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pub notes Just Say No It ain’t easy being Republican. I know that, and I don’t fault anybody who is. It ain’t easy being a Democrat in Georgia, except in Athens. It is so hard for Republicans here that they got us to do away with political distinctions in local government, so that they can operate without having that red “R” stamped on their foreheads. Even so, their control in Atlanta served them well in splitting Athens in twain to assure that we’re served by two Republican state senators, both of whose main constituency is concentrated in the more rural, conservative counties surrounding us. Thanks, Ralph: we’ll never forget you. Bill won’t, either.

On the national scene Republicans have gone from controlling everything to just saying “no.” So it is of course no surprise that they are saying “no” to President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.

They know Judge Sotomayor will be confirmed, unless they can find out that she hasn’t paid her taxes or is romantically involved with her illegal-immigrant maid and not withholding Social Security on her, either. And of course they may find it, given the track record of Obama nominees so far. Failing some killer detail like that, though, the Republicans have got to find another way to say “no.” Right now they’re basically saying she’s unfit for the Court because she’s got “empathy,” which allows them to attack her for being an Hispanic woman without attacking her because she’s an Hispanic woman.

Their antics are reminiscent of the period around here when local Republicans were attacking Mayor Gwen O’Looney— mainly because she was a Democrat and they couldn’t control her, but also because she …the Republicans just was an uppity woman, though they couldn’t say look increasingly sexist that, either.

So far, President and racist—two traits Obama is playing the they already own.

Republicans the same way President Clinton did, kind of like the Roadrunner with Wile E. Coyote, helping them blow themselves up. They don’t like Judge Sotomayor because she’ll bring her Latina experience to bear on the Court, but they love Justice Alito and Justice Thomas because they bring their ethnic experience to bear on the Court, as does Chief Justice Roberts his WASP ethnicity.

Meanwhile, the Republicans just look increasingly sexist and racist—two traits they already own. Why don’t they show some creativity and go after Sotomayor where she’s really vulnerable? They’ve proven time and again they don’t mind getting ugly. Why not rip off the gloves and hit her in the pancreas?

Can we afford to have a woman sitting on the highest court in the land who is, you know, diabetic? Just think what Rush can do with this tactic. The woman is a drug addict, and everybody knows that all drug addicts are liberals, at least those who get their drugs through needles. Poppin’ pills is another matter.

This woman can’t get through an ordinary day without shooting up. It’s true. What kind of rulings is she going to make in the War on Drugs? Do you want the United States Constitution committed to the safekeeping of a woman shot full of insulin?

Well, Rush and those who answer to him in Congress certainly don’t need my help. I’m sure they’ll think of something.

In politics, when you’re the minority party and out of step with the nation, you become expert at distracting people from the real issues. The nomination of Judge Sotomayor just happens to highlight again how the whole process works.

Maybe one of our local Republicans can tip the national party to the benefits of non-partisan elections. Their attacks on Judge Sotomayor would carry a lot more weight if they weren’t hampered by the Republican brand. But since they are, think about what a perfect opportunity this could have been for the Republicans to catch the President off balance and exhibit a magnanimous bipartisanship in the face of a nomination they aren’t going to defeat anyway. Unfortunately, the Republican leadership—Limbaugh, Cheney and Rove included—are so blinded by ideology they assume the President is, too. They can’t support the issues most important to the American people: like saving the economy, reforming health care, getting us out of ruinous wars and appointing good judges. They’re addicted to blind opposition. All they can do is needle.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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injuries she suffered in the wreck. She is survived by her husband and a young daughter.

Police say the driver of the vehicle which ran a red light and hit Stockwell’s car had been drinking. The driver at fault refused a bloodalcohol test, and at press time charges were still pending. No matter its outcome, this case is a sad reminder to everyone to drive safely, drink safely, and just plain be safe.

More from the PD: Police also deserve a pat on the back for their recent bust of fencing operations at convenience stores, as it’s smart of them to look for the stolen-goods market that’s driving the wave of property crimes lately, and to go after it. Trouble is, according to the ACC PD’s daily email updates, break-ins and thefts of electronics and other re-sellable items appear to be continuing unabated.

Scammin’ Time of Year: For only $59, the letter says, the National Deed Service will get you a certified copy of the deed to your home.

Given “the increased volume of recorded

Oak Grove: The Tuesday, June 2 Commission meeting was also the night for that body to make a call on the Oak Grove rezone pitch covered in this space last week.

As the meeting date and this writer’s deadline approached, the word was that the proposal would probably be tabled this week. The Oak Grove developers are tentatively planning an open house/ public forum for citizens to review These kids took everything but Milledge Avenue itself when they left newly-revised plans on Sunday, town last month.

June 14 from 4–8 p.m. at the clubhouse in the existing residential Oak Grove development—on the left as deeds, [that’s] the only way to get a copy,” you go out the Jefferson Road, just before you Athens taxpayers are being told. What the lethit the Jackson County line. Keep an eye on ter doesn’t say, however, is that any citizen this column and on Athens Rising for potential can get a copy for 25 cents a page (and most updates, and keep that date in mind: if the deeds are only a page or two long). “This is Oak Grove team is making the invite, then something that happens periodically,” ACC Athens ought to show that it cares what hapTax Commissioner Nancy Denson told Flagpole pens out there. recently. Another come-on offers to help a homeowner get a homestead exemption In Memoriam: Most readers probably (which reduces property taxes somewhat on have learned that former District 8 ACC an owner-occupied home). But that exempCommissioner States McCarter passed away on tion is routinely granted if, and only if, the Memorial Day at the age of 71 after a debilihomeowner applies in person to the Tax tating illness. According to Athens BannerCommissioner’s office (and it remains in effect Herald reports, McCarter suffered from prostate as long as the individual owns the home). But cancer and from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A hey: you’ll need that deed. strong neighborhood advocate, McCarter was “Another one I see a lot targets elderly an active and accessible commissioner who people in particular,” Denson said. “It is an made his mark on his Eastside district, and he official-looking document that tells them they will be remembered for it. have won a large sum of money,” and that they need to pay a fee or “tax” on the award Note to All: ACC police deserve thanks for to receive it. Denson says she recently dealt following up with the local media last week with one citizen who “wanted it to be true so on the tragic results of a Mother’s Day car badly, that I am not sure that I convinced her wreck at the intersection of U.S. 78 and not to send the money.” [John Huie] Morton Road. According to the police reports, 40-year-old Rachel Stockwell died May 27 from Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

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by Georgia Tandem Rally Athens experienced a show of alternativeto-alternative transportation Memorial Day weekend, as the 11th annual Georgia Tandem Rally rolled into town. Over 200 cyclists on 99 bicycles converged on the Foundry Park Inn, their headquarters for three days of long group rides and on-foot forays to Athens’ attractions.

Thoughts of tandem bicycles typically evoke scenes of straw-hatted riders at genteel Ben Mostyn

bike—full of people, usually two, but not always, as four “triplets” boasted three people.) The riders came from 15 states: surprisingly, the most-represented state was Florida, not Georgia. The oldest rider was Zeke Osgood, 82; the youngest, Michael Garrison, age seven.

The organizers of the event, Roger Strauss and Eve Kofsky, have set up each yearly rally since the first in 1999. They rotate the ride among several Georgia cites, and this was their first return to Athens since 2002. Why Athens?

Strauss grinned and raised his voice over the B-52s music bouncing through their gathering on Saturday: “Lots to do, lots to eat, lots to see, and good local beer. We enjoy Athens.” That, they do. When they climbed off their bikes, the riders hit town. Excursions to the Terrapin brewery, restaurants and an evening of desserts at the Lyndon House were not only fun for participants, but when Two hundred riders on 99 bikes came to Athens for the Georgia Tandem Rally. combined with lodging and other expenses made speeds, or a leisurely beach boardwalk rental. a nice contribution to the city’s summer econBut as the rally assembled at the inn’s parking omy. Next year’s rally location isn’t confirmed lot for the first long tour of the weekend, the yet, but Athens will be remembered—and, one participants and their rides quickly dispelled can hope, revisited—for the good times expesuch quaint notions. Sleek cycling wear in rienced this year. vivid colors was the look, with many teams in matching gear. (A team consists of one Deb Chasteen

UGA Profs and Docs Talk Pandemic Influenza “There’s a lot of uncertainty at this point what “I think the medical surveillance commuwill be done in the fall vis-a-vis a vaccine nity should be congratulated for the way they were able to detect the signs of what might be for this flu,” Burnett said. That’s because the pandemic influenza,” said UGA epidemiology response depends intimately on how the flu professor Christopher Whalen at a public forum continues to behave this year. Officials are closely watching its progress in South America put on May 28 by UGA’s College of Public this summer (which is winter there) in an Health. The key words in that sentence? Might effort to gain more knowledge. be. Once the story spread widely through the press, Whalen said, the narrative became “This unfortunately didn’t have a pig on more like ’this is pandemic flu.’ In fact, public it,” said Burnett, holding up a copy of the local public health brochure on health officials still don’t know just what route the “H1N1” flu “We are ready pandemic flu, which prominently depicts a rooster in profile as (a.k.a. swine flu) will take. to do more…” seen on billboards around town.

“It has evolved to be less of a concern than it was initially,” “But the message is largely the same.” That message is mainly to stay home said Northeast Georgia District Health Director from work, school, church and other large Dr. Claude Burnett, who also participated in gatherings if you come down with a flu, and the forum, but still, “everybody’s on alert.” to try to prevent spreading the flu through Burnett added, “We are ready to do more, but it looks like it’s probably going to taper off”— hand contact or coughing. The full brochure is though the real question pertains to what available online at www.publichealthathens. com. happens this fall, when public health officials (and vaccine manufacturers) may have to deal Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com with both H1N1 and the normal seasonal flu.

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capitol impact A Fine Line for Saxby & Johnny The nomination of the first Hispanic to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor, has spawned an ugly political brawl among some Republicans.

Georgia’s own Newt Gingrich was one of more notable mud-flingers, although he was not alone among his colleagues. In a Twitter message he transmitted last week, Gingrich called Sotomayor a “Latina woman racist” who should withdraw her name from nomination. Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh had some equally strong words for the New York jurist: “Here you have a racist. You might want to soften that and you might want to say a reverse racist.” Fox TV host Glenn Beck offered a similar assessment: “Hey, Hispanic chick lady! You’re empathetic… you’re in!”

Georgia Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson are caught in the middle of this controversy because they will be voting at some point with their fellow senators on whether to confirm Sotomayor to that seat on the high court. They will be expected by many of their Republican supporters to try to filibuster and prevent the Senate from even coming to a vote on Sotomayor’s nomination. Do they join the chorus of Gingrich and Limbaugh and make racially charged remarks about Sotomayor, which would please a large segment of their party’s base? Or do they refrain from making inflammatory comments, which would upset that same group of voters?

This is a sensitive issue with implications for Republicans both nationally and in Georgia. Hispanics are the fastest-growing ethnic group right now. It is estimated there are more than 100,000 registered voters of Latino descent in Georgia, a number that could exceed 150,000 by the time we go to the polls in 2010. If Chambliss and Isakson join the crowd that’s hurling insults at the judge, or take part in an attempt to stop a

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vote on her, they will stir up the animosity of an important bloc of voters.

They also could be setting themselves up for charges of hypocrisy. Four years ago, when George W. Bush was president and Republicans controlled the Senate, the Democratic minority attempted to block votes by filibustering several of Bush’s judicial nominees. Angry Senate Republicans like Isakson threatened to invoke the “nuclear option” and repeal the rule on filibusters, a move that was avoided when Democrats and Republicans reached a compromise on nominations.

“This is all about politics and nothing about the substance of these judges, and that’s wrong,” Isakson said during that 2005 controversy. He and Chambliss demanded “up-or-down” votes on the Bush nominees and opposed the idea that a presidential nomination might be prevented by a filibuster. “I cannot envision me not agreeing to allow somebody an up-or-down vote. The way our country’s judicial system has always worked is to remove the politics from the nominee,” Chambliss said at the time.

The Georgia senators so far are keeping a low profile. “I look forward to a thorough examination and debate of her credentials and legal views during the Senate confirmation process,” Isakson said diplomatically.

“The Senate deserves an appropriate amount of time to review this nominee. I look forward to a dignified and thorough confirmation process,” Chambliss said.

It’s a tough situation for the two senators. They’ll be under extraordinary political pressure on this one. No matter what they do, they’re going to make a lot of voters angry.

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

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Paul Broun, Jr. Is Crazy—Part 1 It really needs to be said: Congressman Paul Broun, Jr. is sort of crazy. I don’t mean he’s insane in a clinical sense; he can be left alone with children, sharp objects or small animals. But what is doubtful is whether Broun is fit to inhabit any elected office achievable outside an Elks lodge. Problem is, Broun lives in something like a cartoon, a make-believe world of absolutes: good and evil, left and right, “with us” and “against us.” Little in the way of nuance or intricacy is admitted to complicate his worldview.

Broun is what they call a “true believer,” a term describing a religious certitude which just as well applies to the Congressman’s political and ideological positions. If he were an Iranian or a Palestinian, we’d call him a “fundamentalist.” Like some members of Hamas or Hezbollah, Broun applies the rigid absolutism of his religious faith to nearly all matters of state. This doesn’t disqualify Broun from much—just making decisions that affect anyone other than himself. In fact, Broun might make a great house painter. It’s more his speed, and painting is well-suited for folks with absolutist tendencies: either the wall is covered or it’s not. But Washington is not a place for painters—it’s a place for artists.

Democracy is more than slapping paint on clapboards; it requires an intellectual complexity more akin to painting on a canvas.

Broun ain’t no Renoir.

of finesse and compromise, and that Obama’s aims are to the right of even the so-called socialist governments of western Europe.

There’s nothing “steamrolling” or “socialist” about the President, just charisma and the center-left politics of a president surrounded by big-business Wall Street types, Clintonites and actual Clintons.

But Broun is either too politically naive or dogmatic (or both) to discern the difference.

After all, he’s a doctor by training, not an economist or political scientist. In the same way that Broun would be better able to tell a malignant cancer from a benign tumor than would most of his constituents, it might be that we’re better able to tell Marxism from capitalism, or “tyranny” from simply the majority party. But that doesn’t stop Broun.

Broun casts the tension between capitalist and European-style socialist/Keynesian economics as no less than a battle between good and evil, or, more appropriately for Broun: God and Satan. Broun refers to capitalism as something he “believes” in, as one would “believe” in Jesus, Krishna or Zeus. In fact, Broun even conflates economic and fiscal matters with biblical rules of behavior, suggesting that Americans pay no more than that which they tithe at church: “The bottom line is that if 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it should be good enough for Uncle Sam.” Feeding the five thousand was an impressive feat, but paying for highways, bridges and multiple wars on a 10 percent tax would be a real miracle.

Ever since Adam Smith, capitalism has been said to be animated by a sort of unseen magic, the “invisible hand” and market “forces” toward whom we must act properly

“In my opinion, we’ve elected a Marxist to be president of the United States,” he said in the days following the November election. Exactly: In your opinion, Dr. Broun. An elementary knowledge of the workings of capitalism and an understanding of what Marxism is (and what it isn’t) would have stopped an informed person from making any statement establishing Obama as anything other than a capitalist liberal, a Democrat.

But get this: After months of unseemly accusations, clever turns of phrase (the “unstimulus bill,” the “porkulous” bill, the “cow patty with a marshmallow” bailout) and only days after calling President Obama’s first 100 days a “steamroller of socialism that is being shoved down our throats,” Broun was “proud

or face their wrath. Further, bounty is said to “trickle down” from above—like manna from the heavens—as long as proper tribute is paid to those on top. The language of the fundamentalist economists from whom Broun gets his theory sounds as much like fire-andbrimstone preaching as it does like a social science. An “invisible hand” whose will cannot be fully known? Prayers that wealth will trickle down from unknown benefactors, as long as they are kept well-praised? Isn’t that a God? To Broun, it is. Broun’s reverent worship of the market is an easy step from his religious fundamentalism. Any deviation from extreme capitalist dogma is immediately rejected by Broun as “socialist,” “Marxist” or Hitlerian— never mind that the epithets are not synonyms

A Steamroller of Solipsism Congressman Broun has become all but unhinged since the election of President Obama. He’s become so crazed that he invited a religious cleric buddy to anoint the entrance to the inauguration stage with holy oil in the days before Obama took office. Yes, holy oil.

The episode, recorded for YouTube, reminded viewers of the politics of the Taliban more than anything our nation’s founders had in mind, with Broun and the Christian shaman mumbling spells to protect the state house from the swarthy interloper. I can imagine Jefferson spinning in his grave like a rotisserie chicken.

Broun is unable to regard the centrist liberalism of Obama as anything other than what he calls “the steamroller of socialism.”

Rational political observers find two immediate problems with Broun’s assessment: first, that the President’s political demeanor is one

at all. Confronted with what seems to Broun the inconceivable “socialism” of Obama’s economic policies, the Congressman imagines that the new president will create a “Gestapo”like security force to maintain his “socialist” dictatorship, “exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did.” The needless overreaction is difficult to comprehend until one realizes that Broun understands the debate to be of metaphysical proportions.

In All Things, Worshipful Broun delivered something of a creed on the floor of the House of Representatives: “There’s a great thing we call the free market in America,” he began. “I’m an ardent capitalist, and I believe the marketplace, unencumbered by government regulation, is the best way to control quality, quantity and cost of all goods and services.” In another speech, he cited the “enslavement” (on a “plantation,” no less) that comes with any deviation from his severe vision of the free market. Capitalism is not simply a type of economy to Broun, not simply one way of producing widgets—it is something to worship.

So, while it’s becoming clear to more and more Americans that the fundamentalism guiding the economy for the past generation has delivered us a debilitating global crisis, Broun appears unable to include the new revelations of the economy’s failures into his thinking.

He merely hugs closer to dogma, drifting off into utopian visions of capitalist dreamworlds where corporations pay no taxes, social security is “unconstitutional,” and wealth is free to accumulate in places far from the homes of his constituents.

Broun and the crack team of Georgia House Republicans devised a “budget” to counter Obama’s “radical socialist” one. “Budget” was a misnomer, really, as the document advertised

by Broun was only two pages of bullet points in oversized print. What did the make-believe budget propose? An increase in the largest socialistic program in America: the U.S. military. The military is almost entirely supplied by a handful of “corporations” who feed off of the taxpayer in a highly non-competitive nonmarket. There are no mom-and-pop fighter jet manufacturers competing with Lockheed Martin or Boeing. There is hardly any market at work, only government handouts to corporations. But the military buttresses another of Broun’s fundamentalist perspectives: American exceptionalism.

Matt Pulver Coming up in Part 2: Broun’s views on American exceptionalism, military spending, immigration policy, abortion, marriage and more.

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the reader Good Advices In my day-to-day life I am forever saying no—to my clients at my day job, to my children, to my dogs (loudly) and to my cats (in vain), to people on Facebook who want to send me virtual geraniums or invite me to take the quiz to see which psycho historical dictator I am—and I don’t like it very much. I am, popular opinion to the contrary, a rather positive person, and I would much rather encourage others than discourage them. That’s why this column is all about recommending good books rather than panning bad ones. On the rare occasion I knock a book in print there is a compelling reason to do so; otherwise I just don’t bother with it. I’d much rather use my time and energy pushing positivity, suggesting things to embrace rather than things to avoid.

It would be irresponsible of me, however, not to step in when I see people making horrible mistakes, like walking into traffic, for example, or reading The Da Vinci Code. We’re all fellow passengers on this ride, and we owe it to each other to look out for pitfalls and give good advice where we can. Just saying.

Anyway, here’s some stuff that you should be looking into: The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar et al, edited by Paul Buhle (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2009). Biographies of the writers of the Beat Generation presented a la Pekar’s American Splendor, so the book is so hipster-friendly it hurts. The Big Three— Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs—get lengthy, if

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curmudgeonly, treatments from Pekar and illustrator Ed Piskor, who draws in a middle ground between Jaime Hernandez and R. Crumb that shows the flat cultural landscape the Beats railed against but also conveys the messy desperation that hounded them even in their heyday. Pekar is a knowledgeable and brutally honest scholar of the Beats, and his introduction to their work discerns between the great and the notso-great and explains why. While certainly not a comprehensive study of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs (for that, seek out the biographies

by Ann Charters, Barry Miles and Ted Morgan, respectively, and John Tytell’s Naked Angels), Pekar and Piskor’s segments are a nice introduction to their lives, influences, and the best of their work—a good place for the Beat novice to start.

