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FEBRUARY 18, 2009 · VOL. 23 · NO. 7 · FREE

Venice Is Sinking

AZAR Makes Its Highly Anticipated Debut p.17

Taste of Athens Community Connection Celebrates Its 25th Birthday p.9

Aux Fest 3 Featuring Experimental Artists in All Media p.15

School Vouchers p.7 · Grub Notes p.8 · White Rocket p.16 · Michael Franti p.19 · Andy Friedman p.22

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pub notes Beam Us Up, Ian Newspapers have always been dependent on technology.

When the young Ralph Maxwell came back from World War II and took over the Oglethorpe Echo after his uncle died, running the hot-lead Linotype machine and the flatbed press made him into a small-town editor. Sure, he had to write about commission meetings and sell ads, but if he couldn’t get it all printed and distributed, he wouldn’t be in the newspaper business.

And of course the Linotype was the marvelous invention that replaced setting type through assembling sentences by hand, one letter at a time. Computers replaced the Linotype, and the smell of molten lead gradually drifted out of the newspaper office. Editors could wear white shirts and ties and work without wrenches, once they grasped the benefits of the computer.

Grasping the benefits has always been difficult in any technological change. For the last decade and more newspapers have been coming to grips with online publishing, and the changes have been even more profound than the transition from hot type to computers.

What has been happening is another of these technological breakthroughs that offers an industry the ability to assemble and distribute its product faster and cheaper than before. The main problem, as always, is that the industry is already heavily invested in equipment and personnel to produce its product the old way. The trick is for the same people to continue doing it the old way while also doing it the new way.

Flagpole has been online for over a decade, giving you an electronic alternative to reading the paper you pick up around town. The Flagpole Guide to Athens is there, too, along with the Flagpole Athens Music Directory.

Now, we’re ratcheting up the offerings on www.flagpole. com, as you can see by a quick visit. (It’ll be a lot quicker as soon as a server glitch is corrected.) The relationship between editors and technology is still based on the same equation as Mr. Maxwell and his wrench: the paper doesn’t get out unless somebody understands Editors could wear white the new technology. It doesn’t get up, either.

For years now, shirts and ties and work Flagpole’s web preswithout wrenches… ence has depended on Ian Rickert, down there alone in the basement banging out strings of computer code that put Flagpole online, or sometimes not. Through the years we have changed the look and content of Flagpole.com, and always these changes have involved many awkward meetings in which Ian attempts to explain what he’s doing down there and we try to understand how to tell Ian what we want online.

Then Ian descends again to the cold basement, and more computer code ensues.

This time it’s different. Ian has moved out of the basement, upstairs with the rest of us. This time we’re no longer dependent on Ian to put the paper online. Now he has written programs that allow our editors to post their own stories and pictures: more work for them, but more control over what goes up when. This frees us from the weekly cycle of putting the paper online and gives us the flexibility to post new stuff and update stories as changes happen. This is old hat in the web publishing world, but it is an organic development at Flagpole, which in its paper form is a free weekly available all over town.

We’re still figuring out the relationship between this already accessible newspaper and its electronic enhancement. The two different forms of Flagpole are complementary and will continue leapfrogging each other, with the paper providing a week’s worth of reading easy to hold and carry around, updated frequently online as new information is available. Obviously, this also increases our ability to offer our advertisers a onetwo punch in the paper and online.

Our site is still a work in progress, of course. What you see online at present is the result of Ian’s fevered, all-night work preceding, in true Flagpole fashion, his departure on a month-long band tour. As problems arise, we email Ian, and in the back of the van or from a wi-fi coffeehouse or motel room, he works out the problem on his laptop, makes the fix and then hits the stage with his trombone in Austin, Norman, Alamogordo and points west.

So far, so good. Take advantage of our interactivity, and keep those comments coming.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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

Senators Bill ‘n’ Ralph show some love to Georgia Power… and other news.

Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Just Say No to School Vouchers

And remember, the guy who’s pushing vouchers is only running for Lieutenant Governor.

Arts & Events Taste of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Community Connection Gets a Big Helping Eat and drink your fill; it’s for a good cause!

Movie Pick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

COVER DESIGN by Kelly Ruberto featuring a photograph of Venice Is Sinking by Ian Darken

Milk Will Recruit You

Gus Van Sant’s Milk begs the question: How far have we come?

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Music The Aux Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Colorful Experimentations in Art and Music

Featuring the return of avant-garde performance artist Deonna Mann.

Venice Is Sinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 What It Means to Be an Athens Band

After eight months of pushing boundaries and tedious recording, AZAR has arrived.

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20 CITY DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CITY PAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CAPITOL IMPACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 COMMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 GRUB NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 TASTE OF ATHENS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 MOVIE DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 MOVIE PICK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 THREATS & PROMISES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

RECORD REVIEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 AUX FESTIVAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 WHITE ROCKET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 VENICE IS SINKING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 THE CALENDAR!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 BULLETIN BOARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 ART AROUND TOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 COMICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 REALITY CHECK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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A Smooth Ride: And all that is without getting to the topic of the Georgia Power boondoggle bill, which allows Georgia Power to charge consumers for nuclear power reactors long before they are built and cruised through the Senate with nearly as much support as the seatbelt thing. For the record—not that it’s surprising—both local senators, Bill Cowsert and Ralph Hudgens, voted with the power company. City Dope caught up with Cowsert and learned that the bill’s late-add amendments made a big difference in his mind, as did his expectation that the state Public Service Commission would approve the rate increases anyway.

Cowsert also said it makes sense to him to support nuclear power over coal nowadays, but admitted, “I don’t deny that it’s a very interesting debate.”

Interesting to say the least, Senator.

And These: Also on that agenda-setting agenda (can we just start calling it the agenda-squared, or something dorky like that?) are a first step toward a Milledge Avenue local historic district; the next step in the process of expanding the ACC landfill; and the first official dollar sign pinned onto the proposed regional economic development partnership with Oconee County— a potential $150,000 from the hotel/motel tax. Not to be ignored on the agenda-squared (there!) is the idea to raise revenue for expanded bus routes by selling ads on the sides of Athens Transit buses. Though it arguably has its aesthetic drawbacks, this could be a real boon to The Bus. That’s a bunch of news from City Hall conceivably, so keep an eye out.

Up in the Air: As of press time, the story on the stimulus bill out of Washington is no different in Athens than anywhere. That is, there’s really no telling what we’ll get out of it. Mayor Davison told Flagpole’s John Huie in an email late last week that though she hadn’t yet seen the final version, she “would strongly suspect there will be an opportunity for Athens to take advantage of the plan.” That’s because the city submitted a list of projects weeks ago through the U.S. Conference of Mayors that included water, stormwater, sewer, energy efficiency, safety and more. But like everywhere, Athens awaits details.

Around Town: Word on the street was that Up in Smoke: Of the closing sale at course, if Rep. Paul Foster’s Jewelers, one Broun had had his of the few remaining way in Washington locally-owned down(alas!), there’d be no town retailers of its waiting around—just generation, was to tax cuts, tax cuts and That guy on the scooter with the trailer was Josh finally end on or soon more tax cuts. After Beal of Paramount Signwalkwers, a small comafter Valentine’s Day. the final vote on the The last week or two of pany in the Detroit area. He told City Dope he’d bill, Broun called it much rather drive a sign-scooter around Athens in a “Steamroller of the sale found a novel February than around Detroit. innovation in outdoor Socialism” and decried advertising descenda health-care provision ing upon Athens: a Foster’s sign mounted on within the package that he said will “move a trailer and pulled by a scooter. “It’s a really us towards Cuba-style medicine.” Here’s the effective marketing tool because people—you thing: sure, the debt being incurred is worrihave to look at it,” scooterist Josh Beal of St. some, and if Broun has to vote against desperClair Shores, MI told City Dope. The company ately-needed solutions for this country, that’s he works for is one of the few in the country fine. But with all the talking heads wondering using the strategy, and has been at it for two where to assign blame for the much-discussed years. (It also temporarily hired the local folks dissolution of the bipartisanship for which holding signs on street corners downtown.)

President Obama has been aiming… well, City It’s worth it to him to haul the scooter down Dope has an idea of where to start searching. here because, in Beal’s words, “I’m not driving’ it in Detroit right now, I’ll tell ya that.” His Endin’ On a Good Note: Last week’s column next stop: Rogers, Arkansas. mentioned fellow local newsman Rick Dunn in the same breath as the news of the fire at Heads Up: Remember the chatter about WBKZ 880 AM. This week, City Dope is pleased increasing downtown parking rates and to be congratulating Rick for his appointment fines? The new rate schedule is on the as the new head of the graduation coaches in Commission agenda for this Thursday’s the Clarke County School District. Rick is the agenda-setting session, is headed for a kind of guy who cares deeply about the young vote on Mar. 3 and will take effect July 1 if people having trouble in our community, and approved. Highlights are that meters will go he logs the hours to prove it, so it’s hard to ’til 7 p.m. instead of 6 p.m., and an hour’s think of a better man for the job. time will cost 50 cents instead of a quarter.

Read the whole proposal on the Commission Ben Emanuel agenda at the ACC website, or link to it from this column at Flagpole.com.

Send your city dope to ben@flagpole.com.

city pages Water Councils’ Make-Up Eyed Here and Statewide Along with Gov. Sonny Perdue’s Feb. 11 “I’m not only disappointed, but surprised,” announcement of the membership of new says ACC Manager Alan Reddish, mentioning regional water councils—which will guide “the proactive approach of this government planning under last year’s statewide water in trying to deal with our water resources.” planning act—came a few raised eyebrows at Athens-Clarke Mayor Heidi Davison did not the make-up of the lists the governor released. have the same reaction, though; she says it’s “Only six of the over 300 appointments are always difficult to represent every municipalrepresentatives of the scores of conservation ity across a wide area of the state in formgroups dedicated to protecting and restoring such a committee. Says state Sen. Bill ing the state’s water resources,” said a press Cowsert, ”I have not heard any criticism or release from the Georgia Water Coalition, a complaints that any particular group was consortium of 174 groups under-represented.“ He focused on environmental “I’m not only disappointed, nominated about a dozen protection and conservapeople, some of whom but surprised.” tion. One of those six were picked and some of is Satilla Riverkeeper whom weren’t. ”All in all, Gordon Rogers of Waynesboro. “It is an honor I think a pretty good, diverse cross-section to be appointed by statewide officials to our was selected,“ Cowsert says. regional planning council…“ Rogers said in The Georgia Water Coalition, meanwhile, the press release. “It is disappointing, howsays its members are not overly worried about ever, to see so few voices for the rivers among the policymaking direction of the councils, other councils, particularly for those rivers if only because the coalition will continue downstream of Metro North Georgia.” Most of to advocate for prudent environmental the council members represent agricultural stewardship in water planning. The group’s interests, forestry, local governments and press release focused mainly on recentlyindustry. released results of a poll it commissioned last Conservationists weren’t the only ones September. The coalition says the poll of 600 disappointed when the membership rolls were Georgians indicated support for clean-water released: the Oconee River basin’s council issues across the political spectrum, and includes government officials from throughout showed that 87 percent of Georgia voters were the basin, as well as some Athens residents, concerned about water shortages and 75 perbut no one from the Athens-Clarke County cent were concerned about water quality. government, which has been a leader statewide in water conservation.

Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

Old Farmers’ Market Building to Stay or Go? property” to be sold to the highest bidder, to The old open-air farmers’ market on West temporarily renew the county’s lease. “I’m putBroad Street (just east of Hawthorne Avenue) ting together a plan to ’rescue’ the building hasn’t been used for that purpose for years, and the state of Georgia wants to sell it. But from the surplus properties division, and get a local growers’ co-op, Athens Locally Grown, it re-dedicated to use as a permanent farmers market,” he told Flagpole. “It will require an does use it as a pickup point for produce cusact of legislature, I’m pretty certain.” tomers, and thinks it could be more. “Imagine With few exceptions—like the world’s busithe Saturday market moving there,” suggested Locally Grown’s manager Eric Wagoner in a est watermelon market in Cordele—Georgia recent email to members, “and truck farmers farmers don’t sell retail to the public like they used to, says Bobby Harris, setting up stalls throughout the week. With working Athens-Clarke County’s assistant commissioner for marketing at the Georgia facilities and a little spruc$1-a-year lease on the Department of Agriculture. ing up, it really could be something nice.” At present just weren’t any old Broad Street market “There farmers coming to [the (excepting wintertime), the expires in March.

Broad street market],” he Saturday-morning Athens says. “Most of the truck Farmers’ Market, where local farming—unless it is organic—is by big sustainable growers sell to the public, has been taking place at Bishop Park, where it will farmers, and the companies buy it out of the start up again in May. fields.” But all over Georgia, city or countysponsored markets like the one at Bishop Park Athens-Clarke County’s $1-a-year lease on allow organic growers to sell to the public. the old Broad Street market expires in March.

“They provide a space where these small Nonprofit groups and county departments organic folks can sell their produce,” Harris sometimes use the facility for things like police, fire and bus-driver training and food says. “All of them seem to do pretty good.” distribution. But Wagoner has persuaded the John Huie jphuie@athens.net state, which has declared the market “surplus

Davison, Commish Lay Out Clear Agenda for ’09 At press time, the two committees that If both lists sound like they call up issues serve as vetting panels for many issues with which Davison and commissioners have heading to votes before the ACC Mayor & dealt already, that’s because they do that Commission were scheduled to meet on too. Last year’s flap over CDBG outlays to the Tuesday, Feb. 17—a welcome development for Hancock Corridor and East Athens development Mayor Heidi Davison, who earlier this month corporations, for example, highlighted the laid out a plan to keep those committees busy need for a better defined system. “I certainly and avoid the multi-month gaps in activity felt frustrated after last spring’s back-andthat have too often characterized the comforth over allocations,” Girtz told Flagpole last mittees’ schedules lately. The Government week. And the tree ordinance has been the Operations Committee (GOC), chaired by target of efforts at strengthening regulations; District 9 Commissioner Kelly Girtz, and the community resolve on that issue seems to Legislative Review Committee (LRC), chaired have been solidified by this winter’s clearcutby new District 10 Commissioner Mike Hamby, ting of commercial property for a CVS drug both have ambitious agendas which Davison store at Hawthorne and Oglethorpe avenues. described in her remarks at the end of the Even more than highlighting certain Commission’s voting meeting Feb. 3. progressive issues, though, the agenda-ofFor the LRC, she first listed a look at dealagendas seems to indicate a desire on the ing with blighted and abandoned properties, Mayor’s part to streamline the process of plus regulations on demolition of historic policymaking at City Hall. At the Feb. 3 meetproperties (outside of local historic districts, ing, she thanked Girtz and Hamby for helping presumably), a topic which she said may “flow to prioritize an action plan for 2009—a task into” the idea of a “land bank,” which has which included some preliminary back-andbeen discussed in a OneAthens committee on forth between the three of them, Girtz says, affordable housing. Next in addition to each supercame a review of the tree “I think this is absolutely Commissioner meeting ordinance with a focus individually with the four on multi-family and comcommissioners in his own the time to set high mercial zones, plus condistrict to gain a sense of expectations.” sideration of regulations priorities and help create on grease traps and septic a task list with broad suptank maintenance (both bigger water-quality port. Those “priority assignments,” Davison issues than they might sound like). “And then said, ought to help the committees “continue finally, depending on what the Legislature your work throughout the year and try to does, maybe we’ll be able to begin some work avoid some of the losses of time we have.” on looking at our local property taxes and Girtz and Hamby both say they’re excited homestead exemptions, ’circuit breakers’ and about the plan, and of course its attention deferred payments and all of those kinds of to certain specific issues shouldn’t be downissues that we’ve been talking about,” Davison played. “So many of these things are things said, acknowledging that it’s been difficult that people have been clamoring for,” Girtz “for us to look at those in a meaningful way.” says, pointing out that there’s currently “more If those sound like ideas that have been unanimity” of opinion on the Commission central for Davison throughout her time in than ever in recent years. In the past several office, it’s because they are. The same goes for years, items from within a suite of progresthe list she laid out for the GOC: First was to sive issues have been addressed “piecemeal,” “look at the alternative transportation dollars he says, whereas the outlook now is: “Here’s that were set aside when we did the Jennings sort of a legislative agenda in a way that we Mill Parkway—and that’s been on hold for haven’t created a formal one in the past.” quite some time—and to fold that into lookAsked if he’s concerned at all about setting ing at possibly updating our Bicycle Master citizen and commission expectations too high, Plan.” Also: creating sustainable-building Girtz responds, “I think this is absolutely incentives for commercial buildings, promoting the time to set high expectations.” And, he stormwater credits for commercial properties hastens to add, “I give Heidi a ton of credit and refining the process of awarding federal because she really initiated this.”

Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) to local non-profits.

Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

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Shirley Almer, an elderly Minnesota woman, had managed to live through lung cancer and a brain tumor before she died on Dec. 21.

Cause of death: salmonella poisoning linked to food products from a Peanut Corporation of America plant in Blakely, GA. Clifford Tousignant made it through the Korean War, where he earned three Purple Hearts, and was still enjoying the company of his children and grandchildren before he died Jan. 12 in a Minnesota nursing home. Cause of death: salmonella poisoning linked to products from the Peanut Corporation plant in Blakely.

They are among the nine people so far whose deaths have been connected to tainted peanut products made at that Blakely facility, not to mention the hundreds who have survived but are trying to overcome the effects of salmonella poisoning. Their deaths are tragedies that could have and should have been avoided, but they point to a even larger flaw in our current system of governance: the belief among many of our political leaders that government regulations are always a bad thing and must be eliminated because they get in the way of free market forces.

This belief is contained in Ronald Reagan’s famous remark that “government isn’t the solution, government is the problem.” You hear it often from leaders in the Georgia General Assembly, who insist that all government regulations are bad and must be eliminated so that the free market can work its magic for Georgia’s citizens.

There appear to have been very few regulations that were enforced by government inspectors on Peanut Corporation of America.

The company’s CEO, Stewart Parnell, evidently had the ability to do whatever he wanted to under our free market system. A congressional committee that finally took a hard look at Parnell’s operations released copies of some very interesting corporate communications.

In one email, plant manager Sammy Lightsey told Parnell about positive salmonella tests that had come back on food products from the Blakely facility. Parnell gave instructions to “turn them loose” anyway. Parnell wrote an email to company employees on Jan. 12 that stated, “we have never found any salmonella at all. No salmonella has been found anywhere in our products or in our plants.”

