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pub notes Immediate and Lasting I don’t understand the stimulus package any more than you do, and apparently economists understand it differently among themselves, as do politicians. So, let’s just play stimulus “what-if?” and look at the $8 billion included for rapid rail.

Admittedly, there’s scant chance any of that money will be spent for the “Brain Train” commuter rail between Athens and Atlanta, but what if?

For one thing, all that dreaming and work that E.H. Culpepper and others have done to conceptualize the train between here and Atlanta means we wouldn’t be starting from scratch. They’ve already got a plan: the money’s what’s needed.

So, just suppose we got the money, and they built the train.

The stimulus package includes money for operating expenses down the line, so initially it doesn’t have to be wholly a “build it and they will come” proposition. But suppose they do build it and put the “multi” into our presently uni-modal station.

Suppose you can hop the train to Atlanta, change to MARTA and ride the rails all the way to Hartsfield-Jackson Airport dozing or reading and maybe even shaving some time off the trip and not having to worry about parking. Suppose, moreover, that some of those high-tech industries we’re always trying to attract comprehend that now their scientists and bureaucrats are a lot closer to Atlanta, with its synergistic universities and businesses plus the airport, and now Athens looks a lot more attractive. So, while we’re what-iffing, that federal money thrown at the rail line could be the stimulus we have lacked for so long over here to In other words, if it works, make us a part of the modern world. (We that stimulus money will can save the debate about whether or not create jobs, and it will we want to be a part provide the infrastructure of the modern world until the rail is closer to get this country to reality.) moving again.

In other words, if it works, that stimulus money will create jobs, and it will provide the infrastructure to get this country moving again. The trains, the schools, the roads and bridges, the banks, the homeowners, artists, writers—it may not be enough, and it may not work, but at least somebody has a plan that involves more than the tired old mantra that tax cuts for the rich will jumpstart the economy.

The rich are still claiming that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal did nothing to get us out of the Depression of the 1930s, just as they are claiming today that the economy needs no help from the government. Our country and our state have for too long been in the grip of those who say government is not the solution but the problem. Under that rubric, money to educate our children and insure that they have medical care has dried up; money for roads and bridges has been cut; support for local government has dwindled—even in good economic times. We don’t need the government, they say, the market will take care of those who deserve it, and the rest can shift for themselves, if they don’t come near our gated communities.

As they did in 1932, so again in 2008 the American people went to the polls and voted their plea that government wake up and address our problems. Though boycotted by all but three Republicans in Congress, President Obama’s stimulus plan now has become law, giving us, finally, tools to attempt the rebuilding of our nation. It has all the potential to be a win-win undertaking: providing jobs now and much needed improvements to long-neglected projects and programs to improve our country and its people.

In the sidewalks that crisscrossed my hometown, “WPA” was emblazoned on brass medallions set into the concrete.

The Works Progress Administration put people to work building those sidewalks, just like they built public buildings (the post office), parks, bridges, dams, gymnasiums and infrastructure all over this country, much of it still in use. They also built the lives of those people who otherwise would have stayed mired in poverty, including the artists who painted the murals in the post offices, the playwrights who expressed the American spirit and the writers who wrote the guidebooks that captured the localities and personalities of our land. The effects of government intervention were immediate and lasting and they can be again, the naysayers notwithstanding.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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

Lots of good City Hall news, folks; the voting meeting is on Tuesday, Mar. 3.

Audience Favorite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 “Dancing with the Athens Stars” Returns for a Second Showing Voting is open online, and the show is set for Sunday, Mar. 1 at The Classic Center.

Arts & Events The Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Enter the Misfit

The new Flannery O’Connor bio is all you hope for, and the author’s in town this weekend.

Whitest Kids U’Know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

COVER DESIGN by Kelly Ruberto featuring a detail of the former Nuwaubian building on Broad Street

Shock and Awe and Broken Bones

The bad boys of IFC are bringing their live sketch comedy to the Tate Theater.

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Railroad Earth mines the American canon for its skewed music.

Pretty Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 For All the Ballers and Champions It’s time to get crunk in the club.

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city dope Athens News and Views all offices assigned to Public Utilities staffers. But Girtz said he wants to see “future flexibility” in how the building is eventually used, while going ahead with renovations now (since costs may be lower than in the future).

County Manager Reddish said none of the renovations would preclude other departments from using the building. Stay tuned.

Also on the Commish Agenda: Athens once had ads on the outside of its buses, says Commissioner Doug Lowry, who once drove for Athens Transit. These days, the only ads are inside the buses (bringing in around $10,000 a year), but that could change; and commissioners will decide at their voting meeting

Meanwhile, at City Hall: ACC Commissioners don’t like it, but see little choice than to give Sheriff Ira Edwards another $463,000 to board out jail inmates to Irwin County— which at $45 a day offers the lowest cost in the state, he says. Athens’ Lexington Road jail is more than full, and “inmate population is a safety issue,” says Edwards.

“I think we all realize that we need a new jail,” Commissioner Kathy Hoard said last week in response to the request. “But it’s going to be a long time before we get one.” The county has plans for a larger jail, but has yet to find the money for it. (If voters approve, it could be prominent in the next round of sales-tax projects.)

Athens is already pursuing judicial programs that could reduce the number of people Loved it, hated it, puzzled about it—it doesn’t matter, the local landmark who have to be jailed, but on Broad is gone now. those aren’t quick fixes, ACC Manager Alan Reddish told commissioners. “You’re going to have a Tuesday, Mar. 3 how much it will change. significant number of inmates in our jail for Advertisers want moving billboards—ads years to come,” he said. “What we want to do on the outside of buses, even “wraps” that is try to slow that increase down.” cover the whole bus—Transit Director Butch McDuffie told the Commission’s Government More from City Hall: Some ACC Commissioners Operations Committee last year. are in a tug-of-war with county managers over Concerned with “visual clutter,” commithow to assign space in a new county buildtee members were reluctant to recommend ing—the white-marble former Athens First either “wraps” or advertising on bus shelters, Bank building next to City Hall. The county but next week those questions will go to the will renovate the building for a new, lessfull Commission for a vote. “Why don’t we crowded water business office, where the just plain go for it?” asked Commissioner Ed public pays water bills—but what else? The Robinson at last week’s agenda-setting meetutilities department plans to lodge engineering. “It’s going to get us money for something ing and administrative staffers there too— we really want,” he said: better bus service. offices that the public doesn’t normally visit.

Operating costs for “The Bus” run over $5 milGiven the building’s easy accessibility lion a year. But “even without a lot of money to the public, some commissioners would [from selling ads], you can do important like to see other county departments have things,” said Commissioner Alice Kinman, who public offices there. Specifically, the Tax sometimes rides The Bus. Changing a route’s Commissioner and Tax Assessor’s offices frequency from every hour to every half-hour (now located upstairs in the courthouse “would make a huge difference,” she said. on Washington Street) might be more convenient to the public in the new building, Quote of the Week: “Let’s go home and supCommissioner Kelly Girtz suggested at last port the cause. I can’t stand it any longer.” week’s agenda-setting meeting. Makes sense?

Overheard from the mouth of a student But that could create legal complications, attending the press conference held by the county attorney Bill Berryman has told comUGA chapter of the National Organization for missioners; state law doesn’t make it simple the Reform of Marijuana Laws, NORML. The for two county departments to share a county- crew got into a little tiff with administrators owned building. (Public Utilities will own the last week over its use of mascot Hairy Dawg’s building, and would have to lease space to the image on a logo. More power to ’em for standother departments at market rates, he said.) ing up to the powers that be on campus. [BE] Commissioners are set to approve the planned renovations Mar. 3; the plans show John Huie

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Kelly Ruberto

An Elegy of Sorts: Surely there were mixed feelings in town about the former Nuwaubian building on West Broad Street, just as surely as there were mixed feelings last week when crews took crowbars and power-saws to its pseudo-Egyptian façade and destroyed a local landmark. Local businessman Jimmy Wilfong bought the building at auction from the Feds, and according to the Banner-Herald he sent in the demo men the day the deal was sealed.

Let us simply pause and take note, then, that one of the most colorful pieces of the local landscape has been lost. [Ben Emanuel]

city pages What to Do with $500,000? (Alt-Trans Only!)

“Now’s probably an appropriate time” to update the Athens-Clarke County (ACC) Bicycle Master Plan—the six-year-old planning document for county bike routes—ACC Transportation Director David Clark said last week. That plan identifies 16 streets for eventual bicycle facilities, including most major routes plus some connecting roads. The list was chosen in consultation with BikeAthens and UGA representatives, with bike lanes to be built as funds became available. Since 2003, “We’ve actually constructed eight-anda-half miles of bike lanes on 11 streets,” Clark told ACC Commissioners on the Government Operations Committee at its Feb. 17 meeting. Other planned improvements are “still as challenging as ever, but we can probably get to them,” he said. The original plan, though, includes only routes lying within three miles of the UGA arch, and an update of the master plan could expand that radius, Clark suggested.

That update would cost around $75,000, he said, and might add 10 or 15 additional streets to the bike plan; in 2006, commissioners set aside $500,000 to spend on “alternative” (non-auto) transportation needs, and that money has not been spent. Clark, along with Athens Transit Director Butch McDuffie, also presented other possibilities for spending that money, each costing about $400,000.

That extensive list of possible projects included: • Supplementing available funding for a planned Lexington Road park-and-ride lot, or for the rail-trail that will eventually lead from downtown to Lexington Road, across reconstructed railroad trestles.

• The planned extension of the greenway trail from Dudley Park south to College Station Road, with a side trail to East Athens park.

• Continuing the existing bike lanes along College Station Road for an additional 2,000 feet to University Circle—a project the

Georgia Department of Transportation may fund, but is “backtracking on their commitment a little bit right now,” Clark said. (The river bridge there is still planned for widening in 2011.)

• New bike lanes along Atlanta Highway from Alps Road down the hill to newly acquired greenspace along the Middle Oconee River.

• Building 1.3 miles of new sidewalks.

• Building paths in the proposed Pulaski Heights greenway park.

• Connecting South Milledge Avenue and Milledge Avenue Extension via an off-road path.

Or, for $20,000, commissioners could add 40 new bicycle racks around the county, perhaps doing a survey of where they are needed. “We get a lot of requests from different agencies from time to time,” Clark said, “about adding more bike racks or bike lockers, but there’s really no rhyme or reason of how they get installed.” Or, for $200,000, commissioners could purchase various small amounts of land needed to install bus shelters in priority locations (where business owners have declined to donate the needed land).

They could also spend $50,000 to run a print and radio ad campaign encouraging people to walk, bicycle, “telecommute” and ride “The Bus.” Committee members didn’t pick recommendations from the various options presented, but may do so at the next committee meeting; they did suggest looking at bicycle routes that don’t run through downtown, and at off-road bicycle paths. And what about bicycle-and-pedestrian-only connections—like a river bridge to connect Timothy Road and the Alps area that wouldn’t allow cars—commissioners Kelly Girtz and Ed Robinson asked?

Flagpole readers may want to participate in a BikeAthens poll on how to spend the alt-trans money online at bikeathens.blogspot.com.

John Huie jphuie@athens.net

Local Government Prepares for Stimulus Bucks The ACC government submitted a list of “shovel-ready” projects in advance of the stimulus package that Congress finally passed this month—but that list gave only brief descriptions, including costs and the number of jobs each project would create, ACC Manager Alan Reddish told the ACC Commission’s Government Operations Committee last week. “We weren’t asked to submit those by any federal agency,” Reddish added, but rather through groups like the National Association of Counties. “We simply were just describing what we had ready—the needs that we knew about in this community.”

Now, with the three-quarter-trillion-dollar legislation having been passed, Reddish expects that Athens will be asked to resubmit

the proposals in detail. “We can use those we already have, plus any other new ones that we might know about,” he said. He expects that various branches of government dealing with the various categories that are funded in the bill—like energy and transportation—will quickly come up with guidelines under which local governments can apply for the money.

In some cases, state agencies will administer the federal money, he said; for example, “transportation will go through the [state] DOTs,” although local governments lobbied against that provision. The Government Operations Committee, consisting of five ACC Commissioners, will vet possible projects.

John Huie jphuie@athens.net

Commish Wants Action on Boarded-Up Houses Abandoned, run-down houses aren’t the problem in Athens that they are in Macon, GA—where over 4 percent of homes are legally uninhabitable, according to John Spagna, director of the ACC Community Protection Division, which enforces quality of-life ordinances. In Athens-Clarke, that number is only a fraction of one percent, Spagna told the ACC Commission’s Legislative Review Committee last week. And partly, that’s thanks to Athens’ infill development ordinance, which facilitates building on intown lots (which have become increasingly valuable).

usually that way for a reason.” They are often “heir properties” that have been inherited by multiple owners, and may have “tangled” legal problems as to title, he said.

Such a property might have 22 different owners, county building inspection chief Doug Hansford told the committee; and “you’re never going to get all 22 to say, ’Yeah, let’s take it down.’” More likely, added Berryman, you wouldn’t even be able to locate most of the owners. But they might still come back and sue the county if the house were demolished without their knowledge, he said. But prodded by Commissioner David Lynn, Berryman acknowledged that pursuing court-ordered demolitions, which can be carried out by the county if the owner fails to act, hasn’t been a priority of his office. (There is also a voluntary demolition process which can help owners pay for demolition if they can’t afford it.)

But if a house is repairable at reasonable cost, a judge is unlikely to order it torn down, Berryman said. In that case, the county’s practical alternative is usually to “come in and board it up,” he said. (There are 66 such “secured” houses in AthensClarke, Spagna said, and eight more that need to be.) Such houses that don’t meet code— whose owners can’t or won’t repair them—can stay boarded up for years, Berryman said (like a 28-year “textbook case” on Rocksprings Street). “There is not a resolution that appears to be Dear ACC Commish: Good idea, going after boarded-up houses! Can available under state law” if ownyou start with those on county property? ers ignore a court order to repair a house, added deputy county “We have 30 to 35 houses that in my opinmanger Bob Snipes. The county could try to ion should be taken down,” Spagna said at the buy such properties, he suggested. Perhaps, Feb. 17 meeting, because they are structurally added Commissioner Kathy Hoard, the county unsound and not repairable at a reasonable needs to take a more “proactive” instead of price. But getting a court-ordered demolition punitive approach? Commissioner Andy Herod is a time-consuming process, county attorney said he regularly gets complaints about the Bill Berryman told the committee, because boarded-up “Cooper’s” building on Lexington his office must first make a “reasonable Road. “It’s frustrating for the Commission, effort” to locate all the owners of an unsound and we need to do something about it,” Herod house—and there are typically more than a added. The full Commission may consider the few owners. “That’s really where the process problem in June. slows down,” Berryman said. “These distressed properties and abandoned properties are John Huie jphuie@athens.net

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capitol impact An Easy Road Ahead for Isakson Sen. Johnny Isakson has many things going for him as he gets his campaign underway for another six-year term in the U.S. Senate. There are the powers and prestige that are part of being an incumbent senator, the access to money from the heavy hitters and a smoothly running campaign organization that first got him elected to the Senate by an 18-point margin back in 2004.

The one thing Isakson lacks, at this point: an actual opponent. No sane Republican will run against him in the GOP primary and, so far, no credible Democrat has stepped forward to express an interest in this top-of-the-ballot race. That’s about as close to unbeatable as you can get, and yet there Isakson was at the state capitol last week holding a political rally attended by Republican heavyweights like Gov. Sonny Perdue, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Karen Handel to launch his campaign for reelection.

All the pieces are in place to start cranking up that Isakson campaign machinery even though there’s no opposition on the horizon and it’s at least 18 months until the primary election is held. Why the anxiety? The answer could be seen in another U.S. senator who was also in attendance at Isakson’s capitol rally: his old college classmate and friend Saxby Chambliss.

Chambliss was in much the same position as Isakson two years ago when he was getting his own reelection campaign organization up and running. The political experts assumed that a Republican incumbent in a red-leaning state who didn’t have to worry about significant Democratic opposition could mail it in and coast to another term in office.

The experts were all wrong in that assessment. Chambliss bumbled his way through an erratic campaign where he took clumsy policy stands on issues like immigration, farm spending and the Wall Street bailout. He allowed a meagerly financed Democrat, Jim Martin,

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to carry the fight to him and push Chambliss into a shocking statewide runoff election. You can bet that the consultants in the Isakson camp are keeping that Chambliss experience in mind. That’s why they’re starting early and running as if Isakson actually had an opponent on the ballot. “The only way you can avoid a situation like we had in ’08 is to make sure you’ve got the infrastructure up early,” said Isakson consultant Heath Garrett.

You also won’t see Isakson do anything like vote for financial bailout packages, a stance that hurt Chambliss among the more conservative Republicans in last fall’s election. It was hardly a coincidence that Isakson staged his reelection announcement at the same time that President Barack Obama was flying to Denver to sign his $787 billion economic recovery package.

Isakson and Chambliss both voted against Obama’s stimulus measure, even though it brings badly needed money to Georgia at a time when Perdue and the legislators are trying to plug a huge shortfall in the state budget.

Of course, if that economic recovery vote is going to be used as an issue against Isakson, that presumes there would be an actual opponent who raises the issue.

Georgia Democrats are still so traumatized over losing control of state government that they could end up giving Isakson a free pass to another term. The few Democrats who might be capable of mounting a serious statewide race seem to be more interested in running for governor or lieutenant governor.

The easiest race for an incumbent to run is when there’s no one on the ballot to oppose you. For Sen. Johnny Isakson, that’s a great position to be in.

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.

eco hustle What Green Means As it winds from President Obama’s desk out through the bureaucratic hinterlands and into anxiously waiting state capitals, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act carries the spores, seeds and eggs for our next growth cycle. One hundred billion in emergency aid for education elicited grandstanding against the stimulus from the same folks who voted to spend eight billion per month in Iraq; had we allocated that trillion dollars for green energy seven years ago, we’d have it by now. The point is, whether using a stimulus bill or a war, we are building the future. Will it be sustainable? How would we know?

Decisions today are all about opportunity costs tomorrow. Ours is an economy disconnected from its resource base. Isolated suburbs have stretched our society thin at its weakest points—an existence in which we are stranded each night, far from work, school and shopping, and connected only by an imported

something. With scale and re-localized systems in mind, we must begin to assemble basic elements like iron, carbon and silicon into things people want. When we figure out (again) how to capture energy and grow food on a reasonable scale, then we can set about plowing under the business schools and seeding them with Socratic paradoxes and mysticism.