Better still is the attention Pekar and Buhle pay to the lesser-read lights of the movement, particularly the contingent on the West Coast. Ginsberg’s “Howl” might not have become the career-maker that it was had he not hauled it out at the landmark reading at Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights bookstore

in San Francisco, among other young turks like Michael McClure, Philip Whalen and Philip Lamantia. These and other major writers of the scene—Gary Snyder, LeRoi Jones, Diane Di Prima—get a respectful exposure, if not nearly lengthy enough, as well as some of the other figures who swam in the same waters: Slim Brundage, dean of the experimental art scene in Chicago; artist Jay DeFeo and the painting that killed her; Tuli Kupferberg telling his own story of his legendary band, in spite of itself, The Fugs.

The Beats were very much a boys’ club, and much of the free-love, open-road glamor of the times came at the expense of wives and girlfriends loved and left. This leads to what is perhaps the best piece in the book, by Pekar’s wife Joyce Brabner, who discusses the women of the scene, like Carolyn Cassady and Hettie Jones laboring to raise their own creative voices as well as their absent husbands’ children, and Jan Kerouac, who had to get a blood test before her father would let her use his name (her book Baby Driver is very good). In this and the rest of the book, we get a wartsand-all portrait of one of the most important literary and artistic movements of the last century and a worthwhile read for Beat fans old and new.

House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies, edited

by Henry Jacoby (John Wiley & Sons, 2009).

There are very few subjects in this world quite

as fascinating as philosophy, our eternal struggle to make sense of ourselves and the cosmos, how we understand our place and our reactions to this vast and often unfeeling universe, who and what we are. There are also very few subjects in this world that are more of a frigging mind-numbing bore to read. I’m a smart guy, but nothing makes my eyes glaze over faster than discourses on epistemology and ontology. Seriously, I’d rather read about golf.

The thing is, philosophers know this about their subject, too, which is why every so often some of them let their hair down and contribute to the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, which takes pop phenomena such as “South Park,” “Monty Python,” “Lost,” baseball or the songs of Johnny Cash and Metallica, to name a few, and explores them through a wide range of philosophical lenses.

Thus the essayists provide a painless introduction to complex and abstract concepts and, conversely, show how philosophy works in our daily lives through our pastimes.

In this case, a collection of writers explore the TV show “House, M.D.” (of which I freely admit to being a drooling fanboy), a show that itself explores questions of personal and medical ethics in every episode. Through the weekly travails of Hugh Laurie’s misanthropic, pill-popping genius, we are presented with fascinating explorations of zen, existentialism, utilitarianism and the doctor as Nietzchean übermensch, among others. Because the point of the book series is accessibility, the essays are plain-spoken but not dumbed down, and the fun the authors are having being scholastically naughty is palpable. Whether you peruse this particular volume or any of the others, you will find yourself smarter at the end, whether you wanted to be or not.

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art notes Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Stitch in Time: Needlework and a fivepanel tapestry humbly titled “America the Beautiful—The National Tapestry” are on display at the Lyndon House Arts Center.

Apparently, it took the work of over 1,000 artists and over six years for the multi-panel tapestry to be completed. Featuring appliqué silk squirrels, beaded snakes, embroidered otters afloat in an ocean of blue thread and a sparkling Old Faithful, the tapestry reads (and does include actual text from the Woody Guthrie song) like a map from an elementary school classroom. True to form, Georgia and Florida are embellished with Cherokee roses and pink flamingoes.

Anthropomorphic Animals: Dan Smith’s notquite-human, not-quite-animal characters populate the series of works on display at Red Eye Coffee and provided good company for Lauren Gregg’s “Nerdimals” at the nearby Grit until May 31. Both Smith’s paintings and

Dodd School of Art. Embracing a realistic, figurative style for his series of oil-on-linen paintings, Barber’s works wavers between the ordinary and the metaphoric, seeming to push against the commonplace scenes they represent. Self-portraits and images of the artist’s family abound and suggest that the artist is offering up his personal experience as something universal, although some of my favorites are dedicated to obsessively detailed renderings of grass and foliage. Barber also forays into the unambiguously mythological, giving the title “Ariadne” to a multi-panel painting of a nude woman who floats on a field of flat, blue-green paint as if to personify the character from ancient legend left in despair after being abandoned by her lover. As part of the show’s opening reception, Barber will give an artist’s talk at 5:30 p.m. on June 5.

Also using a figurative style, David Noah has a series of small oil paintings at Mama’s Boy. Yet, while Barber allows his paint to become textured and thick, revealing the layers of the painter’s process, Noah’s paintings are smoothly finished and the imagery itself tends toward pattern and geometric shape. Even though his imagery is recognizable, subtle variations of size and perspective and bizarre combinations such as a deer head and floating people push it into the realm of the surreal—territory that Noah navigates wisely, not allowing his work to fall into the traps of the overly brash or shockinspired style that some Surrealist work engenders.

Organic Abstraction: Up at Cine’s BarCafé through June 20 are paintings by Erin McIntosh and sculptures by Stacy Isenbarger.

Erin McIntosh’s painting “With Our Faces Veiled” is on display at Ciné The two artists share an through June 20. aesthetic sensibility that embraces the color and chaos of nature but Gregg’s crisp, graphic works on aged paper also its inherent order. Referencing the laws serve as kitschy points of departure, though of chance and gravity, Isenbarger’s “Shadow each becomes transformed into something distinctly different. Smith’s half-cartoon, half- Buttresses” is made from shredded screen that monster creatures sometimes integrate familiar hangs—à la Robert Morris’ soft felt sculptures from the ‘60s—from the wall. Denying the persona, such as a mask of Abraham Lincoln’s architectural utility of a buttress, the veildead face on a lobster-clawed creature in “Longneckman vs. Deadlincolncolnmaskwearer” like fabrics are pierced with silhouettes of cathedral windows, and the titular “Shadow” (see the cover of last week’s Flagpole) or the could refer as easily to the soft folds of the Frankenstein/Casper the Friendly Ghost hybrid screen or the forms cut out of the screen that makes up “My New Haircut #6,” but they itself. Next to Isenbarger’s hanging sculpinevitably belong to their own world, speakture is McIntosh’s “With Our Faces Veiled.” ing their own language made up of symbols Dominated by fields of washy, nebulous acrylic and pictures expressed in cartoon thought pigment and ink, hard-edged, globular shapes bubbles. Gregg’s characters, on the other and patterns seem to emerge from the cloudhand, are likable stereotypes of ourselves, like quagmire of paint. While it’s tempting ranging from “Knitting Nerd,” a purple bat in to call these forms geometric, they instead horn-rimmed glasses and ballet slippers, to seem cellular, or like details viewed through “Trekkie Nerd,” an orange cat complete with a microscope lens. Also both human and not, Star Trek uniform and Vulcan hand-gesture, to Isenbarger’s “Of Vine and Nest” features five “Gamer Nerd,” a bear playing an arcade game hanging forms that simultaneously look like (also gracing a previous Flagpole cover on May aprons, dresses, curtains or veils—staples of 20). But before anyone feels self-righteous domesticity. Made of grape stems and tulle, (i.e., not a nerd), there is a Grit-hat-wearing the hanging forms are connected by a cord nerd sporting a t-shirt that reads: “will cook that runs through a navel-like hole in each for tofu and beer.” and leads to a tiny pile of rocks.

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

ANGELS & DEMONS (PG-13) How hard is it to turn pop fiction into an engrossing feature film? (Ask any adaptor of a John Grisham pageturner.) Angels & Demons, the Da Vinci Code predecessor turned cinematic sequel, offers the same lukewarm thrills as the 2006 blockbuster. Symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks with a better hairdo) is tasked by the Vatican with solving a mystery involving a dead pope, four kidnapped cardinals and the Illuminati, a legendary cabal supposedly wiped out by the Catholic church centuries ago. Apparently, Langdon’s brainy brand of non-action reads better than it watches. Decoding symbols comes off as coincidental luck rather than brilliant detecting. Another issue is the hero, an implied atheist (gasp!). I couldn’t care less about his religious affiliation, or lack thereof. I do care tremendously about his lack of personality. Hanks is a likable actor, but he again fails to imbue Langdon with anything approaching the magnetism of an Indiana Jones or that Gates guy Nic Cage played in National Treasure. I’d rather have spent the afternoon plowing through Dan Brown’s compelling plotting and disposable prose than snoozing through its plodding movie twin.

ANNIE HALL (PG) 1977. Ciné is encouraging movie lovers to “beat the heat” with a summer classic movie series that kicks off with Woody Allen’s Oscar-winner. The Wood-man stars as Alvy Singer, who recounts his woeful search for love in New York City.

Alvy thinks the free-spirited Annie Hall (Oscar-winner Diane Keaton) is the one, but love doesn’t always go as planned. I used to pettily begrudge Annie Hall for nabbing Star Wars’ Best Picture trophy; now I simply appreciate Allen’s most accessible film, a wellread romantic comedy melding humor, heart and a large dose of neuroses.

AWAY WE GO (R) Burt and Verona (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph), a young couple expecting their first child, travel the country seeking the perfect place to raise a family (as if such a utopia exists). Along the way, they encounter oddball relatives and friends.

Away We Go might have the summer’s most award-friendly pedigree. Director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road) already has an Oscar. Writing couple Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and Vendela Vida are well on their way to picking up a nomination.

With Allison Janney, Jeff Daniels and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

CHE (R) Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh and writer Peter Buchman provide a detailed account from the frontlines of the Cuban revolution. As admirable and ambitious as Soderbergh’s film is, it needs more ideological meat.

Soderbergh is a brave enough filmmaker to risk alienating the heartland with a serious discussion of Communism, its idealism, successes and failings. Yet Che never digs that deeply into the motivations behind the revolution. Although flawed, the film is more success than failure, and its greatest triumph is Oscar-winner Del Toro’s performance.

DANCE FLICK (PG-13) The humongous Wayans clan (namely, Keenan Ivory, Marlon, Shawn, Kim and Damon, Jr.) returns with another genre parody.

A street dancer from the wrong side of the tracks, Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans, Jr.), teams up with the gorgeous Megan White (Shoshana Bush) in order to win the big dance competition. I’m a little ashamed to admit how much I laughed at the trailer the first time I saw it. Maybe Dance Flick will be more “In Living Color” and less White Chicks.

DRAG ME TO HELL (PG-13) While trying to get a promotion, sweet loan officer Christine Brown (Allison Lohman) shames an old gypsy hag, Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver). After a rousing attack in a parking garage, Christine is cursed. The demon Lamia will stop at nothing to torture her and carry her soul to hell for all eternity.

Raimi digs deep into his bag of frenetic camerawork and joyously revels in revolting foley work (an oft mis/ underutilized horror device) in the most scary fun I’ve had at a horror film in a long time. The flick drags you not to hell but on a rip-roaringly disgusting (though far from gory), nostalgic tour of the old Universal Studios (home to Bride of Frankenstein and the Bates Motel), the early Evil Dead, and the dearly loved occult horror of the 1970s and the drive-in.

EVERLASTING MOMENTS (NR) Maria (Maria Heiskanen), a young working-class woman wins a camera in a lottery. Suddenly, her view of life in early 1900s Sweden is drastically altered. Nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, Everlasting Moments won six Guldbagges (including Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress), Sweden’s version of the Academy Award. Directed by two-time Oscarnominee Jan Troell (Utvandrarna).

With Jesper Christensen (Mr. White in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace).

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 bikinifilled car mag. On the lam con Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and FBI agent Brian O’Conner (the inexplicably appealing Paul Walker) are reunited by the death of a friend as they seek revenge against

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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.

GARBAGE WARRIOR (NR) 2007.

Thirty years ago, maverick architect Michael Reynolds dreamed of a home that could heat itself, provide its own food and water, recycle its own waste, and supply its own power. Director Oliver Hodge documents the incredible story of Reynolds and his green compatriots as they strive to build his self-sufficient dream home. Garbage Warrior won Most Popular Film in the International Documentary category at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Part of the ACC Library’s iFilms series. (Check out iFilms on Facebook!)

GOODBYE SOLO (R) See Movie Pick.

THE HANGOVER (R) Three buddies (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zack Galifianakis) wake up in Las Vegas with the worst hangovers of their lives.

Unable to remember anything from the night before, the gang—plus a baby— must retrace their steps to find their missing, soon-to-be-wed pal (Justin Bartha). I am less thrilled by the Mike Tyson cameo that climaxes the trailer.

The Hangover is Old School director Todd Phillips’s first film since 2006’s School for Scoundrels. With Heather Graham.

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.

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.

IS ANYBODY THERE? (PG-13) Ten-year-old Edward (Bill Milner, who was a little charmer in Son of Rambow) lives in an old folks home. The reasons aren’t that strange. His parents own it. But Edward’s a strange, lonely kid who is obsessed with the afterlife and tape records the residents. Fortunately, Edward befriends the newest tenant, retired magician Clarence (Michael Caine), and their burgeoning relationship benefits both the young boy and the old man. Directed by John Crowley (Intermission, Boy A).

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.

LAND OF THE LOST (PG-13) Watching Sid and Marty Krofft’s “Land of the Lost” used to be one of my favorite Saturday morning treats.

You can imagine I’m pretty stoked for the big screen, big-budget summer blockbuster starring Will Ferrell as goofy paleontologist, Rick Marshall.

Marshall, his assistant (Anna Friel, “Pushing Daisies”), and a redneck survivalist (the great Danny McBride) are sucked by a time vortex into a lost land of dinosaurs, Sleestacks, and other fantastical creatures. With The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone as Chaka.

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

MY LIFE IN RUINS (PG-13) Greek American tour guide Georgia (My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s Nia Vardalos) rediscovers love while leading a group of misfit tourists through Greece.

Vardalos gets a much-needed big, fat career reboot with this romantic comedy written by someone else. Donald Petrie (Grumpy Old Men) directs.

With Richard Dreyfuss, Rachel Dratch, Alexis Georgoulis, Rachel Dratch, Harland Williams and Britain’s “master of mimicry,” Alistair McGowan.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN (PG) Spending a second Night at the Museum with former security guard Larry Daily (Ben Stiller) and the cometo-life exhibits isn’t the creatively bankrupt, money-grubbing experience you’d expect, largely thanks to talented new guests Amy Adams, Hank Azaria and Bill Hader (“SNL” and Superbad), a trio that breathes hilarious life into Amelia Earhart, Kahmunrah and General George Armstrong Custer. Delightful creature that she is, Adams does her best tough but tender, Hepburn-esque, screwball heroine. Everything about NatM:BotS improves on the lifeless original, especially the thankful lack of monkey antics of which there are a mere toned down few.

OBSESSED (PG-13) It’s great to see how far women have come. In Obsessed, a flick that would’ve felt more comfortable in the early ‘90s, Sharon Charles (Beyoncé Knowles) and temporary office temptress Lisa (Ali Larter, “Heroes”) duke it out like true feminists over successful V.P. Derek Charles (Idris Elba, “The Wire”’s Stringer Bell), who’s also Sharon’s hubby. At least Fatal Attraction had the decency to implicate the dude.

PAUL BLART: MALL COP (PG) Paul Blart: Mall Cop delivers mild, unobjectionable humor. The movie is as likable and funny (more the former than the latter) as its star.

RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN (PG) I loved Escape to Witch Mountain and its sequel, Return from Witch Mountain, when I was a kid. Watching Disney’s

franchise reboot didn’t exactly conjure up wispy nostalgia like I’d hoped.

RAISING ARIZONA (PG-13) 1987.

In the Coen Brothers’ cult classic, a petty criminal (Nicholas Cage) and a cop (Holly Hunter) swipe a famous quintuplet.

ROYAL WEDDING (NR) 1951. Once again, the Special Needs Library presents another Hollywood classic with audio narration for visually impaired viewers. Singin’ in the Rain co-director Stanley Donen leads Fred Astaire as Tom Bowen, half of an endangered brother-sister dance act on their way to London for a new engagement. While out on the big blue, Astaire finds cause to dance with a hat rack, gym equipment and more.

STAR TREK (PG-13) Director J.J. Abrams brings Gene Roddenberry’s idyllic, stodgy creation to warp speed.

Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman revive the franchise with a breezy, action-packed matinee abandon never before seen in this often sober universe. Abrams, Orci and Kurtzman make the Enterprise’s tricky, high-profile refitting—not to mention the successful construction of a summer blockbuster—look easy.

Amazingly, an entirely new, unknown Star Trek universe lies uncharted, to be mapped, one hopes, by Captain Abrams and his creative crew. Space may be the final frontier, but Star Trek should just be the first of many missions for this particular talented team.

TERMINATOR SALVATION (PG-13) The ultra-grim fourth installment of the time-bending franchise makes minor improvements on the frivolous third film. Finally, we get to witness the epic battles between man and machine.

Humanity’s savior, John Connor (Christian Bale), is waylaid from his mission to defeat Skynet, the selfaware, computer-based defense system attempting to cleanse the planet of all mankind. The long-awaited battles between humanity and the endoskeleton army grow tedious in chunks larger than T2’s tantalizing bits. As unkillable as the Terminators are, it might be time to unplug a franchise that’s two movies and a failed TV show past its T2 prime.

X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE (PG-13) In a post-Iron Man/Dark Knight/Watchmen world, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is an unevolved comic caveman. The X-Men trilogy has been going downhill since X2, and since 20th Century Fox’s rights predate Marvel’s new and improved property handling, no one should expect great things from subsequent Origins pics.

Wolverine merely fills in the pre-X team gaps in the hairy, tri-clawed mutant’s long, long life.

UP (PG) Seventy-eight-year-old Carl Fredricksen (v. Edward Asner) and his late wife, Ellie, always dreamed of traveling to South America. After Ellie’s death, Carl floats his house to the fabled Paradise Falls via several thousand helium balloons. Carl and a young stowaway, lonely Wilderness Explorer Russell (v. Jordan Nagai), confront the wilderness for the first time, encountering a mythical bird, a talking dog named Dug (voiced by co-director and screenwriter Bob Peterson), and Carl’s childhood hero, lost adventurer Charles Muntz (v. Christopher Plummer). With its odd old protagonist, Up is bound to be the year’s most unconventional blockbuster. Every minute of the film, co-directed by Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc.) and Peterson, bursts with creativity and ingenuity. In Dug, the worn-out anthropomorphic animal sidekick is imaginatively reinvented to produce the film’s freshest, biggest laughs. Up shouldn’t generate WALL•E’s critical Oscar campaigning, but it certainly continues Pixar’s (award)winning ways.

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movie pick Hello Souléymane GOODBYE SOLO (R) The third feature from commit suicide by jumping off the mountain, writer-director Ramin Bahrani was shot in but William doesn’t respond. As the two men Winston-Salem, NC, where Bahrani was born. fall into a tense and unlikely friendship, Solo’s But the American South depicted in Goodbye dogged attempts to discern what is troubling Solo bears few of the standard hallmarks usuWilliam, and William’s sometimes ferocious ally trotted out in films set in the region: resistance to Solo’s attempts to help him, there is not a trace of “redneck” culture, little form the dramatic heart of the story. The film’s evidence of racism, and almost no country title is the phrase not spoken at the film’s music on the soundtrack. The film’s milieu is lovely, haunting climax. fully urban, and its cast is at least as racially Bahrani’s influences are well-digested but and ethnically diverse as that of Bahrani’s last readily apparent; his gritty, unadorned visual feature, Chop Shop style and sympathetic (2007), which was depictions of ecoset in the great meltnomically struggling ing pot of New York characters owe a lot City. When one of the to Italian neo-realprotagonists, William ism, and it’s hard not (Red West), tries to to see Goodbye Solo’s explain to the other, central conceit as at Solo (Souléymane least a partial nod Sy Savané), who to Iranian director Hank Williams was, Abbas Kiarostami’s Solo responds with Taste of Cherry. West uncomprehending is perfect as the Red West and Souléymane Sy Savané forbearance. William, closed-off, crusty the white native William, and Diana Southerner, is the alien in this America.

Franco Galindo makes a winning debut as He is also the cipher of the film, which Solo’s stepdaughter. But the real revelation of opens with William in the back of Solo’s taxithe film is Savané, a marvelously charismatic cab, trying to hire the driver for a one-way and versatile performer in a wonderfully contrip to a mountain landmark called Blowing ceived starring role. I look forward to seeing Rock later that week. Solo, a gregarious and his, and Bahrani’s, work for years to come. sensitive Senegalese immigrant, immediately voices his concern that William intends to Dave Marr

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film notebook News of Athens’ Cinema Scene

July 27th, 2009

June 8th, 2009

Grogus w/ Michael Mann

Sons of Sailors w/ Kaitlin Jones

Mumble! Mumble! Blah Blah Blah!: I’ve resolved to plumb out my DVR a bit before I make any rash new recordings, so I’m going through some stuff that’s mainly there to make me “better rounded.” This week’s example is 2007’s Hannah Takes the Stairs by Joe Swanberg, a review of whose 2006 film LOL (which I still haven’t seen) long ago prompted me to write a letter to Flagpole in defense of his “mumblecore” compatriot and Hannah cast member Andrew Bujalski. While I can definitely get into Bujalski’s films Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation, both of which strike me as thoughtful and genuinely unguarded dramatic examinations of life and love among privileged but confused and unmotivated post-collegiate white kids, Swanberg’s film strikes me as Generation ZZZ (or whatever) easy pickings. Without much of a guiding ethos beyond “take your clothes off, Greta Gerwig, and be brave!,” Swanberg’s work looks pretty shallow beside that of U.S. indie contemporaries like Bujalski, Kelly Reichardt and Ramin Bahrani.

