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pub notes Final Sale in Progress The house lights are down; the audience waits… and waits.

The conductor enters and goes over and whispers something to second-violinist Joe Causey. He rises and walks to the organ.

It’s the Spring Concert of the Athens Symphony, and they’re doing a piece with organ, and the organist hasn’t shown up.

Joe is a pianist who learned how to play violin. He sits down at the organ; the symphony begins playing; Joe sight-reads a piece he has never seen before and saves the concert.

That happened a couple of weeks ago, and it’s typical of Joe, and it wasn’t luck. Joe is always prepared to do what he needs to do, and he gets that way through unrelenting hard work. He’s one of those people who doesn’t need much sleep, so he’s practicing or working or straightening out an aunt's estate while you and I are dreaming.

Joe Causey grew up in Athens on West Lake Drive when that area was practically in the country. He walked or rode his horse to Alps Elementary and Clarke Middle, graduated from Athens High, attended the University of Georgia, majoring in music, joined the Navy and got sent to language school, where he became proficient in French, was stationed in Morocco, came home and went to work in the family business, Farm Electric, and for fun volunteered as a typesetter for the Athens Observer, where he quickly became a multi-tasking legend able to smoke Tareyton cigarettes, eat M&M’s, drink Cokes and edit as he typed and carried on a hilarious conversation all at the same time and at high speed. His standard of personal excellence undergirded the Observer and helped make it the Farm Electric is a fine paper it became.

Joe is just doing family business closing what comes naturally. for family reasons.

His father, W.C., returned home a hero from the Battle of the Bulge at the end of World War Two and became a vocational agriculture teacher. He knew what farmers needed, and in 1957 began selling electrical supplies out of the family basement on West Lake, helped out when necessary by Joe’s mother, M’nelle, a prolific journalist who was covering northeast Georgia for the Anderson Independent. Farm Electric grew into its own building and then moved to its present location on Baxter Street in 1963, where it has long been the quintessential local business, with a knowledgeable staff, personal service, credit accounts and quality products (light bulbs are 130 volts instead of the usual 120). Since he got home from the Navy, Joe has functioned as Chief Financial Officer for Farm Electric, banging out the monthly statements for many years on an electric typewriter, hesitating to computerize until he could find a company that could do it right. Joe burnt a lot of midnight oil typing statements and licking envelopes and stamps (he didn’t consider a postage meter cost-effective).

Meanwhile, brother Davis Causey, the world-famous guitarist, put in his time leaning on the front counter, and Joe’s son Cole, having graduated from UGA is behind the counter now, and playing in the Symphony (first violin).

But, alas, this hometown alternative to big-box electrical supplies is shutting down. Farm Electric is a family business closing for family reasons. Joe has been at it full-time for 35 years. W.C. passed away a number of years ago; M’nelle’s not getting any younger, though you wouldn’t know it. Joe’s other son Taylor’s condition requires constant attention, and Cole’s future doesn’t include running Farm Electric. Joe says he no longer has the energy to look after family and the business at the same time, so the Causey family decided to sell the inventory and close it up.

So, after 52 years, Farm Electric is closing. It’s not a victim of the economy but of changing family needs. They’ll be there until they sell everything in the store, and everything in the store is the best quality money can buy—at sale prices. If you need a ceiling fan, a lamp, tools, work gloves, some of those 130-volt light bulbs or any of those mysterious devices electricians use to make the current flow, now’s the time for bargains at 1045 Baxter Street. I stopped by last week when the store was still full of stuff. You wouldn’t have known the sale had started except for the big “Final Sale” sign out front. Joe was out, but Cole was there, coping with the end of a family institution.

“It’s weird,” he said.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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

You might already bike to work everyday, but you should definitely do so this Friday with everybody else.

Making a Movement? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Progressive Activism at UGA on the Upswing

On a range of issues from wages to waste, students are more active now than they have been in years.

Arts & Events John Seawright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Orange Twin Pays Homage

Orange Twin sets aside a plot of land in remembrance of late local writer John Seawright.

Film Notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 News of Athens’ Cinema Scene

Ciné hosts the Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival Apr. 24–30.

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Music Remembrances of a Frequent Flyer . . . . . . 19 Celebrating Three Decades of the Normaltown Flyers The venerable band comes together to honor its 30-year history.

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Planning Update: A few weeks ago, City Dope made note of an agenda item before the ACC Historic Preservation Commission (HPC)—an office building proposal for the empty lot at 340 N. Milledge Ave., the grassy field between Hancock Avenue and Meigs Street in the Cobbham Historic District which was once home to St. Mary’s Hospital. The proposal came from Ellis Pain Management, which currently has a clinic on Old West Broad Street.

At a meeting Apr. 15, the HPC declined to issue a Certificate of Appropriateness for the project, but apparently made clear its openness to table the item and see a revised proposal at some point soon.

Constructive Criticism: Not all of the recipient programs (see a full list at Flagpole. com) necessarily address poverty reduction in particular, though—a fact which has raised the eyebrows of local blogger Johnathan McGinty, the guy behind the blogs “Safe as Houses” and, now, “Beyond the Trestle.” On the latter website, he termed “questionable” a $2,550 grant for camp scholarships to the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia and a $2,000 grant to help the Cedar Shoals High School Concert Choir attend a five-day residency and perform in a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. But McGinty’s main argument with the community foundation is one he raised last year: that it will, in part, try to reinvent the wheel in terms of local efforts, while at the same time competing with existing organizations for limited funding from philanthropic sources.

Hearing the Above: That’s a compelling argument, but it’s not a new one to AACF President Delene Porter, who says she’s been discussing that perceived conflict with local nonprofit directors throughout the foundation’s early months. Porter thinks that once Athenians

Perhaps Not to Be: Unfortunately Dr. Ellis and company didn’t take that offer, and because he declined to take City Dope’s subsequent call, there’s no telling if he’ll start from scratch with a new plan or drop the project altogether. That’s a shame, because such a prominent intown lot deserves a good building, and sometimes—especially in Athens, let it be said—a good building takes time to get sketched out and modified and approved. It may be, of course, that Dr. Ellis and his people aren’t accustomed to its taking so long (they Filed under outtakes from the Tax Day tea party at the Arch in submitted initial plans a few months ago), and in general it’s worth asking downtown Athens. It’s one for the scrapbooks, too. if there is in fact way too much red tape in Athens. But even so, one wonders why better understand the community foundaDr. Ellis wasn’t more patient. In other news, tion model there’ll be less worry about these the Mayor and Commission approved (just this problems. In a nutshell, that model is based month!) a new “conceptual review” process on creating endowments which pool and augfor projects in historic districts, whereby a ment the community’s resources, helping many developer can get an informal review from the organizations and aiming for the long term.

HPC at an earlier point in the process, perhaps As for the breadth and diversity of the solving some of the problems of cases just like grant recipients, Porter says that AACF’s misthis one. sion is broader than that of OneAthens. And, she admits, “We’re still sort of in the process Nonprofit Notes: Good news came last of educating the community about it.” All of week from the Athens Area Community which means it’s a good thing, in the end, Foundation (AACF), which has awarded that McGinty raised the questions he did, and its first round of grants, in the amount of a good thing that people care enough about $25,000 total, to 11 local nonprofit orgathe direction of anti-poverty efforts in this nizations addressing needs in areas like community to continually ask where it is that job creation, youth development, public they’re going. health, emergency assistance for low income families and more. The foundation, which Shameless Self-Promotion: Don’t forget the started last year, is an outgrowth of the antipublic forum on planning the long-term suspoverty effort that started with Partners for a tainable use of local water resources, “Blue Prosperous Athens in 2006 and then morphed Water for a Green Future,” scheduled for into OneAthens. As it’s been three years since Tuesday, Apr. 28 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium that effort began, it’s good to see money mov- at the UGA River Basin Center. Yes, this writer ing to organizations that directly address key is speaking that night, but there are many problems in the community, and these small, good reasons to attend. So, please do. targeted grants generally look like they’ll have very positive impacts.

Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

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FLAGPOLE.COM ∙ APRIL 22, 2009

Pete McCommons

Ridin’ Bicycles: It’s pretty clear that there are more people in this town riding bikes on a daily basis than in recent years, but fair to say also that not a lot of folks have quite gotten comfortable with making a daily habit of biking to work every morning and home every night. That’s basically the reason that BikeAthens has organized another Bike to Work Day this year, and it takes place this Friday, Apr. 24. Morning group rides from various parts of town, led by experienced bike commuters, will converge on College Square for coffee, snacks and a couple of speakers.

For ride locations visit www.BikeAthens.com or send an email to admin@bikeathens.com.

city pages ACC Budget to Be Tight Even with D.C.’s Help Despite federal stimulus funds, money Interest earnings on county accounts—savwill be tight for the Athens-Clarke County ings to cover short-term utilities costs—are (ACC) government next year. “We’re going to down too, Duck said. He proposed raising basically have a flat budget,” no larger than rates a little more than had already been last year’s, ACC Manager Alan Reddish told planned: For a homeowner with a $43 water/ Flagpole. A worst-case scenario, he said, could sewer bill, the increase would be about $5. If mean reductions in county services or even approved, the increase would be the second in layoffs of employees. Commissioners will vote two years, and would go into effect July 1. in May on a budget for fiscal year 2010, which ACC Finance Director John Culpepper says begins this July. Last year, after commissionAthens’ finances have been conservatively ers backed down from removing some street managed, and as a result the county is in betlights to save money, Commissioner David ter shape than others. “Many governments are Lynn suggested that property taxes might having to do some radical things in order to need to go up this year. stay in business,” he told Flagpole—closing Every year at this time, county department fire stations, for example, or (in California) heads are asked to submit a budget for the releasing prison inmates. Still, local sales-tax upcoming year that can increase by a certain revenues will be lower than expected, and the amount, reflecting anticipated revenues from county’s tax digest grew only about 2 percent the county’s growth. This year, Reddish says, last year, Culpepper said. county departments are being held to a 1 And following a persuasive presentation by percent increase. (That’s aside from salaries ACC Police Chief Jack Lumpkin, commissioners and benefits, which are typiapproved a last-minute applically raised a little each year cation for federal stimulus “Currently we have to match inflation, but may money to hire 27 additional not be this year.) Departments a real issue with police officers over several are also asked for a second years. “We’re at a critical budget that’s smaller than the the property crimes.” stage where our response previous year; and for this time is going up signifiyear, that requested reduction is 5 percent, he cantly,” especially late at night, Lumpkin said. says. Mayor Heidi Davison will then draw up “Currently we have a real issue with the propa proposed budget for the entire government erty crimes,” he said, and frustration among (excepting the school district, which receives officers is “very high.”

60 percent of local property taxes).

DUI accidents are “up significantly” in Water rates are also likely to go up a little, Athens, he said: “We’re killing around 19 peopartly because citizens have been conservple a year in this county.” But “I can’t keep ing water as requested, commissioners were people in traffic [enforcement] when I’ve got told at last week’s work session. Annual water ladies hiding in their closet because a thug use is down 21 percent because citizens have has broken in their bedroom,” Lumpkin said. made “significant reductions” to save water, Burglary detectives have more cases than they ACC Public Utilities Director Gary Duck told can reasonably handle, he said. But if Athens commissioners at their Apr. 14 work session. gets the $3.5 million federal grant, the addi“That’s a huge number,” he said, and comtional officers will still cost the county money: mercial and institutional users have cut back an additional $1.4 million a year after the too. “We got a more dramatic change than we grant runs out. Police, courts, corrections and anticipated,” added Reddish. the jail already account for around 40 percent But selling less water means less revenue, of the county’s operating budget. and bonds issued to rebuild the three sewagetreatment plants require certain income flows.

John Huie jphuie@athens.net

Parks & Rec Consultants Say Athens Likes Parks Athens-Clarke County citizens want more and environmental education programs, confitness and wellness programs, walking and sultants said. biking trails, and small neighborhood parks, The consultants also studied the geosay consultants who recently conducted graphic distribution of parks, and said more a survey for the county’s Leisure Services are needed in western Clarke County. By department. Those were the top picks among August, they will also review Leisure Services’ 530 citizens who participated in the survey organizational structure, costs and planning. by mail or phone. The statistically significant The system needs more consistent marketing survey was designed to accurately reflect the and use of signs, better performance meacommunity’s views, representatives of PROS sures and more corporate support, they said.

Consulting told ACC Commissioners at their Sports fields are in excellent condition and Apr. 14 work session. “arts facilities are among Four-fifths of surveythe finest in the region,” Citizens also wanted takers had visited at least but some joint-use facilimore large parks, more one county park, but only ties at schools require 28 percent had particiand there community events, small maintenance pated in the department’s is a need for more indoor picnic shelter areas… educational or recreational recreational space, the program in the past year. consultants said.

(Athens-Clarke Leisure Services sponsors The Department of Leisure Services’ new recreational leagues, art classes, dance and director, Pam Reidy, said that she thinks the outdoor courses, summer reading day camps department is “underfunded” in terms of for kids, fishing contests, and a “silver sneakcapital needs like maintenance of buildings ers” exercise class for seniors, among others. and other facilities, such as pools. She said See www.accleisureservices.com.) County arts she wants to run the department on more of and natural-resource programs are “a regional a “business model.” Reidy, who has more than draw,” the consultants said at last week’s work 20 years of experience in the field, was hired session, but Leisure Services staffers were at the start of this year and came to Athens rated “above average” or better on job perfrom a similar position in Palm Beach County, formance by only 48 percent of survey-takers.

Florida.

Citizens also wanted more large parks, more community events, small picnic shelter areas John Huie jphuie@athens.net

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Just when you thought you had the next governor’s race all figured out, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle decides to mess everything up. Cagle had been the early frontrunner for governor and was still considered the man to beat, running ahead of the other Republican hopefuls in the early polls. Nothing in life or politics ever works out quite that neatly, however.

Cagle abruptly announced last week that because of “back problems” he was dropping out of the governor’s race, although insisting he would still run for another term as lieutenant governor.

The Cagle pullout probably ensures that former governor Roy Barnes, who still hasn’t made a public announcement of his plans, will finalize his intentions to run again. Cagle’s departure also leaves room for at least two or three additional candidates in the GOP primary: Cobb County Commission Chairman Sam Olens, House Speaker Pro Tem Mark Burkhalter, state Sen. Eric Johnson and members of the state’s congressional delegation (Lynn Westmoreland or Jack Kingston). It will be a big field of candidates, each of them with their own vulnerabilities that leave them open to attack.

Barnes has been traveling around the state to talk up his candidacy, and he is being told by party activists that they won’t support him unless he cuts his ties with political mastermind Bobby Kahn, who is blamed for the 2002 loss to Sonny Perdue and the subsequent collapse of the Georgia Democratic Party. Would Barnes actually do such a thing? More importantly, would Bobby allow him to do it?

Attorney General Thurbert Baker would be considered the most serious challenger to Barnes in the Democratic primary, but after 12 years in office, it would be difficult for the average voter to tell you who Baker is or what he ever accomplished. Baker rarely took a stand on anything, which doesn’t leave him with much of a platform to run on.

Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine becomes, for the moment, the poll leader on the Republican side, but the man they call “The Ox” will have to spend a lot of time explaining to voters why he wrecked so many state vehicles and why the attorney general’s office forced him to turn off his “blue light.”

Secretary of State Karen Handel has the backing of the governor, who sees her as the best choice to continue the “accomplishments,” such as they are, of his administration. Handel has devoted most of her energies as the state’s top elections officer to pushing for legislation that makes it harder for blacks and Latinos to vote. That won’t do her much good now that the U.S. Justice Department is controlled by Democrats who frown upon such voter suppression techniques.

Sam Olens is probably the most intelligent, best-qualified candidate of anyone running in the Republican primary, but he has a couple of handicaps that will hurt him among GOP voters. He holds three college degrees and is also a Jewish candidate in a party dominated by its anti-intellectual, Christian-right voting base.

Rep. Austin Scott (R-Tifton) has a similar problem to Olens. He has displayed an admirable independent streak during his years in the state House, supporting the new state flag in 2001 and expressing sympathy for the problems faced by Georgia’s immigrant community. Those political stands would be okay if he were running in the Democratic primary—but he’s a Republican.

There will be a lot of people who qualify for the governor’s race next year—but nobody is a guaranteed winner. That ensures it will be one of the craziest, most wide-open campaigns we’ve ever seen.

Tom Crawford Tom Crawford is the editor of Capitol Impact’s Georgia Report, an Internet news service at www.gareport.com.

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athens rising What’s Up in New Development Regional transportation discussions in this area, as they relate to rail lines, have focused mainly on the CSX line between Athens and Atlanta of late. Commuter rail, dubbed “the Brain Train,” is proposed to eventually connect colleges and universities here, there and in between. That project has largely been sidetracked by the state, however, remaining on the drawing board in various forms for several decades. That’s not the only rail line in Athens, though, and commuter rail isn’t the only way to utilize an active rail line for public benefit. Reevaluating local assets could present interesting solutions to local issues.

Oft-Overlooked: The CSX line is heavily trafficked, bisecting Athens on an east-west route. Also passing through the heart of town is the less-used line running from Jackson County to Madison, GA. The Athens Line, a local shortline operation, hauls some freight on a portion of these tracks; most noticeable are the loads of coal brought to the UGA steam plant on Cedar Street. South of Bishop, in Oconee County, the line hasn’t been used since the 1980s.

This line may be the one with the most interesting possibilities for our area. Some citizens in Oconee County are calling for a rail-to-trail conversion of the unused portion; a similar effort occurred about nine years ago, but didn’t make it very far. North of there, Athens’ long-range greenway planning might explore a rail-with-trail, where a multi-use

path would run alongside an active rail line.

Although not necessarily common in Georgia, in other parts of the country these projects have been quite successful.

Outside the Boxcar: Another interesting suggestion for the local line, however, has been one of an active local transit system. The majority of the University of Georgia’s campus is within a five-minute walk of the rail line already. Light rail or streetcar vehicles might be a good fit for the corridor. The Multi-Modal Transportation Center downtown would of course be a stop along the line, and might help to make living downtown without a car more attractive than the far-flung apartment complexes which currently house so many students. Other possibilities for this system include extending it south beyond the heart of campus to Whitehall or even Watkinsville.

“Transit-oriented development” and commuter lots in Watkinsville would take many cars off the road, removing the need to widen corridors like Simonton Bridge Road and South Milledge Avenue.

Regardless of whether or not this corridor becomes trails or transit, keeping the line as a working freight rail corridor is certainly an important priority in Watkinsville, and one that still has some of the same sustainable connotations as the other uses. After all, moving freight by rail rather than truck is more energy-efficient. The small industrial park in Watkinsville along the line is an asset,

With the tracks already there, the Multi-Modal Transportation Center was built with commuter rail to Atlanta in mind, but it would perform wonderfully as part of a purely local light rail transit system, too. and pulling up track might send local jobs elsewhere.

Putting It All Together: The key features of nearly any rail line are its incredibly level route and few street crossings. Public transit, pedestrian paths and freight all benefit from running separately from regular road traffic. Putting these seemingly disparate uses together is the catch.

There are benefits to a “multi-modal” approach, however. The way it might all work out is through sharing the costs of maintenance and improvement. An active transit system would certainly require double-tracking (two sets of tracks in parallel) and improvements to crossings, which freight haulers might appreciate. A heavily used light rail corridor might also need frequent maintenance;

a paved path 12 feet wide running parallel to the tracks could move not only cyclists but also service vehicles.

Oconee and Clarke counties’ demographics might even mean that Athens residents could have better access to blue-collar jobs in Watkinsville, while white-collar Oconee Countians could more easily get to offices on campus and elsewhere in town. Regional economic development is being talked about, but the focus seems often to be on how the Brain Train or Highway 316 can allow us to take advantage of Atlanta. It might be better to think about the various ways we can stitch our own communities together, and take advantage of purely local assets. Maybe local rail lines could be a start.

Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

APRIL 22, 2009 · FLAGPOLE.COM

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Making a Movement?

Progressive Activism at UGA on the Upswing

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Michael Goethe

a clear, balmy afternoon this past February, nearly 300 UGA students, alumni and faculty clustered together on the Tate Student Center plaza to attend a rally in support of a “living wage” for janitors, food service workers and other staff at the very bottom of the school’s economic totem pole. After a handful of speakers charged up the audience with cold facts and hot rhetoric about what they considered the inadequate pay given to UGA’s workers, the crowd was advised to march to the Administration Building, home to the office of UGA President Michael Adams.

Although the crowd had shrunk to around 75 people at that point—inevitable when a rally turns into a march—the scene was still loud and colorful: protesters beat on pots and pans, flags were hoisted, banners were unfurled. Among the already diverse crowd could be found a megaphone-wielding female student in a full bulldog mascot suit, and two short Latino men in clown makeup, one playing a saxophone.

Before long the protesters, led by a charismatic emcee known as Obi, had parked themselves in front of the Administration Building. There the chants continued: “The way we treat our workers is a shame, shame, shame!” and “Georgia’s wages are outrageous!” It wasn’t long before President Adams’ assistant, Matt Winston, emerged and told the crowd that unfortunately Mr. Adams was in a meeting and unable to speak with them.

So, what did the protesters do then? They found the meeting.

Soon the throng was gathered around the windows through which a few intrepid students had located Adams, and the protesters resumed chanting. A few of them pounded on the windows—as if the attention of those inside hadn’t been grabbed already. The disruption caused the meeting to be moved to the other side of the building, but it wasn’t long before the Living Wagers found that room, too (it seems that ground-level windows are not installed with blinds).

