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pub notes Around And About Flat Earth Society Our Republican-dominated state Senate, led by our own Sen. Ralph Hudgens, is meeting head-on the threat of stem cell research. Last week the Senate considered Senate Bill 169, which could criminalize stem cell research in Georgia.

SB 169, moreover, would define an embryo as a person. Don’t worry that this law will hamper scientific research in Georgia.

According to The Georgia Report, Hudgens told the Senate, “This bill does not inhibit research one bit. It will not prevent Georgia from being on the cutting edge of this research.” Our thanks to Hudgens and his Republican colleagues for keeping Georgia on the cutting edge of 20th-century science. Hats off, also, to Ralph for his oratorical courage. With utter disregard for the implications concerning his own political career, Hudgens boldly declared to his Senate colleagues, “It’s never right to do wrong.”

What Depression?

Friday evening, Mar. 13, with most UGA students gone on spring break, Clayton Street was its usual self, with every parking space taken, as if word of the world economic depression had not reached us. La Dolce Vita had a decent number of tables filled and a much more than decent asparagus risotto and a light and flavorful, not-too-tomatoey lasagna. The meal was topped off with crumbled, rum-soaked amaretto cookies in a creamy confection. La dolce vita, indeed!

THIS WEEK’S ISSUE: News & Features City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Athens News and Views

Paul Broun, Jr. keeps up his drumbeat, his former opponent James Marlow talks solar sense, and more.

Buy at Home! Buy in Athens! . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 A Campaign 90 Years Ago Was Way Ahead of Today’s Calls to Shop Locally Keeping your dollars in town is a great way to support the local economy, but it’s no new idea.

Arts & Events Grub Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Sweet Relief

Newly opened Ike & Jane impresses in Normaltown with baked goods, soups and sandwiches.

A Classic in His Own Right . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Robert Osborne Brings Timeless Films to Athens

COVER DESIGN by Kelly Ruberto featuring a photo of Madeline (see p. 19)

Mr. Osborne returns with an exciting roster of screen gems and special guests.

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Music New Turn at Bat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Athens’ Bloodkin Puts the Past in Order and Looks Toward the Future After hitting rock bottom, the band is clean, sober and stronger than ever.

White Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 The Stunning New Release from Athens’ Own Madeline Adams

The songwriter takes it to the next level with a strong DIY spirit and an even stronger backing band.

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What Surplus?

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Speaking of Depression and Republicans, we do need to remember who got us into this mess over an eight-year span and then threw a bunch of money at it on their way out. Yes, the same crowd who are now blaming President Obama for not fixing it in two months. They also tend to blame President Clinton, even though he left office with a balanced budget and over a hundred-billion-dollar surplus. (Surplus-deniers are of course at work saying the Clinton surplus never existed.)

Pineapples and Participles Patrons of Mama’s Boy restaurant at the end of last week got a surprise offer of a free, fresh pineapple as they finished their meals. Seems the management ordered four pineapples from a wholesaler and received four cases. Members of the Greater Cobbham Grit and Tofu Club all left clutching pineapples Friday morning after a session on participles.

Made Nationally, Bought Locally I dropped by Normal Hardware in Normaltown for a new leaf rake. There, for $8.99 I found one with steel tines and a wooden handle. It is made in America by the Gardex company in St. Louis—head and handle. The company has been owned for 65 years by the Keller family, who even have their own wood-finishing plant for the handles. I was delighted to find a good, American-made implement at an affordable price, and to find it right around the corner in Normal Hardware, where the owner is behind the counter. Bob Logan will personally help you find what you need and then will explain how to operate it. If he can’t, Dan Glenn will. If they don’t have what you want, they’ll order it. And they’ll remember you when you come back in. Of course, if the rain brings Lake Hartwell back up a little, Bob may be out fishing some afternoons.

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letters SGT. SMITH Thank you very much for your article on Sgt. Willie Smith [“Off the Downtown Beat,” Mar. 4]. His presence will be missed.

My tendency to test the flexibility of traffic laws on my bicycle only brought me into contact with Sgt. Smith once, but it was memorable: an equation of idiocy.

I was speeding down Clayton on my bike one sunny afternoon. I was in the right lane passing Doc Chey’s when a white Civic cut across two lanes right in front of me to snag a parking space. I locked down my brakes and avoided contact, missing the car by inches, but I was able to land a solid open-hand on the trunk of the car and I was about to tell the driver what I really thought when I heard, “Hey!” Huh? “Get over here!” demanded the voice. It took me a second to see him but there he was on the other side of the street, tall as hell, looking straight at me. I never even thought about disobeying. I slunk over to Sgt. Smith.

“What are you thinking, huh? He’s gonna get out of that car and he’s gonna shoot you!”

He paused for emphasis.

“Two stupid people make one bad situation. Now get out of here.” Stunned by the logic, but smarter for it, I slowly pedaled off to work.

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CONTACT US AT P.O. BOX 1027, ATHENS, GA 30603, LETTERS@FLAGPOLE.COM OR VIA THE “TALK BACK TO US” LINK AT FLAGPOLE.COM the dot-com crash in 2000. And as an ongoing warning, I’m thinking about the countless personal bankruptcies that have been Dear Pete: I generally appreciate your perdeclared because of irresponsible credit card spective, in large measure because you often habits. These examples could have served to advocate taking responsibility and making key remind us all that the basic laws of economics connections, and so I am surprised, and morecontinue to apply. These examples could have over troubled, by your analogy linking weather served as a reminder and and as a warning disasters to the current economic crisis. In that, for most of us, high-stakes gambling your Pub Notes, “Hard Times” [Mar. 11], you does not pay off. The exceptions to the rule write: “…we need to remember that we didn’t need not be our heroes or our models. The big cause this one. It has come on us unexpectwinners at the table are likely laughing at us edly—like a hurricane or a drought.” on their way to the bank for continuing to Economic crisis does not befall us as the roll the dice when the odds are clearly in their unwitting result of natural and supernatural favor, not in ours. forces beyond our control, and even the averWe could have seen this coming—many age lay-thinker, if given the exercise, could did—and we could have been more responcasually look backwards to unearth personal, sible, in our personal spending and accountinstitutional and ing habits, in our governmental actions response to irresponthat have conspired sible management of BUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: to create the curthe major corporarent global and local tions who call us economic crises. their customers, and I’m thinking, for in our level of particexample, about the ipation in the workThanks, Anna. Send sightings to ben@ ethos of entitlement ings of government. flagpole.com or call 706-549-9523. in the United States The betrayal is our that leads so many of own, but if we will us to consider living learn this lesson and beyond our means as a strategic and fiscally accept responsibility for betraying ourselves sound move—”you’ve got to spend money by wearing convenient blinders, then perhaps to make it (even if you don’t have it),” and we can effectively rally the creativity you rec“treat yourself; you deserve it.” ommend in your editor’s note to address the I’m thinking about the complacency of the current crisis conscionably and effectively, and U.S. citizenry, who deluded themselves into to avoid being blindsided by the obvious as thinking that the smoke-and-mirrors accountwe move forward. ing of our government(s) and transnational We are much smarter than this current corporations would be hunky dory in the end, mess indicates, and it’s time we took responsias if “prosperity for all on the backs of many” bility for the whole picture. were not an oxymoron.

Thank you for your ear (or eye, as the case It does not take much mental acuity to may be). I am grateful for all your good work understand that eventually, spending money at the Flagpole, and my response to your letone doesn’t have will present a big, bad ter is not meant to take you to task so much problem for balancing the checkbook, and we as it is meant to call all of us to action and have had plenty of warnings that our current accountability who might otherwise let ourtroubles were headed our way. selves off easily by locating responsibility As relatively recent global precedent and elsewhere and beyond our control à la the warning, I’m thinking about the Asian markets natural disaster case. crisis of the ’90s. As even more recent local The sentiment in your column that sets us precedent and warning, I’m thinking about up as unwitting victims is one that I hear too

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often, and it is one that I believe does not serve us well. If we take credit for our successes, then we must accept responsibility for our failings and address them with the same strength and conviction with which we accept our accolades.

This is not a time to call the insurance company to clean up the mess while we ride it out; this is a time to roll up our sleeves to work to understand how each of us with the power to vote (with dollars and literal votes) collaborated to achieve this mess and how each of us will collaborate to create both a way out and a sustainable future for the generations that follow.

Ashley David Athens P.S. Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country comes to mind as an inspirational and provocative text for these times.

HARD TIMES.2 It’s important to note that the “bad loans” and an economy based on Ponzi schemes and shell games was started during the Clinton administration. One hundred percent mortgages and even 115 percent mortgages were all conceived in the mid- to late ’90s. We are now finally feeling the effect.

Also, call me crazy, but I just don’t see this as a depression. The cell phone, Internet, cable TV, restaurant and even wireless Internet industries are booming. These are all clearly not necessary to survive, yet no one is turning them off or dining in for a night. It’s just that a generation of spoiled, impatient, wasteful brats can no longer buy a brand new car and live in a house twice as big as they should.

Everyone is still driving their cars, talking on their cell phones, eating out, blogging, emailing…

Go to Chili’s on a Sunday afternoon and tell me this is a depression. I think some older folks like your parents might disagree.

I enjoyed the article [Pub Notes, Mar. 11]; thanks for writing it.

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city dope Athens News and Views Here We Go Again: City Dope almost dismissed as spam a recent email with the subject “Fedzilla Goes Quack.” But just before hitting “delete,” he noticed the sender’s name—Congressman Paul Broun, Jr. To be more precise, this one was from candidate Paul Broun, Jr. and “Paid for by the Paul Broun Committee.”

In other words, watch your inboxes and your mailboxes both, as Dr. Broun is apparently on the 2010 campaign trail already. As for Fedzilla, that’s apparently some figment of the ultra-conservative imagination, described somewhere in the newsletter which Broun kindly fowarded. You won’t find any more of a review here, as City Dope hit “delete” after all.

trucks have been added, and the normal eightweek schedule could stretch to 15 weeks. “It will be ground into mulch, and it’ll create a lot more mulch than we normally have,” Corley said. He asked citizens to cut limbs into sixfoot lengths, but said, “we’ll pick up anything that’s out there, as long as it’s not too heavy.”

[John Huie]

Jailhouse Philosophy: This month’s Commission approval of more funds to transport inmates from our overcrowded jail to other counties’ got City Dope thinking—why does this country imprison so many more people, per capita, than other democracies do? “That’s really a philosophical question,” More on That Topic: Nearby in the inbox was a ACC Police Chief Jack Lumpkin told City Dope Paul Broun, Jr. original—yet another attempt recently. And it probably applies to prisons at excusing his utterly uncooperative spirit more than to local jails, he said. Unlike jail since President Obama took office and set inmates, who tend to reflect a cross-section about trying to fix the country’s economic of citizens, prison inmates are “disproportionproblems. A typical line said, “Instead of ately poor,” he said. “So what you have in unleashing America’s America is people who entrepreneurial spirit are not fully particithrough incentives for pating in the democsmall businesses and racy.” They often lack relief for hardworking “the ability to sustain families, the President oneself in a legal has created more debt vocation or profesand higher taxes, all sion,” Lumpkin said. underlined by the “Essentially, it’s theme that governrepeat offenders who ment alone can spend have some [drug] our way out of this dependency issues” economic crisis.” It’s that are a “catalyst” too bad that Broun for repeated crimes didn’t notice the who are filling entrepreneurial spirit prisons—along with on display when his violent criminals. “The one-time electoral violent criminals are opponent, James still going to prison Marlow, who now in Georgia, because owns a small solar we have, essentially, energy company in the mandatory senEven the yards of the dead weren’t spared from fallAtlanta, published a tencing laws in those pitch-perfect op-ed in ing limbs in this month’s snowstorm. areas.” But so full the Atlanta Journalare Georgia prisons Constitution dissecting the tired old dogma that even first-time burglars who get caught from both Georgia Power and the statehouse aren’t imprisoned these days. “And that, in my that there isn’t enough sun in Georgia for opinion, is just more of an economic reality solar power to work here. Good on ya, James. that the state has decided it will not utilize its resources in terms of funds to incarcerate Home to Roost: Just a quick note here, as it’s first-time burglars,” Lumpkin said. [JH] no surprise, but the bureaucratic wheels are turning to give Athens the bad air quality Around and About: It’s getting to be that designation whose receipt here has really only time of year again in Athens, when there are been a matter of time. Get ready for emissions too many things going on in a given week for checks, everybody! We’re going to be living you to even think about hitting them all. Just like Atlantans over here pretty soon, sure to take a couple of examples for this week, enough.

Friday will be a busy day at UGA with the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition bringing m Still Digging Out: “I’m just very happy a speaking tour to the Zell Learning Center on because my ’repair karma’ held.” So says the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq Janine Duncan of the UGA Grounds Division, War. Also that day, UGA law students host the who’s been working for a couple of years now annual Red Clay Conference, which might on repairs to the Old Athens Cemetery on sound like it’s just for lawyers and environJackson Street (see photo). Snow-wrecked mentalists but seems to have wider and wider limbs were still on the ground there when relevance with each passing year—for obviCity Dope snapped this picture last week, only ous reasons—so check it out, and look in The because campus crews had to prioritize widCalendar in this Flagpole for more info. owmakers that still threatened buildings and And in an encouraging sign of its conwalkways. But campus-wide, Duncan says, the tinued rebuilding as an organization, The cleanup should be about wrapped up by the Cottage (formerly the Sexual Assault Center of end of this week.

Northeast Georgia) is hosting its first annual Sexual Assault Awareness Week beginning Meanwhile, in Town: It could take a while, but on Mar. 22 and culminating with a 5K run on fallen limbs are being collected from Athens Mar. 29. See www.thecottage5k.com for more. yards, ACC Solid Waste Director Jim Corley told WGAU radio host Tim Bryant last week. Extra Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

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city pages Will Bus Tickets Go Up? Commish Wary of Increase Local bus ridership has been rising—and it shot up while gas prices were at their highest—but costs have been going up, too.

Athens Transit Director Butch McDuffie proposes raising bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50 (and charging 25 cents for transfers, which are now free). “I don’t like making recommendations like this any more than you guys like hearing them,” he told commissioners at their Mar. 10 work session. But “people who ride the bus should be able to pay about a third of what it costs to run the bus,” he said.

Fares now cover about 28 percent of costs, and a federal contribution covered 15 percent last year. The rest comes from the county’s general “Some people fund. Few if any transit to be able to systems pay for themselves entirely through fares, but a 2005 report suggested the Athens system should try to cover about 35 percent of its costs that way. UGA students, faculty and staff ride city buses for free (UGA reimburses the county $1.10 per trip), and make up about 65 percent of all passengers. Mostly, they ride the routes that run through campus. The Riverbend route “essentially pays for itself, and then some,” McDuffie said.

McDuffie suggested charging for children, too; at present, they ride free. More people have been riding the buses—“about 8 percent of the population of Athens rides the bus every day,” McDuffie said—but service has expanded, too, with added night and overflow buses. “Everything’s gone up,” including fuel, he said. And the new multimodal bus station is expensive to staff and heat: “All the heating stays up in the top of the building,” he said.

But commissioners appear hesitant to raise fares. “Some people are not going to be able to pay that,” said Commissioner George Maxwell. “A lot of our riders are folks who are living on the margins,” said Commissioner Kelly Girtz.

McDuffie suggested an annual review to keep fares at around 35 percent of costs; but “you’re not seeing minimum wage go up every year,” Girtz said. Commissioners may decide the issue in May. Meanwhile, “several ideas” about possible route changes will be discussed at public meetings this Wednesday, Mar. 18 at the ACC Library on Baxter Street (at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.).

The late-night “drunk are not going bus” several years pay that.” ago was a two-year experiment that failed, McDuffie told commissioners, who inquired about it. And he suggested cutting out one of the county’s two “Link” vans, which offer on-demand service to areas off regular routes.

It costs the county over $20 a trip, and “it’s just a small handful of people that ride it,” he said.

But citizens in the westside Stonehenge neighborhood “really do want” Link service, Commissioner Ed Robinson countered; the issue is part of the legacy of racism in Athens, he added. In the 1960s and ’70s, “we did go to some of our African-American communities and basically steal their property for free, and tear it down,” Robinson said, for projects like UGA dorms, “and then relocate them out to the county line.”

John Huie jphuie@athens.net

$8 Million for Streetscapes; Planning Dept. Also Busy neighborhoods more say in future developOver $8 million is available for local ment. There will also be “corridor” planning streetscape, sidewalk and infrastructure studies of Prince Avenue and Oak/ Oconee upgrades in commercial areas yet to be chosen. That’s one of the last of the salesStreet, and local buffer regulations will be tax projects approved by voters in 2005. widened to protect lakes and wetlands.

Next year, Planning will work on “shared Commissioner David Lynn suggested holding parking” standards to facilitate the use of a public “brainstorming session” once those pavement surfaces that allow natural absorpareas have been picked —asking citizens for ideas instead of just pretion of rainwater, and on senting ideas to them.

Commissioner David Lynn “voluntary tree-management plans” and design Commissioners also heard at last week’s suggested holding a public standards that would apply to infill construcwork session a pro“brainstorming session.” tion. The effectiveness posed schedule for the Planning Department of the mass grading ordinance will be evaluated. Standards will be to tackle various projects that commissionconsidered for “accessory dwelling units” in ers have assigned to it. First, the county’s single-family zones; incentives will be conoutdoor lighting ordinance will be revised, sidered to protect farmland, perhaps through and a proposal for historic designation of zoning, easements, tax policies and promoting Milledge Avenue will be fleshed out (with public meetings to be held in October). The small-scale agriculture; and details will be developed on transferable development rights. county’s Neighborhood Notification Initiative could be expanded—perhaps into a “neighborJohn Huie jphuie@athens.net hood planning unit” program that would give

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Humane Society Hoping to Quit Handling Feral Cats A proposal by the Athens Area Humane says. She says that AAHS’s last two ACC budSociety (AAHS) would revise the agency’s get proposals have raised the question of relationship with Athens-Clarke County Animal “moving away” from its roughly 25-year-old Control and get the Humane Society out of the county contract, and that the organization’s business of dealing with feral cats. First preboard and staff have in the past year dissented to the ACC Mayor and Commission at cussed becoming an adoption-guarantee facila budget work session Feb. 26, the proposal’s ity. “We basically had to decide, ’Do we want changes would likely take effect more than a to continue to be ”the pound“ for cats, or do year from now if followed. The Feb. 26 seswe want to be a humane society?’” sion was one of several budget work sessions It’s a type of move that’s been happening for presentations from independent agencies in other communities, too, Schultz says, where which receive relatively small annual subsidies humane organizations have found themselves from the ACC government for the services they with municipal contracts and eventually found perform. AAHS is asking for a county subsidy the need to move away from those contracts. for Fiscal Year 2010 (FY10), as it has for many In the words of ACC Central Services Director years, but it hopes to be free of county fundDavid Fluck, whose department includes ing by FY11.

Animal Control, “There is a little bit of a conIn doing so, AAHS plans to relinquish its flict between their mission and our mission.” contracted responsibility to perform animalFluck also doesn’t deny that the AAHS procontrol functions—mainly, taking in and euth- posal presents “a challenge for us.” He says anizing the aggressive and unsocialized feral the contours of a new arrangement haven’t cats which are brought been explored yet, to it—and become an and probably won’t be “We want to focus our “adoption guarantee” examined in detail until facility where every after the FY10 budget resources on the animals domestic animal brought development cycle that we can treat and save.” ends later this spring. in finds a home. AAHS is already at or near Expanding ACC Animal that point: it says it has only euthanized one Control staff and facilities—or contracting out “healthy, adoptable” cat in the past two years. feral cat management—would probably cost That hasn’t always been the case, though, the government more than it has been giving and it’s been mainly through a concerted annually to AAHS ($84,000 in FY08, $94,000 effort over the last few years that the agency in FY09 and possibly $102,000 in upcoming has drastically reduced its euthanasia rates FY10). Local feral cat policy “in the field”— for healthy adoptables. AAHS hired its current much discussed lately as proponents of the director, Crystal Schultz, two and a half years Trap-Neuter-Release strategy have become ago; in the year prior to her arrival it euthamore active—would not change without nized 70 healthy adoptable cats, she says. Two changes to county ordinances, but Animal changes were crucial to that improvement: Control would be responsible for taking in, one was the opening of an adoption center holding and euthanizing feral cats—as well at Pet Supplies Plus. The other was a decision as renting out traps to citizens wishing to rid to reduce the length of the “hold period” for their property of ferals—rather than AAHS. which a feral cat is kept at the shelter prior Mayor Heidi Davison says ACC to being euthanized—an inevitable step for Commissioners’ initial response to the proalmost every feral cat. According to Schultz, posal was “a mixed bag,” and says that she Athens-Clarke’s five-day hold period policy still seeks to understand the proposal betmeans that ferals with no chance at adopter. If AAHS chooses to relinquish its county tion take up space and resources that can go funding, though, it will likely relinquish its towards saving and adopting out healthy cats. contractual obligations, too. Schultz says her “We’re trying to lower the cage space [ferals] organization is committed to helping the ACC take up… so that we can extend the hold government manage a smooth transition over period for healthy adoptables and improve the the next year. AAHS intends to relocate its chances that they can make it out of the shelheadquarters to its present spay/neuter clinic ter alive,” she says. on Mars Hill Road in Oconee County.

“We want to focus our resources on the animals that we can treat and save,” Schultz Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

capitol impact Barnes Sounds More Like a Candidate Over the past year or so, there has been one question about politics that I hear more often than any other: “Is Roy going to run?”

The “Roy” is former governor Roy Barnes, and the questions generally come from Democrats yearning for someone who would actually be a credible statewide candidate in this top-of-the-ticket race next year.

For a long time, my answer to all those questions was “probably not.” I took Barnes seriously when he said that his loss in the 2002 election to Sonny Perdue had cured him of the disease of politics and that he was having too much fun making money with his law practice and playing with his grandkids.

In the last couple of months, however, the Marietta lawyer has been tossing out hints that he just might get into that governor’s race after all. In early February, Barnes took a high-profile stand in an op-ed column for the Atlanta JournalConstitution where he peeled the hide off corporate lobbyists who were working—successfully, as it turned out—to grease the skids for passage of a bill that will enrich Georgia Power by more than $1 billion by allowing the utility to charge ratepayers early for a nuclear plant.

Barnes has also been confirming in public speeches, such as a recent one to a group of Democratic-leaning lawyers, that he is at least considering a run for governor and will make his decision known shortly after the current legislative session adjourns.

“Roy’s got to say something soon,” said a veteran political operative. “People need to decide if they’re going to get behind him in the governor’s race, or DuBose Porter [the current House minority leader] or David Poythress [former state adjutant general].”

