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Boybutante Miss Thing Turns 20!

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ATH Goes INTL Live Music from: Java p.15 Peru p.16 Cambodia p.16

UGA $$ p.7 · Kenosha Kid’s “Fahrenheit” p.13 · Dinosaur Jr. p.17 · GA Review p.23 · Wilco p.26

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THIS WEEK’S ISSUE:

Politics and Pollination

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Just Say No The rumors we’ve been hearing are apparently true: Nancy Denson will run for mayor. On the old Athens City Council and for a long time as Athens-Clarke County Tax Commissioner, Nancy Denson has been a model elected official: responsive, innovative and involved. She would no doubt be the same as mayor. But her presence in the race means that some well qualified younger candidates will not run for mayor, out of respect for Nancy or fear of her vote-getting ability. Thus, Nancy is almost in the position of the mayor’s seat being hers for the asking. This doesn’t mean it will be good for AthensClarke County. When the present mayor finishes her second term next year, we will need bold new leadership enhanced by energy and vision. As always, we will face new challenges in a rapidly changing economic and governmental environment. We will need a mayor with fresh ideas who can mobilize the whole community to address the current and future needs of this multifaceted city. This is not the time for a caretaker government from a mayor enjoying a last hurrah. Nancy Denson has served us nobly and effectively for a long time. Here’s hoping that a candid assessment of what Athens needs and what Nancy has to offer will lead her to decide that what she has already given our community is enough.

Just Say Go!

News & Features Athens News and Views

It’s another manic April in Athens—what else do you need to know?

Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Budget Cuts and the Illusion of Access

Basic liberal arts courses at UGA tend to level the playing field. But where will the cuts leave them?

Arts & Events Theatre Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Sex and Sleuthing

The UGA production of Dangerous Liaisons offers an abundant supply of sex, comedy and intrigue.

The Boybutante Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Miss Thing Turns 20!

The Boyball hits a milestone: Twenty years old and still fabulous.

COVER DESIGN by Kelly Ruberto featuring a photograph of Missy Kulik with Tofu Baby

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Music Cambodian Pop from Dengue Fever . . . . . . 16 It’s a Small World After All

The California-based group returns to Athens with copies of its successful tour documentary.

Dinosaur Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Beyond Reunions

Drummer Murph says he is the bridge that keeps Dinosaur Jr. together.

It’s time again for the Piedmont Gardeners’ annual Garden Tour of Athens. The tour organizers always do a good job of lining up Athens gardens that are interesting and beautiful. (Full disclosure: I am yardman to one of the Piedmont Gardeners.) Most of the gardens, though, are not intimidating but inspire those who tour them to go forth and do likewise— at least within the bounds of their energy and their budgets.

The gardens on this year’s tour are easily accessible. You can park and walk to three of them, and the others are nearby.

Number one in the booklet, which also serves as your ticket, belongs to Lucy and Buddy Allen at 740 Milledge Cir. Their twostory brick house sits beside Brookyln Creek in a woodland setting which invites you to ramble around the three-and-a-half acre grounds. Across the street at 755 Milledge Cir. is number two, at the home of Barbara and Vince Dooley. You’ve heard that the Head Dog is also a gardener. Now you can see the proof among more than 100 varieties of camellias and Japanese maples and stroll through native azaleas up to the lake for which West Lake Drive was named. Then, just up the hill at 633 Milledge Cir. is the lovely 1919 home of Carol and Rob Winthrop, flush with roses in the terraced back yard that drops down toward the lake.

The fourth garden is a block off Milledge Avenue at the home of Joan and Gary Bertsch at 228 Henderson Ave. Their small, low-maintenance garden is a focal point for family entertaining and for Gary’s study, tucked into a bright and airy outbuilding. A short walk takes you over to 376 Dearing St. for the garden and conservatory of Peggy and Ron Cole. The glass conservatory at the front of the house is filled with orchids; the sloping back garden is crowded with azaleas.

A short trip brings you to the sixth garden at 530 Pulaski St., home of Rinne Allen and Lee Smith. Down narrow steps you wind through various garden “rooms” created by former owner John Linley, lovingly enhanced by Rinne and Lee. The tour is Saturday, Apr. 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. rain or shine. Tickets are $10 advance, $15 the day of the tour.

Advance tickets are available in Athens at Cofer’s Home & Garden Showplace, Southern Comforts and Weekend Affair at Charmar and at Athens Seed, Lawn & Garden in Watkinsville.

Tickets are available the day of the show at any of the tour locations. For more info, go to www.piedmontgardeners.org.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

This week at Flagpole.com  Ort reports on Brewfest!  Homedrone: Jeff Tobias still in Europe.  More live music reviews!

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city dope Athens News and Views At the Wire: Just ahead of press time for this issue comes news that Athens’ most newsmaking restaurateur, Bruno Rubio, appears to have finally submitted building plans for La Puerta del Sol, his ambitious, controversial project on Cedar Shoals Drive. It’s hard to believe it’s been three years since the ACC Commission approved his rezone request—not that the La Puerta saga is hard to forget, as it was one of the most contentious rezones in recent memory. At any rate, it’s good to see the multitasking businessman get moving at last on a project that’s always had lots of potential.

No NORML News Yet: Still unresolved at press time was the outcome of a UGA student judiciary hearing for the campus chapter of

Savannah’s

Bad Budget News: A closer observer of Clarke County School District affairs might have seen this coming, but City Dope was as dismayed as everyone in town to learn how bad the budget picture looks there for the upcoming fiscal year. Staffing cutbacks are unpleasant to hear about anywhere nowadays, and our schools have been suffering under broken funding formulas for so long that it’s hard to imagine what it must be like at this point to try to work with their budgets. Public hearings on the budget as proposed are scheduled for 6–7 p.m. on Apr. 23 (at Gaines Elementary), Apr. 28 (at Alps Elementary) and Apr. 30 (at the district’s central offices).

No Worries: Don’t call the water cops if a stroll on campus next month brings you by a fountain that’s actually got water in it again.

At President Adams’ behest, physical plant staffers have rigged up North Campus fountains to use water from lakes, wells and air conditioner condensate—not city water.

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And Another: Back in a new location after a couple years’ hiatus is the Really Really Free Market, set for Sunday the 19th from 1–4 p.m. at Bishop Park. It’ll be basically the same as the Really Really Free Markets of the past,

Yes, that’s ACC Commissioner Mike Hamby playing Frogger in a crosswalk on Prince Avenue. So much for stopping for pedestrians—or politicians.

NORML, which seeks to decriminalize marijauna possession locally and has run afoul of UGA trademark rules. The hearing ran so long that it was to be continued this week. City Dope dropped in briefly last week and noted the school spirit and fully red-and-black attire, neckties and all, of the NORML guys there.

Actual news updates to come.

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town in another manic month of April, City Dope would like to point out just a few in particular. For starters, BikeAthens (along with Athens Transit) hosts the first ever Multi Modal Madness competition this Saturday, Apr. 18, from 11–3 p.m. beginning and ending at the Jittery Joe’s roaster on East Broad Street. It’s a combination race and scavenger hunt, all to be done without an internal combustion engine; learn more at BikeAthens.com, where registration is open through Apr. 15.

which took place for a spell at Reese & Pope Park just west of downtown, says an organizer: “bring stuff, take stuff.” Cool.

And Another: This one’s still a couple of weeks away, but seeing as (full disclosure) City Dope is one of the speakers on the agenda, early notice seems logical. A public forum called “Blue Water for a Green Future” takes place on Tuesday, Apr. 28 from 7–9 p.m at UGA’s River Basin Center. The event came out of the Athens Environmental Summit, the collaboration between local nonprofits which for several years has produced the annual report known as “Growing Sustainably in Athens-Clarke County.” Rather than just updating that document, organizers decided on a public event to keep the community focused on crucial water issues—water efficiency, mainly—which will probably continue to be important locally pretty much no matter what the weather does. Learn more by visiting the calendar at www.athensgreenfest.org.

Keep Careful: City Dope hasn’t been in touch with the police department about this yet, but the department’s daily crime reports have gotten his attention over the past week. As noted in these pages before, property crime rates have been high in Athens for months; there seems to have been another uptick so far this spring, which is just something for folks to be aware of. Again, FYI. Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

city pages Morris Buys More Time but Debt Still Looms Is Morris Publishing Group—owner of the print circulation fall dramatically in recent Athens Banner-Herald—the next big newspaper years. And even after layoffs early in the year, company in line for bankruptcy proceedings, the bad numbers have meant bad news for or not? The already months-old question is Banner-Herald employees: effective Apr. 1, still lingering, and still unanswered, after Morris handed down pay cuts “designed to Morris’s Apr. 7 announcement that it has preserve jobs in a difficult economic environobtained an extension until Apr. 24 to make ment,” according to the SEC filing. a nearly $10 million interest payment on its “Wage reductions will be 5 percent for massive debt, which is upwards of $400 milthose who earn less than $25,000 per year, lion. In addition to receiving the extension on 7.5 percent for those earning $25,000 to its forbearance period, Morris also negotiated $50,000, and 10 percent for those earning a waiver of a May 30 deadline to sell assets in $50,000 or more (which includes all Morris order to generate cash to prepay senior debt.

Publishing senior executives),” the docuAt least for the time ment said. Since the being, the company end of 2006, Morris At least for the time being, may have avoided a Publishing has “elimiroute towards filing for the company may have nated through attrition bankruptcy protection. or staff reductions” a That doesn’t mean avoided a route towards filing quarter of its workthat all news at Morris force, according to the for bankruptcy protection. is good: the company’s filing, and on Dec. 31, end-of-March filing 2008 its parent comwith the federal Securities and Exchange pany, Morris Communications, terminated its Commission indicated an annual revenue retiree health care plan. decline of more than $50 million from 2007 to The family of company chairman William S. 2008—a dropoff of 14 percent. Among Morris’s (Billy) Morris, III has been in the newspaper major daily newspapers, the biggest losses by business since his father became a bookfar were at its biggest paper: Jacksonville’s keeper at the Augusta Chronicle 80 years ago Florida Times-Union, which saw revenues and then bought the paper in the 1940s. The decline by almost 20 percent, or more than company’s expansion began in the 1950s; it $23 million. acquired its dailies in Athens and Savannah in The Savannah Morning News had a 17 perthe ’60s. Like many large newspaper chains— cent decline (roughly $5.5 million), and the all of which are having trouble now and some Augusta Chronicle 15 percent ($6 million). of which, like Chicago’s Tribune Co., are in The Athens Banner-Herald, meanwhile, had an bankruptcy—Morris expanded greatly in the almost 12 percent decline in revenue, or just 1990s. In 2007, though, it sold 17 smaller under $2 million. papers, presumably to help relieve its growing The numbers are not surprising nowadays debt load. in an industry traditionally built on high profit margins but seeing advertising revenues and Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

Reservoir Authority Seeks to Ease Water Regs Members of the four-county Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority voted at a called meeting Apr. 8 to request permission from the state Environmental Protection Division (EPD) to change local water use restrictions. Under a new petition process established Mar. 3 of this year, water utilities may request their own individualized departures from restrictions set by the state. The Basin Authority is asking that outdoor watering be allowed two days per week, under specific schemes to be set by each county, as well as car washing and an additional exemption for pressure washing.

The group expects a quick response from EPD, after which local restrictions may change.

Athens Mayor Heidi Davison questioned the request. “I don’t want to go back to twodays-a-week watering,” she said. “One day a week is enough. These are the habits that we’ve established.” But, said Jackson County Commission Chairman Hunter Bicknell, “I think most people now realize they only need

to do it one day a week.” The various counties’ public educational efforts have had an impact in that regard, he said. “I think you’re still not going to get double the water consumption if we allow two days a week as opposed to one day a week,” Bicknell added.

Because Authority members had concerns with changing restrictions too frequently and confusing citizens, they agreed to seek the two-day-a-week allowance but build in to the request a “progressive response if significant drought conditions resume,” according to a draft of the letter to EPD. Under that plan, the Authority will move to more stringent watering restrictions if the Bear Creek Reservoir’s level hits benchmarks at 80 and then 70 percent of its capacity. “That way everybody has a good understanding what the ground rules are, if the drought comes back this year,” engineering consultant Bill Martello said.

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Commission Sews Up Lighting, Parking and More It was not a particularly brief voting meetvote for Girtz’s version, which failed, but ing for the ACC Mayor and Commission on Apr. Robinson and Lowry also voted with the 7, but the group dispensed efficiently with a majority on the ordinance that passed. “I few of the issues that have been its thorniest would urge you not to let the perfect be the this spring and, in fact, over a period of years. enemy of the good,” Herod said prior to the Chief among them was the outdoor lighting vote, adding that he was against the option ordinance, which commissioners approved of tabling the matter again: “If that were on an eight-to-two vote with both superto happen, then we would be sounding, in commissioners, Kelly Girtz and Mike Hamby, my opinion, the death knell of this lighting voting in the minority. It had been four years ordinance.” since an earlier Commission had considered a In other news, Commissioner Mike Hamby local lighting ordinance on the floor; that ear- requested reconsideration of the vote last lier version, which failed to pass, didn’t even month to change downtown parking rates, have the support of its sponsor, Carl Jordan, fines and times; on an eight-to-two vote combecause of changes made before it came up missioners passed his motion to make the for a vote. parking meters on Broad and Clayton streets This year’s version had been passed out two-hour meters, rather than the one-hour of the Commission’s Legislative Review setup approved in March. David Lynn, who Committee last fall and then reviewed by the voted in the minority with Harry Sims, called ACC Planning Commission, so that despite the approach “backwards,” and said that only minority support for Girtz’s desire to high turnover of parking spaces on those two make two of its provisions more stringent, a streets would be better achieved with onemajority of commissioners hour meters. “It flies in were in a mood to pass an the face of generally held “I would urge you not ordinance and not let it be notions of parking pricing delayed any longer. for downtowns, and it even to let the perfect be “The fact of the matseems to be contrary to the the enemy of the good.” interests of downtown busiter is that there are simply not the votes to pass what nesspeople,” Lynn said. He Commissioner Girtz is proposing on the floor also called for an annual or biannual reevalutonight, because it has not been vetted,” ation of downtown parking. Robinson said the Commissioner Andy Herod said. Girtz sought new system is not perfect, but: “This is what to limit light “trespass” onto neighboring the downtown folks want to see, and I think properties more firmly than the ordinance will, we should be offering that.” and he sought for the ordinance’s provisions— And commissioners voted eight to which will affect mainly new development—to two, with Hamby and Sims opposing, for apply to more redevelopment projects than the Commissioner Alice Kinman’s proposal on ordinance will require. He had abandoned, for allocating federal social-service and economic the time being, his push for two other more development funds. A year after causing constringent provisions, dealing with a “curfew” troversy by pulling Community Development and with adjusting the direction of spotlights Block Grant funds away from the Hancock and floodlights. Commissioners agreed that Corridor and East Athens development corthose two items should be assigned to the porations, commissioners approved a set Planning Commission for further work at some of changes that included moving $20,000 point, but there was no appetite to include earmarked for the East Athens Development such an assignment in the motion that passed. Corporation’s (EADC) micro-lending program “This is not the ordinance I would like to to the internal Athens-Clarke Growth Fund see passed—it is the minimum, though,” said where, Kinman said, the money will move into Commissioner Ed Robinson. He also broached the community faster and at lower interest. the topic of the difficult journey the ordinance Robinson, who serves on the growth fund had endured in part because of the legislative board, argued for increasing EADC’s represenapproach of his predecessor, Jordan. tation there, “with respect to the very sensi“I beg folks to put beside their personal tive emotions in the East Athens community feelings about this, and to pass as strong with respect to the funding.” an ordinance as we can,” Robinson said.

Robinson and Doug Lowry joined Hamby to Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

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capitol impact Perdue Grabs More Power This was one of those legislative sessions where our elected representatives didn’t accomplish much, with one exception. They did pass a bill, SB 200, that could have an enormous impact on state politics and the balance of power at the capitol for many years to come. SB 200 will revamp the Department of Transportation, shifting much of the power over the agency’s $2 billion yearly budget to the governor and the legislators.

“Mark my words,” said Rep. Alan Powell (D-Hartwell), a longtime House member. “It may take three years; it may take six months, but we just changed the face of politics in Georgia.”

Perdue lobbied heavily for the adoption of SB 200 and has said many times that a departmental restructuring is needed to reform the “dysfunctional” DOT. Legislators who have been unable to get road projects started in their districts were also taking out their frustration on the department.

“We as the General Assembly will have control over the money,” said Sen. Tommie Williams (R-Lyons). “DOT’s ineptness to plan and fund will change… DOT will accomplish what we want them to accomplish.”

There could be a darker side here: by turning over so much power to the governor and the General Assembly, SB 200 could also provide more opportunities for corruption and political meddling in the awarding of lucrative highway construction contracts. Those were the factors that prompted Gov. Carl Sanders to put the current DOT structure in place in the 1960s. “This system breeds corruption—it has before and it will do it again,” warned Sen. Steve Thompson (D-Powder Springs).

SB 200 creates a new position at DOT, planning director, that will be filled by the governor. The planning director will have the most important job at DOT because he or she will draw up the list of highway projects authorized for construction, subject to review

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by the governor. By controlling what’s on the list of transportation projects, the governor will have a very big stick for threatening lawmakers who aren’t voting his way on other legislation.

There have already been some indications as to how the “new” version of DOT could be used by the party in power to reward political supporters. Rep. Vance Smith (R-Pine Mountain) sponsored HB 277, which would have implemented a statewide one-cent sales tax to raise money for transportation projects.

Smith’s bill included a long list of transportation projects that would be funded by the new tax, including a road widening that provided access to the posh Reynolds Plantation in Greene County, a resort developed by Mercer Reynolds. Reynolds is a heavy hitter in Republican circles as a fundraiser for George W. Bush and a supporter of Perdue and other GOP political figures.

Perdue’s ultimate goal in getting SB 200 adopted may be to facilitate the awarding of major contracts to private companies that want to take over the construction and management of public highways in Georgia. One of the world’s leading private developers of toll roads is Cintra, an international conglomerate based in Spain. Cintra has built and operated such major American highways as the Chicago Skyway and the Indiana Toll Road.

When Perdue flew to Spain last September with a contingent of business leaders, one of the companies he met with was Cintra.

That could be the ultimate legacy of SB 200—Georgians paying high tolls to drive on highways owned by a European conglomerate.

You heard it here first.

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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RAP VULC MIDS! Budget Cuts & the Illusion of Access My father corporatized our family long budget cut at UGA has become a 10–20 perbefore higher education took up the call en cent cut, which means cuts to the instrucmasse. Each birthday, I received a 25-cent tional budget, and that translates into cuts in raise. Each Jan. 1, I sat down with Daddy salaries, in personnel, and to student services. and a slide rule to calibrate cost-of-living No one is exempt from tough times. increases. He tied our allowance to 1972 dolHowever, must the burden rest with those most lars because he developed and implemented accustomed to shouldering it? Students who our allowance system in 1972. A good boss, arrive with excellent preparation will likely fare he wanted to ensure that we maintained our as well as they always have. Students, on the buying power. other hand, who already struggle to be here, Sis and I were happy with the system. The against odds stacked against them by virtue of fundamental bases were covered in our family, their birth into a less privileged demographic, and Daddy’s rules about our allowances for the will find that the fundamental services they extras served as successful incentives to keep need to catch up and compete successfully us in line until the crisis of adolescence came with their peers—tutoring centers, individualalong, and top-down corporate governance ized mentoring, etc.—will be extra or nonfailed us. Management failed to comprehend existent services, victims of budget cuts that the needs of its labor force, to recognize that balance numbers without accurately weighting market forces could not encompass family life the values of the variables. nor accurately value it. Though highly successFor the variables to be valued so that the ful at work, our corporate father had no idea bottom line can be balanced fairly, managehow to manage teenage girls, and he wasn’t ment might turn to those who understand about to start asking us for advice. The system the enterprise of education best: scholars broke down. Incentives were no longer incenand educators. While the members of the tives. Efficiencies in the system disappeared.

Board of Regents are eminently qualified to Bureaucracy and “or-else” mandates took hold. run their own businesses, I’m not confident The heart of the enterprise, the heart of the that they—not a single member has earned family, broke. a Ph.D.—understand the enterprise of educaSadly, I find this anecdote applicable tion sufficiently. Low national rankings of our to the state’s educational system today. educational system support my skepticism. I Particularly, I worry about higher education as wouldn’t charge humanities professors with I watch the inevitable collision of the state’s running industry. I’m equally suspicious about budget crisis with a system of governance that assigning businessmen the task of running fails to understand education. Though sufficiently the enterNo one is exempt from tough well-intentioned, prise of higher educathey are insufficiently times. However, must the tion that it governs. qualified.

Although our Board Much debate has burden rest with those most of Regents, comprised surfaced over the past accustomed to shouldering it? 30 years about the predominantly of white businessmen value of liberal arts appointed by Gov. Perdue, might argue that education. And in tough economic times, corporatization of our university system has pragmatism tends to be defined by the bottom created operating efficiencies, the move to line. I argue, however, that precisely in these turn our centers of higher learning into what times, we must value and budget for liberal humanities scholar Christopher Newfield has arts education. It can prepare us, all of us, to called “privatizable knowledge factories” has grapple more successfully with crises like the also led to a decreased understanding of what present ones. Core concepts and skills that it means for a public university to serve the accompany liberal arts education can remove interests of its entire public. In his newest accidents of birth from some of the equations, book, Unmaking the Public University, Newfield and turn illusions of access into actual access points out that corporatization of universities to success. has created a scenario in which financial conTen years ago, my father admitted that cerns eclipse “the public university’s democrahis greatest failing was his performance as a tizing mission.” father, a failure highlighted by his concurrent At UGA, where I am a graduate student success as a corporate leader. The corporate instructor, I find evidence to support this management model works. Just not when it claim. I teach composition classes to students comes to managing family complexity. And not who did not test out of the requirement. when managing public education. Particularly Students who test out generally arrive at in tough times.

UGA from the “better” schools, the ones with During this economic crisis, I hope that we, access to resources that ensure their students as a community, can collaborate to manage are among the nation’s most prepared. My our educational system so that all students are students are, by definition, less well prepared. well served, regardless of the relative levels of They arrive without the critical thinking and privilege with which they enter classrooms. I writing skills necessary to pass the exemption hope that the state’s power brokers will turn test. It’s our job to teach these skills. Critical to the humanities experts for advice. We canthinking and writing skills are among the core not allow market forces to erode public beneskills that both mark privilege and have the fits that lend truth to the ethos that everyone capacity to facilitate class mobility in this who works hard can succeed. We must cover country. Preparing students to graduate with fundamental bases for all the state’s residents an adequate mastery of them conveys the uniand guarantee access to success regardless of versity’s commitment to help level the playing the circumstances of birth. We must value the field by preparing all graduates for success. heart of the enterprise.

Recent budget pressures, however, have led to cuts that affect core services throughout Ashley David the system. Class sizes will increase next year.

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17 AGAIN (PG-13) Middle-aged Mike O’Donnell (Matthew Perry) gets a chance to do high school all over again, and this time around he looks like High School Musical’s Zac Efron.

ADVENTURELAND (R) Adventureland will remind everyone of that awesome summer in 1987 when they worked at that crappy amusement park, fell in love, had their heart broken and learned to love again, for real this time, whether or not it actually happened.

ASHES OF AMERICAN FLAGS (NR) Wilco’s new concert film collects footage from 2008 stops at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Tipitina’s in New Orleans, the Mobile, AL Civic Center, The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. Directed and Produced by Brendan Canty and Christoph Green, Ashes of American Flags includes interviews with the band as well as behind-the-scenes footage of their cross-country adventures. Winner of Best Cinematography at the Big Sky Film Festival.

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 and Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

THE BIG LEBOWSKI (R) 1998. The Dude (Jeff Bridges) abides, while seeking recompense for a pissed-on rug from a millionaire with whom he shares a name in a Coen Brothers’ comedy that keeps getting funnier every single time I see it.