Finally, the protesters—numbering around 30 at this point—were invited inside. After waiting unattended, they soon realized that the invitation was just a ploy to quiet them down, so they marched back outside, chanting as they filed out of the building. A few minutes later, Adams finally came outside and addressed the crowd—perhaps as a matter of necessity, seeing as the protesters were gathered next to his car.

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Go-Green Alliance has ballooned from 12 member groups last year to 30 this year. “It’s now fairly easy to find hundreds or even thousands of students on campus sympathetic to the cause. It’s amazing,” says Mark Milby, a student and member of the Ecology Club.

So sympathetic to the cause, in fact, that many students were willing to spend a whole day sifting through garbage during a recent “waste audit” of the second-largest building on campus in order to see how much recyclable material was needlessly thrown away. Or take, for instance, the Gameday Recycling program started last year by the Ecology Club.

Students unsatisfied with the existing recycling pickup after football games began scooping up thousands of empty beer cans and water bottles themselves, netting a total of 5.1 tons of recyclables and over a thousand dollars in revenue, which was donated to Habitat for Humanity.

the administration and the students now seem to be on the same page—in principle.

However, both activists and administrators know the difference between principle and action. Take President Adams’ closing remarks to the living wage protesters, for instance. His last sentence contained an unexpected concession: “I agree with you philosophically.” Yet no less than a few seconds later, as Adams got into his car, the protesters merely shrugged and picked up where they left off: “The way we treat our workers is a shame, shame, shame!”

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skyrocketing gas prices and Al Gore’s Powerpoint slides were indispensable recruiting tools for UGA’s environmental groups, the same could be said about what the campaign of Barack Obama and the economic crisis, with its resulting populist backlash against Wall Street, have done for movements like the Living Wage Campaign (LWC).

“I think we’re in sort of a fundamentally different social and economic landscape now, and I think that’s sort of filtered into the way things are done on campus,” says Philip Lewin, a sociology graduate student who recently became involved with the LWC. Lewin talked amid a noisy backdrop of megaphone chatter and supportive horn-honking at a recent Living Wage rally at the Arch. Following the example of the Women in Black, who have held vigils every Tuesday at the Arch since the beginning of the Iraq War, the LWC recently began holding its own weekly rallies at the intersection of Broad Street and College Avenue.

“People seem to be more engaged with politics now… I don’t think we get as many strange looks,” says Tiffany Ball of the LWC, who recently graduated from UGA and participates at the Arch.

Whether begrudgingly or enthusiastically, activists on the left are sure to acknowledge the impact of the Obama campaign on their work. “We are very proud that we have a ‘community organizer-in-chief,’” says Ray MacNair, a retired social work professor who came to UGA in 1975. He knows, however, that progressives cannot afford to get lazy. “[Obama] has said all along that his being in office is not enough.”

Ugly as it sounds, it’s possible that President Obama could turn out to be just another politician.

It’s possible that his campaign promises were just hollow, calculated rhetoric designed to propel him into power. Either way, he has already given his most enduring—and irrevocable—gift to the progressive movement, not only at UGA, but nationwide. Obama’s campaign was a much-needed transfusion of new blood into a movement which, after failing to stop the Iraq War even when mustering millions into the streets, had a crisis of confidence and a period of relative dormancy—until now, that is.

hat the Living Wagers didn’t know was that the meeting that they had interrupted was in itself an outgrowth of another form of activism. It was the first meeting of the Sustainability Working Group, which had convened to discuss ways to improve UGA’s water conservation, recycling programs and energy usage. In essence, Michael Adams, lthough UGA’s progressive movement can a former Republican candidate for Congress and now easily be seen in groups with names like president of a university in the Deep South, had to the Living Wage Campaign and Students for put one progressive initiative on hold to attend to Environmental Awareness, there are other unexpected another. This unlikely situation begs the question: Is sources of activism that have given the progressive UGA’s progressive movement at its most active point The weekly presence of the UGA Living Wage Campaign at the Arch on Wednesdays is just one push a potent depth. The Ecology Club, Women’s in years? sign that progressive activism on campus has reached a high point. Yes, that’s a bulldog suit.

Studies Student Organization and Hispanic Student Lynne Sallot, a professor of public relations at Association are just a few of these dark horses. the school’s Grady College of Journalism, thinks so. A faculty Of course, it’s very possible that the next school year will What got these kids so fired up about the environment? member at UGA since 1993, she says that she’s “seen more not see as much activity. After all, students who are motivated Dr. Sallot points to the summer of 2006, “when energy costs activism, especially in this past year.” When asked if she can enough to be activists are usually motivated enough to gradusoared,” as a crucial catalyst. At that point, environmentalists remember any significant activist presence in the 1990s, she ate. But considering Athens’ impressive network of community were already on a roll—An Inconvenient Truth had just been says she can’t think of any. “My perception is that [traditionorganizations and a generally supportive faculty presence, released and Prius owners seemed to be multiplying like rabally] it’s been a real conservative campus,” she says. it seems that the progressive movement at the University bits. Images of melting ice caps, nightmare scenarios of underSallot was among the 20 or so people who shuffled to of Georgia is prepared to weather the hard times that may water cities and specters of global famine all rather quickly another room with President Adams on the afternoon of Feb. transformed the American public from apathetic to sympathetic befall it when its most effective students move on to greener 12, when the noise outside became too distracting to conpastures. about the environment. tinue. At the meeting she was one of the representatives of With this in mind, it’s of little surprise that LWC member This shift in attitude is not only reflected in the enviro the Go-Green Alliance, which is an organization that brings and student Matt Boynton is optimistic about the future. He groups’ larger rosters and heightened level of intensity, but in together the campus’ many environmental groups under one seems to speak for more than a few people when he says, the actions of the university administration itself, which has umbrella (it started as a project in her public relations cam“Eventually we’re going to reach a critical mass where we can embarked on a deliberate campaign to pursue “green” initiapaigns class). win. We can win some real victories.” tives. (So far, UGA has a ways to go: it scored a C- on the If the size of this umbrella is any indication, the enviCollege Sustainability Report Card last year.) Thus, when it ronmental movement has exploded on UGA’s campus—the Jeff Gore comes to the need to conserve and protect the environment,

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80 Laps, Three Decades

The Twilight Criterium Rolls Full-Speed Ahead

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here are easier ways to make a living than bombing into a tight, pothole-strewn street corner in the dark and hoping to come out the other side upright. But since 1980, cyclists the world over have come to do just that in downtown Athens. This year the Athens Twilight Criterium is set to take place this Saturday, Apr. 25, and the race’s organizers will be celebrating its 30th running.

The decades worth of back story on the event are a blur of adrenaline-fueled days for promoter Gene Dixon. When faced with recounting anecdotes about Twilight’s history, he’d rather have the people who lived and raced the event tell its story, although it was his idea that brought it about in the first place.

“One day he told me, ‘You know… I have this great idea,” says Linda DePascale, who helped Dixon get the race off the ground initially. “[Gene said] ’I want to put on a bike race in downtown Athens.

We’ll shut the streets down to traffic and do it at night under the streetlights and it’ll be free. It’s something called a criterium’—which I had never heard of before.”

At the time, commerce was taking its leave of the city center and was heading for the mall. To DePascale, Dixon’s idea seemed like a reasonable way to combat the commercial malaise that was settling in over downtown, but the challenge would be in finding a backer who would unfurl a bankroll large enough to make the event happen. In stepped the Heyward Allen Motor Company.

“The company was being managed then by Buddy Allen, and if it wasn’t for him, we never would have gotten the Twilight started,” DePascale recalls. “My hope was that I could convince Mr. Allen on a new way of spending marketing money at a time when event marketing was not really understood. He took a huge chance and was the first person to commit money to try this new concept.”

Because of Heyward Allen’s standing in the business community, others followed, and slowly there was enough financial momentum built to launch the project. The first year, turnout was staggeringly high—well over 10,000 spectators. And that number spiraled upwards as the years went by.

With the big crowds came some of the biggest names in the sport. Australian Olympic medalist Danny Clark won the first two events, but names that would become pillars of American cycling would also put their mark on the race. Most of the riders from the legendary 7-Eleven team would at one point or another participate in the Athens Twilight—men like Davis Phinney, who would go on to be the first American to win a stage of the Tour de France.

“Athens is such an all-time great race,” Phinney says. “Just going into that first turn in the dark with your shadow going off in four different directions, it’s just wild.” Phinney, who now heads up his own foundation to fight Parkinson’s disease, with which he was diagnosed with at age 40, won the 1986 edition of the race after lapping the entire field.

“Just re-living those images in my mind, even now, just gives me chills. That’s what American racing is all about.

It’s dangerous, yet exciting, and fast and competitive.”

Phinney’s former teammate Steve Bauer, an Olympic medalist and Canadian road champion, has similar recollections of the race. “It’s pretty much ’Attack from the gun, and stay

and the one race a year where you’re looking around and guys are kind of shaking because they’re either pumped up or nervous or a little bit of both. It really plays havoc with your vision because you have shadows passing you all the time. If there was one crit that you want to win, Athens was at the top of the list.”

“You get so keyed up from that incredible race, that you could literally not sleep until 4 a.m. the next morning,” says Robbie Ventura, a professional Tour de France commentator and former teammate to Lance Armstrong. Ventura won second place in 1999 behind teammate Frank McCormack.

“I’ll never forget turn one,” Ventura says, “because there’s so many people on the inside of the turn and the outside of the turn, you can’t see the exit of the turn, so you go into it a lot of times hoping that you’re on the right line and that the person in front of you is not going to kill you.”

Micah Rice headed up the local Jittery Joe’s team for several years and assisted Dixon in organizing races for half a decade. He’s seen events try to replicate the vibe of Twilight, but he feels no one truly comes close. “The Athens Twilight is always the benchmark,” Rice says. “People can copy it, but it’s the show and there’s really nothing like it.”

It’s a sentiment that Davis Phinney agrees with to this day. Phinney’s son Taylor is now a world champion track cyclist and a member of Lance Armstrong’s under-23 Trek-Livestrong squad.

His father admits to wanting his son to ride the Twilight one day, despite criterium riding not being on the young star’s radar. “I’m afraid if he goes to Athens and tries it, that’s how he’ll want to spend the rest of his career,” Phinney says.

In fact, this year’s Twilight might have been a good year for the younger Phinney to try his hand at the 80-lap contest. 2008 champion Rahsaan Bahati will not be returning to the field, and without a truly dominant squad rolling to the starting line, this could be the year that a relative unknown walks away with the $7,000 first-place prize. There’s no telling, but Phinney feels that just bombing around the course and feeling the thrill of having tried the race at all is a satisfaction unto itself: “Every American rider should experience coming down the home stretch in Athens and hearing the roar of that crowd.”

“I’ll never forget turn one…” in front.’ Because it’s in the evening, you want to stay out of trouble and drive it from the front, while being fast through the corners. It’s intense.”

Gord Fraser, the only man technically to cross the Twilight’s finish line in first place three times (he was disqualified on the first of those three occasions, however), concurs. “I was excited to go every year,” he says. “It’s a special atmosphere,

JoE Silva Visit this story at Flagpole.com for a turn-by-turn look at the Twilight course with race commentator Chad Andrews.

Twilight Schedule Saturday, April 25 8:00

8:30 10:00 11:30 5:45 6:30 7:15 7:45 8:45

a.m. Twilight A.M. (North Oconee River Greenway, Willow St.) a.m. 5K Run/Walk a.m. The Gambler a.m. Kids’ Criterium and Big Wheel Race p.m. Amateur Finals p.m. Handcycle Criterium p.m. Kids’ Parade Lap p.m. Women’s Pro Criterium p.m. Men’s Pro Criterium

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Times subject to change. Unless otherwise noted, events begin on the Twilight course downtown, where the outdoor stage on College Square also plays host to the Twilight Jazz Festival, noon–9 p.m. on Friday, Apr. 24 (followed by a jam session at Ciné) and 10 a.m.–6 p.m. on Saturday. Find more info at www. athenstwilight.com and at www.uga.edu/music/jazzfestival.

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the reader Ya Hadda Be There People who like to use pretentious German words to describe things have a name for it: zeitgeist, literally “time-spirit,” a unique experience that results from being in a certain place at a certain time. All of the singular events that have changed the world could only have occurred when and where they did, and never otherwise, from the discovery of fire to the space race. There was only one Pericles, only one Jesus, only one Siddhartha, only one Hitler, only one Elvis, and whereas the rise of democracy and monotheism and global war and rock and roll may well have happened anyway in some form, none of them would have taken shape as they did in other crucibles and in other hands.

Live from New York: It is no accident, for example, that punk and “Saturday Night Live” broke out at the same time. Both were experiments in anarchy and rebellion that emerged as the smoke cleared over Vietnam and the institutions of the Greatest Generation were judged to be hopelessly broken, the dissenting cries of the hippies and radicals judged to be ultimately hollow. Punk only truly existed for a couple of years and was dead by 1979 (and even then, it lived longer than by rights it should have).

“Saturday Night Live,” in the only form that truly mattered, ran from 1975 to 1980.

Yes, there’s a show on TV to this day that bears the name, but it will never be as defiant, as relevant, or as flat-out funny as that one was in the post-Nixon years. The first three seasons are available on DVD now and they hold up beautifully. Eddie Murphy was funny, Phil Hartman was brilliant, and I’d gladly eat bees for Tina Fey, but they all showed up too late. On the other hand, no matter how many shitty movies Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd make, they’ve already earned their place in heaven. As the saying goes, ya hadda be there.

Comedian and writer Tom Davis was there.

In fact his memoir is called Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There (Grove/ Atlantic, 2009), and being there was enough.

Davis’ book is a candid and frequently funny examination of his life leading up to, and away from, and back to “SNL,” a life often lived accidentally and not always well, but completely in the grip of the zeitgeist.

In a rambling approach more akin to a scrapbook of memories than a linear narrative, Davis takes us from his Minnesota boyhood, chafing under the rules and regs of his archconservative father to his first encounters with girls, drugs and the short kid who would change his life, Al Franken. Yes, that Al Franken. From the ’60s to the ’80s, the comedy team of Franken & Davis played clubs and campuses all over. They were part of the first wave of comedians who cut their teeth on the fledgling club circuits in New York and L.A. in

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the early ’70s, and their penchant for bizarre sketch comedy (their “Brain Tumor Comedian” bit is still funny) caught the attention of Lorne Michaels, who hired them on a provisional basis for his new late-night comedy show on NBC. For the next five years Davis ran with Aykroyd (the first chapter tells how their acid-fueled trip to Easter Island inspired the Coneheads), Belushi, the Rolling Stones and his heroes the Grateful Dead. During those years and afterward, Davis became good friends with Timothy Leary and Jerry Garcia, with whom he was working on a film adaptation of Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan.

There are as many lows as highs in Davis’ book, however. As he collaborates with Garcia, Davis is also witness to the spiraling heroin addiction that helped kill him.

Davis is unflinching as he tells of spending the night in the Chateau Marmont bungalow where Belushi died, or watching Chris Farley self-destruct. He pulls no punches about his dysfunctional relationships with women, his bosses, his partner and with himself.

Whether it’s the week he spent sick, broke and stranded in India or the many times he pissed off all the wrong people in Hollywood, Davis spares himself nothing.

It’s not the most artfully written memoir out there. As a writer, Davis is much better at the sixminute sketch than he is at extended prose, and his tone vacillates between fluidity and flatness.

If one can ignore the inconsistencies, though, what one gets is a remarkable look at the life of a young wild talent who blundered into a pocket revolution and played a crucial role in changing the shape of American comedy. Most people reading this may be too young to remember the world before “Saturday Night Live,” but those of us who were there know just how big a deal that was.

News and Notes: And because some stories are just so tragic that they just have to keep going, the Associated Press reported that on Mar. 16 Nicholas Hughes, a biologist and the son of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, committed suicide by hanging at his home in Fairbanks, AK. His mother, author of the novel The Bell Jar, is known as much for her own suicide as for her writing, and her name has become something of a shorthand for a figure of poetic despair. It is unclear what precipitated Nicholas Hughes’ suicide, but his sister Frieda, also a poet, issued a statement citing Nicholas’ ongoing battle with depression.

Aside from the many sorrowful aspects of this story, it should serve as a reminder that clinical depression is a physiological and usually genetic condition that afflicts more of us, and more deeply, than we’d care to admit.

John G. Nettles

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at 16, skipping his senior year of high school. In college John was equally as renowned for his dancing skills as he was for his intellectual prowess. After brief stints studying comparative literature at the University of Chicago and observing nightlife in New York City, John returned to his native Georgia soil and put down roots. Over the next 20 years he prolifically wrote poetry, prose and songs, gave public speeches, added another degree (this one in anthropology,) married his soul-mate, Cynthia Jarvis, in 1992 and cultivated countless friendships that would last forever.

In the college-town transience of Athens, John stood out as a touchstone of local culture and lore. He was an encyclopedia of knowledge, always available to give advice or offer direction. He was also a loving friend and brother, with a sympathetic ear to lend or a broad shoulder to cry on. In 1994, when John tragically lost Cynthia in an automobile accident, rather than succumb to depression and become isolated, he chose to embrace the Athens he loved even more, celebrating her life as a healer and perpetuating her wonderful spirit of generosity.

John believed in community in the deepest sense of the word, and the conviction that we are all responsible for one another played a crucial role in his life. Through his involvement in Orange Twin Conservation Community, he was able to put his vision into practice. He would be very proud of the progress and achievements the organization has made, and deeply honored that the woods he loved so much are to be named after him.

It is a fine thing to celebrate oneself, as Whitman told us we should. It is also noble to attempt the same with that vast mystery, someone else’s self. Some livingness that moved through with unique radiance, and now is gone, or at least not here like it once was, when it was walking around, talking, repairing the floor, refusing dessert or standing somewhere reading a book. John Seawright was fully alive. He was John Seawright all the way through, like a fig. He sometimes liked to talk about the Ottoman Empire.

He had a great compassionate heart and an eye, and ear, for the odd detail. He read newspapers on microfilm from north Georgia from the 1870s and 1840s almost every day. He found this filler note: “Sailors in Bristol and Cardiff have been heard saying ‘So long’ to each other. It is thought to be in imitation of the Muslim slaves saying ‘Salaam’ to each other.”

Don’t you love it? These ole boys in their pickup trucks at the loading docks in Thomson, GA, wishing everybody the Islamic Peace of God. Salaam Aleichem right back atchee, Elroy, your mommernim, too. That found filler fact might save the world, if we could let it out. Oh, maybe not.

Say the world doesn’t need saving.

Listen. John Seawright’s great uncle, Griff Verner, spent a few of his last days perfecting the ultimate image of retirement. He whittled white pine neck-yokes for his chickens, so they couldn’t get though the wide slat-divisions of his yard fence. Now. There are other possible solutions for this problem, but that is not within our field of reference. Our backyard of interest. The yokes had another possible utility for wringing the necks of said chickens when Sunday demanded their appearance at table, but that is an overlaid function, as speech is for the larynx, whose primary function is as a valve to keep food, foreign matter, from getting in the windpipe when you swallow. Though you might call that secondary here at this point in the 21st century, as we evolve so fumblingly using that superb verbal medium. What is your take on the word spirit from where you are now, John? Does language even apply? Is it full telepathy there/here? Nowhere. Now/here.

Eight years passed between Cynthia’s death (his beautiful wife) and his own in early May of 2001. Cynthia loved sunflowers. We have been missing John’s astonishing conversation for eight years now. We miss his resonant deep voice and, Lord, his tickled laugh. Thing about whittling. Sometimes you get to the end, and you have nothing to show, just some little bit to throw in the fire. I love that.

Sam Seawright

Coleman Barks

Terry Allen

ou audiophiles may have heard of the local label Orange Twin, which has worked with bands such as Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, Vic Chesnutt, Madeline and others, but it is also part of the larger overarching Orange Twin collective, which has organized the Orange Twin Conservation Community. A 100-acre woodland plot just five miles from downtown Athens, the community is organized on the model of a pedestrian-based eco-village bent on conservation, preservation and sustainability.

On Saturday, Apr. 25 the community will dedicate a considerable area of its land to late Athens poet/writer John Seawright, who was, himself, part of the collective and a founding member. Seawright was a staple of the Athens arts scene, a prolific writer and meticulous historian.

His Flagpole column, Ghost Fry, ran for many years and brought some of the most obscure and interesting real-life Georgia characters to light. It was a great loss to the Athens community when Seawright passed away eight years ago on May 10, 2001.

The Orange Twin event that will honor him will be an allday affair from 2–11 p.m., with a walk in the woods slated for 2 p.m. and the dedication ceremony at 3:30 p.m. The day will also feature folk music by Art Rosenbaum and a speech (see below) given by internationally acclaimed poet and close friend, Coleman Barks. John’s brother, Sam, will also be on hand to read some of John’s poetry and has generously written a small bio of John for Flagpole readers who did not have the pleasure of knowing him. Sam offers a small taste of why John Seawright was so well-loved and is so dearly missed.

About John

Southerner, gentleman, historian, orator, poet, painter, preacher, spinner of yarns—at the heart of all the terms used to describe John Seawright was his love of people, his celebration of being alive and the sharing of his unique take on the world with those around him. He provided a voice that resonated for so many who couldn’t speak for themselves, whether by running for city council or unraveling the hidden history of Georgia in his Ghost Fry columns and Oxford American articles.

