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pub notes Make it Simple Well, let’s trot out Clay Cosby and Dave Jenkins again. They were working for the McCommons store back when that communist, socialist Franklin D. Roosevelt destroyed this country forever through forced participation in Social Security. No choice: if you worked, you were covered, and the money to pay for it was taken out of your pay. Period. Rich and poor alike, though of course the rich only paid on part of their pay, same as today.

When he got the paperwork all set up and took that first Social Security deduction our of their pay, Clay and Dave came running to my father and complained mightily. Didn’t want no Social Security money taken out of their pay. Didn’t want no Social Security. Didn’t need no Social Security. My father told me that story many years later, and he concluded, “They’re both living off Social Security right now.”

I think about Dave and Clay every time I hear somebody say they don’t want no government health insurance program. The difference is that I can understand Dave and Clay not wanting to sacrifice part of their small earnings for some far-off future need they can’t imagine ever needing. It’s harder to understand somebody not wanting a new health insurance program where the government guarantees coverage for those who need it. That’s not pie in the sky by and by: that’s better health right now for the most of us who don’t have insurWhat we have here is ance or have inadequate the proven formula that insurance at killer prices and those of us in busienough money spent ness who are helping our wisely can convince employees shoulder this staggering load. people to vote against What we have here their own best interests. is the proven formula that enough money spent wisely can convince people to vote against their own best interests. We see it all the time. We’ve seen it as far back as the snake-oil salesmen in the circus and further back to ancient Greece, where the Sophists, for a price, were trained to make “the lesser appear the better cause.”

Of course, it doesn’t take a lot to hide the pea from our American people, because most of the time we’re not paying attention. There were a few days last week when there was actually some public discussion of the new health care plan.

That was right after the week-long preoccupation with Michael Jackson’s death and right before the uproar over President Obama calling stupid police tactics stupid. Then in the midst of that hubbub, it became apparent that Congress would put off dealing with health care for now, giving us plenty of time to get distracted by whatever other shiny new things pop up next while being bombarded with all the clever, doubt-raising ads that make us wonder why, gosh, anybody would want to mess with this wonderful health insurance program we have now, the same one enjoyed by Jesus.

They say the new health-care plan before Congress is 1,200 pages long, and I haven’t even read page one, so I don’t know anything about it. I trust the President I helped elect to know what he’s trying to do. In my ignorance, though, I wish two things. I wish he would quit trying to play ball with the Republicans and with the sold-out Democrats. They have stated and they have proven that they have absolutely no intention of helping the President reform health care or trying to do it themselves. They are merely fighting any kind of change from the present status quo that funds their elections at the expense of the American people.

I also believe the President erred further by not going straight for a single-payer national health program like Medicare. We can understand that simple, proven model.

The Republicans and special-interest Democrats are going to oppose it anyway; quit trying to placate them. Make it real and make it simple. Make them choose for or against the American people.

Be bold! Congress has already signaled its intent to gut the bill and then defeat it. Take advantage of the delay until September; re-tool it into a simple, single-payer, Medicare-type program and come out swinging. Go directly to the American public with a plan that can be understood by everybody: by people like Dave and Clay and me.

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city dope Athens News and Views Health Care Here and Now: If it’s Wednesday, July 29 and you’re already reading this fishwrapper, keep in mind that tonight’s the night for the “Health Care Town Hall” hosted by Organizing for America—Athens, downtown at Ciné. The casual part of the event (with food!) begins at 5 p.m., and the party later may go on all night, but the heart of the program is the panel-discussion-and-more running from 7–9 p.m. Panelists include Mayor Davison, Athens Regional hospital CEO Jack Drew, other local health professionals and a UGA prof too.

Learn more and RSVP at http://ofarsvp.us, and keep an eye out for more activity from these organizers this fall. City Dope, meantime, will remain optimistic that the recent perfect game thrown by a pitcher for Obama’s own White Sox will turn out in the end to have been an omen of success in the President’s health-care push. This is America, right?

More Sports-’n-Politics: It is one thing to prognosticate politically based on such stories as sports’, but it is another purposefully to drag matters of such importance into the political realm. Of course, City Dope wonders how much forethought went into state Senator John Douglas’s recent pronouncement to the city council in his town, nearby Social Circle, that he wants to see about bringing the Georgia-Florida game to Athens as economic leverage in the ongoing tri-state water war. Either way, the idea’s stupidity caught it an editorial page headline or two across the state last week for columns which were quick to point out how much benefit the Jacksonville game brings to southeast Georgia, as well as how counterproductive the idea’s raw unneighborliness is. In the broad view, the little anecdote is another reality check for us Georgians on the level of political sophistication with which our state legislators operate: good tidings for the future of the water wars, eh?

market itself in the business category, and to ACC Commissioner Doug Lowry for advocacy.

Lowry highlighted the link between greenspace preservation and robust local farms even in campaigning for his District 1 seat three years ago, so it’s good to see him recognized now—and, perhaps, encouraged to put those thoughts more firmly into policy.

While on the topic, City Dope owes his sincere thanks to all who’ve constructively participated in the recent discussion on Flagpole’s Letters page and at Flagpole.com about the market and, well, coffee. On the plus side, this difficult conversation has been a needed one as Athens’ local food scene continues to grow, and it is to the great credit of farmers’ market board members, 1000 Faces Coffee, Jittery Joe’s and many of our readers for respectfully realizing such—even in the face of the pointless nastiness which made its way into the conversation, as so often happens on that dang old internet.

The Downtown Dish: It looks to be worth marking your calendars for the Federation of Neighborhoods meeting on Monday, Aug. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the old Fire Hall No. 2, corner of Prince Avenue and Hill Street.

And Then There’s the Guv: But if we can rag on legislators for their approach to water matters, it’s Governor Sonny Perdue who takes the cake for both diplomacy and leadership. Capitol Impact’s Tom Crawford reported July 23 that the Guv “said Sure, it’s been pictured in this space before, but it’s one of flatly Thursday he will not ask the those little local things worth celebrating: ACC crews are back General Assembly to pass any legislation that would require more efforts by at work unearthing the old brick sidewalks along Hancock Avenue just west of downtown. The sidewalks look great, too. businesses and individuals to reduce their consumption of water from Lake Lanier.” One email forwarder of Crawford’s The topic of the night’s panel discussion article aptly likened Perdue’s stance to that of is “how downtown Athens will continue to George Wallace in the face of desegregation. change over the coming years”—socially, It also belies what must be an understanding physically, economically and so forth. Now’s a on Perdue’s part that earlier, earnest investgood time, too, with new projects like Hotel ments in water efficiency—not so much about Indigo coming online and the earliest beginconservation by individuals and businesses as nings of a downtown masterplanning process about the tightening-up of municipal water in the works. City Dope doesn’t have a list systems—could realistically have prevented a of panelists, but does have indications of a considerable piece of the heartache now. But broadly composed group “representing the why admit a mistake when you can stand in public and private sectors as well as residents the door and keep shouting down progress? and non-profit community groups.” As prelude to what promises to be a good discussion, this Local Food News: Here’s a quick note to conwriter humbly recommends Kevan Williams’ gratulate all the winners of the second annual Athens Rising columns on the topic of downAthens Local Food Awards, coordinated by town in June and July, as well as Leon Galis’s PLACE and announced July 25 at the Athens touching and insightful “Ode to Downtown” Farmers’ Market. PLACE presented awards to on the back page of this very week’s Flagpole.

Full Moon Farm for Excellence on the Farm, to Jason Mann for Excellence in Education, to the Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

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Green Building Regs On the Way for Athens Five years after requiring LEED greenbuilding standards for new county government buildings, Athens-Clarke County will be on its way to requiring similar standards in new and renovated private commercial construction if, as appears likely, commissioners approve a recommendation on the agenda for their voting meeting Aug. 4. The recommendation calls for the creation of a stakeholder group to work up the new standards.

And although the committee discussed making the standards incentive-driven, it decided in the end that they should be mandated, so revising ordinances and developing new requirements will be the task of the stakeholder group. The revisions, ACC Manager Alan Reddish said at the Commission’s July 23 agenda-setting session, would not simply adopt LEED standards into the county code, but they “would track some national standards such as LEED,” he said.

The standards should address, for now, energy conservation, water conservation and solid waste reduction, Commissioner Alice Kinman said at the meeting. “We were really looking at resources that are most critical to our community: water, air and the landfill is really what it boils down to—resources that we can do something to protect,” she said.

Commissioner Ed Robinson looked ahead to the wrangling that may occur when the actual revisions take shape: “By adhering to these standards—in case you hear from developers that are saying that this is adding an extra cost onto doing development—you actually are helping local business owners… by making these places more efficient, while the rents may go up slightly, lowering the cost of utilities will actually be very beneficial to local businesses.”

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Look at Saving on Jail Costs Continues Athens-Clarke County Jail inmates are routinely boarded out to other jails because the county’s own jail is overcrowded. A new jail to replace the current, cheaply-built one on Lexington Road is at least five years away; meanwhile the county is paying boarding fees and transport costs to place some 100 inmates in other county jails, Sheriff’s Department officials say. That not only costs a lot—around $1.8 million this year—but complicates family and attorney visits to inmates, and keeps inmates from participating in local programs designed to discourage them from re-offending.

A stopgap measure, proposed by the Sheriff’s Department to ACC Commissioners at this month’s work session July 14, would be to build a temporary, low-security addition to the current jail—and then tear it down when the new jail is built. Such temporary jails (with metal walls and fabric roofs) are available from several suppliers—”there’s a lot of market out there for federal detainees, because of immigration and customs”—and could be up within a year, said Sheriff’s Department Chaplain Tommy York, who presented the proposal to commissioners. “It’s a very quick install,” he said, and could be built and staffed for the same or less than what the county pays to board inmates elsewhere.

Officials are also planning to build a dormlike “diversion center” that will hold 72 nonviolent prisoners and allow them to hold jobs during the day. ACC Commissioners and judges have been supportive of other programs, too, to reduce jail populations—including “DUI court,” felony “drug court” and “mental health court” to steer defendants with mental health problems to treatment rather than jail.

Another answer to jail crowding, ACC Police Chief Jack Lumpkin suggested to Flagpole, is

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wider use of GPS monitors mounted on “ankle bracelets.” Says Lumpkin, “They would save ACC significant money in temporary housing of prisoners, and present the opportunity to prevent future burglaries and other crimes.” Such monitors let authorities track the location of a defendant wherever he goes, he says, and the costs are paid by the defendant.

But while judges place some local defendants on electronic monitors as a condition of bond, the Sheriff’s Department, which runs the jail, appears unwilling to release jail inmates at its own discretion. ACC jail commander Jack Mitchell told Flagpole that, while the Sheriff’s Department has had $40,000 allocated for a monitoring program (and maintains a commercial contract for monitoring services), it “has not yet released individuals under this program.” Local judges have not ordered the department to release anyone, he says, although “the Sheriff’s Office has independent authority to select for ‘home arrest’ those individuals who meet the criteria.” Mitchell said “the probability… is low” that the department will release any inmates on its own initiative.