As for now, the popular uprising behind greener, more regional economies remains a marketing idea, snug in its gesture phase. We may prefer this because anything else might otherwise seem like panic, which no one really wants.

Perhaps this fear of panic is holding back the phenomenon from becoming the fullblown existential crisis that it threatens, from which its hopes actually arise if the full scenario is to make any sense whatsoever.

Economic depression and related climate cataclysms might be enough to sober some,

commodity. So, what keeps it all going, then?

The U.S. has become a service economy; the dearth of shovel-ready projects for the stimulus only underscores the fact that we build few things anyone wants anymore. This, too, however, will change.

The global economy of which everyone has been so enamored over the last decade is premised on there being a next scale. So, evidently talks are already underway to begin colonization of the tropopause, setting the stage for literal, stratospheric expansion. The only way economies can grow is by adding property and resources, so other than being faith-based, when we talk about things getting back to normal, that global-scale investor-oriented hustle should not be the goal.

The stock market has revealed itself as a belief system that cannot work unless suspension of disbelief (“too big to fail,” a “self-regulating market”) is mandatory and confirmed.

We’re left with little choice but to downsize, which will be difficult, as we refit old paradigms with new constraints. Except that the constraints are not new. Is it a contradiction to grow down? People have been writing on this and being ignored for the better part of 30 years. Howard and Elisabeth Odum’s book A Prosperous Way Down discusses the dilemma for human society in the context of ecosystems: people will adapt because of foresight or by the force of declining resources.

Meanwhile, as we debate the wisdom of the former, the fires of our Rome have been set as the fiddlers tune up. A colleague joked that if we could print energy, there might be a way out of this. But I think he may be onto

but again, our capacity for self-reassurance permits us to move on. There is a dissonance about conditions being severe enough to act, though not just yet.

We have been here before, however, and in the heights of the Cold War we were also able to foster that remove from ever-encroaching oblivion. It didn’t prevent us from lining up for nuclear bomb drills in school, but we went on making long term plans just the same, maybe factoring in the odds of annihilation, maybe not, but living with the specter all the same. Maybe we just haven’t gotten comfortable with the idea of resource scarcity yet; I even have trouble writing about it because everything sounds like such doom-saying when all we’re really talking about are big, big changes.

I’ve always loved how Albert Camus explained that Communism was a sickness, a system predicated on the elimination of absurdity in our daily lives. He knew that wasn’t possible, and in so many ways, we’ve returned there, struggling to explain and justify some of the absurdities we’ve been living with and on. We can change what we call them, tweak the edges and continue to tell ourselves certain things. But many of the fundamental ingredients to the way we live can’t just be explained away. They are there. And we simply must change them, or they will change us.

Alan Flurry Alan Flurry, an Athens writer and musician, is proprietor of the website http://whatdoesgreenmean.net.

He can be reached at aflurry@gmail.com.

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the reader Enter the Misfit It’s only a couple of hours down the highway to Milledgeville, where the year-round residents and the students at Georgia College & State University live cheek-to-jowl with ghosts and madness of the town’s past. A few blocks away from the attractive college campus and the Old State Capital and yet another quaint downtown are the three prisons backed up against each other and against what was once called, plainly and directly, the Milledgeville Lunatic Asylum. Back in the day, the mental hospital was second only to New York’s Bellevue in its inmate population, and the phrase “gone to Milledgeville” had only one meaning and everybody knew it. Weird Georgia says the hospital is haunted; people who work there say it’s very haunted.

On the way into Milledgeville from Athens—don’t blink or you’ll miss the sign—is Andalusia Farm. Now a fraction of its original size, it’s a beautiful expanse of green grass and canopy trees. There’s the main house, the shack where the help used to live, a dairy barn, a horse barn, a pasture where one ancient horse with protruding ribs munches contentedly on clover. Andalusia was once a thriving dairy and beef farm, but now its sole function is to preserve the effects of its most famous resident, the writer Flannery O’Connor.

Though O’Connor was born in Savannah, Milledgeville’s juxtaposition of beauty and lunacy, Old South politics living down the road from barely contained violence—God’s country with deep, dark corners—suited her fiction. In

two novels and two collections of short stories, O’Connor staked her claim on a territory where religion and fanaticism and bloodshed and the grotesque all converge in that way that only happens in the South. Though she personally detested the term, O’Connor was the master of what we call “Southern gothic,” comparable only to Faulkner among her contemporaries, and a powerful influence on all Southern fiction to follow.

Although O’Connor’s work has been fodder for many an academic paper, there has never been a solid biography of the author.

Brad Gooch’s new book Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (Little Brown, 2009) fills the void by exploring O’Connor’s own juxtapositions: her gentility and warmth with the freaks in her head, her optimism in the face of debilitating illness, and her unwavering faith amidst the new bohemianism of her circle and her time.

Drawing from the extensive collection of O’Connor’s papers and correspondence and upon interviews with friends, relatives and fellow writers, Gooch presents an in-depth and comprehensive look at Mary Flannery O’Connor’s life. The precocious daughter of a well-regarded, if not wealthy, Savannah family, O’Connor is shown even in childhood as an iconoclast, preferring the company of her pet duck to that of her peers, a bright girl with little regard for school, and a budding cartoonist with a sharp, often caustic wit. The family moved to Milledgeville to accommodate

O’Connor’s beloved father, stricken by lupus and passed from doctor to doctor in Atlanta, to no avail. Attending Georgia State College for Women (as it was called then) during the World War II years, O’Connor began to realize a talent for writing and, in a bold move for a young Southern woman, applied to join the first class of the now-venerated Iowa Writers’ Workshop. At Iowa she wrote the first of the stories that would make her reputation, and began her first novel, Wise Blood. She received a residency at the prestigious Yaddo artists’ colony in upstate New York, breaking bread with Truman Capote, Malcolm Cowley and the poet Robert Lowell, who would have a special impact on her life.

O’Connor’s life outside Georgia was cut short by her own sudden and terrible onset of lupus, the autoimmune disease thought to skip generations, and as the ailment ravaged her joints, O’Connor found herself confined to crutches and to her mother’s care at Andalusia. In such confinement, however, O’Connor’s writing matured and she continued a remarkable career, not only as a writer but as a lecturer and student of theology, her deep Catholicism moved by the works of the medievalists. She developed a mutual admiration with Thomas Merton, author of The Seven-Story Mountain, and lectured widely on the place of the Catholic writer in the Protestant South.

First and foremost, however, were O’Connor’s stories, and they are at all times the touchstone of Gooch’s book. Despite much speculation about O’Connor’s sex life, particularly her brief relationship with a book salesman named Erik Langkjaer and a friendship in letters with lesbian journalist Betty Hester, Gooch refuses to indulge such inquiries, focusing instead on the events and influences that shaped each of her stories. O’Connor was a slow writer and meticulous in her craft, polishing and repolishing until her words shone, and so each piece of her work has its own evolutionary history which Gooch explores to fascinating effect.

This is not to say that Gooch’s book is a dry piece of academe. On the contrary, his prose is lively and thoughtful, his biography a portrait rather than a dissection, and his approach is that of a fan first and a researcher second.

Gooch’s enthusiasm for O’Connor’s work is evident and infectious— the moment I finished Flannery I went and dug out my copy of Wise Blood to reread—and it does suitable justice to the life, work, and character of one of our best.

John G. Nettles Brad Gooch will read from his book, sign copies and hold a Q&A at Barnes & Noble in Athens on Sunday, Mar. 1 at 2 p.m.

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Audience Favorite

Dancing with the Athens Stars Returns for a Second Showing

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veryone knows that rhythmically challenged dancers who was almost fatally stabbed while working off-duty as a rocking pounds of sequins in front of hundreds of security guard at an Athens Kroger in December of 2007. spectators equal comedy gold. For an Athens-area non“We thought it would be a great showcase for her to demprofit, an upcoming celebration of jazz-hands-inspired onstrate her recovery. Plus, she certainly fit the bill as being schadenfreude will likely equal literal gold for the secsomeone who’s made so many contributions to the commuond year in a row. nity,” Prittie says. “She’s attacked this the same way she’s The sequel installment of “Dancing with the Athens Stars,” approached the other aspects of her recovery, with a lot of a local take on the popular ABC reality show, shakes a tail determination and strength.” feather at The Classic Center this Sunday. The fundraiser To make allowances for Gale’s needs, she and Freedom brought in more than $32,000 for the domestic violence orgaof Movement instructor Ron Putman were paired early and nization last year. Based on the high number of folks voting began practicing in July. Putman admits he had reservations early and often on the Project Safe website, this year’s haul about partnering with Gale, whose injuries left her relying on will probably be greater. crutches and wearing a leg brace.

“It certainly has more buzz than last year. The pre-voting “A lot of what we did was physical therapy. She had pretty has really been doing quite well,” says Project Safe director severe short term memory loss, and with the leg, we had a Joan Prittie. lot of challenges. Probably Project Safe volunteers the thing that bothered me began drawing up a list of the most was that she was in Athenians for the 2009 showsevere pain, and everything case even before the winners we did hurt her,” Putman says. of the inaugural show were However, it wasn’t long before announced last year.

Gale ditched the crutches “We try to think of the altogether. diversity of Athens and the “It gave me something to things that make Athens spefocus on. It’s been completely cial, and we try to get people beneficial in my recovery,” Gale who represent a cross-section says of dancing. of that,” Prittie says of selectGale and Putman, AKA ing the dancers, admitting that Couple #11 Alive (they’re those less likely to know their the 11th pair in the show’s way around an eight-count numbered lineup), say their are especially considered. “We routine tells the story of Gale’s shy away from people who we recovery. know to be good dancers, since “It’s going to be a showit’s more fun to watch a fish stopper,” Gale says. “Not only out of water,” she explains. is this going to be entertainThe show’s format is the ment, but it really sends a same as last year: the first six message. It’s all for a great couples will dance, followed cause.” by an intermission so audi“She’ll be in a slinky little ence members can donate $1 costume, and people will go per vote for their favorite pair. ‘wow,’ if they’re not crying,” After another intermission says Putman, who will also Local musician and producer John Keane at rehearsal with his instruc- perform an exhibition dance following the final six pairs, tor, Genie Wiggins of the Oconee Youth School of Performance.

Project Safe volunteers will with his 2008 “Dancing with tally up the votes to determine the Athens Stars” partner Liz the Audience Favorite while the crowd is entertained by three Dalton, who has been dancing competitively with Putman ever exhibition performances. Athens-Clarke Magistrate Judges since last year’s show.

Charles Auslander, III, and Patricia Barron will serve as the While taking home one of the top prizes would be a nice evening’s emcees, while UGA dance professor Mark Wheeler, reward, many contestants mainly celebrate the opportunity to Gym Dawgs coach Suzanne Yoculan and Superior Court Judge support Project Safe’s efforts to prevent and educate the public Steve Jones return as competition judges. about domestic violence.

In the final weeks leading up to the show, contestants have “All the dancers and stars are dedicating a lot of time to stepped up the intensity of rehearsals. this show. We’re all doing this for Project Safe, not to win the “The dancing has gotten all of my attention. Right now, it’s dance competition,” Putman says. just work and rehearsal,” laughs Fausto Sarmiento, a branch “They are doing a wonderful job of keeping everyone manager with First American Bank/ El Banco de la Oportunidad. informed,” Sarmiento adds. “Despite the economy, people are Sarmiento, who is paired with Dancer’s Studio instructor still very willing to contribute to the betterment of others, and Chelsea Rovinelli, thought his background in martial arts would that’s really something that I’m honored to be a part of.” give him a leg up on the competition. Not so much.

“I used to think I was coordinated, but here I feel like I Tamara Gaskin have two left feet,” says Sarmiento.

“We’re not going to do a traditional waltz or anything like that, but dance fans might recognize a step here and there,” WHAT: Dancing with the Athens Stars he says of his routine with Rovinelli. “I’m nervous about comWHERE: Classic Center peting in front of a thousand Athenians, but it’s a challenge WHEN: Sunday, Mar. 1, 7 p.m. that we’re working hard to overcome.”

HOW MUCH: $15 (benefitting Project Safe) One contestant who has faced significant challenges is Sergeant Courtney Gale, the Athens-Clarke County police officer

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

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 at UGA supported by the Center for Asian Studies and the Japan Foundation.

APPALACHIA (NR) Ten years in the making, filmmakers Ross Spears and Jamie Ross’ Appalachia—A History of Mountains and People combines the sciences and the humanities to document one of the world’s oldest mountain chains and the diverse peoples who call them home. The film features several members of the UGA faculty. Ross and Spears will be present to introduce their four-part film. Sponsored by the Departments of History and Anthropology, Odum School of Ecology and the Institute for Native American Studies. Parts 1 & 2 show Monday, 3/2 and Parts 3 & 4 show Tuesday, 3/3.

ATHENS JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (NR) The line-up of critically acclaimed films that explore Jewish culture and identity includes Noodle, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, A Secret, Arranged and Nobody’s Business.

Visit www.athensjff.org for complete schedule.

BLACK IS… BLACK AIN’T (NR) 1994. Award-winning director Marlon Riggs (Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment) documented the complexity of the Black identity in this film featuring performances and interviews

with Angela Davis, Essex Hemphill, bell hooks, Bill T. Jones, Barbara Smith, Michele Wallace and Cornel West. Black Is… Black Ain’t won the Filmmakers Trophy at Sundance, where the film also competed for the coveted Grand Jury Prize. Part of the 2009 African American Film Festival sponsored by the Institute for African American Studies.

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.

BRIDE WARS (PG) Lifelong best friends Liv and Emma (Hudson and Hathaway) have dreamed of June weddings at the Plaza since they were little girls. When their boyfriends propose, the duo begins preparations to make those dreams a reality. But when New York’s hottest wedding planner, Marion St. Claire (Candace Bergen), screws up and books the ceremonies on the same day, Liv and Emma’s friendship turns to bitter rivalry.

CASINO ROYALE (PG-13) Chronicling Bond’s first assignment as a Double O, Casino Royale charts very highly in the storied franchise.

Bond 2.0, a reset of the 40-year-old cinematic franchise, is as explosive as the high octane Brosnan films, dark as the Daltons, and heart wrenching as OHMSS. Daniel Craig exemplifies the

Bond of Fleming’s novels. This Bond is a badass. Every fight in Casino Royale includes the most vicious fisticuffs ever seen in a Bond film. The physicality of the free-running stunts is exhaustingly exciting. Still, Bond is no longer a veteran of the Double O ranks, and he fails to perform with anything nearing his usually slick perfection. Feckless arrogance nearly dooms him. Nobody’s done it better than Casino Royale and Daniel Craig in a long, long time.

There’s actually only one of me. The “3D” made these other dudes.

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

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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 Fired Up (PG-13) 5:10, 7:20, 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, 7:05, 9:40 Madea Goes to Jail (PG-13) 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 Pink Panther 2 (PG) 7:15 Push (PG-13) 4:30, 9:35 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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(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 experi-

Milk (R) 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 (add’l time Sa. 2/28: 1:30) (no 7:00 or 9:45 show Sa. 2/28) (no shows Su. 3/1) Oscar Nominated Short Films 2009: Animation Program (NR) 4:00 (ends Th. 2/26) Oscar Nominated Short Films 2009: Live Action Program (NR) 7:15 (ends Th. 2/26) The Reader (R) 9:30 (add’l time Sa. 2/28: 2:00) (no 9:30 show Sa. 2/28) (no shows Su. 3/1) Revolutionary Road (R) 4:30, 7:15 (no 7:15 show Sa. 2/28) (no shows Su. 3/1) (starts F. 2/27)

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ence. 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.

DISTRICT B13 (R) See Movie Pick.

FIRED UP (PG-13) Who exactly is the intended audience of Fired Up: the spirited fans of Bring It On, or the horny dudes who prefer their laughs dumb and their nubiles nude? I’m not sure either will be overjoyed with this tame, spottily funny mix of both. Two high school jocks, Shawn (Nicholas D’Agosto, Rocket Science) and Nick (31-year-old Eric Christian Olsen), skip football camp for cheerleader camp, in the hopes of getting more action. The plot and archetypes should be comfortably familiar to anyone who’s seen a post-Porky’s teen-sploitation flick. I’m not quite fired up about Fired Up, but I got an acceptable amount of laughs out of its hour and a half.

FRIDAY THE 13th (R) Friday the 13th, version 2009, kicks off with a quick expository sprint through the origins of monstrous Jason Voorhees (Derek Mears). Years later, a new batch of disposable teens arrives at Camp Crystal Lake looking for pot and finding Jason’s wrath. Friday the 13th is no holiday to be celebrated by all, but for the horror flock, it’s like Christmas in February.

THE FUTURE OF FOOD (NR) 2004. Deborah Koons (A Little Crazy) investigates the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have come to dominate the shelves of every major grocery store chain in the country. Filmed on location across North America, from the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, The Future of Food reveals the complex interplay of market and political forces that decides what food makes it to the family dinner table.

Part of the Women’s History Month Film Festival sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies.

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. m JONAS BROTHERS: THE 3D CONCERT EXPERIENCE (G) Jonas Brothers 3D combines footage from their 2008 “Burning Up” with a behindthe-scenes documentary peering into the lives of Kevin, Joe and Nick. If you, like me, didn’t know their names either (I had to look them up), the odds of you earning back 10 bucks worth of entertainment from an hour and a half spent with a theater filled with hyperactive tweens are slim.

MADEA GOES TO JAIL (PG-13) The rewards of a Tyler Perry movie decrease with every formulaic play-to-film since his cinematic highwater mark, Why Did I Get Married? Diary of a Mad Black Women pretty much laid out his neverchanging Madea manifesto. Hook them with the hilariously broad hijinks of the mad matriarch (Tyler Perry in drag) before force-feeding faith-based plots best left to Billy Graham’s movie ministry. In Madea Goes to Jail, Madea doesn’t actually go to jail until the film’s final 30 minutes. I’m beginning to fear Perry the filmmaker peaked well before his films’ popularity.

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.

MILK (R) Thirty years have passed since pioneering gay rights activist Harvey Milk (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? It’s an emotional wake-up slap delivered with perfect performances and necessary style. 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 award-winning 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.

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.

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 POPE’S TOILET (NR) 2007.

César Charlone (Fernando Meirelles’ cinematographer) and Enrique Fernández picked up Best First Work awards from the Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival and Lleida Latin-American Film Festival for their drama about a small South American town thrown into a tizzy by a visit from the Pope. Winner of nine other prizes, including three Golden Kikitos from the Gramado Film Festival and a Silver Colon from the Huelva Latin American Film Festival.