Parnell sent an email to the Food and Drug Administration telling federal officials that the managers at his company “desperately at least need to turn the raw peanuts on our floor into money.” He issued orders that products tainted with salmonella were still to be shipped out to customers, and he complained that tests discovering the contaminated food were “costing us huge $$$$$.”

Peanut Corporation of America has now filed for bankruptcy and likely won’t make or ship any more batches of contaminated peanut products. There might not have been any deaths caused by the company if state and federal inspectors had enforced food safety regulations. Even so, there are still political leaders who argue that government regulations are bad because they get in the way of an effectively functioning free market.

The wave of deaths and illnesses traced to contaminated food products from the Blakely peanut plant should—but probably won’t—put an end to that nonsense. There are times when consumers need strong oversight and regulation from the government so that they at least know the food they eat won’t kill them. Just ask the surviving relatives of Shirley Almer and Clifford Tousignant.

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.

comment Just Say No to School Vouchers In light of what has been happening to the global economic system, it seems anachronistic and irrelevant for state Senator Eric Johnson to propose a statewide school voucher program, a program which would, if successful, begin the replacement of the public school system with a network of forprofit education corporations. Privatization schemes like former President Bush’s attempt to auction off Social Security already appear as catastrophes narrowly avoided, with Wall Street, Detroit and financial centers around the world daily demonstrating the colossal power of the market to fail.

But Sen. Johnson and a group of conservatives in Atlanta are not ready to abandon their plan: Apply market capitalism to any and all areas of human relations, despite the market’s tendency for turbulence, social stratification and cyclical failure. Surprisingly, to Johnson and a handful of others, the unforgiving maelstrom of the market is still a proper place for our most vulnerable, Georgia’s children.

The very aspect of school competition that its proponents champion—namely, the heterogeneity which allows for the differentiation of fates in the market—would provide chaos for children whose schools close. For the competitive market to work, curricula would increasingly differ among the schools. Curriculum and teaching style would be the products, the commodities offered by for-profit schools, and, just as a Toyota Camry is different from a Ford Focus, an education-product at School A would differ from that offered at School B. Constant exoduses from failed education corporations to solvent ones would be plagued by a growing incompatibility of curriculum. It would be a chaotic and merciless game of musical chairs that young students would needlessly face.

More troubling is the disparity that would occur along class lines. The marketplace sorts its participants into a stratified hierarchy based on the participants’ varying wealth and ability to pay. Some Georgians drive Mercedes and some drive 1986 Ford Tempos; some Athenians eat at Five & Ten, while some search their couch cushions to afford the week’s groceries. Given that Johnson’s $5,000 vouchers won’t pay even half of the $13,000 tuition at Athens Academy, it’s easy to imagine how budget schools would emerge— To be sure, the free market can and like budget auto insurance companies whose does work for the production of only promise is to “keep widgets. But children aren’t widgets. you legal”—providing only the most crude functions of education.

Sen. Johnson and interested parties have Meanwhile, wealthy Georgians would enjoy a recently been out lobbying voters for the plan, $5,000 subsidy to attend even nicer private introduced as Senate Bill 90. As would be academies. expected, the senator neglects the unsettling So, given the market’s tendency toward potentialities of a privatized education nettumult, why is Sen. Johnson proposing such a work in order to emphasize the plan’s possible plan? Why, given the very predictable stratiadvantages. To listen to Johnson describe fication that would occur, are other General vouchers is a bit like hearing about how effiAssembly members on board? Johnson’s ciently Mussolini’s Italy was run: true, but not proposal is only the newest and most local the entire story. manifestation of what’s usually called neolibJohnson stresses the “choice” available eralism, the strain of political economy which to students and parents in a voucher system. determines market capitalism to be the best Under the plan each student could elect arbiter and governor of human activities. The to receive roughly $5,000 (the amount the neoliberal path followed since the Reagan state of Georgia spends on each student, years has seen the systematic replacement of minus federal and local funds) to attend a governmental functions with market-based private school of his or her choosing. Choice alternatives. The for-profit prison system, forwill bring competition among schools, says profit armies (e.g., Blackwater, Triple Canopy, Johnson, and competition will bring higher etc.), for-profit health care, the mercifully levels of quality. aborted for-profit Social Security system and To be sure, the free market can and does for-profit schooling are all components of work for the production of widgets. But chilthat larger project. What occurs in each case dren aren’t widgets. The market is a competiis a wholly new disaster: The market subverts tion, and competitions are zero-sum affairs: democracy by removing vital functions from For each victory there is a loss, for each victor the purview of voters, while even free market a loser. Market competition tends to reward principles are abandoned, as the lawmakers success and innovation, but it requires the design favorable conditions for profit at the destruction of underperforming firms. For behest of their corporate sponsors. example, Wal-Mart has amply succeeded, but Even further removed from decision-making its unprecedented success has required the power are Georgia’s children. Under Johnson’s destruction of thousands of local groceries plan, children born to any but the wealthiest and mom-and-pops of every variety. What if families would see the equality afforded them all those neighborhood stores were schools, by a public education system dissolve into a boarded up and dormant? Where do the chilneo-aristocratic arrangement in which one’s dren go? And how do the children’s educations economic circumstances at birth all but detercontinue successfully, with such disruptive mine her educational, and material, fate. upheavals occurring with the sort of regularity marking a large and dynamic market?

Matt Pulver

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BBQ Beat: The appearance of any kind of sign advertising barbecue and located inside the perimeter of the loop, no matter how crude or unpromising, causes minor heart palpitations in your humble columnist, so when one popped up on Epps Bridge Road, near its intersection with Broad Street, I experienced the usual excitement and nervousness. It turns out that Downhome Waterwheel Cafe, covered back in mid-June of ‘08, lost its lease on Hull Road and found this new location in the old Grillmaster building, renaming itself Downhome Cooking Smokehouse BBQ (145 Epps Bridge Rd.), although the sign says only “Downhome.” The set-up is minimalist, to say the least. One steam table sits against the back wall; a few picnic tables that can only be entered from one side make up the seating; and shrink-wrapped thin slices of cake on disposable plates are about the most attractive thing in sight. The restaurant seems to do more meat-and-three business than barbecue, possibly because the latter isn’t advertised anywhere inside or out except for on that one, big spray-painted sign. Skip the limp, unappetizing broccoli and the too-smooth mashed potatoes, but the baked chicken is nice and tender and both mac and cheese and greens are adequate.

But what of the cue? I don’t know if it’s possible to get the sauce on the side, but you should essay a request for such.

The texture of both chopped pork, which resembled pulled more than cleavered, and pork ribs was good—moist but not slimy, with the right mixture of softness and chewiness—and the sauce wasn’t bad either, a vinegary but thick and not-toosweet goo. But the meat came in an absolute pool of sauce, meaning that, while the combination of the two wasn’t bad, the goop was overwhelming and the flavor of the central protein almost undiscernible. Nonetheless, the price ($6.50 a plate, with two sides) is good, and there’s at least some potential. Downhome Cooking Smokehouse BBQ is not open on Mondays, but is generally open for lunch and dinner and accepts credit cards.

Sammiches: Although Mirko Pasta has yet to open its third location on Baxter Street, the owners do continue to tinker with the formula, recently adding a new lunch menu consisting of panini and salads for those who want something lighter than a plate of carbs (I rarely do). The salads differ not at all from the regular ones available, but they come with a “cup” of minestrone soup that could practically feed two.

The sandwiches are smaller than anticipated but accompanied by the same large bowl—which I’ve heard some diners have had poor experiences with (mine was pretty tasty, with some of the more delicately flavored vegetables just as present as the usual suspects that can overpower them)—and a pile of potato chips. The usual way to do this kind of thing is to assemble the sandwich, then squish and grill it, but Mirko chooses to grill the bread first, then put the ingredients together, which means its version isn’t quite so melded together. The panini salumire (and let’s not bother to get into the whole panino is singular and panini is plural thing, which is accurate but a waste of time in this case) holds prosciutto, mortadella and salami, garnished with mustard, and is fine enough, but if you’re going to get one and you’re not vegetarian, you really should opt for the panini del contadino, which snuggles flat pieces of ground sausage and grilled peppers in its embrace and is rather more sophisticated than the description would lead one to expect. At $5.99 each, it’s a toss-up whether these lunch specials are a better deal than the pastas, and they’re not much easier to eat on the go, but the sausage is definitely a highlight.

What Up? After 25 years, The Grill has changed owners but not the menu. The National has introduced Saturday lunch from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Farm 255 has now been serving its “stimulus package” for a while: a housemade sausage and a Yuengling lager for $5. Braxton’s Coffeehouse in Watkinsville has shuttered, as has Johnny’s Pizza on Epps Bridge Road. The space formerly occupied by Curves in the Bottleworks is being taken over by a new restaurant called The Burger and Cheesesteak Factory Featuring Deep Fried Paradise, which plans on deepfrying hamburger patties, green beans, pickles, green tomatoes, candy and even bacon, and aims to open in mid-March.

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Taste of Athens Community Connection Gets a Big Helping

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erhaps you think it’s frivolous these days, in our time of economic nosedive, to get dressed up and flit around The Classic Center from table to table, sampling the goods of dozens of Athens-area restaurants and beverage providers, but that’s like avoiding all peanut butter because of a salmonella recall that only affects a limited area. If anything, this is a time to remember what Taste of Athens benefits and how important that organization is to our community.

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his year’s event, the 16th held, benefits Community Connection of Northeast Georgia and celebrates that organization’s 25th birthday. Community Connection, which was established in 1983, was the the first computerbased information and referral service in the country, and many others have followed its lead, especially with regard to its 2-1-1 service; the idea of which has spread to approximately 80 percent of the country, according to executive director Julie Meehan. By dialing 2-1-1, denizens of a 14-county area (including Clarke and Oconee) can receive referrals and information on receiving human services including counseling, financial management, food, shelter and affordable housing; those with resources to volunteer can call, too, to find out about opportunities in such areas as mentoring, meal delivery and donations. Even in the age of the Internet, it’s often difficult to find what you need from governmental or nonprofit organizations—not everyone has a good website with the information you need—and 2-1-1 acts as a useful clearinghouse for referrals, cutting down on the time it takes to find what you are looking for.

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unning 2-1-1 would be enough of a contribution to the community, but Community Connection has other facets: Hands On Northeast Georgia and the NonProfit Development Alliance (NPDA). The former coordinates Taste of Athens 2008 and finds opportunities for individuals, families and corporate and community groups who wish to volunteer their time or services in Athens-Clarke and Oconee Counties. If you want to provide rides to bowlers with disabilities participating in the Bowl-a-Thon, help maintain the database of childcare providers in the area, tutor children at local elementary schools, prepare meals with the Salvation Army or review scholarship applications, Hands On Northeast Georgia can direct you to the right place and help you figure out what’s right for your skills/schedule. NPDA, on the other hand, provides support to nonprofits from another direction, supplying expertise and training in leadership and technology to help those organizations connect with one another, increase efficiency and better themselves so they can serve the community more effectively. In fact, Meehan points out, all three programs provide support to agencies as well as individuals. For 2-1-1, it’s by “referring to other organizations to decrease their own outreach work as well as by supporting collaboratives such as NEGA Homeless coalition or coordinating the group of organizations that give to families at Christmas so there is less duplication and better support between agencies.”

Meehan emphasizes, “With recent economic challenges, balanced with an amazing spirit of service sweeping the country, we have truly reaffirmed how valuable our services are to the community. Through our 2-1-1 helpline we are able to connect the growing number of our neighbors needing aid and those who have never needed assistance with the agencies that can help them. We are that first call they make to find out where to start. At the same time, we are able to connect a growing population of volunteers with agencies in need of support, making our community stronger with each service project.”

All that said, they also know how to throw a fun party, and this year’s Taste of Athens, as usual, has some alterations. First and foremost is the birthday theme, which means that, instead of the usual Red Clay Chef Cook-Off, this year it’s a birthday cake competition, with Cecilia Villaveces Cakes, Deborah’s Specialty Cakes, The Daily Neighborhood Deli, Five Star Day Café, The Grill and The Grit given 30 minutes to put final touches on an already baked dessert. Judges will assess the results on taste, creativity of design and incorporation of the 25th birthday theme based on a smaller cake for tasting, and the full-sized creations will be raffled off. The event starts a bit earlier this time, at 5 p.m., meaning you’ll definitely be able to make your Oscar party later that night, and those who want to pony up an extra $30 for a total of $75 can get in even earlier, at 4:30 p.m. The VIP tickets also buy you a souvenir wine glass and plate and entry into that tented area in the middle of the room that has chairs and tables, an enviable sight for the weary.

Regular tickets will run you $45 and include all you can swallow of the goodies provided by local food and drink vendors including Weaver D’s (great for a more substantial experience, as opposed to the nibbles supplied by many others), The Grill (mini milkshakes, usually), Farm 255, Taste of India, The Savannah Room, Kelly’s Jamaican Food, Harry Bissett’s, Gnat’s Landing, last year’s Red Clay Chef rivals La Dolce Vita and The Daily Neighborhood Deli, Casa Mia and both Five & Ten and The National. Make sure to note the location of the beverage suppliers, too, as Copper Creek Brewing Co. and Terrapin will be pouring suds and a number of wineries and distributors will be on hand with the fancier stuff. The silent auction, which usually includes contributions from Athens artists, celebrities and businesses (jewelry, photography sessions, pottery, signed memorabilia, spa visits, sports items and more) is a great place to pretend to walk off some of what you’ve eaten as well to hunt for gifts.

Tickets for the Sunday, Feb. 22 event are available at http://www.xorbia.com/tickets/tasteofathens/ or in person at Community Connection on Old West Broad Street or Aurum Studios on Clayton Street. For discounts for groups of 12 or more, email info@launchatlanta.com. More information about the event can be obtained by visiting www.communityconnection211.com/taste.htm and more information about Community Connection by going to www.communityconnection211.com.

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movie dope Some releases may not be showing locally this week.

4 LITTLE GIRLS (NR) 1997. Spike Lee was robbed of his best shot at Oscar when this documentary of the horrific 1963 bombing deaths of four little Birmingham girls—Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins- lost to yet another Holocaust doc (The Long Way Home). Lee speaks with everyone from those personally affected by the girls’ deaths (friends and family) to luminaries like Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby. Part of the 2009 African American Film Festival sponsored by the Institute for African American Studies.

THE AGE OF ASSASSINS (NR) 1967. In this dark comedy directed by Kihachi Okamoto a league of assassins try to recover a lost Nazi diamond. Part of the Japanese Film Festival presented by the Japan Foundation, New York.

BOLT (PG) The sharply animated, directed and written flick is the closest Disney has gotten to achieving Pixarlike quality, possibly due to the presence of Pixar founder John Lasseter as executive producer and Cars writer Dan Fogelman.

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) Coraline may just be next year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar. The filmed adaptation of the young adult 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. The 3D ably amps up the film’s more startling moments, but it’s nothing a tough youngster can’t handle and enjoy.

CROSSING THE LINE (NR) 2006.

Writer-director Daniel Gordon (The Game of Their Lives) takes full advantage of the North Korean government’s cooperation to document the life of U.S. Private James Joseph Dresnok, who shocked the world when he defected to that communist stronghold

in 1962. Crossing the Line is narrated by Christian Slater and features Chiwetel Ejiofor as the voice of John Akii Bua. Nominated for a Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema—Documentary at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

Part of the ACC Library’s iFilms series.

EIGHT BELOW (PG) 2006. Disney’s reversion to the nature adventures of its past, declares, before it has even

Baseball, baseball, baseball… keep thinking baseball, dude… begun, that true events lie behind this tale of friendship and survival in the harsh elements of Antarctica.

Left behind by their human protectors (including the comfortingly wooden Paul Walker), eight sled dogs must fight for their existence over 175 days

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Crossing the Line (NR) 7:00 (Th. 2/19) Eight Below (PG) 3:00 (Tu. 2/24)

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Confessions of a Shopaholic (PG) 4:05, 7:15, 9:55 Coraline 3-D (PG) 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Friday the 13th (R) 5:05, 7:40, 10:00 Gran Torino (R) 7:15 He’s Just Not That Into You (PG-13) 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 The International (R) 4:25, 7:00, 9:40 Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor (NR) 7:00 (W. 2/18) Paul Blart: Mall Cop (PG) 7:15 (no shows W. 2/18) Pink Panther 2 (PG) 5:10, 7:25, 9:35 Push (PG-13) 4:30, 7:25, 9:55 Revolutionary Road (R) 4:30, 9:35 (no shows W. 2/18) Slumdog Millionaire (R) 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Taken (PG-13) 5:00, 7:10, 9:25 The Wrestler (R) 4:15, 9:55

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in the white wilderness. If you thought those marching penguins had it bad, you’ve yet to see these brave canines battle hunger, leopard seals and the aurora australis. Frank Marshall’s snowy disaster flick is massively exciting and entertaining.

FAUBOURG TREME (NR) In honor of Black History Month, the African-American Cultural Center is

Milk (R) 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 (add’l time Sa. 2/21–Su. 2/22: 1:30) Oscar Nominated Short Films 2009: Animation Program (NR) 4:00 (starts F. 2/20) Oscar Nominated Short Films 2009: Live Action Program (NR) 7:15 (starts F. 2/20) The Reader (R) 4:30, 7:15 (new times F. 2/20: 9:30) (add’l time Sa. 2/21–Su. 2/22: 2:00) Until the Violence Stops (NR) 7:00 (M. 2/23)

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (706-546-0039) Thriller: A Cruel Picture (NR) 9:00 (Tu. 2/17)

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sponsoring a screening of Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. The oldest African-American neighborhood in New Orleans, Faubourg Treme is considered the birthplace of jazz and the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Writer Lolis Eric Elie and filmmaker Dawn Logsdon, two native New Orleanians, one black and one white, collaborated to document this historic district. Winner of Best Documentary awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the San Francisco Black Film Festival and the Martha’s Vineyard Black Film Festival. m FIRED UP (PG-13) No new teen sex comedy sounds more 1980s than Fired Up, the first offering from director Will Gluck (“The Loop”). Two popular jocks, Shawn Colfax and Nick Brady (Nicholas D’Agosto and 31-year-old Eric Christian Olsen), ditch football camp to follow the hotties to cheer camp. Swimming in an ocean of beautiful women, the boys are in heaven until Shawn falls for head cheerleader Carly (Sarah Roemer). Bring on the final competition where Shawn must prove his love by helping Carly’s squad beat the mean girls.

THE FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON (NR) 2007. Inspired by Albert Lamorisse’s classic Oscar winner, The Red Balloon, director Hou Hsiao Hsien, a six-time Palme d’Ornominee, director of the acclaimed films Flowers of Shanghai and Three Times, takes the fantastical idea of a red balloon following a young boy around the streets of Paris and grounds it in the plotlessness of real life.