“Electronic monitoring is one of those programs that has to be successful, for everybody [in the justice system] to buy into it,” ACC Court Administrator T.J. BeMent says. “Right now, we have 25 to 30 people at a given time on an electronic monitor.” BeMent agrees the monitors can save the county money; “everybody’s interested in it here,” he says, but there needs to be sufficient face-to-face supervision of defendants in addition to electronic monitoring. The county has applied for grant money for two “pretrial release” officers who would supervise people under an electronic monitoring program, he says.

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capitol impact athens rising The federal court ruling that set a threeyear clock ticking on water withdrawals from Lake Lanier won’t just affect Metro Atlanta and North Georgia—its impact will be felt in every corner of the state. Even with the most optimistic outcome where a settlement is worked out between Georgia, Alabama and Florida over the use of Lanier, the amount of water available to Metro Atlanta governments will likely be reduced to a level that cannot support the current trends of development and growth. What then?

The first reaction of metro and state officials could well be attempts to start taking water from other areas of Georgia. They might move eastward towards Athens and the Savannah River, in a northerly direction towards Rome and the Coosa River basin, and southward to the areas below the fall line where ground water is more abundant.

These efforts to grab water far from home will obviously be met with fierce resistance from the folks who live outside the metro area. Some of that hostility has been on display for years from Columbus and LaGrange, downstream users of Chattahoochee water who don’t like what Atlanta has been doing. It could result in some of the nastiest political fights this state has ever seen.

Another likely development could be attempts to build new reservoirs that would provide water supply alternatives to Lake Lanier. The costs of impounding these reservoirs would probably require substantial tax increases for all Georgia residents. You can bet that people living far south of Atlanta are not going to be happy about attempts to impose higher taxes so that developers up north can continue to build their office parks and shopping malls. This also has the potential to bring on political war between the northern and southern ends of the state.

There could be a happier ending here as well. With a future of limited water supplies

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on the horizon, our elected leaders should seriously consider moving more of the state government offices out of Atlanta to areas where water supplies are not in such a crisis mode. There have already been some moves in this direction. Former secretary of state Cathy Cox shifted her department’s licensing division to Macon several years ago. Gov. Sonny Perdue wants to move the corrections department headquarters to the Tift College campus in Forsyth. More of these government relocations should be brought up for discussion. They make sense from the viewpoint of customer service, and they could bring some badly needed jobs to areas far from Atlanta.

Along the same lines, businesses and industries that may want to move to Georgia but also require a plentiful supply of water will think long and hard about whether they want to relocate to a metro area where consumption is going to be tightly controlled. There are opportunities here for communities in the other parts of Georgia to sell themselves as more waterfriendly to the needs of industry.

Metro Atlanta’s water future has always been questionable because of the limitations of the Chattahoochee River. It’s time for some of that development to move to areas where the water is more plentiful and, frankly, where the growth would be more appreciated.

Georgia’s leaders should also let go of the idea that they can move the state’s northern boundary line and take water from the Tennessee River. It would be a better idea to negotiate with Tennessee about buying some of that water, even though that will be an expensive proposition.

There are negative and positive possibilities for the state’s future because of the Lanier water crisis. If our political leadership is smart enough, they may be able to move us in the more positive direction.

Tom Crawford

Special Edition: The Eastside The great majority of the urban fabric of Athens extends west from downtown, leaving those who live outside the Loop to the east with little walkable access to the amenities for which Athens is known. Generally, life on the Eastside centers around the commercial strip extending along Gaines School and Barnett Shoals roads, from Lexington Highway to College Station Road. Several older neighborhoods (by suburban standards), such as Green Acres and Cedar Creek, are somewhat walkable and abut this commercial corridor. What would it take for the Eastside be the next of Athens’ celebrated commercial neighborhoods, ranking in people’s minds as highly as Normaltown, Five Points or downtown? The thing about those intown neighborhoods is that they are well integrated, with commercial and residential uses seamlessly flowing together. Currently the Eastside functions largely as a driving-only shopping strip. A hodgepodge of fastfood and strip retail dominated by parking lots and disconnected apartment complexes walls off more organic neighborhoods from the denser areas. It isn’t impossible for a walkable conversion to happen here, but the nature of suburban growth patterns means there are a lot of barriers to overcome.

Something tall, eye-catching, and with seating space around it is what’s needed. If our new iconic art is still overpowered by the strip mall signs, it will get lost.

Reclaim the Strip Malls!: Were any entrepreneur interested in establishing a more locally scaled business on the Eastside, he’d be hardpressed to find a property of his own; most of the lots along the commercial stretch of Barnett Shoals Road are large tracts owned by out-of-town companies. The successful local businesses in the area generally have been there for a while, and have locations elsewhere that help to cement their identity (Jittery Joe’s, Vision Video, Taco Stand, Five Star Day). The building which Five Star and the Taco Stand inhabit could practically be a Broad Street replica, were it to have a pair of coffeeshops to bookend it.

The Heart of the Matter: One thing the Eastside lacks is a central heart. There have been many individual development projects which have contributed to the area’s walkability, but these are strung out over miles, which prevents any sort of synergy. If new commercial buildings like Ansonborough or Tower Place, further up Gaines School Road, were on opposite corners instead of being blocks apart, then each would be more Who says you can’t have urban street culture on the suburban successful in creating a sense of place.

Upzoning lots around a particular corner Eastside? Jittery Joes’ “sidewalk” café there is a start. might be the way to encourage a “Five Points”-like concentration to occur.

The uniform treatment of strip mall façades Meanwhile, truly public space is in short prevents businesses from spreading their supply in the area. The nearest parks are personality outwards. What would happen Satterfield and Southeast Clarke Park; these if the landlords allowed these businesses to are both suburban parks which are designed more aggressively decorate shopping center to be driven to. The only other occurrences of breezeways, façades and parking lots? Taking public land in the vicinity are patches of grass the reclamation of these parking lots one step surrounding an entrance to the Kroger parking further, could basketball goals be bolted onto lot. Could some local folks establish a small existing parking lot light poles, or four-square informal park here, just to give the otherwise courts and murals painted on the asphalt? barren parking lot some interest?

Rather than simply erasing the suburban patterns of development (a pricey enterprise), A Couple More Ideas: The main drag of Barnett creativity can create entirely new urban patShoals is well-endowed with sidewalks and is terns. Could the lobbying of landlords for such somewhat connected, which ought to conwalkable and urban improvements to parking tribute to walkability, but the catch here is lots and breezeways possibly come in the that the area hasn’t got a tree in sight. On form of renters’ associations for the shopping the other hand, the neighborhood streets are centers? quite shady, but have no sidewalks and are In general, what places like the Eastside poorly connected. Where commercial areas lack is a place where it’s okay to just hang back up to neighborhoods, new pedestrian out. Loitering, picnicking, people-watching paths could link residential areas to shopping and walking without being particularly in a and amenities with connections that really hurry are all perfectly normal behaviors in count. urban areas. That hanging-out could be oriAnother way to establish a heart for the ented around a particular place or business area would be an iconic sculpture, tree or (wouldn’t it be great if the abandoned Ryan’s other public feature. Unfortunately, there’s no Steakhouse became a coffeehouse or venue historic or otherwise interesting structure to with plenty of outdoor seating?), or it could serve as an icon ready at hand. A legitimate come in the form of a bit of leniency on the piece of public art (as opposed to gimmicky part of strip mall landlords combined with a fiberglass bulldogs, which have been done little bit of rebellion and creativity on the part just about everywhere, with different animals) of Eastside residents and businesses to make on the corner of Barnett Shoals and Gaines their environment a bit more people-friendly.

School would be a great start; the grassy area next to Athens First Bank is a good candidate.

Kevan Williams athensrising@flagpole.com

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the reader Boys’ Own Adventures The first man I can remember ever admiring was Philip Panos, the scoutmaster of my Boy Scout troop, way back in the day. Panos was a retired admiral who, among other things, had been stationed in Hawaii in 1941, where he was taking a group of Sea Scouts (they had those back then) on a trip between the islands when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor—he witnessed the entire thing from an open boat in open water. As a scoutmaster he was the very model of what such a man should be: a guy who could go anywhere and do anything from rappelling down a cliff to setting broken bones to surviving and thriving in the wild with a broken knife and some pocket lint, and taught his boys how to do the same. I suspect that had I stuck with the Boy Scouts I’d have qualified for commando training; instead I discovered rock and roll and girls and suddenly I was too cool for Scouts, but I never lost my respect for the admiral and his determination to turn snot-nosed boys into capable men.

What This Has to Do with Books: Recently there has been a wave of books and other entertainments devoted to the idea that we Y-chromosome types have strayed too far from the spirit and skills of our pioneer forefathers,

that we’ve failed our sons by giving them Xbox instead of Bowie knives and watched them learn how to navigate cyberspace but not how to find their way out of the woods. The big seller last year was something called The Dangerous Book for Boys, a compendium of various skills and pranks that used to be part of every boy’s bag of tricks, but the shelves were flooded with books about building soapbox derby cars and wooden toys, how-to guides for folding paper footballs and sailing boats, and camping and survival guides galore (not to mention the popularity on TV of alpha guys like Bear Grylls and Les Stroud roasting lizards and chipmunks over open fires in No Man’s Land).

The idea seems to be that boys who never learn the masculine virtues grow up to be perpetually helpless and spineless man-children, but it’s not just a lack of skills that’s to blame.

Boys, it is believed, also need exposure to the exploits of heroes, men of courage and fortitude throughout history whose examples will teach lads to live bravely, act nobly and, if need be, die with honor. This is not altogether untrue, and that’s where Neil Oliver comes in.

A presenter with the BBC, Oliver has come out with his own handbook to heroism in the oldfashioned mode, Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys (HarperCollins, 2009).

Oliver’s book looks, feels and reads like something from the first half of the last century, before the Teddy Roosevelt ideal gave way to the Benjamin Spock ideal. The illustrations are utterly retro, reminiscent of old primers and weekly readers, and the stories are pure boy. The exploits of the French Foreign Legion in Mexico, dying en masse but never surrendering to the overwhelming foe. Josiah Harlan, the inspiration for The Man Who Would Be King. Admiral Nelson dying at the Battle of Trafalgar even as his brilliant tactics defeated Napoleon’s navy and saved England from invasion. Poor, doomed Apollo 13. John Paul Jones and “I have not yet begun to fight!”

The storming of Omaha Beach and the Charge of the frigging Light Brigade. And weaving between all these tales is the story of Scott of the Antarctic, from boy of humble means to famed explorer of the last frontier on Earth.

Oliver presents his tales with breathless enthusiasm and he is a decent storyteller, though prone to somewhat preachy asides about the aforementioned manly virtues demonstrated by his heroes. If we judge his book on what it does—that is, present exciting tales of real-life derring-do—then it’s worth the addition to the family library.