THE CLASS (PG-13) Leave it to the French to make the most accurate cinematic approximation of what goes on behind the closed schoolhouse door. Based on star-cowriter François Bégaudeau’s account of a year teaching in a tough Parisian junior high predominantly populated by immigrants, the film by director Laurent Cantet (Human Resources) speaks openly and candidly, often brutally, about the state of public education in the multicultural, economically stratified societies of the West.

CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE (R) Crank was supposed to chronicle the day Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) died. He didn’t; the flick was a hit; a new franchise was born. In Crank 2, Chelios is hunting for the Chinese mobster who stole his indestructible heart and replaced it with a faux ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (PG-13) A baby born in a tiny octogenarian body, Benjamin confounds everyone around him, besides his adopted mother, Queenie (Taraji P. Henson). The magic of Benjamin Button lies in its newfangled effects and old-fashioned storytelling. Pitt looks and acts terrific as the tiny old Benjamin. He captures the gait of the elderly and, with the help of Fincher’s digitized genius, their creased visage as well. Sporting a pleasant sense of humor and an enormous, genuine heart, Benjamin Button is a curious case indeed.

DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION (PG) Fans of Akira Toriyama’s graphic novels may not be pleased by changes in the mythology, and those who don’t know a

dragonball from a poke ball won’t give a damn. I don’t fit in either category, and I kind of enjoyed Final Destination director James Wong and screenwriter Ben Ramsey’s mystical, campy martial arts actioner. Young warrior Goku (Justin Chatwin, who resembles a hobbit) is charged by his grandfather with safeguarding a dragonball, one of seven magical billiard balls that, when united, grant the owner one wish. In hot pursuit of the dragonballs is Piccolo (James “Spike” Marsters, who resembles one of “Buffy”’s lesser demons) and his hot, Bai Ling lookalike henchwoman, Mai (Eriko). If you’re in a forgiving cinematic mood, this live action cartoon has just the right amount of silly fun and cheesy FX. FAST & FURIOUS (PG-13) The fourth model of the Fast & Furious franchise knows exactly what it is and doesn’t try to be anything else. It is graphic vehicular pornography with the ultra-softcore sexuality of a bikini-filled car mag.

FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL (NR) The Found Footage Festival returns to Athens a scant six months later. This collection of random, hilarious home movies, training videos, ill-advised PR stunts and more—discovered by curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher (The Onion and “The Late Show with David Letterman”) at garage sales, thrift stores, warehouses and dumpsters nationwide—will make your week, guaranteed. Recommended for anyone jonesing for MST3K –style laughs.

Drew’s Pick of the Week.

THE GREAT BUCK HOWARD (PG) John Malkovich stars as the title character, an entertainer inspired by 1970s mentalist The Amazing Kreskin. The film picks up after Buck Howard’s days

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in the limelight. No longer appearing on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” now he’s performing in small community centers. The story is told from the point of view of Troy Gable (Colin Hanks), who takes a job as a road manager for the has-been illusionist after dropping out of law school.

HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE (G) It’s highly doubtful any Hannah Montana fans will leave this supersized, big screen episode of the hit Disney series unsatisfied. As hard as it might be to believe, Hannah Montana: The Movie is a charmer.

THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT (PG-13) Supposedly based on a true story, this horror film charts one family’s “encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural.” When the Campbell family moves to their Victorian home in upstate Connecticut, they soon discover the house’s disturbing history.

HOTEL FOR DOGS (PG) Nickelodeon Movies’ new doggie flick is no Beverly Hills Chihuahua, and that is not a compliment. The gadget-enhanced antics of Hotel for Dogs, based on a novel by Lois Duncan, will please the tykes; adults must fend for themselves as foster kids, Andi and Bruce (Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin), join forces with the teens at the local pet store to save the city’s strays. The kiddies’ sedated happiness is all that really matters with a movie like this.

I LOVE YOU, MAN (R) An Apatow film in spirit if not in name, I Love You, Man stars the always entertaining Paul Rudd as Peter Klaven, an LA realtor who realizes he has no male friends after popping the question to his girlfriend, Zooey (Rashida Jones, “The Office”). In search of a best man while selling Lou Ferrigno’s mansion, he meets Sydney Fife (Jason Segel), a carefree slacker. Rudd sacrifices none of his superior timing or wit playing the pleasant guy, and it’s nice to see Segel being someone other than the lovelorn softie. This bromance is real.

IN A DREAM (NR) Winner of many independent film festival awards (Woodstock: Best Doc, SXSW: Emerging Visions Audience Award), this compelling documentary chronicles the life of prolific Philadelphia mosaic muralist Isaiah Zagar, his wife and family. Nuçi’s Space presents this screening as part of their Depression and Suicide Awareness Week.

KNOWING (PG-13) You might believe Nic Cage if he accosted you on the street with a numerological theory about the end of the world before you believe Knowing is a tremendously entertaining flick. .

LIFE AFTER PEOPLE (NR) 2008.

What would happen to life after people?

With the help of feature-film-level special effects, writer-director David de Vries conjures up a vision of Earth once we the people have disappeared off its face. Apparently we need to start pondering such things; we’re not going to be around forever, you know. Soon to be a new History Channel series premiering on April 21. Nominated for three Emmys.

MILLION DOLLAR BABY (R) 2004.

As exciting as Maggie Fitzgerald’s (Hilary Swank) boxing ascension is, Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) and Maggie’s burgeoning father-daughter relationship, forged by the fighting, is the film’s core. It is easy to see

why Academy Award-winner Paul Haggis’ script appealed to Eastwood.

Meandering and lyrical, this tale of boxing, respect and forgiveness is deserving of all four Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Director), but it is Eastwood the storyteller who shines brightest.

MONSTERS VS. ALIENS (PG) The wonderfully animated MvA may be remarkable for its major action set pieces but lacks the charm and wit of more memorable family films.

NUOVOMONDO (PG-13) 2006.

Writer-director Emanuele Crialese chronicles turn-of-the-century immigration as experienced by a Sicilian widower, Salvatore Mancuso (Vincenzo Amato), and a mysterious Englishwoman, Lucy Reed (Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Science of Sleep). The two engage in a whirlwind romance as they sail to their imagined America.

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PAUL BLART: MALL COP (PG) Paul Blart: Mall Cop delivers 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.

PUSH (PG-13) Paul McGuigan (Wicker Park, Lucky Number Slevin) directs this knockoff-cum-mashup of X-Men and “Heroes” with enough style to distract viewers from the scrawny script.

RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN (PG) I loved Escape to Witch Mountain and its sequel, Return from Witch Mountain, when I was a kid. Watching Disney’s franchise reboot didn’t exactly conjure up wispy nostalgia like I’d hoped.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (R) Interactive midnight screening of the 1975 cult classic.

Sex, rock and roll, transvestism and murder all come together in this campy romp—the longest running release in film history.

THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN (NR) 2007. Sixty-year-old divorced father, Slimane Beiji (Habib Boufares), works in a shipyard but dreams of owning his own restaurant. His fractured family reunites to attempt to make his dream a reality. Winner of four Césars (including Best Film), five prizes from the Venice Film Festival and a European Film Award. Sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages in connection with USC Associate Professor Dr. Panivong Norindr’s lecture the following afternoon.

SLEEPWALKING THROUGH THE MEKONG (NR) A screening of this documentary that follows Dengue Fever on their recent journey to Cambodia accompanies the band’s performance Tuesday night at the 40 Watt. The film provides a portrait of modern Cambodia while celebrating the country’s long-overlooked music scene.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (R) Slumdog is an uncommon feel-good movie that accomplishes its uplifting objective without resorting to clingy clichés that leave the emotions sugar-sticky from their manipulative fumblings.

STATE OF PLAY (PG-13) An adaptation of the smash BBC TV miniseries, State of Play stars Russell Crowe as reporter Cal McCaffrey, who’s investigating the murder of a young woman

connected to his pal, Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck).

SUNSHINE CLEANING (R) Whether or not you enjoy Sunshine Cleaning will depend on your threshold for precious, Sundance-approved indie films. Maid Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) needs some quick cash so she can send her unique son, Oscar (the expectedly cute Jason Spevack), to private school, where all his authorityrelated issues will magically disappear.

Rose teams up with her screw-up sister, Nora (Emily Blunt), to start a biohazard removal and crime scene cleanup service and everything goes swimmingly for a while.

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. 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 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.

UNNATURAL CAUSES (NR) The 2009 Unnatural Causes Film and Discussion Series will address the inequities and discrimination that exist in American healthcare. Episode 4: “Bad Sugar” continues the seven-part series with a look at the socioeconomic factors shaping diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity and infant mortality. Participate in the discussion that follows the screening and stick around for the reception.

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. Yet Snyder has pulled off the impossible.

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

WENDY AND LUCY (R) Wendy (Michelle Williams, utterly submerged in the role) is a quiet, cool kid on a meagerly funded cross-continental trek from Fort Wayne, IN to, hopefully, Alaska. There, she is told in an early scene by the leader of a band of gutterpunk railway gypsies, she can find work in the fisheries, presumably to finance her further off-the-grid adventures. Her counted-on mode of transportation is her 1988 Honda Accord, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. When the Accord breaks down in a depressed town near Portland, Wendy is confronted with the reality of what it means to live on the edge.

THE WRESTLER (R) 2008. Academy Award-nominee Mickey Rourke may be the best thing in The Wrestler, but he’s also the worst. His performance, the best of last year and one of the strongest in recent memory, is so brilliant that it eclipses the overall excellence of acclaimed filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s fourth feature. The Wrestler leaves 2008’s squared circle with the championship belt held high in the air as blood streams down its face.

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movie pick Let’s Go to the Mall OBSERVE AND REPORT (R) Paul Blart, this is not. Observe and Report spits, hisses, scratches and claws. The comedy from writer-director Jody Hill (The Foot Fist Way, HBO’s “Eastbound and Down”) tries its damnedest to be unlikable, repugnant even. But it’s not. Instead, Observe and Report is the funniest film I’ve seen since Role Models. (Sorry, I Love You, Man, I’ve moved on.)

Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) isn’t exactly living his dream. A wannabe cop, Ronnie protects the Forest Ridge mall for a living. His quirky security team includes a lispy Hispanic, Dennis (Michael Peña, Crash), who’s living a lie (it’s not what you suspect), the expendable, gun nut Yuen twins (John and Matt Yuen), and the so-normal-he’s-the-oddball Charles (Jesse Plemons, making the most of his downtime from the best TV show you’re not watching and really need to start, “Friday Night Lights”), who isn’t on the faux force yet (he still works at Captain Olanders, an eating establishment familiar to Foot Fist fans).

Anna Faris and Seth Rogen When the appearance of a pervert (Hill’s University of North Carolina School of the Arts buddy, Randy Gambill) exposing himself to the ladies of the mall—how dare he show his penis to Ronnie’s love, slatternly makeup gal Brandi (Anna Faris)—coincides with a rash of robberies, Ronnie senses an opportunity to grab the brass ring, Brandi, and maybe, just maybe a badge, too. Too bad the real cops, represented by Detective Harrison (an appropriately intimidating Ray Liotta), keep getting in Ronnie’s way.

Fortunately, Ronnie still lives with his loving mother (Celia Weston, In the Bedroom), who, thanks to alcohol, is just as clueless as her son. Witness her approval of the atrocious decades-old outfit he chooses for his date with Brandi. Weston is terrific as the sexually promiscuous, over-the-hill boozer. (I sense a definite trend in the film’s female characters, broken only, though not completely, by a born-again virgin.)

A quick perusal of the Internet reveals an amazing number of vitriolic responses to the film. (Most comments seem designed to log the author’s dislike of date rape, a situation OaR may or may not briefly milk for laughs.

You decide.) Apparently, an entire film populated by the coffee grounds of society (the movie is set in a mall, for God’s sake) troubles people. If you can’t laugh at a belligerent, bipolar mall security guard, who can you laugh

at? If the bitchy, slutty girl who works the cosmetics counter isn’t deserving of hilarious derision, who is? Definitely not the cute, castclad barista (Collette Wolfe) being bullied by Patton Oswalt—that’s for sure. I must have missed the memo, but the nation that made Borat a box office sensation has suddenly grown a moral compass on its funny bone.

Color me surprised.

Much has been made of Ronnie’s psychological cinematic brotherhood with Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle. They are both sociopaths prone to violence, but Ronnie’s the funnier violent socio, which probably won’t offend Scorsese or De Niro. As unappealing as Ronnie is, Rogen salvages a vestige or two of sympathy and humanity. In the hands of someone like Hill’s Foot Fist star Danny McBride (a savant at combining unlikability and laughter), Ronnie would have been an angrier, ultimately less likable douchebag. Rogen’s puppy doggedness simply won’t allow for Ronnie to completely join the dark side, even when he’s having sex with a nearunconscious Brandi or beating the crap out of a platoon of police officers with a Maglite.

Faris does Brandi no such favors. She’s as awfully onedimensional as the vacuous object of Ronnie’s deluded affection should be. Faris is totally my favorite dumb blonde; she exudes tremendous selfawareness with each bimbo she inflates. (I do hope her surgically enhanced appearance was achieved solely for effect in this film; it would be a shame if she actually looks so porno-prepped.)

In the briefest time, Aziz Ansari, a “Human Giant” alum now seen on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” kills as Ronnie’s mall nemesis, Saddamn. (Their F-U-off is the film’s simplest, most quotable offensive volley.)

Anyone lucky enough to have just finished watching the first season of “Eastbound and Down” knows what sort of awkward hysterics to expect from Hill. (His pal, “Eastbound and Down” star McBride, makes a brief appearance as “Caucasian Crackhead.”) Every joke goes too far; every gag threatens to make you gag.

The violence, though played for laughs, is brutal. Think Pineapple Express, directed by fellow UNCSA alum David Gordon Green. Hill’s a little bit behind Green, who already has several acclaimed features notched in his director’s belt, but he knows enough to borrow the Snow Angel helmer’s regular DP, Tim Orr. As a result, OaR is shockingly well-shot. The opening montage of mall life made me wonder if I was in the right theater (had I stumbled into Ciné?).

This angry comedy is light years beyond the typical sitcom flatness of your standard-issue Hollywood comedy. Of course, little about the film is standard issue.

Observe and Report leaves no room for a middle ground. You’ll either love it or you’ll hate it, but you’ll never know which if you don’t see it.

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I’ve always appreciated from afar 1000 Faces’ commitment to going beyond even fair trade to negotiating directly with small coffee growers (direct trade), but all its employees are quite adamant about the benefits of such a system, and their politics don’t mean a lack of commitment to a good product, roasted in micro-batches so they can control the procedure from start to finish as much as possible. It’s the artisanal approach that’s becoming more common in all …it’s time to start fields these days. slurping and swishing…

So, what happens at a cupping? It’s not so simple as brewing a cup and thinking about the way it tastes, although that’s part of it. One starts with dry grounds (three different kinds, in our case), which one smells, deeply, and contemplates and smells again, and then jots down notes.

What does it smell like? Chocolate? Earth? Blueberries? Carrots?

There are no wrong answers. The barista then adds hot water to the grounds, and you go through the process again, making note of differences between dry and wet scents. You learn about the “break,” which consists of breaking with a spoon the crust of grounds that have risen to the surface of a cup and inhaling deeply at the same time to get a sort of puff of aroma. All this precedes putting any coffee in your mouth and instills a sort of respect for the beans. The fact that it’s blind, meaning you don’t know whether a roast is dark or light, may lead to some surprises as well. Following the break and then the removal of the risen grounds, it’s time to start slurping and swishing (and spitting, if you desire), a messy and noisy process and one in which a lack of decorum is encouraged. The louder the slurp, the more air you’re getting into your mouth, and the better you’ll taste all the elements of each cup. Flavor is noted and then re-noted after a bit of cooling, and then it’s time to discuss. Is this elaborate? I suppose so, but it puts the emphasis back on individual flavor and aroma components and, in the process, renews the way one looks at coffee. No longer just a shot of fuel to prevent disabling headaches in the a.m., it’s a beverage that can be even more varied than wine, and approaching it in such a fashion not only awakens appreciation of its complexity but, in fact, is a fine exercise for your palate in general. If you stick around, you may be rewarded, as well, with the best cup of cappuccino available in Athens, foamed with a local milk that is the equivalent of collapsing into a pile of satiny pillows and being fanned with a palm leaf.

What Up? El Guanaco, on the East Side, has closed, meaning the number of places to get Salvadoran food continues to dwindle. Luckily, Los Antojitos Salvadorenos, on Chase Street, is still open. A Tavola, from one of the previous owners of Bischero, will replace what was most recently 237 Prince Woodfire Grille in the Bottleworks. Casa Mia, at the corner of Hull and Washington streets, downtown, is offering a threecourse lunch prix fixe Monday through Wednesday for $5.95 that includes quite a lot of choice. While I recommend you opt for coffee rather than dessert for course #3 (the sweets are fine, but not exciting), the other two have some pretty good options, including a tasty lomo saltado (grilled meat, french fries and red onions), a decent pesto on pasta and an okay Cuban sandwich, plus a starter of very thin and nicely fried plantain chips. The deal is nearly unbeatable.

Hillary Brown

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theatre notes Sex and Sleuthing Sex, Lies and Letters: University Theatre closes out its season this week with Dangerous Liaisons. A slew of recent screen adaptations (the 1988 film based on Christopher Hampton’s stage adaption, Milos Forman’s Valmont and the modernized Cruel Intentions) make the plot points of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 epistolary novel familiar to many.

Two rival aristocrats in pre-Revolutionary France—La Marquise de Merteuil (Koqunia LaTrice Forté) and Vicomte de Valmont (Norman Ferguson, Jr.)—wield sex as a weapon and manipulate those around them for sport. When the ultra-virtuous Madame de Tourvel (Jacqueline M. Carey) arrives on the scene, the pair sees her as a perfect plaything to test Valmont’s seductive prowess.

Things turn sour for the puppet masters when Valmont starts to feel an emotional connection with his mark, and it ends badly for all caught up in the web of deceit and betrayal.

play’s comedy. It’s Ferguson’s performance as the cad-turned-honorable-gentleman that anchors the production. He’s convincingly cruel when a cad but also believably penitent by play’s end.

Dangerous Liaisons concludes this week in the Cellar Theatre with its final six performances Apr. 15–18 at 8 p.m. and 18–19 at 2:30 p.m. Strong sexual content and nudity.

Old-Timey Sleuthing: Town and Gown Players bring a big pop-culture icon to the stage for their next production: Sherlock Holmes.

Though most probably haven’t actually read any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original tales, the Bloodhound of Baker Street is part of the larger pop-culture consciousness. You can’t help but know about his “elementary m’dear”s and trademark attire: a pipe, deerstalker hat and cloak. Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure is a composite of a couple of Doyle’s stories and an 1899 play

by William Gillette.

Rick Bedell and Tom Tanner take on Holmes and Watson for Town and Gown, and Patrick Najjar is Holmes’ archnemesis, Professor Moriarty. Dietz’s take on Holmes is a traditional one. A lot of the rough edges are rounded off. The detective’s cocaine addiction is largely pooh-poohed away; there’s just a The University Theatre presents Dangerous Liaisons at the UGA Cellar Theatre passing mention of it Apr. 15–19. in the script. And his ambiguous sexuality For this production, University Theatre has loses all of its ambiguity in Dietz’s version. kept all of the essentials of the story intact This Holmes is fully heterosexual and smitten for those new to the material, but there’s with opera singer Irene Adler (Kris Schultz). also a fundamental new element that gives As the title suggests, the story concerns the the audience an interesting new way to condetective’s epic final showdown with his dassider the characters and the play’s cultural tardly rival. Anyone familiar with the reliable moment. Director George Contini bookends the formula of the decedents of Doyle’s detective action with the true story of Ourika, a black stories can get a good idea what to expect slave from Senegal who was given as a gift from The Final Adventure. See the producto a Parisian aristocrat and allowed to rise tion directed by Steven Carroll at the Athens to a limited position in 18th-century French Community Theatre Apr. 17–18 & 23–25 at 8 society. After she became cognizant of the p.m. and Apr. 19 & 26 at 2 p.m. Call 706-208racial reality of her culture, Ourika suffered 8696 for reservations. profound psychological trauma and a despair so deep that it led to her death. In UGA’s A Parody and a Parable: Another classic charproduction, Ourika turns to the novel Les acter gracing the stage this week is Snow Liaisons Dangereuses as an escapist fantasy White. But JV Productions’ Snow is a lessto transport her from her life of limited posthan-traditional rendering of the fairy tale sibilities. She imagines herself as the central and its characters. In John Vance’s original power-player in the story. As the plot unfolds, play the story is set in modern-day Brooklyn therefore, Merteuil at all times is simultaneand Snow Weiss is a Broadway ingénue. The ously Ourika. parody faithfully follows the plot points of the In this reimagining, the famously unsymoriginal; it just tweaks the details here and pathetic character invites the audience’s there for comedic effect. Despite the familysympathy, and even understanding, as she friendly source material, the play is intended mercilessly enacts her ruthless plots. While for adults and is not appropriate for kids. the Ourika angle brings a new layer of tragSnow plays at the Seney-Stovall Chapel Apr. edy to the story, the production still retains 17 & 18 at 8 p.m. Tickets ($10 for adults, $8 a relatively light tone: there’s an abundant for students/seniors) will be available at the supply of arch comedy and instant relatability door. The 38-city national tour of The Wizard through contemporary music cues (Valmont, of Oz playing The Classic Center on Apr. 22 for example, makes his entrance to En Vogue’s at 7:30 p.m. is a safe, family-friendly bet.

“Whatta Man”). Forté does an admirable job The Athens stop incorporates local munchkins with the double duty of playing both victim with 12 actors from the Oconee Youth School (Ourika) and villain (Merteuil) simultaneously, of Performance. Tickets, from $10 to $65, are and Morgan Pelligrino and Josh Jeffries, as available at www.classiccenter.com. the other romantic duo ensnared by Merteuil’s schemes, are responsible for much of the Jennifer Bryant

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip Hey there, people. We are so close to sliding headlong into summer I can taste it. But we’ve still got several weeks to go before then, so get your calendars out and take note of what’s going on. You can just keep all the other info in your head for those times you just have to add something to the conversation.

Tune In: Bluesy local rockers Lionz have finished their newest album, Breaking Out of the Zoo, which was recorded over the past year at local studios Japanski and Chase Park Transduction. The album will be played in its entirety on WUOG 90.5 FM Sunday, Apr. 19 at 4 p.m., and during the broadcast there will be an announcement concerning a proper live show release event. Mysterious! Lionz has toured the East Coast extensively over the past several years and was honored by opening all three Widespread Panic shows here in town back in 2007.

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Wuxtry and Schoolkids Records. Oaken Throne is the product of occasional Flagpole scribe John Mincemoyer and graphic designer Ben West. The publication focuses exclusively on the worldwide black metal scene.

This new issue is number six for the pair, runs 96 pages and comes with a CD featuring tracks from all the bands showcased in the issue. Those include Akitsa (Canada), Aluk Todolo (France), Avsky (Sweden), Dead Raven Choir (Poland), Dialing In (U.S.), Gnaw Their Tongues (Netherlands), Immolation (U.S.), IXXI (Sweden), Lugubrum (Belgium), Necros Christos (Germany), Necrovation (Sweden), Throneum (Poland) and Vargr (Sweden). One of the best aspects of Oaken Throne has always been Mincemoyer’s completely non-elitist way of introducing even relatively well-known bands to potential new audiences. His writing is highly readable and engaging even when one has no familiarity with either the black metal scene or the artists featured. For some additional info, please see www.benwestdesign.net/oakenthrone/history.html or drop them a line via oakenthronezine@ hotmail.com… but if you want the mag, you gotta buy it.

Print, baby, print!

My Second Favorite Holiday: And I mean that, too. The next best day of the year behind Thanksgiving is Record Store Day, and it’s happening this year on Saturday, Apr. 18. Your local Saddle Up: The second participating stores Athens Americana are Wuxtry Records festival will hapand Schoolkids pen at Little Kings Records. Record store Shuffle Club Apr. 24 day is, in the words & 25. Featuring folk, of its organizers, country, bluegrass “…a celebration of and other associated the unique culture styles, the festival is surrounding over 700 as enthusiastic in its independently owned presentation as it is record stores in the broad in its lineup.