John loved bringing people together, if not literally by performing their marriage ceremony, then in other ways, such as tracing their genealogy back six generations to find that they were his cousins. If all else failed, people were always welcome to sit on his porch and swap stories, compare biscuit recipes and auto repair tips.

John was a voracious reader even at an early age; writing, politics and history were always his interests. He published a family newspaper at age eight. His science fair project in ninth grade explored the pros and cons of a hypothetical Athens and Clarke County merger 25 years before the fact. He attended the Governor’s Honors Program for art at age 15 as well as played a mean harp in a blues band. He was a National Merit Scholar

To find the Orange Twin Conservation Community, drive 4.5 miles out North Avenue. The parcel is off Helican Springs on Noketchee Creek Road. The organizers ask that you please carpool and leave your dog at home. For more information, please write to Blair Dorminey at bdorminey@visalawcenter.com.

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

17 AGAIN (PG-13) Mike O’Donnell (Matthew Perry) is an unhappy 37-year-old on the verge of divorce.

So, when a mystical janitor (Brian Doyle-Murray) offers Mike a chance to return to his hotshot days as a teenage basketball star who looked like Zac Efron, he says yes. Now that Mike looks like the High School Musical star, his wife, Scarlett (Leslie Mann), shows her cougar-ish side and his daughter, Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg), goes all Lorraine McFly. The unimaginative casting and several giant, unnavigable plotholes hide a charming performance from the young lead. Efron may still be too lightweight for heavier fare, but he proves he’s more than Disney’s song-and-dance man. Alas, 17 Again has nothing new to offer the body-switching canon but Efron. Make your ticket-buying decisions accordingly.

ADVENTURELAND (R) The summer after graduating from college, James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg), was supposed to travel across Europe with his well-to-do buddy. But James is forced to get a job after his father is “transferred to another department,” and the only gig for which the Renaissance Studies major is qualified is running games at the local amusement park.

Like any self-respecting coming-of-age tale, Adventureland teaches James more about real life while whiling away the hours to “Rock Me, Amadeus” than four years of college. 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.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (NR) The Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival brings five acclaimed films to Athens. Scheduled to play are Academy Award-nominee and Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner Trouble the Water (Hurricane Katrina), Satellite Award nominee Pray the Devil Back to Hell (women’s rights in Liberia), Letter to Anna (assassinated Russian human rights journalist Anna Politkovskaya), Tribeca Film Festival winner Favela Rising (a former drug gang member turns his community around with music), and 17-time award-winner Were the World Mine (a musical comedy version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream).

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.

BREAKING AWAY (PG) 1979.

A group of working-class townies (Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern and Jackie Earle Haley) square off against wealthy frat guys in Bloomington, Indiana’s annual Little 500 bike race. Part of the Twilight Bike Week Film Festival.

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: HIGH VOLTAGE (R) See Movie Pick.

After a while, they even started to look alike.

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

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Khadak (NR) 7:00 (Th. 4/23) The Land Before Time (G) 3:00 (Tu. 4/28) Unnatural Causes (NR) 3:00 (Su. 4/26)

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17 Again (PG-13) 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Adventureland (R) 7:05 Crank: High Voltage (R) 5:20, 7:35, 10:00 Dragonball Evolution (PG) 5:15, 7:45, 9:55 Earth (G) 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 (starts W. 4/22) Fast & Furious (PG-13) 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 Hannah Montana: The Movie (G) 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 I Love You, Man (R) 4:15, 9:30 Knowing (PG-13) 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 (ends W. 4/22) Monsters vs. Aliens (3D) (PG) 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Observe and Report (R) 5:05, 7:25, 9:40 State of Play (PG-13) 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sunshine Cleaning (R) 4:45, 7:10, 9:30

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17 Again (PG-13) 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Adventureland (R) 1:30, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 Crank: High Voltage (R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 9:45 Dragonball Evolution (PG) 12:45, 3:00, 5:10, 7:20, 9:40 Earth (G) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 (starts W. 4/22) Fast & Furious (PG-13) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Hannah Montana: The Movie (G) 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 The Haunting in Connecticut (PG-13) 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 I Love You, Man (R) 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Knowing (PG-13) 1:15, 4:00, 7:20, 10:00 (ends W. 4/22) Monsters vs. Aliens (3D) (PG) 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30

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hobbit) is charged by his grandfather with safeguarding a dragonball, one of seven magical billiard balls that, when united, grant the owner one wish. If you’re in a forgiving cinematic mood, this live action cartoon has just the right amount of silly fun and cheesy FX. DUPLICITY (PG-13) CIA agent Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) and MI-6 operative Ray Koval (Clive Owen) first met in Dubai 2003. He liked her. She

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Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival (NR) F. 4/24–Th. 4/30 The Big Lebowski (R) 11:00 (Th. 4/23) Breaking Away (PG) 5:15, 9:30 (Th. 4/23); 5:15 (F. 4/24); 1:45, 11:30 (Sa. 4/25) The Class (PG-13) 7:00 (ends Th. 4/23) The Great Buck Howard (PG) 5:00, 9:45 (ends Th. 4/23) In a Dream (NR) 7:15 (ends Th. 4/23) Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (PG) 5:15, 9:30 (W. 4/22); 11:30 (F. 4/25); 2:00 (Su. 4/26) Quicksilver (PG) 7:15, 9:30 (F. 4/24) Sleepwalking Through the Mekong (NR) 8:00 (Tu. 4/21) Sunshine Cleaning (R) 4:30, 7:15, 9:30 (add’l time Sa. 4/25–Su. 4/26: 2:15) (no 9:30 show Su. 4/26) (starts Sa. 4/25)

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Duplicity (PG-13) 4:05, 7:15, 10:05 He’s Just Not That Into You (PG-13) 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Hotel for Dogs (PG) 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Paul Blart: Mall Cop (PG) 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Taken (PG-13) 5:15, 7:35, 9:55

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The Secret of the Grain (NR) 7:00 (W. 4/22, rm 213)

seduced, drugged and robbed him of government secrets. Cut to five years later, Claire and Ray meet again in New York while working for rival corporations, Burkett and Randle and Equikrom, run by two spitting, hissing CEOs, Howard Tully (Tom Wilkinson) and Dick Garsik (Paul Giamatti).

Duplicity is so full of double crosses and triple crosses that the audience will learn the smart play is to be as distrusting as Claire and Ray are of each other. m EARTH (G) Celebrate Earth Day with DisneyNature’s doc on the migration of three animal families—polar bear, humpback whale and African elephant. Then again, Earth is just a feature length version of the hi-def “Planet Earth” series you could have watched on Discovery for free. Of course, if you prefer James Earl Jones to Sigourney Weaver (or Patrick Stewart), the new feature flick’s for you. Co-director Alastair Fothergill executive produced the TV series. The trailer’s a sharp one that gives away nothing about the movie’s small-screen origins.

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. On the lam con Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and FBI agent Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) are reunited by the death of a friend as they seek revenge against the drug lord responsible for her death. No one should mistake this article-less edition of F&F for a work of cinematic art; it’s upfront and honest about its lowbrow ambitions.

FIGHTING (PG-13) Call the title unimaginative if you want, but no audience member can complain they didn’t know what they were getting into with this Channing Tatum/ Terrence Howard pugilism pic. A down and out vendor of counterfeit goods, Shawn MacArthur (Tatum), gets introduced to underground street fighting by seasoned manager Harvey Boarden (Howard). A friend thinks Fighting

looks far too similar to JCVD’s Lionheart minus the whole Foreign Legion bit. Writer-director Dito Montiel previously directed Tatum in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. With Luis Guzmán.

THE GREAT BUCK HOWARD (PG) When Troy Gable (Colin Hanks) dropped out of law school, much to the chagrin of his father (played by Hanks’ real-life dad, two-time Oscar-winner Tom), he becomes the new assistant to declining illusionist Buck Howard (John Malkovich). The early buzz for this wistful comedy has been expectedly sweet. With Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada), David Mamet regular Ricky Jay, Griffin Dunne, Adam Scott (Step Brothers) and Steve Zahn. Written and directed by Sean McGinly.

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.

HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (PG-13) Based on the self-help/ chicklit bestseller by Greg Behrendt (a “Sex and the City” story editor) and Liz Tucillo, He’s Just Not That Into You is too long, cinematographically desolate, and fashioned solely out of genderdefined traits and hang-ups. A bunch of Baltimoreans, representing every white, hetero demographic, navigate the stormy waters of love.

HOTEL FOR DOGS (PG) Nickelodeon Movies’ new doggie flick is no Beverly Hills Chihuahua, and that is not a compliment. The gadget-enhanced antics of Hotel for Dogs, based on a novel

by Lois Duncan, will please the tykes; adults must fend for themselves. 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 benefit screening as part of their Depression and Suicide Awareness Week.

INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE (R) 1994. Director Neil Jordan had his hands full following up the Oscarwinning The Crying Game with an adaptation of Anne Rice’s lukewarmly erotic horror novel. Sure, Tom Cruise

didn’t bite as The Vampire Chronicles centerpiece, Lestat, but time hasn’t been kind to this bloodsucking movie.

Still, it’s better than Rice’s plodding, wooden novel. Brad Pitt stars as Louis, the vampire being interviewed by Christian Slater’s Daniel. With a young Kirsten Dunst and Antonio Banderas.

KHADAK (NR) 2006. Young nomad, Bagi (Swarovski Trophy-winner Batzul Khayankhyarvaa), struggles to use his epileptic visions to save his people’s traditional steppe lifestyle after a plague ravages the animals they herd.

Winner of a ton of international awards, including prizes from Toronto, Venice, Oslo, Cyprus and Bratislava, Khadak was nominated for Sundance’s coveted Grand Jury Prize. Directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Hope Woodworth, who wrote the screenplay.

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. The not-as-badlycoiffed-as-usual star takes Knowing very seriously, giving one of his best, least stylized performances in years.

Combine Cage’s unexpected hard work with Marco Beltrami’s over-the-top, Bernard Herrmann-esque score and Proyas’s sinister B-movie setups, and before you know it, Knowing becomes the best M. Night Shyamalan movie M. Night didn’t get the chance to ruin.

THE LAND BEFORE TIME (G) 1988.

Former Disney animator Don Bluth (The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail) and executive producers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg scored another hit with this cartoon about five dinosaurs in search of the legendary Great Valley. The Special Needs Library presents this family friendly movie featuring a non-intrusive track for visually impaired viewers.

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (R) 2008.

Though unabashedly horrific, Swedish director Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel is a beautifully haunting tale of first love that cannot be locked in the genre closet. Lonely Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) is bullied at school. At home, he spends his time planning murderous revenge with a small hunting knife and adding to his scrapbook of true crime. The boy needs a friend in the worst way. Fortunately, a new kid, the androgynous Eli, has moved in next door. However, darker events are afoot in the small Swedish town. Blinded by young love, Oskar cannot see what is so clear to the audience; the peculiar, pretty girl traipsing through the snow without shoes or a coat is a genderless, monstrous, yet tender vampire. Let the Right One In is the year’s boldest horror film that offers so much more.

MONSTERS VS. ALIENS (PG) Rather than tying the knot with selfinvolved local TV weatherman, Derek Dietl (Paul Rudd), Susan becomes the 49 foot, 11 inch (get it?) Ginormica.

Captured by General W.R. Monger (v.

Kiefer Sutherland), Susan/Ginormica meets her fellow monsters. Meanwhile, the earth is being threatened by foureyed squidling, Gallaxhar (v. Rainn Wilson). The wonderfully animated MvA may be remarkable for its major action set pieces but lacks the charm and wit of more memorable family films.

OBSERVE AND REPORT (R) Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) isn’t exactly living his dream. A wannabe cop, Ronnie protects the Forest Ridge mall for a living. Paul Blart, this is not.

Observe and Report spits, hisses, scratches and claws. The comedy from writer-director Jody Hill 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. Every joke goes too far; every gag threatens to make you

gag. The violence, though played for laughs, is brutal. 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.

OBSESSED (PG-13) Successful businessman Derek Charles (the terrific Idris Elba, who needs to steer clear of these sorts of flicks in the future) has a pretty new temporary secretary, Lisa Sheridan (Ali Larter). When Lisa goes all Fatal Attraction, it’s up to suspicious, jealous wife Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles) to save the Charles family.

This flick sounds like it belongs to the early ‘90s, when The Crush and The Temp were greenlit. And it’s PG-13, so no nekkid Ali Larter or Beyoncé. Boo! 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.

PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE (PG) 1985. In Pee-Wee’s feature film showcase directed by Tim Burton, Paul Reubens’ zany man-child embarks on a cross-country adventure when his beloved red bicycle is stolen. Part of the Twilight Bike Week Film Festival.

QUICKSILVER (PG) 1986. Jack Casey (Kevin Bacon) turns to bike messaging after losing all his money in the stock market. His new job becomes complicated when he discovers that his co-workers are caught up in delivering drugs for a dangerous dealer, Gypsy.

Part of the Twilight Bike Week Film Festival. Nelson Vails, a professional cyclist who represented the United States in the 1984 Summer Olympics and is featured as a bike messenger in Quicksilver, will be in attendance to discuss the making of the film and his career.

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. A 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) 2007. John Pirozzi directs this rockumentary of LosAngeles-based band Dengue Fever’s trek to Cambodia. Touring lead singer Chhom Nimol’s native country, Dengue Fever, which includes Farfisa organist Ethan Holtzman, his guitarist brother Zac (ex-Dieselhed), horns David Ralicke (Beck/Brazzaville), bassist Senon Williams (Radar Bros.) and drummer Paul Smith, performs ‘60s and ‘70s Cambodian rock in a tour through Phnom Penh and beyond.

THE SOLOIST (PG-13) Atonement director Joe Wright finally makes it to present-day with this true story about Los Angeles reporter Steve Lopez (Robert Downey, Jr.) who befriends Nathaniel Ayers (Academy Awardwinner Jamie Foxx), a former Juilliard student now living on Skid Row, and writes a series of articles highlighting his woeful tale. Will the film be worthy of Wright’s previous work or will it devolve into treacle?

STATE OF PLAY (PG-13) See Movie Pick.

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

Everything goes swimmingly for a while. But the house of cards comes fluttering down in unsurprising fashion after Nora fulfills her role as familial destroyer. It contains every marking of an indie dramedy.

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.

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: Place Matters” continues the sevenpart 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.

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STATE OF PLAY (PG-13) Adult moviegoers better get their butts in theaters over the next few weeks and see State of Play. If you ever hope to have something to watch other than tween/teen-geared fare starring the under-20 crowd, you’ve got to prove to Hollywood that some other kinds of movies are profitable.

State of Play may not be the best film of the year, but it is a well-made political thriller starring actual actors, some of whom own Oscars.

Newspaper reporter Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe) is a dinosaur on the verge of extinction. But when a sex scandal rocks the political/personal boat of Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck), Cal gets another shot at glory.

We’re not talking Woodward and Bernstein, Watergate Russell Crowe glory; Capitol Hill sex scandals are a dime a dozen, and incriminating the representative from the seventh district of Pennsylvania isn’t the same as evicting the president. With the help of a political blogger, Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), Cal uncovers a deeper conspiracy full of twists and turns.

Considering State of Play is a six-hour BBC miniseries boiled down to a two-hour feature,

many of these “shocking” developments pile up behind one another like a multi-car accident. Had the same cast been corralled for a multipart HBO Americanization, State of Play might have been something really terrific as opposed to the pretty good that it became.

Despite its brevity, State of Play succeeds through the fleet direction of Kevin Macdonald; the smart writing of Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom), Oscar-winner Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton) and Billy Ray (Breach); and the real acting of Crowe, Affleck, McAdams, Helen Mirren, et al. But Justin Bateman deserves specific mention for his turn as the drugged out sleazeball who helps break the story wide open.

State of Play’s three aforementioned characteristics used to be the measure of a good movie, but this adult-oriented drama will be judged a hit or a miss based on how much money it makes on its opening weekend, a sum which will pale in comparison to Zac Efron’s body-switching comedy. That reality is the sad state of pay in Hollywood.

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I Should Write Something in German… or Turkish: For some reason, even after seeing The Edge of Heaven, one of my three or four favorite films of 2008, I’ve been slow to delve into the career of Fatih Akin. I have less of an excuse now that I’ve seen his 1998 feature debut Short Sharp Shock, a gritty but affectingly naïve story of loyalty and violence that reminded me of Mean Streets set amid the immigrant population of Hamburg. Akin shows enormous empathy for his flawed characters and gets deeply engaged performances from his actors. This film isn’t available on video in this country yet, but several of his others are.

I strongly recommend The Edge of Heaven as a rental to anyone.

Peace, It’s Wonderful: The good folks at Ciné continue to provide an Athens home for exciting, otherwise difficult-to-see films— sometimes in bunches. The week of Apr. 24–30, Ciné hosts the Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival, which will feature five films that focus on various human rights issues around the world. Trouble the Water is Carl Deal and Tia Lessin’s acclaimed documentary built around 15 minutes of Hi-8 footage shot by Ninth Ward resident Kimberly Rivers Roberts immediately before and during the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. Rob Nelson in Film Comment called it “the definitive

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everyone gay. There will be opening- and closing-night festivities including guest speakers and live music.

The Criterium Collection: In conjunction with Athens’ second-favorite excuse for public alcohol consumption, the Twilight Criterium, Ciné will present the Twilight Bike Week Film Festival, five days of cycling-related films.

From Wednesday, Apr. 22 through Sunday, Apr. 26, bike-movie buffs will be treated to screenings of Breaking Away (1979), the great coming-of-age drama that was developed into a short-lived TV series shot here in Athens, PeeWee’s Big Adventure (1985), which needs no word of explanation from me, and Quicksilver (1986), starring the fabulously ubiquitous Kevin Bacon as a New York bike messenger in hot water with a drug gang. As a really nice festival bonus, Nelson Vails, a former professional rider and silver medalist for the USA in the 1984 Olympics, will be in attendance to talk about his career, including his performance alongside Kevin Bacon in Quicksilver.

Check www.athenscine.com for showtimes and more details.

Little Extra Things and Whatnot: Adult Swim devotees will be delighted to know that Ciné will host a release party for the new Squidbillies DVD on Wednesday, Apr. 29 at

movie pick Bad Habit CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE (R) Crank was the first destroying anything between him and his hit of a new, highly addictive designer drug. pumper.

Crank: High Voltage ups the dosage, ensurFans of the first Crank will not be disaping that the audience will either become an pointed. C:HV typifies the toddler-ish subgenre addict, jonesing for that third hit, or a corpse, of the video game action flick. A frenetic OD-ing on the most mainlined bit of videoassault of amorality and violence, Neveldine/ game-influenced, cinematic pornography this Taylor’s second film connotes Nintendo titles, side of the letters XXX. Writing-directing duo Killer 7 and No More Heroes, as well as the Neveldine/Taylor should take that last stateGrand Theft Auto franchise. ment as the compliment it was meant to be.

Their film also displays inherited traits Invincible hitman from Quentin Tarantino, Chev Chelios (Jason Leone’s spaghetti Statham) survived fallwesterns and Japanese ing from a helicopter genius Takashi Miike. at the end of the first Cinematically, C:HV is movie. Now the Triads a direct descendant want Chev’s Timexof Miike’s gore-filled tough ticker, which Yakuza flicks, although they replace with a C:HV’s exploitative onebattery-powered artidimensionality grows ficial heart, meant to tiring. keep him alive until C:HV is no more they can harvest the meant to please rest of his organs. Chev the Merchant-Ivory isn’t too keen on the Jason Statham and Amy Smart crowd than Pride and idea, so he escapes, Prejudice is intended hell-bent on finding his “strawberry tart.” to sate Mortal Kombat veterans. However, the Unfortunately, Chev demolishes the exterfilm, no matter how depraved and immorally nal battery keeping his borrowed heart pumpmonotonous, is injected with far more creativing. As luck would have it, this backup can ity than the generic Hollywood action flick be temporarily recharged with friction and (see 12 Rounds). I’m not saying Neveldine/ jolts of electricity. With assistance from a Taylor is/are the next Tarantino, but their crazed Chinese hooker (Bai Ling), his dead newest feature makes me think they might be pal Kaylo’s brother Venus (Efren Ramirez), Hollywood’s domesticated version of Miike.

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Trouble the Water, an acclaimed doc about Hurricane Katrina, will screen at Ciné as part of the Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival. experimental chronicle of the catastrophe.”

That’s not to be missed, nor is Gini Reticker and Abigail Disney’s similarly praised doc Pray the Devil Back to Hell, about the peaceful, grass-roots women’s movement in Liberia that helped bring down the dictatorship of Charles Taylor. The Swiss-German production Letter to Anna is Eric Bergkraut’s documentary on the life and death of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who famously and heroically reported on the Chechen conflict until her assassination in 2006. Matt Mochary and Jeff Zimbalist’s 2005 Favela Rising is an up-close portrait of Anderson Sá, founder of the musical and socio-political movement in Rio de Janeiro known as AfroReggae. Finally, Were the World Mine, the only non-documentary in the festival, is director Tom Gustafson’s upbeat musical comedy variation on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which a high school student discovers a potion that turns

7 p.m. Show creators Jim Fortier and Dave Willis will be in attendance… A final Cinérelated item: watch for Nacho Vigalondo’s Timecrimes, a scary Spanish thriller that may be remade by David Cronenberg. It’s currently slated to open May 1—looks like a lot of fun… Art X and the UGA Main Library Media Department conclude their Miyazaki festival with Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Friday, Apr. 24 at 7 p.m. The free screening is in the First Floor Auditorium of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, 270 River Rd. …Next up in the ACC Library’s iFilms series are Khadak (2006), a “magical-realist fable” from Mongolia directed by Peter Brosens, on Apr. 23 and Dale Kutzera’s army satire Military Intelligence and You (2006) on Apr. 30. Screenings are Thursdays at 7 p.m. Go to www.clarke.public. lib.ga.us for more info.

