. R e i g n s o l d . c o m for more info or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000. $359,800. 4BR/3BA. 2 u n i t s ! Ve r y c l o s e t o D w n t n ! See it online at ReignSold. com or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000. Brand new homes near ARMC & Navy School. $185,900 & $197,900. Both 3BR/2BA. G r e a t f l r. p l a n . S e e t h e m online at Reignsold.com or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 3724166, (706) 543-4000. Cute, quiet 3BR/1BA on wooded lot. Open flr plan. Wood flrs. throughout. Wood burning stove, CHAC, well w a t e r. 1 a c . l o t s u r ro u n d e d by beautiful woods. Wrap– around porch. FSBO. $109K. Appt. (706) 338-0265. ➤ continued on next page

Heart of 5 Pts. 3BR/2BA. Lv. rm., din. rm., & kitchen. No pets. Unfurnished. $1450/mo. Call (706) 548-4358. Immaculate 4BR/3BA office. HWflrs., fresh paint, deck & lg. front porch. Great location. $1200/ mo. Ref. & dep. req’d. (706) 3380725. Newly renovated 3BR/2BA, 4-side brick house. New flring/carpeting/paint inside & out . H VAC , FP, lg. f enced backyd. $800/mo. lease, or will consider selling. Owner is licensed GA Real Estate agent, lic. #302489. Geoff (706) 206-3560 for more.

Beautiful 2BR/2.5BA townhouse condo. Newly renovated, HWflrs, tile, granite, stainless appls, W/D conn. Quiet setting w/ riverwalk. Must see to appreciate! $825/mo. Call (706) 202-1999.

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Roommates 2BR/2.5BA new lg. duplex on Nor thside. CHAC, W/D, DW, cable & Internet, lg. backyd., priv. parking. $325/mo. + 1/2 cheap utils. Avail. now. Contact Judith at (706) 207-8755. All areas go to www.roommates. com. Browse hundreds of online listings w/ photos & maps. Find your roommate w/ a click of the mouse! Visit www.Roommates. com (AAN CAN). F needed, furnished, quiet, spacious, 2BR/2.5BA condo, Milledge. Next to Family Housing. W/D, free cable/ wireless, UGA/City Bus, $400/mo. Avail. 1/01/09. (706) 461-4351. F r o o m m a t e n e e d e d . P r i v. suite of rms. BR, BA, & den. Completely furnished. Incl. utils. $450/mo., $200/dep. Avail. now! Eastside Athens. Call (706) 3699083. Roommate needed ASAP for house off Pulaski St. Screened porch, W/D. Only a 10 min. walk from Dwntn. Only $250/mo. Call (706) 548-9744 today! Roommate wanted for 3BR/1BA historic 5 Pts. home. Avail. now! HWflrs., W/D, DW, CHAC, new stove, huge yd., deck, great views & light. $366/mo., bills not incl. (512) 627-1142.

Rooms for Rent $500/mo. w/ utilities. Lg. BR w/ private BA. On Eastside. (678) 908-6826. Close to campus off Milledge. Lg. BR, priv. BA. $350/mo. + 1/3 utils. (706) 424-0670. Do you want to use a logo, graphic or border in your c l a s s i f i e d a d ? Yo u c a n with Classified Display Advertising!!! Call 706-5490301 for more information. Rm. avail. to share 3BR in Alps n’hood. Avail. immediately. W/D. $315/mo. + 1/3 utils. 8 min. to campus. Dep. & ref’s. Grad student preferred. Call (864) 550-0148. Spacious rm. avail. in historic Blvd. district. $375/mo. Priv. entrance & porch on quiet street. W/D. Avail. immediately. (404) 375-5464.

2BR/1BA house in the 5 Pts. area avail. for sublease immediately. Fenced–in backyd., pets possibly allowed. 475 Woodlawn Ave, close to the intersection between Woodlawn & Stanton. Lease ends in Aug. $750/mo. Call (404) 5504768 & lv. msg. for inquiries. 2BR/1BA apt. avail. now! Option to renew lease in July. $300/BR. HWflrs, high ceilings, onsite W/D, on UGA busline or walk to campus. Call (706) 254-5532.

For Sale Antiques 30% off everything at Main St. Antiques in Comer, GA. Furniture, collectibles, art, vintage items & more. Open Fri. 11am–7pm & Sat. 10am–6pm. 1956 Main St. in Comer. (706) 783-4434.