The one issue that could tip Barnes towards making the decision to run, I am told, is transportation and the failure of the state’s elected leadership to deal with our overcrowded highways. With just a few days left

in the current General Assembly session, the House and Senate are still miles apart on how to raise tax revenues for highway improvements and on what to do about restructuring the Department of Transportation. If they can’t untangle this knot by the end of the session, they surely won’t get anything done next year as the politics of a governor’s race pushes everything else to the sidelines.

If the Republican majority is unable to resolve the transportation funding issue during this session—and it’s looking more likely that they won’t—then the odds would improve that Barnes may get into the race.

“That’s the one issue that could give us a Democratic governor again,” said an Atlanta business leader who’s politically conservative but is also outraged over the GOP’s lack of progress in addressing the traffic congestion mess.

Barnes would be the underdog if he should decide to run for the top job again. Georgia has become a more staunchly Republican state since he lived in the governor’s mansion, although the growing percentage of black and Latino voters may bode well for Democrats some day.

The Republican nominee—Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, Secretary of State Karen Handel, or state Rep. Austin Scott—will be campaigning in a state that has become one of the most conservative and GOP-leaning in the country, a state where the Democratic Party has basically collapsed as an effective political organization. Not even Barnes’ formidable collection of jokes and oneliners could overcome that advantage.

Should he decide to run, however, he could at least make it interesting. Very interesting.

Tom Crawford Tom Crawford is the editor of Capitol Impact’s Georgia Report, an Internet news service at www.gareport.com that covers government and politics in Georgia.

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athens rising What’s Up in New Development Special Edition, Winterville: Perched on the eastern edge of the county, Winterville is an anomalous holdover from the unification of Athens and Clarke County—a city within a city. This situation has produced some interesting quirks along the way, and has had an impact on the town’s growth over the years. Many recent development projects have caught Winterville largely unprepared, with zoning codes that hadn’t been thoroughly updated since the 1970s. It may be, though, that Winterville ought to consider working with Athens-Clarke County a bit more closely.

Athens-Clarke likely has already dealt with and crafted ordinances to deal with the kinds of problems that have snuck up on Winterville.

That’s not to say that all the news out of Winterville is bad, or that the only things happening in the planning world there are negative.

The State of Things: Martin Meadows, a largely empty conservation subdivision on the outskirts of Winterville, was the first of a series of major subdivisions proposed for the township in the last few years, but is mostly out of sight and out of mind. Only a handful of houses have been built there, and it doesn’t look like there will be any more any time soon. Another proposed development which never even got off the drawing boards called for a new road connection from Wesley Whitehead Park on Cherokee Road to Robert Hardeman Road, with houses along it.

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Stumbles and Opportunities: Winterville Station, on the other hand, is a large subdivision that did get through under the wire before a recent revision to Winterville’s regulations. This project consists of several new streets looping through the eastern side of Winterville and into Oglethorpe County. At this point, the roads and infrastructure have been laid down, but no houses have been built. An empty neighborhood is an eyesore for the community on the one hand, but the lack of progress combined with a down economy might provide an opportunity for Wintervillians to work with the developer and alter the project in a way that fits better with Winterville’s existing character.

In the Heart of Town: Another project in a similar boat is the Markets at Winterville, a half-built set of strip malls at the intersection of Cherokee and Henry Meyer roads. That project seems to have stalled, with construction incomplete and little activity on the site.

Part of the proposal there called for realigning Henry Meyer Road to make a four-way intersection and transferring the land on the other side of the new alignment to Winterville Elementary School, which is next-door.

Speaking of Winterville Elementary, it’s now been remodeled in places, and demolished and rebuilt in others, giving it a totally different look, complete with the requisite brick-andtan style watch tower out front. The “new” school ought to be open in the fall.

Construction work has stalled completely on a retail development known as the Markets at Winterville. At present, there’s no telling how long the half-built strip mall will stand empty.

Success Story: Immediately on the other side of the stalled-out Markets at Winterville development, Café Marigold is one example of a real success story in Winterville. The fairly new, locally owned coffee shop has been busy and has generated a lot of excitement in the community, according to City Councilman Mark Farmer. During the town’s last comprehensive planning process, the consensus was that the town wanted to maintain a “rural-residential” feel, with small-scale local businesses. Café Marigold typifies that feel much more than the Markets at Winterville project does. More opportunities for creating the town’s desired feel might emerge along Athens Road west of Winterville’s Five Points, where one of a stretch of cottages was recently rezoned to allow a small office for a lawyer. One thing

that Winterville certainly could use locally, Farmer points out, is a doctor’s office—a use that would fit in well if more of that stretch of houses were rezoned.

Marigolds Anew: It seems that civic pride and a local feel are alive and well in Winterville, as evidenced not only by the success of a new local business, but also by a good amount of community input in recent planning efforts.

The city will even be re-inaugurating its Marigold Festival this summer, after a hiatus of a few years due to a lack of volunteers.

Winterville may not be exactly where it wants to be yet, but it’s certainly taking some good steps in the right direction.

Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

A Campaign 90 Years Ago Was Way Ahead of Today’s Calls to Shop Locally

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eliver me from L.L. Bean.” The mantra of a locally owned Athens store today? Guess again. This phrase could just as easily have been uttered by a local store owner in 1917. Before e-commerce and online catalogs came the mail-order catalog and direct-mail advertising boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, vying just as aggressively for local dollars.

The Direct Mail Advertising Association was founded in 1917, and its membership included lettershop owners and their customers, including retailers, manufacturers and wholesalers. Mail-order catalog sales had escalated since Montgomery Ward produced the first one in the United States in 1872. The 1894 Sears catalog boasted that it was a “Book of Bargains: A Money Saver for Everyone.” By 1912, L.L. Bean was selling the “Maine hunting shoe” to people around the country through its catalog. A “Buy at Home” movement, precipitated by the growth of these catalog and direct-mail businesses, emerged nationwide.

In order to help local merchants compete in a changing marketplace, the Athens Chamber of Commerce launched a “Buy at Home”/ “Buy in Athens” campaign on Aug. 8, 1917 “for the purpose of encouraging and educating the people at home to keep every dollar here that is possible to spend with the local merchants.” A full-page ad donated by the Chamber and its sustaining members appeared in the Athens Banner, a locally owned newspaper at the time, to kick off the six-month campaign. A “Buy in Athens” banner ran across the top of the page along with the tagline: “You Should Be As Loyal To Your Trade Territory As You Are To Your Name.”

The inaugural ad began: “The Athens concerns listed below, conscious of the fact that thousands of dollars are being sent out of this territory for goods that can be bought at home, have launched a campaign in the hope that it will create a stronger feeling of community interest—a sentiment most vital for the prosperity of the entire Athens trade territory. In bold type, you therefore, read the slogan that they propose to popularize ’BUY IN ATHENS.’”

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he Athens Banner had already initiated the Athens public to the concept of buying local with a “Buy at Home” campaign which ran from Mar. 23 to Apr. 13, 1917. One of these ads, “Try your Home Stores First,” admonished the reader: “Maybe you are a victim of the mail order evil and are tempted by the clever wording of catalogues to buy and pay for goods without seeing them and without knowing what you are going to get… DON’T BE FOOLED!” The first “Buy in Athens” ad appealed to the “people of this community… to first endeavor to get what they need from home merchants before sending their money to mail order houses.” The names of 40 “progressive concerns” that endorsed

the campaign were listed at the bottom of the page. Twenty local businesses had larger sidebar ads, including several wellknown businesses still remembered by residents today: Michael Brothers—“Our stocks leave no cause to shop away from home”—and The McGregor Co.—“Buy at Home, We appreciate your patronage.”

The ad stated that “’Preparedness,’ the watchword of the United States, should begin at home and can be exemplified… by this vitally important ’BUY IN ATHENS’ movement.” The official entry of the United States into World War I on Apr. 6, 1917 was preceded by a “preparedness” campaign designed to strengthen the capabilities of U.S. military forces and to persuade the U.S. citizenry of the need for American involvement in the conflict. “Buy at Home” and “Buy Local Foods” were catchphrases in Athens in the fall of 1917, as citizens pitched

“How a Dollar Circulates” pointed out that if you “spend a dollar in Athens for shoes, the shoe man spends it at the drug store, the druggist spends it at the grocery store, the grocer spends it at the dry goods store, the dry goods man spends it with the butcher, and the butcher owes you an account, and is now able to pay you because you spent a dollar in Athens.”

“Business Was Never Better,” an editorial in the Sept. 27, 1917 issue of the Banner, pointed to the success of the “Buy in Athens” campaign. It stated that “in all lines the merchants have enjoyed the best September business they have ever had. The stores are busy from early morning until late in the afternoon and the prospects for the remainder of the fall for increased business were never brighter. Lest we forget: Every citizen should buy at home and keep every dollar working in Athens. Goods are just as cheap here as elsewhere and certainly the merchants of Athens, not the out-of town merchants, are the ones who are called upon to bear the burdens of all enterprises and charity organizations.”

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in, not only to keep their dollars with local merchants, but also to organize a food conservation campaign to aid the Allies.

The initial ad continued its appeal to the public, citing that the “concerns” listed on the page “have combined in co-operative community appeal,” to “urge that you read the brief message that they will give you each week through the columns of the Athens Banner. They invite you to give careful consideration to the facts which will be presented. To talk this matter over with your friends and neighbors. If you do so, results are sure to follow.”

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he “Buy in Athens” ads ran throughout the rest of 1917 and into 1918, and focused on a variety of topics aimed at convincing citizens to buy locally. “True Citizenship” expressed the belief that the “spirit of True Patriotism is shown by the person who… asks for Athens-Made Goods.” One ad was addressed “To The Women Of Our City,” and asked if they thought that “out-of-town firms… contributed one cent toward the education of our children in the public schools?”

everal smaller features regularly ran on the editorial page, reinforcing the need to buy locally, including “Ask Yourself.” It questioned the public, “’What can I do for my city?’ Answer—’BUY AT HOME.’” “Buy at Home” asked, “If you buy out of town and we buy out of town, and all our neighbors buy out of town— WHAT WILL BECOME OF OUR TOWN? Ever think about it?

BUY IN ATHENS.” A plea to local citizens appeared in “Have You Signed The Pledge?” “If not, do it now. Show your patriotism, your loyalty to the town which furnishes you a living. Will you do your part?” This “Community Pledge” was printed in the newspaper, ready to be signed on the dotted line, clipped out and kept “in a place where you can see it.”

The “Buy at Home” ads continued until Jan. 31, 1918, when the last one, titled “Let’s Keep the Ball Rolling,” appeared: “There can be no doubt but what the articles which have been printed in this space for the past six months have been of great benefit to the community.

They have shown us the folly of sending our money to other cities that might profit by our loss.

It NOW REMAINS for us to keep alive this spirit of ’community loyalty’ that has been preached to us in such strong terms.

Let’s keep the ball rolling.

Let’s help to make Athens the best, the most prosperous, and the liveliest city in the state.

Let’s remember always the slogan, ’ATHENS CAN SERVE YOU BEST.’ Be liberal, be loyal, and be true to your home town.

Don’t forget the duty you owe to your home merchants.

BUY IN ATHENS FIRST, LAST AND ALL THE TIME.“ Judy Long

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Finally: It’s entirely possible that the newly opened Ike & Jane (1307 Prince Ave.) café and bakery is the cutest restaurant in all of Athens. Heck, it’s among the cutest restaurants I’ve ever been to. Having renovated the former Black Forest Bakery space within an inch of its life, slapping on new beadboard and plenty of paint, replacing the windows and much more, Matt Downes and Corie Rein kept the neighborhood waiting long enough, with a big “almost” sign in the window for what seemed like forever as they finished up the last details. But now they’re open, and I couldn’t be happier.

For a long time, if you wanted a loaf of Luna Bakery’s marvelous bread, rather than a mere taste at one of the many restaurants Downes supplies, you had to hang around Gosford Wine or get lucky at Earth Fare or hit up Daily Grocery on the days it was delivered, but now your restrictions are far smaller.

You just have to get to Ike & Jane before 5 p.m. on weekdays and 2 p.m. on weekends. So, that aspect of the “bakery” facet is wonderful. The sweets, unfortunately, need some work.

Visually, they’re as top-notch as the rest of the place: doughnuts frosted in purple and sprinkled with Fruity Pebbles, lovely little cupcakes of peanut butter and chocolate or frosted and sprinkled with Thin Mints, big flat cookies. But the cupcakes are too dry in the cake part and too soft and sweet in the icing; the cookies are fine but unremarkable; the doughnuts more high-concept than any kind of competition to Krispy Kreme. If you just want something sugary to finish off a meal or to placate your kids, it’ll all work; it’s just that I generally expect more of Downes, considering the quality of his breads.

The café part of Ike & Jane makes great use of those breads, which serve as the foundation for wonderful sandwiches. The “pick two” deal, which allows you to select from soup, full sandwich and salad for $7.50 is not only a deal (many sandwiches alone could run you that much) but a nice way to have a varied lunch. Note that the staff, accommodating in many ways, will not let you have two sandwiches—I asked—but if you perform up to their standards for the embarrassing daily challenge (imitate a jack in the box, do the Roger Rabbit, etc.), you will get 10 percent off your meal. The absolute king among the sandwiches has to be the spicy pulled pork and sweet slaw on ciabatta, which is far more sophisticated than it sounds, without being any less satisfying, and melds absolutely perfectly with its bread to the point where I’d almost pay just to smell it.

The grilled ham and Gruyere on sourdough is almost as good, pressed thin and buttery; the roast beef and white cheddar on black pepper baguette is a little simpler but its ingredients still shine; and the roasted vegetables with tahini and watercress on sunflower multi-grain is healthy and veggie without sacrificing anything to taste. The chicken salad is the only one here that suffers a little and largely because of the monster croissant on which it comes, a creation my French ancestors would disown due to its size and lack of flakiness.

The salads are delicately assembled and dressed. A combination of spinach, candied almonds, apples and Romano finds the last three ingredients slivered and thoroughly mixed in, rather than consisting of soft greens weighed down with hunks of stuff.

And the soups. Please don’t forget the soups. Dean Neff of Five and Ten must make them with love. It might not have been immediately clear upon tasting the chicken noodle that the noodles themselves were homemade, but they are, and the chicken itself is awesome, with nary a spoonful that was dry or gross or ill-shaped. The white bean and ham is the seasonal selection (AKA, soup of the day), and it, too, warms the heart as much as the stomach, with deep, gentle flavors that seem to have mellowed for a long, careful time.

Ike & Jane also serves breakfast sandwiches, has free WiFi, takes credit cards, has outdoor seating and sells the soups in quarts to-go. You can follow the restaurant’s progress at ikeand jane.typepad.com/.

What Up? Utage, on Clayton Street downtown, now offers an all-you-can-eat sushi brunch on weekends. Word is that it’s a little pricey, but if you can eat a lot of sushi, it’s worth it.

Word on the street: There’s a sign in the former Chapel bar space downtown saying another bar called Barnette’s will be opening soon. Also, Hollis Famous Ribs is now open in the old JB’s Ribs and Barbecue space on Broad Street.

Hillary Brown

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A Classic in His Own Right

Robert Osborne Brings Timeless Films to Athens For T chopped-up print, it was still wonderful, because you were getting to see the movie.”

the past four years, the closing weeks of winter in Athens have been warmed for film lovers by the annual arrival of Robert Osborne’s Classic Film Festival. For four wonderful days, the festival transforms The Classic Center into a movie palace filled with Hollywood celebrities, enchanted moviegoers and, above all, great films. This year marks the fifth edition of the festival, and the eight-film lineup is perhaps the strongest yet, highlighted by Rear Window, Sunset Boulevard and The Godfather. Guests include actress Talia Shire, director Guy Hamilton and the great Fred Willard, who will serve as the festival’s co-host.

he festival began after founder Nate Kohn, director of Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival and a professor at UGA’s Grady College of Journalism, was inspired by the name of the venue that now holds it. Osborne recalls that “Nate… would drive down that street and see The Classic Center and think, ‘It’s too bad that’s not a theater; they could show classic films there.’ And then one day he saw it was an auditorium and checked with James Bond, who said, ‘Well, that could be turned into a theater.’ So, right at that time Turner Classic Movies was kind of a big hit, and he thought, ‘Well, for a host, he’d be perfect,’ so he contacted me, and it was near enough—Georgia—and I thought, ‘What a great idea, that’ll be fun… to turn kids on to movies,’ and it would build and build.”

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obert Osborne, the festival’s host and curator, is one of our most prominent film historians and enthusiasts, largely because of his on-screen work at Turner Classic Movies since the cable channel’s inception in 1994. He is also the author of a long-running column at the Hollywood Reporter, and for the past five years has served as the official red carpet host at the Academy Awards. Osborne follows a clear philosophy in making his selections for the Classic Film Festival, the simplest component of which is to choose films from a wide array of different styles and genres.

“But I also try to get a rouser for the opener,” he elaborates, as well as “a family film that puts you out happy on a Sunday, so you may want to come back next time. And also, the basic theme was to get movies from different decades so that you’ve got one from the ‘30s, one from the ‘40s, one from the ‘50s, the ‘60s, then an ‘80s or a ‘90s, so you get the whole

Film Festival Schedule

Thursday, March 19 • opening night 8:30 p.m. Goldfinger (1964)

Friday, March 20

10:30

1:30 4:30 8:30

a.m. Panel Discussion: Film Festival Fare—Independent Filmmaking and Its Influence on Hollywood (FREE!) p.m. King Kong (1933) p.m. Rear Window (1954) FREE! p.m. Funny Girl (1968)

Saturday, March 21

1:30 p.m. Sunset Boulevard (1950) 4:30 p.m. For Your Consideration (2006) 8:30 p.m. The Godfather (1972)

Sunday, March 22

1:30 p.m. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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spectrum.” He continues: “My vision always was to get people to trust me enough as a booker that they would start coming no matter what the movie was. So, you had to start them out with Casablanca and Gone with the Wind… to get to this realization of how fabulous it is to see those on the big screen, and how different they are on the big screen. But then, if you put in the most obscure thing, they’d come because they’d trust what you’re doing.”

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art of what Osborne is doing is making a dedicated effort to give festival attendees a viewing experience that isn’t merely excellent, but special. That can be exceedingly difficult, especially with films that are 60 or 70 years old. “Sometimes it’s hard to get good prints, and that’s so essential now. When I went to the Port Townsend Film Festival in Washington State a couple of years ago and tried to get a print of Laura, it was a very chopped-up print and not good, and they said that was the only print they could get. When I booked it for Athens, [original festival projectionist] James Bond was able to get a meticulous print… it made all the difference in the world. Everyone is so used to seeing really good prints on television—TCM and all that—that they won’t sit still for a scratchy print. I came from the era when you couldn’t see anything, so if somebody had a 16MM projector and a

ut if there is one disappointment Osborne has had with the festival, it is the lack of an enthusiastic response from young people. Osborne donates his time and energy to the festival, as do nearly all of his guests.

He emphasizes that his primary motivation in doing so is his hope that he can introduce a new generation of viewers to the enjoyment and the serious appreciation of classic films.

“The payoff is the enthusiasm of the audience, and particularly in a college town, the kids.

But if nobody’s really responding to it, then that lessens the appeal—and it would for the festival guests,” as well. Osborne recalls the underwhelming experiences of previous guests when visiting UGA classes. “Max Schell, not only an Oscar-winning actor, but a very fine director [who] lives all over the world and has staged operas and stuff… nobody had a single question. You’ve got Jane Powell living through the star system at MGM, worked with Judy Garland, worked with everybody… no questions. Nobody had any interest in that. ‘How do you pre-record a song? How do you dance with Fred Astaire?’ She did all that, and nobody had a single question. So, you say, ‘Well, this may not be my crowd.’”

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et if university students have been slow to catch on to the festival, the rest of the Athens community has eagerly embraced it. Crowds for the screenings are large and appreciative, and some of the guests have been as charmed by Athens as the town is by them. Angela Allen, script and continuity supervisor on The Third Man, African Queen and about 80 other films over the past 60 years, has become a Classic Film Festival regular. “And you know,” Osborne muses, “it’s wonderful to have people like Angela and [Lawrence of Arabia editor] Anne Coates and all those wonderful behind-the-scenes people who don’t really get anywhere near the attention they deserve and have them there to talk about the work.”

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nother former guest returning this year is Fred Willard, who has agreed to serve as co-host for the last several screenings this year. Osborne and Willard will appear together before the Saturday afternoon screening of Sunset Boulevard, where the ceremonial microphone will change hands. “I wanted Fred to be there with me for one, so I could just pass it over to him, right in front of the audience,” says Osborne. An appropriate gesture by a man who, like his festival, embodies the grace, class and generosity of spirit of an era in film which, thanks in no small part to his efforts, is not completely lost.

Dave Marr

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

BEDTIME STORIES (PG) Adam Sandler stars as a guy living through the bedtime stories he’s telling his niece and nephew. Director Adam Shankman scored big, critically and commercially with Hairspray; Bedtime Stories looks more like his awful crowd-pleasers Bringing Down the House, The Pacifier and Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER (PG-13) Director Chris Bell explores America’s obsession with winning at all costs by following his two brother’s descent into the steroid subculture.

Strangely enough, Bigger, Stronger, Faster isn’t the anti-steroid polemic you might expect; you wouldn’t be crazy to actually describe the doc as prosteroids. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and winner of a Special Mention at the Karlovy Vary Fresh Films Fest. Part of the ACC Library’s iFilms series.

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. But when New York’s hottest wedding planner, Marion St. Claire (Candace Bergen), screws up and books the ceremonies on the same day, Liv and Emma’s friendship turns to bitter rivalry.

Potential brides of every shape and size will gladly go to battle over these Wars.

CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC (PG) Winter movie blues got you down? More PG-rated chick lit to the rescue! Out-of-control fashionista Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) gets a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine, where she meets potential love interest in Luke Brandon (Hugh Dancy). Muriel’s Wedding director P.J. Hogan helms this adaptation of the Sophie Kinsella bestseller. With a whole slew of familiar faces, including Joan Cusack, John Goodman, Kristen Scott Thomas and Lynn Redgrave.

CORALINE (PG) Coraline may just be next year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar. The filmed adaptation of the young adult novel by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Stardust) virtually adds a third sense to the moviegoing experience. A visual, sonic marvel, Coraline, brought to life from real stuff (puppets and miniature trees and toy trains), has a tactile dimension. Every object, every surface has a texture of which CG can only dream. Wonderful new 3D technology reinforces the actual existence of the denizens of Coraline’s fantastical adventure. The 3D ably amps up the film’s more startling moments, but it’s nothing a tough youngster can’t handle and enjoy.