Damian Kapcala of Lionz USA and hundreds It’s only $6 each day, of similar stores and that’s a total, internationally. This is the one day that all of complete and obscene steal. Friday’s show the independently owned record stores come begins at 7 p.m. and Saturday’s begins at 5:30 together with artists to celebrate the art of p.m. Both are set to run right up until 2 a.m., music.” To this end, many labels (both major so wear comfortable shoes, put on your drinkand indie) have crafted unique specials and ing hat and have a ball. For the full lineup and give-away items that stores will have in stock. more, see www.myspace.com/athensamericana.

Seriously, this stuff is made only for this day and won’t be available in stores afterward.

Everybody’s a Dreamer, Everybody’s a Star: I could go on for pages about how much I Athens is a place where pretty much anyone endorse this event but, in the interest of can do anything they want. Hell, we encourspace and humility, I’ll just direct you to www. age this. In the Internet age those folks doing recordstoreday.com, where you can get all the what they want can let the entire world know info you need. instantaneously. Such was the case with the bands and people that participated in the Hell, I’d Do It: The Athens Farmers’ Market 24-hour Sega Dreamcast marathon on Jan. is seeking musicians to play at its weekly 19 of this year. Not only did they stream the sales at Bishop Park. This year’s market will entire event live on the web, they’ve now run each Saturday from May 9–Nov. 14. The released a commemorative EP. Oh, yeah, they two time slots available are 8–10 a.m. and 10 also did a live stream of the release show a.m.–noon. Payment is made in the form of from a couple of weeks ago, too. The artists fresh, local organic produce and cash tips from on the record are The Pianosaurus, Bicycles patrons. The range of music the organizers are & Gravel, Captain #1, Grey Milk, Gemini seeking is acoustic to those playing at only Cricket, I Have Read Other Books Besides very moderate volume. If you’re interested in The Catcher in the Rye and The South Will playing, please drop a line to local musician Rave Again. You can download the record at Wilma via wilmasremedies@gmail.com. For www.ihaveadreamcast.com. You know, video more information on the farmers’ market itself, games have never really been my thing, but please see www.athensfarmersmarket.net. people making their own fun in cool and creative ways is totally up my alley.

Darkness in Spring: The new issue of Oaken Throne ‘zine is out now and available at Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

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“Do

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Because they have quality… This book has pores…

The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper…”

Ask jazz entrepreneur Dan Nettles to unravel the complex ideas behind his multimedia-noir project, “Fahrenheit,” and you may be reminded of this passage from Ray Bradbury’s classic critique on censorship, Fahrenheit 451, the inspiration behind this production. It’s a statement that is true not just of literature, but also of great works of music and film. Such “pores” provide us with the context from which we reflect upon the world around us and which, in turn, we use to understand ourselves.

“Think of ‘Fahrenheit’ as ‘Kenosha Kid A meets Blade Runner,’” Nettles half-jokes, examining the pores of the project as he pays homage to two defining works of science fiction in popular culture. As an added tangential pore, the sci-fi creators of said album Kid A, Radiohead, earned themselves a Grammy for the special edition release of their follow-up, Amnesiac, which was packaged as a “rescued” book (complete with overdue library card) from the libraries of Bradbury’s fictitious world, where books are routinely burned by firemen for the “threat” they pose to society.

Along similar lines, the ideas fueling “Fahrenheit” aim to blur the distinction between synthetic and organic; the lifeless and animate—to mirror a hypothetical society in which demonized forces of technology aided by totalitarian authority threaten to undermine the last vestiges of the natural order. A joint effort between Nettles and filmmaker Eddie Whelan under a grant from UGA’s Ideas for Creative Exploration, the event was conceived as a “a darkly illuminating multi-media exploration,” and will feature all nine members of indie-jazz ensemble Kenosha Kid, the film work of Eddie Whelan, and actors Dan Bollinger and Laylage Courie. While the production also uses elements of spoken word, “Fahrenheit” is not a narrative of the original text; rather, it elucidates themes of the book in three dimensions, uniting the talents of artists from various backgrounds in order to bring Bradbury’s dystopian visions to life.

Among “Fahrenheit”’s many themes, one particular act explores “all the things that children know before they grow into forgetfulness,” says Nettles. Only through the examination of society’s pores can we avoid the perils of such forgetfulness, and “Fahrenheit” serves as just one pore in a great fabric of ideas to remind us of the freedoms that we share in a democratic society and of the importance of how events like these came to be in the first place.

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record reviews MADELINE

MARK MALLMAN

THE BIRD & THE BEE

White Flag Orange Twin

Loneliness in America: Best of 1998–2008 Independent Release

Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future Blue Note

It’s been more than two years since the release of Madeline Adams’ previous album, The Slow Bang, and Adams’ growth—in everything from songwriting to stage confidence to playing—has been nothing short of a joy to witness, and that growth has established her as one of Athens’ foremost singer-songwriters.

On White Flag, that higher selfesteem has moved her away from previous output’s quiet, isolated despair into composed, courageous bravado. Her Joni Mitchell-esque chirp is steadier and brighter.

Whereas before “Madeline” was just Adams herself with an occasional piano hook or solitary snare tap backing, the accompaniment is now the rule rather than the exception, with friends from Hope for Agoldensummer and Olivia Tremor Control completing a full, often mesmerizing, band. A somber track like “Lit Elephants” features just Madeline on guitar and a plucky banjo backing.

If you’re looking for an equal to The Slow Bang’s anthemic “Good Houses,” you’ll find it in the title track, which tells us in these times that “it’s a matter of getting by.”

Upon first listen, it can be said that White Flag is too sedate, too careful and a host of other reservations, but multiple visits prove it to be highly layered, with a new instrument or turn of phrase to be discovered on each listen.

Though Madeline has been performing these songs since the release of The Slow Bang with accompaniment, to hear them finally recorded is to bring forth a swell of emotions that establishes this release as one of Athens’ recent best and a continually giving talent. No surrenders necessary.

Scott Reid Madeline celebrates her CD release at the 40 Watt on Thursday, Apr. 16.

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Parsing the sincerity of Mark Mallman, the tall, bushy-haired third of Ruby Isle, who also has his own long-lived solo career in his native Minneapolis, is kind of a waste of time, isn’t it? You could comb through the 10 tracks of this collection (nine old, one new) that draw on albums starting with The Tourist and concluding with Between the Devil and Middle C to try to figure out what’s performance and what’s not, but be aware that a.)

Mallman is a canny dude with a head full of ideas, and he’s probably several steps ahead of you, and b.) taxonomy of that sort isn’t necessary in the slightest to enjoy the heck out of the record.

While Dan Geller has supplied Ruby Isle’s electronic nervous system, Mallman’s contribution, as these songs demonstrate, has been more the Rundgrenish rock that taxes loins and head equally, and his microplane voice often resembles that of his fellow Twin Cities musician Paul Westerberg.

While this stuff is less bouncy and slower-paced for the most part than his work on Night Shot, it’s no less hooky.

“Hardcore Romantics,” for example, is a swoony combination of brainy twist and teenage lust, while “Mother Made Me Do It” seems to have been ripped from some late 1970s rock musical, with its plunky keyboard line and narrative structure. “True Love” shows off his ability to belt without growl, and “Inside the Castle” is a fairly delicate love song that showcases a quieter side.

Mallman is an astonishingly gifted songwriter, and he’s always at least on target, even if he occasionally misses the bullseye (“God Gone Mad” is too long and unfocused), but he continues to be underappreciated and recognized.

Maybe giving this record away will help with that a little.

Hillary Brown

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Los Angeles’ The Bird & the Bee is a cynic’s nightmare. The duo, comprised of singer Inara George and multi-instrumentalist Greg Kurstin, excels at making disposable pop music that is nevertheless captivating for a few listens. That the group has toured with Lily Allen and Rilo Kiley is hardly a surprise. Like those acts, The Bird & the Bee does a phenomenal job at skewering conventions by throwing unexpected styles into its songs.

On opening track, “My Love,” hints of bossa nova are combined with strict marching-band rhythms. On mid-album song “Ray Gun” signs of 1970s slow-funk, Dusty Springfield and—do I hear a harpsichord?— work together to make a compelling combination. Of course, The Bird & the Bee could hardly claim any prizes for originality here, but Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future does deserve at least an Honorable Mention in the Indie-Chanteuse-Meets-Pop-Princess category.

Mark Sanders

say, this album feels like a pocket full of stones: 10 dense, somewhat similar objects are captured and quietly demanding the consideration which will illuminate their subtle individuality.

It seems to be an effect of the vocals that makes a lot of these tracks recall one another—and maybe appropriately, as the band is named after its vocalist: Kristen Strezo. Her voice and delivery often bring to mind a defiant Tori Amos, but the band’s sound falls outside of the piano-rock genre.

In fact, this album was put together with pieces grown at a distance: all but one of the drum tracks (which anchor the effort) were recorded by someone in Chicago, and the rest of the instruments (most of which were played by the only other “member” of the band, Robert Filippo) were put to tape, so to speak, in Atlanta, with the resulting, occasionally metal-influenced barrage of quirky folk-pop sounding something like a cross between Tori Amos, Dirty Projectors and Athens’ own Marriage.

Overall, the album eventually competes with itself because the vocals never really get too impassioned (a deviation from the Amos factor), somewhat subverting the modest distinctions in the music. But, honestly, the political/feminist/humanist lyrical content of the album is its most compelling feature, followed by the drumming. I can’t help but think that some sustained electric guitar would’ve been great, though.

Tony Floyd

Haunted House Vol. 1 Stickfigure Perhaps the foremost quality that Strezo’s Haunted House Vol. 1 emanates is compression; that is to

Kingdom of Rust Astralwerks

Face Control Sub Pop

Written in Chalk New West This is what country peeps have always done: If too far from town and too broke to borrow; make it yourself.

Buddy Miller and wife Julie wrote, performed and produced Written in Chalk in their home studio, imbuing it with that mysterious honky scratch that keeps good country music from ever coming out of Nashville: a floor creak here, a voice crack there, thankfully so, or records this genuine would never get made. There is a certain death in the completion of any endeavor,

“Evangeline” abound on this generous album. Its best moments include the roughhewn anthemic folk of “Talking Hotel Arbat Blues,” which sounds like Springsteen remixed. The panoramic “All We Want, Baby, Is Everything” levitates on the solemn nobility of early New Order. Flaming rock and roll licks collide with modern club beats in the ragged triumph of “I’m Confused.” And the stellar “Radio Kaliningrad” is a dizzying dance of skyward passion.

Face Control is a svelte, sexy tryst that chases transcendence with—and through—lust. It’s big, pulsing and swooning. More than anything, this record is alive.

Bao Le-Huu

DOVES

HANDSOME FURS

BUDDY AND JULIE MILLER

STREZO

beyond which only a flaw can keep the idea developing beyond capture within a name. Hence, Written in Chalk, while naming its own impermanence, thrives perfectly because of its flaws, zero irony, cards up. Buddy Miller has been a multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer for decades—The Dixie Chicks, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and, most recently, Allison Krauss and Robert Plant have statues to thank him for—thus positing this paradigm of genius: The full-blown Picasso in his 20s or the unknown Cezanne in his late 50s? Malcolm Gladwell asserts that 10,000 hours are required for the mastery of any task, a distant mark scorched in the rearview of a 57-yearold Buddy Miller. This is the real work of real country artists, put forth eloquently, unforced and hand-sewn.

Common sense on the intimate level reading like a Farmers’ Almanac of Real Shit. Patty Griffin pokes her head in on a few numbers, overall making for a duet-filled, harmony-drenched, hookstrewn echo with pathos for days.

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Before this superb sophomore breakout, the Montreal husband/wife duo was better known for featuring Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade and chronic PDA. However, what was once an interesting but incomplete idea has finally clicked. Much-improved melody and synthesis make the minimalism of their electronic-spined indie rock sing at last. Elementally programmed beats are stabbed by dirty guitars that alternate between scraping and horizon-streaking in an effectively taut interplay that knows when to be stiff and when to be slinky with great precision. Melodically, Handsome Furs have finally arrived.

Despite all its Eastern Bloc signifiers, this is an American rock and roll record at heart, albeit a very modern and darkly moody interpretation. With these matters of construction confidently in place, Boeckner’s robust voice is free to work its considerable magic.

Choice cuts like the microcosmic dance-floor throb of “Legal Tender” and the gorgeously wrenching climax of

If the new Doves record were a person, it would be your step-brother who rolls out of bed every day at 2 p.m., throws on yesterday’s clothes and lounges around the house in no particular hurry to go look for a job. In other words, it’s a lazy mess, which is a shame because Doves are capable of so much more.

On its fourth release, Kingdom of Rust, the band reneges on some of the promises made by its previous recordings—promises like: “We make good music.” Instead, Doves have recorded what often sounds like Coldplay castoffs but with barely audible vocals, a weak and monotonous guitar riff that appears on almost every track and melancholy overtones that could suck the energy out of the rowdiest frat party.

It’s also hard to know where this record begins and where it ends. And with nearly all songs clocking in at over four minutes, it gets old quickly.

But even with the general slack going on all over this album, there are a few numbers that show signs of life.

Oddly enough, one of these songs is the semi-hopeful sounding final track.

Too bad most of the record isn’t worth sitting through to get to it, although the vibe of this tune suggests Doves may still have in their hearts what made them good in the first place. Only the next record will tell.

Jennifer Gibson

Indonesian Abstractions Local Musician and Scholar Brings Javanese Music to Athens

For

Kai Riedl, music is more than something to listen to; it’s something to experience fully through listening, creating, recording, manipulating and sharing. With JavaSounds and Our New Silence, two new tandem projects focusing on creating bridges between melodic, hypnotic Indonesian music and the Western world, the local musician gets to do all of that.

JavaSounds is an ongoing field-recording project that has, so far, borne the fruit of three trips to Indonesia. While Our New Silence is a way for Riedl to recontextualize those sounds, it’s both a remix project involving local musicians and the name of a live presentation of that music this weekend. “Two distinct sides of the same coin,” says Riedl, who is eager to draw attention to musical traditions as well as to find new ways to approach them.

Southeast Asian Origins “I’ve been listening to this kind of music since I was in my mid-teens,” when a friend gave him a CD with Indonesian music, says Riedl, formerly a member of the now-defunct Athens band Macha, a group that got moderate millennial attention for its fusion of traditional Indonesian gamelan— an instrumental ensemble characterized by percussive metal gongs, drums and strings—with spacey indie rock. “I think my interests pretty much lie in travel, and I have to have a relationship with music. Combining them on that first trip [to Indonesia] 10 years ago was pretty fantastic, a guerrilla style if you will. And so my interest pretty much grew from there.”

Kai Riedl

Javanese musicians recording Tarawangsa ritual music in 2006.

Riedl took three trips to the Southeast Asian country over the past five years, each time recording more and delving into the traditional musical culture. Local sound engineer Suny Lyons, formerly of the bands Tin Cup Prophette and The Low Lows, accompanied Riedl to provide technical know-how. “I decided to bring someone like Suny, who has such a great command of the tools, to help,” says Riedl. “I’d tried recording before, but you don’t really realize how hard it is to capture sounds, keep things in tune, keep people focused, keep at times even chickens quiet! Basically doing things that would be virtually impossible for one person to do on their own.”

JavaSounds Recordings Riedl says his current goal with the JavaSounds project is “to provide a reliable introduction to Javanese music,” and he plans to do so by offering numerous albums for sale online at one dollar a piece, with one album released per week for 10 weeks. “So, I guess I also want to create a new model for music,” he says, “because obviously the one that’s been in place is not working. Our relationship with music has changed.

Our gratitude for it has changed. So, I’m trying to find a

different model for how to present these, both more economically and more formatively.”

Riedl says, though, that the JavaSounds project never started with a definite goal, but that each step has evolved out of the prior. “I have to say that to a large degree there was an element of choicelessness to the whole thing… I feel compelled to do these things; I love to travel. I have to have a relationship with music. I feel, actually, largely that I’m doing what I’m meant to do when I’m doing that kind of work. There was never any kind of end goal to the work, to be honest with you. When I look back on it, I’ve always been politically aware but not very politically active, and trying to expose some of these cultural elements of the Islamic world was my form of political activism, in a sense. And I love the music. Really, once we got back and realized what we had, the goal to release it came to mind, and then to develop some more music out of these parts is now what we’re working on.”

JavaSounds recordings—traditional field recordings of renowned Javanese musicians—will be up for sample and for sale online at www.JavaSounds.org and at www.myspace.com/ javasounds under the Our New Silence banner.

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Our New Silence Featuring numerous local musicians who often flirt with the grey area between mainstream and experimental music—artists like Kyle Dawkins (Georgia Guitar Quartet), Heather McIntosh (The Instruments, Gnarls Barkley), Page Campbell (Hope for Agoldensummer, Creepy), Killick and Isaac McCalla—Our New Silence takes the raw material from the JavaSounds recording sessions and reworks it, lacing pop, rock and electronic textures into the music.

“We’re going to present some of the pieces we’ve composed, and it’s a giant experiment, really, the first iteration of this project,” says Riedl. “It should be a good chance to hear some different sounds, learn a little bit about the Islamic world, Indonesia, and hear some of our favorite musicians from there.”

This weekend’s performance will incorporate presentations of the JavaSounds recordings alongside live performances by the Our New Silence musicians.

“We’re going to play small parts of these traditional recordings so [the audience] has some context for what they’re going to hear,” says Riedl. “And then we’ll play some of the fusion-based remixes, or abstractions, or reinterpretations, whatever you call ‘em. And we’ll also play some ambient field recordings.”

The Our New Silence project/event is supported by UGA’s Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts. “My goal really is to create some kind of abstracted Indonesian soundscape for people where they can learn about this music and simultaneously enjoy some music or genres that they may be familiar with,” says Riedl, who also teaches classes in religious studies at UGA. “I’d say if you want to hear something you normally don’t get to, it’d be a good opportunity… the fortunate thing is we’re going to be doing it at Ramsey Hall, where some of the delicacies of the sound can come out more.”

For more information on Our New Silence, visit www. ournewsilence.com or www.myspace.com/ournewsilence.

Chris Hassiotis

WHAT: “Our New Silence” WHERE: UGA Ramsey Concert Hall WHEN: Saturday, Apr. 18, 8:30 p.m.

HOW MUCH: FREE!

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Cambodian Pop from Dengue Fever It’s a Small World After All

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nternational touring is always a high point of being in a band. But for Dengue Fever, a 2005 trip to perform in Cambodia was something of a homecoming—even though most of the band had never been to the Southeast Asian country. The Los Angeles-based Khmer rock six-piece plays Cambodian pop music from the ‘60s and ‘70s, heavily influenced by American surf rock from the time.

The band’s trip to lead singer Chhom Nimol’s homeland was turned into the documentary Sleepwalking Through the Mekong, which has been touring film festivals for the last year or so and hits DVD this month.

A performance by a Western band in Cambodia is a rare thing as it is, and Dengue Fever’s visit was even rarer, as it was easily the first time an American band had performed classic Cambodian rock and roll in the land of its origin. Much of the music and culture that gave birth to it had been repressed and nearly exterminated by the harsh Maoist regime of Pol Pot beginning in the late ‘70s.

“Basically we were hanging out, and Nimol brings up that [she was] going to Cambodia for a few months, so we shouldn’t book any shows,” says bassist Senon Williams, who also plays in the Radar Bros., “and we all just say, ‘Well, why don’t we all go to Cambodia with you?’ So, she thought that was a pretty good idea, but cash flow was the hard part. We had to figure out how to get there, especially since once you get to Cambodia, there’s not really the expectation of making money. So, we thought up the idea of calling up our friend John [Pirozzi], the filmmaker, and seeing if he’d be interested in coming with us.”

Chicha Libre The relatively obscure, psychedelic Peruvian dance music chicha, named after a corn-based booze popular for centuries in Peru, is very much a product of the ‘60s, a Western-influenced indigenous music only made possible by the increase in culture-clash and cross-border exchanges. As Colombian cumbia music snaked its way through the Amazon, working-class Peruvians picked up its sounds, replaced the accordion with Americaninfluenced electric guitars, commandeered Farfisa organs and Moog synths to psychedelicize the music, smuggled in some Andean melodies and scales and (because, why not?) worked in a little elegant Cuban countryside guajira guitar playing, too.

Olivier Conan, owner of New York’s Barbés nightclub and record label, fell for the music while in Peru four years ago. In 2007, his label put out the deliciously freaky The Roots of Chicha, a compilation of classic ‘70s chicha, and it was so well-received among his musical pals that they decided to put together a band to celebrate the old tunes (and write a few new ones in the same style). The members of Chicha Libre—Conan (vocals, cuatro), Joshua Camp (vocals, Hohner Electravox), Nicholas Cudahy (bass), Vincent Douglas (guitar), Greg Burrows and Timothy Quigley (percussion)—hail from New York bands like Bebe Eiffel, One Ring Zero and Las Rubias del Norte, and last spring released an album of their own, Sonido Amazonica!

The music is both wild and reckless; and although chicha was mainly a lower-class genre, there’s a refinement present in the music that reflects a sense of pride for tradition right alongside a glee in reinterpreting it. The music on The Roots of Chicha—from the breathy, ecstatic “Vacilando con Ayahuesca,” for instance, to the rowdy “Muchachita del Oriente”—is immediately appealing, accessible even to those not familiar with a lot of Latin music. Chicha Libre, opening Tuesday night’s show, does a fine job reproducing those sounds, that giddy spirit of building new ideas out of old music. [Chris Hassiotis]

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The band—Chhom (vocals), Zac Holtzman (guitar, vocals), Ethan Holtzman (Farfisa organ), Senon Williams (bass), David Ralicke (horns) and Paul Smith (drums)—recruited friend and filmmaker Pirozzi, who had contacts in Cambodia from working there as a cinematographer, to direct. They played festivals and

small venues throughout the country and were greeted enthusiastically by locals. Before moving to California, Chhom was a well-known singer in Phnom Penh, coming from a musical family a little like the Cambodian version of the Carter Family.

Williams says he knew Chhom was well-known, but didn’t know the extent of her popularity in her home country.

“We would be in tiny villages in Cambodia that would charge a generator with a car battery to watch a TV, and we’d come through these villages and they’d get out and recognize us,” he says. “Of course, it helped that the Cambodian television network aired our two-hour special two or three times a day for the whole month we were in the country.”

Dengue Fever’s been together for about seven years, and since 2003 has released three full-length albums and two EPs, most recently last year’s well-received Venus on Earth. The band was most recently in Athens in late 2003, and will return on Tuesday with Chicha Libre (see sidebar) opening. Though the band plays music that fits a specific niche, Williams credits the Internet with helping nurture the band’s growing popularity.

“I think because information is so available to everybody that people are getting interested in things from far away that they might never had heard of,” he says. “You know, you could have a doctor somewhere watching Bollywood films one minute, then putting on a Circle Jerks video the next. People aren’t pigeonholing themselves, and there’s so much available out there that you’d have to be really stupid to limit yourself in terms of culture and music and style.”

The Sleepwalking Through the Mekong DVD comes packaged with an accompanying CD soundtrack, which includes new Dengue Fever tunes recorded for the film and live tracks recorded with Cambodian artists. The movie was officially released on Tuesday, Apr. 14, though copies should be available at this week’s show. The movie also screens at Ciné at 8:30 p.m. the night of the band’s show, the band may show up for an introductory Q&A session, and there may be a reduced ticket price for those who attend both the screening and the 40 Watt show. Check www.athenscine.com or www.40watt.com for details.

Chris Hassiotis

WHO: Dengue Fever, Chicha Libre WHERE: 40 Watt Club WHEN: Tuesday, Apr. 21 HOW MUCH: $10 WHAT: Sleepwalking Through the Mekong WHERE: Ciné WHEN: Tuesday, Apr. 21; 8:30 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $5

Dinosaur jr.