If we judge it on what it’s trying to do, then its value is less certain. I was raised on a steady diet of this stuff, along with plenty of Kipling and Dumas and Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson, and while at 12 I wanted to be Indiana Jones, at 18 I wanted to be Keith Richards.

There is no guarantee that foisting this stuff on young minds is going to have the magical effect this new crop of retro-dads seems to want (I have a 14-year-old son; believe me, I know about this), and certainly it’s no substitute for parenting by example. I suppose what I’m saying is pick up this book and give it a shot, but don’t try to pass down your coonskin cap just yet.

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A Sad Note: Speaking of admirable men, however, one of them has just left us. Frank McCourt, author of the heartbreaking memoir Angela’s Ashes and its sequels ’Tis and Teacher Man, passed away on July 19 at the age of 78.

A Pulitzer Prize-winner and now required reading in many high schools, McCourt’s story of a childhood spent in crippling poverty in Ireland is one of the most depressing books you’ll ever read, and one of the most beautifully written.

McCourt was a man who knew that spinning straw into gold is a craft, not an art, and he did so with consummate skill and humanity.

He will be missed.

John G. Nettles

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

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

So, when a mystical janitor (Brian Doyle-Murray) offers Mike a chance to return to his hotshot days as a teenage basketball star who looked like Zac Efron, he says yes. Alas, 17 Again has nothing new to offer the bodyswitching canon but Efron. Make your ticket-buying decisions accordingly.

ADAM (PG-13) The handsome Adam (Hugh Dancy) has Asperger’s Syndrome. His new upstairs neighbor, Beth (Rose Byrne, “Damages”), is a beautiful writer damaged by a past lover. The two pursue a complex relationship. Writer-director Max Mayer last directed a feature in 1998. (It was called Better Living. I’ve never heard of it, but it has a good cast that includes Oscar-winner Olympia Dukakis and the late Roy Scheider.) Nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Adam won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize.

With Peter Gallagher.

ALEX RIDER: OPERATION STORMBREAKER (PG) Based on Anthony Horowitz’s popular series of teen novels (the author contributed the screenplay), Stormbreaker sounds a lot like the James Bond, Jr. cartoon.

Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider (Alex Pettyfer) must replace his late uncle, spy Ian Rider (Ewan McGregor), if MI6 is to discover what a billionaire (Mickey Rourke) is planning to do with the supercomputers he’s donating to every school in the country. At least the cast is decent. k ALIENS IN THE ATTIC (PG) A family moves to Maine and discovers the top floor of their new home has been invaded by aliens. The cast is all over the place. First, there’s High School Musical alum Ashley Tisdale;

then you’ve got “SNL” vets Kevin Nealon and Tim Meadows. Fan-favorite Andy Richter’s in the house, as is five-time Emmy-winner Doris Roberts (“Everybody Loves Raymond”).

ANGELS & DEMONS (PG-13) 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.

AWAY WE GO (R) Burt and Verona (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph), a couple of self-described “fuck-ups,” are searching for a place to raise their yet-to-be-born child after Burt’s selfish parents (Catherine O’Hara and Athensborn Jeff Daniels) announce their plan to move to Belgium. Away We Go, written by novelists Dave Eggers and his wife, Vendela Vida (co-founder and co-editor of The Believer), reads like a quirky, literarily humorous National Book Award finalist.

BRÜNO (R) Like a modern day Rabelais, Sacha Baron Cohen, creator of the infamous Borat, unleashes his latest satirical persona, flamboyant Austrian fashionista Brüno, on America. Brüno is as clueless and self-unaware as Borat, and like Borat, Brüno is as shockingly, graphically hilarious and feels fresh, not reheated.

Flaunting homosexuality in the faces of those who fear and hate it most, SBC literally and figuratively proves how big a pair he’s got. Only the brilliantly talented, even clad in a shiny mesh tee and butt-less lederhosen, could dream up farcical garbage like this.

CHÉRI (R) In 1920s Paris, a young man, Cheri (Rupert Friend, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas), retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his affair with the older woman, Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer), who taught him how to love. Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons) adapted the novels by Colette for two-time Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Frears (The Grifters, The Queen).

Yeah, well you’re no Drew Barrymore.

Nominated for the Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear. With Kathy Bates.

THE COLLECTOR (R) Certain horror fans might be excited about the directorial debut of Marcus Dunstan, one half of the writing duo behind the Feast flicks and Saw IV, V and the upcoming VI. When a desperate ex-con plots a heist of his new employer’s country home, he doesn’t plan on a second criminal who has rigged the house with deadly traps à la Jigsaw. Connections to Saw are fitting as the movie is reportedly an aborted prequel to the horror juggernaut.

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(Th. 7/30) Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (NR) 7:00 (W. 7/29) Orphan (R) 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 The Proposal (PG-13) 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13) 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Ugly Truth (R) 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:50

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THE COVE (PG-13) Director Louie Psihoyos used state-of-the-art technology to capture the injustice and abuse an activist group led by dolphin trainer Richard O’Barry (he worked on “Flipper” until one of the dolphins, Kathy, died in his arms) find in a hidden cove near Taijii, Japan.

The website describes the film as “an intelligent/action/adventure/Ocean’s Eleven-like horror film.” Nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, The

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (PG) 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3D) (PG) 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:30 Orphan (R) 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 The Proposal (PG-13) 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13) 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 The Ugly Truth (R) 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25

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Away We Go (R) 5:15, 7:15 (no 7:15 show W. 7/29) (new times F. 7/31: 5:15, 9:30) (add’l time Sa. 8/1–Su. 8/2: 3:15) Chéri (R) 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 (no 5:30 or 7:30 show W. 7/29) (ends Th. 7/30) East of Eden (PG) 5:00, 7:30 (starts F. 7/31) Examined Life (NR) 7:30 (W. 7/29) Moon (R) 9:45 (no show Su. 8/2) Summer Hours (NR) 7:15 (add’l time Sa. 8/1–Su. 8/2: 3:00) (starts F. 7/31)

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Cove won the Audience Award for best documentary. You’ll best remember producer Fisher Stevens from his Short Circuit days.

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.

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 in the most scary fun I’ve had at a horror film in a long time.

EAST OF EDEN (PG) 1955. Now playing is James Dean’s first feature, Elia Kazan’s adaptation of the John Steinbeck classic. Dean was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of the tortured Caleb “Cal” Trask, who is always competing with his brother Aron (Richard Davalos) for the love and approval of their father (Raymond Massey).

ELDORADO (NR) 2008. When Yvan (writer-director Bouli Lanners) finds a burglar inside his home, he takes the young man home to his parents rather than call the cops. Extraordinary events transpire and interesting people are met while the duo travel across Belgium in Lanners’s road comedy. Eldorado was chosen for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes and was nominated for the César for Best Foreign Film (it lost to Waltz With Bashir).

EXAMINED LIFE (NR) Astra Taylor, the director of Žižek!, hits the streets with some of today’s

premier thinkers—K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt, Martha Nussbaum, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Sunaura Taylor, Cornel West and Slavoj Žižek. From Fifth Avenue, the streets of Manhattan, San Francisco’s Mission District, and a garbage dump, these great minds wax philosophical while visiting places of great personal resonance. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

FUNNY PEOPLE (R) Though Judd Apatow has seemingly been involved with every comedy released in the past few years, he’s only directed two films of his own. Funny People, Apatow’s third writing and directing effort, looks to have that expected right dose of heart and raunchy humor.

Veteran comic, George Simmons (Adam Sandler), has an inoperable, fatal illness. Seeking a real, human connection, George takes a fledgling performer, Ira (Seth Rogen), under his wing. With Leslie Mann and Eric Bana.

G-FORCE (PG) G-Force is being touted as über-producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s first 3-D and family film.

The heroes may be furry, well-animated guinea pigs voiced by Sam Rockwell, Penelope Cruz, Tracy Morgan and Nicolas Cage, but the loud, busy action movie definitely hails from Bruckheimer’s gated Hollywood neighborhood. It’s as good—or as bad—as any old Bruckheimer production.

THE HANGOVER (R) The summer’s most relentlessly funny comedy may have arrived. When three buddies— married schoolteacher Phil (Bradley Cooper), emasculated dentist Stu (Ed Helms) and strange Alan (Zack Galifianakis)—take their pal, Doug (Justin Bartha), to Las Vegas for his bachelor party, all hell breaks loose.

Too bad none of these guys can remember one moment of it. Peppered with familiar funny faces, The Hangover is a perfect comedic convergence that’s funnier than it deserves to be.

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

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALFBLOOD PRINCE (PG) In his sixth year at Hogwarts, young wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his pals, Ron and Hermione (Rupert Grint and Emma Watson), must contend with Death Eaters, a puffed-up new Potions prof and love potions. In his second Potter film, director David Yates gets what makes the books so special and translates that quality to the big screen unlike any of his predecessors; fivetime screenwriter Steve Kloves has perfected extracting only the essentials from Rowling’s doorstops. Half-Blood Prince is the prettiest Potter film as well.

ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS (PG) Don’t expect any surprises in the third installment of the mammoth animated franchise that isn’t Shrek or produced by Pixar. Ice Age: DotD is just for the kiddies. If you’ve got to see it, be sure to pay a little extra for the 3D version. It’s worth it.

KUNG FU PANDA (PG) 2008. Kung Fu Panda is actually one of the best martial arts films to gracefully flip, kick and chop across the big screen in some time. Po the Panda and the

Furious Five, not to mention the sinister Tai Lung, kick ass like Bruce Lee used to do it. Just because the fights are animated rather than choreographed doesn’t mean they must be any slower or less violent.

LAND OF THE LOST (PG-13) The comical, quirky Land of the Lost proves one thing. Big screen, bigger budget updates of the cult universes conceived by brothers Sid and Marty Krofft (“H.R. Pufnstuf”) are best left as cheesy, campy and bizarre as the grown-up fans, all hopped up on nostalgia, remember them.

METROPOLITAN OPERA: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (NR) Tenor Juan Diego Flores and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato star in this beloved operatic comedy. Tony Award-winning director Bartlet Sher’s The Barber of Seville was first presented on the big screen in March.

MOON (R) Filmmaker Duncan Jones (David Bowie’s kid) surprises with his feature debut. Moon constantly entertains; it’s a little scary, a little funny, and a little thoughtful. An obvious fan of ‘70s science fiction, Jones’ film acknowledges its forebears without strictly following any of their narrative paths; sometimes, those referents are cunningly used for narrative sleight-ofhand. The out-of-this-world film orbits in the good company of cult faves, Silent Running or Dark Star.

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).

ORPHAN (R) See Movie Pick.

THE PROPOSAL (PG-13) An unlikable career woman, Margaret Tate (Bullock), is about to be deported to her native Canada. Her quick fix requires her put-upon assistant, Andrew (Reynolds, whom I can’t help but like), to marry her. Naturally, a trip to meet his family—Mary Steenburgen, “Coach” Craig T. Nelson and Betty White as the loopy grandma—in Alaska is the next step.