DUPLICITY (PG-13) Michael Clayton’s Oscar-nominated writerdirector, Tony Gilroy, returns to thrill and confuse with this caper comedy about two former spies (the extremely photogenic duo of Julia Roberts and Clive Owen) scheming to scam two rival executives (Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti) out of $40 million. I’m distressed that my desire to see this movie is more fueled by the lingering appeal of Roberts and Owen than the

unconvincing trailer that’s less charming than it thinks it is.

E.T. (PG) 1982. E.T. hails from the good old days, when Steven Spielberg had a heart to accompany his storytelling prowess. Written by Harrison Ford’s ex, Melissa Mathison, the awardwinning film boasts the most touching score to be composed by thunderous Spielberg familiar John Williams.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (PG-13) 2006. Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries aren’t getting any funnier. Consideration is chortle-worthy, not gut-busting. Filming an atrocious

I need a seven-letter word for “the state of being aware.”

Southern-set tragedy, Home for Purim, about a dying Jewish matriarch and her estranged daughter, three actors (Catherine O’Hara, Harry Shearer and Parker Posey) contract undeserved Oscar fever. If you’ve worn out your DVDs of Guffman and Best in Show, you’ll enjoy it. Guest virgins won’t see what all the fuss is about.

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her private life, most notably a failed first marriage to Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif). Followed by the sequel Funny Lady. Interestingly, first-time winner Babs had to share her Oscar with Katharine Hepburn, already the proud owner of two golden statues with two more on the way.

THE GODFATHER (R) 1972. Is The Godfather the greatest American film of all time? Some would say yes. Still, no doubts exist as to the quality of Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Mario Puzo’s purely pulpy novel. Brando was good, but Al Pacino got robbed of an Academy Award. (He wasn’t even nominated for Best Actor; he got stuck in the supporting category with Jimmy Caan and Bobby Duvall.)

GOLDFINGER (PG) 1964. This third film in the James Bond franchise is widely regarded as the best. 007 (Sean Connery) is hot on the trail of Auric Goldfinger, whose dastardly plan includes contaminating Fort Knox. All of the series’ conventions (Q, Moneypenny, gadgets, gimmicky henchmen, etc.) are established in this movie. Director Guy Hamilton is one of the festival’s special guests. (That is so frigging awesome!)

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.

I LOVE YOU, MAN (R) Funny buds Paul Rudd and Jason Segel team up for a bromantic comedy about a friendless nice guy, Peter Klaven (Rudd), who finds himself in immediate need of a best friend after getting engaged.

Serendipitously, charming slacker Sydney Fife wanders into the open house Peter is hosting. They hit it off, but will Sydney mesh with Peter’s fiancée (Rashida Jones of “The Office”)?

With Jaime Pressly, Jon Favreau, Andy Samberg, J.K. Simmons, Jane Curtin and several “State” vets.

THE INCREDIBLES (PG) 2004.

Pixar’s greatest achievement until this past summer’s WALL•E, The Incredibles mixes Watchmen postsuperhero world with Fantastic Four’s dysfunctional family dynamics and writer-director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant and Ratatouille) lets the fireworks fly. Mr. Incredible (v. Craig T. Nelson) and fam must battle the evil Syndrome (v. Jason Lee).

INKHEART (PG) Inkheart can claim kinship to 1980s kid-venture, The Neverending Story. Mortimer “Mo” Folchart (Brendan Fraser, likable as usual but miscast), a Silvertongue (whatever he reads comes to life), spends his days searching for a rare copy of Inkheart, the novel into which his wife was sucked in exchange for the selfish hero Dustfinger (Paul Bettany) and the evil Capricorn (Andy Serkis, The Lord of the Rings’ Gollum) and his henchmen. Hopefully, viewers will be inspired to read the sequel, Inkspell, before they see it.

JONAS BROTHERS: THE 3D CONCERT EXPERIENCE (G) The Jonas Brothers’ new 3D Experience is everything a tweenage fanatic would want and expect. If you’re not already a Jo Bro fan (or the parent of one), the movie, 3D or not, won’t hold your interest for very long. The songs are catchy but instantly forgettable. The behindthe-scenes footage is very staged and unrevealing.

KING KONG (NR) 1933. No doubt Peter Jackson’s update of the Great Ape’s vacation in the Big Apple is stunning (and long), but missing is the 1933 classic’s stop-motion heart, that puppet with moving fur. A tropical expedition discovers a giant gorilla and, with typical American entrepreneurial gusto, sees dollar signs. Kong just sees blonde Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and an opportunity to see New York from the top of the Empire State Building. The rest, like King Kong, is cinematic history. m KNOWING (PG-13) I don’t know that even Dark City director Alex Proyas can make anything interesting out of a Nicolas Cage flick. The National Treasure stars as teacher Ted Myles who comes to believe his family will play an important role in upcoming events after a time capsule unearthed at his son’s elementary school reveals some chilling predictions about natural disasters. I had doubts about Proyas’ I, Robot based on the trailers, and it turned out to be pretty good. (Still, Nicolas Cage is no Will Smith.) With Rose Byrne (FX’s “Damages”).

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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.

MAGENTA’S CARESS (NR) The title of this new film from local independent filmmaker William C. Goss comes from the name of the cabaret opened by protagonist Robbie Dean.

METROPOLITAN OPERA: MADAMA BUTTERFLY (NR) Anthony Minghella’s production of the Puccini opera features Cristina Gallardo-Domas in the title role opposite Marcello Giordani.

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. 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.

MISS MARCH (R) Fans of dumb comedies will enjoy Miss March, the feature writing, directing and starring debut of two of “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore. People who enjoy well-made movies without running jokes about explosively loose bowels should steer well clear. Two buddies, earnest Eugene and horndog Tucker (Cregger and Moore, not that the difference matters much), scheme to travel across the country—from South Carolina to California—to the Playboy Mansion to reclaim Eugene’s virginal high school sweetheart, the titular Miss March.

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.

PHILADELPHIA (PG-13) 1993. When Andrew Beckett (Academy Awardwinner Tom Hanks), a gay man with AIDS, is fired by his conservative, bigtime law firm, he hires a homophobic ambulance chaser, Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), to represent him in his wrongful dismissal suit. Winner of two Oscars (Best Actor and Best Original Song).

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REAR WINDOW (PG) 1954. In Rear Window, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s all time classics—and my favorite of Hitch’s oeuvre—wheelchair-bound photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries (Jimmy Stewart) thinks his across-theway neighbor (Raymond Burr of “Perry Mason” fame) is a murderer. Rear Window is top-notch suspense with dashes of comedy and commentary on our voyeuristic society, which has only gotten worse in the intervening 50 years, sprinkled throughout. With Grace Kelly.

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.

STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI (PG-13) This early contender for worst movie of the year wouldn’t be vying for the title had it gone straight to DVD like a wellbehaved bad movie should.

SUNSET BOULEVARD (NR) 1950.

Billy Wilder is one of my favorite directors from Hollywood’s golden years, and Sunset Boulevard remains one of his best. A struggling screenwriter (William Holden) becomes the kept man of fading silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson).

TAKEN (PG-13) Recently retired “preventer,” Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), has given up his dangerous, globetrotting profession to be closer to his teenaged daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace, “Lost”). Shortly after turning 17 , Kim asks her dad for permission to travel to Paris for the summer. Well aware of the dangers lurking in the shadows of the City of Lights, Bryan reticently agrees. You can easily imagine how this vengeful mission goes, but director Morel makes the trip feel fresh and new. It’s a quick, tough movie that your parents might even enjoy thanks to the toned-down, PG-13 violence.

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.

TWO LOVERS (R) Director James Gray’s Brooklyn-set coming-of-age film deals with the romantic conundrum faced by Leonard Kraditor (Joaquin Phoenix), a 30-something bachelor who lives at home with his parents.

Does he go for Sandra (Vinessa Shaw), the daughter of his father’s business associate, or does he try to break out on his own with his new neighbor (Gwyneth Paltrow)?

UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS (R) Probably the best entry in this underwhelming franchise, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans won’t win any new fans but should please those already in like with the eternal war between vampire and werewolf.

THE UNINVITED (PG-13) The ghost of Anna Rydell’s (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).

UNNATURAL CAUSES (NR) The 2009 Unnatural Causes Film and Discussion Series will address the inequities and discrimination that exist in American healthcare. “In Sickness and in Wealth” leads off the series with a look at the lives of four Louisville, KY residents.

WALTZ WITH BASHIR (R) A leading contender for the recent Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (it lost to Departures but won the Golden Globe, as well as five Israeli Film Academy Awards), Ari Folman’s animated documentary on Israel’s early-’80s invasion of Lebanon is certainly the most original war movie I’ve ever seen. A shocking, painful,

original experience, the animated Waltz with Bashir will leave an indelible mark upon its audience.

WATCHMEN (R) Watchmen is not the greatest comic book movie of all time, yet considering the height of its twin measuring sticks (its own source material and The Dark Knight), such expectations may have been too great to begin with. A vicious hard R-rating and a deep philosophical cynicism practically ensure its failure as a box office juggernaut and award contender.

Watchmen—a perfect capstone for the present superhero renaissance—has been brought to beautiful, ambitious, artistic, flawed and extremely watchable (again and again) life.

WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE (NR) 2006. In “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” Spike Lee takes a long look at the United States government’s role in and response to Hurricane Katrina. Part of the 2009 African American Film Festival Sponsored by the Institute for African American Studies.

WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (NR) 1960. Keiko Yashiro (Hideko Takamine) is a geisha known as Mama. On the wrong side of 30, she must decide what to do with her life.

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THE WRESTLER (R) 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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movie pick Last House Remix THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (R) The Last Craven’s film benefits from its amateurish, House on the Left is an easy movie to hate, homemade snuff vibe, a quality strengthened but the remake of Wes Craven’s first film is far by star David Hess’ folk music soundtrack. too well-crafted to just write off as exploitIliadis’ House may look much more profesative trash. Craven’s original House was a sional, but his is still a brutal film. No one in fixer-upper, cobbled together by wannabe the audience took a breath during the graphifilmmakers. The new House, built by director cally squirm-inducing rape of Mari. And the Dennis Iliadis (2004’s Hardcore) and writers violence just gets more vicious from there.

Adam Alleca and Carl Ellsworth (Red Eye and With exploitation, the awaiting horrors are Disturbia), renovates the directly proportional to the 1972 cult classic without tranquility preceding them. changing its foundation, After the dreamy shots of itself built upon Ingmar the Collingwood summer Bergman’s The Virgin Spring. home and the lush nature, Two teens, Mari miles and miles of it isolatCollingwood (Sara Paxton) ing them from the nearest and her small town friend, neighbor, Iliadis ratchets Paige (Martha MacIsaac), up the tension considerably are kidnapped, raped and and adds an artful touch to killed by a family of psythe sadism. Composer John chos—leader Krug (Garret Murphy (28 Days Later) Dillahunt, Deadwood), his scores the vicious proceedTony Goldwyn and Monica Potter brother Francis (Aaron ings with the proper John Paul), Krug’s girl Sadie (Riki Carpenter-ish minimalism.

Lindhome) and Krug’s son Justin (Spencer Much can and will be made about House’s Treat Clark). Later that night, Krug and his exploitative cruelty. What’s the purpose of gang seek refuge with a nice, unassuming its nastiness? What kind of psycho finds this doctor, John (Tony Goldwyn, the bad guy in entertaining? The answer to both questions is Ghost), and his wife, Emma (Monica Potter), simple. If you’re asking, then the film wasn’t whose last name happens to be Collingwood. meant for you, and you won’t like it. Still, When Mari’s parents realize they are shelterexploitation, new and old, has its connoising the animals who brutalized their daughter, seurs, and this well-made, new House will justhey decide to take violent revenge via guns, tify their continued faith in the genre. butcher knives, claw hammers, garbage disposals and microwaves.

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movie pick Like the Rock RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN (PG) I loved Escape to Witch Mountain and its sequel, Return from Witch Mountain, when I was a kid.

Kim Richards was one of my first innocent little crushes. Watching Disney’s franchise reboot didn’t exactly conjure up wispy nostalgia like I’d hoped. The filmmakers were kidding themselves if they thought they could replace the 1975 cast of Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Denver Pyle and MF-ing Donald Pleasance with Ciarán Hinds, Cheech Marin, Tom Everett Scott and Garry Marshall. Plus, the super-generic third act—a firefight and eventual aerial escape from a secret government-run laboratory—was so excruciatingly boring that I was more engaged in my struggle with a fierce catnap.

The first hour, which is pretty much one long, chopped up car chase, was a lot of fun.

When cabbie Jack Bruno (Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson) picks up the toeheaded brother and sister duo of Sara (AnnaSophia Robb) and Seth (Alexander Ludwig), Race to Witch Mountain channels its inner Vanishing Point or the more appropriate Bullitt. The movie’s stunt drivers contributed more to the movie’s success than anyone besides the charming Johnson.

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Race to Witch Mountain belongs to Johnson. The former professional wrestler has a very easy charm and physicality rivaling Arnold Schwarzenegger at his ‘80s action peak. He makes Jack Bruno’s sudden, easy paradigm shift from non-believing Scully to true-believing Mulder as painless as possible.

It’s not his fault; he didn’t write the inconsistent character, but he makes him as appealing as possible. Brief, witty soliloquies haven’t been au courant in action since Schwarzenegger’s Reaganera reign, but Johnson wears them comfortably as the soft tough guy.

Besides the stunt driving and the charmer formerly known as the Rock, Race to Witch Mountain possesses few other noticeable traits. I’d recommend parents rent the original and its sequel if your kid can stomach special effects circa 1975. If your kid prefers the Prequels to the Original Trilogy, s/ he’d be better off with the Rock, but if your little one prefers puppets and matte paintings to digitally drawn-to-life creatures, Escape with Richards and Ike Eisenmann’s Tia and Tony Malone.

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip Hello, Athens. Now that most of you have recovered from our record-breaking snowstorm and are enjoying the early days of spring, you’ll likely be leaving the house more.

Wouldn’t it be great to catch some bands this week? I know they’d appreciate it. And, of course, by extension, so would I. Whet your appetite below…

someone out there can help. Specifically, the band is desperate for dates in Austin, TX around Mar. 19 through 21, and then Mar. 25–29 between Kansas and Indiana, Indiana proper, Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina.

If you can help, please drop a line to Claire Campbell via agoldensummer@yahoo.com.

Parade to Feature One Less Vehicle: The previNew Crew: Several months back local musician ously mentioned snow storm in Athens was a Ben Clack (Dark Meat) began booking Farm lot of fun for some folks, but there was prop255. A couple of months ago local promoter erty damage nearly everywhere as trees, many Mercer West (Quiet Hooves, et al.) began severely weakened by our ongoing drought, booking Tasty World. Now, the two have joined fell throughout Athens-Clarke County. Local together with Owen Gray and the three are band Pride Parade saw its new touring van, booking the Rye Bar. Chances are quite good which they had yet to utilize, crushed by a you already know one of these three guys but, giant tree felled by the storm. In the interin any case, if you’re est of humanity, and wondering whom to because the album contact concerning just plain rocks the above, those are and this situation your men. Inquire just plain sucks, further over at you might consider Hey, where did all the local musicians www.myspace.com/ purchasing a copy go? Did they run for the hills as soon ryebarathens. of the band’s newly as students returned from spring break? released album Dose, Nah, they’re just off in Texas for SXSW. In Case You Missed which was recorded Flagpole will be there, too, blogging It: Venice Is Sinking and mixed by Kyle live from Austin and, hopefully, postenjoyed quite a bit of Spence (Harvey Milk) ing video and music from the weekcyber action a couple at Ronnie Jones long extravaganza. Congratulations of weeks back when Sound. So far the are in order for the seven lucky Athens its video for “Ryan’s record is only availbands that were officially accepted Song” made its debut able on CD, but vinyl into SXSW this year: A. Armada, at the popular online hounds and digital Dead Confederate, Jucifer, Kuroma, music publication goobers will be satMaserati, Modern Skirts and Venice Is Stereogum. The track isfied in the near Sinking. You can find a full list of all is from the band’s future. Send sympatheir showcases at www.sxsw.com. Of newly, and finally, thy to www.myspace. course, there are many more Athenians released album Azar com/prideparade69. headed west to play the equally exciting and was directed unofficial day parties and events. At the by local filmmakThis Trucker Is a top of the list is the 40 Watt party at ers Jason Miller Jock: Patterson Hood Side Bar on Saturday, Mar. 21, which will and Ethan Payne will celebrate his feature many of the aforementioned artwho operate Eikon birthday this year by ists plus The Winter Sounds, Dancer vs.

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40 Watt on Monday, us proud, guys! Tune into Homedrone Mar. 23. Hood says at www.flagpole.com to find out what You’re the Man Now, he’ll spin some favorhappens when tens of thousands of Dog: Athens music ites but also goof musicians and music industry pros get fans can quit gnashoff a little. Also on smothered in BBQ and free booze. See ing their teeth the bill that night is you in Austin! [Michelle Gilzenrat] because word has Garbage Island, and come through that Hood will sit in with Smokedog is “back them. Happy 45th, with a vengeance.” The duo, Jason Jones Patterson! In other news, Drive-By Truckers and Thom Strickland, spent the last several will play the first of several dates with Booker months goofing around with their own variT. Jones Apr. 1 at Atlanta’s Variety playhouse. ous solo projects but have recently compiled The band will back Jones’ opening set and a “best of” album of Smokedog tracks titled then close the show. Jones’ new album, Potato Rogue Warriors. The release chronicles the Hole, on which the Truckers are his backing first 14 months of the band’s existence durband, is set for release Apr. 21. ing which time it released no fewer than 15 recordings that ranged from double albums Triple Header: Indie fans can enjoy a small to full-length CDs and various EPs. The new spectrum of acoustic pop on Thursday, Mar. compilation arrives with a booklet featur26 at Flicker Theatre & Bar. That night foring special track-by-track commentary and mer Athens resident Drew Danburry will play explanation by Jones. Rogue Warriors is availhis wistful pop, Christopher Without His able now for a mere $2.99 at Wuxtry Records Liver (i.e., Christopher Ingham) will play his downtown. I swear to God I’m not making any nearly patented folk-punk and Black Balloon of this up. See for yourself via www.myspace. (i.e., Christopher Ingram) will bless Athens com/smokedogifeelalrightifeelalright. with his beautiful and delicate songwriting.

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record reviews …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF THE DEAD The Century of Self Ipecac The ability of this Austin powerhouse to be big is well known by now.

They’ve languished a bit in recent years, but there’s a fire here not seen in quite some time. Though the bandmembers have rediscovered the vigor that made them famous, it’s now paired with a more accomplished sound.

The sterling result is grand ambition executed properly.

A furious maelstrom of ‘90s indierock angularity, prog and dream, The Century of Self packs an undeniable flair for theater, but not in a limpwristed Dears kind of way. This is all muscle and no bloat. The drama here rises from bursting hearts and massive tectonics. The album’s raging grandeur plays like forces of nature caught on record.

Highlights include impressive opener “Giants Causeway,” a colossal, maestro-worthy instrumental heaving with ‘70s excess. “Far Pavilions” pounds with angles of conviction and fiery yells from a time before “emo” was made into a bad word. The dizzying melodics of “Isis Unveiled” roll out in multiple movements like a crushing rock opera.

Though the album gives the listener a chance to breathe in the middle with some slow yet still grandiose songs, most of The Century of Self is booming catharsis on the edge of the abyss. Powerfully emotional and gloriously bombastic, this is epic indie rock built to move mountains.

Bao Le-Huu

WEIRD OWL Ever the Silver Cord Be Loosed Tee Pee Weird Owl is not spoofing a satirist as their name might suggest. Mr. Yankovic can rest assured his shtick isn’t being aped by the cosmic rifftripping combo from Brooklyn. Fans of polka and pop culture parodies will have to look elsewhere for those fixes.

Instead, this debut LP features rocketblasted classic rock returning from a tour of the galaxy.

Showcasing the disturbing garage pulse of Black Sabbath (occasionally) and borrowing from the psychedelic

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leanings of Roky Erickson (frequently), Weird Owl is guilty of its own brand of rehashing. But let’s not condemn the band for wearing obvious influences on its spacesuits.

“You are now what you have once been/ On Earth as it is in heaven,” opines the Owl on “13 Arrows, 13 Stars,” a gnostic, bluesy stomp swimming in a Robitussin undercurrent that ultimately dissolves in a swirling synth, crunchy guitar outro. The philosophy (and theology and astronomy) lessons continue on album standout “In the Secrecy of Oceans,” but it’s not until the final track (“Flying Low Through the Air After Thunder”) that we hear the obligatory “Who, who” hoots expected from a band named for a bizarre bird.

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a new Phosphorescent album, due out later this year.

Chris Hassiotis Phosphorescent is playing at the Drunken Unicorn in Atlanta on Wednesday, Mar. 25.

JOHN FRUSCIANTE The Empyrean Record Collection

PHOSPHORESCENT To Willie Dead Oceans In 1977 Willie Nelson released To Lefty from Willie, a rundown of Lefty Frizzell tunes by the red-headed stranger. Thirty-two years later, former Athenian Matthew Houck pens his own love letter to Nelson with To Willie, a collection of keenly chosen Nelson tunes culled from all corners of his long career.

To Willie is an exceptionally well-sequenced album, something Houck’s shown a knack for, particularly on his 2005 disc Aw Come Aw Wry, manipulating mood from rustic folk gospel to more rousing numbers. To Willie’s rowdy opening—the Waylon Jennings-written Nelson number “Reasons to Quit”—leads from hard drinking into the solemn, spare “It’s Not Supposed to Be That Way.” The next tune is Willie’s exhortation to “Pick Up the Tempo,” and that’s an instruction Phosphorescent damn well takes to heart with “I Gotta Get Drunk,” a rollicking honky-tonker that sees Houck cut back on the vocal opacity that marked much of his earlier work; this spoken-sung delivery is something he’s been working into live shows lately. It creates an easygoing, no-stakes vibe that balances out nicely with other songs on the album, addressing the pitfalls and repercussions of following the song’s title.

Tunes like “Can I Sleep in Your Arms” and the album highlight “The Last Thing I Needed (First Thing This Morning)” are tearjerkers both, packed with Nelson’s tender lyrics and Phosphorescent’s careful instrumental treatment. The band on the album is mostly the same Houck’s been touring with over the past year or two, including former Athenian Scott Stapleton, and that time on the road together pays off in the players’ apparent comfort with one another.

At times brooding, somber, joyful and roughshod, To Willie doesn’t miss a step, and it lays out in equal parts the vibrancy of Nelson’s songs and the prescience of Houck’s interpretations. It’s a well-tarnished treasure, but it shines strong. And it sure whets the palate for

John Frusciante has released 11 solo albums most of us do not own. At the same time, he’s an integral member of one of the most commercially viable rock outfits in the history of the genre.