Latin, Salsa, and Jazz

The sounds of Jimmy Buffet

August 10th, 2009

June 22nd, 2009

Randall Bramblett w/ Amber Landress

The Highballs w/ Rachel O’Neal 70’s & 80’s Retro Pop

Southern Americana

July 4th, 2009

August 24th, 2009

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Local Filmmaker Spotlight: Longtime Athenian and documentary filmmaker Erica McCarthy is working on a film about the South Carolinaborn artist Jonathan Green, who now lives and works in Florida. Green’s work focuses on the cultural experience of African-Americans in

the festival’s top prize to Austrian director Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon. Haneke, who directed Huppert in 2002 in The Piano Teacher, was lately the object of scorn and ridicule for his incredibly poorly received 2007 American remake of his own brutal 1997 film Funny Games. The Palm d’Or winner will be distributed in the U.S. by Sony Pictures Classics, as will the festival’s second-prize winner, Jacques Audiard’s highly praised A Prophet. Also getting loads of attention and stirring up controversy was Lars Van Trier’s provocative and explicit Antichrist, for which Charlotte Gainsbourg was awarded the prize for the festival’s top performance by an actress, and which was picked up by IFC Films. I’m most excited about Wild Grass, the new film by 87-year-old French master Alain Resnais, who was honored with a well-deserved Special Jury Prize for lifetime achievement. Naturally, Resnais’ film has yet to find a U.S. distributor, at least as far as I can tell. I miss New Yorker Films already.

Ciné Action: Ciné will host a special screening of the Atlanta music documentary We Fun on June 12, with producer Bill Cody in attendance. The film features The Black Lips, Mastodon and other cool rock bands from down the road; word is Flagpole’s own Gordon Lamb is in charge of this, so ask him if you

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The ACC Library will screen the eco-doc Garbage Warrior Thursday, June 4.

South Carolina’s Lowcountry. The film will feature the work of cinematographer Lee Daniel, who has shot all of Richard Linklater’s films and who appeared in Athens during last year’s EcoFocus Film Festival in conjunction with Laura Dunn’s documentary The Unforeseen.

McCarthy is pursuing some unusual and creative sources of funding for her current project: South Carolina congressman and House Majority Whip James Clyburn is helping her seek a grant from the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

I’ll be very interested to see how that pans out. McCarthy’s documentary The Beach Lady, about the iconic environmentalist MaVynee Betsch of American Beach, FL, is also still in progress. For more info on these and other of McCarthy’s projects, go to www.nowhereathens.com.

Speaking of Beach Towns: The Cannes Film Festival has wrapped up, and it sounds like the jury, headed by Isabelle Huppert, got a little wooly. After long and apparently contentious deliberations, the jury awarded

want to know more… Ciné’s classic film series kicks off with Annie Hall beginning June 5, and continues with Chinatown beginning June 12. Be sure to make your suggestions for future features heard at www.athenscine.com.

Movies at the Library: June looks to be a good month for the iFilms series at the Athens-Clarke County Library. The June 4 screening is Garbage Warrior, Oliver Hodge’s 2007 documentary about an architect who uses reclaimed materials like beer cans and old tires to build self-sustaining, eco-friendly housing. Showing June 11 is Ben X, a 2008 drama about a mildly autistic teenager with an active fantasy life from Belgian writer/director Nic Balthazar. Series screenings are Thursdays at 7 p.m. This month’s Cinema Classics described movie is the Fred Astaire musical Royal Wedding, on Thursday, June 4 at 2 p.m.

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip How about this week you sit back on the porch, any one will do I guess, crack open your favorite beverage and slowly drink in this week’s news? Or just feverishly scan through it looking for your own name. To each his own.

With that, let’s go…

In the Mouth: Loud local dudes Gift Horse experimented last week for the first time with streaming media when they utilized the Casscade Media Encoder during the band’s show at the Georgia Theatre. What they did was capture the performance in HD video, along with the soundboard audio, for live

Gift Horse streaming and, if you missed it, it should be available in archived form as we speak. This was just a test run as the band hopes to take the encoder, which is available locally through audio/video powerhouse TSAV, on the road.

Gift Horse next plays locally during AthFest on June 27 at the Theatre again with Kuroma and Velveteen Pink. For the curious, please see www.myspace.com/gifthorsetheband, and if your own band is interested in something like this, please see www.casscadestreaming.com.

Got a Rhyme? Take a Chance: If you live in Athens and have an Internet connection, chances are good you’ve received an email, or several, from local MC Tommy Valentine.

After making his return to Athens’ stages last month, he’s thrown himself headlong back into “the game,” as it were, and is setting up his next performance which will happen at the 40 Watt on July 4. This is interesting to you because Valentine is seeking at least six more acts to accompany him and live band WildKard in what is being billed as a special Athens Hip-Hop Showcase. First, however, know that you must be at least 18 years old, committed to handling yourself in a mature and professional manner, dedicated to passing out hand-bills and hanging posters and have a reasonable (no, seriously) expectation that the mere fact that you’re on the bill will draw at least 50 people to the show. Basically, perpetrators need not apply. All interested parties should drop a line to booking@tommyvalentine.com.

Sweet, Sad and Mid-Week: Local band Catawba will play with Nashville-based Trees Leave at the Flicker Theatre & Bar on Wednesday, June 3. I mention this because 1) Catawba hasn’t really gotten a whole lot of press, and I appreciate the honesty of its membership listing as being simply “Michael Jones and friends,” which is really how most bands with a single songwriter and floating membership should be billed, and 2) Catawba’s songs are the type of minor-chord, country-influenced songs I really enjoy; it’s sort of like Sparklehorse but without worldwide fame. Within them are even flourishes of classic R&B vocalization.

Look for them. You’ll find ‘em. Trees Leave are a much more upbeat duo who don’t sway me much either way. Check them both out via www.myspace.com/catawbamusic and www.myspace.com/ treesleave.

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21 due to the threat of inclement weather.

Nonetheless, the outdoor venue has a full schedule lined up for summer.

Notable performances include Perpetual Groove side-project Lazy B and the Recliners on Monday, July 13 and Randall Bramblett on Monday, Aug. 10. For more information, please see www.amconcerts.com.

Changes Afoot: Rumors about the future of Tasty World spread last week as the twolevel club began renovations. Owner Murphy Wolford has sent his assurance that shows will continue on the upstairs stage, to be known as Tasty World Uptown. Wolford has teamed up with Paul DeGeorge, owner of Pauley’s Original Crepe Bar, to open the ground-level space as Magnolia’s Bar. Details to come, but all renovations should be complete before AthFest.

[Michelle Gilzenrat] For the Final Time: Voting for the 2009 Flagpole Athens Music Awards has been extended to Friday, June 5. So if you’ve been hemming and hawing and gnashing your teeth over who the hell should win for “Best Cover Art” or whatever, just take the plunge and vote. That said, all artists are encouraged to contact their fan bases and get the vote out for themselves. It’s no secret that most bands do this anyway, but for those of you who somehow had never thought of this technique, well, feel free. Vote online over at www. flagpole.com/awards. Remember, the awards show takes place on Thursday, June 25 at the Morton Theatre, and I sincerely wish each of you good luck. Of course, that luck will only pay off to a handful of you but, geez, you know what I mean.

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TREY WRIGHT TRIO Thinking Out Loud Blue Canoe If you’re looking for an album this summer that is mellow, thoughtful and instrumentally rich, then you’re going to be glad you found the latest from the Trey Wright Trio. Thinking Out Loud is 10 tracks of jazz from Wright and his musical comrades, apart from his membership in the popular Athens jazz band, Squat. Wright teams up with Marlon Patton on drums and Marc Miller on upright bass to produce this album, recorded live in two sittings.

Working as a musician, composer and professor at Kennesaw State University, this album speaks first of a person whose investment and understanding of music is undeniable.

The album is smooth and understated, starting out simple and melodic. Every track is dedicatedly composed, sparing excessively long stretches of improvisational solos.

Wright’s guitar work is singularly impressive, with an easy flow of notes in lots of different and innovative time signatures, accented nicely by skillful drum work from Patton. The album never reaches a loud or chaotic level, staying cool-tempered throughout.

The addition of two popular covers, Soundgarden’s “Blow Up the Outside World” and Thom Yorke’s “Analyse” are well received. Wright’s interpretation of the dense layers of Yorke’s moody electronic composition is intriguing to explore and makes for a stand-out track—a crowd pleaser with the indie crowd, I’m sure.

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BOB DYLAN Together Through Life Columbia No artist who debuted in the ‘60s has carved such a solid, distinctive swath in his later years as Bob Dylan.

Considering the youthful fervor and passionate orneriness displayed on Dylan’s last three studio releases, one could easily mistake Together Through Life as his post-climactic comedown.

A slow-moving album rooted in American music’s past—and perhaps

that of Dylan, himself—there isn’t much of a peak or denouement here.

Just an off-the-cuff collection of 10 originals peppered with generous blues, border country and gypsy inflections. The arrangements don’t bounce off jukejoint walls like Love and Theft’s more spirited stuff, nor do they steamroll through yellowed pages of Americana text like much of 2006’s Modern Times.

But, Dylan is far from having spent himself lyrically and physically. It’s as if he purposely isn’t wowing you with the brilliance of his ever-rotating backing band, which welcomes Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and Los Lobos frontman David Hidalgo on accordion.

Instead, it’s verbal, character-centered tidbits like the unrelenting spouse from Hell who populates “My Wife’s Home Town” or the waltzing flirtations of “I Feel a Change Comin’ On” that really stick in your memory.

And, though Dylan’s informal supporting cast plays from the hip, the members pick their spots well, including the lusty juke shuffle of “Shake, Shake Mama” and the slippery-butsteady 4/4 rhythm that steers “It’s All Good.” Hidalgo’s accordion is a reliable presence, too, giving different songs undercurrents of latino, gypsy and Cajun flavor. For those who keep predicting each new Dylan release as his final stand, Together… is a surprisingly loose and relaxed turner of tides, even if it’s not one of Dylan’s more attention-grabbing latter-day efforts.

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SCREAMING FEMALES Power Move Don Giovanni Though already their third album, this is the first label release and it’s one cannonball of a coming out. With hearts that pump punk and hands deep in rock’s lusty, varied soil, the fiercely DIY New Jersey trio plunders great underground traditions with a proto fire to deliver a raw, dirty sound. “Skull” dips into some dope-ass, mountainscaling stoner shit while “Starving Dog” drops some wicked metal licks and “I Believe in Evil” unleashes relentless garage-punk gorgeousness. But the perfect “Bell” crams tunefulness, blaring drives, feral eruptions and a ripping solo all in under two and a half minutes.

Leading the economical cavalry is guitarist/singer Marissa Paternoster.

She’s the only woman in the band, but she’s a tornado. Move over, boys, the groaning tones of this young lady’s playing are pumped with balls and flash. And she packs a huge, soulful voice that shakes foundations. Like a sticky tryst between Sleater-Kinney and the Stooges, Screaming Females are all about chops, thrills and primal instinct.

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It’s unusual for a band that’s been performing for getting on to a decade to issue its debut album, but Heavy Feather, which used to be known as Jackpot City, has a fresh name and the self-titled foray into music publishing can be considered part of a fresh start, even a rebranding, perhaps. The new name is a better fit and a much better Google, with connotations of toughness without a lack of couth, a description that easily describes the band’s music. Guitar-driven, firmly in the “rock” camp, but not without a pop sensibility, Heavy Feather’s tunes jangle as much as they wah-wah or screech.

Kathy Kirbo, Kelly Noonan and Mamie Fike Simonds resort a bit too often to similar rock riffs, and by the end of the record it’s been going on sort of a long time, but thick, hot grooves abound, and the overall experience is pleasant and firmly in the camp of tight pants.

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INDIGO GIRLS Poseidon and the Bitter Bug IG Recordings The Indigo Girls’ 12th release is actually a “deluxe edition,” featuring one disc of full-band songs and a second disc of acoustic versions with just Amy Ray and Emily Saliers.The full-band album is largely made up of catchy, mid-tempo songs that fit well together and flow nicely. It’s somewhat of a back-to-basics album for the duo without any jarring musical departures.

For Indigo Girls, that isn’t a bad thing.

One track—“Driver Education” from Ray’s gritty solo album Prom— gets an Indigo Girls makeover, but neither version holds up to the original rough-hewn version.

The acoustic album is smartly treated separately with an entirely different sequencing and a bonus track.

Some recordings—such as “True Romantic”—are very different from their full-band versions, while most are simply more sparse. The duo’s voices, truly their best instruments, are well showcased without the clutter of so much going on.

Lyrically, there’s a somewhat unexpected somber tone to the songs, even on the upbeat tracks. But the release doesn’t feel bitter as the title might suggest—just more like serious self-reflection as a start to turning the corner.

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MAGIK MARKERS Balf Quarry Drag City This longtime Connecticut noiserock band has been releasing limited cassettes and CD-Rs of droning, challenging noise for almost 10 years. Now releasing its first album for the Drag City label, Balf Quarry, Magik Markers has shifted to charming, song-oriented rock not too dissimilar from mid-’80s Sonic Youth.

Singer Elisa Ambrogio intones over fuzzed out, wah-wah’d guitar about “Jerks” and hippies (“You had the revolution in your head, too bad you can’t make it out of bed.”) Stooges dirges like “Dirt” and “Ann” make good reference points. This is a low-fi production, to be sure, but it’s an entrancing affair. It’s not difficult to get lost in the minimalist psychedelia provided by Ambrogio and drummer Pete Nolan, only to be whiplashed to consciousness by sloppy, punky interludes.

Just because Magik Markers is now more accessible than its former self, doesn’t mean it’s wholly accessible. There are still atmospheric, disquieting numbers, but this merely

It can get harder and harder to keep it up as you get older and older, and for Peaches it’s no different. (See also: Eminem’s new album Relapse.)

She was pretty much tops for most of the early decade, brash and saucy and raunchy and vibrant, if occasionally a little too obvious. But under her sexually confrontational lyrics there was a strong distillation of the punkinfluenced electroclash trend of the time; what was fringe once, though, has found its way into more popular sounds, watered down and gussied up for more mainstream audiences. Fergie and Lady Gaga have taken that raucously frank sexuality, smoothed out its rough and intimidating edges, creating a toothless impersonation—bad girls made of paper.

The smart move for Peaches would be to re-establish herself as the post-millennial auteur and up the ante for hardcore insatiability. And on I Feel Cream—sometimes—she does that, but too infrequently. The Soulwax-produced “Talk to Me” and the hip-hop-heavy “Billionaire,” for instance, provide moments of life on I Feel Cream, but more often than not, Peaches’ sex talk feels perfunctory rather than piquant, ho-hum rather than horny. Efforts at singing fall flat, and when Peaches tries to upshift into a more mature mode, there’s a timidity to much of the vocals that sounds like insecurity rather than intimacy. At this point, Peaches only gets upstaged by herself whenever her music hints at past heights.

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the early ‘80s, when R.E.M. scored its first ever slot on a national tour as the opening act for The English Beat, Michael Stipe wanted to know what Beat frontman Dave Wakeling thought of his upstart band.

“He asked me what I thought of the group after about two or three shows, and I said, ‘You’ve obviously got some really great songs, very evocative. But to be honest, I can’t hear a bloody word you’re singing. It’s all mumbling. You need to enunciate, Michael, you need to get your words out there to the people,’” Wakeling says. “By the end of the tour, their first EP had sold about 10 million copies, and they were already much more famous than The English Beat would ever be.”

Wakeling has several stories like this. After 30 years of writing and performing with some of the most strange and spectacular names in music like The Clash, Talking Heads and David Bowie, he could talk your ear off about the various things he’s seen and done. With his gravelly voice and Cockney accent, he relays some nearly gut-busting tales about his rounds with The English Beat. But, as he’s quick to tell you, it’s no longer really The English Beat, although he accepts that others might not see it that way.

“It’s not a reunion. It’s only me from the original lineup. And it was more or less, to be honest, by default,” he says. “I kind of realized that once you’ve been out in the public for a little while, you probably lose the right to say what everybody’s going to call you. But if you do call it The English Beat the place is sold out; there’s a line around the building and everybody’s happy.”

Many of those snaking around buildings are young people whose parents raised them on The English Beat and similar bands like The Specials, or who just remember the monster ‘80s hits “Tenderness” (General Public, featuring Wakeling and the Beat’s Ranking Roger) and “She Drives Me Crazy” (Fine Young Cannibals, with former Beat members Andy Cox and David Steele). Either way, he says, it’s rare to find a kid who’s familiar with the band’s beginnings, or how much of those beginnings are rooted in Britain’s socially charged 2 Tone ska movement. No problem, though—Wakeling loves to explain it.

“We wanted to blend punk and reggae.

Coming from post-industrial England, it was

clearly a time where multi-culturalism was becoming important. At the same time, there were forces of reaction—the British movement, and the National Front, which was our watered-down version of the Ku Klux Klan,” says Wakeling. “There were these anachronisms still left. In return, music and 2 Tone dance became an antidote to that, a way of positively espousing multi-culturalism in a fairly innocent and naïve way.

“It was then very difficult for people to organize a race riot on Monday,” he adds, “if all sorts of different-colored people had been wearing the same clothes and dancing to the same beat on Saturday night.”

He hopes to get the same groove going when he brings The English Beat to the 40 Watt Club on June 3. With a sizable and diverse population in Athens, he should be able to bring together a particular combination of people he’s seen at his shows, a combination that’s become one of the most satisfying ways he sees people respond to the music.

“I see a lot of people in their 50s dancing next to people in their late teens or early 20s, and neither of them notices there’s an age difference. There’s no sort of discomfort whatsoever,” he says. “The music tried to bring people of different skin colors together, and now we’re bringing different age groups together.”

The 40 Watt Club is also the site of Wakeling’s last visit to Athens 15 years ago, when he helped record a live version of R.E.M.’s “Drive” for the Greenpeace album Alternative Energy, a record produced entirely with solar energy.

“Stipe insisted we get there a few days early so we could charge our solar generator with Athens sunshine. Now I’m going back to the 40 Watt, and that’s superb,” he says. “With any luck we can have a multi-cultural, positive dance revolution beginning right there.”

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or Invitation Air, The Ginger Envelope’s upcoming sophomore album, bandleader Patrick Carey didn’t want to just go back to basics—he wanted to get even more raw than that. The local band’s 2007 debut album Edible Orchids was no flawlessly polished gem itself, a lovingly rough-hewn disc of Carey’s tender tunes given just enough production value to seem professionally put together.

But the stripped-down aesthetic of the album set for release at the end of the month was something Carey & Co. aimed for when they recorded some new songs more than two years ago. “The idea was to go into the basement,” says Carey, sharing a bottle of wine recently at his sizable backyard shed/ future recording space. On the rainy, atypically brisk May afternoon, he says, “We wanted to keep it super raw and rush it out unpolished.” The rushing didn’t quite happen: “Upon hearing it, you’re not going to release crap,” says Carey, “not that it was crap, just it needed a little more work.”

Those 2007 basement sessions from pal Patrick Bozeman’s house were augmented by some studio work last year, but shortly thereafter disaster found its way into The Ginger Envelope’s plans when an entire batch of finished studio recordings laid down at local engineer Andy Baker’s studio was lost. Carey was bummed, and even considered scrapping the entire endeavor, but soldiered on after some encouragement from bandmates Stephen Miller (bass) and Jason Trahan (guitar).

After reworking the already-recorded songs to what ultimately sounded even better, according to Carey, the collection of tunes was ready for release. “We took our easy time with [recording],” says Carey, “but for the last few months I’ve felt on fire about getting it out.”

Listeners could be forgiven for thinking that Invitation Air was The Ginger Envelope’s first album, and Edible Orchids its follow-up.

Carey’s airy, direct folk- and country-influenced numbers are simpler and sparser, and his lyrics stick to the first and second person.

Though they’re not necessarily personal, it’d be an easy assumption to make considering in the past year Carey’s gotten married, taken a teen-aged daughter under his wing and made a strong go of curtailing his “more debaucherous tendencies.” The hazy twang of a Ginger Envelope song isn’t necessarily a downer, but there’s a gravity implicit in the tunes’ steady, methodical unfolding that’s been a constant through the band’s six-plus years.