SUMMER HOURS (NR) The death of their mother strains the bonds of three siblings—two brothers (Charles Berling and Jérémie Renier) and a sister (a distractingly blonde Juliette Binoche)—as they divvy up not only her prized possessions but also their own memories. An official selection of the Toronto, New York and AFI Film Festivals, Summer Hours didn’t snag any prizes, but it did pick up some good notices. Written and directed by three-time Palme d’Or nominee Olivier Assayas.

TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (PG-13) The millions trekking to the theater to witness over two hours of robotic mayhem are going to get their money’s worth and their socks rocked by Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The only people who won’t like it probably didn’t really want to gorge on a gigantic robot civil war anyway.

THE UGLY TRUTH (R) Why does anyone care whether or not an unappealing neurotic beauty (Katherine Heigl) and a charming, Neanderthalish brute (Gerard Butler) fall in love?

Seriously, it’s a valid question. A dirty version of Cyrano de Bergerac where Cyrano falls in love with Roxane while helping her woo Christian, The Ugly Truth cashes in on the naughty comedy trend with some f-bombs and masturbation gags yet keeps censoring itself so as not to actually offend the old people for whom Judd Apatow is akin to Lenny Bruce or Larry Flynt.

Drew Wheeler

movie pick Evil Kids Need Love, Too ORPHAN (R) I have grown tired of evil kid movies. The Bad Seed was long, slow, but iconic. The Village of the Damned kids were just damn creepy. The Omen (the first one) was silly occult fun. The Good Son was only remotely entertaining because the bad son was the cute kid from Home Alone. J-horror and its Hollywood importers made a mint off stringy-haired scaries in The Ring, The Grudge, etc. The Omen remake was so like the first it made itself utterly unnecessary. Joshua bored me to death, which is still kind of evil.

So, along comes Orphan, an aboveaverage horror flick in the children-who-kill subgenre. The currently, amusingly named parenting duo, John and Kate (Peter Sarsgaard Isabelle Fuhrman and Vera Farmiga), wish to adopt. Like all horror movie couples, their marriage is on the brink; tensions remaining from a stillborn child, Kate’s alcoholism and an almost deadly accident involving their deaf youngest, Max (Aryana Engineer), have the two homebound professionals expressing their love through gritted teeth.

Obviously, if you’re having marital problems, you should adopt a child, and that magic potion is just what the misguided Colemans swill. After a single visit to an

orphanage, John and Kate decide to take home Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), a 19th-century Russian orphan with ribbons tied around her neck and wrists.

Everything’s hunky-dory until the troubled child goes nuts—killing, maiming, manipulating, she does it all. Meanwhile, John and Kate’s marriage disintegrates even more due to the added stress of another child. Suddenly, Kate begins to wonder, “What’s Esther’s deal?”

Esther’s deal, my friends, is one of the best twists in the itchily incessant rash of twist endings audiences continue to scratch. The revelation in Orphan actually redeems the movie, turning this imitative flick into something half-way original.

More deliberate, European, psychological horror than aggressive, Hollywood slasher pic, Orphan entertains for two solid hours.

In the hands of a director defter than Jaume Collet-Sera (House of Wax), this scary movie might have been somebody. Rather, he allows an unintelligible, unnecessary second climax incongruous with the rest of the film, if not the genre. Nevertheless, think about adopting Orphan, if only for an afternoon matinee.

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Summer “Reed”-ing: Movie pal Todd Kelly and I (with a special guest appearance by the illustrious Paul Wlazlo) just completed a mini-Carol Reed DVR festival, watching Night Train to Munich and Odd Man Out on successive nights. The two films, currently unavailable on DVD, turned up on Fox Movie Channel and Encore Mystery, respectively, proving the importance of a detailed weekly scouring of the deepest recesses of the cable listings. While a VHS copy of Odd Man Out can be borrowed from the public library, I’d never had the chance to see Night Train.

It’s a slick, snappy 1940 propaganda thriller from screenwriters Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, the prolific team who two years earlier wrote Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, a film with which Night Train has much in common, including some very nifty miniature set photography. Odd Man Out (1947) still holds up as a masterpiece of dreadful ambivalence, with dashing, mortally wounded IRA chief James Mason haunting the alleys, saloons, and tenements of post-WWII Belfast with a bounty on his head and a murder on his conscience. Mason’s barely a character in the last two-thirds of the film; instead, he’s a nearly

Insert Colorful Pun Here: Also, as luck would have it, on Wednesday, July 29 at Flicker, Athens DIY filmmaker Will Goss premieres his briefly awaited follow-up to his debut feature of last winter, Magenta’s Caress, aptly titled Magenta’s Caress II. Goss’ new feature is more cohesive than its predecessor, but retains the original’s archly surreal dialogue, ‘80s-trash, no-budget aesthetic, and cast of goofballcool, bullshit-profundity-spouting characters.

Goss wrote, directed, starred and, I assume, wrote and performed the appropriately cheesy score. Despite its casual, gap-filled scenario, the whole thing is a lot of fun… kind of like a double episode of Saved by the Bell written by a roomful of stoned Frank Zappa acolytes and directed by David Lynch. Go see for yourself, and support local film. Screening is at 9 p.m.; admission is $5; and Flicker is at 263 W. Washington St., downtown. For more cryptic “information,” go to www.williamcgoss.com.

More Bits and Chunks: Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours, one of the most highly acclaimed films of this year, is scheduled to open July 31 at Ciné. Count me in—more on this later… Also opening July 31 is East

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Summer Hours, with Juliette Binoche, is slated to open at Ciné on Friday, July 31. silent, barely walking catalyst for the moral perplexity of the widely varied cast of citizens who stumble across him during his long, last night—fully on par with The Fallen Idol and maybe even The Third Man. Anybody got a copy of Outcast of the Islands?

Examine This: Former Athenian Astra Taylor brings her documentary feature Examined Life, as well as her own bad self, to Ciné on Wednesday, July 29. The film’s tagline, “Philosophy is in the streets,” sums up its content: Taylor filmed some of today’s foremost philosophers, intellectuals and cultural theorists delivering off-the-cuff litanies on modern civilization, each in an urban setting with special resonance to the speaker and his or her ideas. Participants include Cornel West, Judith Butler, Peter Singer and Slavoj Zizek, the subject of Taylor’s debut feature, Zizek! It’s being distributed by one of the best remaining purveyors of foreign and independent fare, Zeitgeist Films, and it sounds pretty terrific. The director will be present to chat and answer questions following the 7:30 p.m. screening, so plan to stay overtime. For more details, go to www.athenscine.com and www.zeitgeistfilms.com/examinedlife.

of Eden, the next entry in Ciné’s Summer Classics series. Good week… Ciné has started having occasional movie trivia nights, hosted

by Ciné mainstay and Flagpole scribe Jeff Tobias. The last one was July 28, the day before this issue, but keep your eyes peeled.

Sounds like a great time—I hope they’re giving away free movie passes… The AthensClarke County Library’s iFilms series continues Aug. 6 with a rescheduled presentation of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s Oscar-nominated animated film of her acclaimed graphic novel about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. Aug. 13 brings The Gods of Times Square, Richard Sandler’s 1999 documentary about the transformation of Manhattan’s famed cultural epicenter from a gritty, diverse hive of pulsating urban life into a corporate-sponsored civic theme park.

Free iFilms screenings are Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the main library at 2025 Baxter St… This month’s ACC Library Cinema Classics described movie for the visually impaired will be Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, Thursday, Aug. 6 at 2 p.m. For more information, go to www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us.

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threats & promises Music News And Gossip As summer creeps along here in Athens, more and more surprising things keep happening music-wise. Nearly every week I catch a new band that turns my head or an older one that has upped its ante. What I mean is, never get jaded. There’s always something great going on even if you have to look really deeply for it. With that, let’s get on with it…

Get Outta Town: Widespread Panic and Drive-By Truckers have once again shown their love for Nuçi’s Space by offering fans a chance to win a total VIP weekend at New Orleans’ Voodoo Festival. The prize package includes two roundtrip airline tickets from AirTran, a three-night stay at the New Orleans Marriott, two VIP tickets to the festival, sidestage seating for Widespread Panic, VIP parking, private bathrooms and more. The raffle is open now and will run until Sept. 2. The winner will be notified by Oct. 2. Entries require a minimum $1 donation to Nuçi’s Space. The Voodoo Festival runs Oct. 30–Nov. 1. KISS also plays the festival, as does Eminem. I mean, for a dollar, come on. Take a shot. I know I am. Visit www.rocknraffle.com to enter.

Say Wha?: Longtime Athens band and instrumental powerhouse Japancakes have done what was previously, if not unthinkable, certainly not within their scope of composition. They’re poised to release the first ever

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for both nights is employee- and formeremployee-heavy, which I think is really cool, even though I’m probably slightly biased considering I’ve been manning the door there for more than three-quarters of the club’s existence (there’s your disclosure, conflict of interest police). Anyway, on Friday, Aug. 21, the lineup is Cinemechanica, Vincas and The Arcs. On Saturday, Aug. 22 The Tom Collins graciously reunites to perform with Hayride. The Tom Collins was on the bill on the Caledonia’s opening night. If anything changes regarding these shows, you’ll be notified in these pages. You can visit www. caledonialounge.com, too, for the complete calendar and other info.

Correction: In our July 15 issue, we incorrectly reported that local musician Adam Klein will be on a European tour for the relatively brief duration of Aug. 12–22. In fact, he will be traveling through Sept. 5, with stops in England, Ireland, the Netherlands and France.

Happy trails! [Michelle Gilzenrat] A Decent Idea: Local band Princess Idiot has decided to help local charities through the sales of its album via Athensmusic.net. The money from the first 100 CD sales will go to the Georgia Theatre fund and, after those are sold, the band plans to donate money from each batch of 100 to other local charities.

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A Decade Down: The Caledonia Lounge is gearing up to celebrate its 10-year anniversary this August. The celebration is scheduled for the weekend of Aug. 21 & 22. The lineup

The idea behind this is two-fold. One, it will hopefully expand the band’s listenership and, two, it’ll help some very worthy causes. All said, I think it’s a great way for a young band to get really involved in our scene and city.

Also, the band hopes that these efforts, by a tiny unknown band by almost any standard, will spur others to think of what they can do to help out. One thing, though, Princess Idiot: check the spelling of my name. It’s printed at the bottom of this page if you need a primer.

Other than that, many kudos and good luck.

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Torche BOREDOMS Super Roots 10 Commons

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eads ain’t ready, cause Torche (pronounced “Torch”) is coming back to town with local faves Harvey Milk.

Here’s the advance notice: ever since Torche started playing monstrous power-sludge riffs out of Orange stacks in some Miami hole-inthe-wall, press from the most extreme littleknown zines to the dead-as-nails monoliths of Spin, etc., have stacked praise on the (former) quintet, whose work ethic apparently parallels their stoner-metal tag.