Computers A new computer now! Brand name. Bad or no credit, no problem! Smallest wkly payments avail. Call now. Call (800) 816-2232 (AAN CAN). Get a new computer! Brand name laptops & desktops. Bad or no credit, no problem! Smallest weekly payments avail. It’s yours now! Call (800) 803-8819 (AAN CAN).

Electronics Rogers Studio 1 speakers. Rated 300W. Minor cosmetic damage. Comes w/ stands. $150. Call (706) 614-7514.

Furniture Better than Ebay! Sell your goods locally without the shipping fees! Place your ads in the Flagpole Classifieds. Awesome run–till–sold rate! 12 wks for only $36. Go to www.flagpole.com or call (706) 549-0301. Eat your veggies, no C’s allowed, call Mom’s Garage for quality used furniture for the discriminating but frugal individual. Chase St. warehouses; Sat–Sun, 12pm–5pm or for other time or appt./directions call (706) 207-7855. Closed 1st wkend of month.

Sub-lease

Sell Your Car, Bike, Van, Truck, Bus, Motorcycle, Boat, Camper, Scooter, etc—$36—Run ‘til Sold (Merchandise Only, Up To 12 Weeks). Call 706-549-0301 to place your ad!

2BR apt. on Appleby Dr. $530/ mo. 1 mi. from UGA campus. Lease through end of June 2009. Wall to wall carpeting, balcony, W/D in apt. I will pay $530 sec. dep. Email jberry@uga.edu or call (912) 604-7803.

Gently used fur niture. Sofas $150, sofa chairs $50, loveseats $100, coffee tables $20, end tables $15, entertainment centers $35, & chairs, bedside tables. Visit www.AthensGaFurniture. com or call (706) 548-1573.

N e w , h i g h q u a l i t y, s o l i d wood bunk bed. $109. ( 7 0 6 ) 4 5 3 - 9 4 6 1 . Tables, chairs, sofas, antiques, c l o t h e s , re c o rd s & p l a y e r s , re t ro g o o d s , & m o re ! C o o l , affordable furniture every day. G o t o A g o r a ! Yo u r f a v o r i t e e v e r y t h i n g s t o r e ! 2 6 0 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

Miscellaneous Come to Betty for vintage quilted Chanel bags, just in for Valentines Day! On the corner of Pulaski & Clayton, next to Agora. Open 1–4 daily. (706) 424-0566.

Music Equipment Ask about our Run–till– Sold rate. Lowest classified ad rate in town! Call (706) 549-0301 or submit your ad t h r o u g h w w w. f l a g p o l e . c o m . Restrictions may apply. F e n d e r Tw i n s i l v e r t w e e d / black knobs. Perfect cond. $600. Bridgeport foot bellows or gan. Works great! Gorgeous. $600. Fender Stage Lead II amp. Excellent cond. $200. Brian (706) 372-4897.

Instruction Athens S chool of Music. I n s t r u c t i o n i n G u i t a r, B a s s , D r u m s , P i a n o , Vo i c e , B r a s s , Woodwinds, Strings, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, & more. From beginner to expert. Instrument repairs avail. (706) 543-5800. Guitar lessons taught by c o l l e g e g u i t a r i n s t r u c t o r. A l l st yl es. 16 yrs. exp. St udent s have won several guitar competitions. 1st lesson free. Composition/theory & bass lessons too. David Mitchell, (706) 546-7082 or w w w . m i t c h e l l m u s i c g u i t a r. com. Love Guitar Hero? Quit playing the game & learn t h e r e a l t h i n g . Te a c h e r s w / decades of experience. 1–on–1 affordable, fun lessons. All styles & skill levels welcome. Music Exchange (706) 549-6199.