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art notes Southern Gothic, Retro Spacemen and the Bus A Stitch in Time: A series of prints, drawings and paintings by Stephanie Blair at Flicker Theatre & Bar reflects the artist’s self-described half-Mexican, half-hillbilly identity and experiences growing up in South Georgia. A faceless, dark-haired little girl (a stand-in for the artist?) appears throughout the small works alongside dinosaur skeletons and empty swing sets. Other images are screen-printed photo-transfers, textile mills or splattered and dyed fabrics that have been accentuated with doodle-like lines in sparse embroidery that spell out cryptic, seemingly automatic messages worthy of a Ouija board (e.g., “supplementary psychic amnesia”). Punctuating these images are intricately drawn black-and-white tarot cards that lend to the overall ethereal, Southern Gothic appeal of these images (which was certainly not hurt by the serendipitous screening of Gone with the Wind on the bar’s TV). Blair’s work will be up until the beginning of May. Similarly Otherworldly: From an altogether different universe ruled by a happily psychedelic reincarnation of Paul Klee, is an installation of Jill Carnes’ work at White Tiger Gourmet.

Arranged like a wall of a cartoon family’s portraits in a pleasant, day-dream world, Carnes’ drawings and paintings include the artist’s familiar menagerie of skinny, banjo-playing boys on

video game character—that is as multifaceted as his layers of appropriation, and he is definitely not the good guy.

Camera Obscura: Brooke Easler’s “Night Photographs” at Mama’s Boy is a series of small, color photographs that are at once familiar and mysterious images of neighborhood streets.

Caught in the white glare of the camera’s flash are specks of snow, the faded, lacy branches of a half-obscured tree and the cropped, hanging tendril of a vine that looks as much like a curling, art nouveau arabesque as it does a part of nature.

Voyeuristic and out of focus is an image of a golden-lit front porch at night that seems as if it could be a leftover snapshot from the set of Blue Velvet. Similar in scale is a group of photographs by Dena Gunter Maxwell at Redeye Coffee. With imagery ranging from the façade of the Apollo in New York and the head of the Statue of Liberty to the interior of a sushi bar and a farmhouse, Maxwell’s work suggests the fleeting snapshots of a traveler.

Do the Bus Stop: If (local) travel is in your near-future, be sure to see “You, Me and the Bus II” at the Lyndon House Arts Center. After the success of the previous competition sponsored by the Athens Area Art Council, the second contest was

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Dana Jo Cooley’s design, “Love Shack,” for the “You, Me and the Bus II” exhibition at the Lyndon House Arts Center. front porches, crowned women in bright, puffy-sleeved dresses, bubble-domed spaceships and storybook animals. They operate kissing booths, fill out the different registers of a multi-framed “Family Collage,” or appear coloring-book style on children’s paper. Some of my favorites, in terms of pure visual appeal, are her drawings of owls, such as “Owl on a Limb,” whose feathers have been translated into paisley, dots and patterns, or the almost all-purple, densely composed “Warm April Evening,” accented by flecks of chartreuse green and framed in an appropriately busy purple enamel and silver frame.

Mod Cons: At the ACC Library is “Expression/Recession,” an exhibition of small and medium-sized works by UGA MFA grad Jeremy Hughes. Now living in Brooklyn, NY, Hughes’ paintings were featured in a recent solo exhibition at the Art Spot, in the Peachtree Public Library in midtown Atlanta. Hughes often transforms inanimate objects into anthropomorphized standins for humans, as in his “Gasmask with Microphone.” Also, he frequently appropriates pre-existing imagery and motifs from film, art and popular culture and uses them as the basis for his bright, mod-infused paintings. Maybe containing a little bit of all of these is the artist’s hypnotic “Portrait as Sark, MCP,” which features the artist as a character from the 1982, soonto-be-remade Disney film Tron. Sark has a dazzlingly postmodern, tripartite identity—a computer genius, corporate CEO and

titled “Art Rocks! A Public Art Tribute to the Music of Athens.”

On display at the LHAC are the winning plans for the next round of artist-designed bus stops, including eight yet to be built and four alternate designs. Included are plans for bus stops that look like stacked amps in a design by Armentrout, Roebuck, Matheny/Jbass/Ljennings or incorporate steel drums (yes, apparently you can play them) as in “Beat a Drum”

by Dominique Davison. Tributes to Athens’ biggest names in pop music include a tin-roofed rendition of The B52s’ “Love Shack” by Dana Jo Cooley and a recreation of an R.E.M. cover in “Murmur Trestle” by Hannah Goldberg, Lucy Marshall, Kim Hicks, Meghan Just and Kate Hardman (fittingly, a group of UGA art students).

Upcoming: Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa will take place May 2 & 3 in the parking lot adjacent to the Caledonia and Agora (corner of Clayton and Pulaski streets). This year’s expanded two-day fair will also feature musical performances during the day and plenty of local art to take home. Finally, this is the season of art school closings and free wine. Opening Apr. 24 is “BFA I Exit Show: Graphic Design, Photography, Printmaking.”

Opening May 1 is “SHAZAM! BFA Drawing & Painting Exit Show.”

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip Welcome home. Thanks for coming back around and seeing what we have to say. We certainly appreciate it. With that, let’s stop slapping each other’s backs and get to the news…

For Those in Town: The 40 Watt will host what it’s colloquially referring to as “Baby ‘Roo” (as in Baby Bonnaroo) June 11–13. The first night, Thursday, June 11, features Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Titus Andronicus and All The Saints. Los Angeles punk godparents X (!) will play Friday, June 12 with Steve Soto & the Twisted Hearts.

Finally, on Saturday, June 13, the club will host St. Vincent and Pattern Is Movement.

All shows are ticketed separately and on sale now. For more info, go see www.40watt.com.

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Updated Report: We announced the new album, Winter Breathing,

by Brad Downs & the Poor Bastard Souls a couple of weeks ago, Titus Andronicus but news has come in that the band has scheduled an official release show for the record. The band will appear at the 40 Watt Club on Thursday, Apr. 30 with the Ralph Roddenbery Band that, coincidentally, will celebrate the release of its new album, For So Long, that night. For more information on both groups of artists, please see www.braddownsmusic.com and www.myspace. com/ralphroddenbery.

Gou Ni Itte Wa, Gou Ni Shitagae: Local hombres Cinemechanica flew to Japan last week for a series of dates. The tour was set up by promoter Takuya Shinkawa and Stiff Slack, the Japanese distributor of member Bryant Williamson’s Hello Sir Records, and will carry the band to shows in Osaka, Kyoto, three dates in Tokyo and two dates in Nagoya. The band returns home at the end of the month.

For more information, please see www.cine mechanica.com.

Goin’ Round: The UGA Music Business Program will host its graduation celebration at the Melting Point on Thursday, Apr. 23.

The featured event is that night’s instance of the “Songwriters in the Round” series.

The performers are Nashville songwriters Mark Beeson, James Dean Hicks and Will Robinson. The three are responsible individually for songs recorded by Conway Twitty, Restless Heart, Reba McEntire, Chicago, Kenny Rogers, Alabama and many more. The show begins at 6 p.m., and more info can be found over at www.meltingpointathens.com.

Hell’s Trophy: The gloomsters in Athens band Entertainment are gratified to learn that website Deathrock.com has just named their album, Gender, the site’s Album of the Year for 2008. In other news, the record was recently released through German label NMMV for the European market. Any way you slice it, that’s very cool. Go check them out over at www. entertainme-nt.com.

Heavier Than Heaven: Newly resurrected locals Marriage will host a record release

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show for, um, themselves at Ciné on Saturday, May 2. Lazer/Wülf is also on the bill. The new 11-track album is named Ebenezer, and attendees are instructed to “bring [their] MP3 player” because you’ll be able to download the record at the show presumably for a small fee. No plans to manufacture compact discs exist right now, but the band is considering a vinyl version. Ebenezer was recorded at The Bakery with engineer Joel Hatstat. Formerly a duo composed of members Josh Wootton and Brent Blalock, Marriage is now a three-

piece with the addition of Ted Kuhn. In other news, the band’s first two records, Marriage and II, are available now on CD and via digital download from online merchant CD Baby. Visit the band virtually over at www.myspace.com/ marriage.

Slow & Steady: Practically since the band’s inception, R.E.M. has involved itself in causes great and small. They put a smile on my face when I received the news they had sponsored a turtle (named Nightswimmer) in The Great Turtle Race. “We are always looking for different and interesting ways to bring the environment into people’s consciousness,” said Mike Mills in a recent press conference, “and I can’t think of a much better way than with these beautiful and majestic creatures that drift around and look so at home in the ocean.

Our turtle, Nightswimmer, [is] huge [and] beautiful, and it is going to be very exciting to watch the progress of this animal as it goes along its merry way.” The event, which is the brainchild of Conservation International’s Sea Turtle Flagship Program, lasts two weeks and began Apr. 16. During the race, 11 leatherback sea turtles are tagged with satellite tracking devices so researchers can map their journey from Canada to the Caribbean. The length they will traverse is 3,700 miles. Daily updates on each turtle’s progress are available via http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/ animals/article/greatturtlerace.html.

Florida Calling: Modern Skirts left town for a brief East Coast tour this week and will play Charlottesville, VA, Washington, DC, Brooklyn, New York City, Boston and Charlotte, NC. Next month the band has a string of dates in Florida playing the Orange You Glad Festival, The Florida Music Festival and the Tropical Heatwave Festival. The band’s current release is All of Us in Our Night, which was nationally released early this year. If you’re so inclined, go get dazzled by more essential info at www. modernskirts.com.

Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

record reviews CHRISTABEL AND THE JONS Custom Made for You Independent Release Contrary to the sound of it, Christabel and the Jons has nothing to do with any kind of late-night, back-seat exchanges of cash during an impromptu stop at a rest area. In fact, it’s just the opposite. Give a listen to the band’s new record, Custom Made for You, and you may find yourself marveling at the pristine subject matter, which goes hand in hand with the band’s down-home, 1930s, Tennessee swing chops and singer Christa DeCicco’s velvety delivery. Not a single offensive thing can be found on this record. It is truly pleasant. And therein lies the problem—I don’t love this record, and I don’t hate this record. I am entirely indifferent to it.

To be clear, this is not a band without talent, but neither is it clearly a band with talent. They seem to hold back so much that it’s hard to judge whether they’re shy or simply passionless. The melodies seem constrained, and DeCicco’s vocals—as pretty as they are—have an almost mechanical feel to them. Only once or twice does she allow her voice to get a little playful, and it’s those moments that hint at the possibility of something more.

Unfortunately, as soon as she notices her voice beginning to soar, she locks it back up. Maybe they’re all afraid of rejection, but if they opened up just a little bit they might find that rejection is the last thing on any listener’s mind.

Jennifer Gibson Christabel & the Jons play Flicker Theatre & Bar Friday, Apr. 24.

DUBCONSCIOUS Nonviolent Independent Release DubConscious has long made its name as a band willing to stretch the boundaries of dub and reggae through epic live performances and an ability to seamlessly drift from the outer reaches of space rock to the deepest roots reggae grooves. For the uninitiated, it’s a bit daunting at times to hear a band stretch out songs to all points ridiculous and sublime; but to the sweaty (and often unwashed) throngs, the band is something else.

Fans of DubConscious and dub love this stuff: roots reggae being played by the studio. When done right, as often is the case on Nonviolent, it is a cosmic mix of good vibes and easy-to-remember vocal melodies. The

problem is that the initial charm of dub is lost after the first three minutes of listening. Nonviolent shares that same problem. It’s not that the songs are bad, or the musicianship less than stellar, it’s that the songs eventually turn into one, big, mid-tempo dirge.

It’s easy to get lost in DubConscious’ vast sonic expanse.

The mountains of echo, spacey vocals and throbbing bass seem to beg listeners to look at the band not just as crafters of infectious dub, but also as captains of a journey—whether the journey is chemically aided or musically aided is up to the listener.

You can purchase Nonviolent as a “seed card” at the show Saturday—a download code printed on a postcard that can be planted to grow wildflowers after use! If you prefer a physical CD, take pride in knowing DubConscious chose the most environmentally sound packaging available: the CD artwork is printed with soy-based ink on recycled cardboard with no plastic wrap.

Jason Bugg DubConscious celebrates its CD release at the Georgia Theatre Saturday, Apr. 25.

THE HORRORS Primary Colours Beggars XI Recording Whether you loved, hated or never heard Strange House, the first Horrors record, is totally irrelevant. This album is nothing like it. This is the finest departure, the most successful sophomore jump I can recall. The Horrors have stumbled out of the garage and into a proper studio, leaving the reckless, angsty snarls and easy Cramps comparisons behind. It’s like The Horrors were just playing dress-up before, smearing on the makeup, thrashing about for shock value with songs that, while rousing, were about as potent as fake blood.

Primary Colours is stunningly mature. Its darkness is rich in depth and scope, with layers of velvet noise woven together precisely and intricately. Faris Badwan has toned down his bark and learned to sing. Who knew he had it in him? The funeral dirge that is “I Only Think of You” solemnly marches over warping chords as Badwan’s baritone croon respectively resurrects Ian Curtis. He even manages to pay homage to his beloved ‘60s-girlgroup obsession with a spoken soliloquy in the middle of “Who Can Say.” There are obvious traces of My Bloody Valentine and Jesus and Mary Chain to be sure, but The Horrors manage to pull it off without simply drenching everything in reverb. This record succeeds in being delicate and intense at the same time, showcasing masterful production and careful arrangements; two characteristics I never would’ve imagined attributing to The Horrors.

I thought of Strange House as something of a guilty pleasure, knowing full well how hard it was to take this band seriously with its too

primped hair and too heavy eyeliner.

But Primary Colours, I am proud to declare, is an easy early contender for album of the year.

Michelle Gilzenrat The Horrors play Lenny’s Bar in Atlanta Monday, Apr. 27.

MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA Mean Everything to Nothing Sony I remember listening to the 5 Stories EP on my morning drive to high school, the songs speaking to my adolescent hopes of love. A few years later, I remember being swayed by the full band sound on You Brainstorm…And I definitely remember the day I heard “Wolves at Night” on 99X. But all these simple victories fade in comparison to the fully realized release Everything To Nothing.

The hometown band I knew is gone. We’ve now graduated from ignorance, we’ve seen it all hit the fan and we’re going to spend our days either making it count or sleeping it off. All of this to say, the album is raw and honest – it doesn’t always sound pretty, but damn it, it’s stuck in my head.

The album takes a subdued turn at “I Can Feel A Hot One,” which really starts to get the band’s message across to the listener. The album tells the struggle of a man trying to relate to a maker more real than a plastic action figure and less fake than a shining deity in the sky. Hull has the uncanny ability to share a little piece of his complex and active mind with an audience starved for something cerebral in a world where we’re spoon-fed love and sex and magic, and therein lies the success of this record.

Ashley Buzzy Manchester Orchestra will play the 40 Watt Club on Wednesday, Apr. 22.

FUTUREBIRDS Futurebirds EP Unsigned Why can’t I find a single piece of information online about Futurebirds, or anyone that’s ever heard of them, or even a review of a show they’ve played?

Their new EP is in a brown cardboard sleeve; it’s hand-painted and the liner notes are written in shoddy handwriting with a ball point pen on a tiny square

of paper. This becomes even more confusing in the fact that this EP is reeeeeeeaaally good.

Futurebirds’ MySpace page describes the sound of the band as only “a good time.” This album is beyond a good time. It’s a late-’90s, early-2000s flashback to Athens’ Kindercore days, with lazy summertime stoner/wino influences and 100 percent Southern charm. I cut my teeth on Charleston, SC indie rock and it reminds me so much of those boozy, sweltering nights that we 20-somethings flourished in so gracefully.

In each song, one can hear former Athens darlings Masters of the Hemisphere and Charleston’s Aamerican Tenants. While the whole EP is damn-near wonderful, the mandolin on the “Megachills” skips along gentle harmonies that beg to be sung and slurred along to by the crowd. Let’s hope there’s more to come from these local guys; they’re off to an excellent start.

Noel Wurst Futurebirds will play the 40 Watt Club on Saturday, Apr. 25.

THE DECEMBERISTS The Hazards of Love Capitol Ever wondered what it would be like if the Brothers Grimm mated with Yes? Even if you haven’t, it’s a worthwhile question, one which The Decemberists answer in bold form with the release of their fully realized, triumphant prog-rock progeny, The Hazards of Love. It comes replete with Colin Meloy’s deep romanticism with tragedy and love of the grandiose. This record signals their transformation from quirky prog-pop underground darlings to serious, if slightly pedantic rockers.

Despite the fairy tale elegance of this record, though, Hazards could alienate some fans who fell for the band via their swirling, highly melodic previous records. The lyricism hasn’t changed, but there are no catchy tunes here save a few, and even those are a stretch.

The band has produced beautifully crafted arena anthems, but most won’t infect you; the sound is too broad to even lend itself to humming. That shouldn’t discourage anyone, though; the quality of the songwriting, structure and story line, along with the slinky, dreamy guest vocals from Becky Stark (Lavender Diamond) and Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) should be enough to make you wish you had a lighter on you.

The Decemberists are still a band full of dark magic. That appears inherent to Meloy. But The Hazards of Love feels like a natural evolution. If anyone is surprised, then they were never really paying attention in the first place.

Jennifer Gibson The Decemberists will perform at the Tabernacle in Atlanta Wednesday, June 3.

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A New Line in the Lovenote:

The Return of Tommy Valentine

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hose who have walked away from yearslong involvement in the Athens music scene hardly populate an exclusive club.

For local hip-hop performer and producer Tommy Valentine, the reasons were a series of external influences combined with intense self-questioning. In March of 2007 his project The Lovenotes Family, which combined a slew of local MCs and musicians, fell apart, and he just hung it up. “I had yet one more project falter,” he says. “I had recorded an entire album with [Athens MC] Ishues that we were unable to release due to his label obligations.

I had managed [local hardcore band] A Bitter Fight Against Nothing, and after lots of work they dissolved, literally, overnight. When [The Lovenotes Family] fell apart, it made me sit down and analyze what was important to me.”

Valentine spent the last two years volunteering for President Obama’s campaign, reentering classes at the University of Georgia and managing Bobby Saxon’s campaign for Congress. Slowly, the reasons he had left music began to fade as he immersed himself in other projects. “I realized that I had rebuilt the friendships I had lost. I rededicated myself to things more important than myself,” he explains. His first tentative step toward this move came during one of local promoter Montu Miller’s “Tasty Tuesday” events. Encouraged by his girlfriend (“Isn’t everything about a girl on some level?” he asks), Valentine free-styled at the event and was asked by said girl about his decision to stop.

Valentine explained that he had spent seven years in the music business and, in that time, had laid aside many of his morals, beliefs and original reasons for ever jumping in.

“All that mattered was the next show, the next business venture, the next thing to sell. Although I had gotten into music to express myself, expression had become secondary to sales and recognition,” he says. “Looking around, I saw how many friendships and personal relationships I had allowed to crumble for a little success, and I decided it was time for perspective. It was time to grow up, time to figure out if I was more than a rapper.” After two years on the outside, he felt like himself again, and he believed he was capable, once more, of making music for music’s sake.

To this end, he teamed up with producer College Boy and his E.C.S.T.A.C.Y. Music team of beat creators and their associated act WildKard. Valentine was uncharacteristically cagey when asked about his new live show.

He revealed that it will feature live percussion

by Akeem Clarke and that classically trained singer-songwriter Megan Blakely will “[assist] with each song,” although in what capacity he didn’t say.

What Valentine did say was, “We are hard at work to make sure that the live show is different than anything people in Athens have seen… We also are working on a couple surprises to make sure that this is a show no one will ever forget.” We’ve all heard this before, especially from hip-hop artists. After a while

it starts to sound like solid gold bullshit.

Valentine is the first to admit that the hiphop scene is fraught with hype. To a certain extent, evinced clearly by his far-reaching promotional tactics, he embraces this aspect of both hip-hop and himself. Alternately, though, there’s an honesty about Valentine that separates his promotional savvy from his music-making. The former is treated as a necessary component, but the latter is where his heart lies. His confidence in himself has been hard won. Still, since announcing his return to Athens’ stages he’s not been without detractors.

“When I do something, I do it with every fiber of my being. Some people do not. I have heard already that I am pushing too hard, or that I am too confident of myself. I understand these reactions, and I understand

people confusing my ambition for overconfidence,” he says. “I just ask anyone that thinks that to come to the concert, to give my music I chance. I promise I do not think I am better than anyone else. I just want to do everything I can to share my art.”

His plans include revamping his old label, Lovenotes Records, although this is solely for his own music. Rather than bringing other artists under his umbrella, he now prefers to teach others how to release their own music.