This film, a collection of improvised moments, could be called reality cinema had reality TV not forever polluted that descriptor.

FRIDAY THE 13th (R) See Movie Pick.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS (R) 1998.

The one Guy Ritchie film that truly makes me giddy, Lock, Stock towers above follow-up Snatch for one simple reason, Sting. The erstwhile musician provides a moral center to this amoral tale about four small-time criminals, Eddy (Nick Moran), Soap (Dexter Fletcher), Tom (Tom Flemyng) and Bacon (Jason Statham), in hock pretty deep to “Hatchet” Harry Lonsdale.

Amusing and violent, often amusingly violent, this film makes me hopeful for Ritchie’s Robert Downey, Jr.-starring Sherlock Holmes.

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.

MADEA GOES TO JAIL (PG-13) Tyler Perry’s back, and so is his matriarchal alter ego, Madea. After her anger-management issues land her in the clink, Madea befriends/chastises a young prostitute and drug addict, Candace (Keisha Knight Pulliam, formerly Rudy from “The Cosby Show”).

The parallel plot involves a hotshot ADA (Derek Luke) with connections to Candace. Madea fans will welcome the return of Brown (David Mann presently starring in TBS’s “Meet the Browns”), Madea’s brother Joe (Perry).

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (PG) 1956. The Georgia Museum of Art’s Classic Film Series on Hitchcock continues with the latter of Hitch’s two versions of The Man Who Knew Too

Much. The 1956 version stars Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day as Ben and Jo McKenna, a couple whose son is kidnapped while on holiday in Morocco.

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.

METROPOLITAN OPERA: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (NR) Mary Zimmerman’s production, which stages the Donizetti tragedy as a Victorian ghost story, features Anna Netrebko as the fragile title heroine.

MILK (R) See Movie Pick.

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.

PAUL BLART: MALL COP (PG) Paul Blart: Mall Cop rings in the New Year with mild, unobjectionable humor. The beginning of the year 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. The Panther franchise badly misses the stewardship of Blake Edwards. Agent Cody Banks director Harald Zwart and the first-time writers credited with assisting Martin continue transforming this classic comedy series into a bland family friendly devourer of disposable income.

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 spandex-

screening is sponsored by Speak Out for Species as part of Through Other Eyes, their fourth Annual Film Festival on Animals & Society. A discussion will follow.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (R) Oscar winners director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty) have merely adapted Indian author Vikas Swarup’s Q & A into 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.

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”).

THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX (G) 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.

TRANSPORTER 3 (PG-13) Transporter 3 will please franchise diehards as well as those action fans who’ve yet to realize the 1980s are over.

TWILIGHT (PG-13) Thanks to a writer and director who took the Romeo and Juliet courtship of a vampire and a human seriously, the film rises above giggle-inducing dialogue, groaninducing vampire super-speed and strength, and a simplistic makeup-andsnarl depiction of its central monsters.

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. With David Strathairn and Arielle Kebbel (The Grudge 2).

UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS (NR) 2003. Project Safe presents a benefit screening of Until the Violence Stops. Abby Epstein’s documentary chronicles how Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues grew into V-Day, an international grassroots movement to stop violence against women and girls. See Calendar Pick.

WILD WOMEN DON’T HAVE THE BLUES (NR) 1989. The stories of great female blues performers Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter and others brings to life black culture of the 1920s and 1930s. Hear over 30 “good old blues” songs sung by the legends themselves. Sponsored by the African-American Cultural Center in honor of Black History Month, Winner of the VITAS Festival’s Best Exploration of Music, an American Film and Video Association Red Ribbon, and C.I.N.E.’s Golden Eagle.

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, the best of last year and 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 as blood streams down its face. No other film matched its virtuality, its seeming recreation of a real person.

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.

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clad 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) Fifteen-year-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. Between The Reader’s covers is a 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.

SEVEN POUNDS (PG-13) Will Smith reteams with his Pursuit of Happyness director, Gabriele Muccino, for another sad, ultimately uplifting tearjerker.

Smith stars as a suicidal man looking to change the lives of seven strangers after he finds love with an ill woman (Rosario Dawson).

SHARKWATER (NR) 2006. Biologist and filmmaker Rob Stewart risks his life to arrest the killing of that most villainized pillar of marine evolution, sharks. Winner of eight awards including Best Film/Documentary/Feature from the Atlantic Film Festival, the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival, and the Gen Art Film Festival. The

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movie pick Milk Will Recruit You MILK (R) Thirty years have passed since pioneering gay rights activist Harvey Milk (played at his mannered finest by Academy Awardnominee Sean Penn) was assassinated by fellow San Francisco city supervisor Dan White (Josh Brolin), and the exceptional new film chronicling the last eight years of Milk’s life, including its tragic end, begs the question: How far have we come? Milk waged a war on bigotry and homophobia, winning huge victories over the religious right.

Milk’s defining political achievement, besides being the first openly gay, publicly elected official in the nation’s history, occurred when he spearheaded a campaign to defeat Proposition 6, a parSean Penn ticularly insidious attempt to root out homosexuality in public schools. California said no to Proposition 6, acknowledging all Americans have basic civil rights, regardless of sexual orientation, yet 30 “enlightened” years later, America is being infected, state by state, by gay marriage bans. So progressive three decades ago, California even succumbed, passing Proposition 8 this past November.

What happened, America? With Milk, director

Gus Van Sant challenges 2009 America with a film more openly gay than Brokeback Mountain ­and just as excellent. It’s an emotional wakeup slap delivered with perfect performances and necessary style.

Twenty-four years ago, the Academy awarded The Times of Harvey Milk with the Best Documentary Oscar. In 2009, will it bestow its second honor upon Penn for his exceptional reincarnation of Milk? For GVS, Milk is as critically career defining as Good Will Hunting, only without the blockbuster backlash. Harvey Milk deserves enshrinement in the national equal rights movement hall of fame. The still relatively young gay rights movement has always been relegated to a distant third behind the civil rights movement and the push for women’s rights. An awardwinning film will always be an effective means to increase recognition and achieve validation in our nation of movie lovers. The film never apologizes for nor sanitizes Milk’s homosexuality. He was here; he was queer; get over it.

Drew Wheeler

movie pick T.G.I.F. the 13th FRIDAY THE 13th (R) The horror reinvention trend should have started with the flicks most in need of an extreme makeover. Underneath that skin-mask, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is still a beauty; if I’ve got 90 minutes raring to be killed, bloodily by a gas-powered tool, I’m sticking with the original. Drs. Bay and Nispel’s latest patient, the hockey-masked face of the slasher subgenre, Friday the 13th, desperately needed “the works”—Botox, lipo, you name it. Fortunately, it’s come out looking more like Morgan Fairchild, an obviously aged individual kept “young” and “beautiful” by the wonders of modern technology, than Joan Rivers.

Sean S. Cunningham’s cheapo cash-grab may have cut it in 1980, but the nearly 30-year-old pic hasn’t aged terrifically.

Today’s horror market needs more cosmetically enhanced boobs and buckets more blood, unless producers are going for the financial stability of a PG-13. Friday the 13th, version 2009, makes better on both counts than any previous Friday. The bad day’s events kick off with a quick expository sprint through the origins of monstrous Jason Voorhees (Derek Mears). The poor boy drowned; his mommy

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killed those she held responsible; he came back, bigger, badder and angrier, to finish what mommy dearest started. Years later, a new batch of disposable teens arrives at Camp Crystal Lake looking for pot and finding Jason’s wrath. Over a month later, fresh meat is delivered.

The kills are messy and acceptably inventive; Jason lacks Jigsaw’s advanced degree in Rube Goldberg, but he’s a whiz with a machete, an ax, or anything sharp.

Director Marcus Nispel may be going to the countyfolk-is-dange’rus bag of music video tricks he used in TXCM again, but they coat the latest Friday in exploitative scum and create a new Jason, who is more crazed survivalist than zombified mass murderer. The jokes are even funny; props to Damian Shannon and Mark Swift for succeeding where most slasher scripters fail. The victims are attractive and unlikable enough that the audience will be begging Jason to take as many perfectly coiffed heads as he can. Friday the 13th is no holiday to be celebrated by all, but for the horror flock, it’s like Christmas in February.

Drew Wheeler

threats & promises Music News And Gossip There’s lots of news this week so just go at it, y’all.

Seriously. Go at it now…

Across a Western Ocean: Local musician Dan Nettles, along with his jazz outfit Kenosha Kid, will host Dublin, Ireland’s White Rocket Wednesday, Feb. 18 at the Flicker Theatre and Bar. Kenosha Kid will, of course, also be on the bill. Admission is $10. The word from Nettles is that drummer Sean Carpio of White Rocket is the guy to know with regard to jazz drumming in Ireland but a quick review of some worldwide press the band has received reveals that the whole trio is top-notch.

Check out our feature on p. 16 or sample the tunes online via www.myspace.com/whiterocket and www.myspace.com/ kenoshakidmusic.

Summer Vacancy: There will be a couple of holes in your calendar this summer as both the Sprockets Music Video Competition & Show and the Athens PopFest have canceled this year’s events. In the interest of full disclosure, let me say that I am a main organizer for the Athens PopFest. In the case of Sprockets, there is a desire to restructure the organization and bring a presenting sponsor on board. With regard to the Athens PopFest, the simple answer is: “It’s the economy.”

As both consumers and businesses tighten belts this year, we deemed it unfeasible to press on with this year’s festival in the current economic climate. Full statements from the organizers of both events can be found at www.filmathens.net and www.athenspopfest.com.

Widespread Awesome: The guys in Widespread Panic recently lent a big hand of support to Muscogee County Schools (Columbus, GA) through their Tunes for Tots program.

Specifically, Rothschild Middle School received violins, violas, cellos, strings and bows, and The HEAP Kendrick High School received sheet music, books, 21 computers, keyboards and other peripherals. The band also made a general donation to Muscogee County elementary schools in the form of 20 alto saxophones and 20 bass xylophones for use as part of the Orff Music for Children program with which teachers utilize everyday activities for teaching music creation.

Further, a software license for Finale 2009 was made available to every music teacher in the district. All totaled, the donation is valued at $69,400. Hats off to the band and everyone who helped out with this. This is the way you change the world, people.

Well, Just Go Ahead and Go Then: Although he hadn’t been living in Athens for the past couple of years, Count Kellam wrote some great songs and released a killer album (Animal, You Rock Star, 2004) while calling Athens home. After living in his hometown of Marietta, GA and returning occasionally to play shows, he’s made the big move to Portland. An opportunity presented itself for him to open his own recording studio, and since he had planned for years to do such, he had to grab the chance while he had it. Wish him well and hear some of his latest tunes at www.myspace.com/count.

Athens, Represent: The 2009 Grammy Awards managed not to be as disastrously boring as previous years for a number of reasons, but the most important of these, for us at least, were the Athens connections. First, longtime artist, musician and Athens local Art Rosenbaum received the Grammy in the Historical Album category for Art of Field Recording: Volume 1: 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum which was released on the Atlanta-based Dust-to-Digital label.

Next, Heather McIntosh (Instruments, Gnarls Barkley, et al.) did a fine job on bass guitar as part of rapper Lil’ Wayne’s

band. I suppose I could include something here about how having to see Atlantan Jennifer Nettles (Sugarland, Soul Miner’s Daughter) was like pulling teeth, but that seems petty.

Heap-Big Debut: Local musician Bryan Howard announced that the debut album by The HEAP is now available locally at Wuxtry Records and Schoolkids Records. Also, you can grab the CD online via CDBaby.com where it has received the designation of “Editor’s Pick” in the retro-soul category. Read our review on p. 14, or hear tracks at www.myspace.com/gaheap.

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A Few Good Points: Area musician Corey Smith, who has achieved a staggering amount of popularity via his homespun tales of college and post-college life, gave a lecture at the UGA Music Business Program this past year, and the honchos in charge videotaped the thing for people to enjoy later. I just watched the whole three-part video and can report that Smith has a very soft speaking voice, seems like a nice enough guy, and that he imparts some decent knowledge to kids who are still learning the rudiments of the music business. Keep in mind that this presentation isn’t dynamic at all—it’s a college lecture—and you may have a hard time staying awake through it. Go see for yourself at www.youtube.com/ugambus.

Keepin’ Up with Claire: Local musician Claire Campbell (Hope for Agoldensumer) has been in Cusco, Peru for the past few weeks learning midwifery and witnessing (and helping to deliver) live births. She’s started a blog so folks can keep up with her over at www.can icatchthatbaby.blogspot.com.

Ypsilanti, Meet Athens: Michigan songwriter Matt Jones will perform with Hunter Smith at the Flicker on Friday, Feb. 20. This is where Smith’s Prinefed songs meet up with Jones’ soft-wailing tunes. Also on the bill is local songwriter Jacob Morris, who seems to be kind of under-exposed. Oh, yeah, there’ll be a Bamboozled dance party.

Sample the wares at www.myspace.com/mattspainting and www.myspace.com/hunterleesmith.

Jumpin’ Gemini: There have been a few goings on in the Gemini Cricket camp recently. First, Marie Uhler (Incendiaries) is now playing drums after a reportedly amicable split with Davy Gibbs and Jay Henriques, who played drums and guitar respectively. So, the band is now a three-piece with Uhler, Sarah Tabb and Blake Tabb. The band just recorded some new stuff for an upcoming 7-song EP that should be ready by the time the band plays the Flicker Theatre & Bar on Saturday, Feb. 21. Also on the bill that night are Eureka California and Waylon Thornton & the Heavy Hands. The band maintained its nerdy flair by taking part in a 24-hour Sega Dreamcast marathon on Martin Luther King Day dubbed “I Have a Dreamcast.” Details at www.ihaveadreamcast.com, and catch the band over at www.myspace.com/geminicricketband.

Correction: The item which ran last week concerning a new film by Astra Taylor, Examined Life, was incorrectly identified as having a soundtrack featuring multiple Athens artists. In actuality, the soundtrack is simply music by The Instruments.

I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

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. I’m forever blowing bubbles via email to threatsandpromises@flagpole.com, voicemail at 706-549-9523, ext. 203, or by post to P.O. Box 1027, Athens, GA, 30603.

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record reviews DEAF JUDGES Deaf Sentence Independent Release You know ‘em, you love ‘em: dope local crew making hip-hop inline with important late-’90s and early-oughts reference points like Wu Tang, Mr. Lif, Black Star, early Outkast, the magical Kool Keith and, I’m sure, much more obscure and influential artists that I’m not at all familiar with, having had my head in a noisehole since 2004. As I intimate above, this 12-incher immediately promises a lyrical consciousness, being that it flashes the eclecticism that those righteous kinda pioneer-emcees featured when they attempted to forge a musical and polemical alternative to the corporate-whorism that so dominated the game back in the day, and still does now. I mean, damn, there’s even a beat and a rhyme or two that harkens back to the “OG” industry-terrorists, Public Enemy.

Though, from what I can tell, that elevated social vision ain’t there, and that’s just alright with me; this lack of pretense makes this sound more like some guys joyfully reveling in their psychic potential and sonic obsession rather than some hamfisted missive by verbose leftoids. And, with oblique references to Black Oak Arkansas, Beyoncé Knowln (sic), and Kool Herc delivered in stoned gruff growls whose phrasing is consciously and twistedly unique, how can you lose?

All in all, this little three-song vinyl brings it—the production is way past skillful, beats are memorable, and Rorshak, Produceman and Louie Larceny introduce themselves to the world deftly. And the packaging rules: cover art is a severe mindblow best left undescribed so as to shock the eyeballs all the more, and it’s got the instrumental remixes on the flip so you can sling it dance-wise at all your parties! Have at it!

Jim McHugh Deaf Judges will play the Caledonia Lounge on Saturday, Feb. 21.

THE DRONES Havilah ATP In a day and age where the boundaries separating music genres are ever blurring, let’s give a warm welcome to The Drones. The quartet from Perth, Australia is a proverbial musical shape-shifter, moving from gritty rock anthems (“The Minotaur”) to winding melodic oddities (“The Drifting

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Housewife”) all the while maintaining its theme of ordered chaos. Imagine for a moment Billy Corgan vocals with a baritone Aussie accent (Garreth Liddiard—lead vocals) over whiny distorted electric guitar riffs reminiscent of later Beatles rock. Havilah, the band’s sixth full-length album and first since 2006, defies most definitions of what music should sound like and instead sticks to what can best be described as an ordered, yet chaotic, musical journey through the heads of four talented rock musicians.

This album may not be for the lovers in the audience, but it is most definitely for the thinkers, feelers and anyone willing to really listen (sorry, dancers). Havilah boasts delightfully memorable hooks for a work that is so obscure. Liddiard began writing this album in the isolation of Mt. Buffalo, Victoria and was joined by guitarist Dan Luscombe and drummer Michael Noga to start composing the “psychedelic black rock” as they call it.

In all well-executed art—whether it be visual art, theatre or music—there is always a sense of believability. As Liddiard sings about topics like the moon, divorce, cult followings, etc., in his explosive rasp, one cannot help but believe him. So, do yourself a favor and give The Drones a listen… c’mon, if you can brave Thom Yorke, these guys are a piece of cake.

Collin McHugh

dälek Gutter Tactics Ipecac To call this demolition duo “hiphop” is sort of a stretch since their references lie far beyond rap culture.

These fiercely non-commercial Jersey boys have been known to cite My Bloody Valentine, Melvins and Sabbath as inspirations, the influences of which are unmistakable in their crushing compositions. In fact, their nearly single-minded focus on crafting auditory dread puts them more in line with acts like the great Meat Beat Manifesto.

Coming off the atmospheric detour of Deadverse Massive, this fifth album is a return to urgency. Though impenetrably abstract, the nihilistic ether here conspires to suffocate through dissonance, the dark hand of its production whipping the heavy fog into a snarling swirl with the mastery of a maestro. In black, relentless waves, Gutter Tactics extorts more anxiety and claustrophobia than Massive Attack ever could.

Next to dälek, even El-P sounds peppy.

But underneath the sonic slabs are pointed messages. The album opens with an excerpt of the incendiary 9/11 speech by the controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright (“Blessed Are They Who Bash Your Children’s Heads Against a Rock”).

Tracks like the pulsing alarm of “Street Diction” and the grinding psychosis of “Gutter Tactics” illustrate that its power lies in the ability to evoke the sense that something is very wrong here. Gutter Tactics is no chest-

thumping showcase of toughness.

This is about instilling fear. Repeatedly pushing it to the edge of the abyss, dälek is the most complex and daring act in hip-hop.