Part of the ACC Library’s iFilms series.

POSTMAN BLUES (NR) 1997. A Yakuza comedy from award-winning filmmaker Hiroyuki Tanaka, AKA Sabu (he played the detective in Takashi Miike’s Ichi the Killer), Postman Blues, or Posutoman Burusu, follows Sawaki, a postal worker bored with his life.

Unlucky for him, everything changes once he delivers mail to an old school chum now working for the Yakuza.

Soon the police are mistaking the postman for a crazed criminal. Part of the Japanese Film Festival at UGA supported by the Center for Asian Studies and the Japan Foundation.

PUSH (PG-13) Paul McGuigan (Wicker Park, Lucky Number Slevin) directs this knockoff-cum-mashup of X-Men and “Heroes” with enough style to distract viewers from the scrawny script. (The story could make for a compelling YA series.) The new nobodies-turned-heroes of Push don’t hold a candle to the known spandexclad crowd, but in a pinch, they might be able to save the world (if by save the world, you mean amusingly waste two hours).

QUANTUM OF SOLACE (PG-13) From the opening sequence—a

car chase on a twisty, scenic Italian highway—the 22nd James Bond film feels more like a traditional Bond movie than its immediate predecessor, Casino Royale. The most strapping Bond, Daniel Craig brings the cold virility written about by Fleming in the original novels. Craig also displays the proper dry Brit wit one expects from Bond when the exchange, be it with Judi Dench’s wonderful M or villains like Casino Royale’s bloody-teared Le Chiffre or Dominic Greene, requires it.

THE READER (R) Fifteen-year-old Michael Berg (a smart David Kross) has a graphically sexual, secret affair with the much older Hannah Schmitz (Kate Winslet). Hannah disappears, and Michael does not see her again until he is in law school and she is on trial for crimes committed when she was a guard at Auschwitz. Ralph Fiennes, the film’s other star, admirably swallows the grown Michael’s guilt with quiet intensity, a quality that describes the film itself. Between The Reader’s covers is an unfamiliar, compassionate look at someone responsible for one of the world’s darkest hours.

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (R) Frank and April Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) feel destined for something better, more fulfilling than their hopeless, empty suburban existence. But two kids and a mortgage later, and these former idealists are at each other’s throats, their love burned away by the constant heat of angry disappointment. Those who hated American Beauty won’t warm to it; neither will the modern suburbanites Mendes vilifies by proxy. Nevertheless, mature filmgoers will revel in the craft and wince at the pain.

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).

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (R) If Charles Dickens had set any of his littlest-orphan-makes-good epics in the slums of Mumbai and on the uncomfortable future-chic stage of the Indian TV show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,” Slumdog Millionaire, winner of the Golden Globe for Best Drama, would be a near perfect adaptation of that unwritten classic from one of literature’s most popular mack daddies. Given the circumstances, 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.

STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN LI (PG-13) Just in time for the multi-platform release of Street Fighter IV, the latest version of the popular fighting game, comes a movie adaptation, the second following the crap-tastic 1994 flick starring JeanClaude Van Damme and Raul Julia. If I have cracked the title’s tricky code, SF:TLOCL focuses on cute, little fighter Chun Li (Kristen Kreuk of “Smallville”), an Interpol agent who infiltrates the fighting tournament hosted by crime boss M. Bison (creepy-eyed Neal McDonough). With Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog.

TAKEN (PG-13) See Movie Pick.

TWILIGHT (PG-13) Fortunately, Twilight isn’t the unmitigated disaster I anticipated. Thanks to a writer and director who took the Romeo and Juliet courtship of a vampire and a human seriously, the film rises above giggleinducing dialogue, groan-inducing vampire super-speed and strength, and

a simplistic makeup-and-snarl depiction of its central monsters.

THE UNINVITED (PG-13) The ghost of Anna Rydell’s (Lemony Snicket’s Emily Browning) dead mother warns her that her father’s new girlfriend, Rachel (Elizabeth Banks), isn’t what she seems to be. I won’t hold The Uninvited’s being a remake of A Tale of Two Sisters against it considering the connection is pretty tenuous. The British Guard brothers (Thomas and Charles) make their feature directing debut with this PG-13 horror flick. With David Strathairn and Arielle Kebbel (The Grudge 2).

THE VELVETEEN RABBIT (G) Jane Seymour, Tom Skerritt and Ellen Burstyn lend their voices to this new animated adaptation of the classic children’s book by Margery Williams.

WILD WOMEN DON’T HAVE THE BLUES (NR) 1989. The stories of great female blues performers Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Mamie Smith 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) Mickey Rourke’s 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.

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TAKEN (PG-13) DISTRICT B13 (R) This past weekend’s weak release slate (an annual Oscar week tradition) affords me the opportunity to catch a movie I missed upon its initial release a few weeks ago. Starring Liam Neeson, Taken is the young year’s second biggest hit behind the surprisingly robust Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Friday the 13th will probably surpass both relatively quickly), and it’s proof America’s moviegoing public isn’t as clueless as the nation’s critics cynically believe. This good, old-fashioned one man army action flick harkens back to the days of the Ah-nuld/Bruce/Sly triumvirate that ruled Planet Hollywood in the late ‘80s through the mid ‘90s. Don’t get confused by the competing royal aspirants, the house of WWE; their flicks starring John Cena (The Marine and the upcoming Renny “Die Hard 2: Die Harder” Harlin-directed 12 Rounds) are the aughts’ equivalent of Brian Bosworth’s Stone Cold and Howie Long’s Firestorm. The line of Besson, the Transporters and now Taken, is the true heir to the action throne left vacant since

snatched his daughter, Bryan goes all commando on Paris, threatening to tear down the Eiffel Tower if he has to.

You can easily imagine how this vengeful mission goes, but director Morel makes the trip feel fresh and new. Having “serious actor” Neeson as a travel companion helps greatly.

He’s like a Jack Bauer who realized family is more important than national security. (If the proposed “24” movie ever gets made, I strongly recommend Morel for the job.) Neeson is totally believable as a deadly badass. He’s actually more believable neutralizing 10 men at once than he is at a beery backyard BBQ with his buddies. Besson and Transporter cowriter Robert Mark Kamen haven’t concocted anything special, story-wise, but Morel and Neeson handle it ruthlessly and efficiently. It’s a quick, tough movie that your parents might even enjoy thanks to the toned-down, PG-13 violence.

Taken is nothing compared to Morel’s 2004 sort of futuristic District B13 (Banlieue 13), which Athens is lucky enough to see Monday, Mar. 2 at the Tate Center, thanks to Dr. Richard Neupert and the French Film Festival sponsored by the Film Studies Program, the French American Cultural Exchange, UGA Cinematic Arts, and the Department of Theatre and Film Studies.

In 2010, the French government has built a wall around the Parisian ghettos. The worst, District B13, is ruled by drug dealer Taha (Larbi Naceri).

Rival Leito (David Belle) doesn’t want Taha dealing near his building, but the police are no help.

They let Taha walk free District B13 (Banlieue 13) will screen at the Tate Center Mar. 2. and imprison the wellintended, ridiculously agile Leito. The flics (it King Ah-nuld abdicated to become the gubersounds so much cooler than cops) also give nator. (Don’t think I’m ignoring the Bourne Leito’s sister, Lola (Dany Verissimo) to the films. They exist in a higher action class forbad guy. Ouch. But when Taha gets hold of a merly reserved for one: James Bond.) Taken, neutron bomb six months later, the flics needs the Gallic Bruckheimer’s latest contender for Leito’s special skill set to assist equally limber the action crown, may have borrowed just Capt. Damien Tomaso (Cyril Raffaelli) in its enough fashionably frenetic, Bourne again retrieval. They have 24 hours to battle “200 action to grasp the scepter, but only because thugs to the death.” Good luck. director Pierre Morel’s superior District B13 is A walled-off metropolis, a deadline and a in French. gruff anti-hero. The premise smells so familiar Recently retired “preventer,” Bryan Mills the flick should be called Escape from Paris.

(Neeson), has given up his dangerous, globeBut Morel speeds everything up. Nothing in trotting profession to be closer to his teenDistrict B13 happens slowly. The foot chases aged daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace, “Lost”). and fights are lightning quick and choreoShortly after turning 17, Kim asks her dad graphed as gracefully as any Gene Kelly roufor permission to travel to Paris for the sumtine. Belle and Raffaelli’s stunt experience mer. Well aware of the dangers lurking in the shows and pays off. Hong Kong’s got nothing shadows of the City of Lights, Bryan reticently on them. The opening chase involving Leito agrees. As soon as you can translate “I told and Taha’s men blasts out of nowhere, resemyou so” into French, Kim and her pal, Amanda bles a big budget Nike commercial, and blows (Katie Cassidy, “Supernatural”), have been away Casino Royale’s Sunday stroll. One only kidnapped by human traffickers from Albania. expects to see something that gravity-defying (First Slovakia, now France. These girls didn’t in a videogame, not performed by honest-toeven make it anywhere but the airport and a god, earth-bound humans. Taken may be in swanky apartment. Where in Europe can privithe right language to be a winter box office leged American youths travel that’s safe these juggernaut, but District B13 is the real deal. days?) Having “a very particular set of skills… acquired over a very long career… that make Drew Wheeler [him] a nightmare for people like” those that

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Giving the Germans a Chance: The “honor” of being the last film viewed by me this week goes to Die Mörder Sind Unter Uns (Murderers Among Us), director Wolfgang Staudte’s feverish, traumatic vision of life among those returning home to an architecturally and psychologically ravaged Berlin immediately after World War II. Released in 1946, this was the first feature film made in post-war Germany, as the abundant rubble and undigested guilt clearly attest. The lovely, Aryan Hildegard Knef is an unlikely concentration camp refugee (?!), and Wilhelm Borchert, as a haunted, alcoholic doctor, shuffles through the ruins looking uncannily like Lamberto Maggiorani in The Bicycle Thief. Speaking of Germany and Italy, there’s one more week of the UGA French Film Festival! The Tate Center screening at 8 p.m. Monday, Mar. 2 is Banlieue 13 (District B13), Pierre Morel’s fastpumping actioner from 2004. $1 with UGA ID, $2 without.

Speaking of Countries: Apologies are due for my failure to announce the beginning of the Japanese Film Festival at UGA… it snuck up on me and got lost in the virtual shuffle of my computer. The Center for Asian Studies and The Japan Foundation are sponsoring the five-film event at the Tate Center.

The screenings are Wednesday evenings at 6 p.m., excluding the week of spring break.

The next of the three remaining films is The

A Secret will screen at Ciné Feb. 28 & 29.

Age of Assassins on Feb. 25: a stylish, madcap spy thriller from 1967 by Kihachi Okamoto, director of The Sword of Doom and Kill! Mar. 4 is Postman Blues, a hip, high-energy Yakuza comedy from Hiroyuki Tanaka, AKA Sabu. The finale may be the treat of the bunch: Mikio Naruse’s classic 1960 shomen-geki When a Woman Ascends the Stairs on Mar. 18. All films are shown in 35MM prints on a very, very large screen, and admission is free for everyone. Go! Let’s Talk About Festivals Some More: The gala opening event for the 2009 Athens Jewish Film Festival will be Saturday, Feb. 28 at Ciné. The festival, which has only in recent months set itself up as a nonprofit, intends to make itself a year-round presence, spotlighting films of Jewish interest from around the world and providing a forum for emerging filmmakers through screenings and special events. They’re really going all-out with this inaugural weekend: the event opens with a

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dinner and screening Saturday evening, then resumes with screenings all day and evening Sunday beginning at 9:30 a.m. The Saturday film is Ayelet Menahemi’s Noodle, which had a strong showing at the 2007 Israeli Academy Awards. Sunday films are Diane Crespo and Stefan C. Schaefer’s Arranged, about the friendship between two women, one Israeli and one Muslim, in Brooklyn; The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, a 2007 coming-ofage film from Brazil by Cao Hamburger; Alan Berliner’s 1997 U.S. documentary investigating his family history, Nobody’s Business; and last year’s highly acclaimed French film, A Secret, by Claude Miller; as well as a program of shorts and some films for children. Featured guests speakers include Jeffrey Lesser, Deborah Dash Moore and Richard Neupert.

For showtimes, details and to buy tickets, go to www.athensjff.org.

I Know There’s Another Festival or Two in Here Somewhere: Congratulations to Athens producers Nate Kohn and Pamela Kohn, whose film Rain, written and directed by Maria Govan, just won the award for Best Director/ First Feature at the Pan-African Film & Arts Festival in Culver City, CA. See www.rainafilm.com for more info… Guests for the Fifth Annual Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival have been announced; they include actress Talia Coppola Shire; James Bond film director Guy Hamilton; and of course, the indescribable Fred Willard.

More on this later…

Ciné and The National will present a special dinner-movie combo to benefit the Boybutante AIDS Foundation on Wednesday, Feb. 25.

The movie is Milk; the low, low price is $35.

In other Ciné news, Waltz with Bashir and The Class open Mar. 6—go to www. athenscine.com for details… The AthensClarke County Library shows films. The iFilms series continues on Thursday, Feb. 26 with The Pope’s Toilet, César Charlone and Enrique Fernández’s comedy about an entrepreneurial Uruguayan villager who decides to capitalize on a visit from the Pope by building a pay toilet; then on Mar. 5 with Taking Root, a 2008 documentary by Lisa Merton and Alan Dater that chronicles the efforts of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai to help rural women in Kenya improve their lives by encouraging them to plant trees. All iFilms screenings are Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the main library. The Cinema Classics Described Movie this month is Topper, starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett, on Thursday, Mar. 5 at 2 p.m., also in the main library at 2025 Baxter St. For more information, go to www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us.

And Before This Column Becomes a Festival of Incoherence: …I’ll retire. Wake me from bewitchment via film@flagpole.com. Don’t be a stranger!

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Whitest Kids U’Know Shock and Awe and Broken Bone♪

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he Whitest Kids U’Know is the hottest sketch comedy group in the country. They have their own TV show on IFC, their live shows are must-see events, and various movie deals are in the works. But even the greatest empires have modest beginnings. In the early days, WKUK (as they’re conveniently abbreviated) were already looking to stretch the boundaries of sketch comedy, but frontman Trevor Moore and New York School of Visual Arts classmate Zach Cregger also had another, simpler motivation familiar to college students everywhere: beer money. As Moore tells it, “I saw the school had a chess club and a drama club, so why not a comedy club?

Official clubs got $700 a semester… which we used to buy beer and get high.” One catch to being an “official” school club, however, is that they had to allow in any student who wanted to join. Moore says, mock woefully, “That’s how Timmy joined the group.”

Timmy Williams, Sam Brown and Darren Trumeter joined Moore and Cregger, and the group began honing its craft in the comedy/bar scene of New York City. Spaces were often cramped and the sketches were physically demanding, sometimes even dangerous.

“Darren broke his arm once,” Cregger says, and almost simultaneously, Moore blurts out, “Sam threw his back out just the other night.” Trumeter’s arm was the victim of a collapsing table which Moore was lying on at the time. As for Brown’s back, Moore is more nonchalant. “Sam was running and spazzing out onstage and threw it out.” “Back when we were performing live shows constantly, someone got injured every week,” Cregger adds.

In 2006 they won the “Best Sketch Comedy” Award at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO and attracted the attention of producer Jim Biederman. Several networks approached WKUK and wanted them to do a pilot, but FUSE Network offered them a full 10-episode season, an opportunity they jumped on. After the first season, IFC picked up the show with the promise that it would run uncensored.

“It paid off great,” says Cregger. “With IFC, we can pretty much get away with murder.”

That may be a slight exaggeration, but Whitest Kids U’Know definitely get away with a lot. Live sketch comedy, such as Chicago’s Second City, has long had a raw feel and dark edge more common to the world of theatre than to the world of popular entertainment. Moore and Cregger are attempting to bring that edge to their TV show. Their “shock and awe” approach has lots of fans (their YouTube videos boast millions of viewers) but it has a few detractors, too.

“My parents are supportive, in that they’re glad I have a career and don’t have to go to them for money, but they don’t watch the show,” Moore admits. “That’s exactly how my parents feel,” says Cregger.

Of course, Moore is no stranger to critics or censors. While he was in high school in Virginia, he had his own cable access TV show. “You know the movie Wayne’s World? Well, Wayne’s World kind of happened.” The family-friendly PAX network actually carried the show for a while. “No one was watching us. I hired my high school friends to work on the show. We got in trouble for some dirty stuff.” PAX eventually yanked the show

from the air, but by then Moore was on his way to New York to start Whitest Kids U’Know.

It’s difficult to pick a “typical” WKUK sketch because they’re comfortable playing several comic modes. They play broad physical humor in a sketch where an obnoxious space shuttle pilot insists on drinking soda before liftoff, spilling it all over his teammates strapped in below him (this was the sketch which broke Trumeter’s arm). They perform the obligatory pop culture parodies in “Hitler Raps” and “Fight Club.”

They’re probably most at home when they explore the absurdity of perversity, as when a deer attempts to entice a group of hunters sexually, or when a frat-boy hand gesture takes on a disturbing new connotation in “Slow Jerk.” Even when they go for scatological humor, and that’s pretty often, they usually have a clever take on it. There are plenty of sketches on the IFC website and YouTube to check out, but they lose a little bit in translation because they don’t capture the breakneck pace of the live show or the TV show with all the sketches viewed together.

In Whitest Kids U’Know, you can find a little Kids in the Hall (Jim Biederman also was executive producer for that comedy group), a little Stella, a little Monty Python. But you won’t find much “Saturday Night Live.”

“We try to have no recurring characters, no current event stuff,” says Moore. “When you watch old Python, the things that are funniest, that still stand up today, are the things that take place out of the time that they were in. We’re trying to make a show that is funny today, but it will still be funny five and 10 years from now.”

Moore and Cregger are wearing two hats. In addition to touring with WKUK, they’re promoting the movie Miss March, which they wrote and directed and comes to theatres Mar. 13.

“The studio approached us with the script and asked if we wanted to rewrite it,” says Cregger. “We took it on as a writing exercise to see if we could put our type of comedy into it; we completely rewrote it. Instead of two horny guys trying to get laid, we wanted to explore the exact opposite: what if it’s two guys afraid of sex?”

Although the other three members of the group aren’t in the movie, their “audition tapes” on the movie’s official website are a great example of their comedy dynamic. And the other guys shouldn’t take it too personally.