“With Meanderthal, we just wanted to do a rock record, but some of those songs were rushed, and we just had to finish them in the studio because we’re all slackers. I mean, with the first record (Torche), we were only a band for three months before we recorded it, so that one was really rushed,” Steve Brooks, guitarist and lead singer for the group, says.

Flagpole caught up with Brooks (en route to Indianapolis and recently back from Europe, where Torche played with the likes of Mogwai, Mastodon, Isis and Coalesce) who mostly laughed and charmed his way through the interview. Like that one kid who never went to class but always messed up the curve, Torche is one of the most impressive groups of slackers to come around in a minute, and now the band members rep ATL, so they’re kinda local. Excavated from the dilapidated scaffolding of Brooks’ former band Floor, Torche keeps with the bone-crunch riff concision of those bros while reshaping the motif into something a little harder to categorize. One of the top releases of ’08, Torche’s second LP, Meanderthal, is the sound of trying to push a Mack truck through a colander—distilling a whole lotta metal into something, well, radiofriendly.

Let’s deconstruct a little. Torche’s songs are short and get to business quickly, before ending abruptly. You can call it vertical compression or a narcissistic chode, but that’s not to say it’s unsatisfying for both parties—Torche just knows where the sweet spot is and how to hit it and run. Really, Torche pantomimes its way through familiar metal textures and then rearranges (and subverts) them into versechorus-verse three-minute headbangers with sing-along hooks. Anthemic probably describes the band best, although it is duly heavy, too.

If Melvins covered Foo Fighters and had Michel Gondry conceptualize a music video, then it would just be of Torche holding jackhammers behind a green screen of Takashi Murakami hentai. I don’t know if that makes sense, but if you were listening to Meanderthal, it should.

Torche is kind of a gateway drug to music of the down-tuned, metallic and heavy variety; and with a metal group this accessible, it’s bound to get hated on by purists and old heads. But as Scion becomes synonymous with subculture (subsuming culture, natch), swag

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and schwag caught between car cracks too tight for fingers to reach, its recent free “Rock Fest” in Atlanta makes an argument for the Torche as metal act argument—I mean, surely being sandwiched on the main outdoor stage between other (crossover) Georgia metal dudes (plus girl) Kylesa and Baroness means something. Torche has been called doom and stoner metal; and there’s this term, “sludge-pop,” that’s been bandied about that Brooks appears very happy to dismiss. Altogether, Brooks seems unconvinced by such labels, and is the second metal act in recent memory to tell me they weren’t a metal act: “I don’t consider us a metal band. I never did. I like heavy stuff but I’m not really a metal head either… We’re just a rock band. Everyone throws in the pop thing because the tunes are catchy. I consider us a rock band. The labels are funny—it’s the record labels that are making these descriptions. We do what we want.”

Either way, Torche slays, but a recent reconfiguration has threatened the whole Torche enterprise. At the end of ‘08, the band let go of guitarist and founding member Juan Montoya. Rumors point to creative differences and a fistfight during a sound check, but Brooks won’t say. Regardless, the group is now a permanent three-piece, and here’s the official statement on the matter: “All I have to say is that it’s a personal thing and a professional thing. We were not all on the same page. He thinks one way, and the rest of us think another way, and it just wasn’t going to work out if we continued.

It’s all for the best. I look forward to what he comes up with, with other people. I just hope he can work well with them. But the rest of us, man, that dark cloud that was making us unhappy is gone. We’re having a good time now,” Brooks says.

Brendon Small, creator of Metalocolypse, recently said in an interview: “If you’re an investor in some genre of music, I’d say metal is a good bet.” And in a world where Mastodon just made a pop album that gets MTV2 airplay and Deathklok got a Billboard top 20 debut, I’d agree, but with one caveat—if there really is an impending crossover, I’d put all my money on Torche. Be a smart investor and put your money down to check ’em out at the 40 Watt.

Christopher Benton

WHO: Harvey Milk, Torche (Presented by Chunklet) WHERE: 40 Watt Club WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 1 HOW MUCH: $10

I hold anything by Boredoms— specifically anything they made after 1998—as purely and wholly necessary: perfect laugh-along and/ or squirm-under-the-exquisite-gravity Expando Mindfuck Music. Releases are often masturbatory, insularly selfreferential, formally screwed and most require utmost listener-patience. The vast rewards, though, are always worth it, as the art itself is perpetually aimed over your standard-issue angry/tender/ confessional/paranoid “rock music” dynamics toward something elevated, holy and experientially transcendental.

They’ve somehow made the authentic air and feel of Ritual an available and portable privilege, and this is big news in dead hermetic times like these, Billy.

Super Roots 10 is no exception, and everything about it is emblematic of these rarified qualities: it’s the ninth installment of their decades-old Super Roots EP project, and was sold on one website for all of an hour before it was out-of-print. It consists of one original track called “Ant 10,” and four guest-DJ remixes, one of which just may be a pseudonym of resident genius/honcho Eye. It is also a continuation of the monolithic protocol established by 2001’s Vision Creation Newsun and continued hence: an ocean-sized and umpteen-voiced percussion-swell pushes beautiful and erratic melodic ideas to the point of ecstatic explosion; everything erupts, releases, builds again to an orgiastic head-spinning trance-point, erupts, subsides and begins again. Sounds, of course, are heavy and huge and of every coloration—organic as a human voice, satisfying as a punk guitar, alien as a computer blip. Here, the purveying sense of beat is akin to house-music; a strange harpsichord holds dominion, and, everything, of course, is perfect.

Jim McHugh

THE BEGGARS’ GUILD …It Only Gets Better from Here Favorite Gentlemen The Beggars’ Guild’s greatest strength turns out to be its primary liability on the band’s new album …It Only Gets Better from Here. It’s accessible and catchy, but to a fault, and it all sounds like something you’ve heard before. Sure, there are few new tricks when it comes to straightforward

Americana-influenced rock and roll, but bandleader T.J. Edmond’s songs could use a little more personality and idiosyncrasy. There’s nothing wrong with writing a hard-luck, hard-times Springsteen tune like album opener “Only Gets Better,” but when all a song does is suggest past mastery without adding much of its own, it makes the jump from accessible to anonymous.

Edmond, a South Carolina native now living in Atlanta, also owes a heavy debt to Tom Petty, whose shadow looms large over the rest of the disc.

Edmond also has a tendency to slip into a mid-’90s, clenched-throat singing style; if anyone’s been clamoring for a grittier Counting Crows, they’d do well to check out The Beggars’ Guild.

Recorded in seven different studios, …It Only Gets Better from Here has trouble focusing. While the band never departs from well-established American rock and roll templates, a little brevity would go a long way. Had it been played at a faster tempo, the plodding “Yours and Mine” could’ve been an engaging, CCR-style pop song. Songs like “Feet on the Ground” or “Wait for It” would work better cut off around the three-minute mark, rather than wearing out their welcome with superfluous returns to generic choruses.

Performed live, these songs could be rip-roaring rockers, veering between ferocious guitar solos and more hushed moments when Edmond’s vocals take over. But on this recording, the tunes come across as restrained and indistinct, a little too careful and staid. More risks, guys, more chances!

Chris Hassiotis

way that the vocals are actually the least noticeable thing on the album, sounding at times like instruments themselves. The opening track, “Born on a Day the Sun Didn’t Rise,” is one of the catchiest, most hook-laden songs on the album. “Twin of Myself” is perhaps the best song on Eating Us, as Rhodes’ piano and synths come together to make a whirlpool of melody that transforms the darkest day into a sunshine-filled basket of lollipops—it’s that damn dreamy! But songs like “American Face Dust” and “Dark Bubbles” are more reminiscent of the melancholy yet spacey odes of Grandaddy. Sometimes creepy, but mostly sweet, the latest offering from BMSR is just plain good, and even the “vocoderization” of all the lyrics doesn’t get old. All in all, Eating Us is one of the best releases of the year so far.

Charley Lee

The Beggars’ Guild is playing at the 40 Watt Club on Thursday, July 30.

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BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Eating Us Graveface Eating Us marks the fourth fulllength release from Pennsylvania natives Black Moth Super Rainbow.

This record is chock full of psychedelic, candy-coated, electronic pop that immediately permeates the brain and remains there indefinitely. Following up experimental post-rock invention Dandelion Gum (2006), BMSR has added even more layers to its already complex and lush orchestration. It’s evident on Eating Us that the band has opted for a more polished sound rather than the lo-fi basement tape recordings of previous works. To do this, BMSR enlisted the help of producer Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Weezer), who suitably juxtaposed live instrumentation with the band’s notoriously electronic/synth-filled sound.

BMSR still utilizes what must be its favorite instrument throughout the album, the vocoder. There’s so much vocoder on this album that it wouldn’t be surprising if T-Pain’s name came up under a similar artist search. Luckily, the songs are constructed in such a

Black Moth Super Rainbow is playing at the Drunken Unicorn in Atlanta on Wednesday, July 29.

ASHER ROTH I really don’t know what to think about Asher Roth. My gut reaction is to run kicking and screaming. I remember the first time I heard his big hit, “I Love College”—a sophomoric and borderline inane homage to being a douchebag—I literally felt sick to my stomach. I’m used to music glorifying drugs and alcohol, indiscriminate sex or even abject violence, not beer pong.

However, I admit I was curious about the other songs on Roth’s debut record, Asleep in the Bread Aisle, and after giving the album a thorough listening, I now can’t help but admit that I sort of like the guy.

Roth has a certain charm to him, and his beats aren’t half bad. As for his flow, Eminem comparisons abound but, to his credit, Roth recognizes this comparison, and even names a song on his album “As I Em.” The thing about Asher Roth is that the guy raps about what he knows: white, middle-class things like playing Mario Kart, eating Cheetos and basically being ridiculous.

His lyrics are sometimes clever, often embarrassingly average, but almost always interesting. On “Lark on My Go Kart,” Roth sings: “Puffing on the best cut bud tryna get butt from Ms. Muffet/ Me and Teddy Rockspins stirring up a ruckus egging all the houses smashing all the pumpkins…Ash Roth be the King of the Blumpkins.”

Roth may not share any life experiences with traditional dope-slinging rappers, but he seems to do fine enough rapping about what he knows.

And when your goal is to be “King of the Blumpkins,” well, maybe it’s a little easier to hit the mark. Overall, Roth’s debut album is surprisingly catchy, and probably a good record to play while you’re lying out at the pool this summer.

John Seay

Surrounded3by3Sound

Local Director Jason Miller Turns Audio Visual

“W

e all talked about it, and you can come on tour with us and film and see what happens.” Although Polyvinyl could only pay $50 a day, who would pass up a job little-brothering Of Montreal on the band’s Skeletal Lamping tour, shooting a few vids and getting wasted with local heroes?

Well, when fate calls…

“I expected going out with a band to be rampant drug use and groupies, which there were none of, but most of the band are in relationships… and they’re all very professional,” Jason Miller says.