Bao Le-Huu

OR, THE WHALE Light Poles and Pines Seany I like my folk music weirder, my brushes with Americana busted and broken. Whether the result of emotional baggage, a drug-addled perspective, crickets, found sounds, midnight cemetery field recordings or studio trickery—it makes no difference.

With a name like Or, the Whale and a San Francisco address, expectations were high. Instead, Light Poles and Pines wishes it were famous or at least sitting on a (Bizarro World) Nashville fat cat’s desk waiting to be made so.

No, every song isn’t a pick-up truck commercial or drinking game soundtrack waiting to happen—the occasional sounds of a singing saw or glockenspiel could keep Chevrolet and Kappa Alphas at bay, but lines like “My insides hollowed out/ from whiskey chasin’ doubt/ but I’ll keep hanging on by a thread/ and I’ll finish this song before I’m dead” from “Threads” may result in the latter sniffing around the band a bit. “Call and Response” could be the breath of fresh air countrythemed pop-rock needs, if only it wasn’t about the folks who perished during Hurricane Katrina returning as ghosts to cash karma checks from the accounts of those who feel residents of New Orleans got what they deserved.

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KIERAN HEBDEN & STEVE REID NYC Domino Chiming, squealing, gurgling, growling: NYC, the fourth collaboration between laptopper Kieran “Four Tet” Hebden and free-jazz drummer Steve Reid is a half-hour post-modern homage to the titular city. Hebden provides electronic squiggles, swirls and spurts, as well as some seriously grooving bass, while renowned pro Reid drops non-stop beats from his varied percussive arsenal.

In 2007 the two collaborated on a project inspired by African sounds, and the resulting Daxaar was beautiful,

entrancing and not a little exotic. NYC, by contrast, is instantly familiar: the groans of the city the duo summons should be known to anyone who’s seen a TV show or movie set in New York.

The nine-minute jam “Arrival” is shaky yet soothing, a rattling high-point of a trip through the Big Apple.

It sure says something about the creativity of Hebden, and the appeal of his melodic abstraction, that someone like Reid, who is in his 60s and has collaborated with the likes of James Brown, Sun Ra, Fela Kuti and Miles Davis, would choose to work with him.

Reid’s constant beat anchors the whole project, and though the instrumental album features constant noise, things pull back and slow down as tracks reach their end, but pick right back up again as the next groove arrives: subway trains pausing at a stop, then shooting back out under the city.

Chris Hassiotis

The HEAP Deluxe Independent Release Much about the newest release from Athens’ very own funk band sounds appropriately Southern. Sure, bassist/band leader Brian Howard’s gruff but melodic voice is the most blatant aspect of this regionalism, but there is a deeper, souls-grown-inthe-South resilience that permeates and also charmingly characterizes Deluxe: songs about getting too drunk (“Alcohol”), girls who run away from home to live seedy but relatively exciting lives (“Rosie,” “Get Around”), and the rebellious joy of making a mark on the world with a hammer one pound lighter than most other people’s (“8 lb.

Hammer”), for example.

The HEAP’s reputation for having a stellar horn section often separates from the band and goes out for a drink around this city. I have met it several times—it’s a good reputation. To the other citizens who have shared time with this bit of folklore as well, I can assure you that the mixes on Deluxe will not disappoint; the horns sound wonderfully bright and clean, and even the most subtle pitch shifting transferred enthusiastically onto the record. And with “bonus” instrumental versions, horn lovers definitely have a chance to get some tasty riffing.

Based on the genre information their CD gave my media player, The HEAP apparently has been labeled as an R&B act. Though not wholly untrue, it does necessitate another point: while there is a lot of “R” and “B” on the album, there is effectively zero wallowing in slow misery here. These tracks are unflaggingly upbeat, and even the most depressing vocals on the album feel worth singing in victory with such a solid and funky band backing them.

Paul Kim’s organ and keyboard work gets the final praise here, as it really helps unify this whole collection—it’s flashy, boisterous and impressive, very much like Deluxe in general. If you can’t dance to this, you may never dance at all, I’m afraid.

Tony Floyd

The Aux Festival Colorful Experimentations in Art and Music

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ven as the Athens music scene becomes ever more surely adopted into the pure mainstream of Athens society, the experimental arts continue to work at their own pace and, indeed, in their own sphere. While it may be tempting to assume the artists involved are marginalized by the seeming non-stop rock and roll party that distinguishes downtown Athens in 2009 from, say, even 1995, the fact is that the performers, many of whom are in their own more readily accepted combos, operate by the earliest of Athens’ music credos: if you want to see it or hear it, make it yourself.

Deonna Mann That’s the remark one will get from festival founder and organizer Heather McIntosh.

“You have to make it happen or be willing to find it,” she says. Now happening for the third time, the AUX Festival is a one-day event dedicated to pure creativity. For 2009 AUX has expanded to feature a substantial artists’ market, a kids’ performance, 10 video artists, modern dance and 18 musical performances taking place in two venues, Ciné and Little Kings. Scheduled to last 11 hours, from 3 p.m.–2 a.m., it comprises a veritable marathon of stimulating engagement.

McIntosh is well known around Athens from her years-long involvement with the music scene. Her connection to Athens, though, preceded her arrival by several years. “I first came to Athens when I was a freshman in high school. I’d seen [1987 documentary] Athens, GA: Inside/Out and I came during spring break with my parents, and it was so perfect,” she says. A key meeting during this time influenced her decision to eventually study music at the University of Georgia. “...cello professor Dr. David Starkweather was around, and I made an appointment to meet with him. It was cool that he took the time to speak to a 14-year-old girl who wanted to study cello.”

After moving to Athens circa 1993 to study cello and electronic music, McIntosh began working at Jittery Joe’s original Washington

Street location (now Max Canada) and immediately began playing with other local musicians. She did time in punk band Year Zero, pop band Snowball and eventually joined instrumental band Japancakes. Perhaps most importantly, though, McIntosh began playing music with someone who had already indelibly placed her mark upon Athens: Deonna Mann.

“The second I started working at Jittery Joe’s I started playing with Deonna and Omar [Khalid] and Katja [Seltmann]. Around that time I started playing with [installationoriented musicians and artists] Dixie Blood Mustache and that was my introduction to all the Elephant-6 stuff,” she explains.

Mann, with her boisterous personality and daily recreation in terms of personal costuming and free flowing, non-stop doing of art and music, personified the ethic of doing it yourself.

And once a person had been witness to any of Mann’s creations, it was clear that she was a monumentally singular personality.

Having lived in New York for the past few years, Mann cherishes her Athens friends and says, “It is a true joy to work in Athens with my closest friends and family. It is so great to be supported from home. Without this web of love I could not have accomplished living in New York.”

Mann returns to Athens this weekend to perform at AUX with her Medaglia d’Oro Orchestra, first created in the early 1990s here in town. The show she will present is named “Liquifaction” and will feature two sculptures by artist Beverly Babb, “This Is for You” and “Mother’s Finest.” Mann says, “Liquifaction is the special effect that occurs during a shockwave when ground sediments turn to run like water. I would like to give you an equatorial essence of carnival—a tiny splash of what could possibly be Victorian and apocalyptic, i.e., slightly upsetting.” Further, Mann says to expect “throbbing and haunted music by a fluid line-up of pros.

Medaglia d’Oro delivers a cavalier suspension for whatever I may expose visually.” Therein we have what is, really, the heart of AUX, which is presented in conjunction with UGA’s ICE (Ideas for Creative Exploration). That is, everything blends seamlessly. There’s no separation between music, art and dance. AUX recognizes and encourages the synergy between art forms.

When asked whether they would hold art or music as their first love, both McIntosh and Mann are quick to make almost no distinction between the two. McIntosh says, “I’m a big fan of integrated media and seeing how other people can incorporate all that stuff together.

All the tendrils influence and inspire the other parties.” For her part, Mann holds, “I’ve always been spoiled not to have to separate a love of art and music. Blending the two makes my life worthwhile.” It seems a safe bet the same could be said for the rest of this weekend’s lineup, too.

Gordon Lamb Visit www.flagpole.com for a list of participating artists and the full AUX schedule.

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hough your grandmother probably won’t like our music, she’ll be supportive of our efforts,” says White Rocket pianist Greg Felton—that is to say that though the group presents its music in a somewhat “accessible” jazz idiom, this isn’t music for the prim or the proper. Case in point: somewhere along the lines of the self-titled album’s opening tongue-twister, “Mutatis Mutandis,” drummer Sean Carpio manages to Jekyll & Hyde from lofty Bitches Brew-era Tony Williams to a kickdrum assault on par with Zeppelin II John Bonham. That being said, to pigeonhole White Rocket as “jazz” is like saying that a potato is a starchy tuber—it’s not exactly an acute observation, and it doesn’t really say enough about what White Rocket is.

Struggling to find a niche in a genre divided between the orthodox and the avantgarde, White Rocket opts for door number three. For this reason, the Dublin, Irelandbased group faces the same set of challenges as its American counterpart—The Bad Plus— both brainy jazz trios bent on aural deconstruction, the latter of which was even invited to share the stage with alt-rock pioneers, Pixies, some years back. As it stands, any perceived lack of interest is not so much the fault of the listening public as the impotency of pre-existing marketing mechanisms. The question begs to be asked, “Where is the section in my local record store for post-classical, South Indian jazz?” Sure, it’s an unlikely proposition, but there are potentially thousands of latent jazz aficionados out there who are waiting to understand just why it is that groups like White Rocket are so good, and it’s time to pick up the slack.

Somewhat isolated on the rainy Emerald Isle, White Rocket finds itself immersed in a relatively cosmopolitan music culture, minus the benefit of anywhere to play. It’s a common struggle for a jazz musician just about anywhere in the world, but the group responds to its surroundings with a ferocious sense of musicianship and a playful approach to its compositional craft—or maybe it’s just cabin fever. A prodigy of South Indian classical forms, Carpio’s “Hone” is constructed from four bars of 6/4 with an internal form of ABABA where each A also has an internal from of ABABA. Confused? Think of it like a musical palindrome—a spiral of sound that sends a funhouse mirror of frequencies surging through your inner cochlea. And while on the subject of mathematically proportioned sea shell-like objects, White Rocket derived

the rhythms for “Recent Events” using the Fibonacci series, though the band does not condone the use of numerology. “I’m not a believer…,” says Wick in reference to the track’s color-by-numbers approach.

The madness doesn’t stop there.

“Symptoms” explores a lethargic groove underneath Jacob Wick’s effortless run-on trumpet lines. When decoded, the tune’s melodic and harmonic content borrows from an encyclopedia definition of celiac disease, adding a whole new dimension to the meaning of “sick groove.”

But wait… all this esoteric talk of “form” and “structure” doesn’t sound very “free” at all. Rest assured, it’s a common misnomer.

For anyone versed in the vernacular, jazz is essentially about limitations. It’s the illusory freedom within these limitations that allows artists to express themselves musically. In fact, it’s not until after its completion that any abstract methods of composition are revealed to the other members, says Carpio.

So,

before you go writing a symphony based on your romantic interest’s phone number, you may want to consult the experts themselves. Dan Nettles, brainchild and jazz composer behind local jazz misfits Kenosha Kid, goes on the record to say that White Rocket’s appearance at Flicker will be “the premier jazz event to see this spring.” Having played numerous jazz festivals throughout Dublin, Europe, and as far as Mexico City, a trio of White Rocket’s caliber could fare equally well at a venue like the Melting Point, but its members found a compromise in the cozy and intimate atmosphere of Flicker. In any setting, White Rocket is likely to alter your conception of jazz, and, even if it does sound a bit heady and cloistered, give them the benefit of the doubt.

Ryan Monahan

WHO: White Rocket, Dan Nettles WHERE: Farm 255 WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 17 HOW MUCH: FREE! WHO: White Rocket, Kenosha Kid WHERE: Flicker Theatre WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 18 HOW MUCH: $10

Ian Darken

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g n i k n i s What It Means to Be an Athens Band

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the ‘80s and ‘90s, lots of people tried to tag the “Athens sound”: the jangle, the grit, the Southern-ness. But it was what it was, and any effort to pin it down just made it seem that much more elusive. What, then, of the effort to identify the quintessentially Athenian band? A daunting proposition, but these things come to mind when you spend time with Venice Is Sinking.

An argument: most members play in other bands, and the lineup has shifted, and some of them used to play in other bands that some people remember, but, most people don’t remember because they never knew; they took years to do something which could’ve probably been done quicker; they’ve been called overrated, over-exposed, as well as criminally ignored and overwhelmingly excellent at the same time; they mostly sound pretty, but sometimes sad and bittersweet, and optimistic sometimes, too; their hearts are in it, but much of the broader public eye hasn’t turned their way; two bandmembers were lovers, then weren’t, and have reconciled as friends.

If that’s not Athens to you, well, maybe you haven’t been in town long enough. Maybe you’ve been in town too long.

A New Democracy So, Venice Is Sinking, a five-piece, a band that plays gorgeous music that sounds like other music but sounds like its own thing (thanks especially to Karolyn Troupe’s coo and her viola swoon, paired nicely with Daniel Lawson’s breezy voice) has its new album AZAR ready for public consumption. Three years in the making, AZAR, whose release the band celebrates with a 40 Watt show this weekend, is lush, lush, lush, full to the brim and packed to the corners with the cinematic sweep that has characterized the group for the past five-and-a-half years. But it’s more nuanced than the band’s 2006 debut album Sorry About the Flowers and sure sounds terrific on headphones, recorded in full-stereo effect. A lot of the detail work, says the band, is due to North Carolina producer Scott Solter’s input, but it also comes from time spent gelling, coming together, coming apart, and finding its collective path together in new ways.

“We really hadn’t been a band for very long when we went into the studio and started recording our first album,” says guitarist/ singer Lawson. “In hindsight, we probably should have waited a little bit longer before going into the studio to make that record.

Several of the songs that made it onto Sorry About the Flowers were songs that I had written before we’d even met each other.”

On AZAR, though, Lawson relinquished control and let the songwriting be more of a collective thing.

“By the time we made AZAR, that sense of ownership started to disappear and everything just naturally became more democratic. I can remember one practice in particular where [drummer] Lucas (Jensen), Karolyn and I came up with two or three of the songs that made it onto AZAR in one night,” he says. “There was just a lot more interaction between everybody throughout the songwriting process, and I think we made a much better record as a result of that collaboration.”

Venice Is Sinking wants people to know it’s changed as a band: the group still does pretty and wistful and melancholy (check the AZAR tracks “Young Master Sunshine” or “Charm City”), but it also does driving and emphatic and forceful, too, (“Sun Belt”) or peppy and rocking (“Okay,” a track which sounds a lot, and not unpleasantly, like an Elf Power tune).

Keyboard player James Sewell came up with the album’s theme melody, a track that repeats itself several times throughout AZAR’s running time. “I think it’s really changed the sound of the band for the better,” says Jensen, “because we push each other into places that we might not have gone.”

A Punch in the Face Getting AZAR onto tape was taxing, with the band driving five hours up to Solter’s studio in North Carolina nearly every weekend for eight months. The band chose to record with Solter due to his meticulous work with bands like Pattern Is Movement and John Vanderslice.

“The recording process was extremely difficult,” says Troupe. “Scott demands strong performances from the people he works with, and I learned a lot from him throughout the sessions.”

Says Lawson, “The studio itself is attached to Scott’s home, and while you are working you stay in this separate wing of the house with your own bathroom, kitchen and bedroom. Sometimes we’d sleep on the floor of the studio, though that wasn’t as comfortable or warm as the rest of the house. Anyway, it was a pretty ideal set-up and exactly what we needed at the time. When we first started thinking about making AZAR, we all knew that we wanted to work with someone outside of

Athens. It had nothing to do with the quality of engineers or studios here in town—we just knew that we had to get away from distractions to finish the thing. Scott’s place was perfect for that… [but] at several points I think he seriously considered punching me in the face. I’m sure I deserved it on more than one occasion. He was able to get a lot more out of us then I thought we had in us, I guess.”

AZAR was recorded with Venice Is Sinking’s former bassist Stephen Miller, who left the band last year. Jeremy Sellers, formerly of mystical country-folk band Astra, joined up in the middle of a residency the band played at Flicker last year and just before a live session was recorded here in town with David Barbe.

That recorded-live album should be out maybe later this summer, maybe later this fall. Eyes peeled, ears tuned.

LIVE MUSIC THE TANGENTS DANIEL LEE BAND 11pm DOUBLE THINK 10pm IMPULSE RIDE 9pm

Free CD with Admission When Venice Is Sinking released Sorry About the Flowers back in ‘06, the band was eager to get people to hear the album, understandably proud of what they’d put together.

They gave a free copy of the disc to everyone who attended the CD-release show. That’s the deal again for this weekend’s show.

“I think a lot of people in Athens support the local music scene by going to shows on a regular basis, but they might be a little reluctant to plop down 10 bucks for an album,” says Lawson.

So, the same thing’s up again: entry to the 40 Watt this weekend gets access to the live performance as well as a copy of AZAR. Adds Jensen: “It’s basically like playing a free show and selling the CD to 200 people or however many come to the show. It’s like paying five bucks for a show and then buying a CD for two bucks.”

Their sound is now what it is now, and that’s AZAR, and it’s worth hearing, and that sound’ll evolve, too, eventually, but for now, for now, for now…

down home

Cooking SMOKEHOUSE BBQ

Chris Hassiotis

WHO: Venice Is Sinking, Tin Cup Prophette WHERE: 40 Watt Club WHEN: Friday, Feb. 20 HOW MUCH: $8 (includes free CD)

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WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

Deadline for getting listed in the calendar is every FRIDAY at 5 p.m. for the issue that comes out the following Wednesday. Email calendar@flagpole.com.

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. Discussion to follow. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-8983, www.peabody. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Music Learning Community Service Project (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Benefit concert 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 20 books nominated for the Georgia Children’s Book Awards.

For home-school students in grades 4–8. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650 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 Student Learning Center—Room 148) Richard J. Gray, professor of literature at the University of Essex, gives the talk. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706542-2248 LECTURES & LIT.: VOX Reading Series (Ciné Barcafé) An evening of poetry featuring the works of Andrew 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

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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: Pool Tournament (Fat Daddy’s) Tuesdays. 7 p.m. 706353-0241 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Alibi) Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. 706-549-1010

Wednesday 18 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: Paper Maché Piggy Banks. Ages 11–18. Space is limited. 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: APERO Africana Brown Bag Lecture (UGA Memorial Hall—Room 407) Reverend Richard Allen Washington, First AME Church, gives the talk.