Success has afforded the accomplished guitarist a songwriting career that has been uniquely prolific and anonymous.

The words self-indulgent and psychedelic will undoubtedly be bandied about with great frequency in written opinions and evaluations of The Empyrean, like they just were. But that’s just lazy critique. All art is inherently self-indulgent. Creative output the producer thinks is worth someone else’s time and attention (sometimes money). How presumptuous. How brave. As for the psychedelic stamp, it’s certainly appropriate. The concept record, tagged as such by its creator, has exceptionally strange and beautiful moments. “After the Ending” offers soaring piano- (and psilocybin-) driven weirdness, and album centerpiece “Dark/Light” is the lysergic lounge-pop epic of this young year.

It’s when songs are approached from decidedly less bizarre, safe rock angles that things get awkward, questionable even. “Central” finds Frusciante channeling Rob Thomas-era Santana while demoing something he wrote with Anthony Kiedis in mind. The jam could be fleshed out and tortured with funk until it goes platinum with the soccer moms.

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ASOBI SEKSU Hush Polyvinyl The big question looming over this effort by the stylish New York dreampop band centers on guitarist James Hanna. Dude’s somehow been driven to the dubious epiphany that he’s done with guitars. The symphony of distortion? Poof! Gone. Tissue, please.

Yes, the shift toward a much more electronic language is instantly jarring.

Asobi Seksu was always a bit of a

throwback, but the synthesized sounds here are often unmistakably dated, waving without shame from the bridge spanning the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.

However, none of this should imply that its gorgeous sea of effects is gone. Their symphonic sound is still elaborately constructed using cloud-riding drifts, shoegaze tendencies and pretty layers that unfurl to infinity. In fact, Asobi Seksu remains as sonically luxurious as ever. It’s just that the absence of guitar textures lays their pop sensibility completely bare with Yuki Chikudate’s singing thrust squarely to the fore. Fortunately, her limber, angelic voice is equal to the task, striking a new balance that finds the band keeping even closer company with the Cocteau Twins and Lush.

Though the mostly front-loaded album occasionally loses focus, highlights include the celestial twinkling of “Layers,” the dizzying skyward rush of “Familiar Light,” the towering stateliness of “Sing Tomorrow’s Praise” and the breathless wonder of “Me & Mary.”

Blessed with sumptuous femininity and immaculate patina, Hush achieves almost peerless elegance. Though regressive and somewhat less thrilling, it’s certainly a fine, pristinely rendered pop record.

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LILY ALLEN It’s Not Me, It’s You Capitol What makes Lily Allen so appealing is her willingness to play with contrasts. Her debut album Alright, Still paired sunshiny pop with brashly irreverent lyricism, and her follow-up It’s Not Me, It’s You plays with the same opposing forces—and that’s a good thing, usually, but not always. When a song works, as on the buoyant, frothy “Never Gonna Happen,” it sounds more like Alright, Still 2.0, but when a song is less successful (“Fuck You,” for instance), the matching of saccharine, bouncy pop with bratty, opinionated lyrics is too predictable.

Opener “Everyone’s at It” follows that same formula of dire tales of drugaddled youth and joyful pop melodies, but the song’s dense synth melodies genericize more than they electrify.

That’s a trend that continues throughout It’s Not Me, It’s You—the glee of Alright, Still fades to the background, acting to prop up faceless electro.

But on balance, a tune like “The Fear,” where Allen paints herself as a “weapon of massive consumption” and claims, “I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore,” is a nice confluence of public-perception pop stardom put into song form. And “Not Fair,” with its galloping beat and Western banjos, is a playful kiss-off to a poor lover that matches Allen’s sexually frank complaints with soft, multilayered vocals.

So, there’s a lot to like with It’s Not Me, It’s You, a more adventurous (but too little!) album that’s alright, still, but not as good as it could be.

Chris Hassiotis

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New Turn at Bat

Athens’ Bloodkin Puts the Past in Order and Looks Toward the Future

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he title of Bloodkin’s last release, Last Night Out, was no joke.

According to Daniel Hutchens, vocalist for the diehard Athens rockers, the group was already coming apart at the seams by the time they got a call from friend and producer David Barbe in early 2005 to begin work on the album. Anyone familiar with the parameters of Bloodkin’s music—a gritty, sometimes libidinous mix of Southern rock, blues and R&B—should’ve sensed something was awry going on song titles alone.

Not much in the mold of “#1 Good Luck Charm,” ”Can’t Get High” or “Drive Home September” was to be found. Instead, dour inclusions like “Watching the War on TV,” “Checkout Time” and “Old Musician Ranting Voodoo from His Deathbed” had taken form.

It looked as though the band’s begrudging finale had arrived, and not an especially grand or fulfilling one at that. Says Hutchens, the mental and physical state he was in during the recording of Last Night Out was his own personal rock bottom.

“Everything in my life at that time was pretty bleak,” Hutchens recalls. “I’d broken up with a girl that I’d been seeing for years, and my habits were out of control. The band had, essentially, already broken up. Bush was in the process of winning his second presidency, and the war in Iraq was still going on. Lyrically, all this was just filtered through my own personal sorry state. It seemed like everything around me was just the world going to hell. I think the whole reason Dave Barbe called us up to do that record was that he knew me and Eric were in trouble and he was kindly offering us some work.”

Lead guitarist Eric Carter was not faring much better at the time. In fact, he admits his situation may have actually been worse than that of his fellow Bloodkin founder.

Cocaine use within the band had increased, leaving the two likeminded brothers from different mothers, who had known each other since their schoolyard days in West Virginia, ragged, used up and very much worse for wear.

On top of this, Carter’s drinking problem—an old habit he always thought he’d be able to outlast—was swiftly catching up to him in a bad way.

The dissolution of Bloodkin had all but been finalized by mid-2006. They’d hired a pick-up rhythm section of Barbara Cue bassist John Mills and Tom Collins drummer Kyle Spence just to complete their previous recording, and Bloodkin’s cornerstones—Hutchens and Carter—were, now, hundreds of miles apart. Hutchens, had met the woman that was soon to become his wife and relocated with her to Keystone, CO. Hutchens remained in Athens, continuing to sink into alcoholism.

It was the compilation of material for Hutchens’ second solo release Love Songs for Losers that would bring the two back together—at least on a creative level—and, eventually, as bandmates and close friends.

Hutchens had already enlisted the talents of guitarist Eric Martinez, bassist David Nickel and drummer Aaron Phillips—all now part of the current Bloodkin lineup—for the recordings. The missing element was Carter, whose two-fisted guitar work and bond with Hutchens was essential.

Eventually, a cleaned-up Hutchens relocated back in Athens with his wife Kristy and stepdaughter Amberly, and last year the couple welcomed the addition of baby boy Zacary Sterling. But Carter was still in trouble. He credits the assistance of Nuçi’s Space founder Linda Phillips for urging him to enter a hospital detox/rehab program that would, finally, turn the tide of survival in his favor.

“I spent seven weeks in a treatment center, and about halfway through is when I finally realized I’d crossed the line between a heavy, semi-functioning drinker and a true alcoholic.

There’s a certain line you have to cross before you accept that you won’t ever be able do it again. By that time I’d had my quota,” says Carter. “Linda Phillips basically saved my life.

She said what I thought she’d say: ‘You have to go to a hospital. You can’t just sit around your house, not drink and get over it.’ There were 25 years of saturation to deal with. In my own world, I was fine and thought I’d go on my merry way ‘til I was 60 or so and either be old or dead. But, the mental, physical and spiritual aspects of my life all started to fall apart at once. With help from friends, from Linda and from the Music Cares Foundation, I got out in time. I feel very lucky for that.”

What a difference a couple of years have made. On the heels of Hutchens’ stellar, soulcleansing album, comes a new, previously unthought-of Bloodkin record—the appropriately titled Baby, They Always Told Us We’d Rise Again. Released by Sci-Fidelity, it pairs the group once again with producer Barbe and features the backing of Martinez, Nickel and Aaron Phillips, as well as dobro/slide player William Tonks—who round out the most cohesive Bloodkin lineup yet.

The songs are not gloomy and loathsome this time. Instead, they carry an inherent appreciation for the second turn at bat the band is now experiencing. Hutchens is at the top of his game, while Carter’s guitar stings and growls as fervently as ever. When singing the country dirge “My Name Is Alice,” he gives a remorseful, characterized warning for anyone listening to “not die alone.” The album has even received a write-up in Rolling Stone from rock critic par excellence David Fricke.

On the recording front, a Bloodkin box set comes next—a six-disc collection of rarities culled from their formation in 1988 up to the present. On the homefront, both are sober and taking things one step at a time. The moral of their story does not extol the rock and roll cliché of a life lived in excess. They’ve learned that such bullshit will kill you without warning or regard. Rather, it recommends that if you’re lucky enough to get a second chance to make the most of it and be thankful for the handful of close friends made along the way.

“Me and Danny had different ways of getting our acts together,” says Carter. “For him, it was getting out of Athens for a while and starting a family. For me, it took more steps and more help to get to where I am right now.

I’m glad we’re still here making music together and, more importantly, glad to still be alive.”

Michael Andrews

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isten: you’ve seen Rush in Rio, right?

It’s not hard to find; it’s the DVD with the purple dragon on the cover— the purple dragon with the Chiquita banana headdress. What treasures await you on this glorious digital video disc? Classics such as “YYZ,” “The Spirit of Radio,” and “By-Tor and the Snow Dog;” a few solos (a lot of solos); punctuations of the band’s patently Canadian—uh, “quirky”—sense of humor.

(Alex Lifeson: “This is jazz. Jazz… is weird.”

Yeah, dude, so is pushing a female cop down a flight of stairs). Also: 40,000 Brazilians absolutely losing their goddamn minds.

So, it makes good horse sense that these people, these Portuguese-speaking aesthetes, would love them some Medications. Because you see, Medications—currently comprised of Devin Ocampo and Chad Molter—have dedicated their musical careers to something a little like Rush, a little like The Who, a little like King Crimson, but always, always, with an ingredient these honestly great bands have always lacked: humility. By working exclusively with Washington, DC’s standard-bearer of music industry ethics, Dischord Records (with both Medications and their former project Faraquet), Ocampo and Molter have, careerwise, driven home the point of punk rock: the music can be glorious and powerful, but people are people. Devin Ocampo sings like an ordinary guy because he is one.

“Faraquet had split up by 2001, and it wasn’t the type of situation where we were going on hiatus; we were done,” says Chad Molter, emailing Flagpole from his home in Denver. “So, we all moved on to doing separate things. Devin and I continued to play music in different projects until our paths crossed again with Medications.” The differences between Faraquet and Medications are akin to those of two close but distinct brothers. Guitar lines and vocals hit points and counterpoints, always with muscular confidence (not macho posturing). The main element, it seems, is always rhythm: Ocampo and Molter are both, by turns, excellent drummers.

Faraquet’s martial, all-elbows approach to the so-called “Dischord sound” took a turn for the ethereal with Medications, but both are bound

by Ocampo’s personalized, acrobatic guitar playing and steely vocals. Molter’s contributions have been more fluid: while he’s in his more comfortable role as a punchy, aggressive bassist in Medications, he learned his way around the drums, implausibly, in the staggeringly complex setting of Faraquet. “That was basically where I learned how to play [drums], with a lot of patience and assistance from Devin,” he says.

Now the two multi-instrumentalists have set out to compose a new record, taking full advantage of their combined skills, if not their proximity. “I live in Colorado now, so we have a lot less time to collaborate in person,” explains Molter. “Lately we’ve been writing separately and then coming together and working things out for shows. The situation is a lot looser in some respects because we’ve gotten away from having a certain role or just one instrument to play in the band, which, for us, had been a bit inhibiting in the past.”

The progression from Faraquet’s neversit-still restlessness to the more spread out, patient state of Medications’ union has continued in their new long-distance setting. It makes sense: simplify as you go. “I think that we’ve both moved toward writing songs that are a bit more stripped down in their arrangements. There isn’t as much writing going on when we get together, just some refining.

All in all, the music is moving in the same trajectory, which began when we first started playing together many years ago. We’re still writing what, to us, are just weird pop songs.”

Not so weird, however, that they would alienate our South American neighbors. It seems like most of the band’s touring as of late has been in Brazil: “We were contacted, pretty much out of the blue, by a Brazilian production company, and, after working out some details, we decided to go. The Faraquet tour happened in a similar way.

When Medications played Brazil we discovered that there were some Faraquet fans hiding amongst the general population, so, with the help of a lot of really great people we had met over there, we decided to do some shows as Faraquet. We never really intended to get Faraquet back together, but when we decided to finally re-release some material that had long been out of print, we started talking about doing a few shows or possibly a short tour or two. With the exception of a few shows in Brazil and one in DC, that never panned out. Devin and I had never seriously thought about jumping back into Faraquet again. It’s hard enough to keep one band going.”

Jeff Tobias

WHO: Cinemechanica, Medications, Edie Sedgwick WHERE: Caledonia Lounge WHEN: Tuesday, Mar. 24 HOW MUCH: $6 (21+), $8 (18+)

White Flag M

decision. My musical communication is pathetic. The best I can do is give painfully vague comments like, ‘What if it builds there? Like, in intensity?’ Thank God I worked with such killer musicians.”

Madeline also credits Dark Meat/Ginger Envelope musician and White Flag producer Jason Robira with much of the album’s sound. “[He] had so much input with the attitude of the accompaniment,” she says, “once it came down to editing and mixing.”

Madeline says she spent a lot of time listening to the 2005 girl-group box set One Kiss Can Lead to Another put out by Rhino Records, and those hundreds of layered, sweet pop harmonies inspired her to work backing vocals into the recording session. She considers the tracks on this album “more confi-

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adeline Adams has one of Athens’ most musical, valuable instruments, matchless in both clarity of tone and richness of timbre. And it’s her voice that has always provided the initial come-on to most listeners, from her early days as a girl with a guitar at house parties, an Ingrid Bergman fresh-face among the sweaty punk crowd, to her recent big-stage 40 Watt shows. But it’s Madeline’s generous, intelligent songwriting which provides the heft that only reinforces initial impressions.

On her new album, White Flag, that voice—such a voice!—a little Joni Mitchell, a little Mary Chapin Carpenter—is again front-and-center, a musical anchor and the album’s focus, while her lyrics are more perceptive, intelligent and emotionally honest than ever before. She’s able to capture a moment in a way that’s decidedly Southern. Her tunes are sweet, but not cloying. Her lyrics are sharp, as on the richly evocative song “Jive Talking,” or on the cutting take-down of a would-be casanova in “Dirty South (Tie One On).” And the album’s title track ties together in an un-naïve way the disparate ways that relationships can live or die on time, surrender, growth, honesty and, yes, drinking.

Thing is, though her voice and lyrics are the focus of White Flag, this is also a first foray into recording with a full band for Madeline, who performs under just the one name. The recently named White Flag Band—Jacob Morris or Caleb Darnell (bass/ banjo), Theo Hilton (keyboards), Jim Wilson (drums), Jason Trahan (guitar), Laura Carter (clarinet, horns) and Robbie Cucciaro (horns), with Claire and Page Campbell (backing vocals), give or take a few—has been backing her for two years, deftly augmenting Madeline’s country-inflected folk starting back with the show celebrating the release of her last disc.

On that 2007 album, The Slow Bang, recorded with the aid of Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck, Madeline built up her songs around her guitar melodies, basing the roles of the album’s percussive instruments around the demands of the six-string. This time around, however, Madeline flipped that script, letting the rhythm section of her full band shepherd the White Flag songs to completion. “There was something very freeing in following Jim and Caleb’s beat,” she says. “It was a lot easier to let go, and I think that you can hear that in the performances.”

The expanded crew in the studio also allowed for expanded creative input on Madeline’s songs. “Everyone provided their own parts,” says the 23-year-old Athens native, “most of which we had already been performing for some time. They were discussed and altered in the studio, but it was always a group

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dent than others, especially vocally. I say ‘especially’ because as a vocalist that’s what I notice the most… this is the first album where I truly had back-up singers. Having the Campbell sisters work with me was so dreamy. I was obsessed with the idea of having female vocal back-up.”

There’s a precision to White Flag, a deliberateness, that hasn’t been present on Madeline’s past recordings, and upon the first few listens it can register as a little staid, a little too meticulous. A longtime listener might wonder: Was Madeline intimidated by her first time in a studio? Why does everything sound so… careful, so controlled?

Consider that the bias, though, of an observer who’s heard many of these songs live and many times, and is used to Madeline’s regularly beguilingly effortless stage presence.

That’s one of the things about hometown favorites: when

you’ve seen a band live so many times and you finally get around to hearing a fixed version of a song, it can sound alien, surprising. Madeline says, though, that it’s no unnatural thing.

“It’s normal for me to play songs for years before I record them, but this was a little more extreme than usual,” she says. “In general, my songs tend to change over time. I like to test out new ones solo for a while and allow them to change depending on how I feel during their performance, although I think I’m developing a different approach now that I’m regularly playing with the White Flag Band.”

Following last week’s release of White Flag, Madeline & Co. set out on a week-long tour of the Southeast with fellow Athens act Ham1 opening. Whenever Madeline announces her tour dates, though, inevitably she gets barraged by young fans on MySpace eager for her to play their hometown. It’s an evolution of the direct contact she cultivated on her many houseshow tours.

“I’ve got such a love/hate relationship with the Internet. If it were up to me, Clear Channel would have never taken over the radio waves, MTV would show music videos all the time, music would be sold on vinyl and tapes…” says Madeline. “The Internet has created a grass-roots effort among musicians, and once I started to take advantage of it, lots of new opportunities opened up.”

Part of Madeline’s changing with the times involves the expansion of her team, and not just when it comes to musicians in the studio. After years of touring and recording on her own, Madeline has recruited a publicist to help spread the word, and a record label (Athens-based Orange Twin Records).

“The funny thing is that I’m doing more non-musical work than ever,” she says.

“The naïve hope is that once you have more people helping you, you’ll have more time to focus on playing music. Honestly, though, at home I spend way more time behind the computer than behind the guitar.”

After returning to Athens for an April benefit show for Camp Amped, which also serves as her official CD release party, Madeline will box up some copies of White Flag and hit the road for her first tour of Europe, opening for longtime friends Defiance, Ohio. It’s another first for an artist who, since first playing songs in front of friends back in her teens, has been consistently and successfully evolving at a comfortable, organic pace. White flags are traditionally signs of surrender.

But what happens if it’s flown high enough, more prominent than all the rest, with a voice raised just as high? Now that may just catch a few more eyes.

Chris Hassiotis

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Wednesday 18 EVENTS: Empty Bowl Luncheon (The Classic Center) Benefit hosted by the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia to raise awareness about hunger. Tickets include soup, a sandwich and a bowl handcrafted by the potters at Good Dirt. 12 showpiece bowls created by local artists will also be auctioned off during the drop-in lunch. 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. $15. www.foodbanknega.org, www. classiccenter.com* EVENTS: The Great American Meatout (UGA Tate Center) In honor of the Great American Meatout, a national celebration of vegetarian living, Speak Out for Species will set up a table at Tate Plaza with lots of free vegan food samples and literature. 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/sos PERFORMANCE: Improv Athens (Ciné Barcafé) Improv from local cast members who have performed with the Alliance Theatre, the Playground Theatre in Chicago and on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.”

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706-613-3615 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: Wind Chimes. Celebrate the changing seasons with a hand-made wind chime. Ages 11–18. Space is limited. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: APERO Africana Brown Bag Lecture (UGA Memorial Hall—Room 407) Dr. Leara Rhodes of Grady College speaks on “Haitians Working to Make a Difference.” 12:15 p.m.

FREE! fsgiles@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin” (UGA Chapel) Dr. Robert Hazen, an award-winning researcher whose knack for conveying technical scientific information in everyday language has made him a best-selling author, delivers UGA’s Charter Lecture. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3383 LECTURES & LIT.: “Nuclear Renaissance, Disarmament, Terrorism and Proliferation” (Georgia Center—Master’s Hall) Panelists Sam Nunn, Mohamed ElBaradei, etc., discuss the opportunities and challenges regarding proliferation and international security. Sponsored by the Center for International Trade and Security. Part of a day-long schedule of events being held to mark the 20th anniversary of the center. 10–11:30 a.m.

706-542-2985, www.uga.edu/cits LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books (ACC Library—Small Conference Room) Adult book discussion group. This month: Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Redlin. Newcomers welcome.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) The group works on a wide variety of both unusual and traditional handcrafts.

Every Wednesday. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: Mindfulness Sitting Group (Mind Body Institute) Silent meditation every Wednesday. 12:30– 1 p.m. FREE! 706-475-7329 GAMES: Athens Dart League (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Every Wednesday! 8 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Rock Band Game Night (Wild Wing Café) Try your luck as a virtual musician! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. www.wildwingcafe.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

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

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GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Play for prizes every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920

Thursday 19 EVENTS: Chili Cook-Off (The Tailgate Station) Featuring music by Packway Handle Band. Benefits the Athens Area Homeless Shelter.

6–9 p.m. $15 (adults), $5 (12 & under). 706-206-5282* EVENTS: Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival (The Classic Center) Osborne and special guest Fred Willard host four days of classic films and post-screening discussions. Films include: Funny Girl, Goldfinger, E.T., The Godfather, Sunset Boulevard, Rear Window, King Kong, and For Your Consideration. Individual film tickets are $10 and $8 for students. Mar. 19–22. Festival pass: $60, $45 (students). www.robertosbornefilmfestival.com, www.classiccenter.com EVENTS: Wine Tasting: Old World France & New World Oregon (Maison Bleu—Watkinsville) Informal tasting of six wines and hors d’oeuvres. 6 p.m. $15. 706769-6480, www.maison-bleu.com KIDSTUFF: Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Every Tuesday and Thursday a chapter is read aloud from a young adult book.

For elementary ages. 4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: “Calcium, Bone Health and Osteoporosis” (Oconee County Library) Denise Everson, Oconee County Extension Agent, gives the talk. Part of the library’s four-part “Nutrition and Health” series. 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: “The Conduct of Foreign Policy under the Obama Administration” (UGA Dean Rusk Center) Husband and wife Earle and Barbara Scarlett, who have a combined 50-plus years of experience in U.S. and UN international diplomacy, share their insights on Obama’s foreign policy plans.

Q&A will follow. 12:30 p.m. FREE! abarbic@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “What Is Feminism?” (UGA Caldwell Hall—Room 302) Panel discussion with UGA faculty and students.

Sponsored by the Women’s Studies Student Organization. 7 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/iws MEETINGS: Athens Human Rights Festival (Red Rooster) Committee planning meeting. Any volunteers who want to help organize this year’s festival are welcome. 7 p.m.