It seems that Valentine’s time away was, on a personal level, well spent. Indeed, he says, “I am stronger in faith. I am better surrounded with people that I love and trust.

Best of all, I’d say that I now know that I need music more than music needs me.”

Gordon Lamb

WHO: Tommy Valentine, Stanza, WildKard WHERE: 40 Watt Club WHEN: Friday, Apr. 24 HOW MUCH: $5 (advance)

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EARLY SHOW

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was 1978 at the Palmetto Jubilee on Duke Hunnicutt’s farm in Oglethorpe County that I first heard the Normaltown Flyers. Brian Burke, Mike Chronic and Greg Veale climbed onto the flatbed truck trailer that was serving as the stage and commenced pickin’ and grinnin’. This was the Flyers’ first public performance. As I sat listened that day, I never could have imagined that in 2009 there would be a birthday party to celebrate 30 years of the Normaltown Flyers providing the soundtrack for Normaltown and beyond.

A short time later, at their first paying gig at the Deli Haus in Normaltown, Terry Melton nudged me between songs and leaned close to say something. Terry was notoriously critical of bands, and I didn’t know what to expect, but he waved his hand out towards the Flyers and said, “Nobody tries to cover The Amazing Rhythm Aces, and they’ve done two of ‘em.” It was the Mad Dog’s seal of approval, and he hit on the band’s trademark: fearlessly mixing strong covers with original songs.

It wasn’t long before the Flyers were approached by Danny Self, the manager of Allen’s Hamburgers, about doing a weekly show at the venerable Normaltown bar. After some discussion, Wednesday night at Allen’s with the Normaltown Flyers was born. The Flyers also picked up some good exposure at the Georgia Theatre serving as the opening act for Doc and Merle Watson, the Earl Scruggs Revue and John Prine, among others.

Soon, Allen’s was the place to be on Wednesday night, with students, blue-collar, white-collar and no-collar folks all coming together to stomp their feet, clap their hands, sing along with songs and raise their mugs in a rousing “Cheers, y’all” between songs. Everybody was having fun, but in 1982 Chronic heard there was a shortage of songwriting guitar players in Nashville and left Athens for Music City, where he still lives with his wife of 20 years and 14-year-old guitar-playing son.

What at first seemed disastrous for the Flyers quickly turned out very well as guitarist-extraordinaire Davis Causey returned to Athens after half a dozen years on the road with the Randall Bramblett Band and Sea Level.

Causey and Burke had played together in the legendary Laughing Disaster in the early ‘70s, and Causey had sat in with Burke and Veale with Dixie Grease and other bands whenever he was in town. When the Flyers wanted an electric guitar for a couple of songs on their first album, Play Something I Like, it was Causey whom they called in. He needed no introduction.

“It was always a smooth flight,” Causey says of playing with the Flyers. “Brian’s a good pilot; he knows any song that’s brought up, and he and Greg weren’t afraid to try anything. I loved playing in Allen’s; they had the most loyal fans. It was like everybody had a backstage pass.”

In 1984 the Flyers brought in drummer Cal Hale and recorded their second album, Barnstormin’. With the fuller sound of Causey’s guitar and Hale on drums, the Flyers found themselves with more and larger club dates while continuing their Wednesday night Allen’s shows as a trio.

The following year Davis was called out of town often to play with Randall Bramblett, but again fate dealt the Flyers a winning hand as David Blackmon moved back to Athens after three-and-a-half years on the road with Jerry Reed. Again, no introductions were needed as Blackmon jumped right in

with his fiddle and guitar. There were several well remembered shows at the Uptown Lounge that featured both guitarists.

Meanwhile, Burke kept firing off tapes to Nashville, and it appeared they had struck gold when Mercury Records signed them in 1990. A good portion of Normaltown (including Terry Melton, Joe Barnes and me) made it to Nashville in ‘91 for the release of the Flyers’ first Mercury album, The Normaltown Flyers. There was a lot of buzz surrounding them that weekend as they appeared on the Nashville Network and played a wellreceived showcase before a packed house at the Ace of Clubs.

We also discovered the greatest dive in Nashville; see Flagpole. com for that story.

Their video initially received some good airplay, but the CD failed to take off, and after their second Mercury album, Country Boy’s Dream, was released in 1992, the Flyers were back in Athens and the real world again. Burke remains typically brief and philosophical about the Nashville experience: “We didn’t sell any records.” But, I’ve always blamed Billy Ray Cyrus. At the same time as the Flyers’ first album was released, Cyrus unleashed “Achy Breaky Heart” on an unsuspecting world. The Flyers had 10 better songs on their record, but all of a sudden country music was obsessed with mullet hairdos and line dancing. Maybe it’s just as well: can anyone imagine Brian Burke playing Hannah Montana’s dad on the Disney Channel?

Back in Athens the band re-formed with Burke and Hale, joined by bassist Tom Ryan and guitarist/fiddler Andy Carlson.

Then, from 1994–96 Burke commuted to Nashville full-time as a staff writer for Harold Shedd’s Millhouse Music, playing Allen’s when he could. As Brian tired of the Nashville commute and played more in Athens, he was re-joined by full-time bassist Tom Ryan, and the Flyers were airborne again. They selfreleased two CDs: 2001’s Cheers, Y’all and 2002’s 30 Seconds Over Nashville. They’ve been re-joined by guitarist Causey and drummer Deane Quinter in the current lineup, knocking out their pickup truck rock and roll every chance they get.

The Normaltown Flyers’ 30th Anniversary show will feature three sets—the original Flyers: Brian Burke, Greg Veale and Mike Chronic; the second will be manned by the Nashville band, with Burke, Veale, David Blackmon and Cal Hale, joined

by Davis Causey; the third will be played by the current Flyers: Burke, Causey, Tom Ryan, Deane Quinter and guests.

The Flyers’ birthday party will be a celebration not just of the band, but of the spirit of Normaltown and of the band’s musical mentors who can’t be there—such as Gamble Rogers and Terry Melton. It’s a celebration of a thousand nights at Allen’s, a celebration of the most loyal fans any band ever had and, most importantly, confirmation that the music continues.

Dan Johnson

WHAT: The Normaltown Flyers 30th Anniversary Concert WHERE: The Melting Point WHEN: Friday, Apr. 24, 8 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $12 (advance), $15 (door)

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A Life Less Whimsical

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ichael D. Eudy, 47, has experienced death, by his count, in the exact same fashion, 598 times. While this may be the Colorbearer of Inquiring Minds That Want to Know, it is not a bona fide tabloid, so Flagpole is obligated to explain the opening sentence with the following one: Eudy, the accomplished local songwriter and Heathens frontman, is also a thespian by trade and practice. His career includes a six-season run earlier this decade portraying the son of a shepherd in the long-running Shepherd of the Hills Outdoor Theatre production that saw said son’s life end on the wrong end of a revolver, night in and night out. “It was a small but pivotal role,” shares Eudy dryly.

That was Branson, MO, and those six years in the Ozarks entertaining tourists as Howard the Ghost were part of a decade the rock and roots picker from the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas spent away from Athens.

Before the Missouri chapter, there was a brief stint in Los Angeles during the late 1990s that saw the release of his debut, the Chad Watson- (Third Day, Nancy Priddy) produced Hillbilly in Hollywood—an album that chronicles the juxtaposition of Eudy’s upbringing with his wide-eyed West Coast experiences. Think Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy minus the whole naïve male prostitute theme.

Electing to advance his musical career in the Show Me State’s Americana Vegas over L.A., or Nashville, on the advice of a friend, the experience yielded a wife (Jennifer), a son (Wheeler) and an album, Arkansas Traveler, the heartfelt and unapologetically autobiographical affair released under the moniker Brother Eudy & the Heathens. Recorded with local pros, including Mack Jones (son of Grandpa Jones of “Hee Haw” fame) on clawhammer banjo and fiddler Shanda McDonald (Prairie Land String Band) the record features should-be surefire country music chart-toppers (“Paper Money”) and vivid portraits of rural living (“Eighty Miles to Ogemaw”). As for that chapter in his life, Eudy admits, “[The results were] absolutely beyond my expectations— being part of a great show, finding the love of my life, kids—but on the other side of the coin, it was very time- and soul-consuming, and my music got put on the backburner.”

Soon enough the family packed up and moved to Athens. “Life is a little less whimsical when there are kids to be fed and bills to get paid; and I felt as if there was unfinished business in Athens,” he says.

In the summer of 2006 the Eudy family sustained themselves on the kindness of Athenians. Clocking in regularly on the northwest College Square street corner, Eudy perfected his chops busking for passersby. The tips tossed into his guitar case were essential while the family waited for paychecks on the horizon. Eudy had landed a position teaching art at Rutland Academy, the local school for children with emotional and behavioral issues, but the cross-country relocation had drained the coffers. While performing under the sun one Saturday afternoon, a random reunion with drummer Bob Fernandez (Star Room Boys), a musician Eudy had become friendly with roughly 10 years earlier, resulted in the reformation of The Heathens.

The present incarnation of the band finds Fernandez drumming, Eudy singing and playing rhythm guitar, Robert Kelleher (Dimebag) on bass, Bill Oglesby (Strange Attractors) on saxophone and newest addition Mike Gibson (The Dashboard Saviors, STRIKEFORCE!) on guitar. The result: a fusion of folk, rock and country-western influences that sounds much like flipping through a weathered and antiquated family photo album feels, and Eudy couldn’t be more pleased. “When I came to Athens in the early 1990s, I was truly like the thousands of other kids that flocked here because of R.E.M. and The B52s, intent on making it in rock and roll. Now I have a beautiful, loving wife and little kids… I didn’t become the hillbilly John Lennon, but I have found understanding kindred spirits that encourage my artsy side.”

David Eduardo

WHO: The Heathens WHERE: Terrapin Brewery WHEN: Thursday, Apr. 23, 5:30 p.m.

HOW MUCH: FREE!, $8 (for Brewery tour)

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Athens Americana Festival I t’s no secret that Athens has a vibrant and diverse music scene, especially considering the city is said to have more bands per capita than any other place in the world.

But the sheer volume of local music may also work against some musicians and genres that, undeservingly, get buried in the heap.

Local musicians Adam Klein and Justin Evans want to shed light on some of those artists with the second annual Athens Americana Festival, a two-night stand at Little Kings Apr. 24–25 dedicated to celebrating the best folk,

an outdoor stage for acoustic acts. The schedule is such that there will never be two acts playing at the same time, says Evans, so that people can enjoy the music and dispel any myths about local takes on American music traditions.

“A lot of people shy away from being called Americana. To me, Americana is songwriting influenced by American music from the 1900s, like blues, bluegrass, jazz, rock. It’s people who draw from that pool,” he says. “It’s not like it’s songs about 18-wheelers.”

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country and bluegrass the city has to offer.

With a schedule including Vigilantes of Love, Hope for Agoldensummer and Don Chambers, they hope to draw attention to what they see as an overlooked part of the local scene.

“Athens is on the map mainly for indie and pop, and Justin and I do like that. But the scene is so much richer than those genres alone,” says Klein. “We want to generate exposure for these artists and celebrate the scene in a forum that can connect the artists and bands, as well as build a larger audience for this music in town.”

Klein and Evans first organized the festival last year, with 13 acts performing at Little Kings. This year the roster has expanded to 20 bands and songwriters featured on two stages—an indoor stage for full bands, and

One particularly exciting set, says Evans, will be the solo acoustic performance from Dave Marr, formerly of local country act Star Room Boys. “This is kind of a treat because he doesn’t play often.”

Aside from the music, festival-goers can grab some dinner courtesy of Wilson’s Soul Food. A barbecue stand will be set up at the event with pork, chicken and vegetarian options. It’s all part of the plan to make this year successful enough to warrant a third festival, and many more to come.

“The festival is still in its infancy,” says Klein, “but we hope it can take its place as a signature event for the Athens music and arts community.”

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Athens Americana Schedule Little Kings Shuffle Club

Friday, April 24

Saturday, April 25

7:30 p.m. Daniel Mack and the Pickin’ Coop

(inside) 8:15 p.m. Timber (inside) 9:00 p.m. Matt Stoessel (outside) 9:30 p.m. Big C (inside) 11:00 p.m. Nightingale News (outside) 11:45 p.m. Vigilantes of Love (inside) 12:30 a.m. Patrick Carey (outside) 1:15 a.m. The Granfalloons (inside)

6:00 p.m. Betsy Franck and the Bareknuckle

Band (outside) 6:45 p.m. Clay Leverett (outside) 7:30 p.m. Jumpin’ Jesus Christers (inside) 8:15 p.m. Curley Maple (inside) 9:00 p.m. Hope for Agoldensummer (inside) 9:40 p.m. Dave Marr (outside) 10:20 p.m. Justin Evans and the Chinatown

Diaries (inside) 11:00 p.m. Little Country Giants (outside) 11:45 p.m. Kaitlin Jones and the County Fair

(inside) 12:30 a.m. Don Chambers (outside) 1:15 a.m. Wydelles (inside)

Tickets are $6 at the door.

Ages 21+ welcome.

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Tuesday 21 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 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

Wednesday 22 EVENTS: 4Ever Green Expo (Athens Technical College) Environmental awareness fair with booths, films, speakers and info about how to support a sustainable future. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www. athensgreenfest.org

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EVENTS: The Georgia Review Release Party (State Botanical Garden of Georgia—Cecil B. Day Chapel) The Georgia Review celebrates the release of its spring 2009 issue and honors Earth Day with readings, music and refreshments.

Coleman Barks and Milledgevillebased poet Alice Friman read from the new issue, Athens artist Terry Rowlett discusses his paintings and jazz guitarist Carl Lindberg performs. 5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-3481 EVENTS: The Secret of the Grain (UGA Student Learning Center— Room 213) Abdellatif Kechiche’s film, in French and Arabic with English subtitles, is screened in connection with Dr. Panivong Norindr’s Apr. 23 lecture. Sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages.

7 p.m. FREE! rgabara@uga.edu EVENTS: Earth Day Celebration (UGA Tate Center) Event showcasing environmental awareness and educational booths, along with free food, games, giveaways, prizes and music. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! 706296-2525 EVENTS: Women Build Community Kickoff (HardemanSams House—255 S. Milledge Avenue) Talk to current Women Build supporters and learn how to participate in upcoming “Investing in Our Community” project. Refreshments provided. Women Build empowers women to build homes, enabling them to positively impact the lives of families by making home ownership a reality. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenshabitat.com/womenbuild PERFORMANCE: “New Traditions” (UGA Tate Center) Presented by the Here and Now Theater Company in conjunction with Asian American Heritage Month. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5773 PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Rachael Fischer, violin. 8 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu THEATRE: The Wizard of Oz (The Classic Center) A national touring production of the classic family musical. 7:30 p.m. $10–$65. www. classiccenter.com* KIDSTUFF: Protect the Planet (Broadacres Community Center) Earth Day celebration for ages 6–18.

3 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: Wildcard Wednesday for Teens (ACC Library) Up next: Play Apples to Apples, winner of the library’s teen poll for best card game.

Ages 11–18. Space is limited. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books (ACC Library—Small Conference Room) Adult book discussion group. This month: Bring three of your favorite poems

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to share with the group. Newcomers welcome. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706613-3650 MEETINGS: Library Sewing Group (Madison County Library) The group works on a wide variety of both unusual and traditional handcrafts.

Every Wednesday. 1–3 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: Mindfulness Sitting Group (Mind Body Institute) Silent meditation every Wednesday. 12:30– 1 p.m. FREE! 706-475-7329 GAMES: Athens Dart League (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Every Wednesday! 8 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: Karaoke (The Office Lounge) Every Wednesday at the bar formerly known as Foxz. 9:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-0840 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 23 EVENTS: An Inconvenient Truth (UGA Student Learning Center— Room 171) Sponsored by the UGA NAACP as part of the Green Screen Movie Forum. A panel discussion follows the screening. Organic refreshments provided. 6 p.m. FREE! ambre111@uga.edu EVENTS: Moore’s Ford Memorial Committee Banquet (The Sanctuary—Watkinsville) The MFMC will award scholarships to graduating seniors from area public high schools. RSVP. 6:30 p.m. $12 (adults), $6 (youth). 706-354-0321, richrusk@bellsouth.net* EVENTS: Thursday Night Throwdown (Red Eye Coffee) Friendly competition to bring together and create coffee community.

Anybody, whether a coffee professional or home barista, is welcome to participate in the coffee competition. Limited to 30 competitors. 7:30 p.m. $5. 706-369-6850 EVENTS: Twilight Toasts in the Garden: Proven Annuals for Georgia Summers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Representatives of the Athens Area Nursery Growers Association give tips on choosing annuals for the summer. Also featuring a wine tasting by The Healthy Gourmet, hors d’oeuvres by Trumps Catering and traditional celtic music by

Internationally renowned flautist Emmanuel Pahud will perform with Trevor Pinnock and Jonathan Manson Apr. 25 at UGA’s Hodgson Hall.

Lansdowne Three. 6:30–8 p.m. $15.

706-542-1244* ART: “Park A Park” (College Avenue Parking Deck—Top Floor) The Art X Hypermedia group presents interactive sculpture designed to expose new audiences nontraditional, contemporary art. Visitors are urged to experience art as well as participate in recreational activities normally located in a park. 11 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-255-3224 PERFORMANCE: UGA Symphonic Band (UGA Hodgson Hall) Under the direction of Dr. Michael C. Robinson. Presented by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.music.uga.edu THEATRE: Oklahoma! (Jefferson High School Performing Arts Center) The Jefferson High School Drama Dragons present the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Apr. 23–25, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 25, 2 p.m. $10 (adults), $7 (children). 706367-2881 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. 23–25, 8 p.m. Apr. 26, 2 p.m. $18, $15 (students/seniors).

706-208-8696 KIDSTUFF: “Aesop Alive!” (ACC Library) The Athens Academy Players, a local children’s drama troupe, perform a play featuring several of Aesop’s fables. 9:30 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.

For elementary ages. 4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Protect the Planet (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Earth Day celebration for ages 6–18.

3 p.m. $2. www.accleisureservices. com KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Oconee County Library) Beginning readers in grades 1–3 read aloud to an aid dog. Trainer always present.

Children should choose and supply their reading material for “Rover.”

3:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 LECTURES & LIT.: Cinematic Encounter: The New Political Cinema of Abdellatif Kechiche (UGA Student Learning Center— Room 275) University of Southern California professor Panivong Norindr discusses Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain. 4 p.m. FREE! rgabara@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: “The Lincoln Icon: Thinking About Myth and Reality in Our History” (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 348) Paul D. Escott of Wake Forest University gives the talk and signs copies of his new book, “What Shall We Do With the Negro?”: Lincoln, White Racism and Civil War America. 5 p.m. FREE! LECTURES & LIT.: Love Lines: A Night of Literary Treats (ATHICA) A VOX Reading Series event featuring C. J. Bartunek, Ashley David, Patrick Denker, Michael Tod Edgerton, John Spiers and Caroline Young waxing eloquent on the subject of love in conjunction with ATHICA’s “Crafting Romance”

exhibit. Refreshments provided by Cecilia Villaveces Cakes and Red Eye Coffee. 7:30–9:30 p.m. $3 suggested donation. www.athica.org LECTURES & LIT.: Philip Lee Williams (Oconee County Library) The 2007 winner of the Georgia Governor’s Award in the Humanities discusses his recently published collection of poems, Elegies for Water. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 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 24 EVENTS: Bike to Work Day (Downtown Athens) Give bike commuting a try by choosing among several rides leaving from locations around town, led by experienced bike commuters. Rides converge downtown for coffee, snacks and a drawing for prizes. 8 a.m. FREE! www.bikeathens.com EVENTS: Fashion Show (UGA Memorial Hall) Student designers showcase their spring collections

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during a night of fashion inspired by the French Riviera. Advance tickets sold in the Tate Plaza. 8:30 p.m. $5 (advance), $8 (door). 770-6345298, ttambo@uga.edu* EVENTS: Human Rights Film Festival Opening Reception (Ciné Barcafé) The film festival hosted by Amnesty International, which will showcase award-winning films that that take an uplifting approach to fighting for human rights, kicks off with a catered reception and guest speakers. 6:30 p.m. $15. www. athenscine.com EVENTS: Twilight Criterium 2009 (Downtown Athens) 30th annual professional cycling event and festival. Full schedule of events online.

See feature on p. 9. Apr. 24 & 25.

FREE! www.athenstwilight.com EVENTS: Twilight Eve Meet & Greet (The Hub) Meet the Vanderkitten Women’s Cycling Team and see the new range of Vanderkitten clothing. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-355-3989 ART: Opening Reception (Hawthorne House Antiques and Interiors) For exhibit of new works

by Margie Spalding. 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-227-3560 ART: Reception (Lamar Dodd School of Art—Gallery 101 & 307) For BFA graphic design, photography and printmaking exit show. 7 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: “Body Language” (Morton Theatre) Dancefx spring studio concert featuring jazz, tap, hip-hop, ballroom and more. Apr. 24, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 25, 2 p.m. $15 (adults), $12 (students). 706-613-3771 PERFORMANCE: UGA Symphony Orchestra Pops Concert (UGA Hodgson Hall) Featuring George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. 8 p.m. $7 (UGA students), $20 (nonstudents). www.music.uga.edu* THEATRE: Grease (Oconee County Civic Center) Oconee County High School presents the popular musical

by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.