“We wanted to make a Whitest Kids movie somewhere down the line, but this isn’t one. We didn’t want people to be confused and think of Miss March as a Whitest Kids U’Know movie.”

All five members of WKUK will be in Athens on Mar. 3. It will be their only show in Georgia, so expect a crowd.

Pete McBrayer

WHO: Whitest Kids U’Know WHERE: UGA Tate Theater WHEN: Tuesday, Mar. 3., 8 p.m.

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His performance and talk run from 8–9:30 p.m., and the sugHere, you’re just as likely to have your day made as your heart gested donation is $3–$6. For more information, please see broken. But, if you think about it, those are two sides of the www.athica.org. To sample King’s music, please see www.myssame coin, each of which have much too much invested in the pace.com/bartkingandthefairshakes. opinions of others. So, yeah, take some things with a grain Got Game?: Performing rights of salt. Feel free to take other organization BMI (Broadcast things seriously. Whatever Music, Inc.) is accepting subyou do, just start taking missions for its 12th annual below…

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You saw it here first, folks! The 2009 AthFest CD will The event is scheduled for feature the following artists: My Perfect Cousin: This is Apr. 23, and BMI encourages probably old hat for hardcore performers, writers and artists 1. Patterson Hood Of Montreal enthusiasts out from all urban genres (read: 2. The Corduroy Road there, but the rest of you R&B, gospel, rap and hip 3. Widespread Panic may be interested. Former hop… pretty sure they don’t 4. Betsy Franck & the Bareknuckle Band Florida band Fire Zuave, now mean any MC5-influenced 5. The Arcs ostensibly residing in Athens, acts, no matter how street 6. A PostWar Drama not only has fostered at least smart) to apply to perform.

7. Holy Liars a remotely similar musical From the entries, four will be 8. Marty Winkler & the Men in Black and visual aesthetic to Of chosen to compete in front 9. Deaf Judges Montreal, but it winds up that of a panel of music industry 10. Jesse Mangum bandmember Chuck Andrews folks including executives, 11. The Warm Fuzzies is Kevin Barnes’ first cousin. other artists, producers, 12. Brave New Citizen Maybe I’m the only one who managers, etc. The winner of 13. Curley Maple hears this, but I’ve been listhis will get a bunch of prizes 14. Magic Missile tening to Of Montreal since that BMI failed to specify. If 15. The Starter Kits before Cherry Peel even came you’re interested, you must be 16. The Quick Hooks out, so there’s a lot of refera BMI-affiliated artist (easy ence points there for me. to do via BMI’s website) and This year’s CD was culled from 186 submissions and I dunno. I guess what I’m submit a bio, photo, a twofeatures 11 previously unreleased recordings. Besides saying is it’s totally great to song demo on CD, all your Patterson Hood, these artists are all appearing on an benefit from familial ties but, contact info and your BMI AthFest CD for the first time! Once again, AthFest has please, foster your own sound affiliation number. Only those selected a group of local artists who are as gifted as they and identity. Sample Fire selected to perform will hear are eclectic, showcasing the diversity of talent we have Zuave over at www.myspace. back from BMI. The deadline in this town. Congrats to the selected artists! The official com/firezuave. is Friday, Mar. 20, and materirelease date is May 19. A release party is confirmed for als should be sent to BMI at Friday, May 15 at Tasty World. [Michelle Gilzenrat] n Ruby’s Got Ya Covered: 3340 Peachtree Rd. NE, Suite Sorta-local band Ruby Isle 570, Atlanta, GA, 30326. just wrapped up another six weeks of making its own versions ATTN: 2009 Urban Showcase. For more information, please see of the top indie songs in the blogosphere (God, I hate that www.bmi.com. word). What the guys did was this: once a week, they took a look at music blog aggregator www.elbo.ws, figured out what Two Shows, One Record: Standard 8 reports that it has finished the most popular band and song was for that week and make its new album Young Lovers. In celebration, the band will play their own version of it. Since late 2007 the band has covered two release shows—one here in town and one in Atlanta. The tracks by The Ravonettes, Destroyer, Mountain Goats, Steven local release party will be Feb. 27 at the Caledonia Lounge Malkmus, M.I.A and more. In the past few weeks, the band with Nutria and Magic Missile joining them on the bill. The has tackled The Thermals, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Animal Atlanta release will take place at Drunken Unicorn on Mar. 6 Collective, Black Lips and The Decemberists. Normally, a band doing this many covers would be on the bullshit list, but Ruby Isle actually reworks the songs into distinct versions that are as good as (and in the case of Bon Iver, M.I.A. and The Decemberists, much better than) most of the originals. Ruby Isle will feature these covers on its new remix album due out in May. Downloads of the above covers can be found at www.kindercore.com/ words/author/dan. To hear recently posted tracks the band recorded live in the studio for Rock Island, IL blog Daytrotter, head to daytrotter.com/ article/1608/ruby-isle.

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Walkin’, Talkin’: On Saturday, Feb. 28 ATHICA will host musician Bart King in a performance and talk concerning Ruby Isle the show he’s curated there titled “Running on Empty.” King will play songs from his 2004 EP Start Something plus “relevant covers.” According to an ATHICA press release, the show, which runs until Mar. 22, addresses “the issue of fossil fuel dependence with passion, humor and urgency.” King was invited to curate the show because of his experience as an environmental journalist. In addition to his music, King works as news editor for SustainableBusiness.com.

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with two other bands you’ll never care about. OK, the bands are Guyliner and Barf. See? Told ya. For music and info, please see www.myspace.com/thestandard8.

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record reviews THE NICE MACHINE Earthquake Drill!

EC Ruins Listening to Earthquake Drill! is like finding five bucks on the ground, every time. Or unexpected cupcakes. Or receiving holiday-unrelated, handwritten mail. Surprises are an important and undervalued part of our lives, and The Nice Machine supplies them in remarkably ample helpings here, considering that this 10-track nugget runs a mere 17 minutes in duration.

Instrumental save for some in-joking spoken bits, each song is like an improbably materializing object, the value of which is novel but universally appealing, like a piece of origami or a Rubik’s Cube.

The patron saints of the band are, if I had to guess, probably Ween and The Minutemen. The instrumentation is constantly shifting, suggesting a studio-goon-gone-wild aesthetic. Drum machines share the stage with the real deal, and then there are some horns, naturally, because why not? There’s an excellent dub song, complete with melodica. The narrative-free, no-roadmap approach is, as to be expected, a little jarring at times, but with each repeated listen, the charms of each mini-jam become more vivid. Fun for fun’s sake: not just for kids anymore.

Jeff Tobias The Nice Machine will play at Flicker Theatre on Friday, Feb. 27.

T.T. MAHONY & THE STANDARD 8 Young Lovers Independent Release This album hobbled its way into my life like a lost and wounded canine, and, underdog lover that I am, I took it into my hEARt for a little t.l.c. When the impressions from our initial meeting wore off, I was surprised to find an enthusiastic creature, behaving much like others of its species have in the past. The breed: “classic” rock and roll, which I’ve had quite enough of already, but in this case with a nice dimension of punk rock emphasis and new wave funk à la Talking Heads.

Let me be clear: Talking Heads holds a very special place in my heart, and I get that the “classic” in “classic rock” essentially means “old,” but T.T. and Co. fit the description, nonetheless. Any DJ from any classic rock

station the world over could randomly choose a track from Young Lovers, play it on air, and soon a small percentage of the listening audience would call in to ask what the great song they just heard is called.

Clearer: As an album,Young Lovers is no classic, however. It’s a nice group of impeccably polished and entertaining tunes, and well worth casual listening, but it does lack poignancy in a greater sense. Why is somewhat tragic: there are too many good songs; with 16 tracks on the menu one can’t help but expect at least a little filler or bizarre self-indulgence, but alas, all’s done in earnest, lending the final product an eerie stability that feels a little disingenuous. Paradoxical, no? Yes, and here’s the final rub: the group moves so seamlessly through the sounds of so many influential groups that whether or not one ever even listens to Young Lovers, they’ll probably dance to similar sounds at some point. A good potential concert or gift for the classic rock radio station lover in your life.

Tony Floyd

meant for flat-back stargazing and bedroom darkness. It’s an culmination of all the band’s mastered, shattered and redefined… into an effective hybrid that sounds and feels wholly different than all of it.

It’s not perfect by any definition, to be sure, but in the context of AC’s career, it is the perfect direction for a group that has explored and blazed so many sonic paths to date.

Bryan Aiken

Standard 8 will celebrate its CD release at Caledonia Lounge on Friday, Feb. 27.

Stoned or straight, this is a challenging listen, which is odd as these sounds are so unhurried. But, challenge considered, the album has a good deal of character. This music is probably best described as textural and intrinsically expansive, and in a way, No More Paths to Sounder Sleep is much like a gurgling cauldron: it contains a very specific, thick, liquid that only exists in the same spot through willing constraint. I can’t say exactly what the purpose of this liquid is (inference is slippery), but I can tell you some facts about the vessel.

The disc delivers just under an hour of patient, brooding, sonic adventure crafted by one Drew Smith and shared via five tracks, though most of these transitions are inconspicuous.

The recordings were made between 2006 and 2007 at a place called “the death crib,” which is somewhere within this very town, and there is no drumming or singing to be heard.

Harmony and melody appear regularly, and a definite sense of propulsion, usually achieved through burrowing looped synth effects/noise, facilitates Smith’s occasional hermitic, guitar-transmitted psychedelic serenades. I am reminded of Yo La Tengo in the sense that the musician uses sound-manipulation devices so embracingly and competently in the crafting of gentle, sensible, musical landscapes. It’s definitely ambient, and I don’t think Brian Eno would necessarily kick it out of bed.

Tony Floyd

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Merriweather Post Pavilion Domino Animal Collective’s ninth studio album is a broad and complicated listen, and so the listener’s experience is likely to be similar. It’s not made to be bottled in genre or confined to a word limit. To describe this music is to write a poem, to paint a happy watercolor reverie of dead animals playing volleyball. None of it quite makes sense, but it’s so damn pleasant, despite its dense, dissonant intentions.

Merriweather Post Pavilion sees the band’s familiar avant-garde philosophy put to a new, entirely electronic execution. Unlike its previous albums, which are pocked with swaying zombie chants, MPP has a real heartbeat, a constant, danceable pulse to move you, even through its most nostalgic dirges.

The band’s signature guitar work has also been jettisoned in favor of a layered vocal backbone. It’s certainly a drift from its iconic New York freak-folk status, but it’s also a comfortable, fully realized evolution that has taken the entirety of its critically lauded discography to hone.

Most of the key AC elements remain safely in place: Avey Tare’s romantic lyrics leave flowers on your window pane; Panda Bear croons a passive, pitch-perfect Brian Wilson impression. But this proven formula transposed to a drum-and-bass approach allows for some truly amazing, inhuman moments. “Lion in a Coma,” for instance, sees Tare flitting effortlessly around an impossible 9/8 jaw-harp groove.

Though it may be a jarring departure for the band’s faithful, MPP is still unmistakably Animal Collective, music

CHARTREUSE No More Paths to Sounder Sleep Thor’s Rubber Hammer

THE GOLDEST The Goldest EP Independent Release Athenians well know that just because a new band is made up exclusively of people already in other bands doesn’t mean it’s a “supergroup.” It might instead be a fun side project for everyone involved, which is exactly what The Goldest, which consists of

five Atlantans who’ve recruited multiple guests onto their debut EP, seems to be, at least judging by their willingness to give away their music (you can download the whole thing at their MySpace page). It’s big for an EP, too, less in span than in sound. The opener, “Already Gold,” kicks off with big swathes of twinkle paired with surprisingly thumpy bass and a cymbal crash, then flowers into a kind of chugging, swirly prettiness that achieves a relaxed energy without being too calm.

“Party Bus” is a little more rocking and becomes more interesting as it progresses, with big, Beatlesque harmonies that begin to pop in now and again and develop into the kind of yowly Robert Schneider wonderfulness Apples in Stereo has at its best. “FM Gold” sounds just the way it should, with a nice collection of lead male vocals and soft backing female tones, plus a chilled out, guitar-based feel that picks up speed as it moves along.

You may have noticed that each song seems to grow and branch as its time elapses, which is a fair characterization and what makes the EP, as a whole, feel like more than its relatively short running time. If it’s a side project, it’s one benefiting from talent and the willingness of its participants to amuse themselves.

Hillary Brown

BON IVER Blood Bank EP Jagjaguwar Following up one of last year’s most highly and widely acclaimed debut albums has gotta be a tough task. So, rather than keep fans waiting (and expectations escalating) for a sophomore disc, Bon Iver has made the wise decision to offer up a four-song EP for those still clamoring for more after last year’s excellent For Emma, Forever Ago. While that album was a sparse yet generous solo folk affair, for this EP Justin Vernon has recruited two backing musicians and expanded from his guy-alone-in-a-cabin origins. The EP’s title track brings in some strings and some moaning feedback, while “Beach Baby” retains the warm folk that brought Bon Iver all that attention and sounds mostly like an extension of the ideas on For Emma, Forever Ago. Closing track “Woods,” though, breaks from the pack by fully embracing the autotune/vocoder Vernon flirted with at the close of For Emma, Forever Ago. The production tool is used to severe measure here, with Vernon’s computerized voice flying up and down while he piles on the vocal layers, harmonizing with himself. It’s surprisingly soulful, but more than anything, brings to mind a lot of the vocal looping that Phosphorescent has been doing for years.

Still, a four-song release whets the appetite more than it offers satisfaction for expectations, and in that, Blood Bank succeeds.

Chris Hassiotis

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Railroad Earth Everything Old Is New Again

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espite the ringing of the strings and a sound that echoes those dusty, tremolo-laden scratchy 78s found tucked in a cedar chest in your grandparents’ attic, Railroad Earth isn’t an old band. Instead, the music that this New Jersey six-piece creates lies somewhere between the stomp and creaking of those old-time numbers and the laid back American Beauty-era Grateful Dead.

Any insistence that the band is a relic of the past is at this point standard issue among interviewers. In fact, a question about the group’s retro-leaning music elicits an almost rehearsed-sounding response.

“There’s something about the songwriting that is very earthy and old. It’s old-time feeling but contemporary in a way; it also really touches on some of the old song traditions of the American canon of song,” says John Skehan, mandolin player for Railroad Earth.

Even if the answer sounds rehearsed, it’s an apt description of what Railroad Earth does— simple and familiar-sounding music taken at a slightly esoteric angle: still reverential of the tradition it sprang from, but just skewed enough to come at it with a new perspective.

The tradition that Railroad Earth has dialed into is a popular one among songwriting aficionados—it’s the same one mined

by M. Ward and The Band, tapping into the roots of a sound that is timeless without being hokey. For Skehan and company, the worry about their string and acoustic-based

instrumentation being sent into a nasally voiced parody is there. For that, the band has rules in place that preserve the group’s music from becoming a faux-nostalgia act, but also respect the music they draw inspiration from.

“We try to just do what we do; none of us are coming from a strict traditional bluegrass place. We’ve dabbled in it individually over the years, but we never wanted this to be a bluegrass thing with high, lonesome vocals and songs about death. Instead, it just became what it was,” says Skehan.

In fact, any resemblance to music past or present is purely a coincidence.

“In so much of what we do, we don’t really think about our influences or the directions the song has to take. Our rule is that you have to serve the song and do what fits,” says Skehan.

What fits with Railroad Earth is a mixture of Americana, Celtic and, at times, Easternfeeling music all under the umbrella of the band’s instrumentation (acoustic guitars, mandolins, bass, violin and drums). It’s front-

porch picking meets concert-hall soloing. But the soloing isn’t just limited to a four-bar stretch here and there. The group takes its Dead influence to heart, and stretches out the music through improvisation and jams.

While the notion of an acoustic-based band stretching out their music by jamming may elicit a prompt rolling of the eyes from more jaded listeners, Skehan assures that what happens is tasteful.

“Any kind of improvisation or soloing can easily delve into self-serving indulgence, but as long as the band is tapped into what the song needs and what the audience wants to hear, it will work. We do it out of a collective conversation, so hopefully it doesn’t turn into a mindless drone,” says Skehan.

The drone hasn’t happened yet. Instead, Railroad Earth has tapped into a uniquely American sound: stark, jangling, ethereal and grounded. It’s music rife with contradictions, truth and beauty. Everything old is new again, and that’s the way they like it.

Jason Bugg

WHO: Railroad Earth, Old School Freight Train WHERE: Georgia Theatre WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 25, 9 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $15 (adv.), $17 (door)

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Pretty Lights For All the Ballers and Champions

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hough the group’s website remains fairly inconspicuous, Pretty Lights have been lingering longer on the minds of an increasing network of freedom-celebrating individuals as of late. And they are returning from Denver to visit us once again, mere months after the last soiree.

If you didn’t make it out to their show at Tasty World in November of 2008, you missed one hell of a dance party, and the only foreseeable way to improve on the glory of that evening is to pack the Georgia Theatre out this Friday, raising the temperature a few degrees on the end of winter. Don’t be surprised, though, when exactly that happens, as the upcoming event also has the allure of Ballers’ Ball—the dance craze sweeping the city, courtesy of our friends at Music Matters Productions and 42 Degrees.

What this means is that attendees should expect a tantalizing light show, beautiful people, fog and ceaseless dancing. Basically, extra capital is invested into the show’s production by 42 Degrees, and Music Matters, the company who actually runs the live lighting and audio mixes, probably does so at a discount rate. As such, and since these two enterprises are locally operated, they are effectively sponsoring the Athens stop of Pretty Lights’ national tour—the stated goal being Ballers’ Ball’s enduring vision: “[creating] the place to be for all Ballers and Champions.”

The relationship between the Ballers’ Ball and Pretty Lights is unified in a single word: soul. Loving the self enough to call yourself a “champion” requires it, and Pretty Lights main man Derek Vincent Smith considers it half his purpose: “I feel like people have done soul and done crunk, but separately; to integrate the two is what I really strive for,” he says. “I want my music to make people feel something, not just get people dancing, but get people to actually experience some powerful emotions… all while getting crunk in the club.” He laughs, but seriously.

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Athens home for a handful of years, the metronome of this city still beats out a relatively rock-oriented cadence. Tradition is often mistaken as truth, but modernity suggests that the only enduring element of truth is change, and our music is increasingly attempting to imitate that perception. Once, a simple melody and steady rhythm were enough to build a party around, but with the exponential growth of technology and our related cognitive expansion, today’s party all but demands a polyphonous approach replete with glitchy, deteriorating beat structures and multifarious overlapping tone themes.