Beyond Reunions Do you have a favorite band that left a mark on the music scene and then broke up at its creative zenith? Most people do, and they spend their days bemoaning the fact that they never experienced the band live. That is, until it’s time to unsheathe that double-edged sword: the reunion. It seems the reunion tour is about as inevitable as a superhero returning from the dead in the four-color world of comic books, and Dinosaur Jr. drummer Emmett Murphy is just as wary of them as most music fans are.

“A lot of problems that I have with reunions is that [the band will] take it in a new direction or they just aren’t that good.

When that happens, I think ‘why bother?’ But I think when we do this the energy is still the same as when we were kids. When we got back together, Lou [Barlow] and I would sit and jam for a while before J [Mascis] came out; we literally hadn’t played together in 15 years, and within 20 minutes we looked at each other and we felt like we were in J’s basement again,” says Murph.

Even though Murph’s words may sound like the standard reunion band mantra, Dinosaur Jr. has been touring and recording with its original lineup (after a 15-year break) for four years. But Dinosaur Jr. can’t actually still be a band, right? Indie lore always portrayed the members as hating each other. But somehow the band has seemingly moved past the stigma of only being around for a quick paycheck and back to being a touring band.

In 2007 Dinosaur Jr. released Beyond, featuring a noisy blast of lead singer J Mascis’ laconic whine and guitar hero outbursts, bassist Lou Barlow’s harmonies and fuzz-bass stylings, and Murph’s thumping along with the rhythm. If listeners close their eyes they might believe that they are back in the band’s SST Records heyday.

And just like during the band’s ‘80s peak, Mascis and company recorded their upcoming album rather quickly and on a tight budget.

For Murph, the process was challenging but ultimately rewarding.

“This album was tougher because we had a deadline. With Beyond we recorded it over the course of seven months, but with this one, we had two months to record it. I’m really impressed with it. I’m actually listening to it a lot, which is something that I don’t normally do,” says Murph.

The fact that Dinosaur Jr. has been able to coexist for this long despite the legendary tensions between Mascis and Barlow is a minor miracle itself. While that creative tension between the guitarist and bass player drove the band apart in 1990, the older and

wiser Dinosaur Jr. has learned to just acknowledge and accept that tension. According to Murph, he’s not only the drummer but often a mediator between Mascis and Barlow.

“The band dynamic is the same; you can’t change that. I’m the bridge between J and Lou. They both have these personalities, and I have to be the middle. That dynamic has been there since the beginning, and now we’re okay with it. I think that J and Lou would both be uncomfortable if they had to do something together. They both need that bridge, and I’m the one that does that. At this point communication is pretty easy because we all know how to deal with each other,” says Murph.

According to Barlow, the clash in personalities isn’t as important as the music the three make together. “We sort of deal with [the tension] now. We’re both grown up and realize that musical chemistry is pretty important.”

That chemistry is still creating ear-blistering live performances. In Dinosaur Jr. the live volume of the band (which is a few decibels shy of a sonic boom) is almost a fourth member of the band. That decision was made by Mascis as a sort of credo for the band to operate by: “J has this philosophy, and it’s kind of like Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips’ philosophy: make it fuckin’ loud. Make it loud because that’s what the people want. I think a lot of J’s formidable experiences with music are having his ass kicked by music. I think that’s where he got this idea about that being what a rock show should be like. I can’t hear anything when we play, but the way we learned those songs was based so much on the physical part of it. It’s like a set of muscles,” says Barlow.

Air-guitar-ready solos, ear-distorting bass guitar and Sabbath-like drums, those are the muscles Barlow and Murph flex. Put them all together and it’s a Herculean rock experience.

That’s Dinosaur Jr., the reunion that didn’t exactly turn out to be a reunion.

Opening the show is Dead Confederate, who has been supporting Dinosaur Jr. across the Southeast. The ticket price includes a limited-edition, tour-only 7-inch or a digital download code of two songs recorded live at J Mascis’ own Bisquiteen Studios.

Jason Bugg

WHO: Dinosaur, Jr., Dead Confederate, Pride Parade WHERE: 40 Watt Club WHEN: Monday, Apr. 20 HOW MUCH: $17 (advance)

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The Boybutante Ball

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“gay bar” in town at the time and drag performances were to be found only in much larger cities. After Cline met Vernon Wall at the 40 Watt Club on one of its infamous “Gay-Friendly Monday Nights” the concept for the show began to crystallize. Wall performed regularly

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AIDS Foundation, Inc.” in 1996, a nonprofit registered in Georgia and dedicated to raising money for AIDS support services. Over the past 20 years, The Boybutante Ball and its weeklong events have raised more than $500,000 for AIDS-services organizations.

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Behind the Soy

Getting to Know Tofu Baby Creator Missy Kulik

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The first of Kulik’s comics to attract a mass of negative reviews concerned a rain cloud: three panels of a billowy nimbus followed by a fourth panel in which rain finally poured down. That’s it. Another involved an early character called Fawn Baby, a little deer with a knack for adventure. These preTofu Baby comics annoyed a group of Flagpole readers so much that they started a “Stop Missy Kulik” MySpace page.

Kulik’s work was contentious even among her fellow artists.

Aaron Fu, creator of “The Land of Monsters,” a comic that has shared Flagpole space with Tofu Baby, was a staunch detractor of Kulik’s comics when they first appeared.

a nipple by some and a beret by others, but as far as Kulik’s concerned, it’s the mouth shield and handle of your everyday pacifier. Grab Tofu Baby by her head and stuff her in some crying baby’s mouth. Brilliant.

Kulik and de la Cruz were brainstorming ideas for new Flagpole comics one day when they decided to bring the toy to life in ink. Kulik voiced the character to de la Cruz in the now (in)famous twee lisp and an icon was born, or, depending on how you see things, a demon was unleashed.

“It was mostly clouds and deer,” he says, speaking about the content that “rubbed him the wrong way.”

Kulik’s drawings didn’t fit into Fu’s conception of what a comic should be, and he felt they were taking a quarter of Flagpole’s comic space but delivering only 5 percent of the content. But Fu became an appreciator once the Tofu Baby hate mail/support mail started pouring in, mainly because of the comic’s polarizing, attention-demanding qualities.

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ulik has a lifelong history of crafting, and on top of Tofu Baby dolls, she and de la Cruz maintain a sizable stock of saleable crafts, so large that it takes up entire rooms of their house. They make notepads, ties, pins, wooden charms, felt animals, felt foods and sock monkeys. They sell their wares at four to five craft fairs a year, mostly close to home.

The comics and crafts both, without a doubt, have a youthful appeal, not just to kids but also to adults with Peter Pan syndrome. A review of Kulik’s “I Heart New York” comic on the Optical Sloth website called it a good “gateway” comic, saying that it’s great for getting your young ones into indie cartoons, but also perfect if you need “something to feel good about for a few minutes.”

But Kulik says that isn’t on purpose. “This is just what I like,” she says.

So, is Kulik’s youthful nature part of the problem when transmitting Tofu Baby to a wide audience?

Maybe, she says. “For me, Tofu Baby is funny, really funny. But you may have to be under a certain age to find her really, really funny.”

It’s pretty clear that Tofu Baby is not too weird for Athens. The Flagpole comic page can certainly be described as “alternative,” and Kulik says her contributions to it marked the first time she’s gotten bad reviews.

T. Edward Bak has no idea why Kulik’s comics could annoy so many readers, but he’s pretty certain it doesn’t have anything to do with a “mainstream vs. alternative” argument. “People appreciate different things about different works for so many different reasons, and I think that’s good,” Bak says via email.

In combing through the hate mail, Bak’s thoughts are given credence: the only overarching theme found in detractors’ letters is anti-adorability. Apparently, Tofu Baby is just too cute for some people. But that’s perfectly respectable, Bak says. “I feel like the more diversity of work available to readers is always a positive thing, which sounds pedantic and obvious, but I think there is a lot of lip service to that concept and not necessarily much practice.”

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right, get out a pencil and a sheet of paper.

Draw a simple cube in black ink on a blank background and scribble a horizontal 3 (round edges down) on the front side. Flank it with dots to the upper left and right. You should have something resembling a face. Now add a hat, maybe a beret or a nipple-like chapeau, and sit back and smile at your art. You’ve just drawn Tofu Baby, a comic character created by Missy Kulik that’s equal parts Hello Kitty and Ed Emberley’s “Drawing Book of Animals.”

Hold up, you’re not finished. Now, it’s time for dialogue.

Give Tofu Baby something clever to say, and do it with a childish lisp. Try “Be my fwiend” or “Go cwimb a twee.”

What do you think of your work? Cute? Detestable?

Whether or not Tofu Baby’s your thing, this cartoon, in its four-panelled, four-line-rhyme comic form, has split its hometown into love-it or hate-it camps.

Since the comic began running in Flagpole in 2006, the magazine has received letters that called the cartoon an “insult to readers, the other contributing cartoonists and humanity at large.” Anti-Tofu Baby posters and mocking knock-offs were plastered on kiosks around town. But supporters also wrote in to thank Kulik for creating a comic that wasn’t another “dissertation with illustrations.”

While that’s a good bit of fervor over some fermented soy, Tofu Baby isn’t the first time that Kulik’s comics have irritated readers who the artist says “just don’t get it.” Kulik’s work is well received in the alternative comics world, with glowing reviews from Giant Robot and online sites like Comics Reporter; although winning over Athens readers has proven a bit more difficult. But Kulik isn’t letting the criticism get her down. If she has things her way, Tofu Baby will be as culturally inescapable as the Chik-fil-A cows.

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ulik, a 33-year-old graphic designer, began drawing comics for Flagpole in 2004, joining the newly organized comics page in the back of the magazine. Kulik and fellow Flagpole cartoonist T. Edward Bak had been meeting weekly to draw, but with differing methods and results. Bak started his panels with a traditional blue outline that he would later fill in and finish with ink. Kulik drew hers “straight ink to paper,” sometimes leaving in mistakes and leaving out elements such as backgrounds in order to produce “quantity over quality.”

Her goal was to use the comics as daily journals— as a way to “take note of things that happened and things that people forget happen”—and due to time constraints, she needed to draw as many of them as possible in one sitting. “I would finish all my seven days before Todd would even finish his first panel,” Kulik says.

These early strips chronicled conversations, walks around town and random thoughts noted throughout an unspecified day. And although mainstream comics “Garfield” and “Cathy” informed the work, audiences didn’t quite get it. “Comics, number one, are supposed to be funny, and they think it’s like a gag,” Kulik says. “Sunday morning cartoons have a conflict, a gag and then a punch line. Traditionally, people are looking for a joke, and mine just don’t have that.”

Readers weren’t used to her whimsical, reflective approach to comics, she says, mostly because a different type of comic artist—such as friend and collaborator John Porcellino, who self-publishes the zine “King Cat”—had influenced her drawings. “When you tell people you’re a cartoonist, usually they immediately think of either superheroes, or newspaper strips, the Sunday funnies,” Porcellino says via email. “When you tell people you’re a cartoonist who draws poetic slice-of-life stories about their everyday existence, they’re surprised to hear such a thing exists.”

“There are certain people who are looking for escapism in comics—which is totally fine, totally valid,” Porcellino says.

“Then there are people who are more, or also, interested in actual life—people who read biographies, memoirs, other nonfiction. I think those people would really appreciate this kind of approach to comics.”

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his ingenuous, romanticized version of life is on display in the home that Kulik shares with boyfriend Raoul de la Cruz. Clothesline whites and vibrant greens wash out their living space. A collection of Blythe dolls, the doe-eyed ’70s cult figurines, line a built-in shelf in the couple’s kitchen, and Japanese pop images are prevalent throughout. Then there’s a white-haired cat named Nilla—the quintessential feather duster with legs—who flaunts her ownership of the place. It seems you can’t hang out with Missy Kulik without her cat’s supervision.

When asked where the idea for Tofu Baby came from, Kulik disappears into her craft room and returns with a keychain toy, a memento from a coworker’s trip to Hong Kong. It’s some kind of Sanrio character, she says, but most likely it’s a knockoff.

She and de la Cruz weren’t sure what the toy actually was, but the couple, both vegetarians, assumed it to be a block of tofu. The pink hat on Tofu Baby’s head has been thought to be

ow that Tofu Baby is a few years old and the public hubbub has simmered, Kulik admits to having found her stride. She pays little attention to the scornful comments that still get posted on the Flagpole website, and has decided to embrace the pop icon potential of Tofu Baby.

During last summer’s Athens Music Awards, the plush Tofu Baby presented a few trophies with Flagpole publisher Pete McCommons while Kulik voiced her creation’s lisp through a microphone backstage. Tofu Baby has sung along to Flo Rida’s rap megahit “Low,” and she took to democracy this election season by voting for Obama. (Even if she didn’t admire the new president, John McCain’s name wouldn’t have sounded as good with Tofu Baby’s lisp.) This past fall, Kulik unveiled a line of Tofu Baby gear: tote bags and t-shirts to complement the oneinch buttons she’s made for some time.

Is it working? Will Tofu Baby soon dominate the world?

Maybe, Kulik says, because Tofu Baby has seeped into the real world in strange ways. After being summoned and dismissed from jury duty recently, Kulik exited the courthouse with her discharged cohort, one of whom, recognizing her name from the comics section, shouted out to Kulik as the group walked down the courthouse steps to Washington Street: “Go Tofu Baby.”

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the calendar!

WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

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

Tuesday 14 EVENTS: In a Dream (Ciné) Nuçi’s Space presents special benefit screening as part of Depression and Suicide Awareness Week. The film follows artist Isaiah Zagar as he struggles with his mental health. 7 p.m. $8. www.athenscine.com EVENTS: A Perfect Cappuccino (Ciné Barcafé) Benefit screening of film that explores coffee culture to ask questions about American consumerism. 7 p.m. $5. www. athenscine.com PERFORMANCE: UGA Concert Band (UGA Hodgson Hall) Presented by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu THEATRE: Dangerous Liaisons (Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents Christopher Hampton’s popular adaptation of Pierre de Laclos’ 1782 novel. Apr. 14–18, 8 p.m. Apr. 18–19, 2:30 p.m. $15, $12 (UGA students). 706-542-2838 LECTURES & LIT.: AfricanAmerican Authors Book Club (ACC Library) This month: A Story Untold: Black Men and Women in Athens History by Michael Thurmond. 7 p.m. 706-613-3650 GAMES: 8-Ball Tournament (Fat Daddy’s) 7 p.m. 706-353-0241 GAMES: Beginner’s Pool School (Lucky Dawg Billiards) 7 p.m. 706354-7829 GAMES: Boybutante Bingo (Tasty World) Join Sophia LoRent for this popular annual event. Proceeds benefit AIDS Athens. 8–10 p.m. $5. www.boybutante.org GAMES: Cornhole League (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Drunken Bingo (283 Bar) Great prizes and fun all night long.

10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Alibi) Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. 706-549-1010

Wednesday 15 EVENTS: Depression and Suicide Awareness Open Mic Night (UGA Student Learning Center— Room 153) Share poetry, acoustic songs, short stories or testimonials.

7 p.m. FREE! www.nuci.org EVENTS: Micro Wrestling Federation (Georgia Theatre) MWF presents professional wrestlers under five feet tall in an event that combines athleticism and comedy.

9 p.m. $15 (advance), $20 (door). www.georgiatheatre.com* 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.”

8 p.m. $5. www.athenscine.com PERFORMANCE: Iliza Shlesinger and Kristen Key (UGA Tate Center) The two comedians who appeared on “Last Comic Standing” perform. Shlesinger was recently crowned the first female winner. 8 p.m. $5 (non-students), FREE! (UGA students). www.uga.edu/union* PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) William Bittmann, percussion. 3:35 p.m.

FREE! www.music.uga.edu THEATRE: Dangerous Liaisons (Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents Christopher Hampton’s popular adaptation of Pierre de Laclos’ 1782 novel. See Apr. 14 Theatre. Apr. 14–18, 8 p.m. Apr. 18–19, 2:30 p.m. $15, $12 (UGA students). 706-542-2838 KIDSTUFF: Eatin’ with the Critters (Sandy Creek Nature Center—ENSAT) Bring a sack lunch for an hour of learning about “Past to Present.” For ages 3–5 with an adult. Call to register. 12:30 p.m. $0–$13 (scholarships available).

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) Learn how to make a homemade kite that really flies. 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. Caroline Medine, professor of religion and African American studies, speaks on “A Black Catholic Woman in the South: Estella Conwilla Majozo’s Come Out the Wilderness.”

12:15 p.m. FREE! fsgiles@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Larry Bartels (UGA Student Learning Center— Room 348) Larry M. Bartels, director of Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, discusses his new book, Unequal Democracy, which debunks myths about contemporary America. 3:30– 5:45 p.m. FREE! 706-542-2057 LECTURES & LIT.: Jack Kingston (UGA Student Learning Center— Room 214) The U.S. Congressman gives updates about the happenings in D.C. Sponsored by the College Republicans. 7 p.m. FREE! md.ralston@gmail.com LECTURES & LIT.: “Life = Love + Loss: A Perspective on Grief” (Athens Technical College— Auditorium) Dr. Cindy Darden gives the presentation. Hosted by Mental Health America of Northeast Georgia.

5 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7888 LECTURES & LIT.: “Mathematics and the Diversity of Cultures” (UGA Student Learning Center— Room 102) Fields Medalist David

Mumford, professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, gives the talk. 3:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! lorenzin@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “Unfinished Business: 21st-Century Civil Rights” (UGA Chapel) Dr. Maurice Daniels, dean and professor of the School of Social Work, gives this year’s Mary Frances Early Lecture, an annual talk in honor of UGA’s first African-American graduate. 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-5437 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 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Play for prizes every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920

Thursday 16 EVENTS: Great Southland Stampede Rodeo (UGA Livestock Teaching Area) Three nights of rodeo action featuring vendors, food, pony rides, mechanical bull and rodeo performances. Saturday is the championship round. Save $3 by preordering tickets. 6 p.m. $15 (adults), $12 (students/children). 706-5429374, www.uga.edu/bandb EVENTS: Knit Nite (ATHICA) Hosted

by Marla Carlson. Knit with the members of this ongoing group or drop by to discuss the “Crafting Romance” exhibit with them. 7:30– 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.athica.org EVENTS: “One Day Without Shoes” (UGA Campus—Between Brumby and Russell) Event as part of TOMS Shoes’ national awareness campaign encouraging participants to go barefoot for one day in honor of the children who go without shoes every day. Featuring a documentary screening, inflatable moonwalk, live music and more. 12–6 p.m. FREE! 404-610-4157 EVENTS: Thursday Night Throwdown (Red Eye Coffee) Friendly competition to bring to-

Internationally renowned violinist Nadja Salerno will perform with legendary guitarists Sergio and Odair Assad Apr. 17 at UGA’s Hodgson Hall. gether and create coffee community.

Anybody, whether a coffee professional or home barista, is welcome to compete. Limited to 30 competitors. 7:30 p.m. $5. 706-369-6850 EVENTS: Wine 101: The Big Six Wine Tasting (Ciné Barcafé) Interactive and informative tasting sessions led by wine expert Peter Birdsong from Georgia Crown Distributing Company. Admission also includes hors d’oeuvres catered

by The National and a complimentary stemless wine glass. 7 & 8:30 p.m. $20 (advance), $25 (door). www.athenscine.com* ART: Reception (Nuçi’s Space) For “Share Your Story” show featuring work by local artists. Light refreshments. Part of Depression and Suicide Awareness Week. 7 p.m. $3.

706-227-1515, www.nuci.org PERFORMANCE: Restoration (Morton Theatre) The UGA Wesley Foundation presents a night of worship through the art of dance. Apr. 16–17 & 19, 7 p.m. Apr. 19, 3 p.m.

FREE! 706-353-1408 PERFORMANCE: UGA Wind Ensemble (UGA Hodgson Hall) Presented by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu THEATRE: Dangerous Liaisons (Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents Christopher Hampton’s popular adaptation of Pierre de Laclos’ 1782 novel. See Apr. 14 Theatre. Apr. 14–18, 8 p.m. Apr. 18–19, 2:30 p.m. $15, $12 (UGA students). 706-542-2838 THEATRE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Athens Academy) The Athens Academy Drama Department presents Shakespeare’s whimsical comedy. Donations for Project Pallam accepted at the door. Apr. 16–18, 7:30 p.m. 706-549-9225 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: Read to Rover (Oconee County Library) Beginning readers in grades 1–3 read aloud to an aid

dog. Children should choose and supply their reading material for “Rover.” 3:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 LECTURES & LIT.: “The Anecdotal Antidote: Fiction and the Degentrification of Popular Narratives” (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 148) Franklin Visiting Scholar Tayari Jones, author of Leaving Atlanta and The Untelling, discusses the role of fiction and its relationship to the popular narratives of our communities. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5197 LECTURES & LIT.: “Current Challenges for the FBI: View from the General Counsel” (UGA Chapel) Valerie E. Caproni, General Counsel of the FBI, gives the talk. Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Criminal Justice Program. 3:30 p.m. FREE! elweeks@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “Making Conservation Biology Relevant: Muddlings and Reflections of a Fish Ecologist” (UGA Warnell Building—Room 403) Dr. Paul Angermeier, assistant leader of the Cooperative Research Unit at Virginia Tech, gives the talk. 4 p.m.

FREE! delkins@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “What is Diabetes?” (Oconee County Library) Denise Everson, Oconee County Extension Agent, gives the talk. Part of the library’s four-part “Nutrition and Health” series. 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 MEETINGS: Athens Homebrewers Club (Terrapin Beer Co.) Club dedicated to the enjoyment of beers, meads and ciders as well as the advancement of brewing knowledge through education. 6:30 p.m. www. athenshomebrewers.com MEETINGS: Meditation Circle (Revolutionary Massage & Wellness) Non-dogmatic group meditation every Thursday. 6:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-255-4443 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 GAMES: Trivia (WOW Café & Wingery) Every Thursday. 706-5435510

Friday 17 EVENTS: Moving Midway (UGA Founders Memorial Garden) Screening of documentary about moving a North Carolina plantation house. Sponsored by the Student Historic Preservation Organization. 8 p.m. FREE! klkooles@uga.edu EVENTS: Found Footage Festival (Ciné Barcafé) Brand-new installment of festival that showcases odd videos. Hosted by comedians Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher. Apr. 17–18, 8 p.m. $10. www.foundfootagefestival.com* EVENTS: Great Southland Stampede Rodeo (UGA Livestock Teaching Area) Three nights of rodeo action featuring vendors, food, pony rides, mechanical bull and rodeo performances. 6 p.m. $15 (adults), $12 (students/children). 706-5429374, www.uga.edu/bandb EVENTS: GreenFest Awards Ceremony (Terrapin Beer Co.) Reception and awards ceremony honoring the individuals, organizations and businesses that have made a positive impact on the environment of Athens-Clarke County over the past year. 5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3512 EVENTS: Historic Landscape Tour of the UGA Campus (UGA Founders Memorial Garden) Graduate student Lindsey Kerr and Campus Planning Coordinator Janine Duncan lead a tour of several historic landscapes on campus.

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THE CALENDAR! tea. Sponsored by the Historic Preservation Department. 12–1:30 p.m. $7. 706-542-4720, donnag@ uga.edu* PERFORMANCE: Nadja SalernoSonnenberg and the Assad Brothers (UGA Hodgson Hall) The internationally renowned violinist joins forces with legendary guitarists Sergio and Odair Assad for a concert featuring traditional and Gypsy folk tunes, original compositions and even some Oscar-winning film music by Charlie Chaplin. Half-price for UGA students. 8 p.m. $25–$30. www.uga.edu/pac* PERFORMANCE: “Perchance to Dream” (Canopy Studio) Aerial dance performance by Canopy Studio’s Repertory Company. Apr. 17 & 18, 8 p.m. Apr. 19, 6 p.m. $15 (adults), $10 (students), $6 (ages 2–8). www.canopystudio.com PERFORMANCE: Restoration (Morton Theatre) The UGA Wesley Foundation presents a night of worship through the art of dance. Apr. 16–17 & 19, 7 p.m. Apr. 19, 3 p.m.