770-725-2652, www.athenshumanrightsfest.org MEETINGS: Athens Photography Guild (Lyndon House Arts Center) Group that meets to share ideas and discuss photography. Everyone wel-

Vivian Yvonne Studevan’s oil painting “Everyday” is on exhibit at the Lyndon House Arts Center through May 9. come. 7 p.m. 706-850-1585, www. athensphotographyguild.com MEETINGS: Spanish Conversation Group (1000faces Coffee—585 Barber Street) Practice Spanish conversational skills every Thursday.

6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-534-8860 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Free every Thursday and Friday! 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. 706-354-7829

Friday 20 EVENTS: 21st Annual Red Clay Conference (UGA Dean Rusk Center) “Does Going Green Equal Making Green?”—seeks to examine the consequences of environmentally friendly business practices.

Full schedule and registration form online. 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. FREE! kac@uga.edu, www.lawsch.uga.edu/ redclay EVENTS: African American Film Festival (UGA Memorial Hall— Adinkra Hall) Festival concludes with screening of Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, which documents the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

6–10 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5196, kkmfree@uga.edu EVENTS: Book Sale (Madison County Library) All hardback books are $1 and paperbacks are $0.50. All proceeds benefit the library. Regular library hours. 706-795-5597 EVENTS: An Evening in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Wine tasting and art auction to benefit Athens Area Humane Society. Part of the auction—“Bark Avenue”—will feature luxury pet accommodations designed by local artists. 7 p.m. 706-353-2287, www. athenshumanesociety.org EVENTS: Korea Night (UGA Memorial Hall) Korean organizations

at UGA host event featuring Korean food and performances. Email for tickets. 7 p.m. parks@uga.edu EVENTS: Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival (The Classic Center) Osborne and special guest Fred Willard host four days of classic films and post-screening discussions. See Mar. 19 Events. Mar. 19–22. Festival pass: $60, $45 (students). www.robertosbornefilmfestival.com, www.classiccenter.com ART: Reception (Lamar Dodd School of Art—Gallery 307) For exhibit featuring early paintings by Lamar Dodd from the collection of C.L. Morehead. 6 p.m. FREE! www.art. uga.edu ART: Reception (Lamar Dodd School of Art—Gallery 101) For exhibition of Zachary Lieberman’s work, which explores the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible.

5–7 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu ART: Spring Fling Pottery Sale (Happy Valley Pottery— Watkinsville) Pottery sale featuring music by Mad Whiskey Grin (7 p.m.) and an open drum circle led

by Kevin Shulhan. 4–9 p.m. FREE! 706-769-5922 PERFORMANCE: Clarke Central String Orchestra (Borders Books & Music) The high school’s string orchestra performs. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 PERFORMANCE: Prazak Quartet (UGA Hodgson Hall) One of the most respected chamber music ensembles on the international music scene, this Prague string quartet was founded in 1972 and appears regularly in all major European musical capitals. 8 p.m. FREE! www. uga.edu/pac KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for

literacy-based fun. This month’s themes are race cars and the letter Z. Ages 2–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: “Cost of War: Six Years Later” (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 214) Raed Jarrar and Jason Hurd discuss the human and economic cost of the Iraq war. Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition.

4:30 p.m. FREE! LECTURES & LIT.: Ellen Cowne (Borders Books & Music) Meet the author of Dick and Jane Don’t Live Here Anymore. Cowne draws on her 37 years of experience as a GA public school teacher and administrator in her book about teachers and students. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 LECTURES & LIT.: “Environmental Justice and Ecofeminism: Ethical Complexity in Action” (UGA Coverdell Center—Room 175) Two-day symposium in memory of Australian eco-philosopher Val Plumwood. Friday keynote: Wesleyan University’s Lori Gruen speaks on “Attending to Nature.” 4 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/iws MEETINGS: Coffee Education Group (1000faces Coffee) Cupping, espresso, education and experimentation. Every Friday. 2–5 p.m. FREE! 706-534-8860, 1000facesmail@ gmail.com MEETINGS: Drinking Liberally (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Informal, inclusive and progressive social group that gives left-leaning individuals a chance to talk politics. First and third Friday of each month. 6:30 p.m. athens@drinkingliberally.org GAMES: Game Night (Main Street Yarns) Play your favorite games the first & third Friday each month. To be included for dinner at 6:30, call before 5 p.m. (cost is $5). 7 p.m.

EVENTS: Athens Psychic Fair (Village Herb Shop) Featuring traditional Tarot, psychic readings, palmistry, Reiki, massage and more.

1–5 p.m. 706-549-6007 EVENTS: Book Sale (Madison County Library) All hardback books are $1 and paperbacks are $0.50. All proceeds benefit the library. Regular library hours. 706-795-5597 EVENTS: BreastFest 2009 (Taylor Grady House) Fundraiser for breast cancer research and breast health that benefits St. Mary’s Women’s Diagnostic Center. See Calendar Pick on p. 23.

EVENTS: Film Screening (Borders Books & Music) Pre-screening of the Canadian short film “The Girl Who Hated Books,” which is based on the book written by Manjusha Pawagi and illustrated by Leanne Franson. The film will be part of the upcoming Fresh Look Film Festival.

1 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 EVENTS: Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival (The Classic Center) Osborne and special guest Fred Willard host four days of classic films and post-screening discussions. See Mar. 19 Events. Mar. 19–22. Festival pass: $60, $45 (students). www.robertosbornefilmfestival.com, www.classiccenter.com EVENTS: This Visible Old House Tour (Various Locations) Rather than looking at the stylistic elements of historic houses, this tour examines the materials and structure behind what you normally see. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. $15. 706-353-1801, www.achfonline.org* ART: Closing Reception (Jackson Street Gallery) For exhibition featuring work by over 20 Lamar Dodd School of Art first-year MFA students. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.art. uga.edu ART: Reception (Gallery 110—2 South Main Street, Watkinsville) Grand opening of new gallery featuring 2-D art and photography.

Refreshments and door prizes. 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-614-1654 ART: Spring Fling Pottery Sale (Happy Valley Pottery— Watkinsville) Pottery sale featuring studio demonstrations, raku firing and refreshments. Mar. 21–22, 10–6 p.m. FREE! 706-769-5922 OUTDOORS: Naturalist Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join SCNC staff for a walk around the property. Bring a camera or binoculars. All ages; children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult.

10 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 OUTDOORS: Spring Bird Ramble (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Join the Oconee Rivers Audubon Society for a morning bird walk. All birding levels are welcome. 8 a.m.

FREE! 706-542-1244 KIDSTUFF: Bat Bonanza (Memorial Park) Celebration of bats featuring crafts, activities and games. Also, Musical Mark performs bat songs.

10 a.m.–2 p.m. $2. 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Margo Candelario (Borders Books & Music) The Oconee County artist and author will read from her book Looking to the Clouds for Daddy. Q&A and signing follow. 3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-5838647 KIDSTUFF: Sock Puppet Workshop (Oconee County Library) Make different kinds of sock puppets. Bring your own sock; the rest

Sunday 22 EVENTS: Unnatural Causes (ACC Library) Seven-part film and discussion series that focuses on the social and economic factors that shape disease kicks off with first episode, “In Sickness and in Wealth.” Dr. Camara Jones, Research Director on Social Determinants of Health and Equity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks following the screening. 3–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-6788 EVENTS: Book Sale (Madison County Library) All hardback books are $1 and paperbacks are $0.50. All proceeds benefit the library. Regular library hours. 706-795-5597 EVENTS: Movie Night (Angelo’s Italian Restaurant) Screening of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-2228 EVENTS: Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival (The Classic Center) Osborne and special guest Fred Willard host four days of classic films and post-screening discussions. See Mar. 19 Events.

ART: “Running on Empty” Closing Day (ATHICA) Featuring a symposium on fossil fuel addiction, panel discussion with artists, silent auction of selected artists’ works and closing reception with coffee by 1000faces and snacks by Trumps.

2:30–6 p.m. FREE! www.athica.org ART: Spring Fling Pottery Sale (Happy Valley Pottery— Watkinsville) Pottery sale featuring studio demonstrations, raku firing and refreshments. Mar. 21–22, 10–6 p.m. FREE! 706-769-5922 ART: Youth Art Month Reception (Lamar Dodd School of Art—Third Floor) Reception for Youth Art Month Exhibition featuring work by students in the Clarke County School District. 2–4 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Green Flag (Borders Books & Music) Irish music featuring Julia McDermott on the hammered dulcimer, retired UGA professor Carl Rapp on the fiddle, Ken Ross on accordion and Antoon Speters on guitar and mandolin.

Hard-shoe Irish dancers also perform. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 PERFORMANCE: Laugh Out Loud Improv Comedy (The Melting Point) Every single fine point of uproarious comedy this evening comes to you completely improvised. 7 p.m. $5 (adv), $8 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com

KIDSTUFF: Zoo Open Classroom (Memorial Park) Explore the Exhibit Hall and visit with salamanders, pond turtles, snakes and more. 1–4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3616 LECTURES & LIT.: Danny Kofke (Borders Books & Music) Meet the author of How to Survive (and Perhaps Thrive) on a Teacher’s Salary. 1:30 p.m. FREE! 706-5838647 GAMES: APA Pool Leagues (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Join anytime, any skill level! 1 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Full-Contact Trivia (Allen’s Bar & Grill) “The lord of all that is trivia,” Bobby Nettles, commutes from Duluth, GA to pick your brain. Sports-themed rules with diverse categories. 9 p.m. FREE! www. allensbarandgrill.com GAMES: Full-Contact Trivia (Amici Italian Café) Nettles starts out the evening with a round of trivia here before heading over to Allen’s. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 GAMES: Team Trivia (Wild Wing Café) Every Sunday at Wild Wing!

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

Monday 23 EVENTS: Book Sale (Madison County Library) All hardback books are $1 and paperbacks are $0.50. All proceeds benefit the library. Regular library hours. 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Manga Drawing (Oconee County Library) Demonstrate and share your mangadrawing skills. 5–7 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: “America Unequal: The Problem of Health Disparities” (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Author and scientist Ichiro Kawachi, who has published 350 papers on the social and economic determinants of population health, gives the talk. 6 p.m. FREE! LECTURES & LIT.: GA Writers Hall of Fame Discussion (UGA SLC—Reading Room) Rumi scholar Coleman Barks and Georgia poet laureate David Bottoms speak as part of their induction into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. 4 p.m. FREE! www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters 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) Every Monday!

8 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Fat Daddy’s) Mondays, 6 & 9 p.m.

Wednesdays, 7 & 10 p.m. 706353-0241 GAMES: Trivia (Taco Stand) Every Monday night at the downtown location. 9 p.m. www.thetacostand.com GAMES: Trivia (Beef O’ Brady’s) Every Monday! 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916

FAT DADDY’S BAR & GRILL

DOWNTOWN IS MOVING TO THE EASTSIDE MONDAYS: NATHAN SHEPPARD

LYNN CARSON

Athens’ dj superstar for the last 8 years best karaoke in town every tuesday night 9pm come let us make you a star!

uga student drink specials FAT DADDY’S Lexington Rd.

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of the materials will be provided.

Register at the circulation desk. 2–4 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Borders Books & Music) Eric Carle storytime with books, games and snacks. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 LECTURES & LIT.: “Environmental Justice and Ecofeminism: Ethical Complexity in Action” (State Botanical Garden of Georgia— Callaway Building) Two-day symposium in memory of Australian eco-philosopher Val Plumwood.

Schedule online. 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/iws MEETINGS: Zen Discussion Group (Village Herb Shop) Weekly philosophy/spirituality gathering in a nonsectarian, inclusive environment. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-254-6122 GAMES: APA Jr. Billiard Leagues (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Welcoming young billiard players aged 7-17 years old every Saturday! 11 a.m.

706-354-7829 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Free every Saturday! 5 p.m. & 8 p.m. 706354-7829

LOWE’S

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

Gaines School Rd.

9pm-12am

TEXAS HOLD ‘EM

6pm & 9pm

TUESDAYS: celebrate st. paddy’s at fat daddy’s

with lynn the master of wild dance parties!

8 BALL POOL TOURNAMENT - 7pm WEDNESDAY: LADIES’ NIGHT with THE BROS. MARLER 9pm $1 DOMEStics & well drinks for the ladies

THURSDAYS: DANCE PARTY / LIVE MUSIC FRIDAY, MARCH 20: against all odds - 9pm SATURDAY, MARCH 21: running wild- 9pm Come Relax with us at

4030 Lexington Rd. • 706-353-0241

Savannah’s

Tuesday 24 EVENTS: Book Sale (Madison County Library) All hardback books are $1 and paperbacks are $0.50. All proceeds benefit the library. Regular library hours. 706-795-5597 PERFORMANCE: NOVO: A Benefit Dance Concert (Morton Theatre) Dance benefit to raise funds and awareness for the Benin Education Fund, an organization that provides k continued on page 23

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Daily Groceries a natural and organic foods cooperative

Introduces:

Eat. Drink. Listen Closely.

THURSDAY, MARCH 19

Monthly Jazz Series with

SQUAT

Tickets $5 adv • $7 at the door

ELEMENTS FOR LIFE Join us for a demo and sampling!

Saturday, March 21 Noon - 3pm Elements for Life is a new and innovative product line of high-quality Raw & Superfood nutritional products.

FRIDAY, MARCH 20 An Evening of Louisiana Creole Roots Music and Zydeco with

CEDRIC WATSON & BIJOU CREOLE Tickets $10 adv • $13 at the door

SUNDAY, MARCH 22

Laugh Out Loud presents:

A NIGHT OF IMPROV COMEDY

OVER 10 COMEDIANS AND PERFORMERS UNDER ONE ROOF! Doors at 6pm • Early Show at 7pm Tickets $5 adv • $8 at the door • $5 at the door with UGA student ID

THURSDAY, MARCH 26

VIGILANTES OF LOVE with WHISPER

FRIDAY, MARCH 27

VAL EMMICH

with SONS

For more info visit: www.noblelifeelements.com/DailyGroceriesCoop 523 Prince Avenue ’ ww.dailygroceries.org ’ 706-548-1732 ’ Open Everyday till 10pm!

KISS ft. MICHAEL WEGNER

Tickets $6 adv • $8 at the door • $5 at the door with UGA Student ID

OF WILLIAM

Tickets $8 adv • $10 at the door

SATURDAY, MARCH 28

THE GOURDS CD RELEASE PARTY Tickets $15 adv • $17 at the door

SUNDAY, MARCH 29 National Acoustic Songwriter Spotlight with

ARI HEST, TIM BRANTLEY KOON

and special guest DAVID

Tickets $8 adv • $10 at the door

THURSDAY, APRIL 2

IVAN NEVILLE’S DUMPSTAPHUNK w/ THE HEAP

Tickets $12 adv • $15 at the door • $10 at the door with UGA student ID

COMING SOON 4/3 - Hillary Lindsey Songwriters in the Round presented by The Tumornators (benefitting the Children’s Tumor Foundation) 4/4 - TOMMY TALTON CD Release w/ special guest LINGO 4/6 - All the Lads & a Lady Songwriter Tour featuring JON BLACK, RYAN HORNE, MICAH DALTON, DAVID BERKLEY & KIM TAYLOR

4/9 - THE CORDUROY ROAD EP Release Show w/ DEHLIA LOW 4/10 - THE HEALERS w/ HEAVY FEATHER 4/11 - ‘80s Dance Party with THE HIGHBALLS 4/18 - An Evening with the DAN TYMINSKI BAND 4/24 - NORMALTOWN FLYERS 30th Anniversary Show 4/25 - Evening with JIMMY HERRING BAND

All doors at 6pm and all shows 18 + up. Bring in this ad for 2 for 1 admission!

(To Tuesday & Wednesday Series Only)

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JOHN STRAW’S

BLUEGRASS SERIES WEDNESDAY BLUES $3 All the time • Every Tuesday 7-10pm • $1 OFF TERRAPIN

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THE CALENDAR! scholarships for students in western Africa. 8 p.m. $10. 404-518-0002 PERFORMANCE: Brent Weinbach (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Weird standup comedy that is both characterdriven and physical. For fans of the absurdly brilliant. Weinbach names Harpo Marx, Rowan Atkinson and Joe Frank as influences. 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/flickerbar KIDSTUFF: Book Discussion for Home-School Students (ACC Library) Come and discuss any of the 20 books nominated for the Georgia Children’s Book Awards.

For home-school students in grades 4–8. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650 KIDSTUFF: Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Every Tuesday and Thursday a chapter is read aloud from a young adult book.

For elementary ages. 4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) For ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: GA Writers Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (UGA Student Learning Center—Fourth Floor Rotunda) Rumi scholar Coleman Barks, GA poet laureate David Bottoms, late author Raymond Andrews and late childen’s author Robert Burch are inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Call to make reservations.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-542-3879 LECTURES & LIT.: Kristy Meeler (Borders Books & Music) Meeler, who holds a PhD in economics from UGA, discusses investments for GA educators. 7 p.m. FREE! 706583-8647 LECTURES & LIT.: “Social Determinants of Inequalities in Health” (UGA Coverdell Center) Two-day symposium featuring national and international public health experts discussing how socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity contribute to health disparities across the globe. Register online.

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Mar. 24–25, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. $15. www.globalhealth.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Visiting Artist Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art—Room S151) Textile and fabric designer Liz Collins speaks. 5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-0116 LECTURES & LIT.: “Women in Leadership” (UGA Tate Center— Reception Hall) A panel of women from all segments of the work world share their observations, struggles and accomplishments. Q&A and reception follow. 4 p.m. FREE! lrtpresentations@gmail.com GAMES: 8-Ball Tournament (Fat Daddy’s) Tuesdays. 7 p.m. 706353-0241 GAMES: Beginner’s Pool School (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-354-7829 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: Texas Hold ‘Em (Alibi) Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. 706-549-1010 * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 17 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $3, FREE! (law students). www.40watt.com UGA LAW SCHOOL TALENT REVUE Watch enterprising law students demonstrate their talents in areas other than the law. From singing, dancing and acting to any and every talent in between, for at least one night these students will drop the books and pick up the microphone, all for your entertainment… and if you’re not entertained, well, so sue them!

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com KINETIC STEREOKIDS Experimental indie rock infused with elements of hip-hop. The group names Can, Beck, Sonic Youth and Beastie Boys as some of their key influences.

RESIDENT PATIENT Experimental electro-pop quartet from Athens that blends haunting, atmospheric vocals with inventive instrumentation.

UNCLE OWEN, AUNT BERU Eerie, haunted ambient musings from a Georgia solo artist who records her tunes “like journal entries,” on the fly.

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 Every Tuesday, hosted by Lynn.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar TIN CUP PROPHETTE Local artist Amanda Kapousouz blends genres as she switches instruments and loops her airy vocals and violin around guitar and drums, backed by percussionist Jeremy Wheatley and others.

The Globe 9 p.m. FREE! 706-296-7307 DONNER PARTY “This crazy, Irish boys band will perform Pogues songs, drinking songs, traditional singalongs, more drinking songs, and also some songs for drinking to,” says the band. Featuring members of Olympus Mans, Half Dozen Brass Band, Positraxion and Greyhounds.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar BOB HAY AND THE JOLLY BEGGARS This local batch of talent lays down old-time folk inspired by poet and bard Robert Burns. Burns

Saturday, March 21

BreastFest Taylor-Grady House BreastFest has been an annual local fixture since 1999, when Sara O’Brien launched the event to commemorate the life of her mother, Tyanna Barre O’Brien, who lost a battle with breast cancer at the age of 48. The reach of the ‘fest now extends beyond the local area, Strawberry Flats with concurrent events held up and down the East Coast. In addition to celebrating the legacies of breast cancer victims and survivors, the benefit also endeavors to raise awareness and prevention of the disease that is the leading cause of death among women ages 40–55.

Athens BreastFest 2009 kicks off with a slate of kids-centered activities, including face painting and a moon bounce from 3–5 p.m. Marissa Mustard & Katie Downs, Gabriela Mejias, Tealvox and Sara O’Brien take the stage during BreastFest Kids to play 30-minute sets. The main event follows, beginning with some breast cancer education from a St. Mary’s representative and continuing with a musical line-up featuring Kimberly Morgan, Carl Lindberg & Friends, Betsy Franck & the Bare Knuckle Band, The Granfalloons and Strawberry Flats. The festivities also include a silent auction, raffle and refreshments.

Tickets are $25 at the door for adults and $60 for families. Admission to BreastFest Kids is free for adults and a suggested $5 for children. Advance tickets ($20 for adults, $50 for families) are available at St. Mary’s, Helix, Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company, Elizabeth Ann Florist and Uniforms Unlimited. Ninety percent of the proceeds go directly to local efforts to battle breast cancer at the St. Mary’s Women’s Diagnostic Center. The remaining funds benefit the ongoing nationwide work done by the Tyanna Barre O’Brien Breast Cancer Foundation. [Jennifer Bryant]

was Scottish, not Irish, but we can enjoy his drinking songs for St. Patrick’s Day just the same.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 DAVID GREGORY Live bagpiper performs in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ littlekingshuffleclub PUNK ROCK DANCE PARTY Every Tuesday! Hosted by Randy Smyre.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5 (adv), $8 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com* GREEN FLAG Celebrate St. Patty’s day with this Athens-based ensemble that is dedicated to capturing the diverse, traditional music of Ireland.

SHORT ROAD HOME Athens-based Celtic music ensemble inspired by the music of Ireland, Scotland, Canada and Appalachia.

285 W. Washington St. Athens, GA • Call 706-549-7871 for Show Updates

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THURSDAY, MARCH 19

BLOODKIN CD RELEASE PARTY

BACKYARD TIRE FIRE doors open at 9pm • five dollars

FRIDAY, MARCH 20

No Where Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 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.

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

JOKER “Southern rock band with Athens bar experience,” says the band.

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Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com KARAOKE Every Tuesday night at the downtown wing chain’s upstairs space.

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Wednesday 18 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (21+). www.caledonialounge.com BIRDS AND WIRE This local fourpiece plays a moody kind of alt country, incorporating sweet vocal harmonies and steel sounds as well as a rhythm section fluent in jazz.

SISTER SUVI Eclectic folk-pop trio from Montreal featuring the vocals of multi-instrumentalist Merrill Garbus who also takes turns rocking the ukulele and violin.

TAKKA TAKKA Hand-claps, organ and sparkling guitar accentuate this Brooklyn band’s sweet and hooky guitar pop.

DJ OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS DJ P-MASTER HOOD (PATTERSON)

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GENE WEEN BAND

Farm 255 11 p.m. www.farm255.com JAMIE MCLEAN “Honest rock and roll” from New York with a lot of bluesy riffs and soulful vocals.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 THE BROS. MARLER Brothers Drew and Daniel Marler are currently concentrating on bringing their brand of Neil Young/Elliot Smith/Allman Bros.-influenced music to the people as an acoustic duo.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar ANTLERED AUNT LORD Fuzz pop guitar/drums duo featuring songwriter Jesse Stinnard.