Apr. 24–25, 7 p.m. Apr. 26, 2 p.m. $5. 706-769-3575 THEATRE: Oklahoma! (Jefferson High School Performing Arts Center) The Drama Dragons present the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Apr. 23–25, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 25, 2 p.m. $10 (adults), $7 (children). 706-367-2881 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. 23–25, 8 p.m. Apr. 26, 2 p.m. $18, $15 (students/seniors).

706-208-8696 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.: “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder” (UGA Student Learning Center—Room 148) Willson Center Distinguished Lecturer Richard Louv gives the talk. 4 p.m. FREE! 706542-3966 MEETINGS: Coffee Education Group (1000faces Coffee) Cupping, espresso, education and experimentation. Every Friday. 2–5 p.m. FREE! 706-534-8860, 1000facesmail@ gmail.com 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: Texas Hold ‘Em Poker (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Free every Thursday and Friday! 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. 706-354-7829

Saturday 25 EVENTS: Athens Hoopfest (Memorial Park) Bring, borrow or buy a hula hoop. All ages welcome.

1–3 p.m. FREE! www.athenshoopdance.wordpress.com EVENTS: AutismUGA Walk (Barnett Shoals Elementary School) Featuring a community resource fair, a kids’ zone, live music and food. Proceeds from the walk benefit Autism Speaks, a national non-profit dedicated to awareness, advocacy and family services. 12–3 p.m. autismuga.wordpress.com EVENTS: Carlton Junction Function (Downtown Carlton— Highway 72) Featuring craft and food vendors, live music, an oxdrawn wagon, pony rides, alpaca petting, inflatables, a climbing wall and more. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! 706-797-3743 EVENTS: The Cayle Project Launch Party (Nuçi’s Space) Launch of large-scale database named to commemorate volunteer Cayle Bywater, who spearheaded the project before her tragic death in 2007. Presentation starts at 5 p.m.

4–6 p.m. FREE! 706-227-1515, www.nuci.org EVENTS: Community Acupuncture Open House (Athens Wellness Cooperative) With free acupuncture sessions, lectures, entertainment, snacks, music and more. 4–9 p.m.

FREE! www.wellnesscooperative.com EVENTS: John Seawright Land Dedication (Orange Twin Conservation Community—Off Helican Springs on Noketchee Creek Road) The Orange Twin Conservation Community dedicates a considerable area of its land to late Athens poet/writer John Seawright.

Event features folk music by Art Rosenbaum and speech by acclaimed poet Coleman Barks. 2–11 p.m. FREE! bdorminey@visalawcenter.com EVENTS: Slow Food Athens Breakfast (The Daily Neighborhood Deli) Join Slow Food members for breakfast and learn about the group’s plans for the year. Make reservations

by Apr. 24. 9 a.m. $13. 706-5498901, meleventry@aol.com EVENTS: Twilight Criterium 2009 (Downtown Athens) 30th annual professional cycling event and festival. Full schedule of events online.

See feature on p. 9. Apr. 24 & 25.

FREE! www.athenstwilight.com ART: Celebration of Life (The Office Lounge) Celebrate the life and work of local artist Gene Wilkinson.

Wilkinson’s award-winning wood carvings will be available for purchase. 4–8 p.m. FREE! 706549-0840 ART: Opening Reception (Hampton Fine Art Gallery—Greensboro) For “The Blue Green Earth Exhibition,” featuring works in appreciation of Earth Day by Lamar Wood, Melin Miller, Lisa Hampton-Pepe, RainDance and Cameron Hampton.

6–9 p.m. FREE! www.artistcameronhampton.com ART: “Through My Eyes” Exhibit (Lyndon House Arts Center) See work by young 4-H-ers made as part of the “Through My Eyes” program, which encouraged students to use photography as a means to express their sense of community and family.

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PERFORMANCE: “Body Language” (Morton Theatre) Dancefx spring studio concert featuring jazz, tap, hip-hop, ballroom and more. Apr. 24, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 25, 2 p.m. $15 (adults), $12 (students). 706-613-3771* PERFORMANCE: “Catalyst” (Morton Theatre) Pre-professional dance concert featuring the Dancefx Concert Dance Company and Contact Ballroom Company with special guest Charleston Dance. 7 p.m. $12 (adults), $8 (students).

706-613-3771* PERFORMANCE: Drag Show (Blur) DJ Isaac spins before and after the show. 9 p.m. $5. www.myspace. com/blurathens PERFORMANCE: Emmanuel Pahud, Trevor Pinnock & Jonathan Manson (UGA Hodgson Hall) Three of the world’s premier instrumentalists combine their talents to perform masterpieces by Bach and other baroque composers.

Half-price for UGA students. 8 p.m. $21–$26. www.uga.edu/pac* THEATRE: Grease (Oconee County Civic Center) Oconee County High School presents the popular musical. Apr. 24–25, 7 p.m. Apr. 26, 2 p.m. $5. 706-769-3575 THEATRE: Oklahoma! (Jefferson High School Performing Arts Center) The Drama Dragons present the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Apr. 23–25, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 25, 2 p.m. $10 (adults), $7 (children). 706-367-2881 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. 23–25, 8 p.m. Apr. 26, 2 p.m. $18, $15 (students/seniors).

706-208-8696 OUTDOORS: Greenway Bird Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Bring binoculars if you have them; several pairs will be provided. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-354-0319 MEETINGS: African-American Family History Research Group (ACC Library) Group for people who want to research their AfricanAmerican roots. Co-sponsored by the Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society. 1 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: Star Wars Miniatures Tournament (Tyche’s Games) Battle for the galaxy. Noon. $1. 706354-4500, www.tychesgames.com

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

Sunday 26 EVENTS: Unnatural Causes (ACC Library) Film and discussion series focusing on the social and economic factors that shape disease continues.

Fifth episode, “Place Matters,” looks at how policies and investment decisions create living conditions that enhance or harm the health of residents. Panel discussion and light reception follow. 3–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5788, jlevinso@uga.edu EVENTS: Athens Pride 2009 (Sandy Creek Park) Potluck picnic (bring something to share) followed by prize drawing, kids’ games and softball. 1:30 p.m. $2 park entrance fee.

EVENTS: Easement Walk (Athens Land Trust—2109 West Broad Street) Take a stroll on one of the local properties permanently protected by an Athens Land Trust conservation easement. 1:30–4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0122 EVENTS: “We Are a River” (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) An ecumenical service with an environmental theme featuring music, inspiring images and speakers. Sample homemade baked goods after the program. Nursery care available. 5:30–7 p.m. FREE! 706-546-7914 THEATRE: Grease (Oconee County Civic Center) Oconee County High School presents the popular musical

by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.

Apr. 24–25, 7 p.m. Apr. 26, 2 p.m. $5. 706-769-3575 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. 23–25, 8 p.m. Apr. 26, 2 p.m. $18, $15 (students/seniors).

706-208-8696* 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 di-

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verse categories. 9 p.m. FREE! www. allensbarandgrill.com GAMES: Full-Contact Trivia (Amici Italian Café) Nettles starts out the evening with a round of trivia here before heading over to Allen’s. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0000 GAMES: Team Trivia (Wild Wing Café) Every Sunday at Wild Wing!

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

Monday 27 PERFORMANCE: Myq Kaplan and Micah Sherman (The Loft Dance Lounge) Kaplan, a finalist in the New York Comedy Festival’s Funniest Stand-Up Competition, and Sherman, a UGA grad who will appear in the romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past this summer, coheadline this month’s Loft comedy showcase. 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $8 (18+). www.loftcomedy.com PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Oliver Yatsugafu, violin. 3:35 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Richard Knepp, guitar. 6 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: UGA String Project Concert (UGA Hodgson Hall) Presented by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 5 p.m.

FREE! www.music.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) Bedtime stories. 7 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Last Monday Book Group (ACC Library—Small Conference Room) This month’s title TBA. Newcomers welcome. 6 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: “The World Is Fat: Fads, Trends, Policies and Products that are Fattening the Human Race” (Lamar Dodd School of Art—Room S150) Barry Popkin, professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina and author of a new book entitled The World Is Fat, gives the talk. 4 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-4387 GAMES: APA Billiards Leagues (Lucky Dawg Billiards) Join anytime, any skill level! 7 p.m. 706-354-7829 GAMES: APA Pool (Alibi) Pool league events every Monday. 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-1010 GAMES: General Trivia (Little Kings) 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

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Del the Funky Homosapien, Mike Relm, Bukue One, Serendipity Project Georgia Theatre Del the Funky Homosapien—the one-time Ice Cube ghostwriter, Hieroglyphics frontman and Gorillaz contributor—has always come from out of left field (or further out).

He started in California offering up a more thoughtful alternative to the gangsta trends of the ‘90s, and his millennial turn as a futuristic rebel on his Deltron 3030 album cemented his reputation among the independent-minded music fans of the day. His elastic vocals and incisive lyrics are his strongest suit, and they’re abundantly showcased on his Del the Funky Homosapien grooving new album Funkman (The Stimulus Package), out earlier this month and available for free download at delthefunkyhomosapien.bandcamp.com. Live hip-hop can be iffy, but Del’s been an engaging performer, especially now that he’s back swinging after a mid-decade absence from performing and recording.

The first act on the bill, Serendipity Project, was last in Athens on a similar hip-hop tour in late 2007, backing up Del (when he was still Funkee rather than Funky) and his hazy Texas cohort Devin the Dude. The Santa Cruz, CA, group reaches deep into the traditions behind hip-hop, bringing in a full band to touch on funk, reggae and soul, as well as heavier modern rock; though their own songs can border on overenthusiastic goofiness, the band is at its best backing up the other emcees.

Opening rapper Bukue One was also in town two years ago and was one of that bill’s more impressive offerings; his lyrical flow delivered good-times nostalgia without hewing too closely to the rigid orthodoxy of the old school. California turntablist Mike Relm has performed with dudes like Lyrics Born, Money Mark and Gift of Gab, and has a rep for mixing and mashing up visuals alongside his beats. Athens, you want some hip-hop?

You’ve got some hip-hop. Tickets for Wednesday night’s show cost $12 in advance, $15 at the door. [Chris Hassiotis]

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 28 EVENTS: “Blue Water for a Green Future” (UGA River Basin Center) Public forum on issues of water quality, water quantity, economic development and sustainability in the Athens area and the Oconee River basin. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-542-7247, www.athensgreenfest.org EVENTS: 15th Annual Entree of Hope (Various Locations) Eat out to help two great causes. 25 local restaurants donate 10% of their profits today to The Ark United Ministry Outreach Center and the Athens Area Emergency Food Bank. List of par-

ticipating restaurants online. www. athensark.org EVENTS: Human Rights Film Festival Closing Event (Ciné Barcafé) Venice Is Sinking performs as part of event to close out the film festival hosted by Amnesty International. 10 p.m. $5. www. athenscine.com PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Soo Kyung Kim, piano. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: University Band & Philharmonia (UGA Hodgson Hall) Presented by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.music.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Every Tuesday and Thursday a chapter is

read aloud from a young adult book.

For elementary ages. 4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) For ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: “The Effect of the Economic Downturn on Crime” (UGA Tate Center—Room 137) FBI criminal analyst Joanna Simpkins, David Griffith of the ACC Police Department and UGA sociology professor Mark Cooney discuss how the recent economic problems affect crime. 11 a.m. FREE! 706542-5845 LECTURES & LIT.: “The Music of Africa” (ACC Library) Jean Kidula, a professor at UGA’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music, gives the talk. Feel free to bring a lunch to this 45-minute program. 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: “Writing Ourselves at Risk: Using SelfNarrative in Working for Social Justice” (UGA Aderhold—Room G23) Corey Johnson, assistant professor of recreation and leisure studies, gives the talk. Noon. FREE! 706-542-3942 MEETINGS: Great Decisions Discussion Group (ACC Library) 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: Flicker Poker Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Last Tuesday of every month! 8:30 p.m. www. myspace.com/flickerbar GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

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

Wednesday 29 EVENTS: Roof Garden Open House (UGA Geography-Geology Building) Take a tour of the garden on top of the geography building.

Sponsored by the Athens Urban Food Collective. 7 p.m. FREE! nheynen@uga.edu 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) Up next: Copycat Art. Try your hand at sculpture while creating a medieval monster. Ages 11–18. Space is limited. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Young Adult Book Discussion (Madison County Library) This month’s book is Tears of the Tiger by Sharon Draper. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 LECTURES & LIT.: Oconee Dems Book Group (Five Points Deli & More—Epps Bridge) Communitywide book group hosted by the Oconee County Democrats.

This month: Voltaire’s Candide.

Newcomers from any county and of any political affiliation are welcome.

6 p.m. FREE! ppriest@charter.net, www.oconeedemocrats.org 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: Karaoke (The Office Lounge) Every Wednesday. 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 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 * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music 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.

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

Dengue Fever recently released a DVD of its tour in Cambodia called Sleepwalking Through the Mekong which will be screening at Ciné prior to this show.

Alibi 8 p.m.–12 a.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 DJ JOHN Country Rock DJ spins every Tuesday for Bike Nite.

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 Lynn sings poetic stories over acoustic fingerpicking.

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 The current threepiece lineup of 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. It sounds a bit like Cause Co-Motion.

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. Hoots & Hellmouth is a blend of roots/revival driven by down and dirty rock and roll energy.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens 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.

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W 4/22 Old School Freight Train / Richard Sherfey & All God’s Children / Macon Grayson Th 4/23 Random Rabbit / Bellcurve / DJ t8r(tot) F 4/24 Early Show 6pm: William Fitzsimmons 10pm: Bearfoot Hookers / Betsy Franck S 4/25 9:30pm Start! The Dumps / Peelander-Z / Deaf Judges / Lee Harvey Oswald / Lazer/Wülf Su 4/26 Downtown Community Fellowship 7pm Worship Service • www.dcfathens.org M 4/27 Luke & The Force / Who The Hell Es Rogelio Gutierrez T 4/28 Benefit for Cystic Fibrosis w/ Leading Edge / James Patrick Morgan COMING SOON: 4/29 - Against Me!

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for Private Party and Booking info 312 EAST BROAD STREET • 706-543-0797

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Hundreds of courses starting at $129!

706-542-3537 www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/is/onlineclasses

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

Wednesday 22 40 Watt Club 7:30 p.m. $10 (adv.). $12 (door). www.40watt.com* AUDRYE SESSIONS Impassioned, acrobatic vocals lead melodic indie anthems.

FUN Songwriters Nate Ruess (The Format), Andrew Dost (Anathallo) and Jack Antonoff (Steel Train) make up this act that blends Queen, ELO and Jellyfish into an intricate, theatrical mix. See Calendar Pick on p. 29. k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA Emotional, literate and sweeping indie rock from Atlanta. For fans of Neutral Milk Hotel or Bright Eyes.

See record review on p. 17.

WINSTON AUDIO These favorite gentlemen from Atlanta perform guitar-driven alternative rock that, at its more solemn moments, is epic and cinematic.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 24

SATURDAY, APRIL 25

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

FRIDAY, MAY 1

Blur “Electric Sheep.” 10 p.m. FREE! (21+), $3 (18+). www.myspace.com/ blurathens DJ ANDYREDRUM Atlanta-based deejay spins his own groove of progressive house and trance music.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com JEREMY RAY Atlanta-based singersongwriter with a soulful swagger.

He’s backed by bluesy harp and just a touch of twang.

THE STICKEM UPS Upbeat garage rock with a bluesy Americana tilt to it.

THE GRAYHOUNDS Local fourpiece. The Grayhounds say they play rock and roll covers and originals with a strong blues base.

JASON WALLER Growing up in punk bands, Waller now performs country-tinged folk ballads on acoustic guitar.

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

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

SATURDAY, MAY 2

COMING SOON

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar TIMI CONLEY The current Kite to the Moon frontman will pull material from his 16-year career with Fuzzy Sprouts, Aqualove and more for this 45-minute solo set.

KITE TO THE MOON A noisy pop cacophony with a quirky sense of humor. Expect a dizzying array of visual stimulation to accompany the set—from video projections to ladies in tiger suits and other quirky costuming.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $12 (adv), $15 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com* BUKUE ONE MC takes it back to when “hip-hop was fun,” occasionally integrating in reggae beats.

DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN Renowned rap artist from the West Coast best known for his collaborations with Gorillaz, Deltron 3030 and Hieroglyphics. See Calendar Pick on p. 26.

MIKE RELM Psychedelic hip-hop from San Francisco.

SERENDIPITY PROJECT Laying down some thick, juicy grooves, this high-energy rock and funk group promotes “conscious thought” via deft hip-hop lyricism.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 THE SPLITZ BAND A cover group specializing in Motown as well as

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other mellow sounds from the ‘60s to the present.

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

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com SPANKY AND THE LOVE HANDLES Trio of seasoned pros who take on funky, dirty blues.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens 1991 No info available.

SERFIN SERFS No info available.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net MACON GRAYSON This Texan Southern rock band is currently on tour supporting its new release, 20th Century Accidents.

OLD SCHOOL FREIGHT TRAIN Hailed by Rolling Stone for its imaginative indie-folk arrangements, this Virginian quintet blends traditional genres into its own distinct style.

RICHARD SHERFEY & ALL GOD’S CHILDREN Fronted by local singer Richard Sherfey, All God’s Children includes members of the bands Hey, Revolution! and Modern Skirts.

Sherfey trucks in some American, impassioned pop-rock songs.

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

Thursday 23 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.

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

No cover if you wear your PJs.

kers, dude!” Look for a new CD and tour on the way in May! FLASH TO BANG TIME Local new wave group finds a marriage between fun and somber, like a stormy beach party. Features Lynda Stipe (Oh-OK, Hetch Hetchy), Charles Greenleaf, Kevin Sims, Matt Tamesin and Ritchie WIlliams.

KATE MORRISSEY Morrissey’s warm, soulful voice and rhythmic piano spice her original songs, which have been described as “urban fables and fairy tales.”

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

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $12 (adv), $15 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com DJ LOGIC Turntablist credited with introducing jazz into the hip-hop realm.

MOON TAXI Progressive, psychedelic rock from Nashville with a good dose of improvisational folk, jazz and jam.

NEW MASTERSOUNDS Super funky soul-jazz quartet from Leeds, England featuring a unique blend of dance music and rock that spans many genres.

Girasoles 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) and Karl Friday (drums) plays swing and Latin jazz standards for the dinner crowd every Thursday.

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.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub LOMBARD, NORMAN, HUNTER AND MORA Local quartet featuring established musicians Paul Lombard, George Norman, Edward Hunter and Mora performs a blend of folk, bluegrass, country and blues.

THE ODOMETERS Rootsy fiddle music.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com LIVE WELL Southern acoustic duo fueled by Jack Daniel’s whiskey and taking cues from artists like Waylon Jennings and Son Volt.

LONA Lona is the flagship band for local songwriter, guitarist and drummer Clay Leverett (Now It’s Overhead, Bright Eyes). The band sends out more than a little country and more than enough gutsy rock.

SOUTHEAST ENGINE This Athens, OH band is touring in support of From the Forest to the Sea, its energetic follow-up to a strong debut album. Upbeat songs weave together strands of ‘60s garage pop, psychedelia, folk and alt-country.

The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND UGA Music Business Program presents contemporary country artist Rachel Farley followed by Marc Beeson, Will Robinson and James Dean Hicks performing in the round. The Music Business School will conduct their graduation prior to the show at 6 p.m., and several students will perform at 7 p.m.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 MÖRGLBL Big, crunchy guitars roar underneath this French trio’s funky jam rock.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net BELLCURVE Dreamy experimental electronic layers conceived

by Aerial2012’s Michaelangelo Wolfe with a slight trip-hop vibe.

Recommended if you dig Massive Attack or early Aphex Twin. Not to be confused with the Austin rock band “Bell Curve,” these guys come from Atlanta.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar CANDY MALDONADO Local indie experimental band that is a bit “bon-

No Where Bar 11 p.m. 706-546-4742 FREE LUNCH Dynamic jazz band, now featuring saxophonist Luke Powell, with lots of funky slap bass and fun sing-along melodies.

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Manchester Orchestra, Fun, Audrye Sessions, Winston Audio 40 Watt Club Here’s a statement that is rarely made when listening to new bands: these guys really sound like Queen. For those people who need a blast of layered vocal harmonies, big, open guitar chords and a sense of pomp and bombast in their daily musical diet but don’t want to keep dredging up the same old “Bohemian Rhapsody,” consider Fun (not the adjective—the band).

Comprised of former members of The Format, Steel Train and Anathallo, the band actually welcomes the frequent comparison to Mr. Deacon, May, Mercury and Taylor.

Fun “I’ve always aimed for [people to hear a Queen influence]. It’s something that you can easily shoot and miss. Queen is one of my 10 favorite bands, and Freddie Mercury is one of my favorite vocalists. So, we do like to layer things on in the Queen sense of things. So, I think that the influence is something that we are conscious of,” says lead singer Nate Ruess.

Even though Fun shares the same flair for outlandish production values and big melodies, it falls short of straight-up mimicry. Instead, Ruess and his bandmates Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost use the band’s sound and shadow as a launching pad for their own whimsical sound.

“When I’m writing songs, I usually hear the whole song in my head. I explain it and [the rest of the band] interprets it, so it gets filtered through our influences that way. I might say ‘this song should sound like “Pass the Dutchie,’’’ and then they do their thing with it, but otherwise we handle our sound on a song-by-song basis,” says Ruess.

Despite the more obvious influences, Fun offers more than the same old radio gaga.