FREE! 706-353-1408 THEATRE: Dangerous Liaisons (Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents Christopher Hampton’s popular adaptation of Pierre de Laclos’ 1782 novel. See Apr. 14 Theatre. Apr. 14–18, 8 p.m. Apr. 18–19, 2:30 p.m. $15, $12 (UGA students). 706-542-2838 THEATRE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Athens Academy) Shakespeare’s whimsical comedy.

Donations for Project Pallam will be accepted at the door. Apr. 16–18, 7:30 p.m. 706-549-9225 THEATRE: Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Athens Community Theatre) The world’s greatest detective finally meets his match in this play by Steven Dietz.

Presented by the Town and Gown Players. Apr. 17–18 & 23–25, 8 p.m. Apr. 19 & 26, 2 p.m. $18, $15 (students/seniors). 706-208-8696 THEATRE: Snow (Seney-Stovall Chapel) JV Productions presents an adult parody of the immortal Grimm and Disney classic. In this send-up of the fairy tale, Snow Weiss is an up and coming Broadway ingènue.

Apr. 17 & 18, 8 p.m. $10 (adults), $8 (seniors and students). 706543-2012 OUTDOORS: UGA Observatory Open House (UGA Observatory) The 24-inch telescope is open for public viewing on the roof of the UGA physics building. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-542-2870 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. This month’s themes are Alaska, Earth Day and library poetry. Ages 2–5. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: Michelle Cliff (UGA Chapel) Michelle Cliff, author of Abeng, No Telephone to Heaven and If I Could Write This in Fire, gives the 15th annual Andrea Carson Coley Lecture, “Everything Is Now.” A reception honoring the Coley family precedes the lecture at 11:30 a.m.

12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3147 LECTURES & LIT.: Peabody/ Loyless Forum (UGA SLC— Room 148) Visiting TV scholars and critics present topics from the 2nd Annual Peabody/Loyless Seminar on the State of Television. This year focuses on “TV and the Computer.”

4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-8983 LECTURES & LIT.: Walter Thurman (UGA Conner Hall—Room 104) This year’s Rod Ziemer Lecture features North

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Carolina State University’s Dr. Walter Thurman speaking on “Pollination Economics.” 11:30 a.m. FREE! 706206-7458 LECTURES & LIT.: “The Value of Historic Landscapes” (UGA Chapel) Suzanne Turner gives the talk. Sponsored by the Historic Preservation Department. 2:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-4706 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) Talk politics. First and third Friday of every month. 6:30 p.m. athens@ drinkingliberally.org GAMES: Friendly Friday Night Checkmate (Red Eye Coffee) Bring a board and make a friend. Chess players of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels welcome. Game play lasts until closing. 5 p.m. Minimum purchase of $5. 706-369-6850 GAMES: Game Night (Main Street Yarns) Play your favorite games the first and third Friday each month. To be included for dinner at 6:30, call before 5 p.m. (cost is $5). 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-5531, www.mainstreetyarns.com GAMES: Roleplaying Games Demo (Tyche’s Games) Space is limited. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-3544500, www.tychesgames.com GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Free every Thursday and Friday! 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. 706-354-7829

Saturday 18 EVENTS: 12th Annual Seed Swap (Agrarian Connections Historic Farm—Crawford) Outdoor heirloom seed festival hosted by the Southern Seed Legacy with music, crafts and stories. BBQ dinner is $5, or free if you bring a side dish. 3–8 p.m.

FREE! www.uga.edu/ebl/ssl EVENTS: 20th Annual Boybutante Ball (40 Watt Club) Drag extravaganza featuring local and imported performers and a costume contest. Tickets on sale online and at Junkman’s Daughter’s Brother, Schoolkids Records and Urban Sanctuary Spa. Proceeds benefit AIDS Athens. 9 p.m. $20. www. boybutante.org* EVENTS: 31st Annual 5K Human Race (UGA Catholic Center) Sponsored by the UGA Catholic Center and benefitting Franciscan Helping Hands Outreach, the Athens Area Food Bank and the Catholic Center’s Summer Art & Music Camp. Parking available at Stegeman Coliseum. 9 a.m. $18/ individual, $65/family of 4. www. uga.edu/cc EVENTS: Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society Expo (The Overlook—494 Baxter Street) This year’s theme is “Connecting Your Present and Your Past.” Event includes exhibits, lectures and demonstrations of popular genealogical software programs. 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

FREE! 706-543-2225 EVENTS: Found Footage Festival (Ciné Barcafé) Brand-new installment of festival that showcases odd videos. See Apr. 17 Events. Apr. 17–18, 8 p.m. $10. www.foundfootagefestival.com* EVENTS: Grand Opening Weekend (Body, Mind & Spirit Ministries—1377 Prince Avenue) Featuring massage, ear acupressure demos, free lectures and more.

Apr. 18–19. 706-351-6024, www. bodymindandspiritofathens.com EVENTS: Great Southland Stampede Rodeo (UGA Livestock Teaching Area) Three nights of rodeo action featuring vendors, food, pony rides, mechanical bull and rodeo performances. Saturday is the championship round. 6 p.m. $15 (adults), $12 (students/children). 706-5429374, www.uga.edu/bandb* EVENTS: Mascot Madness (Clarke Central High School) Cheer on your favorite mascot as they battle for court domination in a five-on-five basketball tournament. Event also features pregame activities, a halftime exhibition by Special Olympics athletes and a silent auction. All proceeds benefit Special Olympics of Georgia. Noon. $5. lboyce@uga.edu EVENTS: Multi-Modal Madness Challenge (Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company) Teams try to reach as many checkpoints as possible without using a car. Checkpoints feature trivia and transportation-related challenges. Register online. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. $20. www.bikeathens. com EVENTS: Piedmont Gardeners’ Garden Tour (Various Locations) Spring garden tour sponsored and presented by The Piedmont Gardeners. Barbara and Vince Dooley’s garden, along with five other private local gardens, will be featured. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $10 (advance), $15 (day of tour). 706548-5760* EVENTS: Terrapin Beer 5K Plus One More Mile (Terrapin Beer Co.) Race ends with complimentary brewery tour and beer samples.

T-shirts for all participants and awards for top finishers. Register online. 4 p.m. $25. www.active.com, www.terrapinbeer.com EVENTS: Wellness Fair (St. Mary’s Wellness Center) Offering tours, information, fingerprinting kits, light refreshments and health screenings.

9 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-3893355 ART: Art Trax 2009 (Hoschton, GA—City Square and Depot) Juried art show and sale featuring food vendors, book signings, demos, a silent auction and more. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! www.arttrax.org PERFORMANCE: Athens’ Most Talented (Athens Creative Theatre) JEM Entertainment presents first annual talent search. Winners will move on to compete for the title of Georgia’s Most Talented. 4 p.m. $5. www.jem-entertainment.com PERFORMANCE: “Our New Silence” (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Ideas for Creative Exploration, a UGA interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts, presents the premiere of an experimental world music project and performance involving reinterpretations of traditional Indonesian music. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.ournewsilence.com PERFORMANCE: “Perchance to Dream” (Canopy Studio) Aerial dance performance by Canopy Studio’s Repertory Company. Apr. 17 & 18, 8 p.m. Apr. 19, 6 p.m. $15 (adults), $10 (students), $6 (ages 2–8). www.canopystudio.com PERFORMANCE: UGA Glee Clubs Alumni Reunion Concert (UGA Hodgson Hall) Presented by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Ugapalooza (Morton Theatre) Annual a cappella invitational hosted by the UGA Accidentals. 2 & 7 p.m. $8 (adults), $6 (students, seniors and children).

706-613-3771* THEATRE: Dangerous Liaisons (Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents Christopher Hampton’s popular adaptation of Pierre de

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The Georgia Review Spring 2009 Issue Release Party Cecil B. Day Chapel, State Botanical Garden

THURSDAY, APRIL 16

Now that we as a nation have decided that being ruled by oil-industry facemen is a bad idea and finally installed another pro-environmentalist chief executive, we can get down to the very serious business of salvaging the planet.

It’s a daunting task, but as we’ve been told time and again, even small steps help in immeasurable ways.

One of the first and best things we all can do is get educated and enlightened on the issues, practical and philosophical, facing us today and in the years to come.

Athens’ homegrown literary powerhouse The Georgia Review, nationally recognized as one of the best magazines of its kind in the republic, devotes its Spring 2009 issue to a “Focus on Culture and the Environment.” The issue features a five-way conversation in essay form on sustainability and the pros and cons of simple living, and is supplemented by a selection of poems and reviews by various authors touching on similar issues, including the fragility of our ecosystem and of the pesky bipeds who rely on it but can’t seem to stop doing damage to it.

Every issue of the Review is cause for celebration, but this issue’s release is an Earth Day party to be held at the Day Chapel of the State Botanical Garden. There will be readings by poets Alice Friman and Coleman Barks—a reading by Barks is not to be missed— and the artwork of this issue’s featured artist Terry Rowlett, who’ll also speak, plus music

by Carl Lindberg and a reception to follow. The party is free and open to the public and begins at 5:30 p.m., but there will be tours of the new flower garden adjacent to the Chapel for an hour before things kick off. Flowers, music, food for mind and spirit, and a new issue of The Georgia Review—all in all an Earth Day celebration worthy of the name.

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Laclos’ 1782 novel. See Apr. 14 Theatre. Apr. 14–18, 8 p.m. Apr. 18–19, 2:30 p.m. $15, $12 (UGA students). 706-542-2838 THEATRE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Athens Academy) The Athens Academy Drama Department presents Shakespeare’s whimsical comedy. Donations for Project Pallam will be accepted at the door.

Apr. 16–18, 7:30 p.m. 706-5499225 THEATRE: Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Athens Community Theatre) The world’s greatest detective finally meets his match in this play by Steven Dietz. Presented by Town and Gown Players. Apr. 17–18 & 23–25, 8 p.m. Apr. 19 & 26, 2 p.m. $18, $15 (students/seniors). 706-208-8696 THEATRE: Snow (Seney-Stovall Chapel) JV Productions presents an adult parody of the Grimm and Disney classic. See Apr. 17 Theatre.

Apr. 17 & 18, 8 p.m. $10 (adults), $8 (seniors and students). 706543-2012 OUTDOORS: Native Flora Ramble (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Take a stroll through the Native Flora Garden to take a look at the new blooms and learn how to identify woody and herbaceous plants. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-542-6156 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. Meet in upper parking lot near Day Chapel.

8 a.m. FREE! www.oconeeriversaudubon.org

KIDSTUFF: Plug Yourself into the Outdoors (Sandy Creek) Experience an afternoon unplugged from your TV, iPod and Wii. Explore the exciting side of nature and science inspired by some favorite games. 1–4 p.m. $3. 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show: “Princess and the Frog” (ACC Library) Presented by Curious Moon Puppets to celebrate the library’s 17th birthday. Cake in the lobby following the show. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: APA Jr. Billiard Leagues (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Welcoming young billiard players aged 7-17 years old every Saturday! 11 a.m.

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

Sunday 19 EVENTS: Unnatural Causes (ACC Library) Film and discussion series focusing on the social and economic factors that shape disease continues.

Fourth episode, “Bad Sugar,” follows the lives of O’odham Indians, a population with perhaps the highest rate of Type 2 Diabetes in the world. Panel discussion follows.

3–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5788, jlevinso@uga.edu

EVENTS: Adopt-a-Dog Day (Legion Field) The national marketing fraternity Pi Sigma Epsilon teams up with Athens Animal Control to give abandoned dogs a chance to find a home. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! sambaly@uga.edu EVENTS: Boybutante Brunch (Farm 255) The “morning after” brunch.

Proceeds benefit AIDS Athens. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. $10. www.boybutante. org* EVENTS: Grand Opening Weekend (Body, Mind & Spirit Ministries—1377 Prince Avenue) Featuring massage, ear acupressure demos, free lectures and more.

Apr. 18–19. 706-351-6024, www. bodymindandspiritofathens.com EVENTS: High Hat Tea (Lyndon House Arts Center) Featuring children’s activities, food, wine, silent auction and a hat contest.

Prize awarded for the most festive hat. Proceeds benefit the Jeannette Rankin Women’s Scholarship Fund.

1–3 p.m. $30 (adults), $20 (students), FREE! (children). 706-2081211, www.rankinfoundation.org* EVENTS: Joshua Reeves Memorial 5K (UGA Journalism Building) Army and Air Force ROTC host this run to remember a Watkinsville native who was killed in Iraq just hours after his son was born. Proceeds go to Reeves’ newborn son. Registration form online.

8:30 a.m. $15. www.uga.edu/afrotc EVENTS: Mutt Strut (Bishop Park) Featuring moonwalk, pet boutique, pet contests, concessions, raffle and silent auction. Proceeds benefit

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THE CALENDAR! Athens Canine Rescue. 2:30–4 p.m. $12 (advance), $15 (day of event). www.athenscaninerescue.com* EVENTS: Really, Really, Free Market (Bishop Park) Everyone is invited to bring what they want and take what they want. 1–4 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/athensrrfm EVENTS: Renovation Reception (Honey’s Salon) Stop by for a cocktail and to see the salon’s new wing.

4–7 p.m. FREE! 706-254-4008 PERFORMANCE: “Perchance to Dream” (Canopy Studio) Aerial dance performance by Canopy Studio’s Repertory Company. Apr. 17 & 18, 8 p.m. Apr. 19, 6 p.m. $15 (adults), $10 (students), $6 (ages 2–8). www.canopystudio.com* PERFORMANCE: Restoration (Morton Theatre) The UGA Wesley Foundation presents a night of worship through the art of dance. Apr. 16–17 & 19, 7 p.m. Apr. 19, 3 p.m.

FREE! 706-353-1408 THEATRE: Dangerous Liaisons (Cellar Theatre) University Theatre presents Christopher Hampton’s popular adaptation of Pierre de Laclos’ 1782 novel. See Apr. 14 Theatre. Apr. 14–18, 8 p.m. Apr. 18–19, 2:30 p.m. $15, $12 (UGA students). 706-542-2838* THEATRE: Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Athens Community Theatre) The world’s greatest detective finally meets his match in this play by Steven Dietz. Presented by Town and Gown Players. Apr. 17–18 & 23–25, 8 p.m. Apr. 19 & 26, 2 p.m. $18, $15 (students/seniors). 706-208-8696 KIDSTUFF: Zoo Animal Feeding Tour (Memorial Park) Explore the world of wildlife at Bear Hollow and learn all about the resident animals.

2 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3616 LECTURES & LIT.: Chantel Jolie (Borders Books & Music) The author signs copies of her debut novel, In Those Jeans. 2 p.m. FREE! 706583-8647 LECTURES & LIT.: “Tales of a Happy Wanderer” (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Native Athenian Fred Birchmore shares his early memories of the small college town in which he grew up. Presented by the Athens Historical Society. 2:30 p.m.

FREE! www.rootsweb.com/~gaahs MEETINGS: Circus Banquet (Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution Studio) Practice circus skills, perform and jam with musicians. Every Sunday. 7 p.m. FREE! www.rubbersoulyoga.com 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) Every Sunday! 2, 4, & 8 p.m. 706-3547829

Monday 20 PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Whitney Holley, oboe. 3:35 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu

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KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) 10:30 a.m. & 2 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) Bedtime stories. 7 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Dan Savage (UGA Tate Center) The author, media pundit and journalist known for his “Savage Love” column and podcast speaks. 7:30 p.m. FREE! (UGA students), $5 (non-students). www.uga. edu/union* 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) Get a team together and show off your extensive trivia knowledge every Monday! 8 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub GAMES: Ping Pong (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Get your paddle ready for a game of table tennis! 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/flickerbar GAMES: Sports Trivia (WOW Café & Wingery) Every Monday. 706543-5510.

GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Fat Daddy’s) Every Monday and Wednesday. Mondays, 6 & 9 p.m.

Wednesdays, 7 & 10 p.m. 706353-0241 GAMES: Trivia (Taco Stand) Every Monday night at the downtown location. 9 p.m. www.thetacostand.com GAMES: Trivia (Transmetropolitan) New! Every Monday at the downtown location. Prizes include house money and passes to Terrapin Brewery.

9–11 p.m. 706-613-8773 GAMES: Trivia (Beef O’ Brady’s) Get a team together, order some burgers and test your knowledge of the trivial. Every Monday! 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916

Tuesday 21 EVENTS: Electron Theater Open House (UGA Barrow Hall) The new theater, designed to enhance student learning and research interactions, will be showcased along with informal tours of Center for Advanced Ultrastructural Research facilities.

Refreshments and popcorn. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4080 EVENTS: National Holocaust Remembrance Day (ACC Library) Program features a presentation by Holocaust survivor Murray Lynn and a screening of a new documentary, Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 PERFORMANCE: Relay Idol (Clarke Middle School) Local singers compete for the chance to perform at the Clarke County Relay for Life. Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society. 7–9 p.m. $10 (adults), $5 (ages 18 & under).

706-549-4893 PERFORMANCE: UGA Wind Symphony (UGA Hodgson Hall) Presented by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Book Discussion for Home-School Students (ACC Library) Come and discuss any of the 20 books nominated for the GA Children’s Book Awards. For homeschool students in grades 4–8.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Every Tuesday and Thursday a chapter is read aloud from a young adult book.

4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Protect the Planet (Parkview Community Center) Earth Day celebration for ages 6–18. 3

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p.m. $2. www.accleisureservices. com KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) For ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Teen Book Club (Oconee County Library) This month’s book: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. 6 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Friendship Christian Church) Jeff O’Brian will demonstrate flint knapping and show samples of the various kinds of arrow points.

Visitors can bring their rocks to be identified. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706549-8082 MEETINGS: Athens-Area Libertarian Party (Stevi B’S Pizza) Meets the third Tuesday of every month. 7 p.m. FREE! 770-868-0462, jmss1963@windstream.net MEETINGS: Great Decisions Discussion Group (ACC Library) Group meets every Tuesday through June 9 to discuss U.S. foreign policy and global issues. Space is limited.

Contact Jeff Tate to sign up. 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650, jtate@athenslibrary.org GAMES: 8-Ball Tournament (Fat Daddy’s) Tuesdays. 7 p.m. 706353-0241 GAMES: Beginner’s Pool School (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Learn the basics, every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706354-7829 GAMES: Cornhole League (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Every Tuesday! 7 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Drunken Bingo (283 Bar) Great prizes and fun all night long.

10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Alibi) Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. 706-549-1010 * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 14 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com CELERITY Local punk-inspired hard rock.

SHARKS AMONG THE SUITS Local metal band that sets Kyle Spain’s ripped, demonic growls against more melodic vocal backing, double-bass pedaling from drummer Jonathan Melin, and tight, complex electric guitar arrangements.

VERIS Progressive alternative rock band out of Dacula.

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.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $7 (adv). www.georgiatheatre. com* BENJY DAVIS PROJECT Folk-rock band based out of Louisiana that has supported such acclaimed artists as John Mayer, Better Than Ezra, and The North Mississippi Allstars.

THE KIN Australian siblings based in New York play dreamy, delicate ballads—like if Damien Rice had a brother he could duet with.

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Montana Skies, The Balkan Quartet Melting Point While viewing Live from the Mable Barnes Amphitheatre, the recently (and independently) released DVD from the classically trained jam duo (and UGA alumni) Montana Skies, it becomes evident and obvious quite quickly: guitarist Jonathan Adams and his cello-shredding sparkplug wife Jennifer are as accomplished with their respective instruments as the inventors behind said instruments ever hoped musicians they crafted for would (or could) be. “I’ve wondered, ‘What would Bach think about rock music?,’ and I think clasMontana Skies sical composers from that era would be incredibly excited and really jump into the style,” shares Jennifer.

Another thing that’s quickly apparent, even without the telling body language from Mrs. Adams during set-opener “Malaguena” (the popular Ernesto Lecuona piece), is the fact that the pair had no choice but to be lovers. No, you haven’t drifted to Ms. Inov’s Reality Check, but I suspect the execution of sensual instrumental compositions inspired

by Latin rhythms (“Gringo Flamenco”) and reinterpretations of rock music (they offer teases and full-blown covers from venerable bands like The Beatles, The Police, even Kansas) require (and at the very least benefit from) a libido-fueled swagger. “Yeah, there’s definitely a passion we share,” admits Jonathan, adding, “Everything just feels right—it doesn’t even feel like playing with a separate person. It’s as if we’re one unit.”

Is it safe to assume that much of their audience is composed not of Montana Skies fans, per se, but of festival-goers, supper club members or husbands and children squirming in auditorium seats engaged in a compulsory cultural experience encouraged by the family matriarch? Does it matter? “I feel really empowered by our music and really confident that we can win people over,” says Jennifer. Jonathan adds that he views live performances in front of these types of audiences “as an audition for the audience” that compels the duo to “give them the best we can.” [David Eduardo]

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 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com SONS OF RALPH Primarily a bluegrass band—though dipping into country, Cajun and folk-rock—Sons of Ralph features Ralph Lewis (mandolin, guitar, vocals), who started out playing mountain music in the ‘40s.

He’s backed by sons Don and Marty, as well as musicians Steve Moseley and Ozzie Orengo, Jr. No Where Bar 10 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 LITTLE PERKY JACKSON AND THE GRAVITY FIGHTERS Acoustic writers in the round featuring Adam Payne, Brad Downs and Josh Perkins.

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

Wednesday 15 40 Watt Club Nuçi’s Space “Camp Amped” Benefit. 9 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.40watt.com DON CHAMBERS This local favorite’s whiskey-soaked bootstomps capture

a certain dusty closing-time chic.

Rough and tumble vocals scratch and howl over rootsy guitars, banjo and pedal steel.

HONEY Local songwriter J.S. Dillard fronts Honey. If you’re into swell classic rock like Creedence, The Faces, T. Rex, the Stones and Tom Petty, you’ll find a lot to like with the path Dillard & Co. have chosen.

KAITLIN JONES AND THE COUNTY FAIR The formerly rustic Americana act has evolved into a five-piece electric band featuring guitars, bass drums and keys. The County Fair is in the studio now— so expect new tunes soon!

LONA Local rock band fronted by Clay Leverett and featuring members of other bands such as Hayride, Star Room Boys and Drip.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com FAN-TAN Gary Numan-inspired dark synths and new wave beats with a singer that sounds a bit like James Mercer of The Shins.

MISFORTUNE 500 Hook-heavy, mid-tempo local rock with a strong melodic backing and an enthusiastic stage show.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar ENTERTAINMENT The Atlanta/ Athens band plays dark, synth- and bass-heavy rock that’s propulsive and layered, maybe a little like the lovechild that results from the late-

night gropings of U2, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Cure.

NEW THRILL PARADE Goth abstractions punctuated by saxophone and theatrical vocal delivery.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 THE BIG DADDYS Good-time Southern rock tunes.

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

Little Kings Shuffle Club 8 p.m. FREE! www.boybutante.org BOYBUTANTE KARAOKE Hosted by Athens’ karaoke master, Dr. Fred.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com BIG C & THE RINGERS Local bluesman and UGA grad Clarence Cameron takes inspiration from aritsts like Muddy Waters.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net BEN CHAPMAN & THE ACCENTS This Georgia band plays a bluesy blend of American folk rock.

DEAR SAVANNAH Alternative pop band from Atlanta with an emotional delivery reminiscent of The Fray or Goo Goo Dolls.

Tasty Bar. 10:30 p.m. FREE! www. tastyworld.net KAOS House music every Wednesday night!

Thursday 16 40 Watt Club Nuçi’s Space “Camp Amped” Benefit. 9 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.40watt.com MADELINE White Flag CD release show! Bell-voiced local songwriter Madeline Adam’s literate folk musings have grown increasingly soulful, drawing comparisons to artists like Joni Mitchell and Karen Carpenter. See record reviews on p. 14.

THAYER SARRANO Local singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist with lovely, airy vocals singing dark, gentle melodies over guitar while backed by lap steel, bass and drums.

STEREO CAMPBELL Sisters Claire and Page Campbell of Hope for Agoldensummer in duet form!