And still electronic music is misunderstood: some are disinclined to go to a show that doesn’t explicitly promise some organic danger element; to stand around watching some random DJ dance to his or her own presequenced tracks is decidedly uncool. But such hypothetically electro-wary individuals may find common ground after a short excursion through Pretty Lights’ YouTube and Vimeo offerings. Simply seeing Smith develop and sequence audio loops with his laptop, MIDI keyboard and Monome (an open-source, multitouch digital sampling and sound manipulation board with fully customizable button function and live-loop recording capabilities— essentially a giant, editable remote control for music performance software which Smith claims not to have a pet name for) bestows potent insight regarding the creation of Pretty Lights pieces while also revealing the surprising degree to which improvisation is facilitated by the devices in use. If this isn’t the “cutting edge,” it’s the edge of cutting edge.

Tony Floyd

WHO: Pretty Lights with Lord T and Eloise WHERE: Georgia Theatre WHEN: Friday, Feb. 27, 10 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $10

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WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

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Wednesday 25

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.

Discussion to follow. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4789 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. 24–28, 8 p.m. Mar. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (UGA students), $15 (general admission). 706-542-2838 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 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 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) 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: Texas Hold ‘Em (Alibi) Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. 706-549-1010

EVENTS: AIDS Athens Dinner & Movie Benefit (Ciné Barcafé) Special dinner & movie event that includes tapas and a two-course prix-fixe dinner and a movie ticket to Milk. Proceed benefit AIDS Athens and the Boybutante AIDS foundation.

Showtimes: 4:15, 7:00 & 9:45 p.m. $35. www.athenscine.com* EVENTS: Black History Month Film Screening (UGA Memorial Hall—Room 407) Screening of Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues, a film that captures legendary AfricanAmerican women who made blues a vital part of American culture. 12–1 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8468 EVENTS: Winter Book Sale (Former Michaels—Huntington Road, Goodwill shopping center) Thousands of items available, including fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, DVDs, CDs and more.

Hosted by the Friends of the Library.

Feb. 25–27, 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Feb. 28, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 706-613-3650 ART: Open Studio: Life Drawing (Georgia Museum of Art) No instruction offered. Participants must provide own supplies. Adults only. Ed & Phoebe Forio Studio classroom.

5:30–8:30 p.m. $5. 706-542-4662 PERFORMANCE: CORE Concert Dance Company’s Spring Collection 2009 (UGA New Dance Theatre) Program includes “Idle Athens,” choreographed by Bill Young and Colleen Thomas, and “El Vuelo de Danaus,” choreographed and performed by guest artist Mario Chacón Arias. Feb. 25–28, 8 p.m. $15 (adult), $10 (students/seniors).

706-338-0516 PERFORMANCE: UGA Percussion Ensemble (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 6 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. 24–28, 8 p.m. Mar. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (UGA students), $15 (general admission). 706-542-2838 KIDSTUFF: Eatin’ with the Critters (Sandy Creek Nature Center—ENSAT) Bring a sack lunch for an hour of learning about “Past to Present.” For ages 3–5 with an adult. 12:30 p.m. $0–$13 (scholarships available). 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (ACC Library) Led by UGA student volunteers from the Department of Language and Literacy Education. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) For ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Rose Windows. Design a rose

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Ages 11–18. Space is limited. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Young Adult Book Discussion (Madison County Library) This month’s book is Septimus Heap by Angie Sage. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: “Guys’ Night Out” (UGA Tate Center—Room 138) Program featuring the testimony of a male college student who was charged and convicted of statutory rape after a night of drinking.

A panel of campus and community experts will also take questions from the audience. Sponsored by Safe Campuses Now. 7–8 p.m. FREE! kksims@safecampusesnow.org LECTURES & LIT.: VOX Reading Series (Ciné Barcafé) An evening of poetry featuring the works of Oni Buchanan and Mark Leidner.

Presented by the UGA Creative Writing Program. 8 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com MEETINGS: Athens Farmers’ Market Information Session (UGA Small Business Center) Get info on how to become a vendor at the farmers’ market. 6–7:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-7436, www.athensfarmersmarket.net 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 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Play for prizes every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920

Thursday 26 EVENTS: Annual State of Black America Oratorical Contest (UGA Student Learning Center— Room 101) Contest designed to give UGA undergraduates the opportunity to express their opinions on issues pertinent to the African-American community. This year’s topic: “The Role of the New Administration.”

Sponsored by the Black Affairs Council. 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! yasminyonis@gmail.com

The Russian National Ballet will present Swan Lake on Sunday, Mar. 1 at the UGA Hodgson Concert Hall.

EVENTS: Antiques Show & Sale Preview Party (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Get an early opportunity to see the pieces featured in the 8th Annual Madison Antiques Show & Sale and enjoy wine, cheese and refreshments. Tickets include admission to two-day sale. 5–8 p.m. $45 (advance), $50 (door). www. mmcc-arts.org* EVENTS: Fresh Look Preview Party (Ciné Barcafé) Enjoy hors d’oeuvres from The National and a selection of short films anticipating this year’s Fresh Look film festival, scheduled for Mar. 28–29. 6 p.m.

FREE! www.athenschildrenfilmfestival.org EVENTS: Spring Break Safety Block Party (UGA Tate Center) Learn about spring break safety through activities and games.

Sponsored by Safe Campuses Now. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! kksims@ safecampusesnow.org EVENTS: Winter Book Sale (Former Michaels—Huntington Road, Goodwill shopping center) Hosted by the Friends of the Library.

See Feb. 25 Events. Feb. 25–27, 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Feb. 28, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

706-613-3650 PERFORMANCE: CORE Concert Dance Company’s Spring Collection 2009 (UGA New Dance Theatre) Featuring the premiere of several dance, aerial art and multimedia works. See Feb. 25 Performance. Feb. 25–28, 8 p.m. $15 (adult), $10 (students/seniors).

706-338-0516 PERFORMANCE: Soweto Street Beat (Seney-Stovall Chapel) SSB teaches the history and culture of South Africa using various rhythms, dance movements and other creative aspects of the country’s 11 ethnic

groups. Sponsored by the African American Cultural Center. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-8468 PERFORMANCE: UGA Concert Band & University Band (UGA Hodgson Hall) Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: “When the Light Shines” (Morton Theatre) 22nd annual dance production featuring the students of the East Athens Educational Dance Center performing tap, ballet, jazz, modern, hip-hop and more. Feb. 26, 9 & 11 a.m.

Feb. 28, 7 p.m. $10 (advance), $12 (door). 706-613-3771 THEATRE: The Changeling (Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents Thomas Middleton and John Rowley’s Jacobean masterpiece about love, lust, deceit and murder.

Feb. 24–28, 8 p.m. Mar. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (UGA students), $15 (general admission). 706-542-2838 KIDSTUFF: Babies & Beasties Series (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Help your toddler discover nature.

Ages 18 months–2 years, with adult.

Call to register. 10 a.m. $7. 706613-3615 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: Pajama Storytime (Madison County Library) Snuggle in your jammies with your favorite stuffed animal and listen to bedtime stories. Light snack provided. All ages are invited. 7 p.m. FREE! 706795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (ACC Library) Beginning readers (grades 1-4) read aloud to an aid dog in

training. Handlers always present.

3:30–4:30. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: “Big Brother Bard: Shakespeare vs. His Younger Contemporaries on Women and Gender” (UGA Park Hall—Room 265) Celia Daileader of Florida State University gives the talk. 4 p.m. FREE! fteague@uga.edu 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: Clarke County Democratic Committee (Clarke County Courthouse—Grand Jury Room) Monthly meeting of the CCDC. Open to all area Democrats.

6 p.m. FREE! 706-202-7515 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 27 EVENTS: 24th Annual Equal Justice Foundation Auction (The Library) Silent auction and refreshments at 8 p.m. Live auction and raffle begins at 9 p.m. All proceeds fund EJF’s summer fellowship program. www.law.uga.edu/ejf EVENTS: African American Film Festival (UGA Main Library— Auditorium B2) Festival continues with screening of Black is…Black

Ain’t, a film by director Marlon Riggs that mixes interviews and performance to look at the complexity of black identity. 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706542-5196, kkmfree@uga.edu EVENTS: Antiques Show & Sale (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Exhibitors from around the country selling furniture, pottery, art, silver, textiles and more. Complimentary wine and cheese 4–6 p.m. 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $6 (for both days). www.mmcc-arts.org EVENTS: “Art Rocks” (Lyndon House Arts Center) Art, music and dance festival that kicks off the Athens Area Arts Council’s three-day celebration of the arts. Featuring “artini” tastings, artists and their works, refreshments from area restaurants, live music and aerial performances

by Canopy dancers. 7:30 p.m. $45 (Friday only), $50 (weekend pass).

706-357-4433, www.athensarts.org* EVENTS: Winter Book Sale (Former Michaels—Huntington Road, Goodwill shopping center) Hosted by the Friends of the Library.

See Feb. 25 Events. Feb. 25–27, 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Feb. 28, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

706-613-3650 EVENTS: Working in the Public Interest Conference (UGA School of Law) This year’s topics include “Combating Economic Disparity with Civic Engagement,” “Human Rights in the Southeast,” and “The Fight for the Right to Marry.” Registration form available online. Feb. 27–28.

FREE! (students & faculty), $25 (public). www.law.uga.edu/wipi ART: Opening Reception (Lamar Dodd School of Art) Installations from Imi Hwangbo’s class on “Sculpture and Spatial Context: Expanded Notions of Sculpture.”

7–9 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: CORE Concert Dance Company’s Spring Collection 2009 (UGA New Dance Theatre) Featuring the premiere of several dance, aerial art and multimedia works. See Feb. 25 Performance. Feb. 25–28, 8 p.m. $15 (adult), $10 (students/seniors).

706-338-0516 PERFORMANCE: Dancing with the Campus Stars (UGA Memorial Hall) A night of music and dance featuring campus stars. Sponsored by the Georgia Dymes and Xtreme Dance Company. Advance tickets available Feb. 26 & 27 at the Tate Plaza. 6:30 p.m. $5 (advance), $7 (door). 404-444-7225* PERFORMANCE: Male Choir of St. Petersburg (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. Half-price for UGA students.

FREE! pre-concert lecture begins at 7:15 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall. 8 p.m. $25–$30. www.uga.edu/pac* PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (Edge Recital Hall) Julianne King, violin. 6:30 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. 24–28, 8 p.m. Mar. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (UGA students), $15 (general admission). 706-542-2838 THEATRE: The Mother of God Visits Hell (Athens Community Theatre) Town and Gown Players present the premiere of an original play by Daniel Guyton, who received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from UGA and has won two Kennedy Center awards for his writing. The play, written in rhyming iambic pentameter, revolves around the Virgin Mary’s travels to hell to comfort the souls in torment. Patric Ryan directs.

Feb. 27–28, 8 p.m. Mar. 1, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org THEATRE: To Kill a Mockingbird (Historic Elbert Theatre) The Elbert Theatre presents the stage version of Harper Lee’s classic novel. Feb. 27–28 & Mar. 6–7, 8 p.m. Mar. 1 & Mar. 8, 2 p.m. $10 (advance), $15 (door). 706-283-1049, tking@ cityofelberton.net OUTDOORS: Star Watch: Venus and Saturn (Sandy Creek Park) Come and see spectacular night views. 7 p.m. $2. 706-613-3631 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, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. Ages 2–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: Colloquium on The Changeling (UGA Fine Arts Theatre—Room 53) Florida State University professors Gary Taylor and Celia Daileader, two leading experts on the theatre of Thomas Middleton, offer their perspectives on The Changeling. 12:20 p.m.

FREE! www.drama.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “Less Than Free Speech: The First Amendment and Subjugated Knowledge” (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 348) Karen Sichler, graduate studies in speech communication, gives the talk. 12:20–1:10 p.m. FREE! 706542-2846 LECTURES & LIT.: “Our Other Shakespeare: Thomas Middleton, Sex and Tragedy” (UGA Park Hall—Room 265) Gary Taylor of Florida State University gives the talk. 4 p.m. FREE! fteague@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “The Social Bases of Distributive Justice” (UGA Baldwin Hall—Room 302) Samuel Freeman and Steven F. Goldstone give the talk. Sponsored by the Georgia Ethics and Political Philosophy Workshop and the Department of Political Science.

3:30 p.m. FREE! djkapust@uga.edu MEETINGS: Knitting Mamas (Full Bloom Center) Relax and knit with other moms. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-3533373, 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

Saturday 28 EVENTS: 3rd Annual Image Awards (Georgia Center) Keynote speaker is State Representative Alicia Thomas Morgan. Sponsored by the UGA Chapter of the NAACP. Tickets available at Tate Student Center. 7 p.m. $10 (students), $30 (non-students). 706-542-8468* EVENTS: AIDS Walk/Run (UGA Tate Center) College students and community members unite for the second annual AIDS walk. Teams must be registered by Feb. 26; individuals can register before race. 8 a.m.–2 p.m. $15/individual, $100/team. www.aidswalkrunathens.org EVENTS: Antiques Show & Sale (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Exhibitors from around the country selling furniture, pottery, art, silver, textiles and more. See Feb. 21. 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $6 (for both days). www.mmcc-arts.org* EVENTS: Barrow Boogie 5K and Fun Run (Barrow Elementary School) Part of the Run and See Georgia Grand Prix. 1-mile fun run

starts at 8:30 a.m. and 5k starts at 9 a.m. $10 (fun run), $15 (5k), $40 (family rate). 706-540-8237, www. active.com EVENTS: Enhancing Our Abilities Expo (The Classic Center) Expo for children and adults with disabilities featuring info on transportation, rehabilitation, health care financing, medical equipment, support groups and more. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! Pam Moore, 706-795-0129 EVENTS: Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) Featuring a line-up of critically acclaimed films that explore the Jewish identity, culture and experience. Special guests include filmmakers and academics.

Discounted prices for students: $8 for festival pass, $6 for individual screenings. Feb. 28–Mar 1. $30 (festival pass), $10 (individual screenings). www.athensjff.org EVENTS: Movie Night (Village Herb Shop) Drop by to watch movies and eat popcorn. 7 p.m. FREE! 706549-6007 EVENTS: Spirited Spell-Off Spectacle (Athens Technical College—Auditorium) Spelling bee and raffle to raise funds for local adult literacy programs. Sponsored by the Athens-Clarke Literacy Council. 4 p.m. $5. www.athensliteracy.org EVENTS: Winter Book Sale (Former Michaels—Huntington Road, Goodwill shopping center) Hosted by the Friends of the Library.

See Feb. 25 Events. Feb. 25–27, 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Feb. 28, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

706-613-3650 EVENTS: Working in the Public Interest Conference (UGA School of Law) Conference seeks to highlight dynamic, creative ways to combat social injustice through the vehicle of the law. See Feb. 27 Events. Feb. 27–28. FREE! (students & faculty), $25 (public). www.law. uga.edu/wipi* ART: Open Studio and Pottery Sale (Flinn Family Pottery—1276 Hull Road) FFP, Peter Loose and D.M. Kirwin host a major clearance sale of their original art. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 706-207-5923, flinnfamilypottery@gmail.com ART: Studio/Gallery Tours (Lyndon House) The Athens Area Arts Council presents a hop-on, hopoff bus tour of local art galleries and music studios as part of its three-day celebration of the arts. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $10 (Saturday only), $50 (weekend pass). 706-357-4433, www.athensarts.org* PERFORMANCE: CORE Concert Dance Company’s Spring Collection 2009 (UGA New Dance Theatre) Featuring the premiere of several dance, aerial art and multimedia works. See Feb. 25 Performance. Feb. 25–28, 8 p.m. $15 (adult), $10 (students/seniors).

706-338-0516 PERFORMANCE: “Talent Slam” Fundraiser (UGA Memorial Hall) Featuring tango, flamenco and rumba dancing as well as music from Incatepec, Los Amigos and La Rondalla. Opening reception with music and food starts at 7 p.m.

Talent show 7:30–9:30 p.m. Advance tickets available at UGA’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. Proceeds benefit Casa de Amistad, which does outreach with the local Hispanic community. $6 (students), $10 (general admission), FREE! (ages 11 & under). casa_amistad_ga@yahoo.com* PERFORMANCE: “When the Light Shines” (Morton Theatre) 22nd annual dance production featuring the students of the East Athens Educational Dance Center. See Feb. 26 Performance. Feb. 26, 9 & 11 k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! a.m. Feb. 28, 7 p.m. $10 (advance), $12 (door). 706-613-3771* THEATRE: The Changeling (Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents Thomas Middleton and John Rowley’s Jacobean masterpiece about love, lust, deceit and murder.

Feb. 24–28, 8 p.m. Mar. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (UGA students), $15 (general admission). 706-542-2838 THEATRE: The Mother of God Visits Hell (Athens Community Theatre) Town and Gown Players present an original play by Daniel Guyton. See Feb. 27 Theatre. Feb. 27–28, 8 p.m. Mar. 1, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org THEATRE: To Kill a Mockingbird (Historic Elbert Theatre) The Elbert Theatre presents the stage version of Harper Lee’s classic novel. See Feb. 27 Theatre. Feb. 27–28 & Mar. 6–7, 8 p.m. Mar. 1 & Mar. 8, 2 p.m. $10 (advance), $15 (door). 706-2831049, tking@cityofelberton.net KIDSTUFF: Benefit Concert for Dill Pickle the Alligator (Memorial Park Quinn Hall) Benefit concert to raise the final funding necessary to complete new outdoor enclosure for Bear Hollow’s resident alligator. Jim and the Beanstalks will perform. Reserve a spot. 11:30 a.m.

Donations. 706-613-3580, www. jimandthebeanstalks.com KIDSTUFF: Ocean Life Open House (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Enjoy a variety of activities, games and crafts focused on ocean life.

Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 LECTURES & LIT.: Self-Actualized Kinesiology (Healing Arts Centre) Dr. Edward Frey of Atlanta discusses and demonstrates how this receptorbased therapy involving muscle testing can be used to successfully address health issues. 11 a.m.–1:45 p.m. FREE! 706-613-1142 LECTURES & LIT.: “The Ultimate Navigation System: The Presence of God’s Goodness” (ACC Library) Presented by Don Wallingford, a Christian Science lecturer from Lilburn, GA, in support of OneAthens and their efforts to combat local poverty. Donations to Food Bank of Northeast Georgia welcomed. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-353-1928, www.georgiaspirituality.com 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: Amateur–Advanced Pool Tournament (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Double elimination tournament using world standardized rules.