And even as this second album is ready to launch, a new batch of songs waits ready for recording once the band returns from a latesummer tour with Madeline Adams. “There’s a subtle difference,” to Carey’s new material, says Trahan, “and a little maturity to it.

I was listening to a live recording from the Caledonia, November of ‘04, and I was really impressed at how now the songs have a more fully fledged depth, more substance. They take more chances musically and lyrically.”

Though the songs are Carey’s, the full band takes on arrangement duties, generally worked out onstage and in practice, before studio time. “We all arrange together,” says Trahan, “but build upon the blueprint that Patrick has.

We’re trying to do something distinctive and appropriate.”

Carey says that the group dynamic on the album is one of its high points for him, but it’s also bittersweet, as Invitation Air is the final document of the previous incarnation of The Ginger Envelope. Bassist Miller is involved in numerous personal and musical projects, and starting at this week’s show will be replaced “more or less” permanently by Jacob Morris.

The months since the recordings wrapped also saw founding member Jason Robira leave the band to focus on his touring in Dark Meat.

It was an emotional but amicable splitting for Carey, he says, and it makes sense that only someone as close could fill the drum seat. Accordingly, brother Collin Carey now mans the kit. Mother Jackson’s Paul McHugh has joined on keys, Matt Stoessel (the band’s third original member) remains on pedal steel and the ubiquitous John Fernandes occasionally pops up for violin duty, filling for local folk pro David Blackmon, who recorded fiddle tracks for Invitation Air. Page Campbell (Hope for Agoldensummer, Creepy) also contributed backing vocals on a number of songs.

This week’s show at the 40 Watt was originally intended to be a release show for the new album, but Carey says that the production of Invitation Air was held up unexpectedly, and rather than rushing the job and risking a sub-par product, the local release of the album has been delayed by a few weeks. So, consider Thursday’s show the live debut of The Ginger Envelope’s new lineup, and a preview of things to (soon) come. Carey promises they’ll have copies of Invitation Air in time for this summer’s AthFest at the end of June, and the band’ll “officially” celebrate the new disc during its afternoon outdoor stage set on Saturday, June 27.

Chris Hassiotis

WHO: The Ginger Envelope, Druid City, Don Chambers WHERE: 40 Watt Club WHEN: Thursday, June 4 HOW MUCH: $5 (21+), $7 (18+)

upstart roundup Introducing Athens’ Newest Talent

Green Gerry

on a cloudy journey: you wander through a buzzing house party, following the distant reverberations of Green’s acoustic guitar through winding, endless hallways and mysterious rooms until, finally, you reach a massive enclosure where there is nothing but his voice echoing off the cold, bare walls. It’s disarmingly simple and yet eerily enigmatic. Green Gerry has plans to record a full-length record, to be titled Fool Moon, by the end of the summer. Explore the world of Green Gerry at www.myspace.com/ greengerry.

Next show: June 25 @ Go Bar WE ARE THE GOLD MACHINE Blues/Folk Lineup: Chris Ezelle. Influences: Dylan, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Jimmy Reed and John Lee Hooker.

Here’s another new solo act that’s made some great strides in Athens recently. Chris Ezelle, originally from Macon, GA, has a striking voice with a unique tone—it’s not quite as nasal as Dylan, but it’s still lilting and almost frail compared to the husky rasp that dominates whiskey-soaked blues. And while the vocals sound young and sheepish, the tales he shares are weary and weighted with emotion. Tracks like the mournful “Dust & Dirt” honor the Southern gothic tradition as they’re seeped in darkness and blood. You can download the new album The Sundown Motel in its entirety from www.myspace.com/wearethegoldmachine.

Next Show: June 5 @ 40 Watt Club SUNSET SOUNDTRACK Indie/Alternative/Electronic Lineup: Morgan Parham, Micah Proffer, Ryan Manaois, Shea Allen and Patrick Woulfe. Influences: Sigur Rós, Radiohead, Bright Eyes, Cursive, This Town Needs Guns Sunset Soundtrack is a band that almost never happened.

Earlier this year, Ryan Manaois was a mere hours away from

leaving town to go back to school. Before he stepped out the door, he decided to scan the net just one more time to find some backing musicians to collaborate with in Athens.

He stumbled upon Morgan Parham on Craigslist and, newly optimistic, rounded up his old drummer Shea Allen and met Parham at Nuçi’s Space. Coincidentally, Parham had been in touch with Micah Proffer via MySpace, and with the addition of Patrick Woulfe on bass, the final five were pieced together.

Thank you, Internet! The results of this serendipitous collaboration are pretty stellar. Sunset Soundtrack offers intricate layers of guitar, melodic keyboard and synth punctuated by electronic beats, bleeps and glitches. The emotional vocals are tender and melodic, calling to mind Deathcab for Cutie or Manchester Orchestra. Sunset Soundtrack remains active online at www.myspace.com/ sunsetsoundtrackmusic.

Next show: July 8 @ Rye Bar HELEN, DODGE Americana/Alternative/Folk Rock Lineup: Mark Cunningham, Corey Holland, Neal Canup, Dina Canup and Jackie Holland Formerly of: The Liberty Challenged, Roger Alan Wade Band, Umbra, Dimestore Junket and others. Influences: Gram Parsons, Steve Earle, The Band, The Byrds, Faces, X, The Blasters, Rolling Stones, Townes Van Zandt and R.E.M. Well, you can’t ask for a luckier booking. Helen, Dodge played one of its first shows as a full-fledged band last week at Tasty World and ended up opening a secret show from The Whigs! Needless to say, these types of “secret” shows are never really meant to be secret, and a sizable crowd showed up early enough to enjoy Helen, Dodge’s back porch Americana. Rugged, acoustic melodies were backed by cooing female vocals while a warm pedal steel guitar added just the right amount of Southern distinction. The band played mostly originals but threw in at least one cover from British jam rockers Gomez. Helen, Dodge definitely wears its

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GREEN GERRY Folk/Industrial Lineup: Gerry Green Former member of: Lord Booya.

Influences: Vincent Van Gogh, isolation, magical mystery tours, decent computers and praise-worthy thieves, blondes on highways, basements on hills, cicadas, good vibrations, kHz, oscillation, infinity AKA the universe and etc.

Green moved to Athens from California back in October of 2007. “I traveled underground for a while,” he says. “Now I am back, and I recently finished recording my first EP.” Agalagalu EP is a mix of lo-fi, melodic yearning sung over fuzzy field recordings that feel like a lucid dream. These songs take you

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influences on its sleeve, with an organic sound that calls to mind a number of classic country and folk rock acts—from The Byrds to Steve Earle. Primary songwriter Mark Cunningham is a native Athenian who says the “Athens sound” he grew up with continues to influence his songwriting as well. Corey Holland and Neal Canup are also Athens music scene vets whose skills compliment Helen, Dodge’s rustic feel. Follow the dusty road to www.myspace.com/helendodge.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

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

Tuesday 2 PERFORMANCE: Cabaret Revue with Classic City Arts (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) An evening of ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s and contemporary music by local cabaret performers Scott Earle and Amy Wright. 7:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-354-6655 PERFORMANCE: Open TOAD Comedy (Flicker Theatre & Bar) A unique open mic experience. The audience gets to pelt the performers who go over their six-minute time limit with foam rocks. Performers get in free but must sign up by 8 p.m.

8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar 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: 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: Movie Trivia (Ciné Barcafé) With drink specials and prizes every Tuesday. Sign up at 7:30 p.m. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.athenscine.com

and Heritage Gardens. Reception to follow. Part of GMOA’s “The Art of” Series. Call to RSVP. 6–8 p.m. $10. 706-542-0830, www.uga.edu/ gamuseum EVENTS: Rollergirl Night at Terrapin (Terrapin Beer Co.) Tour the brewery, try out the beers and hang out with the Classic City Rollergirls. 5:30–7:30 p.m. www. classiccityrollergirls.com ART: Thursday Painters (Lyndon House Arts Center) Join members of the Athens Art Association for an afternoon of painting. Bring your own paints and supplies. 12:30–3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 PERFORMANCE: Classic City Kings! (Blur) Athens’ first and only drag king troupe performs live.

10 p.m. $3. www.myspace.com/ blurathens KIDSTUFF: Gaming Day (ACC Library) There will be a selection of board and card games, computers reserved for online games and a TV for those who want to bring in video game consoles to share. Light refreshments. Ages 11–18. 2–6 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (ACC Library) “And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon,” based on the book

by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel. 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: Trivia (WOW Café & Wingery) Play for prizes every Thursday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.

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Wednesday 3

Friday 5

PERFORMANCE: Drag Show (Blur) Kaos Entertainment presents a new drag show event with new performers and new acts. 10 p.m. $3. www. myspace.com/blurathens KIDSTUFF: Magic Show (Oconee County Library) Magician Keith Karnok and his talking bird Vern perform dazzling tricks. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (ACC Library) 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. & 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (ACC Library) Led by UGA student volunteers from the Department of Language and Literacy Education. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: Rock Star Game Night (Wild Wing Café) Try your luck as a virtual musician! Every Wednesday.

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

ART: Opening Reception (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) For Annual Members’ Exhibit featuring a diverse display of works from a variety of skilled artists who are also OCAF members. One of the items featured in this year’s exhibit is an autographed, unpublished manuscript by novelist Terry Kay. Proceeds from sale of the manuscript will benefit OCAF. 6–8 p.m.

FREE! www.ocaf.com ART: Opening Reception (Lamar Dodd School of Art—Gallery 307) For “Nothing Is Your Own,” an exhibition of paintings by Daniel Barber.

Artist’s talk in the at 5:30 p.m. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Drag Night (Blur) Every Friday featuring music by DJ Shine[y] before and after the show.

9 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ blurathens KIDSTUFF: Books & Bites (ACC Library) Read without interruptions.

Bring four books or come in early to look through the library’s selection.

Ages 11–18. Registration requested.

5:30–10 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Puppet Show (ACC Library) “And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon,” based on the book

by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens

Thursday 4 EVENTS: The Art of: Flowers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Curator-led tours of the Flower

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FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Drinking Liberally (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Informal, inclusive and progressive social group that gives left-leaning individuals a chance to talk politics.

First and third Friday of every month. 6:30 p.m. athens@drinkingliberally.org GAMES: Game Night (Main Street Yarns) Play your favorite games the first and third Friday each month. To be included for dinner at 6:30, call before 5 p.m. (cost is $5). 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-769-5531, www.mainstreetyarns.com

Saturday 6 EVENTS: Athens Farmers’ Market (Bishop Park) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Live music, cooking demos and educational classes, too. Every Saturday. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Farmer for a Day (Roots Farm CSA—Winterville) Athens Locally Grown hosts second of six monthly tours highlighting the benefits of sustainable agricultural practices. Lunch provided. Carpooling available. Limited space, email to register. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! farmerforaday@gmail.com EVENTS: Film Screening (Lighthouse Christian Fellowship—100 Newton Bridge Rd.) Part of a series of Holocaust movies screened in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Month. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-244-5308 EVENTS: Heritage Day (William Harris Homestead—Monroe) Featuring tours of the homestead’s log cabin and grounds, a Civil War reenactment, hayrides, exhibits, music, mini-workshops and demonstrations of 19th-century living. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $8 (adults), $6 (seniors & children). www.harrishomestead. com EVENTS: Indian Artifact Show (Greater Athens Church of God) Hosted by the Peach State Archaeological Society. 8 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! 706-549-6883 EVENTS: Parrot Rescue Fundraiser (Crawford Depot) Featuring a DJ, magic show, silent auction, craft vendors, food and more. Individuals can rent a table to sell items for $10; fee is $20 for businesses. Proceeds benefit Dee’s Haven, a small bird rescue/sanctuary in Lexington. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. 706599-5631, www.deeshaven.com ART: Five Points Art Fest (Five Points) Paintings, hand-crafted jewelry, ceramics, drawings and more are on display on the lawns of Five Points boutiques. Also featuring a KidZone area with dunking booth and crafts this year. Light

The Bridges play Tasty World on Saturday, June 6. refreshments. 2–7 p.m. FREE! www. visit5points.com ART: JB & Friends Pottery and Art Show and Sale (1790 Salem Road) Featuring work by Carter Gillies, Caryn Curry, Jim Peckham, Michael Pierce, Keen Zero, Rebecca Wood and Jeff Bishoff. Part of Farmington-area pottery tour that also includes Winterhawk Pottery (9 a.m.–5 p.m.), Flat Rock Pottery (10 a.m.–5 p.m.) and Wildfire Pottery (10 a.m.–5 p.m.). June 6, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. June 7, 12–5 p.m. 706-7698401 ART: Open House Pottery Sale (Farmington Pottery) Featuring a variety of stoneware and porcelain pottery, including dinnerware, tableware and garden pots, as wells as herbal soaps and lotions. Part of Farmington-area pottery tour. June 6–7, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. www.pickettpottery.com ART: Pottery Sale (Wolf Creek Pottery—Watkinsville) Featuring new work by 13 local potters. Part of Farmington-area pottery tour. June 6–7, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. 706-769-5659 ART: Summer Open House & Sale (Chappelle Gallery—25 South Main St., Watkinsville) Featuring a mini craft fair with daily demos, including wheel-throwing, raku-firing and weaving. BBQ also for sale. June 6–7, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. FREE! 706310-0985 PERFORMANCE: Classic City Comedy Show (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Local and national comedians perform the first Saturday of every month. 9 p.m. $10. 706354-6655, www.kinghproductions. eventbrite.com* PERFORMANCE: Urban Gospel Praise and Worship (Morton Theatre) Regional choir featuring

members from Athens, Elberton and Watkinsville as well as Madison, Greene, Oglethorpe and Barrow Counties. Presented by Larry Harper.

7 p.m. $5. 706-613-3771* OUTDOORS: Full Moon Canoe Ride (Sandy Creek Park) Paddle a canoe on Lake Chapman guided by the full moon. Participants may use one of the park’s canoes/kayaks or bring their own. Ages 12 & up. Must pre-register. 9 p.m. $5, $3 (with own canoe/kayak). 706-613-3631 OUTDOORS: National Trails Day (Sandy Creek Park) Celebrate this nationwide event with a walk along scenic Cook’s Trail. 9 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Mothers, Daughters and Dolls Tea Party (Young Harris United Methodist Church) Featuring games, crafts, singing, stories and tea party treats. Bring a doll along with your mom, grandmother or aunt. Space is limited.

Call to register. 2–3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-6001, charlotte.house@ youngharrisumc.org KIDSTUFF: Snake Day (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Explore the misunderstood and secret world of snakes. 12–4 p.m. $2. 706-6133615 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes and Noble) A story and craft every Saturday morning. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-354-1195 GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Little Kings Shuffle Club) On the patio as part of today’s Luau party.

2nd Annual Luau. 6:30 p.m. www. myspace.com/littlekingshuffleclub GAMES: World Quizzing Championships (Locos Grill & Pub—Eastside) The Cedar Shoals High School Academic Team hosts the regional leg of the worldwide

trivia competition. Features a twohour written test with questions by representatives from several countries. 1 p.m. www.wqc2009.com

Sunday 7 EVENTS: Next Steps Public Discussion (ACC Library) Forum on health inequity and working towards solutions in our community.

Light refreshments. 3–4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-542-5788 ART: JB & Friends Pottery and Art Show and Sale (1790 Salem Road—Farmington) Featuring work by Carter Gillies, Caryn Curry, Jim Peckham, Michael Pierce, Keen Zero, Rebecca Wood and Jeff Bishoff. Part of Farmington-area pottery tour that also includes Winterhawk Pottery (9 a.m.–5 p.m.), Flat Rock Pottery (10 a.m.–5 p.m.) and Wildfire Pottery (10 a.m.–5 p.m.). June 6, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. June 7, 12–5 p.m. 706-769-8401 ART: Open House Pottery Sale (Farmington Pottery) Featuring a variety of stoneware and porcelain pottery. Part of Farmington-area pottery tour. June 6–7, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. www.pickettpottery.com ART: Opening Reception (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) For “Out on a Limb: An Artful Journey,” an exhibit featuring traditional watercolors and funky mixed media works

by Judy Bolton Jarrett that focus on her love of trees. Profits from sales support the Lukas’ Fund. 1:30–3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-1244 ART: Pottery Sale (Wolf Creek Pottery—Watkinsville) Featuring new work by 13 local potters. Part of Farmington-area pottery tour. June 6–7, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. 706-769-5659

ART: Summer Open House & Sale (Chappelle Gallery—25 South Main St., Watkinsville) Featuring a mini craft fair with daily demos, including wheel-throwing, raku-firing and weaving. BBQ also for sale. June 6–7, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. FREE! 706310-0985 PERFORMANCE: Athens Brass Quintet (ACC Library) A patriotic brass concert before Independence Day. Sponsored by the Friends of the ACC Library. 3 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 OUTDOORS: Full Moon Canoe Ride (Sandy Creek Park) 9 p.m. $5, $3 (with own canoe/kayak). 706613-3631 LECTURES & LIT.: Author Panel (Borders Books & Music) Ask authors represented by the Knight Agency, one of the Southeast’s top literary agencies, about their adventures in the publishing business.

The panel, which includes Deidre Knight, Jennifer St. Giles, Maria Geraci, Debby Giusti and Shannon K. Butcher, will sign copies of their books after the Q&A. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 LECTURES & LIT.: “Doing AntiRacist, Multicultural Ministry” (First Christian Church) Discussion moderated by Rev. Sekinah Hamlim.

All are welcome to join in the conversation. 2 p.m. FREE! 706549-1915 GAMES: Full-Contact Trivia (Allen’s Bar & Grill) “The lord of all that is trivia,” Bobby Nettles, commutes from Duluth, GA to pick your brain. Sports-themed rules with diverse categories. 9 p.m. FREE! www. allensbarandgrill.com GAMES: Team Trivia (Wild Wing Café) Every Sunday at Wild Wing!

FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com

Monday 8 KIDSTUFF: Movie Day (Oconee County Library) Screening of the G-rated comedy MXP: Most Extreme Primate. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) Bedtime stories. 7 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Anthony Grooms (ACC Library) The Atlanta author reads from Bombingham, his debut novel that is set against the struggle for Civil Rights in Birmingham in 1963. He’ll also answer audience questions and read from new works. 7 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 GAMES: Live Trivia (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Every Monday with Trivia Joe. 7–11 p.m. FREE! 706354-6655 GAMES: Ping Pong (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Get your paddle ready for a game of table tennis! 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/flickerbar GAMES: Sports Trivia (WOW Café & Wingery) Every Monday. 706543-5510.

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

706-353-0241.

GAMES: Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Play for prizes every Monday.

8 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3144 GAMES: Trivia (Taco Stand) Every Monday night at the downtown location. 9 p.m. www.thetacostand.com

Tuesday 9 PERFORMANCE: Cabaret Revue with Classic City Arts (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) An evening of ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s and contemporary music by local cabaret performers Scott Earle and Amy Wright. 7:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-354-6655

KIDSTUFF: Magic Show (ACC Library) Magician and ventriloquist Keith Karnok performs along with his sidekick, Vern, the singing and talking bird. 2:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) For ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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: 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: Movie Trivia (Ciné Barcafé) With drink specials and prizes every Tuesday. Sign up at 7:30 p.m. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.athenscine.com

Wednesday 10 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–$16 (scholarships available).

706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (ACC Library) 5 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Storytelling Concert (Oconee County Library) Local storyteller Donna Butler gets creative with fun folktales from around the world. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) For ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Arts Development Council of Georgia (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) General membership/open meeting. Featured speaker is OCAF Director Joe Ruiz.