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

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SING IDOG Local act that’s loud, distorted and psychedelic.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 JAY MEMORY Singer and guitarist for rootsy Atlanta pop-rock band Memory Dean.

Kingpins Bowl & Brew 8 p.m.—Midnight. www.kingpinsbowlandbrew.com NORMALTOWN KARAOKE Every Wednesday night in the Terrapin Grill and Tap Room.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com BLUES CROSSING This traditional blues band from Tucker, GA has some swing in its step and a lot of soul in its lonesome harp wailings.

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

QUARTERLIFE CRISIS Powerpoppunk band from Boston who claim to be influenced by the “TRL generation” of artists which includes Matchbox 20, Third Eye Blind and Sugar Ray. WACKO MAZOE Elberton-based four-piece Wacko Mazoe plays around with acoustic and electric styles, drawing on radio rock, blues and even pop-punk to create sincere sounds.

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

Thursday 19 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com BACKYARD TIRE FIRE Illinois trio plays clean, indie-roots rock with a Heartland swagger.

BLOODKIN The long-running Athens rock and roll quartet plays a bluesy style of roots-rock music with big guitars and sharply written lyrics for darkly countrified barroom rock.

Celebrating the release of Baby, They Told Us We Would Rise Again. See feature on p. 17.

Alibi 9 p.m.–1 a.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 “STAN’S ALMOST FAMOUS KARAOKE” Karaoke lady Lynn is your energetic host for the night.

Every Thursday.

Borders Books & Music 7 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 KATE MORRISSEY Morrissey’s warm, soulful voice and rhythmic piano spice her original songs, which have been described as “urban fables and fairy tales.”

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE CLASSIC BASTARDS Members of the Primus Cover Band offer original songs with a similar cheeky, funk-metal, bassophilic swagger.

And if they sneak in a few covers… is it luck?

DAFFODIL Trio Daffodil—Derek Wiggs, Zack Kennedy and Max Talkovich—plays fuzzed-out, early’90s sounding heavy rock and roll.

LAMINATED CAT Local psychedelic pop band fluent in the absurd and eccentric.

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Farm 255 10 p.m. www.farm255.com JACOB MORRIS Local musician Morris was nominated for a Flagpole Music Award in 2008 for best solo performer. You can also catch him playing cello and keys for Ham1.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. 706-353-0241 DANCE PARTY With live music. Call for details.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar A TALE OF TWO CALEYS Dusty Lightswitch collaborators Caley Smith and Caley Ross sound “like a science-fiction folk musical.” The quirky lyrics address meta- and astrophysical concerns, and feature a heavy amount of French and Greek wordplay.

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

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.georgiatheatre. com SEA DUB Spinning and mixing dubstep.

STS9 An ambient mix of trance, dub and samples paired with live instruments in a jam band from the future.

The band’s fourth LP, Peaceblaster, will be available later this year.

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

9:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar NANA GRIZOL Punk band from here in town that plays songs about shooting stars, fancy cars and red guitars. Expect more new jams tonight!

PRESCHOOL Dirty, dancy “fun-punk” (funk?) from Brattleboro, Vermont.

Featuring members of Michael Jordan’s Touchdown Pass. Also playing a late show at Flicker Friday night.

WITCHES Local rock band featuring Cara Beth Satalino on lead vocals backed by a drummer and bassist.

Influences include The Breeders and Neil Young.

Legion Field 2 p.m.–11 p.m. FREE! SUSTAINAPALOOZA Featuring performances by The Sustainability String Band, Allison Weiss, Jazzchronic, S2, Five Eight, The Wydelles and Chris McKay and the Critical Darlings plus 50 organizations tabling about sustainability related issues and events.

Door prizes and giveaways will be available!

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub ARMY OF KASHYYYK This merry band, on tour from Baltimore, plays loud and ambient post-punk and hardcore.

NATIONALE Female-fronted hardcore promising discord and an energetic live show.

SUIS LA LUNE Melodic indie hardcore from Sweden.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $5 (adv), $7 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com* SQUAT Tonight this popular, Latininfluenced jazz outfit will feature former Squat drummer Darren

Stanley (currently of Delta Moon) back behind the kit along with Trey Wright, Carl Lindberg and Tommy Somerville.

No Where Bar 11 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 JAZZCHRONIC Five-piece band JazzChronic explores freaky, funky, psychedelic fusion jazz while incorporating rock, R&B, heavy beats and more into the stew. CD release party!

DJ TRIZ Spinning classic hip-hop, dance and funk.

The Tailgate Station Chili Cook-off to Benefit Athens Homeless Shelter. 6 p.m. $15 (adults), $5 (12 and under). 706206-5282.

PACKWAY HANDLE BAND Packway’s “gather around the mic” approach to bluegrass provides sly, hearty original songs and renditions of classic tunes. The band’s close four-part harmonies are backed by high energy, and the contemporary lyrics are delivered with an engaging sense of humor.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net FIRE ZUAVE The lead singer of this Athens-by-way-of-West-Palm-Beach trio is the cousin of Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, but he sings a scratchier pop that veers toward Americana. His voice can channel Conor Oberst and Jeff Tweedy, and the bassist and drummer buoy his melodies with clean backing vocals.

MR. FALCON High energy, indie garage rock influenced equally by The Kinks and The Pixies.

NATE NELSON Young local singersongwriter whose songs offer both mainstream accessibility and more indie-oriented idiosyncrasy.

STONEFOX Dirty rock and roll revival from Florida that pays tribute to the bluesy origins of the genre with reckless abandon.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com THE FLY BROTHERS Funky reggaerock jam band from Atlanta with a jazz perspective.

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com NAPOLEON SOLO Multitasking oneman rock band who handles it all.

Friday 20 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com CHRIS MCKAY AND THE CRITICAL DARLINGS Drawing equally on ‘80s power-pop like The Cars and earlier stuff like The Kinks, frontman Chris McKay has a sharp lyrical turn for every melodic offering of his bandmates.

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.

Blazing guitar solos call to mind acts like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Joe Bonamassa.

Alibi 9 p.m. $5. 706-549-1010 ALBATROSS Local band playing classic rock and alternative rock covers.

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

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Vetiver, Larkin Grimm 40 Watt Club Songwriter Andy Cabic heads up San Francisco neofolk band Vetiver, and it’s a heady endeavor indeed he undertakes. Over the course of three previous albums, his tunes veered from the abstract and sur- Vetiver really atmospheric to warmer and more comfortable sounds. On Tight Knit, the band’s first release for the venerable Sub Pop label, Cabic & Co. expand on past sounds while remaining firmly, deeply, inextricably rooted in ‘60s folk and ‘70s songwriter-plus-band trends.

In fact, Vetiver’s been downright bucolic and a fine addition for Sub Pop, a label that has ever more shifted from the heavy grunge of the ‘90s to the reverberatingly blissful folk rock of, well, now and then. Heck, Vetiver may be the best example of this new brand of backwards-glancing rockers (see also: Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes, Devendra Banhart) in that Cabic’s emphasis on songwriting is in no way distracted or bent by style. You could plug in these guitars and lay some synth melodies over tunes like the jangly “More of This” or the lithely funky “Another Reason to Go” and they’d be just as strong. Tight Knit, in fact, is less woodsy than past Vetiver albums, but the gauzy harmonies remain versatile and inviting.

Cabric has toured the world extensively both in his own right and as a leader of Vetiver. You may have also seen him backing longtime friend Devendra Banhart on guitar and vocals on many of Banhart’s sundry projects. Vetiver was last in Athens two years ago opening for ‘60s folkie Vashti Bunyan; this time around the band’s headlining, bringing along another folk winner in avant-Appalachian songstress Larkin Grimm.

Doors open at 9 p.m., and advance tickets are available online at www.40watt.com for $10. [Chris Hassiotis]

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com DROPSONIC Driving, incessant guitar and yearning vocal melodrama in a Chris Cornell/ Jimmy Page kinda way characterize this energetic Atlanta trio.

EAT LIGHTNING DIY garage rock trio from Augusta, featuring dreamy arrangements and layered, distant vocals.

THE EMPTIES Local pop-rockers The Empties combine melancholy vocals with surprisingly harmonized choruses, in an interesting combination of rhythmic mope-rock and more driving hard rock.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com HOLA HALO “’70s keys, dripping guitars and marching band drums” are the specialty of this local band.

STILL, SMALL VOICE AND THE JOYFUL NOISE A revolving lineup of family and friends pounding out garage-rock spirituals.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 AGAINST ALL ODDS Alternative rock band based in Danielsville, GA. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar THE DARK KNIGHTS OF CAMELOT Heavily touring, cinematic indie-rock trio from Mississippi, like Cursive or Shudder to Think.

FACE Tender acoustic rock trio featuring locals Jay Kellom on vocals, guitar and piano, Cole Keese on upright bass and Tad Wilder on drums.

ROMANENKO Local trio draws from ‘70s pop and folk with a modern rock edge—like Mary Timony fronting the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

LATE SHOW. 12:30 a.m. www.myspace.com/flickerbar PRESCHOOL Dirty, dancy “fun-punk” (funk?) from Brattleboro, Vermont.

Featuring members of Michael Jordan’s Touchdown Pass.

THE WILD Driving, impassioned folk-punk from Atlanta. First show in Athens!

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.georgiatheatre. com INFERNO Hot electronic trance from Atlanta.

STS9 Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar CEREPHESIS Dirty punk from Florida, pumped up with ska and hardcore.

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.

Following the live music.

REEKS OF FAILURE Three-piece punk band that takes its cues from bands like Bad Religion, Jawbreaker, Minor Threat, The Descendants and Face to Face.

SO IT GOES Socially conscious punk rock band that infuses elements of Spanish rock, folk and ska.

Happy Valley Pottery Spring Fling Pottery Sale 7 p.m. FREE! 706-769-5922 MAD WHISKEY GRIN Alternating between six- and 12-string guitar, local musician Frank Williams slides and finger-picks his way through bluesy and decidedly American sounds.

OPEN DRUM CIRCLE Led by Kevin Shulhan, following live music.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub A POSTWAR DRAMA Local group featuring edgy, original folk tunes.

EUREKA CALIFORNIA Recently expanded from the solo project of Jake Ward to a full band, Eureka

California is a local indie band influenced by American indie that sounds like British indie influenced

by American indie. Also, it rocks.

HORSE PARTY Almost-epic Casio pop with a self-described “melodramatic” tendency.

STEGOSAURUS Usually witty, sometimes danceable and always raw, this local trio plays songs about down-and-out characters who crash on “14 Couches,” don’t want to roll cigarettes or feel as ancient as a dinosaur.

The Melting Point 6 p.m. $10 (adv), $13 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com* CEDRIC WATSON AND BIJOU CREOLE Grammy-nominated zydeko and Creole artist plays fiddle, accordion and sings lead for his folk/afro-beat collective, Bijou Creole.

Mercury Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.mercuryathens.com LIVE JAZZ Jazz Fridays feature a new jazz band every week. Call for this week’s lineup.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens FASCINATION An ‘80s dance party with DJ Gregory!

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net THE DROWNOUT The Drownout is high-energy indie-rock from Atlanta combining New Wave beats with grungy guitars.

LAST NOVEMBER North Georgia band Last November plays a highstrung kind of cock rock with a nod towards pop-punk. All the Gory Details is the name of the debut album.

SEQUOYAH PREP SCHOOL Southern rock from Florence, SC with subtle twang and a heavy coat of pop gloss.

THE MEDIA SAYS Doe-eyed boys whose windswept bangs give the JoBros a run for their money. The vocals are churned through AutoTune, the polished rock is electronically enhanced, and the MySpace page will suffocate you with all its Twittering, chatrooms and youthful vibrancy.

Tasty Bar (Downstairs). North East Georgia Food Bank Benefit. 10 p.m. $1 (w/ canned food), $2 (w/o canned food). www.tastyworld.net CANS U DIG IT? Local independent record label Mantooth Music presents the second of this year’s hiphop canned food drives. Tonight’s show features: Stanza, Son1 and the Insurgents, J-Prophet, The King DJ, Lil’ Jab and Kinghill.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com SUEX EFFECT The trio of guitarist Ricky Barrett, drummer Jonathan Daniels and bassist Miles Karp plays psychedelicized funk rock instrumentals, relying on spacey harmonies. Faces of the Tree is the full-length debut.

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.

WUGA 91.7 FM 4 p.m. FREE! www.wuga.org “IT’S FRIDAY!” UGA Opera Ensemble will perform on the local radio station’s weekly program.

University Cable Channel 15 will also broadcast the show.

Saturday 21 283 Bar 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 DJ ANONYMI Blending elements of world music and contemporary hits to bring a fresh sound to dance music. Tonight’s theme is The Balkan Basement, spinning “gypsy hotstep, Balkan beats and drum ‘n’ brass.”

40 Watt Club VH1 Save the Music Benefit. 9:30 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.40watt.com BEHIND THE SUN Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute.

EL SCORCHO Weezer tribute.

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Alibi 9 p.m. $5. 706-549-1010 BIG DON BAND Real Southern rock featuring vocals with lots of soulful drawl backed by smooth, bluesy guitars. Lynyrd Skynyrd would approve.

The new lineup features Big Don Spurlin (guitar), Brian Daniel (bass), Jeff Hargens (drums) and Jason Crowe (keys).

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com ELIJAH This four-piece band takes cues from blues, rock, funk, jazz and even some hip-hop to mix up an improvisational stew. Winner of the 2008 Flagpole award for Best Up and Coming Artist.

Borders Books & Music 3 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 DR. IAN JOHNSON Easy listening jazz on two keyboards to emulate a jazz band sound.

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BASTARD SUNS Atlanta-based “drunk-punk” that claims a sound “like if Sublime and Dropkick Murphys” had a bastard son.

KARBOMB Local trio (Webster Couch, Nick Skillman and Jesse Messer) plays high-velocity, erratic and angry punk not dissimilar to early-’90s Orange County stuff.

SO IT GOES Socially conscious punk rock band that infuses elements of Spanish rock, folk and ska.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com 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.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 RUNNING WILD This Madison, GA quartet plays classic Southern rock with an extra helping of country.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar MELISSA COLBERT You’ve seen Colbert strut her stuff in local bands Creepy and Everybody Everybody.

Don’t miss her always-energetic performances and rich, powerful vocals.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.georgiatheatre. com CAP’N KRUNK This Austin DJ likes to pontificate on issues of importance to him (the ladies, traffic, hatred of Captain Cat, etc.) while laying down some funky grooves.

STS9 Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar “LATE NITE DISCO” Every Saturday.

Just Pho and More 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1420 WITHOUT PEARLS Professors Lew Allen, Bob Fecho and Janette Hill from the UGA College of Education get together to play covers and originals with a focus on strong harmonies, alternative country and folk.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 8 p.m.–2 a.m. www.myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers.

Nuçi’s Space “Underage Music Night.” 8 p.m. $5 donation. 706-227-1515.

CONNELLY CROWE BAND This young band features Clarke Central High students Connelly Crowe, age 16 (rhythm guitar, vocals), Lewis Jones, age 16 (lead guitar, drums, harmonica, vocals) and Gus Boyd, age 17 (bass guitar).

DR. SQUID Jangly, frenetic rock and roll, at its best when emphasizing its British Invasion sounds.

THE WARM FUZZIES Weezer fans should definitely pick up this local band’s deliciously scratch and sniffscented Bubblegum EP for a set of fun, alternative rock numbers.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net LAZY MANE & KOSHER BEETS Hip-hop from Atlanta featuring slow-building, mellow rhymes over bleepy, electro beats.

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EARLY SHOW. 6–9 p.m. www.tastyworld.net CLIFF CORR Formerly of the band BlueLine, Corr moved to Tennessee after graduating from the university and has since released a solo album.

THE REEDS Josh Reid leads this duo-turned-four piece. They released their full-length album Bleed Lust last year.

BILLY THOMPSON Formerly of the band Seconds to Safety, this UGA student is now performing as a pop solo acoustic act.

Terrapin Beer Co. 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net TIM ENGLISH No info available.

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com CLAY COLEY Acoustic pop-rock in the style of Edwin McCain or Goo Goo Dolls, with an impressive arsenal of ‘90s covers including both.

Sunday 22 Borders Books & Music 4 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 JENNY JUMPSTART Recent Athens transplant Jenny Jumpstart has a voice like a perfect glass of iced tea: classic yet refreshing and seeped in a sweetness that’s distinctively Southern.

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

Monday 23 283 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. Tonight you are in control! Bring your iPod with a 15 minute playlist of your favorite metal tunes for your chance to DJ a set!

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. www.40watt.com GARBAGE ISLAND The challenging, interesting Athens improvisational group soldiers on despite lineup shifts. Loud, metallic and edgy, the band dips into krautrock and progressive thought.

DJ OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS Spinning rock, soul, rap, punk, ‘60s girl groups and dubstep.

DJ P-MASTER HOOD Birthday boy Patterson Hood tries his hand at spinning records.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com FLASH TO BANG TIME Local new wave trio finds a marriage between fun and somber, like a stormy beach party.

NU EROTIC No info available.

RESIN HITS Driven by Buzzcockslike punk buzz, this Portland band weaves in intricate embellishments like surf guitar lines, keys and unique percussive elements.

SING IDOG Local act that’s loud, distorted and psychedelic.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 NATHAN SHEPPARD The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is known for his emotive singing style and his modern reworkings of classic tunes, from Dylan and Neil Young to Van Morrison.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar COY KING Local songwriter Coy King often performs his poetic countrytinged ballads under the moniker Nightingale News. You can also catch him playing upright bass and piano for Americana band Timber.

KEVEN GILBERT The Kilroy frontman performs a solo set.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar AMERICAN CHEESEBURGER Athens four-piece American Cheeseburger boasts former members of No!, Divorce and Carrie Nations, delivering rapid-fire, loud and aggressive thrash rock in an old-school manner, winning fans around town.

MASSHYSTERI Timeless near-surf garage-pop from Sweden.

WITCHES Local rock band featuring Cara Beth Satalino on lead vocals backed by a drummer and bassist.

Influences include The Breeders and Neil Young.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net JOHN CRAIGIE A true humanist and a thoughtful storyteller, following closely in the footsteps of such folk legends as Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Ramblin Jack.

CHRISTOPHER HENDERSON Athens musician Chris Henderson plays dobro, mandolin, banjo, melodica, harmonica and more. You can find his most recent release, full of intimate acoustic ballads, in delightful homemade brown paper bag packaging around town.

MAD WHISKEY GRIN Alternating between six- and 12-string guitar, local musician Frank Williams slides and finger-picks his way through bluesy and decidedly American sounds. Joined today by Nancy Byron (of Elijah) to play a short set to try out some new material.

PHOLKSINGER JOSH The sound of Pholksinger Josh is described as “gangsta folk,” incorporating a combination of folk, country, blues, hip-hop and spoken word.

Tuesday 24 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com* LARKIN GRIMM Although often grouped with freak-folk musicians, Grimm was inspired most by hardcore, noise rock and shaman mystics.

VETIVER San Fran songwriter Andy Cabic’s music has been described as “dreamy, gentle songs that George Harrison would have written in some sunny country garden.” See Calendar Pick on p. 25.

Borders Books & Music 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 JAZZ STRING DUO Guitarist Bryan Williamson and bassist Kyle Winchester play subtle, fluent improv jazz.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com CINEMECHANICA This intensely voluminous local quartet is the aggro math-rock indie outfit that doesn’t know it’s a metal band. Or perhaps vice versa.

EDIE SEDGWICK Justin Moyer (exAntelope, El Guapo) fuses musical performance art, ironic pop culture worship and electro sounds.

MEDICATIONS Dischord Records act featuring former members of Faraquet. The tunes are progressive rocks songs featuring serious guitar

acrobatics and melodies that veer from ethereal to erratic. See feature on p. 18.

Farm 255 11 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 Every Tuesday, hosted by Lynn.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar JOE CHALMERS Local musician who fronts Animals That Will Kill Your Ass performs solo.

ANDREW GRAHAM Up and coming folk and acoustic artist who sometimes goes by “The One Called Ocho.”

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

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ littlekingshuffleclub PUNK ROCK DANCE PARTY Every Tuesday! Hosted by Randy Smyre.

9 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingshuffleclub THE ALBERTANS This Canadian pop collective’s latest EP, Sex with an Angel, offers lite, progressive, multiinstrumental pop with a vintage feel. Punk rock dance party follows the band.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com THE SUGGINS BROTHERS Performing as part of the weekly Tuesday bluegrass series, the Suggins Brothers are a hard-charging bluegrass quartet out of Macon.

No Where Bar 11 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 ANOTHER FIASCO The reconvened Fiasco comprises members of the Charlie Mars Band, Lionz and Soul Kitchen coming together to explore more traditional rock territory and resurrect the Fiasco name, claiming The Police and Led Zeppelin as influences.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. $3-$5. www.myspace.com/ ryebarathens COY KING Local songwriter Coy King often performs his poetic countrytinged ballads under the moniker Nightingale News. You can also catch him playing upright bass and piano for Americana band Timber.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net BLACK WINGS Leather-clad rock and roll that’ll steal your car, date your girlfriend, and crush your head like a can of beer.

KILL THE SCHOOL New, local metal four-piece.

REEKS OF FAILURE Three-piece punk band that takes its cues from bands like Bad Religion, Jawbreaker, Minor Threat, The Descendants and Face to Face.

Tasty Bar Downstairs. 10 p.m. FREE! www.tastyworld.net HIP-HOP DJs spin your favorite hiphop tracks all night.

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com KARAOKE Every Tuesday night at the downtown wing chain’s upstairs space.

Wednesday 25 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $15. www.40watt.com* GENE WEEN BAND Performing Ween songs, cover songs and more!

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

Borders Books & Music 8 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 FRESH WATER MUSSELS Dac Crossley’s bluegrass band performs in the café.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THESE ARE POWERS Former Liars bassist Pat Noecker leads this experimental, rhythm-driven electronic threesome from Brooklyn.

UNTIED STATES Distortion-heavy and disharmonious in an oddly pleasant way, Untied States charts moody, sinister rock and roll waters.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar WILL ESKRIDGE Member of The Ones and Hola Halo, Eskridge plays a solo set tonight, although he may join bandmate Shauna Greeson for a song or two.

SHAUNA GREESON Also currently a member of The Ones and Hola Halo, Greeson performs solo on acoustic guitar and piano.