Reclined and monitoring two side-byside LCDs, Jason Miller zooms around Final Cut Pro, opening frames of Drew Barrymore and bf Justin Long (who, I must add, were spotted canoodling a few days later at the Eastside Jittery Joe’s) waiting in the VIP area for Of Montreal’s performance, who will later destroy their instruments at the end of their Bonnaroo set. He is pre-screening for me his latest/greatest project: Of Montreal’s In a Fit of Hercynian Prig, Oculi. (Yes, we are now announcing the name of the band’s previously

untitled concert docuDVD + CD, three-disc set, to be released this fall.)

But Hercynian Prig, Oculi? Jason Miller shrugs off an “I dunno,” but hopefully it’ll mean more gigs and awareness for the director, whose life imitates his art—meaning, the life of the music video director is about the same as the musicians he directs. Here’s the metaphor. The musician must build grassroots support, mostly through free acts of kindness.

(Most of the local videos he’s done have been for free or for minimal, like gas money.) For the musician, talent and résumé help, but it’s still about who you know and the meaningful coincidence: “I met B.P. Helium from Of Montreal and Dark Meat, and Diplo at the same time through Nick Canada to do a job filming them at the 40 Watt. If I hadn’t gotten that job I don’t know what would be happening right now because everything I’ve done cool in music in the last year has been through Of Montreal or Diplo. So, in the same day the seeds were planted for both,” Miller says.

And payment is like an album advance: “They give you a budget you have to pay

Soundies

Jason Miller, along with frequent collaborator Ethan Payne, also makes acoustic, DIY music shorts called Soundies, an idea borrowed from Vincent Moon and La Blogoteque’s “Take Away Shows.” The duo has produced free videos for touring acts like Pattern Is Movement, Dr. Dog and Chairlift, and for locals like The Empties and The Corduroy Road.

While Athens may not have the cultural artifacts of say, Paris, seeing quality acts perform acoustically at your favorite local joint, like the kaleidoscopically carnivalesque Agora or the curiosity that was once the Nuwaubian temple, should make any Athenian crack one.

Jason was cool enough to let me follow him on two shoots—one for Canadian Matthew Barber and another for the Modern Skirts dudes. Here are my impressions: May 8, 2009: We shot outside an old pottery factory near a sparse train yard off Barber Street. At one point Jason and his assistant Res Kent scaled a train to get an odd shot. Cool. Although a guy from the railroad company tried to shoo us away, it was a great place for Matthew Barber to be shot, really. His back-to-basics slow-burners have an antiquity to them that suggests the fragile old pots around, and the dusty fleas flirting between vision and new sun were like the past-tinted phantasmagoria of Barber’s latest LP. Barber played two songs twice to get it right; all in, it took about an hour.

May 29, 2009: Although the Athens zoo has nothing and pretty much blows, it’s a great place for a Soundie, and Modern Skirts are very nice. Phillip Brantley chased ducks and turkeys around while strumming playfully, and the whole vibe was like a chill kickback among friends, as there were 11 crew members and entouragers on the shoot.

With Soundies, everything is impromptu and you really must roll with the punches.

Ambient noise, nosy passersby and complete disaster are all part of the whole when spontaneity’s the name of the game. You can watch the entire collection of Soundies at www. athenssoundies.com. [Christopher Benton]

yourself out of it and pay the crew and get the locations and the actors, and it’s your job to make sure you have enough money to pay yourself. Most young people in the industry spend all their money making sure they make the best product they can to get more jobs.”

At 23, Miller owns his own business and has directed videos for Ben Folds, Dead Confederate, Hope for Agoldensummer, Allison Weiss, Lullwater, Venice Is Sinking, Modern Skirts, Quiet Hooves and Dark Meat, among others. Two years ago, he created the production company “Eikon” (pronounced “Icon”) with around $35,000 in seed money. Recently, he made a pilot for Al Gore’s news channel Current.tv to be called either “Diplo’s World Tour” or “No One’s Safe.” In the episode, he and Diplo visit New Orleans recording the “Bounce” and “Sissy Bounce” musical subcultures. If picked up, Miller and Diplo will travel the world, uncovering and documenting more obscure music scenes. He also directs TV commercials and short films.

When I met with him for an interview, he had just returned from Brooklyn, filming Major Lazer’s new video for “Keep It Goin’ Louder,” and capturing Race Across America in Phoenix. Yeah, he keeps busy. But he’s not quite a one-man band: “I think it’s important to credit the people who’ve helped me along the way. Mainly Ethan Payne. He’s been there since the start… and a lot of bands have also given back.”

His work definitely has an interesting aesthetic, too. His music videos have a fly-onthe-wall voyeuristic tableau that levitates offkilter, exploring the humane crevasses of the awkward shot and the vaguely unflattering.

It’s the floating tambourine flotsam and the disembodied head of the lead singer—it’s the paradox of making the viewer feel like they’re seeing everything panoramic by obscuring the obvious. His work is very intimate.

Take his video for Hope for Agoldensummer’s “4th Night,” which won as one of five Jason Miller-directed videos for the Flagpole Award for “Best Music Video.” The short, with its melancholic hues and occasionally unfocused lens, captures the fraternity of commerce and discarded monuments at the J & J Flea Market.

So, what’s next? “I don’t want to do little project after little project forever. Everybody who gets their foot in the door and achieves some level of success in Athens has to leave in order to get some type of work. It’s a bummer because no one wants to be that person who takes advantage of the town to get their success and leave and forget about the town.

There’s amazing music here, but it’s also: how do you stay in a town where there’s no money in making videos?”

Really? Resenting the flight-from-Athensto-greener-pastures-to-make-it-big metanarrative? Yeah, that’s Jason Miller; and I can tell no matter what he decides, he’ll still support the local scene. His production company Eikon does reference Athens—it’s Greek for a beautiful image. Shortly after this interview, Miller sent an email about yet another project he’s working out. He’s creating a library database of local music to use in various video and multimedia projects, kind of like a publishing company, but with an emphasis on spreading the Athens sound.

Surely one of the nicest guys in Athens and a big-behind-the-scenes supporter of Athens art, Miller is about to blow up, and wherever he goes, it seems he’ll bring Athens with him.

Christopher Benton

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FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Every Wednesday. 8–10 p.m.

FREE! 706-548-1920 GAMES: Trivia Wars (283 Bar) “If you know your stuff you can win great stuff.” 9 p.m. FREE! 706-2081283

Thursday 30 EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walks (UGA Campus) New series sponsored by the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation continues with a tour of UGA North Campus and the Old Athens Cemetery. Led by Nash Boney. Space is limited; call to reserve spot. 7 p.m. $15. 706-3531801, www.achfonline.org* KIDSTUFF: Back-to-School Bingo (Broadacres Community Center) Win school supplies. Ages 6–16. 2 p.m. $3. 706-613-3600 KIDSTUFF: Chapter Book Review (Madison County Library) Every Tuesday and Thursday elementary school-aged children meet in the lobby to read aloud and share thoughts about books. 4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Pajama Storytime (Madison County Library) Snuggle in your jammies with your favorite stuffed animal and listen to bedtime stories. Light snack provided. All ages are invited. 7 p.m. FREE! 706795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Sing-a-Long (ACC Library) Sing with Linda Walker and Lorraine Holahan as they play your favorite children’s songs. 10:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Spanish Conversation Group (1000faces Coffee, 585 Barber Street) Practice Spanish conversational skills every Thursday.

7–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-534-8860, 1000facesmail@gmail.com GAMES: Pool Tournament (Fat Daddy’s) 7 p.m. 706-353-0241

GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Club Chrome) Every Thursday night. 9 p.m. 706-543-9009 GAMES: Trivia (WOW Café & Wingery) Every Thursday. 706-5435510

Friday 31 EVENTS: “Men of the Classic City” (The Melting Point) The American Cancer Society presents Athens’ 1st Annual Bachelor Auction featuring a performance by Holman Autry Band. Ages 21 & up. 7:30 p.m. $20 (adv), $25 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com* EVENTS: Regaining American Prosperity (UGA Russell Library) Informal discussion forum on approaches for rebuilding communities devastated by the economic downturn. Moderated by Jill Severn.

3–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-542-5766 EVENTS: Sock Hop (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Do the twist, shag and other popular dances of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Wear your poodle skirt, saddle shoes, penny loafers or pedal pushers to win a prize. Every Friday.

7 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655 ART: Open Studio (Mercury A.I.R., Studio 13) Lou Kregel shows new work and provides refreshments.

5–8 p.m. FREE! PERFORMANCE: Drag Night (Blur) The queens strut their stuff every Friday. Music by DJ Shine[y] before and after the show. 9 p.m. $5. www. myspace.com/blurathens THEATRE: Dear Edwina (Oconee County Civic Center) The Oconee Youth Playhouse presents the musical comedy about Edwina Spoonapple, a 13-year-old who enlists the help of her friends to dispense advice on kid-troubling issues. July 31–Aug. 1, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 1–2, 2 p.m. $16, $14 (students/seniors), $12 (ages 12 & under). 706-769-2677, www. oypoysp.com KIDSTUFF: Back-to-School Bingo (Parkview Community Center) Win school supplies. Ages 6–16. 2 p.m. $3. 706-613-3601 KIDSTUFF: Insects of the Night (Sandy Creek Nature Center) An evening of learning about the insects that fly at night. Ages 3 & up. 7:30– 9:30 p.m. $6/family. 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library) Includes stories, fingerpuppet plays, songs and crafts for literacy-based fun. This month’s themes include feeling grumpy, France and the letter B. Ages 2–5.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 MEETINGS: Happy Hoop Hour (Canopy Studio) Hooping fun with friends. Unwind from the week and chat while practicing your hoopdance skills. No formal instruction is provided. 7–8 p.m. $5. www.athenshoopdance.wordpress.com

Betsy Franck is playing a Georgia Theatre benefit at Flicker Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 1.