10–11:30 a.m. FREE! www.adcg.org GAMES: Rock Star Game Night (Wild Wing Café) Try your luck as a virtual musician! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. www.wildwingcafe.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Play for prizes every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706548-1920 * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line LECTURES & LIT.: Judy and Takis Iakovou 6/11 (Borders Books & Music) The Iakovous, longtime Athens residents who write under the pen name Ann Stamos, bring their personal immigration insights to Bitter Tide, the debut novel in their new mystery series. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 ART: Summer Pottery Sale (Carter Gillies Pottery—572 Nantahala Ave.) Handmade pieces by local artists Geoff & Lisa Pickett, Jim Peckham, Jeff Bishoff and Carter Gillies. June 13–14, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

706-546-7235 ART: Washington Art Stroll 6/13 (Downtown Washington) Five studios and galleries will be open to the public. Maps provided. Coupons for free drinks at lunch and dinner. 11 a.m.–8 p.m. FREE! 706-486-6808, www.washingtonartstroll.com EVENTS: Classic City Rollergirls Bout 6/13 (Skate-A-Round USA) The Classic City Rollergirls take on

the Low County High Rollers in their first home bout of the season. 7 p.m. $10 (adults), $5 (ages 6–10), FREE! (ages 6 & under). www.classiccityrollergirls.com* LECTURES & LIT.: “Abraham Lincoln: A Journey through Historiography” 6/14 (ACC Library) Steve Schaefer, the former director of the Uncle Remus Library System, conducts a breakneck tour of the Lincoln literature from the past 144 years. 3 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 PERFORMANCE: Beards of Comedy 6/14 (The Melting Point) Tour featuring Dave Stone, Andy Sandford, TJ Young and Joe Zimmerman, four of the freshest bearded faces in comedy. 8:30 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com* PERFORMANCE: Russian Masterworks 6/15 (Emmanuel Episcopal Church) Presented by the Athens Brass Choir and featuring Tchaikovsky’s “Marche Slave” and Mussorgsky’s complete “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Dedicated to the memory of Randy Bewley. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.athensbrasschoir.org LECTURES & LIT.: Book Signing and Reception 6/30 (Taylor Grady House) For Frances Taliaferro Thomas’ A Portrait of Historic Athens and Clarke County. Space is limited. RSVP by June 24. 5:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-353-1801 EVENTS: Star Spangled Classic 7/4 (Bishop Park) Featuring inflatables, old-fashioned family games, a dunking booth, children’s art activities, music and concessions.

Culminates with a movie in the park that will replace the traditional fireworks display. 6 p.m. FREE! 706613-3589 * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 2 Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CARL LINDBERG Jazz bassist Carl Lindberg (Grogus, Squat, Kenosha Kid, etc.) performs standards, originals and some surprising tunes from divergent styles.

Fat Daddy’s 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 KARAOKE Huge karaoke dance party hosted by Lynn every Tuesday.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar THE DIAMOND CENTER This group formed in Athens in 2008 with ex-members of Sleepy Horses and Brown Frown, but then relocated to Texas in June. Psychedelic folk and gauzy vocals haunt the new release, My Only Companion.

HAM1 Their lastest record, The Underground Stream, offers a breezy take on straight-ahead ‘60s garage rock, brightened by swoon-worthy harmonies and a pop sensibility.

MADELINE Bell-voiced local songwriter Madeline Adam’s literate folk musings have grown increasingly soulful, drawing comparisons to artists like Joni Mitchell and Karen Carpenter. White Flag is the critically acclaimed new release.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $30 (adv), $35 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com* LITTLE FEAT Founding vocalist and keyboardist Bill Payne and drummer Richie Hayward continue their 40k continued on next page

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LIL’ MALCOM & THE HOUSE ROCKERS Tickets $10 adv. • $13 at the door 6/11 - ADAM PAYNE BAND w/ JOSH PERKINS 6/14 - BEARDS OF COMEDY SHOW 6/15 - Standup Comedy with GREG PROOPS & MARSHAL CHILES 6/17 - THE WARM FUZZIES with HEYPENNY 6/18 - GEOFF ACHISON & THE SOUL DIGGERS with YONRICO SCOTT BAND 6/19 - ASLYN

COMING SOON 6/26 - AthFest Night 1 with CURLEY MAPLE, LITTLE COUNTRY GIANTS, WILLIAM TONKS & DODD FERRELLE 6/27 - AthFest Night 2 with FIVE EIGHT, TIME TOY, LOVE TRACTOR AND FLASH TO BANG TIME 7/4 - RED WHITE AND BREWGRASS FESTIVAL (14 Bluegrass Acts on 2 Stages) 7/9 - MARCIA BALL

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THE CALENDAR!

6.3 • wednesdays

rock star game night 6.4 • thursdays

ghost radio

6.5 • friday night rocks

tony moyer

year tenure in Little Feat with their signature bluesy, funk-rock sound.

Early show! On the patio. 6–8 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens.com* MAYHEM STRING BAND Veteran instrumental bluegrass quintet from Mississippi performs for the Terrapin Tuesday Bluegrass Series on the patio.

straightforward, honest songs delivered with authentic Southern twang.

FAST RYDE With solid, heavy hitting drums, rockin’ guitars and hooks that you can sing for days, the Nashville band Fast Ryde provides energetic tunes for both the classic and the progressive country music fan.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net BUNNY CARLOS Longtime Athenians Doug Pynn (guitar, vocals), Bill Bokas (drums, vocals) and Mike Flynn (bass), formerly of Barking Charlie, play “rock and roll the way it was meant to be played.”

HALF DOZEN BRASS BAND Highly praised local ensemble, and Athens’ only New Orleans-style brass band, claims Rebirth, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Youngblood Brass Band as influences.

SAMURAI TROUT Local roots-rock, swamp-boogie band featuring singer-songwriters Mark Wilmot and Woody Garrison backed by Bill Bokas (drums), Chip Barnett (guitar) and Mike Flynn (bass).

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar ENTERTAINMENT The Atlanta/ Athens band plays dark, synth- and bass-heavy rock that’s propulsive and layered, maybe a little like the lovechild that results from the latenight gropings of U2, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Cure.

THUNDERS Dark, angular ‘80sinfuenced psych-rock that’s a little Suicide, a little Joy Division and a little MC5.

TWIN POWERS Local Kindercare Records alumn Dan Geller and local chef Eddie Russell mix up contemporary Top 40 with danceable ‘80s new wave and Britpop tunes.

Late-night dance party to follow The English Beat show!

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

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.

Wednesday 3

6.6 • saturday

live music with the unmentionables 6.7 • sunday

team trivia!

6.8 • mondays

food & bev night 6.9 • 2 fer tuesday wing night

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40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $15 (adv). www.40watt.com* THE ENGLISH BEAT Influential UK band that plays two-tone ska revival that fuses pop, soul, reggae and punk rock. This tour honors the band’s 30th anniversary. See story on p. 15.

OUTLAW NATION New Orleans’ Outlaw Nation plays funky hip-hop and reggae beats.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com DELETED SCENES Eclectic indie rock that shares a lot with The Shins and a little with Vampire Weekend.

The soaring vocals and swirling guitars are accented by colorful vibraphone, trumpet, organ and piano.

HOWLIES Buzz band from Atlanta, formerly Moresight, devours ‘60s garage, ATL crunk and doo-wop.

THE STARTER KITS Multiinstrumentalist Mikey Dwyer fronts this band sounding a bit like a Southern Elvis Costello with a slight punk snarl. He’s joined by bassist Jamie Coulter (The Help) and new drummer-vocalist Dan Orchik (Dictatortots and The Help).

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

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Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar* CATAWBA Local four-piece plays mellow indie rock informed by windswept Americana. Lots of new tunes available!

TREES LEAVE Nashville duo offers alt-folk originals and re-woven traditionals via guitar, fiddle and dual vocals. On tour all summer.

Georgia Theatre 10 p.m. $15 (adv), $20 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com* LUKE BRYAN Capitol Records Nashville recording artist Luke Bryan is a down-home country boy with

Locos Grill & Pub 8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7700 (Westside location) JOHN KEANE AND NATHAN SHEPPARD Acclaimed producer John Keane will be joined by local acoustic stalwart Nathan Sheppard for a set of rock and Americana numbers.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com* THE DONNER PARTY This Pogues tribute band features “drinking songs, traditional singalongs, more drinking songs, and also some songs for drinking to.” The all-star cast features members of local bands Olympus Mans, Half Dozen Brass Band, Greyhounds and Positraxion.

ONE L Local band One L plays AfroCuban-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 Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Every Wednesday with Stan.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net KAOS House music every Wednesday night!

Thursday 4 40 Watt Club 10 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com DON CHAMBERS This local favorite’s whiskey-soaked bootstomps capture a certain dusty closing-time chic.

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

DRUID CITY Julien DeRocher’s songs are pastoral, emotional and sincerely moving folk-leaning works decorated with electronic flourishes.

THE GINGER ENVELOPE Patrick Carey’s slow-rolling countryish pop is marked by breezy, melodic sounds with chiming acoustic and electric notes and vocal melodies. Debuting new material and new lineup tonight!

See story on p. 16.

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.

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655 LIVE JAZZ Jazz Tuesdays feature a new jazz band every week.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com GARBAGE ISLAND Loud, metallic and edgy, the band dips into krautrock and progressive thought, earning it the “experimental” tag.

HOTEL HOTEL Ethereal, ambient soundscapes from Austin.

MAXIMUM BUSY MUSCLE Local tech-metal trio featuring Jay Roach on guitar and Mary Joyce on drums, and newly-recuited Kris Deason on bass.

THE SUBLIMINATOR Combining spoken-word poetry with experimental music, Atlanta’s one-man show and motorcycle enthusiast The Subliminator backs his sometimesheavily-processed words with sounds created from AirSynths, effects pedals and loops.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CHIP MCKENZIE The Still, Small Voice and the Joyful Noise frontman plays a solo set.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 WES Dixie Mafia main man plays aoustic music every Thursday.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar MEGAN BAER Local songwriter Megan Baer performs a bittersweet and dusky set of country-folk tunes.

Monday, June 8

The “AthFest Sampler” Hoot The Melting Point The monthly music event put on by the Athens Folk Music and Dance Society is a variety-packed and friendly get-together known as The Hoot, and every June it draws on AthFest’s deep roster of performers as a way to liven things up and offer a preview of the late-June downtown festival.

Hosted by the local singer and community lynchpin Susan Staley, a member of the folk group The Solstice Sisters, The “AthFest Sampler” Hoot gets going with a performance from Young Goodman Brown, a versatile Georgia singer and a snappy dresser to boot, who takes the ‘60s folksinger template of vest and hat and marries it to his harmonica and guitar.

Young Goodman Brown Rootsy band The Corduroy Road has established itself as one of Athens’ more ambitious and energetic Americana acts, and is about to head out on an extensive U.S. tour. Betsy Franck, who’s normally found fronting her Bareknuckle Band, is flying solo, though, a quieter presentation perhaps for her lively, bluesy country rock and roll.

Finally, the trio of Lombard, Norman & Hunter unites the local pros for a set of fingerpicking-style guitar music from Paul Lombard (Trunkfire), mandolin from George Norman (Calliope Fair) and fiddle from Edward Hunter (Blueground Undergrass).

For those interested in volunteering at this year’s AthFest, event representatives will be on hand at 7 p.m. to answer questions and provide information. For more on the Athens Folk Music and Dance Society, visit www.athensfolk.org. Information on AthFest, including a schedule of announced performers, is over at www.athfest.com. The festival takes place June 25–28. Monday night’s show is free of charge, and the music runs from 8 to 10 p.m. [Chris Hassiotis]

Georgia Theatre 10 p.m. $7. www.georgiatheatre.com* ZACH DEPUTY This South Carolina native plays acoustic party-funk.

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.

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

THE K-MACKS An eclectic mixture of folk, blues and punk driven by narrative storylines.

VICTIMS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION A blend of raw punk, folk and ska from North Carolina that isn’t afraid to dabble in psychobilly, too.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub MELVIN MATHURIN Alto sax player from local ensemble Jazzenigma plays a solo set influenced by Coltrane and other legends.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $3 (adv.), $5 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com* JAZZCHRONIC Local five-piece explores freaky, funky, psychedelic fusion jazz while incorporating rock, R&B, heavy beats and more into the stew.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 LITTLE PERKY JACKSON AND THE GRAVITY FIGHTERS Acoustic writers in the round featuring Adam Payne, Brad Downs and Josh Perkins. Expect a fun and loose collaborative party with special guests—”it’s as much a drinking game as it is a show,” says Downs.

The Office Lounge 6–8 p.m. 706-546-8209 JOANNE PARKS TIDWELL This singer-songwriter from Jackson, MS covers all the classics plus some new popular music in her own style.

Roadhouse 11 p.m. $2. 706-613-2324 CARLA LEFEVER Local hard-rocker Carla LeFever and her band play covers of AC/DC, Dio as well as some of her more “hard-grooving” and dancey originals in the same vein.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens AVARIA Upbeat powerpop that doesn’t fall far from Fall Out Boy’s Cork Tree.

EDDY SHIN TRIO Local power trio expands Eddy Shin’s acoustic ideas into big, bluesy rock numbers informed equally by pop and jazz.

Think along the lines of John Mayer, Eric Clapton or Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net APOB Self-proclaimed “un-punk” band based out of Lilburn, GA influenced by punk, ska, rock, hip-hop and metal. The name is pronounced “Eh-Pahb.”

THE BASTARD SONS Five-piece from Atlanta that mixes reggaeinfused punk rock with the spirit of Irish drinking songs.

CELERITY Punk-inspired hard rock.

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

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com SPLATTY NINJAS This local garage band plays easy-going rock songs infused with mellow synths and basslines.

Wild Wing Café 9 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com GHOST RADIO Rock four-piece from Ringgold, GA.

Friday 5 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com CARLA LEFEVER AND THE RAYS LeFever and her band play dance tunes, sweet pop, classic rock and originals.

CHRIS MOORE Chris Moore (exSpins), who often performs with Dennis Williamson (Adam Payne Band, ex-Spins, Stewart & Winfield) as an acoustic duo, sends out smooth, soulful tunes and maybe a cover or two.

THE R.I.B.S. With energetic Southern and classic rock originals and covers, this band hopes to “inspire redneck behavior.”

ROYAL BLUE AND THE STONE GRIFTERS Rooted by acoustic guitar, brokenhearted harmonica solos and soulful vocals, this local four-piece plays bluesy alternative rock from a folk perspective.

WE ARE THE GOLD MACHINE Chris Ezelle’s solo act performs “raw guitar-based country blues.”

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com BUKKAKE BOYS Hardcore punk from Atlanta.

DOUBLE NEGATIVE A little more punk than metal, Double Negative has fierce, fast guitars and almost coherent lyrics.

GG KING Lo-fi, snarling ‘60s-inspired garage punk like that of fellow Atlantans Black Lips.

VINCAS New project from Chris McNeal (ex-Paper Lions, Teenage Meth Lab, Maserati). Energetic, erratic garage punk with growling guitars, howling vocals and a bit of rockabilly blues swagger.

Ciné Barcafé 10 p.m. $5. www.athenscine.com LOVE TRACTOR Original Love Tractor member Mike Richmond recruited Bill Holmes (ex-Vigilantes of Love), Ben Holst (ex-Avenues, Velure), Tom Lewis and Darren Stanley (Squat) to round out his new lineup. The album Black Hole features spacey and compelling, prog-influenced guitar epics.

THE STEREOFIDELICS With passionate vocals, organic harmonies and spontaneous instrumental creativity, the Stereofidelics draw on bluegrass, Latin and jazz.

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

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 BUNNY CARLOS Longtime Athenians Doug Pynn (guitar, vocals), Bill Bokas (drums, vocals) and Mike Flynn (bass), formerly of Barking Charlie, play “rock and roll the way it was meant to be played.”

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Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds 4–11 p.m. $18 (Friday only), $27 (Saturday only), $36 (2-Day Pass, adv.), $40 (2-Day Pass, door). www. georgiamountainfairgrounds.com GEORGIA MOUNTAIN ROOTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL Two days of traditional and contemporary bluegrass, Americana and folk. Today’s lineup features Buck & Nelson (6 p.m.), Irons in the Fire (7:15 p.m.), Dale Ann Bradley (8:30 p.m.) and Seldom Scene (9:45 p.m.).

Georgia Theatre 10 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com* THE EMPTIES Local pop-rockers combine melancholy vocals with surprisingly harmonized choruses, in an interesting combination of rhythmic mope-rock and more driving hard rock.

ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS Timi Conley along with bandmates from Abbey Road LIVE! and Kite to the Moon team up with members of The Empties and Chris McKay and the Critical Darlings to explode David Bowie’s classic album to life on the big stage.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar BLACK DOMINOES DJ Kellen and John Danger Kid (of Striped Socks) spin vinyl to a “bass a$$” video show.

JUDI CHICAGO Atlanta’s performance-spectacle duo Judi Chicago plays a greased-up, grimy and dancey electrofunk freakpop, often replete with booty shorts or other equally revealing outfits. You will dance. It’s impossible to resist.

DJ NO SOUND Local musician and graphic designer Winston Parker at the helm, spinning an eclectic mix of electronic dance music and rock.

Little Kings Shuffle Club “Dirty Mind.” 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub DJ BABY PANDAS In honor of Prince’s birthday, Chris Hassiotis is hosting an all-Prince dance party on the patio! Featuring 100 percent Prince tunes: hits, rarities, slow jams, pop, funk and R&B, plus maybe a few tangential items like Prince-produced tracks.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $5 (adv), $7 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com NORMALTOWN FLYERS Athens roots-rock institution plays a set of comfortable, good-time rock and roll with a Southern leaning. Tonight the Flyers will play as a duo featuring Brian Burke and Tom Ryan.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. $5. 706-546-0840 KARAOKE Every Friday with Lynn.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens DUSTY LIGHTSWITCH Described as “one of the most exciting and satisfying live bands in town” by our own Gordon Lamb, this revolving cast of local eccentrics delivers rock and roll with epic possibilites.

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

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Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net THE INCREDIBLE SANDWICH Athens-based instrumental jam band with some tropical leanings.

LIONZ Southern jam-rock from Athens.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com GRANT HAZE Neo-soul singersongwriter Grant Haze plays breezy, off-beat guitar riffs accompanied by R&B vocals and hip-hop beats.

Wild Wing Café 9 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com TONY MOYER Good Times Band and Impulse Ride bassist plays solo material, sometimes joined by former Good Times bandmate Jayson Sabo.

Saturday 6 40 Watt Club 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.com ALBATROSS Local band plays classic rock and alternative rock covers.

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

The Athens Farmers Market 10 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net KATE MORRISSEY Morrissey’s warm, soulful voice and rhythmic piano spice her original songs, which have been described as “urban fables and fairy tales.”

8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net HOPE FOR AGOLDENSUMMER This local neo-folk band has spent the winter “baking pumpkin cookies, making art and catching babies in Peru.” They return to us all the wiser, with a few new songs and loads of stories to tell.

Blur “POP Life!” 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/ blurathens DJ ISAAC M Longtime Boneshakers/ Kultur Lounge deejay Isaac McCalla mixes club beats for the weekly Pop Life dance party.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com A. ARMADA Athens’ A. Armada plays energetic, epic, instumental indie rock. The band’s Anam Cara EP takes things in a cinematic post-rock direction, with touches of Godspeed and such.

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 a classic New York hip-hop style.

PEGASUSES-XL Absolutely huge electro-doom featuring the entirety of We Versus the Shark and local producer Joel Hastat. These local smartasses blend the lines between rock, rap and unhinged sonic experimentation.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com THE PRESENT Producer who worked on Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear records spins his magic.

QUEENS The solo project of psychedelic Brooklyn artist Scott Mou. Mou has collaborated with Panda Bear of Animal Collective fame as an electronic duo called Jane.

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QUIET HOOVES Increasingly poporiented experimental psych-folk from here in town featuring toy instruments and creative arrangements.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 KARAOKE AND DANCE PARTY A night of dancing to the songs you choose to sing! Hosted by Lynn.

Five Points Five Points Art Fest. 2–7 p.m. FREE! www.visit5points.com KAITLIN JONES AND THE COUNTRY FAIR Local folk guitarist/vocalist Kaitlin Jones (Fine Line, Porch to the People) performs a set of Americana-tinged tunes with friends.

MONKEY Local rockabilly bluegrass pickin’.

JEREMY WHEATLEY You may have seen Jeremy Wheatley perform as a member of Tin Cup Prophette, The Low Lows and Je Suis France, but today is a special solo performance.

Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds 11 a.m.–11 p.m. $18 (Friday only), $27 (Saturday only), $36 (2-Day Pass, adv.), $40 (2-Day Pass, door). www. georgiamountainfairgrounds.com GEORGIA MOUNTAIN ROOTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL Two days of traditional and contemporary bluegrass, Americana and folk. Today’s lineup features Town Mountain (1 p.m.), Jim Lauderdale (2:30 p.m.), The Steeldrivers (4:15 p.m.), Red Stick Ramblers (6 p.m.), The Greencards (7:45 p.m.) and Dan Tyminski (9:30 p.m.).

Georgia Theatre 10 p.m. $5. www.georgiatheatre.com* HOLMAN AUTRY BAND Fans of Southern rock icons like Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers will love Holman Autry Band’s rowdy rock and roll.

The Globe 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 A TALE OF TWO CALEYS Dusty Lightswitch collaborators Caley Smith and Caley Ross sound “like a science-fiction folk musical.” The quirky lyrics address meta- and astrophysical concerns, and feature a heavy amount of French and Greek wordplay.