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.

Ashford Manor Ladies on the Lawn. 7 p.m. $10. www. ambedandbreakfast.com BETSY FRANCK Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility.

HEIDI HENSLEY Local painter and frontwoman fuses an uncommon blend of modern rock with alt-country and a nostalgic hint of the ‘80s.

MEREDITH MARY WILLIAMS Local singer-songwriter.

Blur 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ blurathens DJ ISAAC MCCALLA Longtime Boneshakers/ Kultur Lounge deejay Isaac McCalla mixes tonight’s electro dance house tunes for a night Blur calls “Pop Life.”

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE INTERNS New local band featuring members of Futurebirds. Look for their debut record soon.

PREZ THE BOXER The band formerly known as Moon Unit reveals its new three-piece lineup (Mark Vaughan, Davis Bacon and Austin Theodore) and a new EP tonight.

THE WANDAS In The Beatles spectrum of pop influences, The Wandas land around Rubber Soul. Expect some tinkering with horns, tight compositions and clean, bright tones.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com COY KING Tonight marks the last solo show for local songwriter Coy King—at least for a while. He is gearing up for the live debut of his full band, Nightingale News! For now, enjoy his poetic country-tinged ballads on acoustic guitar.

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.

WITNESS THE APOTHEOSIS Three-man new wave-industrial band based here in town. Depeche Mode-esque vocals backed by rapid-fire dance beats.

José’s Restaurant 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-310-0410 SONNY GOT BLUE Local jazz group featuring James Goodhand (bass), George Davidson (tenor sax), Andrew Murdison (trumpet), Steve Key (piano) and Karl Friday (drums) plays swing and Latin jazz standards for the dinner crowd every Thursday.

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Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub 6 DAY BENDER A raucous hillbilly thrash of rock and roll driven by lightning-fast banjo picking, gravelly vocals and guitar, bass, drums and cello.

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.

TIMBER Frontman Daniel Aaron serves up his brand of hangover country rock. His lyric-focused arrangements are often nestled within minimalist instrumentation, which incorporate the fiddle, piano, pedal steel or xylophone.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $8 (adv), $10 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com THE BALKAN QUARTET A dynamic and inspiring string group of Serbian violinists Sinisa Ciric, Mirna Ogrizovic-Ciric, violist Danijela Zezelj-Gualdi with Bulgarian cellist Martin Gueorguiev. The Balkan Quartet performs both a traditional string quartet repertoire and contemporary works, reviving the rich Balkan folk heritage.

MONTANA SKIES Incredible guitar/ cello duo applies their classical training, virtuosity and energy to contemporary folk, jazz, pop and flamenco. Expect unexpected covers, from Pink Floyd to Charlie Daniels to Vivaldi. See Calendar Pick on p. 24.

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. Celebrating the release of their new album tonight!

ZOOGMA Under the moniker of “electric fusion,” this Oxford, MS group lays down electro-driven funk and rock jams that feature smooth improvization and sampling.

Roadhouse 9:30 p.m. $2. 706-613-2324 CARLA LEFEVER Local hard-rocker Carla LeFever and her band play covers of AC/DC, Dio as well as some of her more “hard-grooving” and dancey originals in the same vein.

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Tasty World 10 p.m. www.tastyworld.net BENEFIT FOR THE CHILDREN OF HAITI Featuring live music from The Founder & the Invisibles, The Austin Kyle Band and Derek Southerland.

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SON 1 AND THE INSURGENTS Backed by alternative guitars and drums, Curtison Jones lays down his original rhymes that connect with rap and rock fans alike.

YELAWOLF Frantic near-punk hiphop from Alabama that samples everything it’s told not to, including bluegrass, found sounds and Aerosmith.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $15 (adv), $20 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com HILL COUNTRY REVIEW Melodic Southern blues rock band featuring Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew of The North Mississippi Allstars.

NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS Southern rockers taking cues from blues legends like RL Burnside and Otha Turner.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com SUPER LUCKY CAT Relaxing, acoustic lounge-jams in the style of Jimmy Buffet.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar MADHAPPY The duo of Rivka and Mike iLL “puts a hip-hop twist on rock” playing bluesy, Beckinfluenced electro-pop.

DJ SHINE(Y) Hip Hop DJ lays down beats and samples.

SON 1 & THE INSURGENTS Backed by alternative guitars and drums, Curtison Jones lays down his original rhymes that connect with rap and rock fans alike.

VIOLENCE GANG Local trip-hop group that names Sage Francis, Gnarls Barkley and The Roots as key influences.

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com JUSTIN BROGDON Rock vet Justin Brogdon puts a lot of Southern soul into his epic songs—drawing from artists like The Black Crowes and Tom Petty.

Friday 17 40 Watt Club 9:30 p.m. $8 (adv). www.40watt.com BRASS BED A charming marriage of late-era Beatles and pedal-steel country: big, effervescent pop melodies, wooing backing vocals and lighter-than-air choruses.

FIVE EIGHT This totally wired, near-legendary Athens rock trio has consistently pumped out highenergy rock and roll that’s not too complicated but overwhelmingly satisfying.

MODERN SKIRTS This piano-driven foursome has become one of Athens’ most treasured and acclaimed local pop acts. The latest release is All of Us in Our Night.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 THE PLANET RIDERS This Monroe, GA group plays easygoing American rock in line with acts like The Eagles or The Heartbreakers, with a hint of bluegrass influences.

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com 51 RISING The Southern rock threepiece based out of Hartwell presents a blend of blues, rock and country.

Blur 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/blurathens DJ JASON J Friday night dance party.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BEEP BEEP The wailing duo noted for its noisy electronica and jagged, theatrical sound tours in support of its second album under the Saddle Creek label, Enchanted Islands.

THE SHOW IS THE RAINBOW Darren Keen plays chaotic, one-man band electro, rapping and spazzing out in a flurry of blips and White Denim-style guitar lines.

WORLD WAR IV/MOON WAR 1 New band featuring the boys of Bambara plus Joel Hatstat (Pegasuses-XL). Early signs point to a Dinosaur Jr./Pavement sort of sound.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com ELECTA VILLAIN With a soaring falsetto that’s equal parts Lennon and Buckley, local band Electa Villain offers a glam- infused blend of dramatic, high energy rock that only occasionally breaks for piano ballads.

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Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub ANIMALS THAT WILL KILL YOUR ASS No info available.

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

Mellow Mushroom 11 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 WILD DAWGS BAND Local guitar/ vocals duo that offers alternativeinfluenced mellow blues with Southern attitude.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com CAROLINE AIKEN Renowned acoustic folk artist who shared the stage with The Indigo Girls for some time.

Her soulful voice purrs the blues over bright finger-picking.

DIANE DURRETT Soulful songstress from Atlanta celebrates the release of Blame It on My DNA tonight.

RALPH RODDENBERY BAND Roddenbery splits his time between Athens and Atlanta, performing earnest folk ballads that fall somewhere between the styles of David Gray and Iron and Wine.

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.

Nuçi’s Space 9 p.m. $5. 706-227-1515, www.nuci. org CLAIRE CAMPBELL Vocalist for celebrated local folk act Hope for Agoldensummer performs with friends.

THE HEAP Local indie-soul band that’s been praised by the likes of Violent Femmes and Kevn Kinney.

ASHTON MAY Young singersongwriter croons lilting ballads, alongside several Cohen covers, as she plays on the guitar or keyboard.

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

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebar athens THE HEAVY PETS Jam rock from the desk of Dispatch, via Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

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JAZZCHRONIC Five-piece band JazzChronic explores freaky, funky, psychedelic fusion jazz while incorporating rock, R&B, heavy beats and more into the stew.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net THE FOUR KICKS Guitar-driven, melodic rock from Nashville that’s long on heart and short on pretension.

PISTOLERO Atlanta-based indie band that churns out an ‘80s Kinksinspired sound with groaning, edgy vocals.

RADIOLUCENT Local act that falls somewhere between bluesy Southern rock and the poppier side of alt-country.

T. T. MAHONY AND THE STANDARD 8 Local, irreverent piano-rock, like a dirty, debaucherous Billy Joel. Young Lovers is the new release.

Tasty Bar. 10 p.m. www.tastyworld.net MANTOOTH PRESENTS Local hiphop collective Mantooth Music presents tonight’s showcase. Performing artists to be announced.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com ONE L Afro-Cuban-inspired music that blends rock, funk and soul with clave patterns and electric guitar.

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

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com TYLER REEVE A blend of raw country and big Southern rock currently based Atlanta.

Saturday 18 562 Research Drive 6–10:30 p.m. FREE! www.firebynight. rockchurchofathens.com FIRE BY NIGHT An evening of praise/ worship music from Pierced, Reveal, the UGA Wesley Foundation and The Point congregations.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 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 TONGUE N GROOVE The acoustic trio of Henry Williams, Don Henderson and Amy Moon plays lively covers and originals.

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.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com DR. ASIMOV Instrumental prog metal band with a bass-driven sound.

KEBERT XELA With Chris Howe currently on tour with Virginia band Shapiro, the other half of Kebert Xela (Doug Saylor) will be manning the mountain of electronics tonight with a little help from some friends.

MAN RAY Alternative Atlanta rock band formerly known as Hot Pink Money Shot.

THIS PIANO PLAYS ITSELF Spacey rock from Atlanta backed by a wall of reverb.

Ciné Barcafé 7 & 9 p.m. $10. www.athenscine.com “FAHRENHEIT” Local jazz ensemble Kenosha Kid presents an original multi-media event inspired by Ray

Monday, April 20

Wilco, A Hawk and a Hacksaw The Classic Center In a town like Athens, a band like Wilco needs no introduction. For almost 15 years the group has released genredefying records and steadily built the kind of loyal, recordbuying fan-base that most bands only dream about. But the question—as is often the case for music lovers—is: What have you done for me lately?

Wilco’s last album was Wilco 2007’s Sky Blue Sky, on which the band returned closer to its roots-rock origins than on some of its previous offerings, while maintaining the experimental edge it honed on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The next record, though, isn’t set for release until June. This tour is actually in support of a new DVD entitled Ashes of American Flags, which chronicles the band’s 2008 tour. The DVD will be released Apr. 18, and you can catch a screening at midnight that night at Ciné.

While Wilco’s albums have each been a success in terms of sales and critical reception, the band’s staying power is pinioned to its reputation as a crack live band. Like other great entertainers before them, the guys in Wilco usually play full-length sets with numerous encores. The band’s set lists are almost always well-crafted and feature songs from each of its six albums.

Further, with Wilco’s semi-recent addition of Nels Cline, fans of the extended guitar solo will be richly rewarded by their attendance at the live show (in fact, if one wanted to say something negative about the band, one might point out that Wilco—live, anyway—is finally becoming the classic rock band they probably always wished they were).

Hopefully another full tour—this time in support of an actual album—will follow later this summer. Until then, old and new fans alike may want to reacquaint themselves with the band that needs no introduction, the band with the killer live shows, the band with the stellar back catalogue… What were they called again? [John Seay]

Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451. See feature on p. 13.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com 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 CARLA LEFEVER Local hard-rocker Carla LeFever and her band play covers of AC/DC, Dio and some of her more “hard-grooving” and dancey originals in the same vein.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $10 (adv), $15 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com BRANTLEY GILBERT This Jefferson country-rock songwriter plays the kind of rags-to-riches, small-towndreamin’ songs that aggressively go for the heartstrings.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar “LATE NITE DISCO” The house deejay and occasional special guests spin a cool mix of disco, New Wave and modern dance tunes for a sweaty and energetic closing-time crowd. Every Saturday.

TWIN POWERS Dan Geller and Eddie Russell mix up contemporary Top 40 with danceable ‘80s new wave and Britpop tunes.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub BREATHLANES Led by guitarist/ composer John Miley, Breathlanes features atmospheric, organic tones built around guitar, drums and stand-up bass.

POCKETFUL OF CLAPTONITE Pulling the power trio into a wide open stream of consciousness, this

new local group features Darrin Cook on bass, Jamie DeRevere on drums (the same rhythm section as Breathlanes) and acclaimed experimental artist Killick on guitar.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $27.50 (adv), $33 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com DAN TYMINSKI BAND Union Station member and bluegrass legend brings his ensemble to Athens.

Sideways 11 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ sidewaysbar DJRX Brian G. delivers his own original mixes of current pop and dance with accents ranging from old-school to country.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net ANCIENT HARMONY Psychedelic jam band based in Georgia.

TRILL Featuring Matt McKinney from The Incredible Sandwich on guitar and vocals; Ryan Juneau (from Dr. Louis Sullivan Band) on bass; and Alex Harris on drums. The trio performs experimental jazz/rock.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com DAVE MILLER No info available.

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com DERRICK DOVE Georgian guitarist croons his blues-inspired pop.

Sunday 19 Ciné Barcafé 4 p.m. $10. www.athenscine.com “FAHRENHEIT” Local jazz ensemble Kenosha Kid presents an original multi-media event inspired by Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451. See p. 13.

Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company 4 p.m. FREE! 706-227-4291 CURLEY MAPLE The second of Dan Nettles’ monthly “Pickin’ on the Porch” series. Fiddler David Blackmon’s progressive old-time project. He’s joined by wife Noel and Christian Lopez on mandolin and guitar, and Chris Enghauser on bass.

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

Monday 20 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $17. www.40watt.com DEAD CONFEDERATE With its moody, dark weaving of Southern rock and grunge, Dead Confederate is quickly ascending in popularity.

Wrecking Ball might be the record to secure the band national success, and landed on the top of Flagpole’s local best of ‘08 list.

DINOSAUR JR. After a 15-year hiatus, the extraordinarily loud and much cherished rock band has been going strong again since 2007.

Farm, Dinosaur Jr.’s first release on Jagjaguwar, is set to release in June.

See feature on p. 17.

PRIDE PARADE Acclaimed local hard rock band with a brand new fulllength in the can called Dose. Look for it to be released digitally soon!

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com 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.

THE HUMMS Local act plays what’s been described as “Happy Hippie Horror Rock.” Imagine the sunny side of ‘60s garage rock tainted lyrically by mischievousness and a quirky flirtation with evil.

ROGUE MOTEL Introspective indie rock from Portland that’s earned diverse comparisons that range from The Who to R.E.M. The Classic Center 8 p.m. $30. www.classiccenter.com A Hawk and a Hacksaw Former Neutral Milk Hotel drummer Jeremy Barnes and violinist Heather Trost perform accordion-driven music with Balkan roots. A bouncy brass section and the occassional jazz musician further set off this New Mexico-based band’s sound.

WILCO Seminal alt-country act. The new live DVD, Ashes of American Flags, comes out Apr. 18 and will be screened at Ciné to coincide with this show. See Calendar Pick on p. 26.

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.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $2. www.georgiatheatre.com JAZZCHRONIC Local five-piece band JazzChronic explores freaky, funky, psychedelic fusion jazz while incorporating rock, R&B, heavy beats and more into the stew.

SEADUB Spinning dubstep.

THE SUEX EFFECT The trio of guitarist Ricky Barrett, drummer Jonathan Daniels and bassist Miles Karp plays psychedelicized funk rock instrumentals, relying on spacey harmonies.

T8R(T0T) Local beatmaster mixes trippy electronic laptop creations featuring dubstep, drum ‘n’ bass and funk.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar GUITARS Warm ‘60s tones sprinkle over this Houston band’s indie rock.

MATT KURZ ONE A one-man band in the closest sense. Athens-native Kurz’ band “members” are his right hand on guitar and cymbal, his left foot on bass guitar, his right foot on snare drum… You get the idea.

QUIET HOOVES “Folk, semipsychedelic, semi-experimental, semi-comedy, semi-sleepy pop from tons of little toy instruments,” says the band about themselves.

TIMMY TUMBLE Tim Schreiber from Dark Meat and The Lickity-Splits howls over pre-recorded beats, literally tumbling across the floor enraptured by his garage rock lust.

Tasty World NORML Benefit. 9 p.m. $5 (adv), $7 (21+), $10 (18+). www.tastyworld. net* CRUMBLING ARCHES Theatrical, over-the-top melodic rock from Atlanta with a strong rhythm section and classic rock vocals.

DINOCK Rap duo from Atlanta that draws from rock and a wide range of other influences to back its smooth “real life” flow.

DUSTY LIGHTSWITCH Described as “one of the most exciting and satisfying live bands in town” by our own Gordon Lamb, this revolving cast of local eccentrics delivers rock and roll with epic possibilites.

NICK EDELSTEIN Multiinstrumentalist from Atlanta who enjoys jamming on blues rock and Americana.

GIMME HENDRIX Jimi Hendrix tribute band. Playing upstairs.

J-DOWN VALMONT Local hip-hop artist spinning and performing orginal tunes featuring both dance music and down-tempo mixes.

KEN WILL MORTON Athens’ own Ken Will Morton is an engaging songwriter and performer. His soulful rasp captures the rough and tumble rock edge of Springsteen and the keen lyricism of Dylan. Playing upstairs.

OMEGA RISING Local hard rock outfit that plays alternative-sounding rock informed by metal. Playing downstairs.

WELCOME TO BUCKHEAD New local “schizophrenic power rock” with an affinity for ‘90s alternative and classic rock alike. Playing downstairs.

WITNESS THE APOTHEOSIS Three-man new wave-industrial band based here in town. Depeche Mode-esque vocals backed by rapid-fire dance beats. Playing downstairs.

Tuesday 21 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com* CHICHA LIBRE This New York group offers a modern interpretation of psychedelic dance music that originated in the ‘60s among the working class of Peru. See feature on p. 16.

DENGUE FEVER Performing Cambodian pop music from the ‘60s and ‘70s which was heavily influenced by American surf rock. See feature on p. 16.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com NEWT BARNES Acoustic folk music from a Georgia singer/songwriter.

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

IERA Local duo influenced by Coheed & Cambria, Incubus and Circa Survive.

CHELSEA LYNN LA BATE With echoes of Billie Holiday in her jazzy vocal delivery, Chelsea sings poetic stories over acoustic finger-picking.

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

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE Led by former Lenny Kravitz saxman Karl Denson, the Tiny Universe is a long-running, highly energized funk machine with a dynamic sound that defies categorization.

Go Bar 9 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/gobar GEMINI CRICKET This local band has ditched its cutesty kazoo pop in favor of sleazy garage stomps that swagger through the reverb and jangle with ‘60s abandon.

LITERATURE This Austin band cranks out indie prep rock with distant synthesizers.

SPHINXIE Experimental discordant rock from Athens.

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 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com HOOTS & HELLMOUTH A raucous, foot stompin’ good time with two

guitars, mandolin, upright bass and three-part harmonies.

Music Exchange

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebar athens ATWATER ROOTS TRIO Mama’s Love bassist Patrick Atwater debuts his new roots act.

CONSIDER THE SOURCE This funk fusion band from New York wails on guitar, bass and Eastern instruments to create psychedelic jams.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net THE BORDER LIONS Rock and roll trio that plays ‘70s-inspired songs, with styles ranging from beachy to bluesy.

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

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

POLITE SLEEPER Brooklyn-based band contrasts its down-to-the-marrow folk vocals with the minimalist sensibility of ambient music.

Tasty Bar Downstairs. 9 p.m.—2 a.m.

FREE! www.tastyworld.net TASTY TUESDAY Now a weekly event hosted by Athens’ “HipHop Ambassador” Mon2, the third Tuesday of every month features DJ DJ blending and blasting the Southern Top 40 and his own exclusives, and a Beat War for producers to show off their original beats for a cash prize.

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

Down the Line 4/22 Manchester Orchestra (40 Watt Club) 4/22 Del Tha Funkee Homosapien (Georgia Theatre) 4/23 Moon Taxi / New Mastersounds (Georgia Theatre) 4/24 Tommy Valentine (40 Watt Club) 4/24 Christabel and the Jons (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/24 Dubconscious / Fuzzy Sprouts (Georgia Theatre)* 4/24 Athens Americana 2009 (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 4/24 Normaltown Flyers (The Melting Point) 4/25 The Incredible Sandwich (Georgia Theatre) 4/25 Athens Americana 2009 (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 4/25 Jimmy Herring Band (The Melting Point) 4/28 Georgia Grown: Will Rock 4 Food (40 Watt Club) 4/28 Steve Kimock / Zach Deputy (Georgia Theatre) 4/29 Ham1 / Jeff the Brotherhood / The South French Broads (Caledonia Lounge) 4/29 Black Joe Lewis / Robert Randolph (Georgia Theatre) 4/29 The Deacon Brandon Reeves (The Melting Point) 4/30 Toubab Krewe (Georgia Theatre)* 5/1 Packway Handle Band (Georgia Theatre) 5/2 Telepath (Georgia Theatre) 5/4 David Cook (Georgia Theatre)

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Downtown Community Fellowship 7pm Worship Service • www.dcfathens.org

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

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

ART Call for 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

CLASSES Archery for Beginners (Sandy Creek Park) Basic archery instructions for beginners with a strong emphasis on safety. Ages 10 & up.

Pre-registration required. Apr. 18, 1 p.m. $6. 706-613-3631 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 Basic Botany (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Intro to general plant anatomy, morphology and physiology with an emphasis on relating form to function. Preregistration required. Apr. 18, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $100. 706-542-6156 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 Centering Prayer Seminar (Samaritan Counseling Center) Four-week seminar in meditative

Fused Glass Class (Good Dirt) Learn to make a wall pocket vase.

Pre-registration required. Apr. 19, 2–4 p.m. $50 (includes materials).

706-355-3161 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 Get the Dirt Out Workshop (Madison County Library) Learn how to help prevent stormwater runoff and sedimentation from polluting our streams and rivers. Presented by the Broad River Watershed Association. Apr. 18, 2–4 p.m. FREE! 706-795-3473 Getting Started with Genealogy (ACC Library) Monthly informal class to walk you through the basics of researching your family history. Bring a pencil and paper. In Heritage Room. Apr. 16, 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650 GMAT Strategy Workshop (Georgia Center) Learn strategies for attacking each kind of question on the GMAT. Pre-registration required.

Apr. 22, 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706542-3537 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 MBI Classes (Mind Body Institute) Offerings include Beginner Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Chair Yoga, Prenatal Yoga and Tai Chi Chih. Also, Meditation Intensive with Dr. Rich Panico is offered that consists of two meditation courses and a silent retreat based in the north Georgia mountains. 706-475-7329, www. armc.org/mbi

prayer designed to lessen physical and mental tension. Mondays, Apr. 20–May 11, 7–8:30 p.m. $50. www. samaritannega.org Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” class every Friday from 7–9 p.m. “Family Try Clay” every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. $20/person.

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Computer Class (Oconee County Library) “Intro to Powerpoint.” Apr. 16, 4–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 Computer Classes (ACC Library) “Introduction to Word” (Apr. 23). 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. FREE! lesson at 7:30 p.m. Apr. 18, 8–11 p.m. $7 (18+), FREE! (ages 17 & under). www.athensfolk.org Cooking in the Garden: Sweet and Savory Spring (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Class will focus on delights made from the best of spring’s finest, including a fresh mint salad, garlic spinach and a sweet herb ice cream.

Pre-registration required. Apr. 21, 6:30 p.m. $27. 706-542-6156, www. uga.edu/botgarden Earth Day Yoga (Sangha Yoga Studio) Instructor leads 10 minutes of sun salutations followed by 10 minutes of moon salutations. Apr. 22, 12–12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-6131143 Fabric Painting Class (Margaret Agner Studio—145 Yorkshire Road, Bogart) Learn to paint with dye on silk and cottons.

Call to register. Apr. 16–17, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $95. 706-353-7719, www.margaretagnerstudio.com

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This German Shepherd has an amazing 45 Beaverdam Rd. • 706-613-3540 coat that is a She’s a one-year old light golden brown Boxer/Pit mix that has Is there such underneath and darker Young adult on top. He’s clearly had male terrier is a beautiful deer-like a thing as obedience training and a small, happy face. She’s a smart girl, miniature is great on a leash. fella that looks but she also has a Cocker clownish side and she Spaniel? Very a bit like a loves bellyrubs. schnauzer cute and with longish small young grey, black adult. Playful and white and sweet. coat.