Services Classical Guitar, DJ Services. Enter tainment for weddings, parties & other various social occasions. Over 20 yrs. experience throughout the Southeast. Contact Neal (770) 560-6277. Fret Shop. Professional guitar repai rs, set ups, el ect roni cs , p re c i s i o n f re t w o r k . P re v i o u s clients incl. R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Vic Chesnutt, Bob Mould, STS9, Abbey Road Live!, Squat. (706) 549-1567. Guitar Repair, setups, electronics & fretwork by 20 yr. pro. Thousands of previous clients. Proceeds help benefit N u ç i ’s S p a c e . C o n t a c t Jeff, (404) 643-9772 or www. AthensGuitar.com for details. Do you want to make $$$ with your music related business? Are you advertising in F l a g p o l e ? Call 706-5490301 for details. Looking for a fun, classy alternative to the typical wedding band? If you are looking for “YMCA” than Squat is not your band. If you want Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, & salsa, then visit www.squatme. com/weddings. (706) 548-0457. Stringed Instruments repaired. Respectful restoration of vintage i n s t r u m e n t s a s p e c i a l i t y. Member of Guild of American Luthiers. R. Anthony Ianuario. (706) 367-4788. We buy used gear every day! (770) 931-9190. Music–Go– Round buys hundreds of cool used instruments/equipment e a c h w k . O p e n e v e r y d a y. Bring trades! W e d d i n g B a n d s . Q u a l i t y, professional bands. Weddings, parties. Rock, Jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. (706) 549-1567. www. classiccityentertainment. com. Featuring The Magictones - Athens’ premiere wedding & party b a n d . w w w. t h e m a g i c t o n e s . com.

Studios

Piano lessons. UGA School of Music grad student off eri ng l essons. I w ill come to you! All ages & levels of skill welcome. (706) 2548018 f or i nf o.

N e w S t u d i o Ser vices! Please. The. Ear. Productions. Full service Recording & Production Co. Pricing is per project or song. Contact Chad (706) 498-0539.

Musicians Wanted

Services

Are you a talented musician looking to form (or join) a band? Advertise your skills i n t h e “ M u s i c i a n s Wa n t e d ” section of the Flagpole Classifieds. Only $8 for 1 week! Blues bands needed to perform at a benefit 5/15 & 5/16 in Athens. Email ewhitlock@hotmail.com or call (770) 633-3513.

Home and Garden B a c k y a r d Solutions. Make your neighbors jealous! Wa t e r f a l l s , p o n d s , f e n c e s , decks, gazebos, porches, & more! C al l Robi n f or fre e estimate! (706) 340-4492.

Massage February specials at Revolutionary Massage & Wellness: $120 per couple Valentines weekend. $40 intro 60 min. massage. Call (706) 2 5 5 - 4 4 4 3 o r v i s i t w w w. revolutionarymassage.com.

Misc. Services Buried in credit card debt? We can save you thousands & lower your monthly payments. Call Debt Relief hotline for your free consultation. (800) 3 9 9 - 3 5 6 0 ( A A N C A N ) .

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Cash for gold. We buy g o l d , s i l v e r, p l a t i n u m . G e t c a s h n o w. H i g h e s t p a y o u t s . Satisfaction guaranteed. (877) 548-1550 (AAN CAN). Learn Chinese! 5+ yrs. experience teaching at American School of Shangai. Material provided. Just bring yourself! Call (706) 254-8018 for more info. Tr y i n g t o g e t y o u r p e r s o n a l business off the ground? Advertise in the Flagpole Classifieds! Only $15 for 1 week & $45 for 4 weeks! Call 706-549-0301. P r i v. p a r k i n g l o t 1 b l o c k from UGA main campus, South Thomas St. $40/mo. Assigned spaces. Football games not incl. (706) 5489 1 3 7 be f o re 2 pm.

Psychics Free Psychic & Tarot Reading online. www.sostarots.com or (866) 800-4775 (AAN CAN). L e x u s P s y c h i c R e a d e r, Medium. 20 yrs. exp. Asks no questions. (877) 272-2700 ext. 884 (AAN CAN).

Sports Martial Arts. Indonesian Silat Serak, Kenpo, Muay T h a i , K a l i . On l y 5 s po t s l e f t . M M A w e l c o m e . Tu e . – T h u . , 6–8pm. Call Steve for info (706) 410-0951, e ma i l s t e v e @ k a r a t e f i re . c o m.

Jobs Full-time CAAC. Small non–profit seeks “people person” w/ strong sense of social justice, not afraid to ask people to do hard things, skilled in writing & speaking, computer literate, well connected in our community. Some travel, some evenings. A career opportunity for the right person. Training, holidays, health insurance. Res. & cover letter to CAACmail@ gmail.com by 2/22.