CHRISTOPHER INGHAM Local singer-songwriter Christopher Ingham (Christopher’s Liver, ex-Heroic Livers) performs lo-fi acoustic.

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

9 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DJ STANDALOUS Local DJ and the “most handsome member” of Velveteen Pink and the Daft Punk cover band.

Highwire Lounge 8:30–11:30 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8510 THE STEREOFIDELICS With passionate vocals, organic harmonies and spontaneous instrumental creativity, the Stereofidelics draw on bluegrass, Latin and jazz for a lively sound that’s bigger than you might expect from just a duo. Acoustic set.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 2nd Annual Luau. 6:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingshuffleclub KINKY WAIKIKI Featuring members of Kenosha Kid, Birds and Wire, Big

Monday, June 8

Sir Richard Bishop, Plume, Bubbly Mommy Gun Undisclosed Location In the face of slowly disappearing mystery in the hyper-hyper-infosaturated world of insight we have into our art and music, guitarist Sir Richard Bishop and his work with the Sun City Girls is a gem.

As punk rockers growing up in the sun-and-acidbaked deserts of Arizona, the Sun City Girls formed in 1982 and immediately gravitated towards the unknown, madly annexing alien worlds of ethnic Sir Richard Bishop origin—the kind of music that would eventually be sanitized and sold off as “world music.” But, as Bishop points out, it was in his blood from day one: “I grew up listening to it. My grandfather who was Lebanese used to play us old cassettes of Farid al-Atrache, Oum Kalthoum and other Lebanese and Egyptian artists when we were very young. So, I was just exposed to it early on, and it sort of stuck.”

After dozens of releases and the sad passing of bandmate Charles Gocher, Bishop soldiered on, continuing the solo work he began in the late-’90s. Traveling the world in search of unearthed influences, he has emerged enriched as a persistently challenging and engaging guitarist. “Traveling to places in North Africa and Asia over the years has provided me with many more listening experiences of music that I couldn’t access as easily in the West,” he says. Speaking of his latest recording, The Freak of Araby, Bishop refers to it as a simultaneous return to form and a new excursion: “It’s closer in form to a Sun City Girls record than to any of my previous solo releases, though perhaps a little bit more orderly. [But] the entire record is Middle Eastern/ North African music… somewhat of a departure from earlier work.” Departures, it seems, are what Sir Richard Bishop’s music is all about. See www.partypartypartners.com for details. [Jeff Tobias]

C and the Ringers, Vigilantes of Love and Pride Parade, this group plays modern arrangements of traditional Hawaiian music, with a little Western swing thrown in the mix. Call it steel guitar cocktail music.

DJ KURT WOOD Spinning danceable selections from his expansive vinyl collection featuring garage, soul, funk, R&B and surf.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com* DELTA MOON Atlanta’s Delta Moon plays dusty, rusty blues rock laden with slide guitar and fancy fingerwork.

EG KIGHT This blues singer-songwriter from Dublin, GA accompanies her singing with either a piano or a guitar, often in the traditional 12-bar style.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens CORLEONE Layering the beats and rhythms of dub, trance, rock and soul, Nashville quartet Corleone creates a distinct yet deep sound that pulsates through the soul.

DJ TRIZ Performs his brand of electro-turntablism, blending original compositions with an array of electronica/hip-hop/house/funk/D&B and dubstep.

Tasty World 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net THE BRIDGES Cousins from Oxford, AL with angelic harmonies, haunting melodies and memorable pop hooks. For fans of Eisley or Fleetwood Mac. THE DESARIOS Local upbeat rock band with a singer who sounds a bit like Elvis Costello. For fans of

Phantom Planet, Rooney or The Cars.

TEALVOX Local teen indie-rock band draws inspiration from acts like Coldplay, U2 and The Beatles.

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

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

Sunday 7 Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CIRCULATORY SYSTEM Led by main songwriter Will Cullen Hart—alongside various musicians including John Fernandes and Peter Erchick (all formerly of Olivia Tremor Control)—Circulatory System blasts through psychedelic, elliptical pop songs, and the System’s at its best with its dual-drum charge.

KAYLA COX No info available.

SUMMER HYMNS Psychedelictinged Neil Young-y pop-rock that hinges more on simple chord progressions and vocal melodies.

Monday 8 Ashford Manor 6 p.m. $15 (adults), $6 (ages 12 & under), FREE! (ages 5 & under). www. ambedandbreakfast.com KAITLIN JONES Local folk guitarist/ vocalist Kaitlin Jones (Fine Line, Porch to the People) performs a set of Americana-tinged tunes.

SONS OF SAILORS This Jimmy Buffett cover band features members of the Tony Pritchett Band.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com THE HEAP Local indie-soul band that’s been praised by the likes of Violent Femmes and Kevn Kinney.

Driven by funky bass guitar and husky bass vocals.

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

JETTISON NEVER Almost alternative, almost adult contemporary, these tight, polished melodic pop anthems take inspiration from bands like Mute Math, Switchfoot and The Police.

Ciné Barcafé 6–8:30 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 JOE COOK Acoustic covers and originals.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar ENTERTAINMENT The Atlanta/ Athens band plays dark, synth- and bass-heavy rock that’s propulsive and layered, maybe a little like the lovechild that results from the latenight gropings of U2, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Cure.

POST HONEYMOON Married Chicago duo of vocalist/keyboardist Rachel Shindelman and drum-

mer/bassist/vocalist Nick Kraska originally played together in popular synth-punk outfits Bang! Bang!

(Morphius Records) and New Black (Thick/Southern).

Jot ‘Em Down Country Store & BBQ 4–9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-2110 KARAOKE Take the spotlight at this local BBQ restaurant and music venue.

The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.meltingpointathens.com ATHFEST SAMPLER HOOT This month’s Hoot is all about AthFest!

Swing by the set for festival info, promo materials and performances

by Betsy Franck, Goodman Brown and The Corduroy Road plus Lombard, Norman & Hunter. Susan Staley hosts the evening. See Calendar Pick on p. 20.

Tuesday 9 40 Watt Club 10 p.m. $5. www.caledonialounge. com* AMONG THE OAK & ASH Featuring Josh Joplin and Garrison Starr, both artists signed independently to major labels as teens. The duo plays modern interpretations of dark, strikingly beautiful numbers rooted in the sullen melancholy of Appalachian ballads.

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

JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD Young, edgy musician who approaches country sounds with an alternative, indie perspective.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com D NUMBERS A colorful hybrid of instrumental rock and electronica that ranges in mood and tonality from ambient to rock to funk. Features both analog sounds plus layers of loops and samples.

SEADUB Local DJ Colin Williams spins and mixes dubstep.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DAN NETTLES Celebrated local jazz musician known for his work fronting Kenosha Kid. Fat Daddy’s 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 KARAOKE Huge karaoke dance party hosted by Lynn every Tuesday.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar THE BORDER LIONS Rock and roll trio that plays ‘70s-inspired songs, with styles ranging from beachy to bluesy.

EUREKA CALIFORNIA Recently expanded from the solo project of Jake Ward to a full band, Eureka California is a local indie band influenced by American indie that sounds like British indie influenced

by American indie. Also, it rocks.

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

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com* REDLINE EXPRESS This Hillsboro, GA group features music vets whose interests range from classic bluegrass to the modern acoustic artists.

Expect a genuine downhome sound complete with fiddle, resonator, acoustic, stand-up bass and some banjo.

No Where Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-4742 LANEY STRICKLAND BAND Classic Southern rock with bluesy riffs, wailing organ and soulful vocals.

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

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar OWLBEAR Solo acoustic singer/ songwriter based here in Athens whose plaintive voice is reminiscent of Jeff Mangum’s.

PONY BONES Experimental folk artist Pony Bones wails and screams over de-tuned guitars and modified banjos.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 TINY JAZZ ARKESTRA Experimental yet accessible, the Tiny Jazz Arkestra plays music influenced by the last half century of jazz: from the golden age of Blue Note to the postmodern sounds of The Knitting Factory.

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Down the Line 6/11 All the Saints / Ted Leo & the Pharmacists / Titus Andronicus (40 Watt Club)* 6/13 Pattern Is Movement / St. Vincent (40 Watt Club)* 6/13 Nautilus / Newberry Jam (Farm 255) 6/16 Christabel & The Jons (The Melting Point)* 6/17 Madeline / One Man Machine (Farm 255) 6/18 Geoff Achison and the Soul Diggers / Yonrico Scott Band (The Melting Point) 6/19 Perpetual Groove (Georgia Theatre)* 6/24 The Constellations (Rye Bar) 6/25–6/28 AthFest (Various Venues) 7/1 Jenny Lewis (Georgia Theatre)* 7/2 ZoSo (Georgia Theatre)* 7/4 Greg Hester (Ashford Manor) 7/4 Red White and Brewgrass Festival (The Melting Point)* 7/7 Paul Lombard (The Melting Point)* 7/11 The Heap / Noot d’Noot (40 Watt Club)* 7/13 Lazy B and the Recliners (Ashford Manor) 7/18 Better Than Ezra (40 Watt Club)* 7/21 A. A. Bondy / Connor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band (40 Watt Club)* 7/22 The Donkeys / Magnolia Electric Company (40 Watt Club) 8/24 Mama’s Love (Ashford Manor) * Advance Tickets Available

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

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

ART Call for Entries (The Classic Center) The Classic Center Cultural Foundation is accepting submissions through July 19 for free-form bicycle racks designed by artists.

Winning racks will be installed on Hancock and Foundry streets. 706357-4417, www.classiccenter.com Call for Entries (ATHICA) Seeking work that addresses the embattled news media industry for upcoming “Free Press in Free Fall” exhibit (Sept. 19–Nov. 8). Deadline is July 6. See site for instructions. www.athica.org/callforentries.php

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

Pre-registration required. June 27, 10 a.m. $6. 706-613-3631 Art Classes (Lyndon House Arts Center) Now registering for summer classes, including a Portrait Painting Workshop with Leah Mantini, Painting with Charles, Low-Relief Casting and Feltmaking. 706-6133623, www.accleisureservices.com AWC Classes (Athens Wellness Cooperative) Offering community acupuncture sessions Wednesdays– Fridays from 1–5 p.m. ($25). Also, Yoga, Pilates, tai chi and salsa classes for adults and older teens.

Full schedule online. $14 drop-in, $60/6 classes, $108/12 classes.

706-369-8855, www.wellness cooperative.com Beginning Genealogy (Oconee County Library) Learn how and where to begin genealogy research

and receive an introductory packet with helpful book titles, websites, family tree charts and more. Call to register. June 13, 2–3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 “Beyond Memoir” (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Poet and essayist Dana Wildsmith provides instruction on how to focus on the facts of your life in your writing without merely recording family stories.

All levels are welcome. July 11, 18 & 25, 9 a.m.–noon. $150. 706-7694565, info@ocaf.com Booty Camp (Sangha Yoga Studio) A low-impact core fitness course led

by Mary Imes. Tuesdays, 5:30–6:45 p.m. Fridays, 10:30–11:45 a.m.

706-613-1143 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 8-week summer classes. 706-3553161, www.gooddirt.net Computer Classes (ACC Library) “Mouse and Keyboard Skills” (June 3, 7 p.m.) and “Introduction to Computers” (June 10–11, 10 a.m.). In the Educational Technology Center. Call to register.

FREE! 706-613-3650 Cooking in the Garden: Sushi for Dummies (State Botanical Garden) Learn techniques for preparing sushi. Pre-registration required. June 18, 6:30 p.m. $27.

706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden Craft Classes (Main Street Yarns—Watkinsville) Offering instruction in knitting, crocheting, wheel spinning and more. 706-7695531, www.mainstreetyarns.com Creating More Prosperity and Abundance in Your Life (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Laurie Hart

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leads the class in techniques such as EFT, dowsing and meditation.

First and third Tuesday of every month. 7–9 p.m. $10. 706-5461107, hartlem@earthlink.net Digital Photo Editing Basics (Georgia Center) Learn to transfer digital photos to a computer, crop images, adjust color and correct flaws. Tuesdays, June 9–July 7, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $149. 706-5423537, questions.ppd@georgiacenter. uga.edu Earthen Building Intensive Workshop Series (Earthsong) Three-week course covering natural building philosophy, ecological design, cob construction, natural plasters and earthen floor construction.

Focus will be placed on hands-on experience. Camping provided, vegetarian meals included. July 10–31. $2000. will@redclaynb.org, www. redclaynb.org, www.earthsong.cc Encaustics Workshop (Blue Tin Studio—Studio C, 393 N. Finley Street) Learn step-by-step techniques for painting with beeswax.

Registration ends June 10. June 27 & July 11, 9:30 a.m.–3 p.m. $65.

404-556-6884, www.bluetinstudio. com Garden Jewelry (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn to make beads, mirrors and pendants for your garden. All supplies will be provided to create two garden ornaments.

Pre-registration required. July 9, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $27. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Getting Started with Genealogy (ACC Library) Monthly informal class to walk you through the basics of researching family history. Bring a pencil and paper. In Heritage Room. June 18, 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Hand Drumming (Young Harris United Methodist Church)

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Angali Singh’s watercolor painting is on display at the Original Fine Arts Gallery at Elements Art Supply.

Drumming class led by Dr. Arvin Scott. Space is limited. Registration required. June 11, 7 p.m. 706-5496001, charlotte.house@youngharris umc.org Introduction to the Internet (Oconee County Library) Three-part class that covers Internet service providers, web browsers, useful sites and Internet safety. Space is limited, call to register. June 11, 18 & 25, 4 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 Invasive Plants of the Southeast (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) An introduction to the problem of invasive, nonnative plants in GA. Pre-registration required. June 13, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $45. 706-542-6156, www.uga. edu/botgarden Oral History Interviewing Training Session (ACC Library) Learn how to conduct an oral history interview. June 8, 7 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 Resumé Workshop (Oconee County Library) Joe Freeman leads workshop on how to select, organize and summarize your resumé information for maximum effect. June 18, 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 Silk and Cotton Painting Class (Margaret Agner Studio—145 Yorkshire Road, Bogart) Call for supply list and fee info. Space is limited. June 10–11 & 12–13, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 706-3537719, www.margaretagnerstudio. 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 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 YWCO Classes (YWCO) Offerings include Belly Dancing, Triathlon Training, Pilates and Yoga. Full schedule online. 706-354-7880, www.ywco.org

HELP OUT! American Red Cross (Red Cross Donor Center—3525 Atlanta Hwy.) This month all donors will receive coupons from local restaurants and be entered for a chance to win a cruise for two. 706-546-0681, www. redcrossblood.org Athens Farmers’ Market Volunteers (Bishop Park) Looking for people willing to help out between 6:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. every Saturday through Nov. 14.

Volunteers usually get fresh vegetable donations from the farmers. donnhcooper@gmail.com BikeAthens Volunteers (UGA Campus) BikeAthens is going to be setting up a table with info about the organization at 16 freshman orientation resource fairs in June and July.

Volunteers are needed to help man the tables. chair@bikeathens.com Volunteer Gallery Sitters (ATHICA) ATHICA needs gallery sitters June 20–July 20. Visit www. athica.org/volunteer.php for info and email volunteers@athica.org to start.

Volunteers Needed (Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic) Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic is seeking volunteers interested in reading and recording textbooks for 90 minutes per week. 706-5491313, kstanley@rfbd.org Volunteers Needed (Athens Community Council on Aging) The Meals on Wheels Program seeks

dedicated volunteers to deliver hot meals to homebound seniors in Clarke County. Training is provided.

Volunteers must use own vehicles and are asked to commit to one day a week between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. 706-549-4850, meals@ accaging.org

KIDSTUFF Art Adventures: Folk Art (Various Locations) The Georgia Museum of Art is now registering for its third annual community outreach program. GMOA will host one-hour workshops for organized groups at local community organizations.

Children will learn about the subjects, techniques and materials folk artists use and create their own art.

June 15–July 17. FREE! 706-5424662, www.uga.edu/gamuseum Be Creative @ Your Library (ACC Library) Calling all young authors and illustrators. Seeking short stories to include in a book that will be added to the library’s collection.

Each child can submit one story up to four pages long. Participants will be invited to a book release party at the end of the summer. Ages 10 & under. Through July 30. FREE! 706613-3650 Belly Dancing Class (ACC Library) Clara Smith teaches the basics of belly dance. Wear comfortable clothing and bring a scarf to tie around your hips. Ages 11–18.

Tuesdays, June 16–30, 2–3 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 Canopy Summer Camp (Canopy Studio) Activities include trapeze, dance, gymnastics, art and more.

Starts June 6. $150 (one week), $250 (two weeks). 706-549-8501, info@canopystudio.com Creative Movement (Floorspace) Ongoing class for ages 3–5.

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

706-850-5557, lisayaconelli@ yahoo.com Cyber Camp (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Learn basic computer skills, typing skills, Internet safety, the history of computers and more. Guest speakers throughout the week. Register by July 24. July 27–31, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $11. 706-613-3603 EcoCamp (Georgia Nature Center— Watkinsville) Summer day camp for ages 4–16. Kids learn about solar power, organic farming, carnivorous plants and green building while exploring over 100 acres of fern grottos, springs, creeks and waterfalls.

Upcoming sessions: June 8–12, June 22–26, July 13–17 & July 27–31. $49–$199. 706-769-1000, www.ecocamp.org Garden Earth Nature Camp (State Botanical Garden) 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. $95. www.uga.edu/botgarden Invasion of the Forest Snatchers (Greenway) Learn how to identify invasive plants so you can fight the invasion at home.

All ages. Call to register. June 20, 9 a.m. Call for fees. 706-613-3614 Kids’ Art Camps (Good Dirt) Now registering for summer art camps. www.gooddirt.net. 706-355-3161 Movie-Making Workshop (ACC Library) Learn the basics of scripting, costuming, acting, production and editing. Everything you need to know to show your movie at library’s upcoming Teen Film Festival will be covered. Ages 11–18. June 8–12, 2–3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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 Ninja Scout Adventure Camp (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Curriculum blends ancient Asian arts, Native-American wisdom and African musical traditions. Ages 9–12. July 1–2, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $85. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden Summer Academy at UGA (UGA Campus) Now registering for its week-long summer programs for ages 11–17. This year’s offerings include Comic Book and Cartoon Art, Website Design, Secret Agent Camp, Film School and more. First camps begin June 1. $149–$349.

706-542-3537, www.georgiacenter. uga.edu/summeracademy Summer Art Camps (Blue Tin Studio—Studio C, 393 N. Finley Street) Teen Art Studio (June 15–19 & July 27–31), “Right Brain Rigor” for ages 5–7 (June 22–26 & July 13–17) and “Art Around the World” for ages 8–12 (July 6–10 & 20–24).

Registration ends June 10. $85 (includes supplies). 404-556-6884, www.bluetinstudio.com Summer Camp Junior Counselor Positions (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Positions allow adolescents ages 13–17 to build confidence, serve as a role model for younger children and learn new skills. Contact Cora Keber to apply. 706-542-6156 Summer Reading Program (ACC Library) Stop by to pick up your reading log and a list of summer events. Ages 11–18. FREE! 706-613-3650 Summer Stretch Camp (Full Bloom Center) Camp featuring children’s yoga, arts, gardening and more. summerstretch@gmail.com

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library “Forever Free: Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation,” a new traveling exhibition that traces Lincoln’s transformation from an antislavery moderate into “The Great Emancipator.” Through July 10.

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.

Big City Bread Cafe Mosaic artwork by J. Elizabeth Wright. Through June.

Ciné Barcafé Exhibit featuring work by recent MFA graduates Stacy Isenbarger and Erin McIntosh.

Through June 20.

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

Five Star Day Café Watercolors by Becca Edwards.

Through mid-June.

The Grit “Heavy Metal,” mixed-media work by Ben Venom of San Francisco, CA. Through June 21.

Healing Arts Centre “Reflections of Meditation,” featuring paintings by Scott Pridgen of DubConscious. Through June 14.

Ice House Underground (Madison) Exhibit featuring landscapes by Sam Traina, abstract work by Shannon Candler and paintings inspired by Norse mythology by Liselott Johnsson. Through Aug. 22.

Jittery Joe’s Coffee (Watkinsville) Floral photography by Don Byram. Through June 18. (Milledge Ave.) Photography by Matthew Coleman. (Baxter St.) Paintings by Lauren Harrell. Through June. (Barnett Shoals Rd.) Psychedelic drawings by Gabriel Ricks.

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Just Pho and More Silk paintings by Margaret Agner. Through June 15.

Last Resort Grill Photography by John Griffiths.

Through June.

Lyndon House Arts Center A selection of needlework and a five-panel tapestry depicting flora, fauna and natural wonders of the U.S. that was created over a period of 6 years by over 1,000 artists.