12:15 p.m. FREE! fsgiles@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Bulldog Book Club (UGA Student Learning Center—Jittery Joe’s) Discussion of Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man. UGA students, faculty, staff and local residents are welcome. 4 p.m. FREE! fteague@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “The Ecomuseum Model in Postmodern Museum Studies” (UGA Aderhold—Room G23) Lesley Graybeal discusses who chooses descriptions and objects for museum display cases. 12–1 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3942 LECTURES & LIT.: Justin Niefehield (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 213) The founder of Evoshield, a local company that makes sports protective gear, talks about how to succeed as an entrepreneur. Sponsored by the Students in Free Enterprise at UGA. 6 p.m.

FREE! papillon@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books (ACC Library—Small Conference Room) Adult book

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discussion group. This month: Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel.

Newcomers welcome. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: BMI Meet & Greet (The Melting Point) All songwriters, bands and musicians invited to meet industry executives from BMI and learn more about the organization.

Coffee and pastries. 9–11 a.m.

FREE! 404-261-5151 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

Thursday 19 EVENTS: Black History Month Film Screening (UGA Memorial Hall—Room 407) Screening of Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, a documentary that details the civil rights movement as it evolved in the oldest African American neighborhood in New Orleans. Sponsored by the African American Cultural Center.

12:15–1:30 p.m. FREE! 706-5428468 EVENTS: Southern Garden Heritage Conference (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Topics to include gardening styles in the Southeast, cemeteries as historic landscapes and antique roses. Headlined by a tribute to the work of landscape architect Edward L. Daugherty. Feb. 19, 6 p.m. Feb. 20, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. $145 (full conference), $40 (Thursday only), $120 (Friday only). 706-542-1244, garden@uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Billy Lou Ballard (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Tonight is this local comedian’s first performance. 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace. com/flickerbar PERFORMANCE: UGA Wind Ensemble Preview Concert (UGA Hodgson Hall) A preview of the ensemble’s program for the national convention of the College Band Directors National Association in March. 8 p.m. FREE! www.music. uga.edu

Fujiya & Miyagi plays the 40 Watt Club Saturday, Feb. 21.

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. 19–21, 8 p.m. Feb. 22, 2 p.m. $18.

706-208-8696* THEATRE: The Changeling (Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents Thomas Middleton and John Rowley’s Jacobean masterpiece about love, lust, deceit and murder.

Feb. 19–21 & 24–28, 8 p.m. Mar. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (UGA students), $15 (general admission). 706-542-2838 THEATRE: The Vagina Monologues (UGA Chapel) Project Safe, the Women’s Studies Student Organization and UGA Performing Arts present Eve Ensler’s awardwinning play. Tickets available at Frontier, Urban Sanctuary Day Spa and Project Safe Thrift Store. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. Feb. 19–21, 8 p.m. $15. www.project-safe.org* 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: 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: Teen Cartoon Illustrator’s Club (Lyndon House Arts Center) Informal gathering of teens who like to draw anime and cartoons of all kinds. Discussion of recent drawings and characters led by cartoonist Robert Brown.

Pizza and fellowship follows meeting. Ages 13 & up. 3:45 p.m. $5, includes pizza & soft drink. 706613-3623 LECTURES & LIT.: “Economic and Investment Urban Legends” (Borders Books & Music) Kristy Meeler, an instructor at the UGA Terry College of Business before joining Financial Design Associates, discusses current market conditions.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647

LECTURES & LIT.: “Reducing Your Risk of Heart Disease” (Oconee County Library) Denise Everson, Oconee County Extension Agent, gives the talk. Part of the library’s four-part “Nutrition and Health” series. 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 MEETINGS: Athens Homebrewers Club (Terrapin Beer Co.) Club dedicated to the enjoyment of beers, meads and ciders as well as the advancement of brewing knowledge through education. 6:30 p.m. www. athenshomebrewers.com 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: Athens Photography Guild (Lyndon House Arts Center) Group that meets to share ideas and discuss photography. Everyone welcome. 7:15 p.m. 706-850-1585, www.athensphotographyguild.com 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

Friday 20 EVENTS: African American Film Festival (UGA Main Library— Auditorium B2) First screening of the festival is 4 Little Girls, a documentary that chronicles the events and emotional impact of the 1963 bombing of the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5196, kkmfree@uga.edu EVENTS: Classic City Rotary Club’s Annual Roast (The Classic Center) This year’s roastee is Vince Dooley. Doors open at 6 p.m. for so-

cial hour and silent auction. Dinner and roast start at 7 p.m. Proceeds benefit the UGA Libraries and the Rotary Club Charities and Service Projects. $60. 706-425-5367, rotaryroast@gmail.com* EVENTS: Dawgs After Dark: “Space Jam” (UGA Tate Center) Scheduled activities include a dance party, laser tag, cosmic golf, air bots, a Halo tournament and frisbee spin art. 10 p.m.–2 a.m. FREE! (UGA students), $5 (non-students). www. uga.edu/union EVENTS: Gourmet Wine Tasting (Gosford Wine) Hosted by Slow Food Athens. Bring a small edible to share with distinctive “slow food” wines. Reservations encouraged.

7:30–9 p.m. $15. 706-549-8901, meleventry@aol.com EVENTS: Salsa for Scholars Benefit (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Enjoy salsa lessons and enter to win door prizes. Sponsored by UGA’s Hispanic Scholarship Fund and El Banco de la Oportunidad. Proceeds benefit scholarships and support services for area migrant families. 8 p.m. $5. 706-542-4872 EVENTS: Southern Garden Heritage Conference (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Headlined by a tribute to the work of landscape architect Edward L. Daugherty. See Feb. 19 Events.

Feb. 19, 6 p.m. Feb. 20, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. $145 (full conference), $40 (Thursday only), $120 (Friday only).

706-542-1244, garden@uga.edu ART: “Home Is Where the Heart Is” Art Auction (Lyndon House Arts Center) Flat wooden houses designed by local artists to be auctioned off to benefit Athens Area Habitat for Humanity’s upcoming Women Build campaign. Bidding begins at only $20. 6–9 p.m. www. athenshabitat.com PERFORMANCE: Louis Schwizgebel-Wang (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) The 20-year-old Swiss pianist who won First Prize in the 2007 Young Concert Artists International Auditions performs a program that includes Mozart,

puppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. Ages 2–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: “The French New Wave: 50 Years Later” (UGA SLC—Room 148) Richard Neupert moderates a panel discussion on the cultural and cinematic context of the French New Wave.

Panelists include Rachel Gabara (French), Laura Mason (History) and Chris Sieving (Film Studies). 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-3966 LECTURES & LIT.: “Stories of Tree Huggers and Hysterical Housewives” (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 348) Cecilia Herles, assistant director of Women’s Studies, gives the talk. Sponsored by the Institute of Women’s Studies. 12:20–1:10 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-2846 MEETINGS: Knitting Mamas (Full Bloom Center) Relax and knit with other moms. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-3533373, www.fullbloomparent.com GAMES: Game Night (Main Street Yarns) Play your favorite games the first & third Friday each month. Call before 5 p.m. (cost is $5). 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-5531, www.mainstreetyarns.com GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Free every Thursday and Friday! 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. 706-354-7829

Saturday 21 EVENTS: African Night 2009: A Masked Culture (UGA Hodgson Hall) A night of African food, music, dancing, singing, acting, fashion and

other cultural events. Sponsored by the African Student Union. Advance tickets available at Tate Student Center. 7–10 p.m. 770-548-6470* 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. 1:45 p.m. $10. 706-353-1820 EVENTS: Annual Veterinary College Benefit Auction (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Sit-down dinner, cash bar and live entertainment, followed by a silent and live auction. Proceeds benefit the UGA Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association, which funds several scholarships and most student club activities. 6:30 p.m. $20 (advance), $25 (door). averdin1@uga.edu* EVENTS: AUX 3 (Downtown Athens) Experimental arts festival featuring live music, visual artists, artists’ market and kids’ entertainment.

Performances and events are scheduled for both Little Kings Shuffle Club and Ciné. See feature on p. 15.

3 p.m.–2 a.m. $5. www.auxcd.com 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 k continued on next page

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Michael Franti, Cherine Anderson, Courtney John

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Chopin and Schumann. Half-price for UGA students. 8 p.m. $18. www. uga.edu/pac THEATRE: Cabaret (Athens Community Theatre) Town and Gown Players present the classic Kander & Ebb musical. See Feb. 19 Theatre.

Feb. 19–21, 8 p.m. Feb. 22, 2 p.m. $18. 706-208-8696* THEATRE: The Changeling (Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents Thomas Middleton and John Rowley’s Jacobean masterpiece about love, lust, deceit and murder.

Feb. 19–21 & 24–28, 8 p.m. Mar. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (UGA students), $15 (general admission). 706-542-2838 THEATRE: Sleuth (Seney-Stovall Chapel) JV Productions presents Anthony Shaffer’s wicked and witty mystery thriller. Feb. 20–21, 8 p.m. $10 (general admission), $8 (students and seniors). 706-543-2012 THEATRE: The Vagina Monologues (UGA Chapel) Proceeds benefit Project Safe. See Feb. 19 Theatre. Feb. 19–21, 8 p.m. $15. www.project-safe.org* OUTDOORS: Owl Prowl (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Learn about and search for owls during an evening hike at SCNC. Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Call to register. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3615 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: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, finger-

Georgia Theatre The six-foot tall dreadlocked folksinger Michael Franti has gone barefoot through most of his life in an effort to raise awareness about world poverty. His other pet causes—promoting peace and insight into the conflict in the Middle East—make it easy to lump him in with the dirge-like acoustic guitar wielding troubadours who have come before. But Franti is anything but a typical folksinger. Beyond the socially aware messages that fill his music, Franti and his band, Spearhead, just want to bring people together Michael Franti and give them a reason to dance.

“Folk music traditionally talks about issues that are facing the world, and I think that my songs go beyond that. They talk about love and personal relationships,” says Franti.

Franti’s ruminations on love and hope lie atop some of the more infectious beats around. Spearhead may be, at its heart, folk-inspired, but it doesn’t mean that listeners can’t shake their collective booties.

“If somebody ever said to me, ‘all that Michael ever did was make people dance and feel happy,’ I’d happily have that on my gravestone,” says Franti.

There is a celebratory feeling that pulsates throughout Franti’s live act and his latest album, All Rebel Rockers, whether he’s singing about “what’s happening in the world or a broken heart or even a celebration.” But does he worry that his message of love may be lost among the audience members freeing their minds and dancing the night away?

“I don’t ever worry about [people missing the message] with my music,” he says. “At my shows I try to break it down so that people can really hear the words at all times.”

But fear not: Franti isn’t about to make his shows preachy affairs. He’s quite comfortable with his audiences slipping on their dancing shoes—even if he’s barefoot. [Jason Bugg]

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THE CALENDAR! EVENTS: St. Joe’s Jog & Fun Run (St. Joseph Catholic School) 5k race begins at 9 a.m. Fun run starts at 8:30 a.m. Walkers and strollers welcome. Pick up packet at St. Joseph Catholic School from 3–6 p.m. Feb. 20 or at 7 a.m. on race day. $18 (pre-registration), $20 (late registration). 706-769-6593, www. active.com ART: AUX Festival Artists’ Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Local experimental artists set up tables and sell their wares. 2 p.m. www. auxfestival.com PERFORMANCE: Athens Alumni Youth Step Show (Morton Theatre) Featuring prizes and scholarship giveaways. Presented by the Athens Alumni National Pan Hellenic Council. 6 p.m. $10. 706613-3771* THEATRE: Cabaret (Athens Community Theatre) Town and Gown Players present the classic Kander & Ebb musical. See Feb. 19 Theatre.

Feb. 19–21, 8 p.m. Feb. 22, 2 p.m. $18. 706-208-8696* THEATRE: The Changeling (UGA Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents Thomas Middleton and John Rowley’s Jacobean masterpiece about love, lust, deceit and murder.

Feb. 19–21 & 24–28, 8 p.m. March 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (UGA students), $15 (general admission). 706-5422838 THEATRE: Sleuth (Seney-Stovall Chapel) JV Productions presents Anthony Shaffer’s wicked and witty drama/ mystery thriller. Feb. 20–21, 8 p.m. $10 (general admission), $8 (students and seniors). 706-5432012 THEATRE: The Vagina Monologues (UGA Chapel) Proceeds benefit Project Safe. See Feb. 19 Theatre. Feb. 19–21, 8 p.m. $15. www.project-safe.org* OUTDOORS: Tree Trail Ramble (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Informal walk through the garden that will help you identify trees native to the Southeastern U.S. 10 a.m.

FREE! 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden KIDSTUFF: Elmo’s Birthday Party (Borders Books & Music) Stories and games for the younger set.

2–3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 LECTURES & LIT.: “Preserving the Legacy: Richard Allen” (ACC Library) Yvonne Studevan, a direct descendant of Richard and Sarah Allen, gives the talk.

Sponsored by the Clarke/Oconee Genealogical Society and the Athens Regional Library. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www.preservingthelegacy.com MEETINGS: Athens Vegetarians (Transmetropolitan—Downtown) The vegetarian group celebrates its one-year anniversary with crueltyfree pizzas. Join up and RSVP online. 6 p.m. www.meetup.com/ athensvegetarians 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 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

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Sunday 22 EVENTS: Oscar Viewing Party (Ciné Barcafé) Watch the 81st Annual Academy Awards show projected live. 6 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com EVENTS: A Taste of Athens (The Classic Center) A showcase of the culinary talents of the Athens community with over 50 food, wine and beverage vendors serving an array of edibles. Also features a birthday cake competition in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the event’s beneficiary, Community Connection of Northeast Georgia. 5–8 p.m. $45. www.tasteofathens.com EVENTS: UGA Old Harp Singing (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Singing from The Social Harp and The Sacred Harp. Contributions to pot-luck lunch table appreciated.

Open to public. 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-1244 ART: 34th Annual Juried Exhibition (Lyndon House Arts Center) Opening reception for exhibition that features work in a variety of media by area artists. Sponsored by the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art and the Lyndon House Arts Center. 2–4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 THEATRE: Cabaret (Athens Community Theatre) Town and Gown Players present the classic Kander & Ebb musical. See Feb. 19 Theatre.

Feb. 19–21, 8 p.m. Feb. 22, 2 p.m. $18. 706-208-8696* KIDSTUFF: Zoo Open Classroom (Memorial Park) Explore the Exhibit Hall and visit with salamanders, pond turtles, snakes and more. 1–4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3616 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 23 EVENTS: Until the Violence Stops (Ciné Barcafé) Benefit screening of documentary that charts how Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues grew into V-Day, an international grassroots movement to stop violence against women and girls.

Proceeds go to Project Safe. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. 7 p.m. $8. www.athenscine.com EVENTS: Through Other Eyes Film Fest (UGA SLC—Room 101) Festival concludes with Sharkwater, a documentary that chronicles biologist Rob Stewart’s efforts to protect the shark population. Discussion to follow. Sponsored by Speak Out for Species. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.uga. edu/sos/filmfest EVENTS: Wine & Cheese Pairing (Earth Fare Café) Spaces are limited; call to reserve a spot. 5:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-227-1717 PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Milton Masciadri, double bass. 8 p.m.

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Rumsey’s doctoral composition recital. Performers include the Bulldog Brass, Ben Dawkins, Liana Embovica, Alan Reese, the Graduate Woodwind Quintet and Oliver Yatsugafu. 6 p.m. FREE! www.music. uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad (Morton Theatre) Musical dramatization of Harriet Tubman’s life.

Presented by Theatre IV America.

Geared to students grades 3–8.

Advance tickets only. 9:30 & 11:30 a.m. $10. 800-275-5005* KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Teen Game Night (Oconee County Library) Play board games like Monopoly or bring your own. Ages 11-18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: Dr. Pearl McHaney (ACC Library) The Georgia State University professor and editor of the Eudora Welty Newsletter gives a lecture on Welty.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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 24 EVENTS: Peabody Archive Screening (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 348) Screening of an episode of “The Boondocks,” the irreverent TV show based on the Aaron McGruder comic strip. In “Return of the King” MLK, Jr. wakes from a coma only to be branded a terrorist sympathizer when he speaks out against current social affairs.

Discussion to follow. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4789 EVENTS: Winter Book Sale Preview (Old Michaels— Huntington Road, Goodwill shopping center) Shop early at the Friends of the Library’s annual Winter Book Sale. 4–8 p.m. $15.

706-613-3650 PERFORMANCE: UGA Wind Symphony (UGA Hodgson Hall) Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu THEATRE: The Changeling (Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents Thomas Middleton and John Rowley’s Jacobean masterpiece about love, lust, deceit and murder.

Feb. 19–21 & 24–28, 8 p.m. Mar. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (UGA students), $15 (general admission). 706-542-2838 KIDSTUFF: Chapter Book Revue (Madison County Library) 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.: African American Read-In (BurneyHarris-Lyons Middle School) BHLMS celebrates the works of African American authors by participating in this year’s nationwide read-in sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English.

6:30–8 p.m. FREE! 706-540-7340

February 19–21 & 23

The Vagina Monologues and Until the Violence Stops UGA Chapel and Ciné Thousands of V-Day events in hundreds of cities across the world have been held since Eve Ensler spearheaded this movement to end violence against women in 1998. This year’s local campaign continues this week with a pair of benefits to raise funds for Project Safe. Ciné hosts a screening of the documentary Until the Violence Stops, which chronicles Eve Ensler the genesis of the movement launched

by Ensler’s taboo-shattering The Vagina Monologues, at 7 p.m. on Feb. 23. The 2003 film, featuring Salma Hayek, Isabella Rossellini and Jane Fonda, shows how women from Harlem, Kenya, the Philippines and everywhere in between have used Ensler’s play and the V-Day movement to crusade against the cultural values that perpetuate violence against women. Tickets to the screening are $8, with all proceeds going towards Project Safe’s services for battered women and children.

The annual cornerstone of the V-Day celebration happens this weekend with three performances of the play that started it all, The Vagina Monologues. Ensler hoped to empower and educate by demystifying a subject that most have been trained to never mention in polite company. Though all of the monologues are concerned with the vag in some way or another, the play isn’t one-note. The pieces range from lighthearted musings on the ridiculous, unappealing sound of the word itself to deeply serious accounts of sexual abuse.