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Impressively large and calm, this spectacular Shepherd/Chow mix was living on his own for quite a while, but has adjusted quickly and happily to the life of regular meals and friendly attention.

Leila Emel-Bjorkland’s photography is at the Lyndon House Arts Center through May 9.

Solar Water Heating Installer Certification (Athens Technical College) Full day of instruction on how to install the Power Partners Solar Water Heating System. Includes a hands-on mock system installation. Lunch provided.

Register by Apr. 20. Apr. 23. $450.

706-369-7938, www.completeresources.net Swing Dancing (Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution Studio) Beginners welcome, no partner necessary. Lesson starts at 9 p.m. Social dancing continues until midnight. Tuesdays. $3. www.rubbersoulyoga.com Tae Kwon Do & Jodo Classes (Live Oak Martial Arts) For kids and adults, beginner–advanced. Chase St. Warehouses, next to Canopy and ATHICA. Mondays–Thursdays, 3:30-8:30 p.m. 706-548-0077, www. liveoakmartialarts.com Women’s Self-Defense Workshop (Classic Martial Arts Club) Certified instructors teach tactics for real world self-protection.

Proceeds benefit The Cottage Sexual Assault Center. Apr. 25, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. $25 (adults), $15 (students).

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Athens-Oconee CASA (CASA— 220 College Avenue) Now recruiting volunteers for spring training session. CASA volunteers provide legal advocacy for abused and neglected children. 706-613-1922, www.athensoconeecasa.org Free IT Athens (Free IT Athens) Seeking volunteers and donations for computer refurbishing program.

Stop by 594 Oconee Street Sundays from 1–5 p.m. or Wednesdays from 6–8 p.m. www.freeitathens.org

Great American Clean-Up Challenge (Various Locations) All Adopt-a-Highway Groups and community groups are challenged to organize a litter clean-up and/ or beautification project during GreenFest. Call Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful to organize a green activity. 706-613-3501 “Shed Your Tools” Donation Day (Various Locations) Help stock Athens Area ToolShed, a program that provides tools to volunteers helping with community projects.

All tools are needed. Drop off donations at Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful, Athens Habitat ReStore or Community Connection of Northeast Georgia. Apr. 20, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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KIDSTUFF Babies & Beasties Series (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Help your toddler discover nature. Ages 18 months–2 years, with adult.

Registration required. Spring session: Thursdays, May 7–28, 10 a.m. $7. 706-613-3615 Battle of the Bands (Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School) Now accepting applications for second annual Ram Jam scheduled for May 23. Application online. Deadline for submission is May 1. Bandmembers must be between the ages of 11 and 19. All proceeds from event benefit Bethlehem Ministry’s Haiti Project. www.mdchs.org Camp Amped (Nuçi’s Space) Nuçi’s Space now accepting applications for summer music camps open to middle and high school students ages 11 & up. Applications and scholarship info online. June 8–20 & July 6–8. 706-227-1515, www. nuci.org

Creative Movement (Floorspace) Ongoing class for ages 3–5.

Thursdays, 4:15 p.m. $40/4 classes.

706-850-5557, lisayaconelli@ yahoo.com Freedom to Grow Unschool (Call for location) Holding meetings with parents interested in discussing innovative new school for elementary students that is forming in Athens. Call for meeting times.

The school will feature a democratic, homeschool-like learning environment. 478-718-1414, www.freedomtogrowunschool.com Garden Earth Nature Camp (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) In Garden Earth I (June 8–12 & 15–19) campers explore pollinators, soil critters and food chains. In Garden Earth II (July 6–10 & 13–17) they investigate water, insects and trees. Ages 5–8. Registration forms online. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $95. www. uga.edu/botgarden Karate Summer Camp (American Black Belt Academy) Offering three week-long sessions in June and July. No experience necessary. Ages 5–11. Space is limited, register early. 706-549-1671 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 & up. Call to register.

Thursdays, Apr. 16–May 14, 3:15–4 p.m. $60. 706-355-3114, www. athensfivepointsyoga.com New Moon Summer Adventure Camps (Various Locations) Now accepting registration for summer camp that travels to different state parks and natural areas daily. Activities include hiking, swimming, boating and more.

Fee includes all activities and travel expenses. June 15–19, June 22–26, July 13–17 & July 20–24, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. $150/week. 706338-2892, newmoonpreschool@ gmail.com Summer Art Camps (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Now registering for three June/July sessions.

Children will explore a wide range of art media in each session. Each twoweek session is from 9 a.m.–12 p.m. with a break in the middle for snack time. Ages 4–8 and 9–12. Schedule online. $240/session. 706-7694565, www.ocaf.com.

Summer Camp (Canopy Studio) Now registering for three two-week sessions in June and July for grades K–5. Activities include trapeze, dance, art, drumming and gymnastics. Email to reserve spot. $150/ week, $250/two weeks. ashowah@ gmail.com, www.canopystudio.com

SUPPORT 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 cookout.

Tuesdays. 706-549-7888, www. fightthestigma.com Panic Disorder Support Group (Jittery Joe’s Coffee— Watkinsville) Informal panic disorder support group. Apr. 19, 1:30 p.m. smithh@warnell.uga.edu

ON THE STREET Classic City Rollergirls Skater Boot Camp (Skate-ARound USA) Now recruiting new skaters. At the boot camp sessions you’ll learn derby basics and will later have the opportunity to try out.

Sessions on May 18, May 27 and June 1. Try-outs will be held June 15. Contact recruitment@classiccityrollergirls.com to register. www. classiccityrollergirls.com Eco-Adventure: Survival of the Fittest (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Compete against 25 co-ed teams in a nature-based challenge course that includes running, hiking, canoeing, plant identification, orienteering and archery. Pre-registration required. Applications available at SCNC and www.athensgreenway. com. Apr. 19, 12–5 p.m. $85/team of four. 706-613-3615 Lukas Fund Golf Scramble (UGA Golf Course) Entry forms now available for annual golf tournament that benefits Lukas’ Fund, a nonprofit that helps infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. Space is

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library “Expression/Recession,” an exhibit featuring paintings by Jeremy Hughes that deconstruct cultural icons. Through April. (Heritage Room) “Ice Flowers: Celebrating the March 2009 Snow/Ice Storm,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Barbara Hutson. Through April.

Art Gallery La Place (Washington) “Fragile Balance,” featuring work by Bob Hart and Will Eskridge. Through May 30. www.artgallerylaplace. com ATHICA “Crafting Romance” explores how love is expressed through the domestic and decorative arts.

Featuring pieces crafted in a variety of media: jewelry, reconfigured telephones, drawing, photography, video and more. Through May 31. www.athica.org Aurum Studio “Lost Athens and Beyond,” a photographic essay by Jim McGregor. Through April.

Big City Bread Cafe New paintings by Lou Kregel.

Through April.

Ciné Barcafé “Chicken Scratch,” an exhibit featuring work by 16 student artists in a variety of media, including graphite, charcoal, ink, collage, fabric manipulation, stencil and assemblage. Through Apr. 15.

Circle Gallery, UGA College of Environmental Design “Orr2: Interpreting the Legacy,” an artistic interpretation of Fred J. Orr’s revivalist architecture through the medium of handpainted silk by textile artist René D. Shoemaker.

Through April.

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

by Lauren Harrell. Through April.

Elements Hair Salon Abstract paintings by Meg McConnell. Through August.

Five Star Day Café Photos by Anne Yarbrough.

Through mid-April.

Flicker Theatre & Bar Work by MFA Fabric Design candidate Stephanie Blair. Through April.

Georgia Center (Hill Atrium) “My India: Personal Reflections and Captured Moments,” featuring photography by UGA alumnus Eric Berg and UGA professor Farley Richmond. Through April.

The Grit Grit Employee Show. Through Apr. 19.

Hampton Fine Art Gallery (Greensboro) “The Blue Green Earth Exhibition,” featuring works

by Lamar Wood, Melin Miller, Lisa Hampton-Pepe, RainDance and Cameron Hampton. Apr. 18–May 30.

Reception Apr. 25. www.artistcameronhampton.com Just Pho and More Oil paintings by Melody Croft.

Through April.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (Gallery 101 & 307) BFA graphic design, photography and printmaking exit show. Apr. 20–24. Reception Apr. 24. 2009

limited, register early. May 2. $100/ individual, $360/4-person team. www.lukasfund.org Scrap Tire Amnesty Week (ACC Landfill) ACC residents can recycle up to 6 scrap passenger or light truck tires. Check in at the landfill scale house before dropping off tires. Apr. 18–24, 7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Apr. 25, 7:30 a.m.–3 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3512 Serving Up a Cure Tennis Tournament (UGA Tennis Complex) Now registering for round robin doubles tournament to be held Apr. 24 & 25. Forms online. Register

by Apr. 17. $40/person. www.athensareacancerauxiliary.com Speech and Hearing Screenings (UGA Aderhold— Room 593) UGA’s speech and hearing clinic is offering FREE! screenings for adults and children ages 3 & up. Call for appointment. Apr. 17, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. 706-542-4598 St. James 5K Run/Walk (Watkinsville First Baptist Church) Now registering for May 2 run/walk to support international mission projects. Door prizes and pottery awards for top finishers. Preregistration $15 through Apr. 27. www.active.com, www.sjumc.org Volunteer in Peru Learn Spanish and stay with a host family while working in a school, orphanage, medical clinic, animal shelter or organic farm. Open to anyone over the age of 18. 404-906-0569, www. venperu.org f

Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition.

Through Apr. 17.

Lyndon House Arts Center 34th Annual Juried Exhibition, featuring work by area artists in a variety of media. Through May 9. “Mama Had One of Those,” an exhibit of selected pottery from the collection of Bill and Dorothy Paul. Through May 30. Eight winning designs from the Athens Area Arts Council’s “You, Me and the Bus” competition. Through May 9.

Madison-Morgan Cultural Center “The Many Faces of Madison: A History of Portrait Painting in the Piedmont” features 35 portraits dating from the late-18th century through 1985. Exhibit curated by Spalding Nix. Through June 30.

Mama’s Boy “Night Photos” by Brooke Easler.

Through mid-May. www.brookeeaslerart.com Marigold Cafe (Winterville) Abstract paintings by Meg McConnell. Through August.

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

Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation 14th Annual Southworks Juried Art Exhibition features selected works in a variety of media produced by artists from around the country. Through May 9. www. ocaf.com The Point of Art Gallery (Union Point) “Rite of Passage,” featuring selected works by owner Anne Jenkins and eight local artists. Through May 23. www.thepointofart.net Red Eye Coffee Photography by Dena Gunter Maxwell. Through April.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia “Seasons,” featuring watercolor paintings by Leigh Ellis. Through Apr. 26. www.studiointhewood.com 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 Caldwell Hall (Owens Library) “If Walls Could Talk: Then and Now at UGA,” a poster exhibit displaying several historic buildings on the UGA campus as they used to appear and as they appear now. Apr. 3–30.

UGA Main Library Exhibit showcasing both historic landscapes and the role of historic preservation in the sustainability movement. Through Apr. 30.

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 Drawings by Jill Carnes. Through Apr. 30.

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

Athens Canine Rescue’s

Mutt Strut April 19th Bishop Park RAFFLES CONTESTS SILENT AUCTION MOON WALK CONCESSIONS CUTE DOGS $10 MICROCHIP CLINIC AND MORE! registration 1:30-2:00 activities 2:30-4:00 $15/person day of event $12 w/online pre-registration

Free t-shirt & refreshments with entry!

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins I am in a terrible situation. There was a man. I had a crush. He was not my type, but there was something about him. He noticed me noticing and asked me out. I knew, I KNEW, that it could never be. This was a very nice guy. And I don’t do “nice guys.” But we dated.

And it was odd, but fun, and he was good.

I changed some things, stayed home more, stopped making out with random people in bars. Started to read again—meaningful books and current events. It kind of made my friends feel weird. It made me feel very weird, but good about myself.

I thought maybe I could do things right for once.

We moved in together.

I started finding myself attracted to a co-worker.

I resisted.

Things were good for a bit, but I never felt totally comfortable.

He was neat—too neat. And I was too messy. I started looking for a better job. I decided to finally finish that last semester of school that has been hanging over my head for four years. He helped me. Then things went bad. I started cheating. I started to feel guilty. I got mad at him. He found out about the other guy, mostly because I stopped being careful. Things got very bad—yelling, screaming, crying. He left. Changed his phone number. The other guy left, too. I started crashing with friends. Now I am very much back to my old self, struggling to finish school still (my friends think I am wasting my time) and lonely all the time, unless I am drunk, which is a lot.

What now? Should I try to get him back? Do I need to move on?

Helpless You do need to move on, Helpless, but not in the direction you are currently headed.

First, you need to finish school. It doesn’t matter what kind of degree or how useless, just do it so you can prove to yourself that you are capable of finishing something. What have you got, like, three more weeks? A couple papers and a couple exams? That’s nothing.

Power through. You’ve already paid for it, so you might as well get the damned diploma. Also, you should see a therapist and figure out why exactly you don’t “do” nice guys and why you seem to have commitment issues. It’s time to grow up, honey. Take responsibility for whatever it is you think you’re doing.

You obviously have an achiever hidden inside, so start listening to her and not your drunk anti-intellectual friends. It’s obvious you want change. Now you just have to figure out how to do it. Later you can find that guy and apologize to him and thank him for shaking you out of your stupor. Right now you had better just leave him alone. You’ve already done enough damage.

I have a problem. There is a girl I have known for a very long time. She used to sleep with my friend—not date, but sleep with, as in booty call. She has a bit of a reputation, and she has even gotten drunk enough to hit

on me on occasion. The thing is, I never took her home because I knew she was only talking to me because he wouldn’t have her. Either his girlfriend was in town, or he wasn’t bored or drunk enough, or whatever. He is a really good friend of mine, even though he is not very good with women. I mean, he isn’t a good boyfriend, but he’s my buddy, and as long as it isn’t my sister or whatever, I never cared. Anyway, now he seems like he really doesn’t want anything to do with this chick anymore, but she keeps hanging around. And I think I really like her.

Even though she is kind of slutty and has slept with a few of my friends, I have talked to her a lot over the last couple of years, and I would actually like to go out with her, I think. But there are a couple of issues I have with that. I don’t really know if I can just ask her out and hang out with her at the usual bars because everybody knows about her reputation.

Also, I don’t know if she would even give me a real chance or if she would just use me to get to him. I know this sounds crazy, but she and I have had some really serious talks and I think she is a really good person. She’s just kind of screwed up. So, I guess my question is how do I go about it? I don’t really know how to ask her out for real, so she knows I’m not just trying to take her home. Also, I am afraid that my buddy will get bored again and I’ll get screwed over. What do you think?

Ah, the old “hooker with a heart of gold” story, huh? That’s a tough one. It seems like you actually have some kind of connection with this girl, but you can’t be sure that these “serious conversations” you’ve been having are real or just the drunken ramblings of a girl who pines for your best friend. First I advise you to be very, very careful. Sounds to me like you are in danger of getting your heart broken. Next, talk to her. Do it when you are both sober, so that there is no confusion. Tell her you think she’s really cool; tell her why it is you like her. Explain to her that you think she’s lovely but that you have never taken her home because you think she deserves more, and you want more. Then tell her that you would like to take her out sometime— for real, and not just to a bar.

See what she says. It is likely that she has no idea how you feel because she is so focused on your friend. Maybe she’ll give it a shot. But if she does, you have to be very honest up front, with her and your friends. No sneaking around acting embarrassed, because it will eventually get around to everyone and it could get ugly. Also, if she agrees, you need to tell your buddy to back off, and set ground rules with her. Up-front honesty and a careful wading in are your only possible defenses against heartbreak. And they are not guarantees. Good luck.

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Real Estate Apartments for Rent $300–$400/BR. 3–5BR townhome on Eastside. Double porches, HWflrs., ceiling fans, DW, W/D, trash incl., & a new pool.

Now leasing! (706) 543-1910. Go to www.landmarkathens.com. $450/mo. Alexi Apartments. 1 lg.

BR/1BA w/ lg. lv. rm. New laundry facilities. 18 unit complex, 1 block off Milledge w/ bus stop. Preleasing for June. (706) 207-9902, (706) 835-8401.

12 mo. lease first mo. is free, 15 mo. lease $1000 off making 1BRs $443.34, 2BRs $523.34, 3BRs $638.34. Move in April, rent free!

Pet friendly. On busline. (706) 5496254. Hurry. Restrictions apply.

1BR/1BA spacious, totally furnished, apt. incl. utils.

Safe, quiet, close to UGA. Priv. entrance. w/ lg. deck. $895/mo.

References & deposit req’d. (706) 353-2906. Lv. msg.

1BR/1BA. All elec., water furnished, nice! On bus line. Single pref. Avail. now! (706) 543-4271.

1BR/1BA. Next to UGA. Walk to campus & Dwntn. HWflrs., A/C, some utils. incl. Free parking for residents. Cats OK, no dogs. $475–$500/mo. Call (706) 3544261, 10am–2pm. Get a roommate & live w/ us!

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

2BR & studio apt. located in Nor maltown. $420-$675/mo.

Best deal in town! Rent incl. free water, gas, basic cable & wireless Internet. HWflrs, W/D, & DW in the 2BR unit. Call (706) 543-1910 or www.landmarkathens.com.

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

2BR/1BA Riverbend Rd. Triplex.

Incl. CHAC, DW, W/D hookups. $675/mo. Flexible move-in dates.

Call (706) 546-6900 or go to www.ValerioProperties.com.

2BR/1BA renovated apts., perfect for grad students, nice & 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. $450/mo. FP, DW, CHAC. 418 Lexington Heights.

Dogs OK. (706) 749-9141.

2BR/1BA. Walk to campus & Dwntn. apt. Quiet bldg. New paint.

Water/trash incl. Avail. now! $500/ mo. Drive by 199 Little St. then call (706) 215-4496.

2BR/1BA. Utilities included!

Deck, lg. yd. + 10 ac. pasture.

Outside upstairs entry, gas logs, 116 1/2 Whitehead Rd. Within city limits.

At bus stop $598/mo. (706) 7141100. Pets OK W/D. No deposit.

2BR/2.5BA w/ W/D for $700/mo.

Lg. townhouse condo w/ pool view located less than 1 mi. from UGA & Dwntn. Pets welcome. (706) 839-8762.

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.

2BR/2BA, Harris Place Apar tments. 1 block from Varsity! Incl. CHAC, DW, W/D. $695/mo. Flexible move–in dates.

Call (706) 546-6900 or go to www.ValerioProperties.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 condo in gated community. HWflrs, tile, etc., great shape & location. Flexible on move–in. $1200/mo. Must see!

Call Geoff for more (706) 2063560. Owner is lic. RE agent in Ga., #302489.

5 Pts. 2BR/1BA. Great location. Great for Grad student.

Walk to campus. W/D, CHAC, nice patio. Pets OK. $650-$700/mo.

Avail. 8/1. Call (706) 369-2908.

Blvd area. Lg. 1BR upstairs apt. in historic house. Huge porches, W/D, lots of character. H2O incl.

Avail. now. $525/mo. (706) 3539893, lv. msg.

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

Cobbham historic district. 1BR apt. Heart pine flrs. + ceil. fans.

CHAC, W/D, garage w/ auto opener. NS. No pets. Call (706) 340-1283.

Convenient Westside location! Spacious 2 & 3BR/1.5BA townhomes. W/D hookups, sparkling pool, on busline. 2BRs $459–$579/ mo. 1/2 off 1st mo. rent w/ 13 mo. lease. *Must pass credit & background check.* Riverwood Apartments (706) 353-2879.

DGH Properties Inc. 112 Foundry St. Now leasing for Aug. Dwntn. Close to everything but out of bar scene. 1 & 2 BR avail.

Enjoy living in the ambiance of a historic bldg. Call George at (706) 340-0987.

Downtown Athens. Lg. 1BR apt. at 144 E. Clayton St. $595/mo.

Pls. call Staci at (706) 296-1863.

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.

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

(706) 540-0857.

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

Garage apts. in heart of 5 Pts. 1BR/1BA, 2BR/1BA. Lv. rm., & kitchen incl. No pets. HWflrs. $550/mo. Call (706) 548-4358.

Hill St. 2BR/1BA. All electric apt.

W/D, water, trash, lawn incl. $575/ mo. Call (706) 549-6070.

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.

Must see. Month free with 12 month signed lease.

Loft for rent. Walking 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.

Normaltown/ Navy School area.

Willow Run. Brick townhouse duplex. Upstairs unit apt. Private, quiet 2BR/1BA, HWflrs., lg. fenced yd. Pets OK. $600/mo. lease/dep.

(706) 207-4636.

On the River. 12 ac. in Clark Co. Min.’s from campus & mall. All w/ deck or porches. Incl. water, trash, W/D. Pets ok w/ approval. 1BR/ loft $350/mo., two 1BR/1BA $400/ mo. Off Tallassee Rd. Call (706) 424-1580.

Spacious 1BR apt w/ river view.

Utils. furnished. Call George at (706) 340-0987.

Sublease thru July 2009. 2BR/2BA. Walk to campus. Lumpkin Square Apts. 1515 S. Lumpkin St. W/D. W/ or w/out furniture. $900/mo.

(404) 889-7926.

Tivoli 2BR/2BA, $550/mo + dep.

Appleby Mews, 2BR/2.5BA $625/mo. + dep. No pets. Great landlord looking for good tenants.

(706) 316-9886, before 6:30pm.

Very cool layout! 3BR/1.5BA apt. in quadraplex. 2 blocks from campus. 5 Pts. area. W/D, CHAC, nice patio. $1125/mo. Avail. 8/1.

Pets OK. Call (706) 369-2908.

Westside condos. 2BR/2BA, $600/mo. 3 B R / 2 B A , $700/ mo. Converted clubhouse into a huge open flr. plan. 4BR/2.5BA, $1200/mo. Eastside quadraplex 2BR/2BA, $525/mo.2BR/1BA, $490/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700.

Apartments for Sale $159,811. 3BR/2.5BA condo conveniently located on the Eastside. Priv. & less than 5 mi. to Dwntn. Athens. Close by 5/1 & receive 6 mo. paid HOA dues! See it online at ReignSold.com or Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 3724166, (706) 543-4000.

1305 Cedar Shoals. $121,900.

2BR/2BA condo. Call Reign (706) 372- 4166.

Berkshire Commons. $139,900.

1BR/ 1BA condo off of Milledge.

Call Reign (706) 372-4166.

Tivoli 2BR/2BA. On Eastside.

Won’t last! $50K. Also, Appleby Mews, near UGA, 2BR/2.5BA. New carpet, new appls., new heat pump. $75K. Call (706) 316-9886, before 6:30pm.

Commercial Property 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 $1000/mo. 4BR/2BA. CHAC, W/D, DW, sec. sys., deck, front porch, fenced. Close to Dwntn. & UGA. richardhathaway@gmail. com, (706) 714-4486.

$1125/mo 3BR/2BA cool house, walk to Dwntn, block to ACC busline. Huge vaulted master suite on 2nd flr. Stainless steel appls, sm. pet friendly. Call John (706) 372-1052. $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 a t S n a p f i n g e r. 3 B R / 2 B A w / pergo flrs., 2BR/2BA new carpet, CHAC, all electric, W/D hookups, nice yds., family oriented n’hood. Mins. to UGA, D w n t n , s h o p p i n g , g r o c e r y.

Call (706) 850-0563. Email EastAthensRentals@gmail.com. $995/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.

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 boulevard​property​ 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.

12 mo. lease first mo. is free, 15 mo. lease $1000 off making 1BRs $443.34, 2BRs $523.34, 3BRs $638.34! Move in April re n t f re e ! P e t f r i e n d l y, o n busline. (706) 549-6254. Hurry.

Restrictions apply.

140 Indale Ave. 2BR/1BA close to Dwntn. & UGA. $600/ mo. Total electric, CHAC, W/D, DW, sec. sys., fenced, deck. hathawayproperties@gmail.com, (706) 714-4486.