ANDREW VICKERY A fresh young gem in the folk scene, Vickery plays acoustic songs on guitar and harmonica in the vein of Dylan.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 THE BACUPS Local cover band plays fun ‘60s tunes from The Beatles to The Temptations.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com ROCKIN’ JAKE One of the premier harmonica players in the country, Jake’s sound is a hybrid of swamp funk, blues and zydeco.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens PATRICK CAREY Ginger Envelope frontman plays slow-rolling countryish pop marked by breezy, melodic sounds with chiming acoustic and electric sounds and vocal melodies.

PAUL MCHUGH Long musician who spends most of his time onstage fronting Mother Jackson, the hardcharging, ‘70s-sounding rock and roll band rattling around town for several years.

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Body Jewelry Fetish & Bondage Lingerie & Clubwear Sik World Tees Incense, Candles & Oils

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net CLOROKS Albany, GA rapper whose beats are imported from Ludacris and B.O.B.’s ATL producer, Ole-E. Recently self-released his new LP, Your Pale Homie, featuring the catchphrase, “I wanna Buttaball girl!”

HOLLOW LEG Down-tempo sludge metal minimalism from Jacksonville, Florida.

HULL Thunderous NYC groove-metal crowned by its harmonizing vocals, like Torche or the Sword.

RORSHAK Member of local hip-hop group Deaf Judges.

SUBRIG DESTROYER Heavy bass and drum two-piece that sounds like a mix of Floor and Om. * Advance Tickets Available

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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 Birdhouse Donations (Athens Montessori School) Athens Montessori School seeks birdhouses, both functional and artistic, for a benefit auction to be held May 2 at the Lyndon House as part of GreenFest. Donating artists receive 20% of the winning bid amount.

Deadline is Mar. 23. 706-549-9076, athensmontessori@gmail.com Call for Entries (ATHICA) Seeking submissions for upcoming “Emerges III” (June 20–July 19).

Deadline is Apr. 30. See site for instructions. www.athica.org/callforentries.php Call for Submissions (Gallery RFD) Gallery RFD in Swainsboro seeks submissions for two upcoming exhibitions: “Seeking Solitude: Isolation in Art” (Mar. 26 deadline) and “Staged: The Constructed Photograph” (Apr. 23 deadline). www.galleryrfd@gmail.com, www. galleryrfd.org Seeking Artists (Village Herb Shop) Seeking local artists interested in displaying their work in the shop. Email slides to villageherbshop@gmail.com.

Student Art Competition (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) All entrants must attend school in Athens-Clarke County or an adjoining county and be in 10th grade or higher. Selected artwork is used to create items for sale at the gift shop (e.g., note cards, mugs, mouse

pads). $1,000 prize for first place.

Deadline is Apr. 2. 706-542-6014, www.uga.edu/botgarden

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

Mar. 21 & 22. $100. 706-769-4565, info@ocaf.com Art Classes (Ciné Barcafé) Now registering for six-week drawing and painting classes that meet Sunday afternoons starting Mar. 29. bhstrauch@yahoo.com, www. athenscine.com AWC Classes (Athens Wellness Cooperative) Offering community acupuncture sessions Wednesdays– Fridays from 1–5 p.m. ($25). Also, 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 Casual Earthenware Workshop (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) George McCauley demonstrates narrative sculpture using thrown and handbuilt methods.

Learn about his casual approach to working with clay. Space is limited. Call to register. Apr. 18–19, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. $60. 706-769-4565, info@ocaf.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Now registering for spring clay classes that start this week. 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) “Advanced Email and Browser Skills” (Mar. 19) and “RSS: The Basics” (Mar. 26). In the Educational Technology Center. Call to register. 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Contra Dance (Memorial Park) Old-time contra dance presented by the Athens Folk Music & Dance Society with live music and calling.

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

Mar. 21, 8–11 p.m. $7 (18+), FREE! (ages 17 & under). www.athensfolk. org Cooking Class (Earth Fare Café) “Confit: Classic French Technique, Modern Flair,” led by Chef Michael Perkins. Call to reserve a spot. Mar. 25, 6 p.m. FREE! 706-227-1717 Craft Classes (Native America Gallery) Offerings include “Floating Necklaces & Earrings” (Mar. 21) and “Intro to Beading” (Mar. 27). 6–8 p.m. $30 (plus cost of beads). 706543-8425 Dance Club (Village Herb Shop) Learn a new dance from around the world each week. Thursdays, 7:15 p.m. Donations. 706-540-1689 Didgeridoo Sessions (Healing Arts Centre) Three-week series that begins with learning how to create a basic drone and culminates in learning upper harmonies and rhythm building. Call to register. Mar. 28, Apr. 4 & Apr. 11. $30. 706-6131142, www.didgeridoohowto.com Drumming for Fun and Well-Being (Mind Body Institute) Led by Dr. Arvin Scott. Every 2nd and 4th Saturday. 2–3:30 p.m. $10/ class. 706-475-7329, www.armc. org/mbi Encaustic Wax Exploration (Wild Child Arts—Monroe)

Animal Control is very full with a great assortment of dogs for your choosing—including seven puppies 45 Beaverdam Rd. • 706-613-3540 not pictured here.

This large, handsome guy Pretty Weimaraner is a This Boxer has been through some tough times, really doesn’t have much big girl ready to become I would guess, but he’s a GREAT DOG. He is very calm and quiet and there is a wonderful write-up your new exercise time left. He’s a smart partner. She would love at athenspets.net on his personality by the person American Bulldog mix looking for a strong leader. to run or jog with you. who found and housed him for four days. Very deserving and wonderful dog that really responds Already spayed. to kindness.

Gorgeous pitbull Small and girl—need to see attentive her in person.

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“Chase Street Portraits,” an exhibition of art work by Chase Street Elementary School students, is at White Tiger Gourmet through March.

Experiment using one of the oldest forms of painting. All supplies included in price. Mar. 19, 6–8:30 p.m. $50. 770-266-7437, www. wildchildarts.net “Financing Solutions for Tough Times” (UGA Small Business Center) Program to include discussion of business plans, requirements for loans and other creative financing ideas. Register online. Mar. 19, 8–10 a.m. FREE! www.georgiasbdc.org Genealogy on the Internet (Oconee County Library) Learn how to conduct genealogy research online, with tips on searching for surnames and ancestors. Will briefly cover GALILEO and Heritage Quest.

Limited to 7 people, pre-registration required. Mar. 21, 2–4 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 Gentle Yoga (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Bring your own mat or towel and wear loose clothing. Julie Horne, instructor.

Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $9/class.

706-354-1996 Getting Started with Genealogy (ACC Library) Monthly informal class to walk you through the basics of researching family history. Bring a pencil and paper. In Heritage Room. Mar. 19, 2–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Hoopdance Workshop (Athens YMCA) Learn basic hoopdance moves in this introductory workshop. Mar. 28, 1–2:30 p.m. $20. www.athenshoopdance.wordpress. com Hoopdance Workshops (Canopy Studio) Learn basic hoopdance moves in a series of three workshops. Space is limited; sign-up to reserve spot. Mar. 22,

11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $25/workshop, $60/all 3 sessions. 706-549-8501, www.canopystudio.com Intro to Microsoft Excel (Madison County Library) Registration required. Tuesdays, 2–3 p.m & 7–8 p.m. Wednesdays, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 Laugh-a-Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Helps produce changes in mood, confidence and health. Fourth Friday of every month. 5:30–6:30 p.m. $5. 706-475-7329, www.armc. org/mbi Make-Up Lesson (Borders Books & Music) Bobbi Brown representatives and Belk make-up artists give lessons. Each guest will receive a personalized face chart. Mar. 19, 7 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 MBI Classes (Mind Body Institute) Offerings include Beginner Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Chair Yoga, Prenatal Yoga and Tai Chi Chih. 706-4757329, www.armc.org/mbi 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 Personal Finance Program (ACC Library) Students from the UGA Law school present a 30–45 minute program on personal finance and using credit wisely. Mar. 23, 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Personal Safety Class for Women (St. Mary’s Hospital— Wellness Center) Andy Garrison, manager/director of the Athens Regional Police Academy, hosts “Personal Safety Awareness: What You Can Do for Your Safety.” Limited to 25 participants. Call to register.

Mar. 21, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-389-3355

Pilates Classes (Balance Pilates and Wellness Studio) Schedule and details online. Private lessons also available. 706-546-1061, www. balancepilatesathens.com Pilates Open House (Balance Pilates and Wellness Studio) Featuring demos, posture assessments and a free gift. Mar. 22, 2–5 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1061, www. balancepilatesathens.com Qigong (State Botanical Garden of Georgia—Visitor Center, Great Room) Certified Qigong instructor Carl Lindberg leads class on the ancient Chinese art of self-cultivation.

Mondays, Mar. 23–May 11, 12–1 p.m. $80. 706-542-6156, www.uga. edu/botgarden Resume Writing and Job Searching Online (Madison County Library) Led by guest instructor Melinda Dalton-Horne. Preregistration required. Mar. 19 & 26, 7–8 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 Scanning and Restoring Family Photos (ACC Library) Learn how to restore and preserve family photographs using your computer. Led by Jim Morgenthaler, a retired UGA media professor. Call to register. Mar. 21, 2 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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 Woodturning Demo (Clarke Central High School—Construction Technologies Classroom) Internationally renowned woodturner Ray Key addresses the many considerations involved in turning artistic

boxes and containers. Bring a lunch and comfortable chair. Mar. 21, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $15. www.classiccitywoodturners.com Yoga (Village Herb Shop) Drop-in yoga ($5–10 donation) meets Wednesdays (7:15 p.m.) and Thursdays (8:30 a.m.). 706-5401689 Yoga Nidra Workshop (Five Points Yoga) Carla Jennings, RYT, leads deep relaxation workshop for students of all levels. Preregistration required. Mar. 21, 3:30–5 p.m. $15. 706-355-3114, www.athensfivepointsyoga.com 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 Foster Homes Needed (Athens Area Humane Society) 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 706-424-4900.

Hands on Athens Seeks Volunteers (Various Locations) Volunteers needed to help repair and maintain historic homes this spring. Weekend registration at the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation at 489 Prince Ave, or sign-up online.

Morning and afternoon shifts available. Apr. 3–5. 706-353-1801, www. achfonline.org/handsonathens

KIDSTUFF Camp Amped (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. 706227-1515, www.nuci.org Drawing Class (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Artist Toni Carlucci teaches the secrets to drawing plants, flowers and other natural objects. Apr. 14, 4–6 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4662 Kids’ Art Camps (Good Dirt) Now registering for summer art camps.

Complete schedule info and registration forms at www.gooddirt.net.

706-355-3161 Kids’ Yoga (Five Points Yoga) With Em Smith Headley, CCYI & RYT. Ages 3–5: 3-3:45 p.m. Grades K–2: 3:50–4:35 p.m. Call to register.

Thursdays, Mar. 19–Apr. 23. $60.

706-355-3114, www.athensfivepointsyoga.com Yoga Sprouts (Memorial Park) Pre-registration required. Ages 3–6: Tuesdays, 4–5 p.m., through May 12. Ages 7–12: Thursdays, 5–6 p.m., Mar. 19–May 14. $0–$48.

706-613-3580, www.yogasprouts. 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

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (Young Adult/Browsing) “Cartoons, Comic Books & Graphic Novels: The History of an American Art Form.” Through March.

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. www.athica.org Ciné Barcafé “Family Trees,” an exhibition featuring Leonard Piha’s whimsical paintings and sculptures that reflect on his family’s Jewish heritage. Through Mar. 22.

Circle Gallery, UGA College of Environmental Design “A Pleasant Territory: Grasslands in the Southeast,” featuring paintings by Philip Juras. Through Mar. 27.

City Salon + Spa “A Series of Jars,” an exhibition

by Lauren Harrell. Through April.

Flaunt Photography by Heather Fletcher. Through March.

Flicker Theatre & Bar Photographs from the Bonnaroo Music Festival by Austen Mikulka. Through March.

Hampton Fine Art Gallery (Greensboro) “New Works Around the Corner,” featuring new pieces by local artists. Through March. www.artistcameronhampton.com Krimson Kafe Mosaic artwork by J. Elizabeth Wright. Through March.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (Gallery 307) “At the Beginning: Early Paintings by Lamar Dodd,” featuring paintings from the collection of C.L. Morehead.

Through Mar. 28. Reception Mar. 20. (Gallery 101) Exhibition of Zachary Lieberman’s work, which explores the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible. Mar. 20–28. Reception Mar. 20. (Art Education Gallery & 3rd Floor North Bar Corridor) Youth Art Month Exhibition featuring work by students in the Clarke County School District. Through Mar. 28. Reception Mar. 22.

needs of local transgender people. transgenderathens@gmail.com Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Informal and supportive 12step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally.

Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-227-2354, www.emotionsanonymous.org Mental Health America of Northeast Georgia (Various Locations) Weekly social group for those with mental illness and their family members. This month’s events include a movie and bingo.

Tuesdays. 706-549-7888, www. fightthestigma.com Mental Health Support Group (St. Mary’s Hospital) Meets in the lobby conference room.

Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. 706-7835706, www.athensmentalhealth.org Overeaters Anonymous (Various Locations) Mondays, 5:30 p.m. at Nuçi’s Space. Thursdays, 7 p.m. at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church. Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. at Princeton United Methodist Church.

FREE! www.geocities.com/athensoa

ON THE STREET 31st Annual 5K Human Race (UGA Catholic Center) Now registering for Apr. 18 race sponsored by the UGA Catholic Center and benefiting the Franciscan Helping Hands Outreach, the Athens Area Food Bank and the Catholic Center’s Summer Art & Music Camp. Entry forms online. Before Apr. 13: $15/ individual, $55/family of 4. After Apr. 13: $18/individual, $65/family of 4. www.uga.edu/cc FREE! Tax Preparation (Hancock Community Development Corporation—300 Henderson Ext.) HCDC will help clients e-file or prepare a paper copy to mail. Mondays, 4–7 p.m. Saturdays, 12–4 p.m. 706546-1154 f

Lyndon House Arts Center 34th Annual Juried Exhibition, featuring work by area artists in a variety of media. Through May 9. Selections from the second round of proposals for the Athens Area Arts Council’s “You, Me and the Bus” program of artist-designed bus shelters. Through May 9.

Madison County Library Cross-stitch and crochet creations by Melinda Horne. Through March.

Monroe Art Guild Annual Walton County student show. Through Apr. 30.

Oconee County Library Photography by Susan M. Clopper. Through March.

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

Through Mar. 25. Reception Mar. 25.

Red Eye Coffee Work by UGA student Talia Bromstad. Media include lithography, letterpress and relief printing. Through March.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia Landscapes by Hermann Kosak. Through Mar. 22.

The Grit Youth Art Month exhibit featuring work by students from Barrow Elementary School. Through Mar. 29.

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 Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries (Gallery 301) “Garments Pleasing to God,” featuring Coptic textiles (ca. 300–700 C.E.). Curated by Dr. Asen Kirin. Through March 28.

Washington Historical Museum (Washington) Premiere showing of Herb Bridges’ collection of hand-painted movie poster boards from the ‘30s and ‘40s. Through May. White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates “Chase Street Portraits,” an exhibition of artwork created by students at Chase Street Elementary School.

Through March.

Wild Child Arts (Monroe) “Crosses/Rebirth,” featuring work by local artists. March through April.

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins My boyfriend and I have been together for five years, living together for the past two. We spend ridiculous amounts of time together and are truly best friends. The first three years of our relationship were long distance, and that went smoothly—mostly.

I moved down to Athens two years ago so that we could live together while he was in grad school, and I soon found out that he had slept with an old friend/girlfriend (they’ve known each other since age 14 and had dated on two separate occasions) while she was living in Atlanta for a brief time, months before I had moved in. I was livid (obviously), but I had made a few mistakes during our years apart (though never slept with anyone else), and after some time went by I pretty much got over it. I merely requested that the next time my boyfriend went back to his hometown for Christmas that he not talk to her, as the whole thing still made me uncomfortable. He said OK. I found out a few weeks into the new year that he had spoken to her at length and possibly saw her, too. I threatened to move out and break off the relationship because he had lied to me about talking to her, and because he couldn’t honor my one request to avoid her while he was home. He promised it wouldn’t happen again and convinced me that just talking to another person was a silly reason to end what was otherwise a wonderful and fruitful relationship. In the end, I agreed (well, I’m not sure I agreed per se, but we did stay together).

Now a whole other year has gone by and we live in a new city.

Everything is fine and dandy, and about two months ago my boyfriend told me this other girl has moved to the same city to live with her boyfriend (what are the fucking chances?!). All he told me was that he knew she had moved to town and that she had contacted him through Facebook, but he hadn’t replied. I was thankful that he told me of her new proximity and that she had contacted him.

Weeks went by, and one night I got a strange feeling from the way he was acting. I looked at his phone records and saw that there were calls made between the two of them over the last month, and texts exchanged, and that they did in fact meet up the night before (with other friends, too). I asked my boyfriend about it the next morning and he didn’t come clean until I told him I already knew the truth from looking at his phone. He says it’s all innocent, he loves me, wants to marry me, she has a serious boyfriend, etc. and that he just didn’t tell me because it’s all so “insignificant” (his words), and he didn’t want me to get mad about nothing.

I’m pissed that he lied to me about their communication again (keeping it all from me counts in my book as lying), and I don’t really feel like dealing with this sort of thing (this girl, him lying, me being sneaky to find out the truth, etc.) on what is turning out to be an annual basis. He says she’s just a good, old friend and he should be able to talk to her and hang out; I say they clearly have a pattern of going between “just friends” and something romantic, so how can he be so sure it won’t happen again?

I do believe that at this point, they are just being friendly, so am I overreacting when I tell him I just don’t want any contact between them? Should I just say “fuck it” and let him do what he wants and deal with whatever the consequences may be in the future? I mean, I guess she seems like she would be a nice enough girl maybe, but it seems just too weird for the THREE of us to all be friends, right? But can either one of them expect me to be OK with the two of them together alone? Is it right that I should let something that happened three years ago (the initial offense, anyway) still affect our relationship? This does really seem to be the one thing that is hanging over our otherwise great and loving partnership. I just hate that he lies to me about it and I end up being sneaky (checking phones, email) to find out the truth. This all makes me quite upset, and it seems that my boyfriend just ends up having his cake and eating it, too.

Three Strikes, He’s Out? The first two things that struck me, upon first reading your letter, TSHO, are a.) after five years, you should probably be spending Christmas together, even if it means dividing time between your families. This is how people in long-term relationships behave, and it is how things will be when/if you eventually do get married; and b.) yes, it is definitely weird that the girl in question and her boyfriend (if he really exists) happened to land in the same city. But it is not impossible, so don’t even bother going there.

Also, your boyfriend is full of shit when calling his communication with her “insignificant.” Clearly he is now afraid of how you will react after he already made a promise not to contact her and can’t figure out how to keep it and is feeling a lot of stress about it. This is hardly insignificant. Rather, it is wrought with stress and uncertainty and discomfort, and he feels torn between wanting to be free to do whatever he wants and keeping you happy. You are right to be pissed. But you also have to get over it, because here’s the thing: you are the only one who can fix this.

He is lying, no matter how you slice it.

This puts him at a major disadvantage. Clearly you have an otherwise very good thing, but he is uncomfortable about being told how to conduct their friendship, and he doesn’t want to blow her off.

To be fair, they have known each other for a very long time and very little of that time has involved them dating or otherwise sharing more than platonic exchanges. Your only solution is to allow the friendship and be a part of it. It is likely that since you and your man are such good friends, in addition to being in love, that a good friend of his is a person whom you would also like. Insert yourself into the situation, forget about their past, and try to be her friend, too. Trust him. Forgive, forget, make an effort, and if you still don’t like it, then you break up. But don’t throw it all away without giving it another shot.

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

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Real Estate Apartments for Rent $440/mo. Location, Location, Location! Taking reservations for Aug. move-in. 291 S. Finley Bluffs Apt.’s 1BR. 550 sq. ft.

2 blocks from UGA campus.

(678) 613-5600. Email bluffs. apts@yahoo.com. $825/mo. 4BR/3BA. Close to campus. Avail. 4/1/09. 273 Westchester Circle. Owner/ Agent, call Mike (706) 207-7400.

1BR apt. Safe & quiet! 255.5 Hillcrest Ave. No dogs, cats OK, W/D, $525/mo. incl. water & trash. Avail. 8/1. Chris (706) 202-5156.

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) 354-4261, 10am–2pm. Get a roommate & live w/ us!

2BR duplexes starting at $475/mo. (706) 549-6070.

2BR/1BA Eastside on Cedar S h o a l s D r. A l l e l e c t r i c , remodeled, W/D hookup. $550/mo. (706) 202-2466.

2BR/1BA. $495/mo. FP, DW, CHAC. Close to town & UGA. Dogs OK. (706) 749-9141.

2BR/1BA renovated apts., perfect for grad students, safe & quiet, close to campus & Dwntn. 225 China St. 2 avail. now! Also preleasing for fall, $400–$550/mo. Incl. water & trash, no dogs, laundry onsite.

Chris (706) 202-5156.

2BR/1BA. Spacious. Quiet & safe n’hood. CHAC, HWflrs., W/D. $750/mo. Call (706) 548-5869.

2BR/2.5BA townhouse avail.

8/1. Near UGA & Dwntn.

Historic Art/Mill district. Priv. porches. Gated courtyd. On Greenway. Bamboo woods.

Pets OK. $700/mo. (706) 7147600, (706) 340-4282.

2BR/2BA Urban loft condo. Approx. 1500 sq. ft.

W/D incl. Walking distance to Dwntn. $900/mo. + dep. (757) 897-6766.

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.

5 Pts. 2BR/1BA. Great location. Walk to campus.

W/D, CHAC, nice patio. Pets OK. $675/mo. Avail. 8/1. Call (706) 369-2908.

Best apts. in Athens! Move in March and get the 1st mo. free & the 2nd mo. 1/2 off.

Or prorate it. 1BRs starting at $450 & 2BRs starting at $520! 3BRs $705/mo. & 1st mo. free! Pet friendly, busline.

Pre–leasing for fall. (706) 5496254. Restrictions Apply.

Brick duplex. 2BR/1BA w/ all extras, very clean. Just off Mitchell’s Bridge Rd. 2 mi. from Publix. $500/mo. Grad students & professionals welcome. (706) 254-0478.

Free month’s rent. Stadium Village 2BR/1BA gated community, close to campus.

Wa t e r, t r a s h , l a w n i n c l .

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.

L o f t f o r r e n t . Wa l k i n g distance to Dwntn. Chicopee Commons Poplar & E. Broad. $1400/mo. 2BR/1.5BA. DW, W/D, furnished avail. Lg. unit. HWflrs. Lv. msg. (706) 714-2767.

Lynn Rock Apts. 1BR/1BA $490/mo. On Bloomfield St. off Baxter, Near campus. DW, water, trash incl. Mention this ad & receive $100 off your sec. dep.!! (706) 353-6868 or www.joinermanagement.com.