Saturday 1 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: Cob Open House (Earthsong) View Earthsong’s Cob Hermitage. 9 a.m.–6 p.m. FREE! 843-412-9505, www.redclaynb.org, www.earthsong.cc EVENTS: Maternity and Baby Fair (The Classic Center) Featuring educational sessions, children’s activities, retailers selling products, exhibitors, a silent auction and more. 9 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www. maternityandbabyfair.com EVENTS: New Cask Release (Terrapin Beer Co.) New cask the first Saturday of every month on the tour. 5:30–7:30 p.m. $8/tasting glass. www.terrapinbeer.com EVENTS: Saturday Stroll (Oconee County Courthouse) Reverend Kevin Daniel leads an informal, hour-long tour of Bethel Baptist, the 129-yearold African-American church where he serves as minister. Proceeds benefit Oconee County Relay for Life. 9 a.m. $5. www.oconeedemocrats.org PERFORMANCE: Queers in Alliance (Blur) Athens’ premier professional male and female impersonation troupe performs its first show. This is Blur’s last day as “Blur!” 9 p.m. $5. www.myspace. com/blurathens

THEATRE: Dear Edwina (Oconee County Civic Center) Presented by the Oconee Youth Playhouse. See July 31 Theatre. July 31–Aug. 1, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 1–2, 2 p.m. $16, $14 (students/seniors), $12 (ages 12 & under). 706-769-2677, www. oypoysp.com OUTDOORS: Naturalist Walk (Sandy Creek) Join SCNC staff for a walk around the property. Bring a camera or binoculars. All ages; children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Call to register. 10 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: End of the Summer Party (ACC Library) Pizza party for Summer Reading Program participants. 12 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Family Fun Day (ACC Library) Featuring a puppet show, storytelling, fun with farm animals and more. Families are encouraged to bring a new children’s book for the book drive for Project Safe. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Family Fun Day at Bear Hollow (Memorial Park) Enjoy the end of summer with games, crafts, animal encounters and fishing at the zoo. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3616 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Barnes and Noble) A story and craft every Saturday morning. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-354-1195 LECTURES & LIT.: Summer Authors’ Series: “Georgia Boys in Grey” (T.R.R Cobb House) Final session of series features presentations by Kurt Gresham, author of To Honor These Men, and John Parrish, author of Wiregrass to Appomattox.

Lunch provided. Register early. 11 a.m.–1 p.m. $10. 706-369-3513, www.trrcobbhouse.org*

Sunday 2 PERFORMANCE: Athens Brass Choir (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) The choir presents “AllAmerican Brass,” a concert that includes Copland fanfares, Sousa marches, music from the movies and more. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-542-1244 PERFORMANCE: Live! at the Library with KnightSong (ACC Library) Costumed local ensemble performing a cappella Renaissance madrigals and folk songs. 3 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 THEATRE: Dear Edwina (Oconee County Civic Center) See July 31 Theatre. July 31–Aug. 1, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 1–2, 2 p.m. $16, $14 (students/seniors), $12 (ages 12 & under). 706-769-2677, www. oypoysp.com GAMES: Full-Contact Trivia (Allen’s) Sports-themed rules. 9 p.m.

FREE! www.allensbarandgrill.com GAMES: Team Trivia (Wild Wing Café) Every Sunday. FREE! www. wildwingcafe.com

Monday 3 PERFORMANCE: Monday Night Comedy (The Office Lounge) Weekly comedy show presented by KINGh Productions. 7:30 p.m. $5.

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THE CALENDAR! OUTDOORS: Bike Ride (Main Street Yarns) A leisurely ride to Bishop (8ish miles) and back. Every Monday.

6:15 p.m. FREE! 706-769-5531 KIDSTUFF: Back-to-School Bingo (Rocksprings Neighborhood Center) Win school supplies. Ages 6–16. 2 p.m. $3. 706-613-3603 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) 10:30 a.m. & 2 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Federation of Neighborhood Associations (Fire Hall No. 2, 489 Prince Avenue) This month’s meeting will feature a panel discussion on how downtown Athens will continue to change over the coming years. 7:30 p.m. FREE! cja@perigen.com MEETINGS: Zen Meditation and Book Discussion (Email for Location) The Key by Cheri Huber.

Meets every Monday. 7:15 p.m.

FREE! meditateathens@gmail.com GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Fat Daddy’s) Every Monday. 6 & 9 p.m.

706-353-0241.

GAMES: Tune Trivia (Alibi) Test your knowledge of music trivia. Hosted by Bobby Nettles and APA Pool League.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010

Tuesday 4 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 KIDSTUFF: Back to School Bash (Evergreen Pediatrics, Watkinsville) Face painting, games, giveaways, door prizes, live music and more fun for kids. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! 706-769-9410 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) For ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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: Pool Tournament (Alibi) APA Pool League. 8 p.m. FREE! 706549-1010 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Alibi) Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706549-1010

Wednesday 5 ART: ADCG Meeting (JD Withers Building, Auburn) General membership meeting for the Arts Development Council of Georgia.

Bring a representative piece of your art for “Two Minutes of Fame” showand-tell exercise. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-342-8225, www.adcg.org 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 KIDSTUFF: Storytime (ACC Library) For ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. 8:30 p.m.

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Down the Line PERFORMANCE: Athens Choral Society (Seney-Stovall Chapel) ACS sings oldies for its presentation of “Back to the Fifties.” Aug. 7–8, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 9, 2:30 p.m. $10.

706-369-1947 EVENTS: Classic City Rollergirls Bout 8/8 (Skate-A-Round USA) The Classic City Rollergirls take on the Camel City Thrashers from WinstonSalem, NC. 7 p.m. $10 (adults), $5 (ages 6–10), FREE! (ages 5 & under). www.classiccityrollergirls.com* KIDSTUFF: Stream Adventures 8/8 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Activities planned include hiking along the Middle Oconee River to search for animal tracks, writing poetry about water and wading in streams to collect, identify and release stream critters. Ages 7–10.

Call to register. 9:30–11:30 a.m. $5.

706-542-6156 THEATRE: Why Am I Not Married?

8/8 (Historic Elbert Theatre) Playwright Chantell Christopher brings her play about the trials and tribulations of being in relationships to Elberton. 6 p.m. $15 (advance), $20 (door). 706-283-1049* EVENTS: Farmer for a Day 8/9 (Mills Farm) Athens Locally Grown hosts the fourth of six monthly tours highlighting the benefits of sustainable agricultural practices. Limited space, email to register. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! farmerforaday@gmail. com, athens.locallygrown.net ART: Opening Reception 8/15 (Lyndon House) For “Lord Love You: Works by R.A. Miller from the Mullis Collection,” a display that includes more than 75 paintings, drawings, sculptures and whirligigs created by the Georgia self-taught artist Reuben Aaron Miller. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706613-3623 PERFORMANCE: “Take It from the Top” 8/18 (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Lyric League sings selections from Grease, Wicked, Hair and other Broadway favorites. Email to purchase advance tickets. 7:30 p.m. $10. dellhitch@hotmail.com* LECTURES & LIT.: Lou Brissie 8/22 (Borders Books & Music) The 85-year-old hero behind The Corporal was a Pitcher: The Courage of Lou Brissie, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ira Berkow, signs copies of the book about his life. 1 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 ART: Gypsy Artist Market 9/19 (Lyndon House Arts Center) Outdoor art sale featuring eclectic wares by artists of all ages. Art Expo, which features local artists demonstrating their craft, held simultaneously. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 28 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $6 (all ages show!). www.40watt.com JOACHIM’S DREAM Local high school-aged quintet Joachim’s Dream won the Monsignor Donovan Ram Jam this year with its soulful Americana-tinged indie pop.

LADY BLANCHE Acoustic country singer-songwriter with sexually charged lyrics.

TRACHTENBURG FAMILY SLIDESHOW PLAYERS This act—unlike any you’ve seen

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before—takes vintage slide collections it has found and turns the lives of strangers into pop-rock musical exposés. Dad sings and plays keys (and looks like Rick Moranis), Mom works the projector and adorable daughter Rachel (who has her own morning show) plays drums.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com CLOAK AND DAGGER DATING SERVICE Local six-piece ensemble plays loud and loose straightahead rock with dueling male/female vocals.

DRAINBOW Bizarre, colorful, genrespanning local band that plays song that range from being metal to the core to having more tropical, innocently swaying vocals.

KILL THE SCHOOL Metal four-piece based here in Athens.

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 the ever-popular Lynn every Tuesday night.

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

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com* THE MUDFLAPJACKS This local band performs old-time country and bluegrass jams.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 MATT MCKINNEY No information available.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens MILE TRAIN Heavy Southern rock and blues from Carrollton, GA. Square One Restaurant and Bar 7 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco. com NORMALTOWN FLYERS Athens roots-rock institution plays a set of comfortable, good-time rock and roll with a Southern leaning. On the Square One patio every Tuesday!

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net BANG-UTOT Members of Stegosaurus mix things up with this new side project.

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.”

CANDY MALDONADO New local act that says it’s “no longer Chris Hassiotis’s favorite unintelligable band featuring four dudes with names that start with S,” as Tim Vance has replaced James Pendley.

“We still suck though, lol.”

GREEN GERRY Particularly dreamlike and subtly electronic local artist.

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

Wednesday, July 29

Food Not Bombs Benefit with Shmouser, Emily Armond, Anus Full of Wasabi, The Pride, Rick and Megan Go Bar “Well, the name says it all. This band is unapologetically unpleasant.” So says AthensMusic.com, referring to Shmouser is Mouser (above) acoustic. local punk problem children Anus Full of Wasabi. But does it really? I’ve seen this Anus Full of Wasabi: improv junk guitar, songs that barely maintain their structural integrity (not for lack of not trying), and a categorically obnoxious presentation. It’s like the Butthole Surfers never moved out of Winterville! After some limited interaction with the band’s inner circle, the Flagpole editorship threw up their hands and reached this writer for some assistance in drawing up a more in-depth conclusion as to the band’s modus operandi.

I tracked down a phone number for Dave (a last name was not ascertained), the undisputed ringleader of Anus. Dave, a question: What is the genetic make-up of the band? Sounding genuinely displeased at my reaching him, Dave responded: “It’s a revolving cast.” Okay, I can dig that. But what are you all about? “I pretend like we’re an art band, but we’re… bad art. It’s different every time.” What does this edition of the band have in store for us? “This time around, we’re doing SOLCats,” Dave replied. “You know, like LOLCats? It’s a pun. We’re murdering cats.” Seriously? “Oh, God, no, man.”

And therein lies the rub: Humanity. Let’s contrast that discourse with the general ideology of Food Not Bombs. Here’s a description culled from their Facebook page: “Food Not Bombs is a worldwide effort to feed anyone hungry and end violence. Each chapter collects surplus food that would otherwise go to waste from grocery stores, bakeries and markets, then prepares it into community vegetarian meals, served for free to anyone hungry.” Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but I’d have to say that’s impossible to not get behind. Anus Full of Wasabi might be GG Allin-style skids-kids, but if they are aligning themselves with such an organization, what sort of real heart lurks underneath? Find out at the Go Bar this Wednesday. [Jeff Tobias]

Wednesday 29 ATHICA 7–10 p.m. Suggested donation of $6$9. www.athica.org GUITARS AND THEIR GIRLS: AN EVENING OF ORIGINAL ACOUSTIC MUSIC Featuring performances from Heidi Hensley, Charleston artists Megan Jean and the Klay Family Band, and New York artist Chelsea Lynn La Bate, joined by Tommy Hunt.

Special set of children’s songs in the first half hour.

Blur 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/blurathens MOBIUS D:RC, Andyredrum and Latinum 10K host this new DJ event.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com CASPER AND THE COOKIES Reminiscent of bands like Talking Heads and The Beatles, local poprock superpower Casper & the Cookies plays a diverse set of songs built around one concept: fun.