Sweet Pea Club Camp (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Programs involve puppet shows, storytelling, learning games, nature crafts and garden explorations. Ages 3–4. June 22–26, 9–11 a.m. $110. www.uga.edu/botgarden Swim School (Bishop Park) Now registering for lessons for levels I–V taught by an American Red Cross Certified Water Safety Instructor. Two sessions: June 16–July 2 & July 7–23. $33. 706-613-3589 Teen Art Contest (ACC Library) Any size and media (except sculpture) are accepted. Enter your three best pieces to be voted on by other teens. Through July 24. 706-6133650 Yoga Sprouts (Full Bloom Center) Fun, playful yoga for kids ages 2–6.

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

SUPPORT Mental Health Support Group (St. Mary’s Hospital) Meets in the lobby conference room.

Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. 706-7835706, www.athensmentalhealth.org

ON THE STREET ATHICA 4Lease (ATHICA) Dates available to use ATHICA’s 4Lease space for private summer parties, exhibits, etc. www.athica.org/4lease. php Woodall Grip Strength Challenge (St. Mary’s Wellness Center) Now registering for first annual multi-event competition for experienced male weightlifters ages 18 & up. $1,000 prizes for first place finishers. Entry fee is $100 and deadline is June 6. Competition on June 20. 706-389-3355, cwoodall@ stmarysathens.org f

Presented by the Dogwood chapter of the Embroiders’ Guild of America. Through July 18. “Light After Dark,” featuring a selection of dream-like landscapes by photographers Karekin and Ginger Goekjian. Through Aug. 15.

Madison-Morgan Cultural Center “The Houses of Madison: Pen and Ink Drawings,” featuring original works by Atlanta architect and artist Kemp Mooney. Through June 30. “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 Oil paintings by David Noah. Through June 17.

Marigold Cafe (Winterville) Abstract paintings by Meg McConnell. Through August.

Monroe Art Guild Stephanie Roberts photographically documents 365 days in a sequence in “Project 365: Daily Discoveries.” Through June 25.

Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation Annual Members’ Exhibit, featuring a diverse display of works, including sculpture, paintings, drawings, textiles, jewelry, pottery and photos, from a variety of skilled artists who are also OCAF members. June 5–30. Reception June 5.

Original Fine Art Gallery Paintings, photography and other work by local artists Susan Vaclavik, Angali Singh, Michael K. Fouche and more.

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

State Botanical Garden of Georgia “Out on a Limb: An Artful Journey,” an exhibit featuring traditional watercolors and funky mixed media works

by Judy Bolton Jarrett that focus on her love of trees.

June 7–19. Reception June 7.

Transmetropolitan (Oglethorpe Ave.) New paintings by Ainhoa Canup. Through June.

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.

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Real Estate Apartments for Rent 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. Call (706) 713-0626. $1275/mo. The Woodlands.

3BR/3BA. All amenities. W/D, Gated, Avail. Fall. Owner/Agent.

Call Mike (706) 207-7400. $485/mo. Quiet 1BR basement apt. in 5 Pts. Priv. entrance, off–street parking, W/D access, full kitchen. 1 block from the Waffle House in 5 Pts. Shared utils. & cable. Av a i l a b l e immediately. On Mor ton Ave. between Pinecrest Dr. & Milledge Ave. (706) 354-6039, if no answer call David (706) 254-2526.

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, 2 Blocks to town, Lg. separate BR, CHVAC, great view of city, ceiling fans, some screen porches.

Owner pays water & garbage. $ 4 7 5 – 5 2 5 / m o . Avail. for June, July or August move-in.

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1BR/1BA. Next to UGA. Walk to campus & Dwntn. HWflrs., A/C, some utils. incl. Free parking for residents. Cats OK, no dogs. $475–$500/mo. Call (706) 354-4261, 10am–2pm. Get a roommate & live w/ us!

1st mo. free or 1BR apts starting at $443.34, 2BRs $523.34, 3BRs $638.34. Move in May for free! Preleasing has begun!

Pet friendly, on busline. $150 dep. Call us today (706) 5496254. Restrictions apply.

2BR basement apt. 180 Moss Side Dr. Great rm. w/ FP. Priv. ent. $580/mo + utils. Washer & DW provided. Call (706) 2542526 or (706) 227-9312.

2BR duplexes starting at $450/ mo. (706) 549-6070.

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

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2BR/1BA duplex in North Place for lease. $450/mo. 1st mo. rent & dep. req’d. Pls. call (706) 4614556. Avail. 7/1.

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8/1. HWflrs, W/D, DW, ceiling fans, deck, amenities galore, convenient to everything. Call Matt at (706) 248-9088.

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2BR/2BA. $850/mo. Walk to UGA campus. Close to Alps Rd. shopping. All appls. incl.!

Contact Nicole for details or tour (770) 713-0601 or email dawgs0385@yahoo.com.

2BR/2BA on College Station.

Huge apt., FP, deck, lots of closets, DW, W/D, CHAC. Avail.

8/1. Pre–leasing. Pets OK. $575/mo. (706) 369-2908.

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

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

ValerioProperties.com.

3BR/2.5BA end–unit townhome off Cedar Shoals. Pets OK. Incl.

W/D. On bus route. Only $750/ mo. Now 1/2 off your first month’s Rent! Aaron (706) 207-2957.

3BR/2BA condo. Screened porch, tennis & pool in complex, no pets, NS. $800/mo. (706) 540-2818.

5BR/3.5BA. Very lg. Excellent condition. Complete paint, new carpet. Must see! Avail. Aug. Great price. $825/mo. Eastside bus line. Call (706) 548-2433.

A+ for Cleanliness!

Available immediately. Grad/ professional for 1BR half of historic house w/ private entrances. Front porch, fabulous view. CHAC, sm. fenced yd. 615 Pulaski. $660/mo.

(706) 548-3505.

Ask about $100 signing bonus! Located off S. Lumpkin, on Sleepy Creek Dr., near 5 Pts. All new carpet, tile & paint.

2BR/2BA w/ FP, storage & backyd. Sm. pets OK. $725/mo.

Ask about our 6 mo. lease! Call (404) 281-6273.

At Dwntn., walk to class, 2BR/1BA. Laundry, lg. deck w/ swing, CHAC. 185 S. Finley St., cobblestone st. the tree that owns itself. $595/mo. (706) 714-1100.

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

Best property in town!

Wo o d l a n d s o f A t h e n s .

3BR/3BA full of amenities. Gated community, great specials. Call Pete (706) 372-3319.

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

(706) 742-8555.

Clean, quiet 1BR basement apt. Kitchen, lv. rm, BR, BA, private entrance. Eastside family n’hood. 5 min. to UGA S. campus. No W/D. NS. $450/mo. incl. utils. & $300 sec. dep. Pet negotiable (706) 296-0273.

Close to Dwntn. 2BR/1BA apt. in house. HWflrs, DW, W/D, CHAC. $600/mo. Avail.

8/1. (706) 769-4779 or (706) 207-2001.

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

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

College Station 2BR/2BA. All appls + W/D, FP, xtra closet space, water/garbage incl. $575/mo. Owner/Agent (706) 340-2450.

Completely furnished. Daylight basement apt. Quiet, overlooks lake. 1400 sq. ft. Carpet. kitchen, bath. Oconee Co. No pets/smoking. Private entrance.

Dish network. All utils. $650/mo.

(706) 769-6208.

Duplex 2BR/1BA w/ all extras.

Very clean. 2 mi. north of Dwntn., just off Danielsville Rd. $500/mo.

Grad students & professionals welcome. (706) 254-0478.

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 apt. in heart of 5 Pts. 1BR/1BA. Lv. rm., & kitchen incl.

No pets. HWflrs. $500/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.

Remodeled townhome.

2BR/2.5BA. $650/mo. Barnett Shoals Rd. Private patio, W/D, DW, CHAC, HWflrs. No pets.

NS. Across from bus stop. (714) 270-8281.

South Milledge Area. Newly renovated. 4BR/2BA, W/D, DW, private fenced backyd. $1050/ mo. Pamela, Property Manager (706) 247-1805. Go to www. azevedoproperties.com to see listings. Bruce Azevedo, Inc. Studio & 1BR apts. for rent. $495-525/mo., utils. incl. On the bus line. W/D avail., remodeled, quiet complex. Call Katie (706) 202-4777.

Studio apts. Great location. 5 min. to Dwntn. & North campus. $400-$500/mo. + utils. Avail. 6/1.

(706) 548-1532.

Ve r y cool layout!

2–3BR/1.5BA apt. in quadraplex. 2 blocks from campus. 5 Pts. area. W/D, CHAC, nice patio. $825–$975/ mo. Pre–leasing. Avail. 8/1.

Pets OK. Call (706) 369-2908.

Walk to 5 Points. 2BR/2.5BA. W/D, FP, pool, pets OK w/ fee.

Close to dog park, on busline.

Outdoor patio. Great location! $750/mo. (706) 202-4777.

Westside condos. 2BR/2BA, $600/mo. 3BR/2BA, $700/ mo. Conver ted 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.

Windsor Place. 2BR/2BA. All appls. FP. $695/mo. Some pets allowed. (706) 540-0857.

Apartments for Sale $89,900. Studio 40.

1BR/1BA. Tile & HWflrs., DW. Courtyds, w/in walking distance to Ramsey Center! Also for rent.

Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty. (706) 372-4166, (706) 543-4000.

Commercial Property 4500 sq. ft. office/shop. 1.5BA, 3 12 ft. overhead doors. 4000 sq. ft. of out building storage.

2+ ac. fenced. Lexington, GA. $595/mo. (706) 549-9456.

8849 Macon Hwy, Athens. 2700 sq. ft. New HVAC. $1500/mo.

Ken (706) 614-8295.

P r i n c e Av e . O ff i c e . 2 level suite. 1K sq. ft. $800/ mo. Joiner Management (706) 353-6868.

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Amazing Office Spaces for lease above Dwntn Five Guys restaurant. No better location!

Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty (706) 3724166, or (706) 543-4000.

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.

Paint Artist Studio for rent.

300 sq. ft. $150/mo. 400 sq. ft. $200/mo. 160 Tracy St. Historic Boulevard Area, Artist/Crafts Community. (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 2BR/1BA duplex, off Beaverdam Rd. On the Eastside. All electric W/D hookups, DW, lg. wooded lot. $500/mo. 1 mo. dep. Call D.D. (770) 868-7198. $1000/mo. Wonderful 3BR/2BA, mins. to campus off North Ave. W/D incl., formal din. rm., FP in liv. rm., split BR plan, CHAC. NS. Some dogs OK. $500 dep.

Avail. 6/1. 131 Burgundy Court.

Call Allison (770) 605-3160. $1170/mo. $390/BR. 3BR/3BA. Close to UGA & Dwntn. Beautiful brick home. Pets OK. Avail. 8/5. $400 signing bonus or referral fee. Email info@deklerealty.com, or (706) 548-0580. $1460/mo. $365/BR. 4BR/4BA. Close to UGA & Dwntn. Beautiful brick home. Pets OK. Avail. 8/5. $400 signing bonus or referral fee. Email info@deklerealty.com, or call (706) 548-0580. $300–$400/BR. 3–5BR townhome on Eastside. Double porches, HWflrs., ceiling fans, DW, W/D, trash incl., & new pool. Now leasing! (706) 543-1910 or email becky@landmarkathens.com. $350 & up! 1BR, 2BR, & 3BR homes for lease. Just 1.5 mi. from UGA & Dwntn! Water & lawn maintenance incl. Call Dekle Realty (706) 548-0580. $395–$1800/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 char m, moder n amenities. Porches, & yds. Pet friendly. These go fast! Email for list: luckydawg96@yahoo.com.

$500 lease–signing bonus!

4BR/4BA. New construction, all appls. incl. $450/BR. A view of Dwntn. Off North Ave. Avail.

July. (706) 202-4648. $625/mo. 2 lg. BR/1BA. Blocks from campus & Dwntn. 12 ft. ceilings, W/D hookups.

Dead-end St. 145 Elizabeth St. Avail. now. Owner/Agent. Call Mike (706) 207-7400. $875/mo. 3 lg. BR/1.5BA. Blocks to campus & Dwntn. 12 ft. ceilings, HWflrs., W/D hookup, priv. 127 Elizabeth St. Avail. now. Owner/ Agent. Call Mike (706) 207-7400. $875/mo. 3BR/1BA. Spacious renovated 1880s farmhouse on fenced ac. lot. 16 ft. ceilings, HWflrs, W/D, porches. 1/2 mi. from Dwntn & campus. Pets OK w/ dep. Avail. 7/1. (912) 655-5550 or email callinectes_ sapidus@hotmail.com. $895/mo. 4BR/1.5BA. CHAC, W/D, lg. kitchen, quiet & safe n’hood, Eastside, 10 min. to UGA. Avail. now. 117 Crossbow Circle. Owner/Agent, Call Mike at (706) 207-7400.

1, 2, 3BR houses. Pre–leasing for fall. Close to UGA & Dwntn.

Call (706) 255-0066.

1305 Cedar Shoals. $121,900. 2BR/2BA condo. Call Reign (706) 372-4166.

175 Glen Haven. 3BR/1.5BA. Pre–leasing. Total electric. Oak flrs., CHAC, W/D, DW. Fenced yd. w/ deck. Close to Dwntn.

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

175 Sylvan Dr. 3BR/1BA home w/ great location near ARMC. $850/mo. Newly painted BRs. Avail. now! Pls. call (706) 5401810, (706) 433-2072, or email cbolen@upchurchrealty.com.

1 8 0 O ’ F a r re l l . 2–3BR.5 Pts. house. Great location, near UGA Baseball Field, lg. rambling house. $1300/mo. Go to www.boulevard​property​ m a n a g e m e n t . c o m . Call today (706) 548-9797.

1BR Cottage in Boulevard area. Fully remodeled. Incl. DW & W/D hookups. $695/mo. Call (706) 546-6900 or go to www.

ValerioProperties.com.

1BR huge apartment i n h i s t o r i c B o u l e v a rd 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, 3, 4, 5BR units starting at $550/mo. w/ $250 dep. Units incl.

W/D, DW, FP. Call for locations & avail. Email tappproperties@aol. com, (706) 224-3098.

226 Johnson Dr. Behind Carmike.

S t e l l a r re n t a l ! Bamboo & tile flrs., all new appls, W/D. 2BR/1BA. $850/mo. Avail. now!

Pets OK. Call (706) 340-5054.

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 & 1BR/1BA apts.

Great in-town n’hood. Walk everywhere. Water & garbage paid. $490-$695/mo. Check o u t b o u l e v a r d ​p r o p e r t y​ management.com or call (706) 548-9797.

2BR/1BA Woody Drive. Newly renovated duplexes, beautifully landscaped, quiet dead–in street, perfect for everyone.

Timothy school zone & close to every shopping need. (706) 5489797 or boulevard​property​ management.com.

2BR/1BA Blvd. area duplex.

Energy efficient, total electric, recently renovated, W/D, DW, HVAC, shared fenced yd, some pets OK. Avail. as early as 6/1 or as late as 8/1. Lease, dep., ref. req’d. $650/mo. Call (706) 227-6000.

2BR/1BA cute cottage w/ front porch. CHAC, near UGA. Avail 8/1. $800/mo. Also, ask about 2 other available houses.

Call (706) 354-1276 or (706) 540-7812.

2BR/1BA duplex on Willow Run near ARMC. Incl. W/D hookups, DW, CHAC. $675/ mo. Call (706) 546-6900 or go to www.ValerioProperties. com.

2BR/1BA house on King Ave. $800/mo. W/D, CHAC, DW HWflrs. Close to campus, ARMC, & Dwntn. Sm. pets OK. Great roommate floor plan. Avail.

6/1. Wes (678) 770-0127.

2BR/1BA in Five Points.

HWflrs, tile BA, W/D. Great locations. 12 & 14 Milledge Ct. $625/mo. (70 6 ) 5489797 or boulevard​p roperty ​management.com.

2BR/1BA. 1.5 mi from Dwntn.

Complete renovation. HWflrs., HVAC, W/D, new appls! Lg. fenced yd. Avail. 8/1. Pets OK. $800/mo. + dep. (864) 901-9949.

2BR/1BA. 2790 Danielsville Rd. Wooded. Wide porch. CHAC, W/D hookup. Wood flrs., fenced yd., lawncare incl. $600/mo. + dep. (706) 546-5390, lv. msg.

2BR/1BA. 2895 Danielsville Rd. Wooded. Wide porch. CHAC, W/D hookup. Wood flrs., fenced yd., lawncare incl. $600/mo. + dep. (706) 546-5390, lv. msg.

2BR/1BA. Boulevard D i s t r i c t on Virginia Ave. Gorgeous, spacious house.

HWflrs, porch, A/C, W/D. $1040/ mo. Avail. 8/1, possibly sooner.

Valerio Properties (706) 5466900, or (706) 425-0122.

2BR/1BA. HWflrs., CHAC, W/D, fenced yd. Pets ok w/ dep. Avail.

6/1. 136 Sylvia Circle. $680/mo.

Sec. dep. req’d. Dorian (706) 340-7136.

2BR/2.5BA townhome for rent on Westside. Lg. lv. & din. rm.

W/D. Ample storage. Private back patio w/ grill & lg. shared backyd. Avail. 7/1. Call (773) 805-5780.

2BR/2.5BA. 256 Appleby Mews. Poolside, W/D, DW, porch, lg. BRs, on Oconee Hill close to Mama’s Boy & the Greenway! Lots of room for little money. $675/mo.

(706) 548-9797.

2BR/2BA house in town. $850/ mo. Forest Heights n’hood.

Deck, fenced backyd, pet OK w/ dep. W/D, DW. Enclosed garage/shop. Avail. 8/1, possibly earlier. (770) 725-5657.

2BR/2BA. 1.5 mi. from UGA. Kitchen, din. rm., liv. rm., laundry rm., fenced backyd. w/ deck.

W/D & fridge incl. $800/mo.

(706) 342-2788, (706) 461-5541.

2–3BR/1BA. 1/2 mile to campus. Fenced backyd., HWflrs., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Pre–leasing. Avail. 8/1. $850–$975/mo. Won’t last! (706) 369-2908.

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/1.5BA. HWflrs., CHVAC, W/D. University Heights on Eastside. On busline, convenient to East Campus. $950/mo. Call Dave (706) 201-9222.

3BR/1BA. Non–smoking home.

5 min. from UGA. CHAC, W/D. $900/mo. No pets. Great location. Avail. 8/1. (706) 3381859, email bro@athens.net.

3BR/2BA house. Cedar creek subdivision. Fenced backyd., gas grill attached to sundeck, FP, wooded lot. Quiet family n’hood.

Swimming community. 360 Sandstone Dr. Avail. 7/1. $1025/mo + dep. (706) 319-1846, or (706) 548-4819. GA. R, E, lic. 300830.

3BR/2BA remodeled home w/ bonus rm. $1200/mo. 1 mi. from Dwntn Athens. 3BR/1BA home. $750/mo. 3 mi. from Dwntn Athens (706) 613-7242.

3BR/2BA. Tiled, CHAC, W/D, DW, HWflrs, in–town, fenced yd., pets OK, carport, $960/mo. + dep. 260 Sunset Dr. Avail.

8/1. (706) 424-9127 or email dmarklevitt@hotmail.com.

4BR/2 tile BA. Beautiful lg.

Victorian. CHAC, W/D, DW, 10 ft. ceilings w/ fans, porches, FP, fenced yd., stainless appls. 550 Cobb St. No undergrads, must see. $1580/mo. + dep. Avail.

8/1. Email dmarklevitt@hotmail. com, 706-424-9127.

4BR/2.5BA beautiful plantation house on 3 acres. High ceilings, HWflrs., lg. kit. & rooms w/ a country setting. Front porch, screen porch & rear sun room.

Pets welcome. 3–sided fence.

990 Double Bridges Rd. Avail.

6/1. $1200/mo. + dep. (706) 319-1846, or (706) 548-4819.

GA. R, E, lic. 300830.

4BR/3BA. Boulevard area, 686 1/2 Barber St., DW, W/D HWflrs., screened porch, lg. r ms., renovated old church. Some pets OK. Avail. 8/1. $1395/ mo. Lease, dep., ref’s. (706) 227-6000.

4BR/4BA brand new houses Dwntn & 5 Pts. Awesome locations! W/D incl. Now preleasing for Fall 09. $1700-1800/ mo. Call Aaron (706) 207-2957.

4BR/4BA brick home. Spacious BR w/ full BA. HVAC. Full kit., deck, lawn/pest control. W/D incl. $860/mo. (404) 274-0948.

4BR/4BA house. $900 s p e c i a l ! 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.

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.