This is a band that isn’t afraid to stretch its inspirations into a sound that’s all its own.

Isn’t it time you had some fun? [Jason Bugg]

RANDOM RABBIT Dense, psychedelic trance from Atlanta with a flair for improvisation.

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

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com HEATHENS Local band moving in a “more straightforward, no frills rock direction,” says member Michael Eudy, who joins The Heathens lineup with Bill Oglesby from The Knockouts on baritone and tenor sax.

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

Friday 24 40 Watt Club 10 p.m. $5 (adv). www.40watt.com STANZA Eloquent Atlanta-based hiphop artist.

TOMMY VALENTINE It’s the return of the G. With beats by Collegeboy and E.C.S.T.A.C.Y. See feature on p. 18.

WILDKARD This will be WildKard’s debut performance. The group consists of two emcees, a singer, a guitarist, and a drummer. Tommy Valentine has been collaborating with the group over the past month.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 HOLY LIARS This local four-piece tends towards blue-collar rock, not

unlike more polished early Uncle Tupelo or the cow-punkier moments of Social Distortion.

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com WILX Local rock band with alternative and grunge roots, soaked in Southern styling. The band’s interactive live show tends to be more progressive or jam-based than the recordings.

American Tavern 10 p.m. 706-543-7591 JAMES PATRICK MORGAN Covington, GA singer-songwriter with a soulful voice who performs with an acoustic guitar. Influences include John Mayer and Train.

Blur 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/blurathens FRIDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY Spinning an eclectic mix of danceable favorites.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com ATTEST New local hardcore band delivers breakdowns by the handful.

KILL LEBARON First known as October Falls and then known as Sincerely Yours before taking on its current moniker, this local group plays hardcore/screamo.

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

ON PARADISE BOULEVARD New metalcore outfit featuring the drummer and bassist of Lazer/Wülf.

Downtown Athens Jazz Festival. Noon–10:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenstwilight.com TWILIGHT CRITERIUM OUTDOOR STAGE Today’s performers at the 200 block of College Ave. include bands from Riverdale High School, UGA Jazz Dept. and the University of Alabama, as well as Mark Maxwell, Classic City Jazz and Jazz Guardians.

Day concludes with a “Festival Jam Session” at Ciné.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE HEAP Local indie-soul band praised by the likes of Kevn Kinney.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/athensfatdaddys DANIEL MACK AND THE CHICKEN PACK Local country band.

LIVE WELL Southern acoustic duo fueled by Jack Daniel’s whiskey and taking cues from artists like Waylon Jennings and Son Volt.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar CHRISTABEL AND THE JONS Based in Tennessee, this colorful acoustic group blends Appalachian mountain music and old-time country swing in vintage custom costumes. See record review on p. 17.

JUMPIN’ JESUS CHRISTERS Appalachian-style string band.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com* DUBCONSCIOUS Athens’ politicallyminded reggae heavy hitters travel

the bass-heavy reggae path while borrowing the best from dub, funk and jazz. See record review on p. 17.

FUZZY SPROUTS Reunited once again! The classic line-up featuring Tim Conley, Dave Domizi, Seth Hendershot and Michael Wegner returns for a “17th Annual Farewell Concert.” The Sprouts will play a high-energy set packed with old favorites, so expect the usual “schizophrenic-pop-rock-psychedelic-country-metal.”

The Globe 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 INCATEPEC A combination of traditional tunes from South America and Cuba with a unique jazz twist.

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.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar CHRIS MCKAY AND THE CRITICAL DARLINGS Drawing equally on ‘80s power-pop like The Cars and earlier stuff like The Kinks, frontman Chris McKay has a sharp lyrical turn for every melodic offering of his bandmates.

THE DIRTY LUNGS This Alabama band performs ‘70s-inspired psychedelic music.

DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B, and a whole lotta unexpected faves as DJ Mahogany dips into his bag of goodies from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s.

No cover if you wear your PJs. THE PINX Guitar-driven bluesy hits echo from this Atlanta-based indie band’s jam sessions. Expect a Gomez with less catchy hooks.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 6 p.m.–2 a.m. $6. www.myspace.com/ littlekingshuffleclub ATHENS AMERICANA 2009 Annual festival celebrating the best of Athens’ homegrown country, folk, Americana and bluegrass artists.

Performers include Vigilantes of Love, Nightingale News and Patrick Carey. See the full two-day schedule on p. 23.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com NORMALTOWN FLYERS 30th anniversary show! Athens roots-rock institution plays a set of comfortable, good-time rock and roll with a Southern leaning. See p. 19.

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 donation. www.nuci.org DANIEL ECKE No info available.

RACHEL FARLEY Performing since the age of five, the teenager’s decadently rich vocals swoon over country-flavored pop numbers.

SOUTH OF PROPER Performs classic rock-inspired numbers with bluesy vocals.

SOUTHERN CURED Local act skews toward acoustic guitar-driven Southern rock with a flair for covers.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens GRANT MITCHELL & FRIENDS The former WILX lead guitarist debuts a set of originals. k continued on next page

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Tasty World EARLY SHOW. 6 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS Singersongwriter from Illinois who mixes folk instruments with electronic beats in a style similar to Iron & Wine and Sufjan Stevens.

LATE SHOW. 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net BEARFOOT HOOKERS This rowdy local band performs funky, goodhumored country. It’s beer-drinkin’ gospel.

BETSY FRANCK Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com HIGH STRUNG Ramblin’, upbeat, bluesy folk on acoustic guitar and mandolin.

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com BRANDI THORTON A pop country sound with the occasional bluegrass number define this Tennessee-based songstress’ twangy rhythms.

WUGA 91.7 FM 4 p.m. FREE! www.wuga.org “IT’S FRIDAY!” Leaving Countries and The Leaving Countries All Stars will perform on the local radio station’s weekly program. University Cable Channel 15 will also broadcast the show.

Saturday 25 283 Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 DJ DAN SPEEDER Finish Line Dance Party! Head over after the race for a set of “get down jams.”

40 Watt Club 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.com BAMBARA Citing both dreamy and aggressive bands as influences, this local band has a sound that is truly right in between—Slowdive-like atmospherics matched occasionally with Fugazi ferocity.

FUTUREBIRDS Local folk-rock collective with a tattered, raspy edge.

See record review on p. 17.

THE INTERNS New local band that shares several members with Futurebirds. Look for their debut record soon.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 FESTER’S FARM “Georgia’s Best Southern Rock Band” is from Atlanta, GA, and doesn’t skimp on the cowbell.

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com MAD WHISKEY GRIN Duo featuring masterful guitarist Frank Williams, who slides and finger-picks his way through bluesy and decidedly American sounds, plus vocalist Nancy Byron from the band Elijah.

Ashford Manor 6–9 p.m. www.ambedandbreakfast.com PACKWAY HANDLE BAND Packway’s one-mic bluegrass provides sly, hearty original songs and renditions of classic tunes.

Caledonia Lounge Twilight Delirium. 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com ATTRACTIVE EIGHTIES WOMEN This jokey Atlanta trash rock band

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featuring several former Athenians dabbles in styles ranging from punk to surf rock.

DJ ELLIOTT ‘WRESTLEMANIA XXV’ GARSTIN One-time Athens resident is back in Georgia after some time living in Austin. Elliott spins the best underground indie jams across every genre.

JE SUIS FRANCE Although its members are now scattered across the country, beloved party band Je Suis France returns to its former home town for the annual bike race debauchery.

SUMMER HYMNS Psychedelictinged Neil Young-y pop-rock that hinges more on simple chord progressions and vocal melodies; and if you’re a fan of the Flaming Lips, you’ll find much to like about ‘em as well.

Downtown Athens Jazz Festival. Noon–10:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenstwilight.com TWILIGHT CRITERIUM OUTDOOR STAGE Today’s performers at the 200 block of College Ave. include bands from Peachtree Ridge High School and the College of Charleston, as well as the James Goodhand Trio, Jazz Truth, Jazz Hands and JazzChronic. Day concludes with the “Festival AllStars Band.”

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B, and a whole lotta unexpected faves as DJ Mahogany dips into his bag of goodies from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. Spinning between and after the bands.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 BIG DON BAND Real Southern rock featuring vocals with lots of soulful drawl backed by smooth, bluesy guitars. Lynyrd Skynyrd would approve.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar A POSTWAR DRAMA Cowboy Soul from North Country featuring help from local musicians and tunes for the dusty trail.

KAYLA No info available.

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

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $5. www.georgiatheatre.com THE INCREDIBLE SANDWICH Athens-based instrumental jam band with some tropical leanings. See Calendar Pick on p. 30.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers makes a rare Saturday appearance before the dance party tonight.

“LATE NITE DISCO” The house deejay and occasional special guests spin a cool mix of disco, New Wave and modern dance tunes.

Jot ‘Em Down Country Store & BBQ 3 p.m. FREE! 706-549-2100 ROLLIN’ HOME This band jams originals with a Dead groove and a Southern rock leaning.

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Little Kings Shuffle Club 6 p.m.–2 a.m. $6. www.myspace.com/ littlekingshuffleclub ATHENS AMERICANA 2009 Annual festival celebrating the best of Athens’ homegrown country, folk, Americana and bluegrass artists.

Performers include Hope for Agoldensummer, The Jumpin’ Jesus Christers and Don Chambers. See the full two-day schedule on p. 23.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com SHAUN HOPPER This finger-style acoustic guitarist’s work spans the genres of classical, folk and Celtic.

JIMMY HERRING BAND A Georgia band that toys around with their own variations on Jazz and funk. The eponymous frontman is a fusion guitarist who has toured with such bands as The Allman Borthers and Grateful Dead, among other seminal jam acts. Tonight he will be joined

by Oteil Burbridge, Greg Osby, Scott Kinsey and Jeff Sipe. Part of the Twilight Jazz Festival.

Tasty World 9:30 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net DEAF JUDGES Consisting of three MCs and one DJ, the Deaf Judges focus on an energetic live show backed by beats that utilize elements of world music and old school funk and soul, and lyrics influenced by the modern underground as well as the classic New York style of hip-hop.

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

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

The group recently released its debut full-length, The Void That Isn’t.

LEE HARVEY OSWALD Atlanta rap group.

PEELANDER-Z Japanese punk band from outer space with a secret Earth base buried beneath NYC. Like the Power Rangers meets The Ramones, expect color-coordinated costumes (which the band claims to be its “skin”), and your fragile, human face rocked to bubbling mush.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com STRATOGEEZER Norcross-based band plays surf-heavy classic rock covers and originals.

UGA Legion Field Local Bands Live. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

FREE! www.uga.edu/union THE BREAKDOWN Alternative piano rock band based in Atlanta with a young, poppy line-up. (11:50 a.m.)

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

(12:45 p.m.)

KEN WILL MORTON AND ANDREW VICKERY Engaging local songwriter Ken Will Morton performs tonight as part of a duo with Andrew Vickery on harmonies, dobro, mandolin and acoustic guitar.

(1:40 p.m.)

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. (11 a.m.)

SENONA An Atlanta pop-rock band fronted by a female singer and backed by piano and guitar. (2:35 p.m.)

STAND ALONE A pop-punk band from Atlanta. (4:25 p.m.)

Saturday, April 25

The Incredible Sandwich Georgia Theatre The local four-piece The Incredible Sandwich—Matt McKinney (guitar, vocals), Kevin Juneau (bass), Damian Kapcala (keys) and Rackley Davis (drums)—has already been active out of town, too, hitting up Statesboro, Asheville, St. Simon’s Island, and even McKinney’s native Cordele. And despite the almost aggressively forgettable name, McKinney’s vocal style goes down easily, a regularguy mix of Dave Matthews and Sublime’s Brad Nowell.

The versatile Kapcala may be the most familiar to Athens audiences; he’s the lynchpin to The Incredible Sandwich’s appeal, and a good balance to McKinney’s more predictable guitar solos and regrettable lyrics (Lily taught me how to read and write/ but she would never stay the night/ so I don’t know if the carpet matches the drapes/ or if she’s bare down there…). Kapcala’s been in town for about eight years, and over that time has developed a long resumé of work with the improv-minded bands in town, contributing piano, guitar, drums and more to groups like Field Trip, Lionz, Fiasco and Thelonious. The dude really needs an honorary drink at the Nowhere Bar named after him, or something.

That said, Kapcala’s in more atmospheric territory here with The Incredible Sandwich, focusing his energies on the Hammond organ and Moog synth and delivering some lithe, lively solos.

The Incredible Sandwich released its debut five-song EP The Incredible Sandwich earlier this week. Recorded at the local Green Room Studios by musician and sound engineer Nathan Sheppard, the disc gets a celebratory release show this weekend at the Georgia Theatre; it’s workable, but the band’s focus is on its live jams. Saturday’s also the big night of the Twilight Criterium downtown, and the band gets going right as the bike race wraps up. [Chris Hassiotis]

STATE OF MAN Polished alternative pop from Atlanta in the vein of Lifehouse. (5:15 p.m.)

STOKESWOOD A mellow, modern alt-rock band from Atlanta that experiments a bit with atmospheric sounds. (3:30 p.m.)

ALLISON WEISS Heartfelt singer/ songwriter with a quirky charm and sharp pop sensibilities. (12:45 p.m.)

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com JAY EDWARDS No info available.

Sunday 26 Lucky Dawg Billiards 8 p.m. 706-354-7829 LUCKY DAWG KARAOKE Every Sunday!

Monday 27 40 Watt Club Benefit for Nuçi’s Space. 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.com ATHENS’ BAR & RESTAURANT BATTLE OF THE BANDS Musicians from the following establishments team up in all-new lineups to compete for charity.

Introducing: Pencilthin Reefer Band (Caledonia Lounge), Wild Cherry (The Last Resort), The Maverick Mitchell Band (Trapeze), Peppered with Rubbish (The Grit), The Fist Mitts (The Grit), Bjorn (Georgia Theatre), Tasty Boyz (Tasty World), High and Inside (Max Canada), Magnum Force (The 40 Watt) and Baby Blues and Baby Birds (Speakeasy). Each band will play 15 minutes of covers. Bring a box of cereal for the NE GA Food Bank.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com CARTRIGHT A bizarre blend of folk, punk and a cappella in their set.

DAMON MOON AND THE WHISPERING DRIFTERS This band from “the hills of Georgia”

mixes guitars, bass and drums to make ‘70s psychedelic-influenced folk rock.

OWL EYES Experimental rock straddles the line between folk and freakfolk with noisy, ambient and psychedelic songs. For fans of Destroyer and Cocorosie.

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

Ciné Barcafé 7–10 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com OPEN JAZZ JAM Calling all jazz musicians. Now you can join local jazz group Sonny Got Blue every Monday for an open mic jam. Note the new location!

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.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar BOO AND BOO TOO This Kansasbased group mixes claustrophobic shoegaze with noise pop.

DEAD ELEPHANT BICYCLE Broken, weary vocals somewhere between Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen backed by brooding cellos and acoustic guitar.

GOBLINIZER Steve Miller from Ceramic Dvck teams up with Colin Carey from The Ginger Envelope for this experimental project.

MERCI BOUQUET Come watch this local jam band try to take the crown away from Muchos Gracias.

MUCHOS GRACIAS Mercer West and David Specht play lead guitar and bass guitar, respectively. Drum tryouts to those willing, tonight and perpetually!

YATAGARASU Experimental group composes blistery soundscapes with jarring arrangements and effusive basses.

Nathan Rodriguez

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Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net LUKE AND THE FORCE Local man Cameron Snow leads a three-piece band with Luke Rispin on bass and Patrick Ely on drums. The band plays energetic indie folk.

Tuesday 28 40 Watt Club Food2Kids Benefit. 8 p.m. $20, $10 (students). www.40watt.com GEORGIA GROWN: WILL ROCK 4 FOOD Conceptual benefit show for Food2Kids, featuring Sleepy Horses, Stereo Campbell, Elijah, Kite to the Moon and Corey Crowder. Each band will play one original, and then cover songs celebrating their favorite Georgia artists.

Alibi 8 p.m.–12 a.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 DJ JOHN Country Rock DJ spins every Tuesday for Bike Nite.

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

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com ZACH DEPUTY This Bluffton, S.C. native plays acoustic party-funk.

STEVE KIMOCK CRAZY ENGINE San Francisco-based guitarist who pushes new boundaries of rock, rhythm and blues, gospel and soul with this new project.

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 SPRING CREEK Part of the Terrapin Tuesday Bluegrass Series. This downhome band from Colorado makes itself known with solid banjo

picking and youthful vigor. Don’t be surprised if you hear an Elton John or Gillian Welch cover squeezed into the set of more traditional bluegrass sounds.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens SUMILAN Progressive jam rock.

Tasty World Tasty Bar. 9 p.m.–2 a.m. FREE! www. tastyworld.net TASTY TUESDAY Now a weekly event hosted by Athens’ “Hip-Hop Ambassador” Mon2, the fourth Tuesday of every month features DJ Killacut scratching and mixing underground, classic and Top 40 hip-hop, and a open mic for freestyle fellowship and emcee battles.

Benefit for Cystic Fibrosis. 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net LEADING EDGE The local band formerly known as Mudra has gotten a bit more upbeat since the name change—channeling alternative rock and pop sounds from across the decades.

JAMES PATRICK MORGAN Covington, GA singer-songwriter with a husky, soulful voice who performs with an acoustic guitar.

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

Wednesday 29 Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com HAM1 The new record, The Underground Stream, offers a breezy take on straight ahead ‘60s garage rock, brightened by swoon-worthy harmonies and a pop sensibility.

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

THE SOUTH FRENCH BROADS An eclectic, entertaining duo out of Asheville, NC that uses a variety of instruments, toys and props to create a high energy blend of jazz, punk and rock that’s infused with comedy.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar DIET ROCKSTAR The local trio combines the powers of Craig Lieske (Garbage Island, Desk Pussy), Eric Harris (Ham1, Olivia Tremor Control) and Jeff Rieter (Baghouse, Count) to create improvised jazz featuring dub and tape loops.

ECHO CANYON Local trio of Jim Wilson, Chuck Bradburn and Craig Lieske plays experimental music that is playful yet demanding with an other-worldly, delicate feel that evolves into metal power.

Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $20 (adv), $25 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com BLACK JOE LEWIS A soul-influenced blues musician from Austin, often joined by collaborators.

ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND A multicultural funk and soul band fronted by the eponymous pedal steel guitarist.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 TONGUE N GROOVE The acoustic trio of Henry Williams, Don Henderson and Amy Moon plays lively originals and classic acoustic rock covers.

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

The Melting Point 8–11 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.com THE DEACON BRANDON REEVES Part of John Straw’s Wednesday Blues series. This resonator-bassdrums three piece from Atlanta churns out upbeat yet bluesy tunes.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens LAST YEAR PORTRAIT Atlantabased Christian band churns out polished pop rock numbers.

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Tasty World 9:30 p.m. $12. www.tastyworld.net AGAINST ME! Gainesville, FL punk quartet Against Me!—frontman Tom Gabel, guitarist James Bowman, bassist Andrew Seward and drummer Warren Oakes—recently released New Wave, a brief, efficient and electrifying disc of agitated yet poppy anthems.

Tasty Bar. 10:30 p.m. FREE! www. tastyworld.net KAOS House music every Wednesday! * Advance Tickets Available

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Down the Line 4/30 Brad Downs and the Poor Bastard Souls / Ralph Roddenbery Band (40 Watt Club) 4/30 The Incredible Sandwich / Jango Monkey (Caledonia Lounge) 4/30 Thayer Sarrano (Farm 255) 4/30 Dusty Lightswitch / Cortez Garza / Night Nurses (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 4/30 Toubab Krewe (Georgia Theatre)* 4/30 Sonny Got Blue (Girasoles) 4/30 Jon Mark (Rye Bar) 4/30 Los Amigos (Terrapin Beer Co.) 4/30 Trey Wright Trio (The Melting Point) 5/1 Oblio / The Starter Kits / The Help (40 Watt Club) 5/1 Arizona / Gift Horse / Russian Spy Camera (Caledonia Lounge) 5/1 Packway Handle Band (Georgia Theatre) 5/1 Match Pack (Rye Bar) 5/1 Chuck Leavell / Randall Bramblett Band (The Melting Point) 5/2 ‘Powers / The Buddy System / Castlebandia (40 Watt Club) 5/2 Albatross (Allen’s Bar & Grill) 5/2 Chronicles of the Landsquid / EP3 / Telepath (Georgia Theatre) 5/2 Greg Hester (The Melting Point) 5/3 Kite to the Moon (Human Rights Festival Downtown) 5/4 David Cook (Georgia Theatre) 5/5 Bambara / Sweetbox / Sybris (Caledonia Lounge) 5/5 North Georgia Bluegrass Band (The Melting Point) 5/6 Andy Davis / Paul Smith (40 Watt Club) 5/6 Electra Villain / Idiot Slowdown / The Warm Fuzzies (Caledonia Lounge) 5/6 Milligan (Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill)

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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

CLASSES

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/callfor entries.php

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.wellness cooperative.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” class every Friday from 7–9 p.m. and “Family Try Clay” every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. ($20/ person). Also now registering for four-week Maymester classes in stoneware, porcelain and earthenware. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt. net

AUDITIONS Measure for Measure (Classic City Arts Production Studio) Classic City Arts Studio will be holding auditions for its summer production of the classic Shakespeare play.