The Vagina Monologues are at 8 p.m. Feb. 19–21 at the UGA Chapel. $15 tickets are available in advance at Frontier, Urban Sanctuary Day Spa and the Project Safe Thrift Store. Just around the corner is another Project Safe fundraiser: Dancing with the Athens Stars. Vote at www.project-safe.org/Dancing-with-the-Athens-Stars.html, where you can also purchase tickets for the Mar. 1 show at The Classic Center. [Jennifer Bryant]

LECTURES & LIT.: Bulldog Book Club (UGA SLC—Jittery Joe’s) Discussion of Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man. All are welcome. 4 p.m. FREE! fteague@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Dyslexia Presentation (Athens Technical College—Auditorium) Nationally renowned dyslexia expert Susan Barton speaks on how to recognize and deal with the challenges dyslexia represents. Space is limited; register online to reserve a spot. 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.gore.eventbrite.com LECTURES & LIT.: “The First Emperor: China’s Terra Cotta Army” (ACC Library) Karen Lanning, a High Museum of Art docent, discusses the museum’s exhibit that features 15 terra cotta soldiers from the tomb of the First Emperor of Qin. 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: “Murder in Harlem: Oscar Micheaux Adapts Atlanta’s Leo Frank Case” (UGA SLC, Room 150) Matthew Bernstein, chair of film studies at Emory University, gives the talk and discusses his new book, Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television.

4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3966 LECTURES & LIT.: “Watching Films With a Critical Eye” (Ciné Barcafé) Emory University professor Matthew Bernstein gives the talk. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com MEETINGS: Meet the Doulas (Full Bloom Center) Meet local doulas, ask questions and make connections. 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-3533373, www.fullbloomparent.com MEETINGS: Theology on Tap (Trappeze Pub) Open conversations revolving around theology. All are invited. Next topic: Mormon theology. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1915, cmccreight@fccathens.org 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: Flicker Poker Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Last Tuesday of every month! 8:30 p.m. www. myspace.com/flickerbar 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: Pool Tournament (Fat Daddy’s) Tuesdays. 7 p.m. 706353-0241 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Alibi) Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. 706-549-1010 * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line EVENTS: Working in the Public Interest Conference (UGA School of Law) Conference seeks to highlight dynamic ways to combat social injustice. Registration form available online. Feb. 27–28. FREE! (students & faculty), $25 (public). www.law. uga.edu/wipi PERFORMANCE: Male Choir of St. Petersburg 2/27 (UGA Hodgson Hall) Debut American tour of choir consisting of 25 musicians who perform sacred music, folk songs and the music of Russia’s foremost composers. 8 p.m. $25– $30. www.uga.edu/pac* EVENTS: Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) Featuring a line-up of critically acclaimed films that explore the Jewish identity, culture and experience. Feb. 28–Mar 1. $30 (festival pass), $10 (individual screenings). www.athensjff.org EVENTS: Spirited Spell-Off Spectacle 2/28 (Athens Technical College—Auditorium) Spelling bee

and raffle to raise funds for local adult literacy programs. Sponsored by the Athens-Clarke Literacy Council. Register team online. 4 p.m. $5. www.athensliteracy.org PERFORMANCE: Swan Lake 3/1 (UGA Hodgson Hall) Presented by the Russian National Ballet. 7:30 p.m. $27–$32. www.uga.edu/pac* PERFORMANCE: Dancing with the Athens Stars 3/1 (The Classic Center) Well-known members of the Athens community are paired with an accomplished dancer from a local dance studio. Proceeds benefit Project Safe. 7 p.m. $15. 706-3574444, www.project-safe.org* EVENTS: Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival (The Classic Center) Osborne and special guest Fred Willard host four days of classic films and post-screening discussions. Mar. 19–22. Festival pass: $60, $45 (students). www.robertosbornefilmfestival.com, www.classiccenter.com EVENTS: An Evening in the Garden 3/20 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Wine tasting and art auction to benefit Athens Area Humane Society. 7 p.m. 706-3532287, www.athenshumanesociety. org * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 17 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (8+). www.caledonialounge.com ELASTIC KNIGHTS No info available.

IN THE LURCH Three-piece In the Lurch has been cranking out crunchy guitar riffs and sinister basslines for just over a year. The band cites Primus and Tool as influences.

WRATH OF THE GIRTH Gnarly oldschool hardcore, like a stoner Dead Kennedys.

Farm 255 8 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CARL LINDBERG Jazz bassist Carl Lindberg (Grogus, Squat, Kenosha Kid, etc.) performs standards, originals and some surprising tunes from divergent styles.

MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD Renowned Californian-born poet, musician and composer who blends hip-hop, funk and reggae together with his outspoken political and progressive lyrics. See Calendar Pick on p. 19.

Fat Daddy’s 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 KARAOKE Every Tuesday, hosted by Lynn.

The Globe 10 p.m. $3. 706-296-7307 HALF-DOZEN BRASS BAND Highly praised local ensemble and Athens’ only New Orleans-style brass band.

Claims Rebirth, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Youngblood Brass Band as influences.

ONE L Afro-Cuban-inspired music that blends rock, funk and soul with clave patterns and electric guitar.

Featuring Afro-Cuban percussion, a searing horn section and authentic Cuban instruments, the band promises to keep you on your feet.

MIKE WAGNER Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Mike Wagner demonstrates his virtuosity on the ukulele.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com BENJI HUGHES The Charlotte, N.C., singer-songwriter’s warm, expressive vocals and eclectic backing music sounds something like an American Badly Drawn Boy. His live sets tend to be exceptionally entertaining, fervent and, if we’re lucky, shirtless.

JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT Soul- and blues-inspired rock group featuring the former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell. Tonight marks the release of the band’s new, selftitled album.

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 from the foothills of North Carolina.

T. GRAHAM BROWN & JIMMY HALL Classic country artist T. Graham Brown (or “His T-Ness”) and Jimmy Hall of the late ‘60s Southern rock group Wet Willie perform a special acoustic duo set tonight. Joined by John Berry and Randall Bramblett.

Wednesday 18 283 Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 DJ DEFTWING London calling! New DJ Spins contemporary and classic Brit tunes.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com LEAVING ARABY Pop-rock quartet with a style akin to yesteryear radio sweethearts Goo Goo Dolls, Gin Blossoms and the like.

MERCURY VEIL Formerly known as The Children of Desolation, local band Mercury Veil plays emotional alternative rock with crunchy guitar riffs, male/female vocals and an obvious affinity for bands like Tool and Smashing Pumpkins.

PLAYGROUND RIVALS Driving rock from Atlanta, like plugging a bottle of whiskey into a guitar amp.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $10. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar KENOSHA KID Part avant-jazz noise, part hillbilly string band, Kenosha Kid offers instrumental-improvisational music that has never been to Ipanema, doesn’t take the A train and won’t play Misty for you.

WHITE ROCKET Jazz trio touring in support of its self-titled debut.

Features renowned jazz drummer Sean Carpio plus Greg Felton on piano and Jacob Wick on trumpet.

See feature on p. 16.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $25. www.georgiatheatre.com CHERINE ANDERSON Sassy neosoul crooner with reggae influences and rock intensity.

COURTNEY JOHN Jamaican-born reggae artist.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 NATHAN SHEPPARD The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is known for his emotive singing style and his modern reworkings of classic tunes, from Dylan and Neil Young to Van Morrison.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub THE VINYL STRANGERS Timelessly charming pop rock reminiscent of early Beatles and Byrds. Also performing a Buddy Holly tribute set tonight, honoring the anniversary of the musician’s death.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com THE DADDY MACK BLUES BAND No-nonsense blues legends with licks as sharp as their suits. Fronted by guitarist “Daddy” Mack Orr. Red Eye Coffee 8 p.m. FREE! www.redeyeathens.com CHRISTOPHER WITHOUT HIS LIVER Christopher Ingham (Christopher’s Liver, ex-Heroic Livers) performs solo.

FAVORITE COUSIN New collaboration between Christopher Ingham of Christopher’s Liver and Elizabeth Hargrett of My Unborn Children. He plays the ukulele, she plays a tiny Casio keyboard and they both sing lots of delicate harmonies.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net EDDIE & THE PUBLIC SPEAKERS Local blues-funk trio led by frontman Eddie Speaker.

GIMME HENDRIX Jimi Hendrix tribute band.

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 19 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.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.

JOSHUA GARZA No info available.

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!

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.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com ALL THAT MARCH Walton County thrash metal… with Cookie Monster vocals.

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.

MASK THE WRETCH Standard metalcore from Loganville.

MCCLANE Fun, ferocious and technical death metal from Atlanta that doesn’t take itself too seriously, for all its prowess.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com PAGE CAMPBELL Vocalist for celebrated local folk act Hope for Agoldensummer performs her solo material.

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Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar A POSTWAR DRAMA Local group featuring edgy, original folk tunes.

NANNY ISLAND Brand new band featuring locals SJ Ursrey and Shauna Greeson. This is their first show!

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $25 (advance). www.georgiatheatre.com* CITIZEN COPE Clarence Greenwood and his band Citizen Cope blend hip-hop, soul and pop influences.

The band was most recently in town last September to spread the word about the new album Every Waking Moment.

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Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar “DR. FRED’S KARAOKE” Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers, 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 night.

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LAURA REED & DEEP POCKET Heavily touring funk-soul Atlanta natives fronted by “the hi-octane vocals of Laura Reed, reminiscent of an Amy Winehouse or Erykah Badu.”

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THE CALENDAR! Rye Bar 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens LIVE WELL Southern acoustic duo fueled by Jack Daniel’s whiskey and taking cues from artists like Waylon Jennings and Son Volt.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net ANDREW BLEKE Young solo artist plays piano-driven jazz and woeful blues. Lists Ben Folds as his major influence.

THE DANIEL LEE BAND Countrytinged Southern rock based just outside of Athens in Bethlehem, GA. WELCOME TO BUCKHEAD New local “schizophrenic power rock” with an affinity for ‘90s alternative and classic rock alike.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com DAVE HOWARD Singer-songwriter performing mellow folk music.

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com JUSTIN BROGDON Rock vet Justin Brogdon puts a lot of Southern soul into his epic songs—drawing from artists like The Black Crowes and Tom Petty. His all-American sound owes a lot to his all-star backing band: drummer Carlton Owens (Squat); bassist Stephen Spivey (Tishamingo); keyboardist/guitarist Jess Franklin (Tishamingo); and lead guitarist Benji Shanks (Last Waltz Ensemble).

Friday 20 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $8 (21+), $20 (18+). Free CD included! www.40watt.com TIN CUP PROPHETTE Local artist Amanda Kapousouz blends genres as she switches instruments and loops her airy vocals and violin around guitar and drums, backed by percussionist Jeremy Wheatley and others.

VENICE IS SINKING Azar CD release show! With boy/girl vocals, a cinematic jangle and a sweeping, emotional punch courtesy of a viola, Venice Is Sinking’s piano-based torch songs burn bright. Azar included with price of admission! See feature on p. 17.

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com NORMALTOWN FLYERS Longrunning Athens roots-rock institution plays a set of comfortable, good-time rock and roll with a Southern leaning.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com MUSIC HATES YOU High-energy and higher volume, Music Hates You plays a dirty kind of punk metal.

There’s red clay under the fingernails of this fist raised against authority.

NOBLE RUST Experimental Southern metal from Atlanta with sludgy, ambient leanings.

SONN AV KRUSHER Thick, lumbering hardcore metal from Atlanta.

SUBRIG DESTROYER Heavy bass and drum two-piece that sounds like a mix of Floor and Om. Ciné Barcafé 9 p.m. FREE! (21+), $5 (18+). www. athenscine.com BEATRIX KIDDO Athens’ own Beatrix Kiddo offers post-rock that will appeal to fans of Sonic Youth, Mission

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of Burma, My Bloody Valentine and the like.

IN THE LURCH Local three-piece In the Lurch has been cranking out crunchy guitar riffs and sinister basslines for just over a year. The band cites Primus and Tool as influences.

SOUNDS OF SILENCE New local band Sounds of Silence is influenced by heavy alternative bands like Seether and Puddle of Mudd.

Farm 255 10 p.m. $5. www.farm255.com BALLERS’ BALL DANCE PARTY Tonight’s events feature Atlanta DJ Sorted, with local spinners DJ Triz and Seadub.

Fat Daddy’s 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 THE TANGENTS Country-fried rock from Watkinsville with Lynyrd Skynyrd licks and John Mellencamp melodies.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar MATT JONES Indie-folk singersongwriter from Michigan who just released his new album, The Black Path.

JACOB MORRIS Local musician Morris was nominated for a Flagpole Music Award in 2008 for best solo performer. You can also catch him playing cello and keys for Ham1.

HUNTER SMITH Local folk singer/ songwriter with impressive lyrical prowess. His songwriting is influenced by American legends like Hank Williams, Tom Waits and Neil Young.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $17 (advance), $20 (door). www.georgiatheatre.com* SON VOLT Long-running alt-country rock outfit fronted by mastermind Jay Farrar.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DJS SPARKLE AND SHINE Bump, grind and dance to the dirty hiphop beats provided by DJs Sparkle (Courtney) and Shine (Lisa).

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com SENSATIONAL SOUNDS OF MOTOWN Local 15-year-old six-piece featuring Dan Roth (Little Green Chairs, The Work) and Jason Fuller (Kinchafoonee Cowboys) on keys, Stephen Spivey (Tishamingo, Snap!) on bass, Scott Moody on drums, Henry Hopkins on guitar, and Henry Sanders on lead vocals playing all your favorite Motown hits.

Mercury Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.mercuryathens.com THE PEABODIES Local band playing “straightahead jazz, blues and gospel” standards and originals.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens SAM HUNT Romantic, acoustic country singer-songwriter from Nashville.

Tasty World North East Georgia Food Band Benefit.

10 p.m. $1 (w/canned food), $2 (w/o canned food). www.tastyworld.net MANTOOTH Local hip-hop collective presents “Cans Across America,” a so-fly canned food drive featuring performances by Coldy, C-Fre$h, Varisty Squad, Figaro and Lil’ Reese.

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Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com SPLINTER BELLY This local band describes itself as “blue(s)grass,” which seems to be an apt summation of its soulful, rootsy Americana sound.

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com THE UNMENTIONABLES Rock covers and originals.

Saturday 21 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10 (adv). www.40watt.com* FUJIYA & MIYAGI Simple, delicious, throbbing electro-pop that is at once irresistably sexy and adorably British.

PROJECT JENNY, PROJECT JAN Brooklyn keyboardist-vocalist duo makes elbowy, subtly hilarious electro-pop with Talking Heads eccentricities.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 BETSY FRANCK AND THE BAREKNUCKLE BAND Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility.

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com LOW END HONEY Local six-piece Southern rock band.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com CHRISSAKES Local hardcore band with haunting, brooding guitar riffs and explosive, screaming vocals.

DEAF JUDGES Consisting of three MCs and one DJ, the Deaf Judges focus on an energetic live show backed by beats that utilize elements of world music and old school funk and soul.

PRIDE PARADE The latest release from this local five-piece, Descendants, has caused quite a stir in town with its heavy, wall-of-sound Southern rock.

Ciné Barcafé 3 p.m.–2 a.m. $5. www.auxcd.com AUX 3 Experimental arts festival featuring live music and visual artists including: Youth Movement Workshop (3:30 p.m.), Killick (4:30 p.m.), The Rectanglers (5:30 p.m.), Our New Silence (6:30 p.m.), Some Meat Out of the Eater (7:30 p.m.), The Classic Center 8 p.m. $10-$45. 706-357-4444.* THE FAB FOUR It’s the ultimate Beatles tribute show! Live renditions of classic tunes spanning the band’s career, complete with outrageous costume changes to move you through the distinct Beatles eras.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com A FIST FULL OF FINGERS Angular progressive hard rock influenced by acts like Glassjaw, At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta.

MORDECHAI DIY garage punk from Mississippi.

STRAP-ON MOUSTACHE Says the band: “We’re country punks draining the sounds of all-night service industry twitters into drunk, easygoing evening adventures.”

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 THE DANIEL LEE BAND Countrytinged Southern rock based just outside of Athens in Bethlehem, GA.

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Andy Friedman & the Other Failures Rye Bar He’s got poetic phrasing and a resonant timbre not too dissimilar to that of Leonard Cohen, and though Andy Friedman’s a thirdgeneration Brooklynite, there’s a healthy amount of country sounds in his folk- and rock-informed music. But maybe that’s because country music has always been open to vivid depictions of place, and that’s something at which Friedman excels.

Take his new song, “Freddy’s Backroom,” about a neighborhood dive bar facing impending demolition, or the rockabilly-tinged “Road Trippin,” or the plaintive “Idaho.” And conjuring specifics for a song has been a particular specialty for Friedman since his debut album Taken Man found its way to receptive ears in 2007, earning accolades from The New York Post, Village Voice and, eventually, other tastemakers around the country. His touring was minimal, though, and it’s only with this new record that Friedman’s making a bigger push beyond the comforts of Brooklyn.

With any luck the show’s set will include a runthrough of what on record has come to be known as “The Friedman Holler,” a rock-and-roller that’s as much Carl Perkins or Buddy Holly as it is lonesome country boy. And if you’re gonna call out for something, you could do a lot worse than “I Miss Being Broken, Lowdown and Alone,” which puts Friedman’s wry humor in direct competition with some seriously sincere nostalgia.

And for what it’s worth when it comes to performance and art, Friedman’s no one-note kinda guy—he’s also a well-regarded cartoonist who illustrates under the name of Larry Hat, providing interior illustrations and covers for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and many more. Weary Things, Friedman’s sophomore album, came out Jan. 27, and it’s worth picking up even if you can’t find the time to swing by Rye Bar on a Tuesday night. [Chris Hassiotis]

DOUBLETHINK Digestable radio-rock from a young Connecticut quartet.

IMPULSE RIDE Covers and some ‘90s alternative rock-sounding originals. The group has opened for the Goo Goo Dolls and Third Eye Blind.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar “LATE NITE DISCO” The house deejay and occasional special guests spin a cool mix of disco, New Wave and modern dance tunes.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar EUREKA, CALIFORNIA Recently expanded from the solo project of Jake Ward to a full band, Eureka, California is a local indie band influenced by American indie that sounds like British indie influenced

by American indie. Also, it rocks.

GEMINI CRICKET Local quartet Gemini Cricket plays adorably handhewn bedroom pop that’s likably comfy and sprinkled with kazoo and accordion.

WAYLON THORNTON AND THE HEAVY HANDS Floridian guitar-and-drums duo plays simple, serrated rock and roll, fending off fashion and trends with a broken beer bottle.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 3 p.m.–2 a.m. $5. www.auxcd.com AUX 3 Experimental arts festival featuring live music and visual artists including: Dark Meat (3 p.m.), GLASSPACKS (4 p.m.), A Horse is a Sphere (5 p.m.), Howling Jelly (6 p.m.), Dream Scene (7 p.m.), Mercer Street (8 p.m.), Bill Doss’ Flashcard Orchestra (10 p.m.), Pegasuses-XL (11 p.m.), and Icy Demons (12:30 a.m.).