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

1BR Cottage in Blvd area.

F u l l y re m o d e l e d . I n c l . D W & W/D hookups. $695/mo.

Call (706) 546-6900 or go to www.ValerioProperties.com.

1BR up to 4BR houses. Preleasing for next school yr. Close to UGA & Dwntn. Call (706) 714-4486 or email at hathawayrichard@ hotmail.com.

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1BR/1BA historic home. Close to Dwntn. & UGA. CHAC, W/D, DW, fenced. $500/mo. hathawayproperties@gmail.com, (706) 714-4486.

1BR Huge apt. in historic Blvd house, Incl. W/D hookups, DW, HWflrs, pet friendly. 2 to choose from! $675-795/mo.

Call (706) 546-6900 or go to www.ValerioProperties.com.

1st mo. rent free. Avail. Aug. 1st.

3BR/3BA, huge kit., lg. yd., back deck, pets welcome. $850/mo.

Call Teresa (706) 714-4000.

2 country houses. 3BR/2BA. Avail. now. 10 & 15 min. from Dwntn.

Athens. CHAC, all appls., 40 ac. fenced pasture for horses in absolute privacy. $900/mo. & $1K/ mo. Call (706) 340-7531.

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

2BR/1BA + dining room and study. Quiet & safe n’hood.

HWflrs., CHAC, W/D, DW. Nice cond. $750/mo. Call (706) 548-5869.

2BR/1BA A–frame. Close to Dwntn. & bypass. Shady lot. $625/ mo. Call (706) 202-2312.

2BR/1BA Dwntn. CHAC, W/D. Pets welcome. Avail. now! 235 Glenhaven Ave. $500/mo. Call (706) 714-4603.

2BR/1BA cool house! $800/mo.

0.5 mi. from Dwntn. All appls. 340 Ruth St. Apt. B. Avail. 8/1. (706) 713-0626.

2BR/1BA duplex on Willow Run near ARMC. Incl. W/D hookups, DW, CHAC. $675/mo.

Call (706) 546-6900 or go to www.ValerioProperties.com.

2BR/1BA house in Blvd area, HWflrs, screen porch, W/D hookups, flexible move–in. $925/ mo. Call (706) 546-6900 or go to www.ValerioProperties.com.

2BR/1BA renovated mill 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, pre-leasing. 3 blocks to UGA & Dwntn. CHAC, W/D, DW, fenced yd. Pets OK. $625/ mo. Email hathawayproperties@ gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

2BR/1BA, pre-leasing.

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

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

2BR/1BA. Close to bus line & shopping. Only 2 mi. to Dwntn. $600/mo. (706) 424-2781.

2BR/1BA. 5 mi. north of campus.

Priv. setting. Total electric, CHAC, W/D hook–ups. Wood flrs., fenced yd., lawncare incl. $550/mo. + sec. dep. (706) 546-5390, lv. msg.

3BR/1.5BA Eastside. CHAV, front & backyd, liv. rm., din. rm., den. $800/mo. + $1000 dep. (706) 2065344, 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.

3BR/1BA ARMC area. W/D, HWflrs., tiled kitchen, fenced backyd., carport. $750/mo. Credit check. Call Andy (215) 284-2503.

3BR/1BA, pre-leasing. 4 blocks to Dwntn. & UGA. High ceilings, wood flrs., DW, W/D, sec. sys.

Pets OK. $780/mo. $260/BR. Email hathawayproperties@gmail. com, call (706) 714-4486.

3BR/1BA. 1 mi. from Arch. Fenced yd. HWflrs. W/D incl. All appls. $900/mo. (706) 202-9507.

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.

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

3BR/2.5BA. W/D, CHAC. (706) 769-4155.

3BR/2.5BA. Avail. 8/1. HWflrs, FP, W/D, DW, CHAC, dogs OK, 2000 sq. ft., garage, busline.

Built 2003. $1100/mo. (706) 749-9141.

3BR/2BA house across from Navy/Med school main gate. 425 Oglethorpe. $950/mo. Fenced yd.

Call (770) 725-1555 or email dec@ dahlco.org.

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, pre-leasing. 3 blocks from Dwntn. & UGA. CHAC, DW, W/D, fenced yd. Pets OK. $825/ mo. Email hathawayproperties@ gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

3BR/2BA, pre–leasing. Chase St., on busline, lg. house, oak flrs., fenced. W/D, DW, sec. sys. Close to Dwntn. & UGA. Pets OK. $975/ mo. 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.

3BR pre–leasing. 5 Pts., 1 block to UGA & Milledge Ave. Beautiful home. $1500/mo. $500/ BR. Includes utilities. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

3–4BR ARMC area. W/D, fenced backyd. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. (706) 410-6122.

4BR/2BA victorian home 1/2 mi. from campus. W/D, DW, fenced yd., HWflrs, $1650/mo. Huge rooms! Lots of character. Avail.

8/1. Pets OK. (706) 369-2908.

4BR/2BA pre–leasing for 6/1. CHAC, W/D, sec. sys., deck, porch, fenced. Close to Dwntn & UGA. $1200/mo. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

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.

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.

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.

4BR/4BA house. On UGA busline.

Community pool. $1900/mo.

Also avail. 2BR/1BA apt. Walk to campus. $595-$695/mo. Both have W/D, & appls. Water & trash incl. Pets OK w/ dep. Call (706) 207-9295.

Best Location in Athens. 4BR brick home. 1.5 blocks from S. Milledge & Baxter. UGA bus route, HWflrs, screened porch & W/D. Pls. call Staci at (706) 296-1863.

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

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

4–5BR/2BA 100 yr. old farm house.

2 decks, great porch, wood flrs.

High ceilings, country setting but only .5 mi. to civilization. Good dog OK. (706) 548-9797. Avail. anytime between May & July. $1200/mo.

5 Pts. 4BRs. Fall Lease. Like new w/ HWflrs., complete appls pkg. 2 master suites. $1640/mo. Meets all zoning occupancy req’s. Owner/ Broker Herbert Bond Realty & Investment at (706) 224-8002.

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. $2000/mo. Chris (706) 202-5156.

All Around Athens & near Campus! 4BR/2BA, 322 Whitehall Rd., $750/mo. 3BR/1BA, 606 Whitehall Rd., $750/mo.

3BR/2BA, 739 Beaverdam Rd. $850/mo. 3BR/2BA, 276 Oak Meadows, $995/mo. 3BR/2BA, 1060 Macon Hwy., $850/mo.

3BR/1BA, 131 Rose St., $685/ mo. 3BR/2BA, 4930 Mars Hill Rd, Oconee Co. $850/mo. 4BR/2BA 597 Dearing St., off Milledge, $1295/mo. (706) 714-7000, (706) 546-7946. FlowersRentals@ bellsouth.net. See virtual tours www.nancyflowers.com.

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. $2100/mo. (706) 369-2908.

Avail. August 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.

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.

Boulevard Area: 686 Barber St. 3BR/1BA. CHVAC, DW, W/D, high ceilings, HWflrs, fenced yd., some pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $780/ mo. Lease, dep., refs. req’d. Call (706) 227-6000.

B o u l e v a rd a re a , 686 1/2 Barber St.4BR/3BA, DW, W/D HWflrs., screened porch, lg. rms., renovated old church. Some pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1425/mo. Lease, dep., ref’s. (706) 227-6000.

Condo avail. 6/1/09. 2BR/2.5BA 1200 sq. ft. off Epps Bridge Rd. 1st flr. w/ 9 ft ceilings, living, dining, kitchen (all appls) w/ 0.5BA & full size W/D. 2nd flr.

2BR/2BA. Pool. $875 mo. 101 Woodlake Dr. #408. Call Heather at (706) 613-0505 or Walter at (229) 436-8462.

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

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

Big rms. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1695/mo. Call (706) 369-2908.

Lg. 3BR/2BA house 1 mi. from campus. HWflrs throughout. All appls incl. Lg. fenced–in backyd. $800/mo. Pets welcome. (770) 995-6788.

New construction! 4BR/4BA. All appls. incl. $450/BR. A view of Dwntn. Off North Ave. Avail. July.

(706) 202-4648.

Newly remodeled. 2BR/2BA. Kitchen, din. rm., liv. rm., laundry rm., fenced backyd w/ deck. W/D & refrigerator incl. $800/mo. (706) 342-2788, (706) 461-5541.

Normaltown/ARMC. 180 Willow Run. Very nice, 3BR/1BA, HWflrs, DW, W/D, CHAC. Lg. fenced backyd. Pets OK w/ dep. Avail.

5/1. $900/mo. (404) 210-7145.

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 $ 1 1 0 0 / m o . C a l l M c Wa t e r s Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700.

Pre-leasing for Fall! 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.

Extra lg. 1BR duplexes on Oglethorpe Ave. Quiet living w/ FP, HWflrs, CHAC, W/D hookups, pet friendly. Call (706) 546-6900 or go to www.ValerioProperties.com.

Pre-leasing for fall. New 2, 3, 4BR homes for lease. Cottages at Hilltop, walking distance to campus. Surrounded by quiet neighborhood w/ walking trail & park area. Starting at $450/BR. (706) 714-4603.

Five Points Duplexes.

2BR/1BA & 4BR/3BA. Close to campus/bus stops, incl.

W/D! $900–1325/mo. Call (706) 546-6900 or go to www.ValerioProperties.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 , D W. F r o n t p o r c h . 4 blocks to Dwntn & UGA. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486. $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.

185 Poplar. $224,936. 3BR/1.5BA In town classic Artisan home Call Reign (706) 372-4166.

3BR/2BA brick home in Forest Heights n’hood. HWflrs, granite counters, lg. rms. Updated appls.

Formal din. rm. Lg. yd. $139K. Purchase or lease. (479) 879-1541 or (479) 841-8039.

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.

Westside off Whitehead. 3BR/2BA. 2 car garage, formal dining rm. $147K. Purchase or $1100/mo. lease. (706) 354-3212 or (757) 576-1706.

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Home, Land, Condo, Investment, Commercial? We have it all! Call Carrie (706) 224-8816 at The Leaders Real Estate Group.

Roommates 1 or 2 roommates needed to share nice apt. in Appleby Mews.

Near campus. $375/mo. per person. (678) 887-4599 or email markabuzzotta@comcast.net.

2 rms starting in May for summer or longer. Great opportunity for students. Eastside duplex, beautiful location & all major appls. 300/mo + 1/3 utils.

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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.

Av a i l a b l e N o w . Eastside 3BR/2BA, large bedrooms, deck. Recently fully renovated.

120 Woody Lane. $825/mo.

(706) 207-4243 or (229) 263-2300.

Blvd, Dwntn, & Riverwalk locations! All houses, all sizes, all price ranges! All Hart Realty. Ask for Tiffany (706) 476-3262.

4BR/4BA brand new houses D w n t n & 5 P t s . Aw e s o m e locations! W/D incl. Now preleasing for Fall 09. $1800-1900/ mo. Call Aaron (706) 207-2957.

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2 roommates needed to share 3BR/2BA house off South Milledge starting in August. On 14 Bus Route, fenced-in backyard, dogs welcome (no cats please). $308/ month+1/3 utilities. Call 912-6637108 for info.

Avail. 5/1. 30–ish F student looking for same to share quiet 2BR/1BA off Milledge. $375/mo., utils incl. $100 dep. Call (706) 207-5166.

F landscape architecture grad student needs M/F roommate beginning Aug 2009 to share 2 B R / 2 B A n e w l y re m o d e l e d townhouse. Partly furnished w/ FP, W/D & DW. $425/mo. Email erfeagan@uga.edu or sashton@ warnell.uga.edu.

F wanted to share 3BR/1BA house, Normaltown. W/D, DW, deck, fenced yd. $355/mo. + 1/3 utils. Lease starts Aug 1. Rm. avail. now through summer also.

(410) 490-4686.

House with Recording Studio has 2 rms open. $475/mo.

In 5 Pts area. Move in 5/1/09. Write or call Luke at animalspiritsmusic@ gmail.com or (703) 727-2184.

M/F for spacious rm. in great house. Lg. closet, HWflrs, CHAC, Wi–Fi, W/D, DW. $340/mo. + 1/3 utils. 1st mo. free. No pets. Avail.

6/1 (706) 254-2991.

Owner seeking roommate to share Eastside house. Owner offers $250/mo. discounted rent for roommate assistance w/ washing clothes & cleaning/maintenance around the house. Rent incl. utils, except cable & telephone.

Roommate gets a BR/BA. Free Inter net! Avail. May. Tracy, tdoggog@yahoo.com.

Room avail. $500/mo. Incl. utils, TV, Internet, W/D. Located in a 2BR/2BA townhouse in East Athens. min. from Dwntn & UGA. Call w/ questions (678) 908-6826.

Roommate needed ASAP for house off Pulaski St. Screened porch, W/D. Only a 10 min. walk from Dwntn. Only $250/mo. Call (706) 548-9744 today!

Summit 4BR/4BA cottage. Need 2 F tenants to join to current F tenants. W/D, clubhouse, pool. $475/mo. each. (770) 429-8542 or email scproperties@bellsouth.net.

Rooms for Rent 1/2 M/F to share luxury condo at The Woodlands. Beautiful grounds, sports mecca, pets f i n e . I n d u l g e n t l a n d l a d y. $450/mo. (706) 714-7600, madelienevandyck@gmail.com.

Sub-lease 1BR/1BA r m. for sublease.

Available May—July. Walking distance to Dwntn., pet friendly, W/D, no deposit, $275/mo. + 1/3 utils. Email schoick@gmail.com.

1BR June-July $200/mo + utils.

Call (678) 246-9027.

1BR/1BA private apt. in beautiful Victorian house. Hill St. near Milledge/Prince. Utils. incl. in rent.

HWflrs, tall ceilings, full kitchen. Big porch. Avail. now thru 6/30. $580/ mo. negotiable. (706) 513-3548.

Avail. immediately. 1BR/1BA. Close walk to Dwntn. On Pulaski St. Best front porch in Athens! CHAC, W/D, pets OK. $660/mo + utils. Rent negotiable. (706) 461-4119.

Avail. now thru end of July.

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. $500/mo. (706) 215-4496.

May–July share. Near Dearing.

Beautiful old house w/ view of town/UGA. 12ft ceilings. 12V lighting. Roof patio. DW, W/D, CHAC. Great roommate! $430/mo.

(706) 714-3877.

For Sale Antiques Antique french & english furniture, fine estate jewelry, oriental rugs, stain glass windows, original oil paintings, watercolors, fabulous quilts, sterling silver, designer clothing. (706) 340-3717.

Businesses Athens bar for sale. Located Dwntn. Bar has been established for 8.5 yrs. Serious inquiries only. (706) 340-6992 or email btbowman007@gmail.com.

Dwntn Clothing Store for Sale. $50K OBO! Owner financing avail.

Very well known business. (770) 634-8241.

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

Furniture Gently Used Furniture. Sofas $100, sofa chairs $50, coffee tables $20, side tables $15, dining chairs $15, bedside tables, bar stools, etc. www.AthensGaFurniture.com or (706) 340-3969.

Spring into Mom’s Garage for amazing deals! Gently used fur niture for frugal people.

Appointments & Sat. noon–5pm.

Chase Park Warehouses (706) 207-7855.

Tables, chairs, sofas, 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.

Miscellaneous 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.

Yard Sales Clarke Middle School Wide Yard Sale. April 18th. 8am-1pm. Baxter St. parking lot. Everything must go!

Music Equipment Fender Twin silver tweed/black knobs. Per fect cond. $600.

Bridgeport foot bellows organ.

Works great! Gorgeous. $600.

Fender Stage Lead II amp.

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

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

Open every day. Bring trades!

Instruction 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.

Guitar lessons taught by college guitar instructor. All styles.

18 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/ decades of experience.

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 Abbey Road LIVE! Needs an occasional bass player/singer for Beatles music. Solid Paul McCartney vocals etc. Email info@ AbbeyRoadLive.com or call (706) 353-6888.

I would like to sing in a band.

Lagwagon, The Queers, Fugazi.

I have lots of lyrics written. (706) 339-2654.

Seeking dynamic drums, bass, lead guitar, keys, multi– instrumentalist for sonic texture.

Gig/studio–ready originals. Hear Wilco, Ween, PJ, GBV, Pavement, U2, the Nat’l, ElSmith. (706) 2543450, myspace.com/elitruett.

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 & modifications, setups, electronics, precision fretwork.

Previous clients incl. R.E.M., Widespread Panic, Cracker, Bob Mould, John Berry, Abbey Road Live!, Squat. (706) 549-1567.

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

Proceeds help benefit Nuçi’s Space. Contact Jeff, (404) 6439772 or www.AthensGuitar.com for details.

Looking for a fun, classy alternative to the typical wedding band? If you are looking for “YMCA” than S q u a t is not your band. If you want Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, & salsa, then visit www.squatme.com/ weddings. (706) 548-0457.

We d d i n g B a n d s . Quality, professional bands. Weddings, parties. Rock, Jazz, etc. Call Classic City Enter tainment. ( 7 0 6 ) 5 4 9 - 1 5 6 7 . w w w. classiccityentertainment.com.

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

Services Health Online Pharmacy. Buy Soma, Ultram, Fioricet, Prozac, Buspar. $71.99/90, $107/180 quantities.

Price incl. prescription! Over 200 meds. $25 coupon meition offer: #71A31. (888) 661-4957. tripharmacy.net (AAN CAN).

Home and Garden Backyard Solutions.

Make your neighbors jealous!

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

Massage Relaxing full–body rub at the convenience of your own home. Appts. avail. Mon.–Sat., 11am–11pm. Call Tina (706) 2011655, roxysrubs@gmail.com.

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

(877) 548-1550 (AAN CAN).

Tutors Your Personal Tutor/Editor. PhD candidate (ABD) will help you w/ English skills: class papers, applications, proposals, resumes.

Bring ‘em on! Excellent rates. gradams2@hotmail.com or (706) 614-1035.

Jobs Full-time Banquet Captain/Steward needed for local catering company. Must be very flexible, avail. 7 days a week & have server, bartender & banquet serving experience.

Must be able to: Hold preevent meetings & give clear directions to service staff; ensure guest satisfaction; wait on guests; work flexible shifts incl. nights, weekends & holidays; bartend & serve; lift & carry loads in excess of 30 pounds w/out assistance; be willing to set–up & tear down banquet tables & load & unload catering vans. Must be: Well groomed & well mannered w/ excellent communication skills, leadership skills & a clean driving record. Call (706) 353-1798 & lv. your contact info.

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

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Experienced pizza cook & line cook. Apply in person at 1550 Oglethorpe Ave. E s t h e t i c i a n , h a i rd re s s e r, & massage therapist. Booth rental pref’d but will consider commission. Fun new salon on S. Milledge. (706) 255-1969.

Hardcore Sales Reps Needed. Hrly + comm. I need the best & forget the rest! Call Chris (770) 560-5653.

Marketing Communication Specialist. Join an est. Athens company calling CEO’s & CFO’s of major corporations generating sales leads for technology companies. $9/hr. BOS Staffing w w w. b o s t e m p s . c o m , ( 7 0 6 ) 353-3030.

Parking Violations Officer.

Varied shifts, Mon–Sat, 8am– 6pm. Must have valid GA driver’s license, able to lift/carry 40+lbs. Work in all weather. $8/ hr. + benefits! Apply in person Downtown Athens Parking System, 133 E. Washington,10am–2pm, Mon–Fri. Seeking FT & PT line cooks. Must have at least 2 yrs. exp. Pay based on exp. Apply in person.

323 E. Broad (upstairs) between 2-4pm. Ask for Stefano or Alex.

$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).

Account Representative needed to work on behalf of our company.

Accounting exp. is not necessary to carry out the job, you must be computer literate & above 18 yoa to do it. You will earn up to $3000/ mo. Email me at reece.berg1970@ hotmail.com if interested.

DirectTV Satellite TV Special Offer: Save $21/mo. for 1 yr, Free HD-DVR, + 3 free mo. of HBO/ Starz/Showtime! Call Exper t Satellite (888) 246-1956. CC req’d (AAN CAN) .

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

High School diploma! Fast, affordable & accredited. Free b ro c h u re . C a l l n o w ! ( 8 0 0 ) 532-6546. Ext. 97. Go to http:// www.continentalacademy.com (AAN CAN).

Movie extras needed now. Earn $100-$300/day. No exp. req’d. All looks wanted. FT, PT. Call now.

(800) 605-5901 (AAN CAN).

Movie extras needed. Earn $150 to $300 per day. All looks, types & ages. Feature films, television, commercials & print. No exp. necessary. (800) 340-8404 x2001 (AAN CAN) Post Office now hiring. Avg. pay $21/hr. or $57K annually incl. federal benefits & OT. Paid training, vacations. PT, FT. (866) 945-0295 (AAN CAN).

Jot ‘Em Down is hiring servers.

Come apply at 480 Macon Hwy. 2–5pm. No ph. calls pls!

Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments. No exp. req’d.

(800) 743-8535.

Nature camp Co-Director. State Botanical Garden seeks PT summer camp Co-Director w/ possibility of continued employment in Fall ‘09. Youth experience preferred. Email res. to ashenk@uga.edu.

Winding Creek Kennels needs Animal Caretakers & office help. Wkends now & FT summer. Must be willing to work entire summer break, comfortable w / d o g s / c a t s , n o n - s m o k e r.

Computer & people skills helpful.

20 min from UGA, 8 mi. west of GA Sq. Mall, off Atlanta Hwy or 316. Email jobs@wckennels.com.

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Vehicles Autos 1969 Mercedes Benz White/ brown. 4dr. 4sp. All original, dual carbs. Runs great. Body & interior great. Asking $2500 firm. Call Adam (706) 410-6599.

Bicycles 2 6 ” S c h w i n n M e n s Tr a i l Performance Series. Aluminum frame, Alloy, Shimano gearing.

Only $400.00. Call (706) 351-9391 between 2-5pm.

Motorcycles Flying Scooter. 50cc. 220 mi. Like new! $500. (706) 224-3167.

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 30th Athens Twilight wants you!

Volunteers are needed April 24th-25th. Opportunities incl. registration, set-up, tear down, course marshal, event production.

Perks incl! Call, email Casey (706) 549-6632, casey@swagger.us.

Ear n $18K-$30K for 6 egg donations w/ the largest, most experienced Agency in US. Call (800) 444-7119 or to apply online visit www.theworldeggbank.com (AAN CAN).

Earn $40! UGA researchers are looking for females age 18 & above who purge at least twice per mo. to participate in a 1 visit research study. Contact bnstudy@ uga.edu.

Clarke Middle School Banquet Servers needed for Yard Sale local catering company. Must be very flexible & avail. 7 days/wk.

Call (706) 353-1798 & lv. your contact info.

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50 Gaines School Rd, Athens, GA 30605 s Tel: 706-850-6919 s store.sexy-suz.com

NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS HILL COUNTRY REVIEW

SAT, APRIL 18th • 9pm

BRANTLEY GILBERT ONLY $2

MON, APRIL 20th • 9pm

SUEX EFFECT SEADUB • t8r(tot) JAZZCHRONIC

TUE, APRIL 21st

KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE

WED, APRIL 22nd “FUNKMAN” TOUR FEATURING:

DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN MIKE RELM • BUKUE ONE SERENDIPITY PROJECT

THU, APRIL 23rd

DJ LOGIC AND THE NEWMASTERSOUNDS MOON TAXI

FRI, APRIL 24th

DUBCONSCIOUS FUZZY SPROUTS

COMING SOON 4/25 4/28 4/29 4/30 5/1 5/2 5/4 5/7 5/8 & 5/9

THE INCREDIBLE SANDWICH STEVE KIMOCK / ZACH DEPUTY ROBERT RANDOLPH / BLACK JOE LEWIS TOUBAB KREWE PACKWAY HANDLE BAND TELEPATH DAVID COOK SHPONGLE COLT FORD

Tickets for all ALL shows available in advance at www.georgiatheatre.com icon indicates that advance tickets are also available at SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS 706.353.1666 and at JUNKMAN’S DAUGHTER’S BROTHER 706.543.4998

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