1 p.m. $50. 706-354-7829 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: Shadowfist CCG Tournament (Tyche’s Games) Final Brawl format. Prizes for all. Noon. $1. 706-354-4500, www.tychesgames.com GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Free every Saturday! 5 p.m. & 8 p.m. 706354-7829

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critically acclaimed films. See Feb. 28 Events. Feb. 28–Mar 1. $30 (festival pass), $10 (individual screenings). www.athensjff.org* EVENTS: Open House and Reception (Canopy Studio) Celebrate Canopy Studio’s 7th birthday. Guests will be able to try the trapeze (with the assistance of instructors), students will perform and refreshments will be served. 2–4 p.m. FREE! 706-549-8501, www. canopystudio.com ART: “Art Decko” Opening (Downtown Athens) Opening reception for exhibition in the College Avenue Parking Deck that features 19 murals painted by local students. Part of the Athens Area Arts Council’s three-day celebration of the arts. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-3574433, www.athensarts.org ART: Opening Reception (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) For exhibit in celebration of Youth Art Month featuring over 150 works of art from 12 Oconee County schools. 2–4 p.m. FREE! 706-769-4565, www. ocaf.com ART: Reception (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Opening reception for exhibit featuring landscapes

by Hermann Kosak. 1:30–3:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-1244 PERFORMANCE: Swan Lake (UGA Hodgson Hall) Members of the Russian National Ballet perform to Tchaikovsky’s timeless score. Halfprice for UGA students. FREE! preconcert lecture begins at 6:45 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall. 7:30 p.m. $27–$32. www.uga.edu/pac* PERFORMANCE: Dancing with the Athens Stars (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*

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

Feb. 24–28, 8 p.m. Mar. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (UGA students), $15 (general admission). 706-542-2838* THEATRE: The Mother of God Visits Hell (Athens Community Theatre) Town and Gown Players present the premiere of an original play by Daniel Guyton. See Feb. 27 Theatre. Feb. 27–28, 8 p.m. Mar. 1, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org THEATRE: To Kill a Mockingbird (Historic Elbert Theatre) The Elbert Theatre presents the stage version of Harper Lee’s classic novel. See Feb. 27 Theatre. Feb. 27–28 & Mar. 6–7, 8 p.m. Mar. 1 & Mar. 8, 2 p.m. $10 (advance), $15 (door). 706-2831049, tking@cityofelberton.net KIDSTUFF: Zoo Animal Feeding Tour (Memorial Park) Learn all about the resident animals. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3616 LECTURES & LIT.: Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (Barnes and Noble) Brad Gooch signs and discusses his new Flannery O’Connor biography. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-354-1195 MEETINGS: Community Boating of Athens (Sandy Creek Park— Visitor Center) Learn about plans for Youth Sailing Program, get info on sailing opportunities and boat rentals, volunteer to help launch boats and sign up for sailing classes. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-338-3835 GAMES: 9-Ball Tournament (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Double elimination tournament using world standardized rules. Amateurs only. 1 p.m. $50. 706-354-7829 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.

9 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Free every Sunday! 2, 4, & 8 p.m. 706-3547829

Monday 2 EVENTS: Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 102) Filmmakers Ross Spears and Jamie Ross introduce and screen the first two parts of their four-part series on Appalachia. 7–9:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-8848 EVENTS: Women’s History Month Film Festival (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 213) First screening of festival is The Future of Food. Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies. 7–9 p.m. FREE! momolly@uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) 10:30 a.m. & 2 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: “Snicker and Snort” (Oconee County Library) Celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday and Read Across America Day with some sidesplitting stories, songs, poems and games. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: “Are We Our Mothers’ Law Students?” (UGA Dean Rusk Center) Felice Batlan, a specialist in feminist legal theory and a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, gives the UGA School of Law’s 27th Edith House Lecture. 3:30 p.m. FREE! marycb@ uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Open Mic Slam Poetry Reading (Flicker Theatre & Bar) All poets are welcome!

Featuring local poetry group The Last Word. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www. myspace.com/flickerbar

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Mass Solo Revolt, Baak Gwai, Odist Go Bar Flagpole didn’t hear a single complaint about their heinous comOdist mute: with members having Athens, Dacula and Dalton, GA home addresses, Odist is a long-distance relationship worth having and remaining faithful to. Odist recently celebrated a one-year anniversary knocking around town(s) and the independent release of an impressive self-titled debut EP. The challenge of being separated by great distance has neither impeded momentum nor quelled enthusiasm—guitarist Parker Newell, bassist Jason Craig and drummer Sarah Wilson (ex-Winter Sounds, Ski Club) genuinely enjoy developing Odist.

For the uninitiated, you’ll find rumbling toms and double bass-drum drives, effusive cymbal precision and capable automatic weapon beats augmented by a flurry of synthetic swishes, swoons and blips. Add subdued, nearly inaudible vocals, sure-handed bass lines and dense, lurid guitar work. For fans of My Bloody Valentine and Coheed and Cambria searching for progressive, shoegaze jams peppered in metal shavings, Odist comes recommended.

Artistically, the three-piece came together naturally, without pretense—each player having admired the other’s past work, they quickly forged a deep connection. “Emotion, I believe, is the core of it all,” says Newell. “That’s where all the music comes from; that’s where your expression comes from, and where your art and beauty come from.”

It doesn’t hurt that each player is on the same level musically as well. “We’ve all been playing for a while. Jason and I have been playing for 10 years, and I think Parker’s been playing for five or six,” says Wilson. But, as Newell notes, Odist’s exotic, outerspace industrial sound is fueled by more than just a penchant for technical proficiency.

“Technicalities involve mathematics, and that just kind of brings that emotion into reality and makes it kind of tangible. It’s like a basic theory of punk rock—‘Yeah, these guys aren’t really that good at their instruments; they only know three chords, but they’re going to give those three chords hell!’” [David Eduardo]

MEETINGS: Federation of Neighborhood Associations (Fire Hall No. 2—489 Prince Avenue) This month’s program is “So, What’s the Story on Property Taxes?”. Panel participants to include Mayor Heidi Davison, Tax Commisioner Nancy Denson, Finance Director John Culpepper and Chief Appraiser George Hanson.

7:30 p.m. FREE! cja@perigen.com GAMES: APA Billiards Leagues (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Join anytime, any skill level! 7 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: General Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Show off your extensive trivia knowledge every Monday! 8 p.m. www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Fat Daddy’s) Every Monday and Wednesday. Mondays, 6 & 9 p.m.

Wednesdays, 7 & 10 p.m. 706353-0241

Tuesday 3 EVENTS: Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 171) Filmmakers Ross Spears and Jamie Ross introduce and screen the last two parts of their four-part series on Appalachia. 7–9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8848 EVENTS: “GMOA on the Move” Kick-Off Party (Georgia Museum of Art) Celebrate the launch of “GMOA on the Move,” a series of museum exhibitions and programs featured at venues throughout Athens and the state. Festivities include food, drink and music. 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4662 PERFORMANCE: Whitest Kids U’Know (UGA Tate Center) Improv sketch comedy from NYC-based troupe with a show on IFC. 8 p.m.

FREE! (UGA students), $5 (nonstudents). www.uga.edu/union* 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 students in grades 4–8. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) For ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: “It’s a Pollinator’s Market: Honey Bee Decline and Why it Matters” (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 148) Keith Delaplane of the entomology department gives the talk. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3966 LECTURES & LIT.: Laurie Stone and Aralee Strange (Flicker Theatre & Bar) The Institute for Women’s Studies kicks off Women’s History Month with an evening of readings from two award-winning writers, Laurie Stone (longtime writer for the Village Voice) and Athens’ own Aralee Strange. Stone and Strange reflect on art, sex and encounters with wildlife. 7:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-2846 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: 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

Live Music Tuesday 24 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 HALF DOZEN BRASS BAND Highly praised local ensemble, and Athens’ only New Orleans-style brass band, plays tonight’s bead-draped Fat Tuesday celebration.

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 CARL LINDBERG Jazz bassist Carl Lindberg (Grogus, Squat, Kenosha Kid, etc.) performs standards, originals and some surprising tunes from divergent styles.

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) and Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna). 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. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub BELLYACHE Brothers Austin and Caleb Darnell play rousing and raw country and blues originals with harmony vocals, backed by acoustic guitar, upright bass and singing saw.

YE OLDE SUB SHOPPE New band headed by Christopher Ingham (Christopher’s Liver).

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 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. 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 The Dumps deliver angular metal licks with lots of dual screaming over sludgy grooves, making for one intense rock performance.

IN THE LURCH 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.

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283 Bar 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 HALF DOZEN BRASS BAND Highly praised local ensemble and Athens’ only New Orleans-style brass band.

Caledonia Lounge 8:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com ARTHUR H. WATERS & HIS ORCHESTRA Powerpop from Atlanta that feels like the soundtrack to a ‘60s or ‘70s sitcom.

GARRETT MOORE Edgy R&B and rock guitarist-vocalist from Atlanta with a diverse arsenal of tunes.

THE PREMONITIONS Local act featuring the luscious vocals of Maureen McGinnis. For fans of Celebration and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

DERRICK SOUTHERLAND Local singer-songwriter sings sweetly about young love, timeless heartbreak and text messages.

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

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Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar SUBLIMATOR Experimental rock from Atlanta.

TUNABUNNY Experimental local act featuring hazy and warped experimental psychedelia.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15 (advance), $17 (door). www.georgiatheatre.com* OLD SCHOOL FREIGHT TRAIN Hailed by Rolling Stone for its imaginative indie-folk arrangements, this Virginian quintet blends traditional genres into its own distinct style.

RAILROAD EARTH Celebrated bluegrass sextet from New Jersey with a modern jam band approach and theatrical flare. See p. 16.

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Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar DJS NO SOUND AND SHINE (Y) Electronic and hip-hop grooves.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 MILLIGAN Performing a set of cover songs from CSNY to Johnny Cash to Jack Johnson to Maroon 5, this acoustic duo reworks both classic rockers and more recent hits.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub JUSTIN EVANS Local guy Justin Evans wrangles intricate lyricism and twangy guitar into dirt-road romanticism.

MARA LEVI (Mah’ruh•Lee’vee), n.

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EMILY WHITE Chicago songwriter Emily White comes through town with a disarming stage presence and tunes that recall Lisa Loeb and Ani DiFranco.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com THE CAZANOVAS An invigorating blend of rock and roll, swing, jazz and R&B. Rye Bar 10 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens THE GROUP HUG Psychedelic transients offer garage rock from above and beyond.

LAZER/WÜLF This local avant-metal trio mixes in prog, thrash, and more eclectic influences, and was named the 2008 Flagpole Band of the Year.

MARRIAGE Truly unclassifiable local rock trio whose recently-released sophomore record, II, features a more melodic, acoustic approach as opposed to the sludgy chuggage of the first record.

(Ham1) on guitar and vocals plus a rotating cast of supporting musicians.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com* THE KNOCKOUTS New local act featuring Steve Casadont, Kevin Sims, Charles Greenleaf, Ned Gardiner, Bill Oglesby and Alliene Bouchard. The act performs an array of traditional music—from polka to bluegrass to Irish folk music—in a rather nontraditional, punk-inspired way.

MAYHEM STRING BAND Veteran instrumental bluegrass quintet from Mississippi.

PACKWAY HANDLE BAND Packway’s “gather around the mic” approach to bluegrass provides sly, hearty original songs and renditions of classic tunes.

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

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net FINDING FICTION Whirring, wideeyed rock from Mario Santana, a guitarist in the local group The Winter Sounds.

GREEN GERRY Particularly dreamlike and subtly electronic local trio, like a lullaby from a distance.

IT’S ELEPHANTS Big, soulful, blues vocals screech over edgy and erratic rock from this Atlanta group.

Tasty Bar. 10:30 p.m. FREE! www. tastyworld.net DJ PHILIP RICH House music every Wednesday!

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.

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.

The Melting Point Presented by the UGA Music Business Program. 7 p.m. $5 (w/ UGA ID), $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND Hosted by Bruce Burch and featuring Jim McBride (“Chattahoochee,” “Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow”), Jerry Salley (recorded with Reba McEntire and many more), Caroline Aiken (Athens-based lengendary songwriter). Rachel Farley opens.

Presented by the UGA Music Business Program.

Thursday 26 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.40watt.com SUGARLAND Grammy Awardwinning country duo.

Alibi 9 p.m.–1 a.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 “STAN’S ALMOST FAMOUS KARAOKE” Every Thursday.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com ‘POWERS Your most awesome nightmares have all come simultaneously true: four guitarists and one drummer, set up in the corners of the venue for the full, quadrophonic rock experience.

HARVEY MILK Local sludge rock gods Harvey Milk play another of their infrequent shows, this time with the addition of bassist Joe Preston of the Melvins.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar DRUID CITY Julien DeRocher’s songs are pastoral, emotional and sincerely moving folk-leaning works decorated with electronic flourishes.

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Little Kings Shuffle Club 9:30–10:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace. com/littlekingsshuffleclub MONKEY Local band provides rockabilly bluegrass pickin’.

No Where Bar 11 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 BOMB CHEWY Soulful vocals lead this jazz-influenced jam band from Milledgeville, accented by a lively horn section.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens ARMS AND SLEEPERS A dense, experimental, electronic mist, rolling in from Boston.

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.

INCENDIARIES Local indie-prog outfit featuring ex-Cinemechanica bassist and Shitty Candy member Erica Strout.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net O’ BROTHER The spirit of Jeff Buckley echoes in this Atlanta band’s grand, slightly dark melodies.

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scented Bubblegum EP for a set of fun, alternative rock numbers.

THE WINTER SOUNDS Local band that infuses elements of new wave, punk and synth-pop into its carefully crafted and lyrically inspiring songs.

7-10 p.m. FREE! ($5 suggested donation). www.tastyworld.net INVISIBLE CHILDREN AT UGA BENEFIT Showcasing some of UGA’s most talented and passionate musicians, this concert celebrates the release of the UGA club’s benefit CD, Acoustic Activism.

Performers include John French, The Regulars Band, Chelsea McCown, Ally Simmons, Russ Spicer, Daniel Bohannon and UGA Idol finalist LaShon Leggett.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com THE INCREDIBLE SANDWICH Athens-based instrumental jam band with some tropical leanings.

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.

Friday 27 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.40watt.com SUGARLAND Grammy Awardwinning country duo.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 THE RATTLERS This four-piece Southern rock band continues to build an impressive local following as its sound has evolved from straight blues to edgier rock.

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com THE RIBS With energetic Southern and classic rock originals and covers, the band hopes to “inspire redneck behavior.”

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com MAGIC MISSILE Jake Mosely, Meghann Jordan, Wyatt Nicholson, Creston Spiers and Brian Smith make up the current incarnation of Magic Missile.

NUTRIA Featuring bassist Andy Pope, guitarist Dave Weiglein (exEskimos), guitarist/vocalist Bob Spires (ex-Possibilities) and drummer Jason Eshelman (ex-Eskimos, Fairburn Royals).

T. T. MAHONY AND THE STANDARD 8 Local, irreverent piano-rock, like a dirty, debaucherous Billy Joel. Tonight marks the CD release of the band’s Young Lovers.

See Record Reviews on p. 15.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BILLIE DAVIS AND THE CLARKE COUNTY LINE Classic country covers.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar CREEPY These four local ladies weave haunting harmonies and vitriolic cries over lush psychedelic sounds.

THE NICE MACHINE Local surf-punk trio whose debut album, Earthquake Drill, is now available.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com* LORD T AND ELOISE Tennessee’s rap duo Lord T & Eloise has de-

Saturday, February 28

Daniel Peiken

THE CALENDAR!

Ham1, Don Chambers + GOAT, Jeff the Brotherhood Caledonia Lounge For Ham1 singer Jim Willingham, success isn’t measured in dollars or MySpace friend requests. He doesn’t get bogged down trying to manufacture that one career-changing chart-topper or radio hit.

Music is a part of his lifestyle, and he says it’s more important to him to create a body of Ham1 work than a flash-in-the-pan success. “It’s really more about the whole creative process,” says Willingham,”and the camaraderie and community you create.” So, when Ham1 was ready to follow up 2007’s Captain’s Table, there was no hesitation. The goal was simply to get the tunes onto tape and out to the public as quickly and efficiently as possible. With the help of Nashville producer Loney John Hutchins, Ham1 put the finishing touches on the delightfully breezy record The Underground Stream last summer and then posted the tracks online for fans to download at no cost.

Willingham says the record has seen over 1,000 downloads in the past few months, and he is just delighted to get the exposure. While Willingham espouses digital media and the unique interactivity a website can generate between fan and musician, even the best song can sound thin and flimsy buzzing through computer speakers. So tonight, Ham1 proudly unveils the vinyl version of The Underground Stream, care of Nashville label Infinity Cat. The LP really brings out the bass tones and the warm, ‘60s lounge feel that inspired these songs. You’ll hear traces of old Chet Atkins records, surf guitar, old movie soundtracks and more in the rich analog recording.

New bandmember Jeff Fox makes his debut with Ham1 tonight as the group showcases songs from The Underground Stream plus some brand new material. Also on the bill are Don Chambers + GOAT and Jeff the Brotherhood, the members of which happen to be the founders of Infinity Cat. [Michelle Gilzenrat]

veloped a style the members call Aristocrunk, a WASPy approach to an urban genre (and the name of its debut album).

PRETTY LIGHTS Colorado DJ duo and a live drummer weave a relaxing web of electronica and classic hiphop. See feature on p. 17.

Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B, and a whole lotta unexpected faves as DJ Mahogany dips into his bag of goodies from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $10. www.meltingpointathens. com SONS OF SAILORS A Jimmy Buffett cover band featuring members of the Tony Pritchett Band.

Mercury Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.mercuryathens.com THE PHILIP MAYER TRIO Local jazz band lends to Mercury’s ongoing live jazz series.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens ELIJAH This four-piece band takes cues from blues, rock, funk, jazz and even some hip-hop to mix up an improvisational stew.

GOODNIGHT APATHY Recently relocated to Athens, this alternative rock band mixes its Incubus-meetsChris Cornell thrash with a flourish of keys.

Tasty World 10 p.m. FREE! www.tastyworld.net DEAD ELEPHANT BICYCLE Broken, weary vocals somewhere between Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen backed by brooding cellos and acoustic guitar.