Auditions will run May 3–8. Go to help@classiccityarts.com for more info, or visit their website www.classiccityarts.com.

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.

Antiques and Jewels “Athens Fine Art Gallery,” an exhibit featuring works by Mary Porter, Elizabeth Barton, Brandon Zinninger, Greg Benson, Jim StipeMaas, Taylor DuBeau, Judy Dudley O’Donnell and Susan Elizabeth. Through September.

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.

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.

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 Image archivists Lou Kregel and Chris Purcell present “The Big Clip Art Show No. 1.” The exhibit features some of the artists’ favorite clip art images painted onto cut-out wood.

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

by Lamar Wood, Melin Miller, Lisa Hampton-Pepe, RainDance and Cameron Hampton. Through 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. Through Apr. 24. Reception Apr. 24.

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Computer Class (ACC Library) “Introduction to Word.” In the Educational Technology Center. Call to register. Apr. 23, 10–11:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 Cookin’ Up Compost (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn the basic ingredients and directions to make compost at home.

Composting supplies provided to all attendees. May 4, 6–7:30 p.m. $12. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden Drumming for Fun and WellBeing (Mind Body Institute) Led by Dr. Arvin Scott. Every 2nd and 4th Saturday. Apr. 25, 2–3:30 p.m. $10/ class. 706-475-7329, www.armc. org/mbi Earth Day Yoga (Sangha Yoga Studio) Instructor leads 10 minutes of sun salutations followed by 10

(Gallery 101 & 307) BFA art education, sculpture and drawing/painting exit show. Apr. 27–May 1.

Reception May 1.

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. Through Apr. 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. www. wildchildarts.net

Robert Clements’ artwork is part of “Crafting Romance” at ATHICA through May 31. minutes of moon salutations. Apr. 22, 12–12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-6131143 EFT and Energy Techniques Workshop (Body, Mind & Spirit Ministries) Learn safe and easy techniques that can heal every aspect of your life. Call to register. Apr. 25, 1 p.m. $25. 706-351-6024 Fused Glass Workshop (Good Dirt) Students will create a project of their own design. Fee includes materials and firing. Call to register. Apr. 26, 2–4 p.m. $50. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net 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 GMAT Strategy Workshop (Georgia Center) Learn strategies from an experienced instructor 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. Apr. 24, 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 that consists of two meditation courses and a silent retreat in the GA mountains. 706-475-7329, www.armc.org/mbi 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 Tile Wall Works (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Workshop to create and install a major collaborative clay wall mural. Led by Jerry Chappelle. Offered in six sessions May 9–June 22, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $180. 706-769-4565, info@ ocaf.com Women’s Self-Defense and Personal Safety (AKF Itto Martial Arts) Six-week workshop covering social, psychological and physical aspects of safety. Led by Sarah Peck, second-degree black belt in Kyuki-Do. Thursdays, Apr. 30–June 4, 7:45 p.m.–9:15 p.m. $25. 706-353-7743, www.akfitto. 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).

706-353-3616, www.classic-mac. com Yoga Classes (Om Town Yoga— 190 Park Avenue) Ongoing classes with detailed asana instruction.

Multi-class discounts. Mondays, 6:15 p.m. Wednesdays, 5:45 p.m. $10/drop-in. www.athensomtown yoga.com

HELP OUT! Adopt-a-Mile Cleanup (Barber Creek Fire Station—Mars Hill Road) The Oconee Democratic Party is conducting its Adopt-a-Mile cleanup along the Oconee Connector. All are welcome to help. Bring work gloves.

Apr. 25, 9 a.m. 706-769-4464 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.athens oconeecasa.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 Global Youth Service Day (Various Locations) Volunteer projects include making rain

barrels, cleaning up/beautifying playgrounds, schoolyard gardening and stenciling stormdrains. Ages 15 & under must be accompanied by adult. Register online. Apr. 25, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 706-353-1313, www.handsonnortheastgeorgia.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

KIDSTUFF Auditions for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (ACC Library) Young Actors Studio is holding auditions for its summer production. Come prepared with a one-minute song for Snow White and other major roles. May 18, 6:30–8:30 p.m. youngactorsstudio@ gmail.com Babies & Beasties Series (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Help your toddler discover nature. Ages 18 months–2 years, with adult.

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. www.mdchs.org Camp Amped (Nuçi’s Space) Now accepting applications for summer music camps open to middle and high school students ages 11 & up.

Applications and scholarship info online. June 8–20 & July 6–8. 706227-1515, www.nuci.org 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. 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 New Moon Summer Adventure Camps (Various Locations) Now accepting registration for summer camp that travels to different state parks and natural areas daily. 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. Email to reserve spot. $150/ week, $250/two weeks. ashowah@ gmail.com, www.canopystudio.com Sweet Pea Club Camp (State Botanical Garden) Programs involve puppet shows, storytelling, learning games and garden explorations.

Ages 3–4. June 22–26, 9–11 a.m. $110. www.uga.edu/botgarden Yoga Sprouts Summer Stretch Camp (Full Bloom Center) Now registering for summer camp featuring children’s yoga, arts, gardening and more. $120/week. summerstretch@gmail.com

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins I have been having an argument with my friend, and we want you to solve it. She insists that it is never, ever okay to sleep with a guy on a first date. I, on the other hand, believe that sometimes it is okay. Especially, I am arguing, after a very long and really fun and comfortable date. But she has been nagging me about it for days, and now I am starting to second guess myself. I don’t normally do this kind of thing, but things went well and I had a few drinks in me. She says there’s no way it will work now. I am hoping she’s wrong.

He has already called me since.

What’s your opinion?

Too Late?

My opinion is that having a plan either way rarely works out. You can make all the rules you want for your dating life, but sitting around thinking about the rules is not going to make you a great date, and it is unlikely to get you anywhere except in the ladies’ room checking off a list.

Look, this doesn’t make you a slut or anything. There is something to be said for getting sex out of the way ASAP. That way you don’t wonder if you should do it, or think about when you should do it, or (God forbid) waste time with a guy who is absolutely lousy in bed. Cold as that may sound, not everything can be taught, nor should it have to be.

Stop worrying about it. It’s already done. The questions now are: Was it good? Do you want to do it again? And does he?

I don’t know what to do. I have been out with this girl a few times. We have known each other for a pretty long time, through mutual friends, and we have been flirting for months, but the timing was always bad. So, recently things finally worked out and I asked her out.

We had a great time on our first date, which was not surprising. We had a great time on our second date, which was barely like a date because we were out with all of our friends but acting more like a couple. After our third date, we went back to her place. One thing led to another, and we ended up fooling around.

We did not have sex, but that was mostly because I didn’t want to. And I hate to say it, but the reason was because it was so, so BAD. I mean, I am not very old, and I have been with girls who were inexperienced, but this was just painful. Literally. Like, with teeth. She has no idea what she is doing, to the extent that I wanted to run away screaming and I basically just lied and said I was too tired to do anything else and I wanted to go to sleep. But now I am worried. How do I get out of this? And is it fair to do that? It would be different if we were younger and I thought she could be taught, and it sucks because I really kind of like her,

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Is it possible that the problem was not a lack of skill but an excess of alcohol? I’m just saying, sometimes people get nervous and they have a few drinks and then a few more and pretty soon they are not themselves—in bed or anywhere else. Maybe? Okay, probably not. I think if you are absolutely certain that there is no going back and you can’t possibly be convinced to try again or consider showing her what to do, then your only choice is to tell her that you really like her but that you just want to be friends. I would avoid the lousy blowjob talk and just say that due to your long term friendship and all of your mutual friends, you have come to like her more as a sister or a good buddy and that you think she’s awesome, but that it just doesn’t work for you.

White lies, my friend, white lies. And don’t even think about telling any of your mutual friends the truth. Just be nice and be firm.

I am older than most people in the dating world, I think, and since I haven’t been in it for a long time, I am confused. I went out with this guy a couple of times. He had actually pursued me, which was very pleasantly surprising, and we have had a couple of very nice dates.

We talk for hours and time flies by, and both times he has asked me when he could see me again. But once he walked me to my car and leaned in a little, so I did the same, and then at the last second he turned his head and I wound up kissing him on the cheek. I was totally mortified. Am I being too forward? What’s the deal? What did he mean to do when he leaned in like that? Arrrgh! I hate this dating thing, but I thought I was doing okay. Now what?

Out of It If things have gone well and he has asked for follow-up dates, then maybe he is just trying to take it slowly? Maybe he leaned in because he was going to kiss you and then panicked because he thought he might have bad breath or thought he was being too forward (?). Thing is, you can’t worry about it. Don’t be embarrassed about kissing him on the cheek. You had a good time and so did he, and you are going out again. If it makes you feel better, wait for him to make the first move next time. But it does sound like you’re doing okay, so stop freaking out.

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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. $700/mo. 2BR/2.5BA condo.

W/D, DW, CHAC, pets welcome.

4 ac. greenspace. Go to www. riverstationcondosonline.com.

Flexible length of lease. (706) 424-8595.

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 Studios. East Campus Rd. $0 sec. dep. $625/mo. Incl. water, gas, pest & trash. City/UGA bus stop, built–ins, tile & HWflrs. Pets OK. Call today–only a few left!

Contact kaceyprice@hotmail.com, (706) 540-2829.

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

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

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

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 & 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/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, laundr y onsite. Chris (706) 202-5156.

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

Water/trash incl. Avail. now! $450/ mo. Drive by 199 Little St. then call (706) 215-4496.

2BR/1BA. Utilities included!

Washer/dryer. 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) 714-1100. Pets OK. No dep.

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/1BA. $450/mo. FP, DW, CHAC. 418 Lexington Heights.

Dogs OK. (706) 749-9141.

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.

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.

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.

Avail. 6/1. 1BR apt. Walking distance to campus. In great n’hood. All appls., CHAC, HWflrs. $630/mo. Call (706) 340-7531.

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.

Cedar Shoals Dr. area. 4 or 5BR/4BA. Lg. rms., quiet n’hood, W/D incl. $1K/mo. + dep. req’d.

(706) 742-8555.

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.

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.

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.

Large apartment in Boulevard. Avail. early June.

2–3BR, W/D, DW, $900/mo. (706) 742-2757.

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.

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) 614-3252.

Overlook Village at China & Little St. 2BR/1BA. $440/mo. Pls. call Dave (706) 207-2908.

Pre–leasing for fall. Townhouses at North Ave., approx. 2 mi. to campus. All 2BR/2.5BA. Lg. kitchens, DW, CHAC, W/D, $725/ mo., incl. pest control & garbage service. Call Matthew (706) 224-1544.

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. $1095/mo. Avail. 8/1.

Pets OK. Call (706) 369-2908.

$725/mo. 3BR/1.5BA. 171 Kenwood Dr. CHAC. Lots of storage space! Fenced yd., wooded lot. Quiet n’hood. (706) 338-7740, (706) 549-4857.

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.

$800–$900/mo. 2 beautiful homes on Eastside in Villas at Snapfinger. 3BR/2BA w/ pergo flrs., 2BR/2BA new carpet, CHAC, all electric, W/D hookups, nice yds., family oriented n’hood.

Mins. to UGA, Dwntn, shopping, grocery. Call (706) 850-0563.

Email EastAthensRentals @gmail.com.

Apartments for Sale 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 $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. $750/mo. 3BR/1BA house on 2 ac. in Winterville. 5 mins from Athens. Very safe n’hood.

Wooded lot. Pets OK. Call (706) 338-4669.

$900/mo. 3BR/2BA house 4 mi. from Dwntn in Lantern Walk subdivision. W/D, lawn maintainence, & garbage pickup incl. Call Rich at (706) 372-6426 or email hambowman2003@yahoo. com, Agent# 318245. $965/mo. 2BR/1BA beautiful 5 yr. old bungalow. Modern design, HWflrs throughout, W/D. West Athens off Oglethorpe. Attentive landlord. Avail. 8/1. Contact Danielle (706) 424-1160. $990/mo. 3BR/2.5BA house w/ 2–car garage on the Eastside.

W/D, & lawn maintainence incl. in rent. Call Rich at (706) 3726426 or email hambowman2003@ yahoo.com, Agent# 318245. $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. $690/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 rent free!

Pet friendly, on busline. (706) 549-6254. Hurry. Restrictions apply.

136 Grove Street. $1200/ mo. Aug. 1. 4BR/3BA located on Oconee hill near Mama’s Boy & Waffle House. Lg, spacious rms. Huge yd. & a lg. front porch. boulevard​p roper ty​ management.com. Call today (706) 548-9797.

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.

145 Mell St. 5 Pts. Sm. garage efficiency apt. HWflrs., W/D. $420/mo. incl. utils. 1 block from UGA. Avail. 6/1. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

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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.

180 O’Farrell. 5 Pts. house.

Great location, near UGA Baseball Field, lg. rambling house. Go to w w w. b o u l e v a rd ​p ro p e r t y​ management.com. Call today (706) 548-9797.

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 apt. in house on Sunset/ Normaltown. Wood flrs., porch, W/D. Split utils. w/ other apt. Pets OK. $450/mo. Flex. starting dates 6/15–8/1. Call (706) 543-5497.

1BR homes avail. now! $465/mo.

Walk to Dwntn & campus. All Hart Realty. Tiffany (706) 476-3262 or Julie (706) 201-7363.

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

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.

2535 Barnett Shoals. Aug 1. $850/mo. 3BR/1.5BA. HWflrs., fenced backyd, a great kit. & a c a r p o r t . w w w. b o u l e v a r d​ property​management.com.

Call today (706) 548-9797.

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 $625/month.

Milledge Court #20. Avail. June 15. Great 5 Pts. duplex, tile BA, HWflrs. Great location! w w w. b o u l e v a rd ​p ro p e r t y​ management.com. Call today (706) 548-9797.

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. 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. Avail. 6/1. Off Pulaski.

Close to Dwntn. Wood flrs., W/D, screened porch. $400/mo. Email hathawayproperties@gmail.com, call (706) 714-4486.

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 home avail. for Aug.! $915/mo. In the Normaltown/ ARMC area. (706) 201-7363.

3BR/1BA in Blvd area. $795/mo.

Avail. 5/1 (can be flexible w/ move date). Cute bungalow w/ lots of storage, CHAC, DW, W/D, screened back porch, fenced yd. Pets OK. Lg. sunrm., walk–in closet, clean & cute! (706) 202-8417.

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.

2BR/1BA + dining room and study. Quiet & safe n’hood. HWflrs., CHAC, W/D, DW. Nice cond. $750/ mo. Call (706) 548-5869.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Close to Dwntn. New 4BR/3.5BA houses. New appls. Pets welcome. Rent from $950–$1300/ mo. Call (706) 540-1257.

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.

4BR/2BA renovated victorian home. 1/2 mi. from campus.

W/D, DW, fenced yd., HWflrs, $1625/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/2BA w/ game rm. & den. 2600 sq. ft. Carport. $860/mo. 1st & last mo. dep. 5 min. to Dwntn/campus.

(706) 354-1652 after 5 pm.

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.

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

4BR/4BA 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.

Amazing renovated 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. $420/ BR. (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. Spacious 3BR/2BA, lg. kit., lv. rm. area, HWflrs., W/D, close to Dwntn. & campus. Cleveland Ave. Lawncare provided. $1200/ mo. (706) 338-6716.

Avail. now. 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.

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

Cozy 4BR/2BA home. Lv. rm. w/ vaulted ceiling, din. rm., sun rm. New DW & W/D. 1 soaking tub/shower, 1 walk–in marble shower. FP, garage. CHAC. Lawn maintenance included! $1200/mo. Chadds Walk sub.

Navy school, ARMC, UGA. Pretty yd. Family n’hood. Shannon (706) 254-0200.

Excellent renovated 4BR/3BA. 1/2 mi. to campus. Lots of character! Big rms. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1675/ mo. Call (706) 369-2908.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Grad student/young professionals. 3BR/1BA. Quiet family n’hood. HWflrs. Separate garage/workshop. Huge fenced dog pen. Avail. 8/1. $750/mo.

Call (706) 369-2908.

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.

Great 4BR/4BA houses. Live next to your buddies! 1/2 mile from campus. Front porch, back deck, nice yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1500/mo.

(706) 369-2908.

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

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

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. H o s p i t a l a r e a , Fenced–in yd. Avail. June. $800/ mo. Eastside 3BR/2BA. Lg. yd., on dead–end street. $1100/mo.

Cedar Creek 4BR/2BA $1100/ mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700.

Now leasing & pre–leasing in–town properties. 3, 4, & 5BR’s.

Pls. call Garnett (706) 540-0093.

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.

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. $89,000. 2-3BR/1BA. Dwntn.

Athens. 1256 W. Hancock. (706) 714-4603.

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

3BR/1.5BA brick ranch home w/ one car garage in excellent cond.

Nicely landscaped w/ fenced–in backyd w/ shed. $124,900. (706) 778-9295 after 4pm or (706) 549-4050. ➤ continued on next page

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. 4BR/4BA. Won’t last!

Cloverhurst/Bloomfield area. Luxury living. Walk 2 blocks to campus.

DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Avail.

8/1. $500/BR. (706) 369-2908.

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

(706) 338-6716.

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.

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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.

Charming 1950’s. 2–3BR/1BA brick house on Westside. Close to loop & a few mi. from Dwntn/ UGA. Completely updated, huge fenced yard. $129,900. (706) 543-5643. http://picasaweb. google.com/​b 3tsyb/105HuntRd AthensGa30606#.

Open House! This Sunday 2–5pm after Twilight! Check 285firststreet.blogspot.com for details & pics. Drinks & snacks provided, come check out this cool new craftsman! $217K. Westside off Whitehead. 3BR/2BA. 2 car garage, formal dining rm. $147K. Purchase or $1100/mo. lease. (706) 354-3212 or (757) 576-1706.

What are your Real Estate needs?

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. 306trace@uga.edu.

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.

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!

Roommate needed for 1200 sq. ft. 2BR/2BA on river. 2 mi. from campus, mall, & 316. Must like dogs. $325/mo. + utils. (706) 394-4283.

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.

1BR/1BA w/ study. Share kitchen.

Utils incl. Parking. Free wireless/ Tivo! Totally furnished. Safe, quiet, close to UGA. Priv. entrance/deck. $700/mo. negotiable. Avail 6/1.

(706) 296-6956.

Furnished room in private home.

Avail early May. Near Alps Kroger.

Private entrance, bath, micro, fridge, A/C. No pets/smoking. $375/mo.

Utils & cable incl. (706) 227-0774.

Great rm. close to busline! Only $230/mo. Avail. 5/10 & I will pay 1st mo. rent. Email me at charlesartist62784@live.com for more info.

Spacious rm. avail. in historic Blvd. district. $375/mo. Priv. entrance & porch on quiet street.

W/D. Avail. immediately. (606) 584-5231.

Sub-lease 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.

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

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

Computers Get a new computer now! Brand name. Bad or no credit, no problem! Smallest wkly payments avail. Call now. Call (800) 8162232 (AAN CAN).

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

Furniture 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 furniture 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.

Music Equipment Gammon drum set, full size, bass drum, snare, rack toms, flr. tom, hi-hat & crash/ride cymbals. Must see! Excellent condition! $250 OBO. Call (706) 248-1441.

Summer Sublease at The Club on Riverbend Pkwy. Pool, gym, priv. BA. Close to campus & pets are allowed. Rent $295/mo. + 1/3 utils. Sublease lasts May–July.

Female wanted. Contact (678) 429-4901.

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

Open every day. Bring trades!

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.

For Sale

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 Internet! Avail.

May. Tracy, tdoggog@yahoo.com.

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.

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.

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.

Antiques

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.

Instruction

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.

L o v e G u i t a r H e ro ? Quit playing the game & learn the real thing. Teachers w/ decades of experience. 1–on–1 affordable, fun lessons. All styles & skill levels welcome. Music Exchange (706) 549-6199.

Piano Lessons: 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.

Seeking both an experienced bass player & singer/frontman to complete hard rock lineup. Original material.

Serious musicians only. Contact: forminghardrockband@gmail.com.

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.

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Lucky Dawg seeks vibrant, outgoing, & friendly bartenders to mix drinks & cook bar food. Go to 1120 Mitchell Bridge Rd., ask for Bob/Matt. Athens biggest & best pool hall.

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 www.bostemps. com, (706) 353-3030.

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Movie extras needed now. Earn $100-$300/day. No exp. req’d. All looks wanted. FT, PT. Call now.

(800) 605-5901 (AAN CAN).

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Part-time PT Window Cleaner needed. Must have reliable vehicle. Call Amy (706) 338-5299.

Banquet Servers needed for local catering company. Must be very flexible & avail. 7 days/wk.

Call (706) 353-1798 & lv. your contact info.

Customer friendly cashier.

24–30 hrs/wk, Wed–Sat, 7pm–1am &/or Mon–Wed, 7am–9am. $8/hr.

Apply w/ manager at College Ave. Parking deck, 235 College Ave. 1:30pm–4pm, Mon–Fri.

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.

Experienced pizza cook & line cook. Apply in person at 1550 Oglethorpe Ave.

Retail sales asst. for busy plant nursery. Must enjoy outdoors, be enthusiastic, & energetic! Plant/ water exp. pref. Apply at Thyme After Thyme, 550 Athens Rd., Winterville. Mon.–Fri. 9am–4pm only.

Vehicles

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

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Account Representative needed to work on behalf of our company.

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(800) 743-8535.

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