Georgia Bar 9:45 p.m. 706-546-9884 LITTLE BROWN PEACH Valdosta jam rock band with a hefty list of covers in its repertoire including songs by Phish, Talking Heads, Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd among many others.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $20 (adv), $25 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com* G. LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE Philly artist G. Love always draws a crowd with his soulful and instantly recognizable blend of blues and hip-hop.

ERIC HUTCHINSON Cute, boppin’ pop like Jason Mraz.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com RACK OF SPAM With more than two decades in the business, the group’s Detroit-style R&B and blue-eyed soul still sounds powerful.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens TYLER LATHAM AND FRIENDS Tyler Latham plays originals and covers with a variety of local friends and musicians.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com HARP UNSTRUNG New local act gives melodic alternative rock a bluesy, Southern twist.

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com PATTERSON & NATE Two members of Augusta band Big Scene offer acoustic covers of ‘80s, ‘90s and current rock.

Sunday 22 Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com PATRICK CAREY Ginger Envelope frontman plays slow-rolling countryish pop marked by melodic sounds.

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

Monday 23 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.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5 (adv), $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com* OAKHURST “Unbridled energy” is the hallmark of this Denver bluegrass band.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $8. www.tastyworld.net BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT Foggy, synth-driven grooves, like a lucid dream of rhythm and soul.

RIO EN MEDIO Distant, subtle folk from Brooklyn, thick with reverb, vocal loops and other scenery.

Tuesday 24 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com AVARIA Upbeat powerpop that doesn’t fall far from Fall Out Boy’s Cork Tree.

CLOAK AND DAGGER DATING SERVICE Local six-piece ensemble plays loud straight-ahead rock with dueling male/female vocals.

THE EASTERN TERMINUS Singersongwriter Nick Joiner plays acoustic powerpop similar to Dashboard and Deathcab.

EDDY SHIN TRIO Sweet, shy pop from guitarist-vocalist Shin and fellow UGA sophomores.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DAN NETTLES The guitarist in local jazz band Kenosha Kid. Fat Daddy’s 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 KARAOKE Hosted by Lynn.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com COL. BRUCE HAMPTON Classic Atlanta musician blends his 46-year career of funk, blues, and jazz into one expansive jam-band experience.

MOONALICE This all-star cast features an impressive lineup of seasoned professionals including GE Smith (“Saturday Night Live,” Bob Dylan), Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna), Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship, Rod Stewart), Barry Sless (Phil Lesh & Friends, David Nelson Band), Ann & Roger McNamee (Flying Other Brothers) and Jim Sanchez (Dr. John, Boz Scaggs). The group has a gift for improvisation and tends to focus on rootsy rock and R&B. See “Don’t Miss” on Flagpole.com for our interview with GE. The Melting Point Family Counseling Services Benefit.

7 p.m. $18 (adv). $100 pre-concert VIP reception/raffle. 706-254-6909.* RANDALL BRAMBLETT BAND Either blowing the sax or delivering his gruff ‘n’ grumbly vocals, Bramblett can toss out direct Southern R&B kickers.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens BRIAN CONNELL Local guy Brian Connell’s original songs are in the classic spirit of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.

ANDY FRIEDMAN Particularly lonesome bluesman who recently released Weary Things with his band, the Other Failures. See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net CONSULT THE BONES New punk outfit featuring John Edwards of local act Community Chaos.

THE DUMPS With four veterans of the local punk scene at the helm, The Dumps deliver angular metal licks with lots of dual screaming over sludgy grooves, making for one intense rock performance.

IN THE LURCH Local three-piece In the Lurch has been cranking out crunchy guitar riffs and sinister basslines for just over a year. The band cites Primus and Tool as influences.

LIQUID LIMBS Gainesville, FL duo that utilizes strange tunings, abrupt changes and heavy guitars to create suprisingly accessible if somewhat abrasive rock. * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line 2/26 ‘Powers / Harvey Milk (Caledonia Lounge) 2/26 Druid City / Moth Vamana (Flicker Theatre & Bar)

2/26 Bomb Chewey (No Where Bar) 2/26 Songwriters in the Round (The Melting Point) 2/27 Magic Missile / Nutria / T. T. Mahony and the Standard 8 (Caledonia Lounge) 2/27 Creepy / The Nice Machine (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 2/27 Lord T and Eloise / Pretty Lights (Georgia Theatre)* 2/27 Elijah / Goodnight Apathy (Rye Bar) 2/27 The Jack Burton / Yardwork (Tasty World) 2/27 Sons of Sailors (The Melting Point) 2/28 Holy Liars / Rollin’ Home / Wilx (40 Watt Club) 2/28 Bart King (ATHICA) 2/28 Don Chambers + Goat / Ham 1 / Jeff the Brotherhood (Caledonia Lounge) 2/28 Dave Firmin (Wild Wing Café) 3/3 The Can’t Hardly Playboys (The Melting Point) 3/4 Blitzen Trapper / Alela Diane / Futurebirds (40 Watt Club)* 3/4 Swingin’ Harpoon Blues Band (The Melting Point) 3/5 Ben Kweller / The Watson Twins (40 Watt Club) 3/5 Tim Reynolds and TR3 (The Melting Point) 3/6 Vulture Whale (Caledonia Lounge) 3/6 Hills Rolling (Terrapin Beer Co.) 3/6 Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin (The Melting Point)* 3/7 Circulatory System / Brian Dewan / The Gerbils / Nana Grizol / The Music Tapes (40 Watt Club) 3/11 Sam Amidon / Anathallo (40 Watt Club)* 3/11 The Big Don Band (The Melting Point) 3/13 Wovenhand (40 Watt Club)* 3/13 Tab Benoit (The Melting Point) 3/14 Maserati / Pride Parade / Vincas (40 Watt Club) 3/16 The Dig (Go Bar) 3/16 Wovenhand (Tasty World) 3/17 Short Road Home (The Melting Point)* 3/19 Backyard Tire Fire / Bloodkin (40 Watt Club) 3/19 STS9 (Georgia Theatre) 3/23 American Cheeseburger / masshysteri / Witches (Go Bar) 3/24 Prizzy Prizzy Please (Tasty World) 3/24 The Suggins Brothers (The Melting Point) 3/25 Rockin’ Jake (The Melting Point) 3/26 Appomattox / Dead Confederate / Summerbirds in the Cellar (40 Watt Club) 3/26 The HEAP Deluxe P-Funk Cover Show / Snarky Puppy (Georgia Theatre) 3/27 Chairlift / Kuroma / Yacht!

(40 Watt Club)* 3/28 Butch Walker (40 Watt Club)* 3/28 Ghostland Observatory (Georgia Theatre)* 3/30 Hammer No More The Fingers (Tasty World) 3/31 Emmit-Nershi Band (Georgia Theatre) 3/31 Jerkagram / Talibam (Tasty World) 4/1 Chrissakes / Matt & Kim (40 Watt Club)* 4/1 Slightly Stoopid (Georgia Theatre)* 4/3 Rehab (Georgia Theatre) 4/4 Dark Meat / The Sammies / The Whigs (40 Watt Club)* 4/4 Pigs on the Wing (Georgia Theatre)* 4/4 Ancient Harmony / The Incredible Sandwich (Tasty World) 4/18 Dan Tyminski Band (The Melting Point) 4/21 Dengue Fever (40 Watt Club)

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bulletin board DO SOMETHING; GET INVOLVED! Deadline for getting listed in Bulletin Board and Art Around Town is every THURSDAY at 12 p.m.

Email calendar@flagpole.com. Listings are printed based on available space, more listings are online.

ART 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) Red Eye Coffee is now accepting submissions for artwork to be displayed in the Prince Avenue shop. Gregg Carey, red.eye.coffee@ gmail.com

AUDITIONS Classic City Sounds (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 original material. Tiffany Tunno, 706-255-6437

CLASSES “The Anatomy of a Novel” (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Writing workshop led by Terry Kay. Fundamental writing techniques— including outlining, rhythm, character development and self-editing— will be emphasized. Space is limited; advance registration recommended.

Mar. 21 & 22. $100. 706-769-4565, info@ocaf.com Art Classes (Ciné Barcafé) Now registering for six-week drawing and painting classes that meet Sunday afternoons starting Mar. 29. bhstrauch@yahoo.com, www. athenscine.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 for adults and older teens. Full schedule online. $14 drop-in, $60/6 classes, $108/12 classes. 706-369-8855, www.wellnesscooperative.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Now registering for spring clay classes.

Schedule online. Also offering 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 Computer Classes (ACC Library) “Introduction to Microsoft Word” (Feb. 19, 10–11:30 a.m.) and “Introduction to Microsoft Excel” (Feb. 26, 7–8:30 p.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.

No experience necessary, no partner needed. FREE! lesson at 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 21, 8–11 p.m. $7 (18+), FREE! (ages 17 & under). www.athensfolk. org

ACC ANIMAL CONTROL 45 Beaverdam Rd. • 706-613-3540 Young grey and white Chihuahua mix will Many puppies available this week; literally run circles Catahoula, Rottie, around you. He’s a bouncy, joyful pup Shepherd and of course great mutts sure to make you like the tiny Terrier laugh. and Lab mix below.

All white with one little black ear.

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Very sweet young Staffordshire Terrier mixed possibly with Chocolate lab. He’s a skinny adolescent that will grow into a gorgeous adult.

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ACC ANIMAL ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY CONTROL 24 Total Cats Received

31 Dogs Received 23 Dogs Placed! Wow!

11 Cats Placed 0 Adoptable Cats Euthanized

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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 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 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) 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. FREE! 706-227-1717 Flower Arranging (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Taught by a National Garden Club Master Flower Show Judge. Focus will be on dining table arrangements. Feb. 25, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $23. 706-5426156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Full Bloom Center Classes (Full Bloom Center) Courses include Breastfeeding, Preparation for Birth, Mama-Baby Yoga and Prenatal Yoga. Full schedule online. $14/ drop-in, $60/6 classes. 706-3533373, www.fullbloomparent.com Getting Started with Genealogy (ACC Library) Monthly informal class to walk you through the basics of researching

This sweet young girl is housebroken, spayed, has her shots, is great with kids and her only problem is she has very little time because she is an owner surrender.

Shy at first but very friendly and curious. Please hurry.

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Morgan Craig’s painting “Remains of the Day” is on exhibit at ATHICA through Mar. 22. family history. Bring a pencil and paper. In Heritage Room. Feb. 19, 2–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Glass-Fusing Workshop (Good Dirt) Fee includes materials.

Feb. 22, 2–5 p.m. $60. 706-3553161, www.gooddirt.net Hiking 103 (Sandy Creek Park) Learn basic hiking techniques, map reading and more. Transportation provided. Bring a sack lunch. Ages 10 & up. Pre-registration required.

Feb. 22, 9 a.m. $20. 706-613-3631 Martial Arts Class (American Black Belt Academy) Call to register.

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11 a.m. 706549-1671, www.athensjiujitsu.com Meditation Group (Village Herb Shop) Ongoing class that uses Jane Roberts’ book The Nature of Personal Reality to explore higher states of consciousness. Led by certified Monroe Institute trainer Diane Waybright. Feb. 23, 6:45 p.m.

706-788-7997 Photoshop/Lightroom Workshop (Email for Location) 50-year photography veteran leads 6-hour class that will cover data management, image manipulation, synchronizing and more. 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 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! ACT Volunteer Ushers (Various Locations) Athens Creative Theatre seeks volunteers to usher and sell concessions. Training provided.

706-613-3628 American Red Cross (Red Cross Center—3525 Atlanta Hwy.) This month donors will be entered for a chance to win two Delta Airlines domestic round-trip tickets. 706-5460681, 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.

Pet Soup Kitchen (Athens Area Humane Society) The Athens Area Humane Society’s pet soup kitchen that helps needy families feed their pets seeks volunteers. Volunteers needed to pick up donated food, organize for distribution and help promote the kitchen. Dog food donations can be dropped off at any AAHS location or the adoption center. denise@athenshumanesociety.org Trail Guide Training (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Help lead discovery hikes with small groups of elementary school students. Only need to attend one of the sessions.

Ages 18 & up. Pre-registration required. Feb. 19–21, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 706-613-3615 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 heritage and history.

Broadacres Community Center: Feb. 13, 4–6 p.m. Parkview Community Center: Feb. 16–20, 4–6 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3600, 706-613-3601 Creative Movement (Floorspace) Ongoing class for ages 3–5.

Thursdays, 4 p.m. $40/4 classes.

706-850-5557, www.floorspaceathens.com Kids’ Summer Camps (Good Dirt) Now registering for summer camps. Complete schedule info and registration forms available at www. gooddirt.net. 706-355-3161 Yoga Sprouts (Full Bloom Center) Fun, playful yoga for kids.

Wednesdays, 3:30 p.m. $14/single class, $60/6 classes. 706-353-3373, www.fullbloomparent.com

SUPPORT Al-Anon Family Group (Young Harris United Methodist) Program for families and friends of alcoholics. 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.

All are welcome. transgenderathens@gmail.com Domestic Violence Support Group (Call for location) Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and group at 6:30 p.m. 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 for those with mental illness. This month’s events include a movie and bingo. 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) 12-step meetings for compulsive eating disorders. All ages and sizes welcome.

Mondays, 5:30 p.m. at Nuçi’s Space.

Thursdays, 7 p.m. at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. at Princeton United Methodist

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (Reference Area) Watercolor and Prismacolor pencil landscapes by Elizabeth Bishop-Martin featuring scenes from Alaska and beyond. Through February. (Young Adult/Browsing) “Cartoons, Comic Books & Graphic Novels: The History of an American Art Form.” Through February.

(Heritage Gallery) Exhibit featuring graduates of the Georgia Fine Arts Academy, including Tory Tepp, David Weeks, Richard Baker, Greg Trakhengerts, Jason Graham, Jeff Hyde and John Garrison. Through February. (Heritage Room Display Cases) Family and historical artifacts and documents relating to the life and legacy of Richard Allen. Through February.

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.

Circle Gallery (UGA College of Environmental Design) Exhibit showcasing the work of graduate students in landscape architecture. 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.

Jittery Joe’s Coffee (Five Points) New paintings

by Ruth Allen. 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

Church. FREE! www.geocities.com/ athensoa Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Call for location) Support group for veterans with PTSD. Contact Jamie at 706-7251077 for details.

ON THE STREET FREE! Tax Assistance (Various Locations) 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 Co.—300 Henderson Ext.) HCDC will help clients e-file or prepare a paper copy. Mondays, 4–7 p.m.

Saturdays, 12–4 p.m. 706-546-1154 Roots Farm CSA (Roots Farm CSA—Winterville) Now accepting members. Get a weekly supply of fresh-picked, organically grown produce. 706-742-0010, rootsfarm@ hotmail.com, www.rootsfarm.org Volunteer in Peru Learn Spanish and stay with a host family.

Open to anyone over the age of 18. www.venperu.org, information@ venperu.org f

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 Oconee County Library Acrylic paintings by Becky Dillard. Through February.

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.

Pauley’s Original Crepe Bar “Streak,” featuring photographs by Brittny Teree Smith.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia Uniquely textured photographs by McGinnis Leathers.

Through Feb. 23.

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.

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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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins I feel like at this rate, I’ll never find the guy for me. I think most guys in this town are looking for a one-night hookup. I don’t go out and drink, and I’m not looking to hook up. I won’t let on to this in conversation, but I’m very interested in marrying young (which is standard in my family). I’m the only one in my family that, at my young age, hasn’t found Mr. Right before graduating. I have time, but that doesn’t take away from the loneliness I feel. I don’t find myself attractive, though walking downtown in dresses I always get some whoops and hollers in my direction. I’ll be honest: I don’t go out enough on the weekends, but I do go out.

I’m worried that if I find the right guy, he’ll be older and more experienced than me. I just need someone to tell me that it’s possible to find the right guy in this city, and more importantly, what to do to find him.

Are there any guys out there for me?

Young and Hopeless Romantic I understand why you don’t let on right away that you are interested in marrying young, YHR, because you don’t want to send guys running. On the other hand, if you’re not looking for a hookup, and you really do want to marry young, don’t you think honesty would be a better policy? You’re probably right about most college guys looking for something less serious, and that means you are going to have to look elsewhere and narrow your search. Have you thought about the Internet? As daunting as it may be, it seems like the perfect place for somebody who wants to cut through all of the messy parts of dating.

Think of it like Amazon vs. the mall: you already know what you want. You’re interested in something serious. You don’t feel like walking from store to store to find exactly the right thing. So, stay at home and shop on your computer. There are plenty of sites that feature exhaustive profiles on your potential Mr. Right, and while there is an unfortunate lack of consumer reports for the social scene, it seems like reading up on somebody before you bother to go out with him will save you some time. You should put yourself out there in as honest a way as you know how and see what you find. Is there a reason why you don’t want a guy who is older and/or more experienced than you? Certainly there are levels of experience, right? And, were I you, I wouldn’t want to limit myself to virginal men who are exactly my age. This doesn’t mean you have to settle for a middleaged divorcé, YHR, but be reasonable. It sounds like you know what you want and you are probably at least moderately attractive, so it shouldn’t be that difficult to at least get started. Good luck.

So, I was out the other night, in a bar that I never frequent, watching a show with a friend of mine. There was a guy there who was pretty cute, and I noticed that he kept looking

our way. So, my friend went outside to have a cigarette, and the guy came over and started talking to me. He must have chatted me up for close to 10 minutes, asking about what I do and why I was at the show, who I know, etc.

And the next thing I know, he mentions that he has a girlfriend? What the fuck? Why would he come up and talk to me like that if he had no intention of asking me out? I was so irritated that I didn’t know what to do.

It’s not like I was sitting at the bar and he was waiting for a drink or anything, either. He had no reason to walk over except to talk to me. And I wasted all that time talking to him when there were other guys around! What gives? Why would a guy do that?

Irritated Single Girl I don’t know why he would do that, ISG, but I’m also wondering why it bothered you so much. I mean, I know it was kind of a tease, but it’s not like the guy wined and dined you for months and then told you he was married and had no intention of leaving his wife. It was a few minutes out of your night, and he was cute. No harm, no foul. If nothing else, it provided you with a few minutes of diversion while your friend was away. And maybe he really thought you were attractive and he wanted to see what your deal was. Maybe he had a single friend he would send your way. Who knows? Don’t think too hard about it or you’ll just drive yourself crazy.