5BR/3BA Cottage + study. CHAC, HWflrs, front porch & back deck, DW, W/D, micro, & alarm system. 1 mi. t o d o w n t o w n ! Av a i l . A u g .

(706) 543-1910 or becky@ landmarkathens.com. $370$400/BR. Call about our rent specials!

A+ for Cleanliness!

August or September occupancy. 1BR house w/ 2 porches. Hand painted murals.

Fenced yd. 538 Pulaski. $725/ mo. (706) 548-3505. (706) 548-3505.

Adorable 3BR/2.5BA house w/ fenced yard, 1–car garage, 1700 sq. ft. on .5 ac. Lawn care incl.

Lots of storage, nice deck. W/D, DW, CHAC. 6 mi. from UGA in quaint Winterville on Twin Lane.

Avail. now or for fall move in. $1100/mo. Call April (706) 549-5006, & go to www. athenscondosales.com.

All Around Athens & near Campus! 267 Atlanta Ave. 3BR/1BA, $675/mo. 1 0 9 5 M a c o n H w y. , 2 B R / 1 B A , $675/mo. 739 Beaverdam Rd. 3BR/ 2BA, $895/mo. 276 Oak Meadows, 3BR/2BA, $995/mo. 129 Oak Park Ct., 2BR/1.5BA, $550/mo. 5 9 7 Dearing St. off Milledge.

4BR/2BA, $1495/mo. 105 Whitehall Rd., 2BR/1BA, $675/mo. 445 N Main St. Winter ville, 2BR/1BA, $675/mo. (706) 546-7946, Flowersnancy@bellsouth.net.

See vir tual tours www. nancyflowers.com.

Avail. Aug! 3 & 4 Bedroom Cottages. Close to campus!

Features incl. DW, W/D, private BAs, pool! $450–$485/BR. Call (706) 543-1910 or email becky@landmarkathens.com.

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

(706) 338-6716.

Avail. 8/1. 2BR duplex on quiet wooded lot. Eastside. CHAC. Pets upon approval. $445/mo.

10, 11, or 12 month lease available. Tom (404) 314-1177.

Available August 1st. Half historic house. professional or graduate. 1BR. CHAC, porch w/ view. Spotless! 615A Pulaski.

(706) 548-3505. Lv. msg.

Available Now. Eastside 3BR/2BA, large bedrooms, deck. Recently fully renovated.

120 Woody Lane. $825/mo.

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

Best rentals in Athens!

1–5BR houses, apts., condos.

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

Brand new 4BR/3BA homes. On Barber St., less than 1 mi. from UGA/Dwntn. 10 ft. ceilings. Bamboo HWflrs. & custom tile throughout, granite countertops, stainless appls, Internet/phone in every BR. Lg. flr. plan. $1600/mo. lease/dep.

(706) 207-9906.

B r i n g h o r s e s . 3BR/2BA modular home on 5 ac., 5 mi.

NW of loop. Incl. 2–stall barn in paddock. Avail. 6/1. $750/mo.

Owner/Broker (706) 340-4619.

Close to Dwntn. Apt. in house.

3BR/1BA w/ alarm sys. Nice side yd. HWflrs, DW, W/D, CHAC. $800/mo. Avail. 8/1. (706) 7694779 or cell (706) 207-2001.

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

Cobbham. 3–4BR, 3 full BA. HWflrs, CHAC, Sm. pets OK. Avail. now! 1 yr. lease & sec. dep. $1700/mo. Call (706) 224-9307.

East Athens. Remodeled 2BR/1BA house on cul–de–sac.

CHAC, extra insulation, ceiling fans. Deck. Pet OK. Avail. 6/1. $675/mo. Free water & garbage.

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3BR/3BA Eastside. Quiet n’hood. $1100/mo. All appls.

213 Springtree St. Avail 8/1.

(706) 713-0626.

3–4BR/4BA house. Great location! Walk to Dwntn. $1400/ mo. All appls. 200 MLK Jr. Pkwy.

Avail. 8/1. (706) 713-0626.

3–4BRs. 340 Barber, 255 Boulevard Heights, 390 Pound Street, 180 O’Farrell, 135 Garden Court, 160 Gilmer, 135 Glencrest, 1321 Dowdy Road. Check out these great houses online at boulevard​property​management. com or call (706) 548-9797.

4BR/2BA renovated victorian home. 1/2 mi. from campus. W/D, DW, fenced yd., HWflrs, $1350/ mo. Huge rooms! Lots of character. Pre–leasing. Avail.

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

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Duplex for rent. 2BR/1.5BA. Fenced yd. Sleepy Creek Dr. near UGA, Memorial Park & Birchmore Tr. W/D, DW, CHAC. Avail. Aug. $725/mo. Call April (706) 549-5006, go to www. athenscondosales.com.

Winterville. $900/mo + utils.

3BR/1.5BA fenced yd. Covered deck, private. 10 min to UGA. Dep. req’d. No pets. (706) 2553144. Lv. msg.

Duplex for rent. 2BR/1.5BA. Jolly Lane in Sleepy Hollow Subdivision.

Near UGA, Memorial Park & Birchmore Trail. W/D, DW, CHAC. Avail Aug. $715/mo. Call April (706) 549-5006, go to www. athenscondosales.com.

1 8 5 P o p l a r. $ 2 2 4 , 9 3 6 .

3BR/1.5BA. In–town classic Artisan home Call Reign (706) 372-4166.

Excellent renovated 4BR/3BA. 1/2 mi. to campus. Lots of character! Big rms. DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Pre–leasing, Avail. 8/1. $1400/mo. Call (706) 369-2908.

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 w w w.

ValerioProperties.com.

Great 4BR/4BA houses. Live next to your buddies! 1/2 mi. from campus. Front porch, back deck, nice yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Pre–leasing Avail.

8/1. $1200/mo. (706) 369-2908.

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

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

Next to UGA. 836 Church St. 2BR brick duplex. All appls. Avail. 8/1. $650/mo. Owner/Broker Herbert Bond at (706) 224-8002.

Nor maltown/ARMC. 180 Willow Run. Very nice, 3BR/1BA. HWflrs, DW, W/D, CHAC. Lg. fenced backyd. Pets OK w/ dep. Avail. now. $900/mo. (404) 210-7145.

Northside 2BR/1BA, lg. lot, $600/mo. Hospital area, Fenced–in yd. Avail. June. $800/ mo. Eastside 3BR/2BA. Lg. yd., on dead–end street. $1100/mo.

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

Pre-leasing for Fall! Walk to campus! 2 & 3BRs from $625/ mo. W/D, DW, priv. deck, pets welcome. Mention this ad & pay no pet fee! (706) 548-2522, www.dovetailmanagement.com.

Prime location. 5 min. from Dwntn. & North campus. 1, 2 & 3BR houses. $800-$1050/mo. + utils.

Avail. 6/1 or 8/1. (706) 548-1532.

Two 2BR/1BA houses on Virginia Ave., HWflrs, W/D hookups, flexible move–in. $950-$1040/mo. Call (706) 546-6900 or go to w w w.

ValerioProperties.com.

Westside off Whitehead.

3BR/2BA. 2 car garage, formal dining rm. $147K. Purchase or $1100/mo. lease. (706) 3543212 or (757) 576-1706.

Houses for Sale

2BR/2.5BA Huntington Place townhouse. Near Mall. All appls remain incl. W/D. All electric. Very good condition. Avail. now! $98K. Call for details, (706) 613-9466.

3BR/2BA house. Beechwood, 5 Pts. area. HWflrs, new appls. $335K. (706) 254-4343.

FSBO. 1BR studio condo. Main St. Athens. Private & secure. $94,900. (706) 474-1101.

Historic Blvd n’hood. 224 Dubose. Meticulously maintained 4BR/2BA. New kitchen, new paint. HWflrs, pressed tin ceiling.

Walk to Dwntn/UGA. $424,900.

Patrick (706) 614-8007, go to www.fullcircleathens.com.

New Construction Underway. 3BR/2BA. 1600 sq. ft. Frame house on Hebel block foundation. All the goods: Tile, HWflrs, IKEA Kitchen, energy efficient, metal roof, lots of storage rm. & more! Pulaski Heights near Downtown.

Builder will customize for buyer! $209,900. Call Drew at (706) 202-2712 or Christy at CJ&L at (706) 559-4520.

O w n y o u r o w n re n t a l property! 139 & 143 Strickland Ave. 4BR/3BA on each side of duplex. Entire duplex for $359,800. 1 side for rent $1600/ mo. Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty (706) 372-4166, or (706) 543-4000.

T h e N e w I n To w n !

Remodeled 3BR/2BA bungalow, HWflrs, screened–in porch, slate patio, tin roof, separate garage, walk to shopping & restaurants.

Call Melinda at Benny Payne Realty (706) 540-0606, www. homesinathens.com.

Roommates 1 B R / 1 B A w / s t u d y. S h a re kitchen. Utils incl. Parking. Free wireless/Tivo! Totally furnished.

Safe, quiet, close to UGA. Priv. entrance/deck. $600/mo. neg.

Avail. 6/1. (706) 296-6956.

2 roommates needed 3BR/2.5BA condo at Milledge Place. UGA Athens busline. $300/mo. + 1/3 power bill. 3–5 min drive to campus.

Swimming pool. (909) 957-7058.

Christian F seeks roommate to share townhouse. Call (706) 202-1553.

F roommate needed to share cute 3BR/2BA house on Odd St. Grad student/working professional. W/D, DW, CHAC. 1 yr. lease. $525/mo + utils. Avail.

6/20. Pet OK. (706) 614-6331.

Great rm. w/ lg. closet in nice house. HWflrs, WiFi, CHAC, W/D, DW, screened–in porch.

Avail. now! $340/mo. + 1/3 utils.

(706) 254-2991.

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Roommates needed. Awesome house. Avail. 8/1. Huge rms, 12’ ceilings fans, HWflrs, HVAC, multiple entrances. 2 kitchens, 2 full BAs. W/D provided.

Graduate student/professional.

(706) 424-0901.

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.

Rooms for Rent

Miscellaneous

1 rm. avail. now in 3BR/1BA house. AMRC/Normaltown. W/D, DW, CHAC, lg. backyd, short walk to Dwntn. $333/mo. + cable & wireless. (205) 239-7281.

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

Charming country house. Fully furnished. 2BR’s avail. Female only. 15 min. from UGA, 5 min. from Athens Tech. $275/BR incl. utils./Internet access. W/D, DW, renovated kitchen. No pets.

(706) 369-1659.

Mature student to share luxury condo at The Woodlands.

B e a u t i f u l g ro u n d s , s p o r t s mecca, pets OK. Conscientious land lady. $450/mo. (706) 7147600, madelienevandyck@ gmail.com.

Rms. for rent. $380/mo. 1 yr. lease in BR/4BA house starting July. Private pool, huge home.

3.2 mi. from Dwntn. Call Dan (805) 450-4130.

Roommate to live in 2BR/1BA near campus. CHAC, private garden, fish pond, no pets.

I spend about 4–6 wks a yr., mostly summers, in Athens. 450/ mo. plus utils. Room available mid-July (possibly earlier). email: coverdev00@gmail.com

Sub-lease 1BR/1BA avail. in a 3BR house in Cobbham district. Walk to campus & Dwntn. Fully furnished! Avail. 6/1–7/31. $466/ mo. Call (404) 384-1309.

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.

Blvd area. 2BR/2BA sublease for June/July. W/D, Front/back porches. Meows OK. $850/mo.

(904) 994-4764 or kespilman@ gmail.com asap. Love you.

For Sale Antiques A n t i q u e f re n c h & e n g l i s h furniture, fine estate jewelry, oriental rugs, stain glass windows, original oil paintings, watercolors, fabulous quilts, sterling silver, designer clothing.

(706) 340-3717.

Businesses Dwntn Clothing Store for Sale. $50K OBO! Owner financing avail. Very well known business.

(770) 634-8241.

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

Deadlines every Monday at 11am.

Yard Sales Large Estate Sale. Sat. 6/6 & Sun. 6/7, 8:00am–dusk.

Antiques, fur niture, appls, electronics, clothing, books, collectibles. Lots more! 925 Cleveland Rd., 30622.

Music Equipment Alvarez Stage Acoustic Rosewood fretboard. Mahogany back w/ case. $500. (706) 351-9391.

Ask about our Run–till– Sold rate. Lowest classified ad rate in town! Call (706) 5490301 or submit your ad through www.flagpole.com. Restrictions may apply.

New Fender Highway 1 Jazz Bass (Sunburst) w/ Peavey Max. 115 Bass amp + accessories. $950. (706) 850-0992.

Instruction Athens School of Music.

Instruction in Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Voice, Brass, Woodwinds, Strings, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, & more. From beginner to expert. Instrument repairs avail. (706) 543-5800.

Guitar lessons taught by college guitar instructor. All styles. 18 yrs. exp. Students have won several guitar competitions.

1st lesson free. Composition/ theory & bass lessons too. David Mitchell, (706) 546-7082 or www. mitchellmusicguitar.com.

Musicians Wanted Songwriter/guitarist seeking guitarist/bassist for something new. If you like both Dylan & Smashing Pumpkins, call (706) 797-3284.

Wanted: dedicated bassist for original touring rock band.

Dates already booked in Atlanta, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, NYC, etc. Call Carey (803) 292-8387.

Furniture

Services

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.

Classical Guitar, DJ Services.

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

F r e t S h o p . P ro f e s s i o n a l guitar repairs & modifications, setups, electronics, precision fretwork. Previous clients incl.

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

Guitar Repair, setups, electronics & fretwork by 20 yr. pro. Thousands of previous clients. Proceeds help benefit N u ç i ’s S p a c e . C o n t a c t Jeff, (404) 643-9772 or www.

AthensGuitar.com for details.

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

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

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

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

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

Home and Garden Backyard Solutions.

Make your neighbors jealous!

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

UberPrints.com is hiring!

Growing web company based in Athens/Watkinsville is looking for talented & motivated individuals to join our team. We have openings in our Customer Service, Production Art, & Graphic Design Dept. Great work environment!

Visit www.uberprints.com/jobs to learn more about the positions & application process.

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

Void in MD & SD. (AAN CAN).

Dependable person needed during the evening hrs. helping a young man confined to a wheelchair. In exchange for free rent in apt., food, utils. & other amenities. Call (706) 316-2798 or (706) 549-9456.

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

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

Movie extras needed. Earn $150 to $300 per day. All looks, types & ages. Feature films, television, commercials & print. No exp. necessary. (800) 340-8404 x2001 (AAN CAN) Now hiring! Companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home.

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

Post Office now hiring. Avg. pay $21/hr. or $54K annually incl. federal benefits & OT. Paid training, vacations. PT, FT. (866) 945-0295 (AAN CAN).

Part-time

Silver Lining Home Services.

Maintenance, repair, installation, custom design & more. Jobs sm. & lg. Call Stephen (706) 410-8222.

FT/PT help. Must be college student or graduate. Need clean driver license. Asst. Mgr. Good pay/hrs. Call (678) 283-6035.

Start immediately.

Tutors

Mystery shoppers earn up to $100/day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments. No exp. req’d.

(800) 743-8535.

Prof. writer/instructor avail. for tutoring, or editing high school, undergrad, graduate students & non-students. All genres. Fiction, non-fiction, dramatic writing.

(706) 543-9330.

Your Personal Tutor/Editor. PhD candidate (ABD) will help you w/ English skills: class papers, applications, proposals, resumes. Bring ‘em on! Excellent rates. gradams2@hotmail.com or (706) 614-1035.

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

Vehicles Autos 1995 Volvo 850 4 door sedan.

New battery. Runs well. Asking $2500 OBO. Call Mon.–Fri. (706) 769-8334.

Nissan Frontier. Red, 4–door, 2006. 6–speed, 38K. AC, AM/FM, CD. PS/PB, power windows, power sunroof, fog lights, running boards, locking tailgate. $15,700 OBO. (706) 248-1441.

Notices Organizations

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

Bell Acres Nudist Resor t.

45 min. from Athens. Call (800) 432-1436 or visit www. bellacres.com.

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.

Leaving town? Don’t know how to get your weekly Flagpole fix? Subscribe! $35 for 6 months, $55 for a yr.! Call (706) 549-9523.

Messages

everyday people Cornel Novac, Barista/ Student/ Techno Producer Born in the Soviet state (now independent country) of Moldova in 1981, Cornel Novac came to the United States just before the turn of the millennium through a full scholarship to a small liberal arts school in Sewanee, TN. At the University of the South he pursued his two main passions, politics and music, through different channels: he was music director and then general manager of the school’s radio station while he finished his degrees in political science and German. Although he spent two years at a political thinktank after graduating, he decided to pursue his inclination towards music further and moved to Athens in 2005.

As a DJ and producer, Cornel goes by the alias of “Jena Paradies.” Although music is currently his main focus, he hasn’t shunned politics: he’s working on a Master’s degree in international affairs at UGA, though he says he’s taking his time. I spoke with Cornel as he tapped on a well-worn laptop outside of the College Square Starbucks, where he works to support himself and his budding techno career.

FP: What’s the work ethic like for a techno producer?

CN: …You know how they say you make great art on an empty stomach? That is a complete lie… I know what it’s like not to have a full stomach, I just got through a really tough winter in Athens, you know… it’s tough, we live in a town where the population is overqualified and underemployed. And that’s my case, just like any other person’s case… so, that’s all I ask for is hours, is work.

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FP: So, a scholarship brought you from Moldova to Tennessee, but what brought you to Athens?

CN: Part of the attraction of Athens was its reputation as a music haven. That’s kinda why I moved here.

What happened to me was that music that I’m into [laughs] does not have a big audience or support base in Athens. So, like, right now I kinda live outside of the musical community, although I do what I do on my own—I work with a community in New York that’s very serious about techno music… Wolf + Lamb, it’s a tiny record label. I did their first label mix in August… they [were] named label of the month in Resident Advisor, which is the leading world publication on techno.

FP: You don’t miss the interpersonal contact of a real, physical community?

CN: Oh, of course I do. Because dance music is music for the body and the soul—a lot of the music community around me [is] sort of cerebral or tries to forge an intellectual sort of connection with the music. To me, it goes beyond that… the act of dancing, involving your body, feeling the groove, feeling the vibe. These are concepts that I’ve never really had a grasp of before I started listening to a lot of dance music. And I decided that I love it, you know?

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FP: Do you consider yourself Romanian?

CN: I consider myself Romanian. My family was one of the first sort of wave of families that, once Moldova declared independence—there was a lot of turmoil going on—we got Romanian citizenship, which was basically an option that if things go sour in Moldova, we [could] probably move.

FP: How do you deal with not having an audience here?

CN: …When I applied to school, I was living in Moldova. And I applied to school via the Internet, and I got a full scholarship to attend an American university. That changed my life—that’s why I’m here now. Now, if I love something, a kind of music that doesn’t exist in my physical vicinity, there’s not much of a struggle to be an active member of whatever community you choose, because you have the Internet.

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FP: Have you gotten the Athens vibe of antipathy towards this particular Starbucks location?

Michelle Gilzenrat

Flagpole: What brought you here from Moldova?

Cornel Novac: Moldova was the first country in Europe that re-elected the Communist Party [after the USSR fell]. It was a terrible, terrible mistake. But when it happened for the first time, that’s when me and my family… we realized it was time to leave. So, my brother went to France, my parents stayed for a little while, I got into school in the United States, moved here, and have been here ever since. …The sad thing about Moldova is—and Moldova should be known as the poorest country in Europe, not Albania—is that it’s a landlocked plot of land with no natural resources besides agriculture… it’s kind of a lawless black hole at this point… Moldova before the ’90s has always been a part of Romania. It has [an] 80 percent Romanian population.

FP: How did you get into techno music?

CN: I spent some time in Berlin in my junior year of college, because I was also a German major… I discovered techno at some point at 6 a.m. in the morning in [a club called] Tresor, in this cube made out of concrete—it used to be a bank vault—I was stuck in this cube, listening to this DJ named Pacou, and he was playing this relentless, punishing set, and at some point it kind of clicked. I was like, “Something’s going on here.” First it all sounds the same, then you fall into the groove, you know?

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 • 9pm CN: I know all about it, I’ve read about it, I’ve heard about it… but I do love working at this particular location. We’re all about helping each other out, as any place in town.

FP: Do you have a pet peeve?

CN: Yes—apathy. I think that’s what hurts people the most… the experience that I had growing up in Moldova is that [it’s] the kind of place where if you’re different, you’ll be beaten down to a level where you’re not different anymore.

Apathy is even worse than that… it’s something when people just don’t care, and don’t want to know… that affects me more than I feel like it should… People not being able to tell you what the capital of Iraq is, that kind of shit just kinda gets to me.

COMING SOON

Jeff Gore

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