THE JACK BURTON Local punk band featuring former members of departed Athens faves like Hunter-Gatherer, Let’s Surf! and Exit 86.

SOUND HOUSES The six-member band includes numerous E6 luminaries and delivers quirky, driving rhythms with an optimistic postpunk feel.

SPRING TIGERS UK transplant Kris Barratt (ex-Capes) fronts Athens’ own melodic Britpop/punk band Spring Tigers.

YARDWORK North Carolina psychpop collective builds a wall of sound overgrown by a vine of flowers.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com PONCHO MAGIC Bluegrass sensibilities with country-rock execution.

The multi-part vocal harmonies are the real show, though.

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com TONY MOYER Good Times Band and Impulse Ride bassist plays solo material, sometimes joined by former Good Times bandmate Jayson Sabo.

Saturday 28 283 Bar 11 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 KERBLOKI Synthesized sounds back this Chapel Hill rap-rock party band.

DJ STANDALOUS Fellow member of Velveteen Pink and Immuzikation.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com HOLY LIARS This local four-piece tends towards blue-collar rock.

ROLLIN’ HOME This band jams originals with a Dead groove and a Southern rock leaning.

WILX Local rock band with alternative and grunge roots, soaked in Southern styling.

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com LINGO Funky, soulful jam band from Marietta that recently recorded its debut album with John Keane (R.E.M., Widespread Panic) here in town.

ATHICA 8-9:30 p.m. $3-$6 (suggested donation). www.athica.org BART KING Longtime Athens musician, environmental journalist, and ATHICA’s “Running on Empty” curator will give a tour of the exhibit and perform selections from his 2004 soul-rock EP “Start Something.”

Blind Pig Tavern “Fight Like Cynthia” Benefit for Breast Cancer Awareness. 9 p.m. $5. 706548-3442 AVERY DYLAN PROJECT Electric blues backed by Clint Swords and Mike Strickland.

ADAM PAYNE Performs an acoustic set of his soulful funk.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com DON CHAMBERS + GOAT The fullband action finds a raucous gang delivering Southern Gothic rock.

HAM1 Celebrating the release of The Underground Stream on vinyl tonight! The new record from locals Ham1 offers a breezy take on straight ahead ‘60s garage rock. See Calendar Pick on p. 22.

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Dirty garage rock spews angrily from this energetic Nashville duo.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THAYER SARRANO Lovely, airy vocals singing dark, gentle melodies over guitar while backed by lap steel, bass and drums.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar ANNIE AND HER GUNS Brooklynbased moody, confident folk like “P.J. Harvey after charm school, fiddling with a pedal steel,” says one Flagpole contributor.

BO HATCHET Proficient, eccentric Appalachian quirk-folk complete with tradition, kazoos and a delicious sense of humor.

OWLBEAR Solo acoustic singer/ songwriter based here in Athens whose plaintive voice is reminiscent of Jeff Mangum’s.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar BAAK GWAI Indie prog-rock from Alabama. The new album is called Find a Stranger in the Alps.

MASS SOLO REVOLT Since Martin Brummeler moved back to Athens, there’s been more feedback, angles and weirdness in his pop tunes.

ODIST See Calendar Pick on p. 20.

TWIN POWERS Danceable new wave and Britpop tunes.

Just Pho and More 7– 9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1420 JEFF SOILEAU A combination of new age, classical and jazz on guitar.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens ALL THAT MARCH Walton County thrash metal.

KARBOMB Local trio (Webster Couch, Nick Skillman and Jesse Messer) plays high-velocity, erratic and angry punk.

Tasty World 10 p.m. FREE! www.tastyworld.net BUBBLY MOMMY GUN Local band featuring members of Sleeping Friends and Ice Cream Socialists.

CARS CAN BE BLUE Quirky and sometimes naughty local duo. As the band says, imagine Sarah Silverman fronting Dressy Bessy: bubblegum pop with raunchy, satirical lyrics.

JOHN BARRETT’S BASS DRUM OF DEATH Mississippi guy John Barrett gets it done with just a guitar, kick drum and vocals, delivering greasy, rhythmic rock and roll with a shimmy and a grudge.

THE MATT KURZ ONE Kurz literally plays drums, keyboard, guitar and bass by himself.

TIMMY TUMBLE Tim Schreiber from Dark Meat and The LickitySplits. DM bandmate Jim McHugh promises “a one man bander Princechanneling dirtbag wail.”

TURBO FRUITS Nashville garage rock trio finds some greasy medium between MC5 and the Black Lips.

Johnson of Carrot Eaters, whose sound is “primarily focused towards doing justice to its name.”

MUCHOS GRACIAS Mercer West and David Specht play lead guitar and bass guitar, respectively.

OICHO KABU Charleston band that proudly names Yoko Ono and klezmer among its varied influences.

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

Monday 2 283 Bar 9 p.m.–2 a.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 “HEAVY METAL MONDAY” With Joel aka “DevilNECK” behind the bar, and your favorite rockers on the sound system. Bring your iPod with a 15 minute playlist of your favorite metal tunes.

Fat Daddy’s 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 NATHAN SHEPPARD Known for his emotive singing style and his modern reworkings of classic tunes.

Tuesday 3 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BEFORE THE SOLSTICE Heavy alt-rock trio whose weight lies on its social and political views.

THE HUMMS Imagine the sunny side of ‘60s garage rock tainted lyrically by mischievousness and a quirky flirtation with evil.

INNER CITY SURFERS CanadianAmericana quartet plays podunkpunk for partying.

KILROY Country-tinged rock that’s received comparisons ranging from Neil Young to Galaxie 500.

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.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar FISH SCHTICKS Local riot grrrl act featuring Blake Tabb from Gemini Cricket.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com RACHEL O’NEAL Songwriter who has sung in such bands as Truth in Advertising and Moonlight Sol.

Georgia Theatre 10 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com BROCK BUTLER & VALUE REGRET POOP The frontman of the local group Perpetual Groove is joined onstage by his PG bandmates to back his solo material. Cuts from the band’s LiveLoveDie should also be expected.

UGA Memorial Hall Cada de Amistad Fundraiser. 7 p.m.$10, $6 (UGA students). www. athensamistad.org INCATEPEC A combination of traditional tunes from South America and Cuba with a unique jazz twist.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com THE CAN’T HARDLY PLAYBOYS Funky Louisiana trio of multi-instrumentalists offer a psych-jazz spin on the familiar jam band formula.

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com DAVE FIRMIN Vocalist for Augusta’s alternative rock band Edison Project.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net DAFFODIL Fuzzed-out, early-’90s sounding heavy rock and roll.

DUE PANIC Soulful alt-rock quartet from NC, like a rough draft of an American Radiohead or Muse.

GREY MILK New to Athens, this edgy folk rock outfit recently relocated to the Classic City from New England.

Sunday 1 Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com KETCHUP FART Experimental, electronic indie helmed by Garrett

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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 Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa (Downtown Athens) Now accepting applications for upcoming artists’ market. Deadline is Apr. 5.

Also seeking musicians and volunteers, especially crafters interested in manning demo stations. www. athensindiecraftstravaganzaa.com 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 Seeking Artists (Village Herb Shop) Email slides to villageherbshop@gmail.com.

AUDITIONS Classic City Sounds (Athens Creative Theatre) Athens Creative Theatre seeks singer/songwriters under the age of 21 to audition for an upcoming show hosted by a local recording artist. Submit CDs, website and photo to ACT, attention T.A. Powell, 293 Gran Ellen Drive.

706-714-6516

CLASSES “The Anatomy of a Novel” (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Writing workshop led by Terry Kay. Fundamental techniques—including outlining, character development and self-editing—will be emphasized. Space is limited. Mar. 21 & 22. $100. 706-769-4565, info@ ocaf.com

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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 Yang style tai chi chuan. 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 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 Cooking Class (Maison Bleu) Call to register. Mar. 10, 6 p.m. $15, $20 (including wine). 706-769-6480, www.maison-bleu.com Cooking Class: Ireland’s St. Patrick’s Day Foods (Earth Fare Café) Led by Chef Michael Perkins. Call to reserve a spot. Mar. 11, 6 p.m. FREE! 706-227-1717 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

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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 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 Homebuyer Education Workshop (El Banco de la Oportunidad—995 Hawthorne Avenue) Athens Land Trust offers a two-day workshop to prepare prospective buyers for homeownership success. Space is limited, registration encouraged. Feb. 27 & Mar. 6, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! 706613-0122 Knot Tying Workshop (Ramsey Student Center—Room 213) Learn how to tie knots useful to everyday

OC Carlisle’s “Falling Leaves” is part of the Lyndon House Arts Center’s 34th Annual Juried Exhibition. situations and outdoor adventures.

Feb. 25, 6–9 p.m. $10 (UGA students), $12 (UGA faculty & staff), $15 (all others). 706-542-8030 Martial Arts Class (American Black Belt Academy) Call to register.

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11 a.m. 706549-1671, www.athensjiujitsu.com Mindfulness Meditation Group (Healing Arts Centre) Meditation instruction for beginners.

First Monday of every month. 7:10– 8:40 p.m. FREE! 706-546-7238 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 Rolfing Structural Integration Demo (Athens YMCA) Learn about Rolfing Structural Integration, a system of soft tissue manipulation and movement education. Led by Certified Advanced Rolfers Neal Anderson and John Schewe. Mar. 5, 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-224-8013 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 200-

hour program over seven weekends starting in March. Call to register.

706-355-3114, www.athensfivepointsyoga.com, www.rolfgates.com Website Workshop (Athens Technical College) Anne Jenkins leads a workshop on the basics of website creation and design.

Registration form online. Mar. 14, 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $20. 706-5594841, www.adcg.org 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 at its productions throughout the year. 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) Pet soup kitchen that helps needy families feed their pets seeks volunteers. Dog food donations can be dropped at any AAHS location or the adoption center. denise@athenshumanesociety.org 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 Camp Amped (Nuçi’s Space) Nuçi’s Space now accepting applications for summer music camps open to middle and high school students ages 11 & up. Applications and scholarship info online. June 8–20 & July 6–8. 706-227-1515, www. nuci.org Children’s Drumming Classes (Call for location) Led

by Dr. Arvin Scott. Mondays, 4, 4:35 & 5:10 p.m. $25/month. 706-4259451, arvinscott5@hotmail.com Creative Movement (Floorspace) Ongoing class for ages 3–5.

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

706-850-5557, www.floorspaceathens.com Kids’ Art Camps (Good Dirt) Good dirt hosting a spring break art camp for kids ages 6 & up Mar. 9–13 ($55/day or $220 for full week). Also

now registering for summer camps.

Complete schedule and registration at www.gooddirt.net. 706-355-3161 Kids’ Bead Class (Native America Gallery) Ages 6 & up. Mar. 14, 6–7 p.m. $25. 706-543-8425 Nature Photography Workshop (Sandy Creek) Ages 13 & up. Call for fee info. Preregistration required. Feb. 28, 9 a.m.

706-613-3631 Yoga Sprouts (Full Bloom Center) Call to register. 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 Church) 12-step 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 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 and their family members. Tuesdays. 706549-7888, 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. 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 Church. FREE! www.geocities.com/athensoa

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. 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. “A Pleasant Territory: Grasslands in the Southeast,” featuring paintings by Philip Juras. Mar. 2–27. Reception Mar. 6.

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 (Suite Gallery) Installations from Imi Hwangbo’s class “Sculpture and Spatial Context: Expanded Notions of Sculpture.”

Through Mar. 6. Reception Feb. 27. (Art Education Gallery & 3rd Floor North Bar Corridor) Youth Art Month Exhibition featuring work by students in the Clarke County School District. Mar. 1–28. Reception Mar. 22.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Call for location) Support group for family members of service members and veterans with PTSD. Contact Jamie at 706725-1077 for details.

ON THE STREET FREE! Tax Assistance (Various Locations) For taxpayers with low to moderate income. Mondays 1–5 p.m. at Oconee County Library.

Tuesdays 1–4:30 p.m. at Oglethorpe County Library. Wednesdays– Saturdays 9 a.m.–1 p.m. at Kroger on Epps Bridge Rd. Thursdays 9 a.m.–1 p.m. at Athens Council on Aging. 706-543-9511 FREE! Tax Preparation (Hancock Community Development Corporation—300 Henderson Ext.) Will help clients e-file or prepare a copy to mail. 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 f

Lyndon House Arts Center 34th Annual Juried Exhibition, featuring work by area artists in a variety of media. Through May 9.

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. To celebrate Youth Art Month, an exhibit featuring over 150 works of art from 12 Oconee County schools.

Mar. 1–25. Reception Mar. 1.

Oglethorpe County Library Artwork from the Oglethorpe County Child Development Center.

Through Feb. 27.

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

State Botanical Garden of Georgia Landscapes by Hermann Kosak. Mar. 1–22. Reception Mar. 1.

The Grit Wood-cut prints and paintings by Thayer Sarrano. Paintings done in salt and spray paint by Dana Jo Cooley. Through mid-March.

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

Confused, I think you should try actually living here as long as you’re going to be here for another year and a half anyway. I know that you feel safe with this guy because you already know him, but why not try living in the moment, and say, meeting somebody new?

If you want to stay at home and marry your high-school boyfriend, what’s the point of going to grad school out of state (I have to assume your home town is in another state)?

Look, you are still young. Get out and meet new people and have new experiences. Live a little. See some sights. Stay in touch with your ex/buddy, but don’t go back to another long-distance thing that’s going to stress you out and detract from your schoolwork and your social life. If you find yourself a year and a half from now, graduate degree in hand, still pining for this guy, then go home and try to date him again. But doing it now will only be stepping backward.

So, I went out with some friends the other night. One of them is a girl I have known for a long time and have also had a crush on for a long time. I think she knows, and it is possible thats she feels the same way, but I have never confirmed this. We have been friends, or at least traveled in the same group of friends,

Well, BB, the good news is that this girl already knows you well enough to know that you don’t normally black out and wake up in strange beds (right?). She also knows how much you were drinking, and she was very likely also very drunk. This may be the perfect opportunity to have the conversation you’ve been trying to have. What you should do is call her and ask her to go out for coffee or lunch or something. Then start by saying how wasted you were the other night, how confused you were in the morning, and how you hope you didn’t snore too much or something.

After that you should just say something like “Hey, by the way, I have no idea what happened the other night but did we make out and was it as good as I suspect making out with you would be?” Then just tell her that you’re sorry for getting too drunk but that you had been trying to work up the courage to tell her how you feel and maybe you went just a bit overboard in the consumption department.

It is possible that she was also that drunk and won’t remember, but in any case I think she’ll be glad you’re at least being honest with her. Good luck, and if it goes well, try to tone down the celebratory drinking, eh?

Jyl Inov Got a question for Jyl? Submit your anonymous inquiry via the Reality Check button at www.Flagpole.com.

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for a couple years. The feelings have only developed over the last couple of months. We have always gotten along well; we know a lot of each other’s secrets, most of each other’s friends; and in short, this would be an easy and fairly ideal match, except that I seem to be having a problem talking to her about it. So, the other night I was determined to just say “fuck it” and tell her how I feel and ask her if she wanted to try going out with me. A big group of friends was going to a show. We all got together at one of our regular watering holes beforehand. We drank. A lot. I bought her a beer and a shot. It was all going according to plan. We went to the show. We all had a great time. After the show, several of us walked over to get some food. We were very, very drunk. I remember that much.

We ate. Several of us decided to keep the party going, so we went to somebody’s house.

That’s pretty much the last thing I remember. The next thing I knew, I had woken up in her bed. IN HER BED! And it’s late the next afternoon. And we’re both still mostly dressed, which was cool, and in fact, a big relief. But still, I have no idea what happened, and now I’m afraid to ask. I have no idea how or when we got there. But I would remember if there had been a hot and heavy makeout session, right? RIGHT?!

OhShitOhShitOhShitOhShit, Jyl! What should I do? I really like this girl! There wasn’t much said when she woke up. There was definitely no cuddling, but it wasn’t cold and weird, either. I know we didn’t do that much, but is it possible that I finally got drunk enough to kiss her and now I don’t remember? I left pretty quickly, but I didn’t act like I was freaked out. I just said I would see her later or whatever. Now I am freaking out because I don’t want to blow it. Help me say the right thing.

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I have been in this town for less than a year.

When I first came here for school, I had a boyfriend back home. Our plan was to make things work long distance until he was able to get here or I was done with grad school. This was a disaster from the beginning. He would call me at all hours, drunk and jealous and wondering where I was and when I was coming home, I would end up crying and not getting any sleep and barely making it through class the next day. It was terrible. Things were already bad when I went home for fall break, and then they just got worse. We ended up breaking up, after I spent money I didn’t have just to fly back and see him, and he was a real jerk.

Okay, enter my ex. The rest of that week I hung out with him. We dated in high school and have stayed friends because I am from a very small town and I know his sister and his parents, etc. So, we had a good time and he made me feel better about the breakup. I went back to school in a much better mood. We continued to stay in touch, through phone calls and emails and Facebook, and when I went home for Christmas, we ended up spending even more time together. He was very sweet to me and hung out with my family at the holidays and everything, and my mom said later that she wondered why I didn’t go back with him. Well, I came back here without saying anything about it, but we’re still talking all the time, and he is single and so am I. Now I am starting to have feelings for him and I think the feeling is mutual. Am I crazy to try and start another longdistance relationship? I would hate to waste this opportunity and have him find somebody else, but I am afraid that if I go out with him it will be more of the same problems I had with the last guy. What do you think?

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Real Estate Apartments for Rent $400/mo. 1BR/1BA Upper level unit located in Normaltown.

A must see. HWflrs in lv. rm., din. rm. & BR. Kitchen w/ fridge, stovetop & oven. Great location, great price. Avail. Aug. 09.

Current tenant willing to sublease.

Call (706) 355-9961. By appt. only. $450/mo. Location, Location, Location! Taking reservations for Aug. move-in. 291 S. Finley Bluffs Apt.’s 1BR. 550 sq. ft. 2 blocks from UGA campus. (678) 6135600. 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.

1BR/1BA in quiet, idyllic farm house. 10–15 min. from campus.

Nicely furnished. $300/mo. + 1/3 utils. Pets negotiable. HWflrs., sec. sys. Pls. call (706) 201-7450, lv. msg. Refs. preferable.

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

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. $525/mo. FP, DW, CHAC. Close to town & UGA. Dogs OK. (706) 749-9141.