I have been invited to a wedding reception for two of my friends. I won’t really know that many people there, and I don’t have anybody I particularly want to ask along as a date. I am thinking about not going, even though these are very good friends of mine, because I don’t really feel comfortable going alone.

Don’t most guys bring dates to stuff like this? I’m not a social genius, and not that many of my friends are married, so I guess I just don’t know the protocol.

Friend of the Bride Are you crazy, FOB? Weddings are the best place to pick up chicks! I mean, people are all dressed up and looking good, there’s all that romance and promise and possibility in the air—it’s perfect. There’s nothing wrong with going stag, but if you don’t feel like going alone, maybe you could ask a female friend?

I know I always feel better about a guy if I know he has a good female friend. It’s like you’ve already passed a test. If not, you can still be the guy with enough confidence to show up alone and make a go of it, and that’s also attractive. But either way, don’t miss out on your friends’ big day or you will probably regret it.

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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) 3559961. 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. $825/mo. 4BR/3BA. Close to c a m p u s . Av a i l . 4 / 1 / 0 9 . 2 7 3 Westchester Circle. Owner/Agent, call Mike (706) 207-7400.

1BR/1BA apt. in house. Beaverdam Rd. $450/mo. (706) 549- 6070.

1 B R / 1 B A w / s t u d y. G a t e d community, pool, fitness center.

Convenient to campus & Dwntn. $595/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 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.

3BR/2.5BA townhouse on Milledge. Unique flrplan, W/D, pool, sand volleyball, on busline.

Great location, great value! Call Paul (678) 462-0824.

2BR/1BA Eastside on Cedar Shoals Dr. All electric, remodeled, W/D hookup. $550/mo. (706) 202-2466.

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.

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/1BA. Walk to campus.

HWflrs., central heat, window AC. Loft rm. as 2nd BR or study.

Good cond. $570/mo. Call (706) 548-5869.

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.

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.

Avail. now. Sublease, optional longterm lease. 1BR/1BA spacious historic Normaltown duplex. Walk to Aqua Linda, Prince. Front porch, grassy backyd, pets OK. $650/mo.

(706) 338-7492.

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 extras, ver y clean. Just off Mitchell’s Bridge Rd. 2 mi. from Publix. $500/mo. Grad 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.

For Rent. 2BR/2BA apt. Windsor Place condo. Busline within 1 mi. of UGA. Lg. BRs, FP, W/D, & DW. Some pets allowed. Avail 8/1. 1 yr. lease. Sec. dep. req’d. $750/mo.

(706) 540-0857.

Free month’s rent. Stadium Village 2BR/1BA gated community, close to campus. Water, trash, lawn incl. Pool, gym. $575/mo. (706) 549-6070.

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.

Live next to your buddies! Huge duplex. 4BR/4BA on each side 1/2 mi. from campus.

Plenty of parking. Front porch, back deck, W/D, DW, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1800/mo. per side.

(706) 369-2908.

Lumpkin Square Condo.

2BR/2.5BA, block from UGA & 5 Pts. W/D & DW. Avail. 8/1. Dep. req’d. $900/mo. (706) 540-0857.

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) 5496254. Restrictions apply.

Studio 51 Condos!! 1BR luxury on-campus studios. No sec. dep.!

Rent incl. water, gas, pest & trash.

Built-ins, HWflrs., tile & laundry facility. City & UGA bus stop. Pets OK. $550/mo. kaceyprice@hotmail. com, (706) 540-2829.

Tall Oaks. Close to campus.

1BR/1BA. $500/mo. (706) 5496070.

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.

$119,000. 3BR/2.5BA Scarborough Place upstairs condo for sale. Appls Incl., FP, pool privileges. Lawn maint., trash, water incl. in COA Dues. (706) 540-7501.

Commercial Property 1600 sq. ft. retail/studio space avail. in Historic Downtown Comer. Old general store location w/ high ceilings & ceramic tile flrs.

Great for antique store, pottery studio, flea market, etc. $375/mo.

(706) 207-5564.

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.

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.

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.

Apartments for Sale

$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.

$105,000. 2BR/2BA S c a r b o ro u g h P l a c e g ro u n d level condo for sale.

F P, pool privileges. Appls incl., lawn maint., trash, water incl. in COA Dues. (706) 540-7501.

Houses for Rent

$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) 3546620, 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. $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) 8471687, or beverlydale@yahoo.com. $750/mo. 3BR/1BA house on 2 ac. in Winterville. 5 mins from Athens.

Very safe n’hood. Wooded lot. Pets OK. Call (706) 338-4669. $800/mo. 3BR/1BA charming brick home 1 block from Navy/New Med School at 350 Willow Run. HWflrs, beadboard ceiling, CHAC, total electric, storage shed. W/D incl., pets welcome! For lease/sale $129,500. Call Anne (706) 3546620 or 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 3BR 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. Close to Dwntn. & UGA. 1 block to busline.

CHAC, W/D, DW, fenced. Pets OK. $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.

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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! $500/mo.

Call (706) 714-4603.

2BR/1BA Normaltown. 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, pre-leasing. 1670 Milledge Ext. on UGA bus line.

CHAC, sec. sys., W/D, DW, fenced. Pets OK. $300/BR. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

2BR/1BA, pre-leasing. CHAC, W/D, DW, sec. sys., fenced. Pets OK. Close to Dwntn. & UGA. $325/ BR. Email hathawayproperties@ gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

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.

3BR/2BA, pre–leasing. Chase St., on busline, lg. house, oak flrs., fenced. Close to Dwntn. & UGA. Pets OK. $1050/mo. $350/BR. Email hathawayproperties@gmail. com, call (706) 714-4486.

Avail. now & fall!

4BR/2BA property in 5 Pts next to memorial park. Very close to campus. $1100/mo. W/D, HVAC, DW. (706) 296-9546, (706) 2969547, on www.cityblock.biz.

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.

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.

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 pre–leasing. Close to Dwntn & UGA. HWflrs., W/D, DW, fenced. $300/BR. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

3BR/3BA Eastside. Quiet n’hood. $1100/mo. All appls. 213 Springtree St. Avail. 8/1. (706) 713-0626.

3BR/3BA brand new houses in 5 Pts. & Dwntn. Walk to campus! W/D incl. Pre-leasing for Fall 09. $1500/ mo. Call Aaron (706) 207-2957.

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.

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.

4BR/2BA house on Eastside for rent.

HWflrs., carport, lg. yard. $1K/mo. www.infotube.net/152273. Call (706) 369-9679, cell (706) 207-0935, or call Pam (706) 540-3809 lv. msg.

2BR/2BA townhouse avail. 6/09 or 8/09. Near UGA & Dwntn. Historic Art/Mill district. Priv. porches. Gated courtyd. On Greenway. Bamboo woods. Pets OK. $700/mo. (706) 340-4282, (706) 714-7600.

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.

2BR/2BA in-town house 1 mi. from Dwntn. Fenced backyd.

HWflrs., tile, oil–rubbed bronze fixtures, stainless appls, groovy concrete countertops. $950/mo.

Hollyremax@yahoo.com, (706) 255-4440.

2–3BR/2BA. 2 decks & front porch, country setting, high ceilings, HWflrs., lg. rms, Good dog is OK! Avail. now! $800/mo. (706) 2022733 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 than 0.5 mi. from Dwntn. & campus. $995/mo. CHAC, W/D hookup. Great house. Avail. now!

Jeani at Valerio Properties (706) 546-6900.

3BR/1BA in quiet ARMC area. Lv. rm., din. rm., new appls. Fenced backyd. Pets OK. $850/mo. Avail. now! Call (404) 519-3983 or (706) 614-8319.

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.

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.

4BR/4BA house. $900 special! W/D, sec. sys., 24 hr. maint. service, pets welcome, lawn & pest incl. (706) 552-3500. Go to www.hancockpropertiesinc.com.

4BR/4BA. 2K sq. ft.! $1800/mo.

All appls. 144 Ruth St. Avail. 8/1.

(706) 713-0626.

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.

Amazing 5BR/3BA. 1/2 mi. from campus. 2 lv. rms., 2 kitchens, big BRs, huge deck, plenty of parking. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $2200/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Avail Aug. Eastside 3BR/1.5BA, lv. rm., dining area, sunrm., garage, lg. fenced yd. Ansley Dr. Lawncare provided. $1K/mo. (706) 338-6716.

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.

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. Busline 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. $1125/ mo. 225 N. Ave. (706) 296-9873.

See bulldogrent.com. More than 2 unrelated OK. Parking spaces.

D w n t n . A t h e n s a re a . H u g e 3BR/2BA home. 2 lv. rms., FP, HWflrs., big BRs. Tons of space.

Great entertaining area w/ lg. deck & patio. $1500/mo. Michelle (706) 433-2712.

Eastside. Brick ranch house.

Avail. 3/1. $800/mo. & $1K/dep.

3BR/1.5BA. Fenced yd. Pet friendly.

CHAV. (706) 206-5344, lv. msg.

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.

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) 338-0725.

Northside 2BR/1BA, lg. lot, $600/ mo. Hospital area, Fenced–in yd. Avail. 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.

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2BR/2BA 625B Whitehall, $675/ mo. 4BR/2BA, 322 Whitehall Rd., $750/mo. 3BR/2BA, 7 3 9 B e a v e rd a m R d . $ 8 5 0 / mo. 3BR/2BA, 276 Oak Meadows $995/mo. 3BR/2BA, 125 Evergreen Terrace $995/mo. 3BR/2BA, 1060 Macon Hwy. $995/mo. 5BR/2BA, 2045 Robert Hardeman $995/ mo. 6BR/2BA, 1065 Macon Hwy. $1695/mo. (706) 714-7000, (706) 546-7946. FlowersRentals@ b e l l s o u t h . n e t . See virtual tours www.nancyflowers.com.

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.

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) 543-4000.

$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. $139,900. 4BR/3BA home in Oglethorpe Co. New construction, split lvl. flr. plan. Go to www.

Reignsold.com 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! Safe n’hood. Go to www.Reignsold.com for more info or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty (706) 372-4166, (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. $165K. 4BR/2BA. Quaint house in country. 2 ac. in Oglethorpe Co. Nice views. Tiled BA flrs. & clawfoot tubs. Lg. kitchen. Call (706) 540-8461. $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. Go to www.ReignSold.com for more info or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

$104,900. 2BR/2BA Townhome near GA Sq. Mall. New floors, new paint.

Must see. Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty (706) 3724166, (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.

$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 Realty.

(706) 543-4000, or (706) 372-4166. $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 Whitehall Mill unit. Tons of upgrades, won’t last long! Go to www.Reignsold.com for more info or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000. $359,800. 4BR/3BA. 2 units! Very close to Dwntn! 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. Great flr. plan. See them online at Reignsold.com or call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty.

(706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

Roommates 1BR/1BA in 2BR/2BA 5 Points apt.

F needed. Sublease immediately until Aug. $375/mo., water incl. W/D, DW. Bus to & from school every 5 min. (703) 403-6120.

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).

BR w/ shared BA avail. in 3BR/2BA Eastside apt. to responsible, mature, quiet NS. $265/mo. + shared utils. $265 dep. Call Dieng (706) 207-3971. ➤ continued on next page

Five Points. Fall pre– leasing. 1, 2, 3, & 4BR houses & apts. See at www.bondrealestate. org. Herber t Bond Realty & Investment. (706) 224-8002.

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.

Griffeth St. Near Dwntn. New construction. 3BR/2BA house.

Bamboo flrs, tile BA, priv. master porch, metal roof, new IKEA kitchen. W/D, fridge. Perfect for roommates or family. $1K/mo.

Purchase also possible. Call David (706) 202-8424.

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.

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.

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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 roommate needed. Priv. suite of rms. BR, BA, & den. Completely furnished. Incl. utils. $450/mo., $200/dep. Avail. now! Eastside Athens. Call (706) 369-9083.

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.

Av a i l . n o w ! H W f l r s . , W / D , DW, CHAC, new stove, huge yd., deck, great views & light. $366/ mo., bills not incl. (512) 627-1142.

Rooms for Rent Close to campus off Milledge. Lg. BR, priv. BA. $350/mo. + 1/3 utils.

(706) 424-0670.

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.

Town/UGA, N. Oconee River.

Band/storage neg. Rms. $75/wk.

Unlimited long distance, Internet, cable, computer/TV provided. No drugs. (706) 850-0491, 957 MLK.

Sub-lease 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.

Wanted to rent Flagpole Classifieds! $9/wk. for your merchandise, $13/wk. for your house, $15/wk. for your business! Go to www.flagpole.com or call (706) 549-0301. Deadlines every Monday at 11am.

S i n g l e p ro f e s s i o n a l w o m a n looking for a sm. house or duplex immediately. Close to town.

Peaceful environment. $800/mo. tops. (706) 247-2092 or email angiewanj@yahoo.com.

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) 8162232 (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).

Furniture Traditional cherry bedroom suite incl. king frame, armoire & 2 night stands. Like new! $800. Nice free mattress & box spring w/ purchase. (706) 202-7059.

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.

Gently used furniture. 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.

Tables, chairs, sofas, antiques, clothes, records & players, retro goods, & more! Cool, affordable f u r n i t u re e v e r y d a y. G o t o Agora! Your favorite everything store! 260 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 Fender Tw i n silver tweed/ black knobs. Per fect cond. $600. Bridgeport foot bellows organ. Works great! Gorgeous. $600. Fender Stage Lead II amp. Excellent cond. $200. Brian (706) 372-4897.

Instruction Athens School of Music.

I n s t r u c t i o n i n G u i t a r, B a s s , D rums, Piano, Voi ce, Brass, Wo o d w i n d s , S t r i n g s , B a n j o , 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 www.mitchellmusicguitar.com.

Love Guitar Hero? Quit playing the game & learn the real thing.

Teachers w/ decades of experience.

1–on–1 affordable, fun lessons. All styles & skill levels welcome. Music Exchange (706) 549-6199.

Piano lessons. UGA School of Music grad student offering lessons. I will come to you! All ages & levels of skill welcome.

(706) 254-8018 for info.

Musicians Wanted Bass guitarist wanted to fill spot in Rock & Roll trio. Dates already booked in Memphis, Columbia, Augusta, Atlanta. Call Carey (803) 292-8387.

Blues bands needed to perform at a benefit 5/15 & 5/16 in Athens.

Email ewhitlock@hotmail.com or call (770) 633-3513.

Drummer/singer from Invalids needs bassist & guitarist for originals, old school & new. Also seeking practice space. Sean (757) 404-3387.

Rehearsal Space Rehearsal space for rent. 24/7 security. Utils incl. 2 bands will fit. $275/mo. Call Neal (706) 207-1386.

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 repairs, setups, electronics, precision fretwork. Previous 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 . Contact Jeff, (404) 643-9772 or www.

AthensGuitar.com 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 v i s i t w w w. s q u a t m e . c o m / weddings. (706) 548-0457.

Stringed Instruments repaired. Respectful restoration of vintage instruments a speciality. 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 i nst rument s/ equipmen t each wk. Open every day. Bring trades!

W e d d i n g B a n d s . Quality, professional bands. Weddings, parties. Rock, Jazz, etc. Call Classic City Entertainment. (706) 549-1567. www.classiccityentertainment.com.

Featuring The Magictones - Athens’ premiere wedding & party band. www.themagictones.com.

Studios New Studio Services! Please.

The. Ear. Productions. Full service Recording & Production Co. Pricing is per project or song. Contact Chad (706) 498-0539.

Services Home and Garden Backyard Solutions. Make your neighbors jealous! Waterfalls, ponds, fences, decks, gazebos, porches, & more! Call Robin for free estimate! (706) 340-4492.

Garden tractor–till lawns installed (pulverized, amended, seeded, etc.). Suburban Tractor Service.

(706) 769-8697.

Massage Revolutionary Massage & Wellness special: $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 for more info.

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) 399-3560 (AAN CAN).

Cash for gold. We buy gold, silver, platinum. Get cash now. Highest payouts. Satisfaction guaranteed.

(877) 548-1550 (AAN CAN).

Lear n Chinese! 5+ yrs. experience teaching at American School of Shangai. Material provided. Just bring yourself! Call (706) 254-8018 for more info.

Priv. parking lot 1 block from UGA main campus, South Thomas St. $40/mo. Assigned spaces.

Football games not incl. (706) 5489137 before 2pm.

Psychics Free Psychic & Tarot Reading online. www.sostarots.com or (866) 800-4775 (AAN CAN).

Lexus Psychic Reader, Medium. 20 yrs. exp. Asks no questions. (877) 272-2700 ext. 884 (AAN CAN).

Sports M a r t i a l A r t s . Indonesian Silat Serak, Kenpo, Muay Thai, Kali. Only 5 spots left. MMA welcome. Tue.–Thu., 6–8pm. Call Steve for info (706) 410-0951, email steve@karatefire.com.

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Experienced property manager needed for student property in Athens. Send resumes to athensresumes@yahoo.com.

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).

Data Entry Processors needed!

Earn $3500–$5K/wk. working from home. Guaranteed paychecks. No exp. necessary. Positions avail. today.

Register online now. http://www.

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Earn extra income assembling CD cases from home. Call Our Live Operators Now! (800) 405-7619 ext. 150 http://www.easyworkgreatpay.com (AAN CAN).

High School diploma! Fast, affordable & accredited. Free brochure. Call now! (800) 532-6546. Ext. 97. Go to http://www.continentalacademy.com (AAN CAN).

Movie extras needed. Earn $150 to $300 per day. All looks, types & ages.

Feature films, television, commercials & print. No exp. necessary. (800) 3408404 x2001 (AAN CAN) Now hiring! Companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home. No selling, any hours. $500/wk. potential. Info at (985) 646-1700 dept. GA–3058.

Post Office now hiring! Avg. pay $20/ hr. or $57K/yr. incl. federal benefits & OT. Placed by adsource, not affiliated w/ USPS who hires. (866) 616-7019. (AAN CAN).

Part-time Are you a Licensed Massage Therapist looking for a great place to work? Revolutionary Massage & Wellness is expanding. Email resume to relax@revolutionarymassage.com.

PT help needed. Apply within.

A-OK Cafe. 154 College Ave.

Vehicles Autos 1986 Cadillac Eldorado. 192K mi.

Good condition, runs great! New brakes. $1700 OBO. Call (706) 372-8819.

Notices Organizations 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)

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Athens couple looking to adopt. If you are pregnant & considering adoption, pls. call us at (888) 524-5054 or visit our family at www.adoption.corbyn.net.

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.

Pregnant? Considering adoption?

Talk w/ caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers w/ families nationwide. Living expenses paid. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions (866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN).

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