New 2BR/2BA apt. Close to Dwntn. ARMC area. Lv. rm., study, all appls. incl. $800/mo.

Avail. now! Call Michelle (706) 433-2712.

Cobbham historic district. 1BR apt. Heart pine flrs. + ceil. fans. CHAC, W/D, garage w/ auto opener. NS. No pets. Call (706) 340-1283.

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.

Fall Special! Best deal at The Lodge. 2BR/2BA. Incl. basic cable & Internet, clubhouse w/ pool, fitness center, & much more! Sign up now for $750/mo. Athens Realty (706) 353-0708.

Ve r y c o o l l a y o u t !

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.

Hill St. 2BR/1BA. All electric apt. W/D, water, trash, lawn incl. $575/mo. Call (706) 549-6070.

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.2 B R / 1 B A , $490/mo.

Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700.

Apartments for Sale $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. $119,000. 3BR/2.5BA Scarborough Place upstairs condo for sale. Appls Incl., FP, pool privileges. Lawn maint., trash, water incl. in COA dues.

(706) 540-7501.

Commercial Property 1600 sq. ft. retail/studio space avail. in Historic Downtown Comer. Old general store location w/ high ceilings & ceramic tile flrs. Great for antique store, pottery studio, flea market, etc. $375/mo. (706) 207-5564.

1K–2K sq. ft. of dividable warehouse/studio space available Dwntn. On Broad St. Multi-use, great price, 24 hr. access. Call for info. (706) 546-7814.

200-400 sq. ft. studios/offices.

Natural light, CVAC, BRs, common area w/ kit. $250450/mo. Call (706) 338-0548.

Athens Executive Suites.

Offices avail. in historic Dwntn bldg. w/ on–site parking. All utils., Internet, & janitorial incl.

Single or multiple offices avail.

Call Stacy (706) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863.

Eastside offices for lease.

1060 Gaines School Rd. 1200 sq. ft., $1200/mo. 500 sq. ft. $625/mo., 150 sq. ft. $300/mo. (706) 546-1615 or athenstownproperties.com.

Retail Suites for lease at Homewood Village.

1K–12,500 sq. ft. avail. For more info. Call Bryan Austin at (706) 353-1039 or visit www. sumnerproperties.net.

Houses for Rent $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.

$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. $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. $660/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. $800–$900/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.

1, 2, 3BR houses. Pre–leasing for fall. Close to UGA & Dwntn. Call (706) 255-0066.

1/2 mi. from Downtown.

1, 2, 3, 4BR houses & apts. located in the historic Blvd. n’hood. Please check out b o u l e v a r d ​p r o p e r t y​ management.com or call (706) 548-9797.

1/2 mi. to UGA. Nice 2BR/1BA. HWflrs., CHAC, W/D, fenced yd., pets OK. 1284 E. Broad, across from Chicopee apts. $700/mo. Avail. 8/1. Rose (706) 540-5979.

1BR house in 5 Pts.! $500/ mo., big fenced yd. Dogs OK! No DW or hookups for W/D. 120.5 Fortson Dr. Avail. 8/1.

Chris (706) 202-5156.

1BR up to 4BR houses. Preleasing for next school yr.

Close to UGA & Dwntn. Call (706) 714-4486 or email at hathawayrichard@hotmail.com.

2BR/1BA. 1/2 mi. to Arch. All appls., HWflrs, lg. wood deck overlooks priv. fenced yd. $700/mo. (706) 202-9507.

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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.

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) 7401514 toll free.

2BR/1BA Sublet with option for 1 year lease.

Avail. until 7/31 at $450/ mo. w/ option to sign lease 8/1 at reg. price of $625/mo.

CHAC, W/D, fenced yd., pets OK. 236 N. Peter St. Call Britt (706) 346-3692 to see.

2BR/1BA close to Dwntn/ UGA. HWflrs, sunny, CHAC, W/D, sec. sys., fenced yd.

Great for pets. 236 N. Peter. $625/mo. Avail. 8/1 or earlier.

Rose (706) 540-5979.

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.

2 B R / 1 B A re n o v a t e d m i l l house on 1st St. High ceilings, HWflrs, chef’s kit. w/ all appls.

Big priv. yd., front porch, rear deck, storage buildling. $850/ mo. (706) 202-9507.

2BR/1BA, p re - l e a s i n g .

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

2BR/2BA mobile home. Only 4 yrs. old! Close to UGA on Inglewood Ave. All appls. incl. W/D. $575/mo. No pets, new carpet. Avail. now! (706) 540-0472.

2–3BR/2BA. 2 decks & front porch, country setting, high ceilings, HWflrs., lg. rms, Good dog is OK! Avail. now or May! $800/mo. (706) 2022733 or (706) 548-9797.

3BR/1.5BA, pre–leasing.

5 Pts., 1 block to UGA & M i l l e d g e Av e . B e a u t i f u l home. $1500/mo. $500/BR. Includes utilities. Email hathawayproperties@gmail. com, call (706) 714-4486.

3BR/1BA. Close to campus.

Fenced backyd., HWflrs., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail.

8/1. $1K/mo. Won’t last! (706) 369-2908.

4BR/4BA brand new houses Dwntn & 5 Pts. Awesome locations! W/D incl. Now preleasing for Fall 09. $1900/mo.

Call Aaron (706) 207-2957.

Cleveland Road.

3BR/2.5BA on 150 ac. FP, DW, garbage disposal, CHAC, yd. maint., garbage p/u. No pets. $875/mo. (706) 372-3896.

3BR/1BA. Pets OK. $800/ mo. 220 Habersham Dr. (706) 613-2317.

4BR/4BA condo w/ decks!

UGA bus, pool/tennis, lv. rm. & din. rm. furniture, W/D, gorgeous wooded area. Off of Riverbend (near UGA golf course). $1340/mo. (678) 4676127.

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

3BR/2.5BA houses. Brand new! $1275/mo. Avail. now!

Near Prince Ave. Call Kelly (706) 254-3250.

3BR/2BA Eastside duplex. $700/mo. Pest control, lawn maint., garbage incl. W/D conn.

Avail. 4/1! (706) 410-6122.

3BR/2BA on Camelot Dr. $800/mo. Wooded lot in quiet n’hood. CHAC, all appls, FP, deck, ceil. fans. Pets OK w/ dep. Trash incl. Avail Aug. Email bradleygaydos@ gmail.com.

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, p re – l e a s i n g .

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

3BR/2BA, p re – l e a s i n g .

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. Huge house on Greenway! $1400/mo. All appls. 978 MLK Pkwy. Avail.

8/1. (706) 713-0626.

4BR/2BA victorian home 1/2 mi. from campus. W/D, DW, fenced yd., HWflrs, $695/ mo. Huge rooms! Lots of character. Avail. 8/1. Pets OK. (706) 369-2908.

4BR/2BA house on Eastside for rent. HWflrs., carport, lg. yard. $1K/mo. www.infotube. net/152273. Call (706) 369-9679, cell (706) 207-0935, or call Pam (706) 540-3809 lv. msg.

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.

4BR/2BA lg. historical home 1/4 mi. from campus. HWflrs, high ceilings, FP, all appls incl. Front/back porch. $1600/ mo. No pets. Avail 8/1. Call (770) 995-6788.

3BR/1BA ARMC area. W/D, HWflrs., tiled kitchen, fenced backyd., carport. $750/mo.

Credit check. Call Andy (215) 284-2503.

4BR/2BA. Blvd. area. Pre– leasing for 6/1. Historic lg. home. High ceilings, wood flrs. $375/BR. Email hathawayproperties@gmail. com, call (706) 714-4486.

3BR/1BA. 1 mi. to Arch.

Renovated mill house.

Hancock historic district.

Multi–family, pet friendly.

Each rm. w/ priv. porch. All appls. incl. $1100/mo. (706) 202-9507.

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.

5BR/2BA built around 1900, in Blvd, huge open spaces, 14 ft. ceilings, custom kitchen & BAs, DW, & W/D, HWflrs, huge windows. Full renovation to be completed by 8/1. No dogs. $450/BR. Chris (706) 202-5156.

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. 8/1. 2BR duplex on quiet wooded lot. Eastside.

CHAC. Free garbage p/u.

Pets upon approval. (404) 314-1177.

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 property in 5 Pts next to memorial park. Very close to campus. $1100/mo. W/D, HVAC, DW. (706) 296-9546, (706) 296-9547, on www. cityblock.biz.

Country house. 15 min. from Dwntn. Athens. 3BR/2BA. CHAC, all appls., 40 ac. fenced pasture for horses in absolute privacy. $1000/mo.

Call (706) 340-7531.

Dwntn. Athens area. Huge 3BR/3BA. 2 lv. rms., FP, HWflrs., big BRs. Tons of space. Great entertaining area w/ lg. deck/patio. $1300/ mo. Michelle (706) 433-2712.

Excellent 4BR/3BA. 1/2 mi. to campus. Lots of character!

Big rms. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1775/mo.

Call (706) 369-2908.

First mo.’s rent free! 3BR/2BA all-brick near Athens CC. New paint, flrs., HVAC. $800/ mo. Call Geoff for more (706) 206-3560. Owner licensed RE agent in GA, lic. #302489.

Five Points. Fall pre– leasing. 1, 2, 3, & 4BR houses & apts. See at www. bondrealestate.org. Herbert Bond Realty & Investment.

(706) 224-8002.

Grad student/young professionals. 3BR/1BA. Quiet family n’hood. HWflrs.

Separate garage/workshop.

Huge fenced dog pen. Avail.

8/1. $750/mo. Call (706) 369-2908.

Great 4BR/4BA. Close to campus! Front porch, back deck, nice yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1550/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Heart of 5 Pts. 3BR/2BA. Lv. rm., din. rm., & kitchen. No pets. Unfurnished. $1450/mo.

Call (706) 548-4358.

New construction!

4BR/4BA. All appls. incl. $450/BR. A view of Dwntn. Off North Ave. Avail. July. (706) 202-4648.

Northside 2BR/1BA, lg. lot, $600/mo. Hospital area, Fenced–in yd. Avail. June. $800/mo. Eastside 3BR/2BA. Lg. yd., on dead–end street. $1100/mo. Cedar Creek 4BR/2BA $1100/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700.

Oconee Co. 3BR/2BA house on wooded 5 ac. lot.

Detached garage. 13 yr. old home. Very private. No pets. $1200/mo. Avail. now! Call (770) 307-6629.

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 Rober t Hardeman $995/mo. 6BR/2BA, 1065 M a c o n H w y. $ 1 6 9 5 / m o .

(706) 714-7000, (706) 5467946. FlowersRentals@ bellsouth.net. See virtual tours www. nancyflowers.com.

P re - l e a s i n g f o r F a l l !

Walk to campus! 2 & 3BRs from $625/mo. W/D, DW, priv. deck, pets welcome.

Mention this ad & pay no pet fee! (706) 548-2522, www. dovetailmanagement.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. $1295/mo. Call (706) 369-2908.

Houses for Sale $129,900. 3BR/2BA. CHAC, W/D, DW. Front porch. 4 blocks to Dwntn & UGA. Email hathawayproperties@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) 543-4000. $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.

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.

Boulevard Historic District. 230 Nacoochee Av e . 2 B R / 1 B A . C H VA C , renovated, high ceilings, HWflrs., lg. screened porch, appls. incl., partially fenced yd., detached studio building, great cond. $183,000. Call (706) 546-0775.

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

Awesome 1BR/1BA old shared house! $650/mo.

Recently remodeled. Lg., 800 sq. ft., HWflrs., all appls. 340 Ruth St. Apt. A. Avail. 8/1.

(706) 713-0626.

Best rentals in Athens!

1–5BR houses, apts., condos.

In the heart of UGA/Dwntn/5 Pts. Avail. Aug! Call (706) 369-2908 for more info.

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Brick ranch. 3BR/1.5BA. Nice shaded fenced in backyd. 1 car garage. Home in excellent condition! $124,900. Call (706) 549-4050 or (706) 7789295 between 3pm & 9pm.

Roommates Bike Downtown! Quiet housemate to share 2BR/1BA house w/ eco–friendly F professional. Lg. BR w/ high ceilings. Near Dwntn, Greenway, busline. 1700 sq. ft., HWflrs, tiled FP, W/D, CHAC, DW, lg. screen porch, backyd., off–street parking. $400/mo + 1/2 utils. (706) 202-5432.

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.

Housemate wanted for 3BR/1BA lg. country Winterville home. $450/mo. utils. incl.

HWflrs., W/D, CHAC, 2 ac., tall ceilings. I’m a stable artist, seeking polite, respectful housemate. (706) 742-7528.

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.

1BR/1BA on Blvd. Avail. 4/1.

Option to renew in Aug. Lots of space, extra rm. could be 2nd BR. HWflrs., high ceilings, big front porch, fenced yd.

Pets OK. $525/mo. (404) 617-6767.

2BR/2BA. W/D, DW, CHAC, duplex beside Sandy Creek Park. Cul–de–sac. 5 min to Dwntn. Pets welcome. $660/ mo. Call (706) 714-6339.

Wanted to rent Single professional woman looking for a sm. house or duplex immediately. Close to town. Peaceful environment. $800/mo. tops. (706) 2472092 or email angiewanj@ yahoo.com.

For Sale Antiques 30% to 75% off all merchandise. Great deals on furniture, collectibles, art, glassware, vintage handbags & all kinds of odds & ends!

Too much to list. Main Street Antiques, 1956 Main St., Comer, GA. (706) 783-4434 Open Thu. 10am–2pm, Fri. 11am–7pm, Sat. 10am–6pm.

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.

Antique french & english furniture, fine estate jewelry, oriental rugs, stain glass windows, original oil paintings, watercolors, fabulous quilts, s t e r l i n g s i l v e r, d e s i g n e r clothing. (706) 340-3717.

Rooms for Rent

Businesses

$580/mo. + 1/2 utils. Getaway in 1900 sq. ft. beautiful home w/ woods & fields.

Commerce, GA. 2 private BR & BA for roommate. Great shared huge main, kitchen, & din. rm. Garage/attic storage.

Dogs OK. (706) 372-9010.

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.

Sub-lease 1BR/1BA rm. for sublease.

Clean house w/ priv. yd. 2 friendly M roommates, 5 Pts. location. $400/mo. W/D, DW, CHAC. Call (404) 310-0876.

We l l e s t a b l i s h e d D w n t n business for sale. Name recognition! Best offer! (770) 634-8241.

Furniture Gently Used Furniture. sofas: $100, sofa chairs: $50, coffee tables: $20, side tables: $15, dining chairs: $20, bedside tables, b a r s t o o l s , e t c . w w w.

AthensGaFurniture.com or (706) 340-3969.

Mom’s Garage. Gently used furniture for frugal people, will be open by appt. only thru March. Call (706) 207-7855.

Sporting Goods Treadmill for sale. Horizon Advantage Pro-850. Used to rehab. $1400 new. Blue light special $350!! (706) 583-2620.

Yard Sales 177 Nantahala Ave. Sat. 3/21.

8am–1pm. Leaving USA, everything must go. Furniture, toys, girls, clothes (infant–3T), pottery, tools, appls, bedding, kitchen items, etc.

H u g e m u l t i – f a m i l y, 3 generation garage sale! Sat. 3/21. 8am–noon. Furniture, toys, housewares, electronics, appls., books, CDs, DVDs, holiday items, & more! No clothes. 79 Gail Dr., off Bel–Air & Beverly Drives, off Whitehead Rd. in Athens.

Huge multi–family sale w/ newer & vintage items incl. furniture, home decor, kitchen supplies, textiles, yd. items, clothing, & accessories. Sat. 3/21 8am–1pm. Absolutely no sales before 8am! 135 Woodcrest Dr. in Forest Heights.

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.

Chords-4-Kids is seeking guitar donations to teach free lessons at the Boys & Girls Club. Be part of a child’s music education! (770) 5036173 for info. Will p/u.

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.

Fender Twin silver tweed/ black knobs. Perfect cond. $600. Bridgeport foot bellows organ. Works great!

Gorgeous. $600. Fender Stage Lead II amp.

Excellent cond. $200. Brian (706) 372-4897.

Ta b l e s , c h a i r s , s o f a s , antiques, clothes, records & players, retro goods, & more!

Cool, affordable furniture every day. Go to Agora!

Your favorite everything store!

260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

We buy used gear! (770) 931-9190. Music–Go–Round buys hundreds of cool used instruments/equipment each wk. Open every day.

Bring trades!

Miscellaneous

Athens School of Music.

Instruction in Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Voice, Brass, Woodwinds, Strings, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, & more.

From beginner to expert.

Instrument repairs avail. (706) 543-5800.

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

Instruction

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

Composition/theory & bass lessons too. David Mitchell, (706) 546-7082 or www. mitchellmusicguitar.com.

Love Guitar Hero? Quit playing the game & learn the real thing. Teachers w/ de c a de s o f e xpe rie n c e .

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

Piano Lessons: University Graduate w/ Honors in piano.

Lessons taught on large 8 foot concert grand piano.

Excellent teacher. All ages & levels of skill welcome. (706) 549-0707.

Musicians Wanted

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Home and Garden B a c k y a rd S o l u t i o n s .

Make your neighbors jealous!

Waterfalls, ponds, fences, decks, gazebos, porches, & more! Call Robin for free estimate! (706) 340-4492.

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

Suburban Tractor Service.

(706) 769-8697.

Massage R e v o l u t i o n a r y Massage & Wellness special: $40 intro 60 min. massage. Call (706) 2554 4 4 3 or visit w w w. revolutionarymassage. com for more info.

Jobs

Gigging 3PC needs dynamicminded bass & lead guitarist/ keys/multi-inst. to round out sound. Hear Wilco, Ween, Pearl Jam, GBV, Pavement, Elliot Smith, U2, etc. Go to myspace.com/elitruett. (706) 254-3450 for more info.

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

Singer/songwriter in search of musicians to play & perform w/. A variety of instruments welcome. Call Matt (706) 6144802 or email matthewcrw@ gmail.com.

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.

Services Classical Guitar, DJ Services.

Entertainment for weddings, parties & other various social occasions. Over 20 yrs. experience throughout the Southeast. Contact Neal (770) 560-6277.

Fret Shop. Professional guitar repairs, setups, electronics, precision fretwork.

Previous clients incl. R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Vic Chesnutt, Bob Mould, STS9, Abbey Road Live!, Squat.

(706) 549-1567.

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

Guitar Repair, setups, electronics & fretwork by 20 yr. pro. Thousands of previous clients. Proceeds 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.

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

Featuring The Magictones— Athens’ premiere wedding & p a r t y b a n d . w w w. themagictones.com.

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Services

Full-time

Hardcore Sales Reps Needed. Hrly + comm. I need the best & forget the rest!

Call Chris (770) 560-5653.

Immediate opening for FT paralegal/legal secretary.

Position involves typing, handling mail, & standard paralegal duties. To apply, please submit resume (incl. salary/wage requirements) to Law Office of James W. Smith, 260 College Ave., Athens, Georgia, 30601, or by email to jrd.jwslaw@gmail. com. This position shall remain open until filled.

Sexy Suz Adult Emporium is looking for fun, energetic, professional people to fill FT & PT positions! Come by & Apply! (706) 850-6919.

Opportunities $600 wk. potential. Helping the gov’t. PT. No exp., no selling. Call (888) 213-5225 AD code L-5. Void in MD & SD. (AAN CAN).

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

Guaranteed paychecks. No exp. necessary. Positions avail. today. Register online now. http://www.DataPositions. com (AAN CAN).

DirectTV Satellite TV Special Offer: Save $21/mo. for 1 yr, Free HD-DVR, + 3 free mo. of HBO/Starz/Showtime! Call Expert Satellite (888) 2462215. CC req’d (AAN CAN) .

Ear n $75-$200/hr. Media M a k e u p A r t i s t Tr a i n i n g make–up artist for ads, TV, film, fashion. 1 wk. class.

Stable job in weak economy.

D e t a i l s a t h t t p : / / w w w.

MediaMakeupArtists.com, (310) 364-0665 (AAN CAN).

High School diploma! Fast, affordable & accredited. Free brochure. Call now! (800) 5326546. Ext. 97. Go to http:// www.continentalacademy. com (AAN CAN).

Instructors needed for summer youth programs at UGA. Need experts in Photography, Illustration, Wr i t i n g , Av i a t i o n , Vi d e o Production, Web Design, Graphic Design & Computer Animation. Call (706) 5423537 or email questions.ppd@ georgiacenter.uga.edu.

Now hiring! Companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home.

No selling, any hours. $500/ wk. potential. Info at (985) 646-1700 dept. GA–3058.

Wa n t e d : S e l f – m o t i v a t e d & willing to work. Great opportunity, small investment, zero risk. Email contact info to ians464@gmail.com.

Part-time Make FT money for PT work.

We are currently looking for females age 18–40 for modeling work. Everything from supermodels to the girl next door. You must be in good shape & open minded.

If interested, pls. call (678) 896-2246.

Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments.

No exp. req’d. (800) 743-8535.

Vehicles Autos BMW Z3 Convertible.

2000 has approx. 87K mi. 5 spd. 2.3 litre. Great condition, runs awesome. Newer top & tires. Black & tan interior. $12,500 (706) 202-8424.

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

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

BreastFest needs walkie talkies to borrow for volunteer coordinating. This fundraiser is for St. Mary’s Women’s Diagnostic Center (3/21 at the Taylor Grady House in Athens, see http://breastfest.org). Think of the karma points! Contact allenrach@hotmail.com.

Personals Pregnant? Considering adoption? Talk w/ caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers w/ families nationwide.

Living expenses paid. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions (866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN).

THU-SAT, MARCH 19th-21st

THU, MARCH 26th

FRI, MARCH 27th

let the madness begin.

Come watch the drama unfold starting Thursday at Noon!

SAT, MARCH 28th

friday 3.20 live music with justin brogdon saturday 3.21 college hoops all day... live music later with clay coley 312 E. Washington Street 706-227-WING (9464) wildwingcafe.com

TUE, MARCH 31st

WED, APRIL 1st

Chase Street Elementary Second Annual

"Race For Chase 5k" and

WUGA C the lassic

91.7

97.9fm

FRI, APRIL 3rd

"Treefrog Trot - One mile race"

SAT, APRIL 4th

March 28th - Chase Street Elementary Parking Lot

Race for Chase 5k at 8:00 am Treefrog Trot 1 mile at 9:00 am Following the races: Safe Routes to School presentation and a BikeAthens Bike rodeo led by a certified instructor.

COMING SOON

Registration $15 before March 20th, $20 thereafter Proceeds to benefit school projects Call Stacy Smith at 706.543.4903 for information

Register at www.runningintheusa.com and www.active.com

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