2BR/2BA condo on Baxter St. on UGA & City busline. New carpet, newly redecorated, 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 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.

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

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

3BR/2BA located on the Westside.

Rivers Edge condo complex. $695/ mo. On busline, close to shopping.

Kitchen appls, carpet, wood flrs & paint all within the last yr. (706) 546-0182.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Tall Oaks. Close to campus.

1BR/1BA. $500/mo. (706) 549-6070.

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.

Very 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.

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.

Westside condos. 2BR/2BA, $600/mo. 3BR/2BA, $700/ mo. Converted clubhouse into a huge open flr. plan. 4BR/2.5BA, $1200/mo. Eastside quadraplex 2BR/2BA, $525/mo.2BR/1BA, $490/mo. Call M c Wa t e r s Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700.

Cobbham historic district. 1BR apt.

Heart pine flrs. + ceil. fans. CHAC, W/D, garage w/ auto opener. NS. No pets. Call (706) 340-1283.

Apartments for Sale

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.

$105,000. 2BR/2BA Scarborough Place ground level condo for sale.

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

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) 3692908.

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.

$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 C o m e r . O l d g e n e r a l s t o re 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) 5467814.

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.

200-400 sq. ft. studios/offices.

N a t u r a l l i g h t , C VA C , B R s , common area w/ kit. $250-450/ mo. Call (706) 338-0548.

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.

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.

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.

Houses for Rent $1075/mo., 3BR/2BA, lg. house, only 5 min. to campus. Popular Eastside, safe n’hood, exc. cond., no pets. 475 Crestwood Dr. Call Mike at (706) 207-7400 or email mikejoyner@charter.net. $1500/mo. 3BR/3BA. Very cool home, over 3K sq. ft. on 3.5 ac.

Open flrplan, vaulted ceilings, skylights, game rm., sun rm., great master suite. Covered back patio w/ wet bar, 2–car garage, shed, fenced yd. Pets welcome!

Located in highly desirable Cherokee Forest in N. Athens. 122 Featherwood Ct. For lease/sale $259K. Call Anne (706) 354-6620, or www.anneshouses.com. $350–$1950/mo. 1BR, 2BR, 3BR, 4BR, & 5BR. Prices reduced!

Awesome walk & bike to campus & town! Pre–leasing for Fall!

Many historical houses w/ lg. rms, high ceilings, big windows, HWflrs., old–world charm, modern amenities. Porches, & yds. Pet friendly. These go fast! Email for list: luckydawg96@yahoo.com. $400/mo. 1BR/1BA in a funky old house/triplex. CHAC, fenced yd. Pets welcome! Shared W/D. Off Hill St. at 323 the Plaza. Anne (706) 354-6620. $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) 847-1687, 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. $850–$950/mo. 2 beautiful homes on Eastside in Villas at Snapfinger. 3BR/2BA w/ pergo flrs., 2BR/2BA new carpet, CHAC, all electric, W/D hookups, nice yds., family oriented n’hood. Mins. to UGA, Dwntn, shopping, grocery.

Call Kate (706) 850-0563. Email EastAthensRentals@gmail.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. $925/mo. 2BR/1BA in Blvd area.

Avail. 6/1. HWflrs, lg. screened front porch. Huge BRs, bonus rm., W/D hookups, CHAC. Quiet end of street. Storage bldg. in back also avail. Pets OK. (612) 799-0516, lv msg.

1/2 mi. from Downtown. 1, 2, 3, 4BR houses & apts. located in the historic Blvd. n’hood.

Please check out boulevard propertymanagement.com or call (706) 548-9797.

102 Overlook Dr. 2BR/1BA house on Eastside. Fenced–in yd. Pets OK. $750/mo. Call (706) 549-6070.

175 Sylvan Dr. 3BR/1BA home w/ great location near ARMC. $850/ mo. Newly painted BRs. Avail. now! Pls. call (706) 540-1810, (706) 433-2072, or email cbolen@ upchurchrealty.com.

1BR up to 4BR houses. Prel e a s i n g f o r n e x t s c h o o l y r.

Close to UGA & Dwntn. Call ( 7 0 6 ) 7 1 4 - 4 4 8 6 o r e ma i l a t hathawayrichard@hotmail.com.

1BR/1BA carriage house. Pre– leasing for 6/1. CHAC, W/D, oak flrs. Screened porch. $500/mo.

Email hathawayproperties@gmail. com, call (706) 714-4486.

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.

285 Clark Dr. Newly remodeled.

Fenced yd, pet friendly. $900/mo.

(706) 549-6070.

2BR/1.5BA East Athens Duplex for rent. Fresh paint, new carpet, W/D, DW, range, fridge, trash & yard service incl. Pets OK. Avail. now! $550/mo. Call Mike (877) 740-1514 toll free.

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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 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. 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!

B r i g h t , s u n n y, H W f l r s , s m . screened porch, CHAC, W/D, sec. sys. Fenced yd., great for dogs! $625/mo. Call Britt (770) 713-4278.

2BR/1BA cottage. 1 block from 5 Pts. Quiet street, lush private fenced yd., DW, W/D, CHAC, HWflrs, sunrm. Walk/bike everywhere. $975/mo. (706) 338-7364.

2BR/2BA mobile home. Only 3 yrs. old! Close to UGA on Inglewood Ave. All appls. incl. W/D. $575/ mo. No pets. Avail. now! Call (706) 540-0472.

2BR/2BA townhouse avail. 6/09 or 8/09. Near UGA & Dwntn.

Historic Art/Mill district. Priv. porches. Gated cour tyd. On Greenway. Bamboo woods. Pets OK. $700/mo. (706) 340-4282, (706) 714-7600.

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/1.5BA, pre–leasing. 5 Pts., 1 block to UGA & Milledge Ave. Beautiful home. $1500/mo. $500/ BR. Includes utilities. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

3BR/1.5BA. 288 4th St. Pre–leasing for 8/1/09. Fenced yd. DW, CHAC, big yd. W/D, FP, garbage disposal, HWflrs. Pecan trees. $800/mo. + $800/sec. (706) 254-2936.

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. 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, pre–leasing. 5 Pts., walk to bus. Lg. house, screened porch, lg. deck, fenced, sec. sys., garage, family rm. oak flrs. $1350/mo. $450/BR. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

3BR/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) 2072957.

3BR/3BA. Huge house on Greenway! $1400/mo. All appls.

978 MLK Pkwy. Avail. 8/1. (706) 713-0626.

49 Gail Drive. Cute 3 or 4BR. HWflrs., CHAC, fenced yd. Pets OK. No pet fees! Always rents quickly! $795/mo. (706) 372-6813.

4BR/2BA house on Eastside for rent. HWflrs., carport, lg. yard. $1K/mo. www.infotube.net/152273.

Call (706) 369-9679, cell (706) 207-0935, or call Pam (706) 5403809 lv. msg.

4BR/2BA. Blvd. area. P r e – leasing for 6/1. Historic lg. home.

High ceilings, wood flrs. $375/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.

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.

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.

Avail. now & fall! 4BR/2BA p ro p e r t y i n 5 P t s n e x t t o memorial park. Ver y c lo s e to campus. $1100/mo. W/D, HVAC, DW. (706) 296-9546, (706) 296-9547, on www.cityblock.biz.

Awesome 1BR/1BA old shared house! $650/mo. Recently remodeled. Lg., 800 sq. ft., HWflrs., all appls. 340 Ruth St. Apt. A. Avail. 8/1. (706) 7130626.

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.

Brick ranch. 3BR/1.5BA. Nice shaded fenced in backyd. 1 car garage. Home in excellent condition! Call (706) 549-4050 or (706) 778-9295.

Comer. Lg. 3BR/2BA renovated farm house. CHAC, 0.5 ac. $800/ mo. (706) 201-5123.

Country Cottage. 1BR/1BA, 15 mins. to UGA & Dwntn. Appls incl. & W/D hookup. $450/mo. Call (706) 788-2988.

Cozy country cabin. $650/mo.

2BR/2BA screened porch. 9 mi. from Athens. (706) 540-8461.

Dwntn Athens historic renovated.

Occupancy Aug. 1st. Busline in front. 3 huge BRs/1 lg. BA. Lg. shower stall. 4 FPs, HWflrs. W/D. DW, stove, fridge, CHAC, din. rm., lv. rm. Long hallway. 1600 sq. ft.

Front wrap–around porch. Back screen porch. No pets. $1125/mo.

225 N. Ave. (706) 296-9873. See bulldogrent.com. 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 A t h e n s Te c h , W/D, DW, priv. back deck. Pets welcome. No pet fees! Dep. only $150! (706) 548-2522, www. dovetailmanagement.com.

Restrictions may apply.

Five Points. Fall pre–leasing.

1, 2, 3, & 4BR houses & apts.

See at www.bondrealestate.org.

Herbert Bond Realty & Investment.

(706) 224-8002.

For rent. Nice SWMH 2BR/1BA on 1 private ac. chain–link fenced yd. Only 15 min. from Dwntn Athens near Hull/Sandford. $450/ mo. Pet friendly. (706) 208-5221.

Historic Blvd. area near ARMC, Chase School. Quiet 2BR/1BA cottage. HWflrs., high ceilings, lg. kit., W/D, garden. Pets OK. Avail. now. $800/mo., lease, dep. (706) 206-7067.

Nor thside 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) 5493222, (706) 353-2700.

O n e c a l l , t h a t ’s a l l !

2BR/2BA 625B Whitehall, $675/ mo. 4BR/2BA, 322 Whitehall Rd., $750/mo. 3BR/2BA, 739 Beaverdam Rd. $850/mo.

3BR/2BA, 276 Oak Meadows $995/mo. 3BR/2BA, 125 Evergreen Terrace $995/mo.

3BR/2BA, 1060 Macon Hwy. $995/mo. 5BR/2BA, 2045 R o b e r t H a rd e m a n $ 9 9 5 / m o .

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 vir tual 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 $129,900. 2BR/2.5BA condo w/ all appls in quiet Eastside c o m m u n i t y. P o o l & w a l k i n g trails. Contact (706) 247-4811. $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 hathawayproper ties@gmail. com, call (706) 714-4486. $163,487. 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) 5434000.

$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.

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!

$94,900. Studio 40.

1BR/1BA. Tile & HWflrs., DW, courtyds, w/in walking distance to Ramsey Center! Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

Roommate wanted for 3BR/1BA historic 5 Pts. home. Avail. now!

HWflrs., W/D, DW, CHAC, new stove, huge yd., deck, great views & light. $366/mo., bills not incl.

(512) 627-1142.

Artistic Renovation of 1BR/1BA cottage w/ artist’s studio. 14ft. ceilings, reclaimed metal, reclaimed flrs., artistic metalwork throughout $129,900. Sarah Ellis w/ CJ&L (706) 559-4520, (706) 338-6265.

Own in Athens. Close to UGA. $106,900. 2BR/2.5BA. Call (706) 201-2121.

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) 4036120.

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.

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.

F needed, fur nished, 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.

M/F roommate wanted for 3BR/2BA house. 5–10 min. to Dwntn. W/D, DW, HVAC, lg. yd. $300/mo. + 1/3 utils. Avail. now!

Call Chris (706) 254-0284.

Still avail. Roommate needed for 3BR/1BA w/ 2 quirky musicians, off S. Lumpkin (Old Princeton).

Sm. rm., but cheap. $195/mo.

(706) 254-7397, jspencerrich05@ yahoo.com.

Rooms for Rent Close to campus off Milledge. Lg. BR, priv. BA. $300/mo. + 1/2 utils.

(706) 424-0670.

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.

2BR/1BA for sublet. Rent is $530/ mo. Avail. immediately. Location is on Appleby Dr., 1 mi. from Dwntn Athens & UGA campus. Wall–to– wall carpeting, balcony, W/D in apt. Lease runs through end of June 2009. No sec. dep. needed. I will turn over my $530 sec. dep. to you if you take over the lease. Call (912) 604-7803 or email jberry@ uga.edu.

Looking for a 2BR/1BA at ro o m m a t e p r i c e ( $ 3 2 5 / m o ) .

Subleasing from March–June, for more info email caadeja@hotmail. com or call (347) 534-7005 after 9:00pm.

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) 5490301. Deadlines every Monday at 11am. ➤ continued on next page

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.

Heart of 5 Pts. 3BR/2BA. Lv. rm., din. rm., & kitchen. No pets.

Unfurnished. $1450/mo. Call (706) 548-4358.

B es t rent al s in A t hens!

1–5BR houses, apts., condos.

In the heart of UGA/Dwntn/5 Pts. Avail. Aug! Call (706) 3692908 for more info.

3BR/2BA w/ lg. fenced–in yd. $800/mo. All appls. Eastside, close to Dwntn. Sec. sys. optional.

Avail. 3/1. 150 Binion Rd. (706) 713-0626.

3BR/2BA, pre–leasing.

Chase St., on busline, lg. house, oak flrs., fenced. Close to Dwntn. & UGA. Pets OK. $1050/mo. $350/BR. Email hathawayproper ties@gmail. com, call (706) 714-4486.

3BR/2BA pre–leasing. Close to Dwntn & UGA. HWflrs., W/D, DW, fenced. $300/BR. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

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Single professional woman 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 Computers 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

Yard Sales Sat. 8am to 1pm. Rain or shine.

Headboards, some furniture & household items. Women’s (size 4-8) clothes & children’s clothes. 365 Knottingham Dr., off of Oglethorpe.

Music Equipment Ask about our Run–till– Sold rate. Lowest classified ad rate in town! Call (706) 549-0301 or submit your ad through www.flagpole.com.

Restrictions may apply.

Traditional cherr y bedroom suite incl. king frame, armoire & 2 night stands. Like new! $800. Nice free mattress & box spring w/ purchase. (706) 2027059.

Drum set $300. Pearl Export 22x18 Bass, 12x9 & 13x10 toms 16x16 floor tom 51/2x14 wood snare. Zildjian cymbals. Also Pearl Eliminator double bass pedal $250. (706) 202-0291.

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) 5490301.

Fender Twin 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.

E a t y o u r v e g g i e s , n o C ’s allowed, call Mom’s Garage f o r q u a l i t y u s e d f u r n i t u re 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.

Instruction

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 furniture every day.

Go to Agora! Your favorite e v e r y t h i n g s t o r e ! 2 6 0 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

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

Athens School of Music.

Instruction in Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Voice, Brass, Woodwinds, Strings, Banjo, M a n d o l i n , F i d d l e , & m o re .

From beginner to exper t.

Instrument repairs avail. (706) 543-5800.

Guitar lessons taught by college guitar instructor. All styles. 16 yrs. exp. Students have won several guitar competitions. 1st lesson free.

Composition/theor y & bass lessons too. David Mitchell, ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 6 - 7 0 8 2 o r w w w. mitchellmusicguitar.com.

L o v e G u i t a r H e ro ? 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.

Entertainment for weddings, parties & other various social occasions. Over 20 yrs. e x p e r i e n c e t h ro u g h o u t t h e Southeast. Contact Neal (770) 560-6277.

F r e t S h o p . P ro f e s s i o n a l 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 2 0 y r. p r o . T h o u s a n d s o f p re v i o u s c l i e n t s . P ro c e e d s help benefit Nuçi’s Space.

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 visit www.squatme.com/ weddings. (706) 548-0457.

Stringed Instruments repaired. Respectful restoration of vintage i n s t r u m e n t s a s p e c i a l i t y.

Member of Guild of American Luthiers. R. Anthony Ianuario.

(706) 367-4788.

We buy used gear every day!

(770) 931-9190. Music–Go– Round buys hundreds of cool used instruments/equipment each wk. Open ever y day.

Bring trades!

Do you want to make $$$ with your music re l a t e d b u s i n e s s ? A re y o u advertising in Flagpole?

Call 706-549-0301 for details.

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

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

Services Computer Are you a techie? Cut your digital cable bill by $49/mo.

Host a slingbox for our market research. For details, email slingboxmarket@noof.com (AAN CAN).

Health O n l i n e P h a r m a c y. B u y Soma, Ultram, Fioricet, Prozac, Buspar. $71.99/90, $107/180 quantities. Price incl. prescription! Over 200 meds. $25 coupon meition offer: #71A31. (888) 661-4957. tripharmacy.net (AAN CAN).

Home and Garden Backyard Solutions.

Make your neighbors jealous!

Wa t e r f a l l s , p o n d s , f e n c e s , d e c k s , g a z e b o s , p o rc h e s , & more! Call Robin for free estimate! (706) 340-4492.

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

S u b u r b a n Tr a c t o r S e r v i c e .

(706) 769-8697.

Legal Services Got a legal or other dispute?

Tr y m e d i a t i o n , & t u r n y o u r conflict into consensus.

Alex Halow, Mediator. (706) 6 1 4 - 1 0 9 1 , o r g o t o w w w. alexhalow.com.

Massage

Opportunities

Revolutionary Massage & Wellness special: $40 intro 60 min. massage. Call (706) 2 5 5 - 4 4 4 3 or visit w w w. re v o l u t i o n a r y m a s s a g e . com for more info.

Data Entry Processors needed! Earn $3500–$5K/ wk. working from home.

Guaranteed paychecks. No e x p . n e c e s s a r y. P o s i t i o n s avail. today. Register online now. http://www.DataPositions. com (AAN CAN).

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).

L e a r n C h i n e s e ! 5+ yrs. experience teaching at American School of Shangai. Material provided. Just bring yourself!

Call (706) 254-8018 for more info.

Use a logo, graphic or border in your classified ad with C l a s s i f i e d D i s p l a y Advertising!!! Call 706-5490301 for more information.

Priv. parking lot 1 block from UGA main campus, South Thomas St. $40/mo. Assigned spaces. Football games not incl.

(706) 548-9137 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 Martial Arts. 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.

Jobs Full-time Cashier, Sushi Chef, & kitchen staff position avail. Apply at Inoko Express, Watkinsville location. (706) 769-7088.

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.

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!

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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.

NEED A JOB? Full-Time and Part-Time opportunities are listed weekly in the Flagpole Classifieds.

Rivermill Apts. seeks Student Ambassador. Fun, outgoing street team members for D w n t n A t h e n s p ro m o t i o n s .

Get students to inquire about apt. tours & leases. Hourly compensation & incentives.

Call (770) 548-1188.

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

Messages L e a v i n g t o w n ? Don’t know how to get your weekly Flagpole fix? Subscribe! $35 for 6 months, $55 for a yr.! Call (706) 549-9523.

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

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