E a r n $ 7 5 - $ 2 0 0 / h r. Tr a i n a s media make-up artist for a ds , T V, f i l m, f a s h i o n . 1 wk . class. Stable job in weak e c o n o m y. D e t a i l s a t h t t p : / / w w w. M e d i a M a k e u p A r t i s t s . com, (310) 364-0665 (AAN CA N) . Earn extra income assembling CD cases from home. Call Our Live Operators Now! (800) 4057 6 1 9 e x t . 1 5 0 h t t p : / / w w w. e a s y w o r k - g r e a t p a y. c o m (AAN CAN). High School diploma! Fast, affordable & accredited. Free brochure. Call now! (800) 532-6546. Ext. 97. Go to http://www. c o n t i n e n t a l a c a d e m y. c o m ( A A N C A N ) . Now hiring! Companies d e s p e r a t e l y n e e d employees to assemble products at home. No selling, any hours. $500/ wk. potential. Info at (985) 646-1700 dept. GA–3058. P o s t O f f i c e h i r i n g n a t i o n a l l y. A v g . p a y $ 2 0 / h r. , $ 5 7 K / y r. i n c l . f e d e r a l b e n e f i t s & O T. O p t i o n a l f e e - b a s e d test prep materials. Not affiliated w/ the US Postal Service. (866) 616-7019 (AAN CAN).

Part-time Mercury Lounge is looking for DJ’s, drop off demo after 3pm.

Vehicles Autos 1986 Cadillac Eldorado. 192K mi. Good condition, runs great! New brakes. $1700 OBO. Call (706) 372-8819. 2003 Honda Odyssey. Leather seats, power windows & doors. Mileage 88K. $9995. Call (706) 372-4166.

Notices Organizations

Cozy salon in artist community seeks stylists for booth rent positions. Sense of environmentalism a must! Paul Mitchell Focus Salon. Email res. to jo@honeyssalon.com.

Advertise your business in 111 alternative newspapers like this one. Over 6 million circulation every wk. for $1200. No adult ads. Call Rick at (202) 289-8484 (AAN CAN).

FT & PT waitstaff needed. Exp. necessary. Apply in person, 1550 Oglethorpe Ave.

Messages

Sales Reps needed! Looking for confident, self motivated, well spoken people. Starting out at $8/ hr. + commission. Exp. nec. Call Kris (770) 560-5653. Weak people need not apply!

Opportunities $600 wk. potential. Helping the gov’t. PT. No exp., no selling. Call (888) 213-5225 AD code L-5. Void in MD & SD. (AAN CAN). NEED A JOB? Full-Time and P a r t - T i m e o p p o r t u n i t i e s a re listed weekly in the Flagpole Classifieds. Data Entry Processors needed! Earn $3500–$5K/ wk. working from home. Guaranteed paychecks. No e x p . n e c e s s a r y. P o s i t i o n s a v a i l . t o d a y. R e g i s t e r o n l i n e n o w. h t t p : / / w w w. DataPositions.com (AAN CA N) . Dependable person needed during the evening hrs. helping a young man c o n f i n e d t o a w h e e l c h a i r. In exchange for free rent in apt., food, utils. & other amenities. Call (706) 3162798 or (706) 549-9456.

Leaving town? Don’t know how to get your weekly Flagpole fix? Subscribe! $35 for 6 months, $55 for a yr.! Call (706) 549-9523.

Personals Athens couple looking to adopt. If you are pregnant & considering adoption, pls. call us at (888) 524-5054 or visit our f a m i l y a t w w w. a d o p t i o n . corbyn.net. Use a logo, graphic or border in your classified ad with Classified Display Advertising!!! C a l l 7 0 6 - 5 4 9 - 0 3 0 1 f o r m o re infor mation. Lose your puppy? Need a date? Want to find that guy you saw at the bar last weekend? Place your ad here. Pregnant? Considering a d o p t i o n ? Ta l k w / c a r i n g agency specializing in matching birthmothers w/ families nationwide. Living expenses paid. Call 2 4 / 7 A b b y ’s O n e Tr u e G i f t Adoptions (866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN.

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THU, FEBRUARY 12th wednesdays - ladies night!

FRI, FEBRUARY 13th • 8pm

open mic night

thursdays - draft night

napoleon solo

SAT, FEBRUARY 14th • 8pm

friday night rocks

with reservoir dogs sat - valentine’s day

college hoops all day...

TUE, FEBRUARY 17th • 9pm

live music later with

chuck holt

nascar sunday

the daytona 500

WED, FEBRUARY 18th

mondays

food & bev night 312 E. Washington Street 706-227-WING (9464) wildwingcafe.com

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