EVERYTHING NOW! Psychedelic power-pop group from Indianapolis that always has a surprising new element to throw at you, be it dueling vocals or a whole choir.

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

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

Gnat’s Landing 6 p.m. FREE! www.gnatslanding.net DAVID PRINCE This Athens staple and one-time member of The Jesters

plays your favorite soul, rock and R&B oldies.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar FOOD NOT BOMBS BENEFIT FNB needs a new home! Since Common Ground has closed, FNB is raising money to help build its own kitchen at The Hanger in order to continue providing meals to the needy downtown. A vegan meal will be served and there will be live music from Shmouser (Mouser acoustic), Emily Armond, Anus Full of Wasabi, The Pride, Rick and Megan! See Calendar Pick on p. 16.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 KIP JONES TRIO Many of Jones’ tunes split between the reflective acoustic territory of Harvest-era Neil Young and the country-infused rock of ‘80s-era Steve Earle.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 11 p.m. FREE! myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub DJ POLAR GRIZZ AND PULSAR Spinning French house music.

Locos Grill & Pub 8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7700 (Westside location) RACHEL O’NEIL This singer-songwriter plays an eclectic blend of jazz, indie rock, and Americana.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com SCARLET STITCH Formerly known as Soul Shaker, this band combines multiple offshoots of hard rock together with a more Southern sensibility.

THE DANIEL LEE BAND Countrytinged Southern rock based just outside of Athens in Bethlehem, GA. The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Every Wednesday with Stan.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens BROCK BUTLER AND ADAM PERRY OF PERPETUAL GROOVE Jamming together as a duo with a possible collaboration with Thomas Galloway.

THOMAS GALLOWAY Of local, funky jam band Mama’s Love.

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

Thursday 30 283 Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-208-1283 DJ SHINE(Y) Dance hits from female artists in celebration of ladies night.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. 40watt.com THE BEGGARS’ GUILD This Atlanta outfit plays workman Southern rock with a Tom Petty-leaning sound.

JUSTIN BROGDON & 1-STORY TOWN Rock vet Justin Brogdon puts a lot of Southern soul into his epic songs, drawing from artists like The Black Crowes and Tom Petty.

His all-American sound owes a lot to his all-star backing band.

Alibi 9 p.m.–1 a.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 KARAOKE DANCE PARTY WITH LYNN Every Thursday.

Allen’s Bar & Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com JON PENLAND This acoustic singersongwriter from Toccoa, GA is influenced by artists like Switchfoot, Creed and Jack Johnson. He has a “rare comfortableness in front of a crowd” thanks to years performing at his church.

Broad Street Bar & Grill 10 p.m. FREE! 706-548-5187 KARAOKE Every Thursday.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE DUMPS With four veterans of the local punk scene at the helm, The Dumps deliver angular metal licks with lots of dual screaming over sludgy grooves, making for one intense rock performance.

HOT BREATH Thrash trio featuring members of experimental local acts Garbage Island and S.V.A. LIONS Hailing from Austin, TX, Lions have a sound encompassing aspects of droning psychedelic music, hard rock and power ballads.

PEACHES No, not the Canadian electro-clash queen…This Peaches is a new project featuring former members of local prog metal group Coulier.

Club Chrome 9 p.m. 706-543-9009 KARAOKE Every Thursday night at the new dance club off Atlanta Highway across from Sam’s Club.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DAVID BARBE Acclaimed local producer and former member of Sugar and Mercyland, David Barbe excels as a solo artist as well. His driving rock songs feature full-throttle electric guitars that venture from indie psychedelia to twangy blues.

HENRY BARBE The next generation of local rockers! David Barbe’s son takes center stage. Henry made his live solo debut back in May. LONA Lona is the flagship band for local songwriter, guitarist and drummer Clay Leverett (The Chasers, Now It’s Overhead, Bright Eyes).

The band sends out more than a little country and more than enough gutsy, mid-tempo rock.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. FREE! myspace.com/athensfatdaddys HIP-HOP NIGHT Spinning your favorite hip-hop tunes all night.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. www.myspace.com/flickerbar 90 ACRE FARM This acoustic trio from Watkinsville plays traditional rock.

BROS MARLER Brothers Drew and Daniel Marler are currently concentrating on bringing their brand of Neil Young/Elliot Smith/Allman Bros.-influenced music to the people as an acoustic duo. Also playing tomorrow night at Gnat’s Landing.

HELEN, DODGE Local Americana act featuring Neal Canup, Mark Cunningham, Roger Alan Wade and Corey Holland performing both original music and obscure covers.

Playing at Flicker again on Saturday, too.

CHRIS MOORE Chris Moore (exSpins) performs a solo acoustic set of original Southern soul.

Girasoles 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-310-0410 SONNY GOT BLUE Local jazz group featuring James Goodhand (bass), George Davidson (tenor sax), Andrew Murdison (trumpet) and

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

Gnat’s Landing 6 p.m. FREE! www.gnatslanding.net NATHAN SHEPPARD The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is known for his emotive singing style and his modern reworkings of classic tunes, from Dylan and Neil Young to Van Morrison.

Go Bar 11 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar “DR. FRED’S KARAOKE” Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers, every Thursday, following the live music.

SMEGMA Featuring members of scrappy punk band Rockspring Destroyers.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub 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.

MATT KURZ ONE One-man rock machine Matt Kurz literally plays drums, keyboard, guitar and bass, by himself, all at the same time.

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

The Melting Point 7:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com* THE SAUCE BOSS The inventor of gastronomical boogie woogie.

No Where Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-4742 JAZZCHRONIC Local five-piece band that explores freaky, funky, psychedelic fusion jazz while incorporating rock, R&B, heavy beats and more.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens DANGERMUFFIN These Americana rockers call to mind My Morning Jacket.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. FREE! www.tastyworld.net FREEBIRD COVER BAND Lynyrd Skynyrd covers from members of well known Athens bands Quiet Hooves, Titans of Filth, and more provide you the only acceptable place for druken requests of “Free Bird!”

PLUME Local guy William C. Goss, with members of Kuroma, makes bright, melodic psych-pop with occasionally tongue-in-cheek lyrics.

Last show ever as Will Goss is moving back to Chicago.

TITANS OF FILTH This local band combines droll Southern voices with easy-rolling, efficient and uncomplicated indie-pop rock about the ups and downs of young love.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com MERCURY VEIL Formerly known as The Children of Desolation, local band Mercury Veil plays emotional alternative rock with crunchy guitar riffs, male and female vocals as well as an obvious affinity for bands like Tool and Smashing Pumpkins.

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Friday 31 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt. com CHRISSAKES Local hardcore band with haunting, brooding guitar riffs underneath explosive, screaming vocals.

DESCENDER Brooklyn metal band with dirty drop-D power chords and shouting vocals.

HAM1 A breezy take on straight-ahead ‘60s garage rock, brightened by swoon-worthy harmonies and a pop sensibility.

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

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-456-0840 RIDE, ROCK, & ROLL Southern rock with local guitarist Avery Dylan guesting.

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com LEAVING COUNTRIES Warm, inviting folk rock from here in Athens.

The trio’s On the Journey EP features tender violin, aching harmonica and melodic acoustic guitars.

Broad Street Bar & Grill 10 p.m. FREE! 706-548-5187 REDSTONE RAMBLERS Country and old time bluegrass originals and covers. This local three-piece features members of Samurai Trout.

Performing every Friday!

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

GUFF This non-stop local punk quartet’s style harkens back to the Lookout Records sound of about a decade-and-a-half ago, with a sense of fun amid the noise.

WRIST BANDITS Energetic new teen-pop-punk trio rocking out in the vein of Millencolin or NOFX. Club Chrome 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/clubchromeathens JOE OLDS AND THE SMOKIN’ JOE BAND A joint product of the Atlanta and Nashville music scenes, Joe Olds and his band perform country that knows how to rock.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. myspace.com/athensfatdaddys HAMMERSTAT Formerly known as The Rustlers, this Statham group offers blues-heavy Southern rock.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! myspace.com/ flickerbar GRACIOUS CALAMITY Upbeat and light acoustic sounds with the added bonus of gorgeous harmonies from the two female vocalists.

GREEN GERRY Particularly dreamlike and subtly electronic local artist.

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

TINY TORNADOES This Massachusetts group varies wildly from song to song, with a sound swinging between that of The Dirty Projectors, St. Vincent, Neko Case, and Akron/Family.

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The Globe 10:30 p.m. 706-353-4721 MELVIN MATHURIN & FRIENDS This sax-piano-bass-drums quarter plays jazz essentials and original pieces. Featuring Mathurin on sax, Mitch Rothstein on piano, James Goodhand on bass and Ben Williams on drums.

Gnat’s Landing 6 p.m. FREE! www.gnatslanding.net BROS. MARLER Brothers Drew and Daniel Marler are currently concentrating on bringing their brand of Neil Young/Elliot Smith/Allman Bros.-influenced music to the people as an acoustic duo.

Go Bar 11 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar IMMUZIKATION Celebrated local DJ Alfredo Lapuz Jr.‚ also known for his over-the-top Daft Punk tribute act‚ mashes up high-energy electro and rock.

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

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

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. meltingpointathens.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 Office Lounge 6 p.m. FREE! 706-546-8209 GERIAOKE Karaoke geared toward the geriatric crowd!

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens AGAINST ALL ODDS Aggressive alternative rock band based in Danielsville, GA. LOST HERITAGE Local prog metal band plays blazing riffs and power ballads.

SHOOTOUT THE STARS Old-school pop-punk trio, like Blink used to make it.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. FREE! www.tastyworld.net B-SIDE REVOLUTION Local piano pop-rock fronted by Kyle Rogers.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com JON RONIGER Expertly played acoustic guitar and deeply personal lyrics make Jon Roniger’s folk music a standout in a crowded field.

Wild Wing Café 9 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com ZACH FOWLER & THE ESSENTIALS Alt-country rock group from Columbia, SC plays melody-driven tunes but at the same time explores a jammier sound with funky, freestyle bass and guitar.

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

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Saturday 1 40 Watt Club 1 p.m. $10, FREE! (ages 8 & under). www.girlsrockathens.org GIRLS’ ROCK CAMP ATHENS SHOWCASE The girls show off the rock skills they honed during camp.

All proceeds benefit GRCA. 10 p.m. $10 (adv). www.40watt.com* HARVEY MILK Local sludge metal gods.

TORCHE Steve Brooks (guitar/vocals) and Juan Montoya (guitar) were graduates of cult favorite Floor, and formed Torche with drummer Rick Smith (ex-Tyranny of Shaw) and bassist Jon Nunez. The Miami band challenges your eardrums with heavy, boundless stoner pop-metal.

See story on p. 12.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 ALBATROSS Local band plays classic rock and alternative rock covers.

Athens Farmers Market 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net ARTIE BALL SWING BAND A full outfit of local jazz bigwigs plays the traditional dance numbers with gusto. Original swing-style tunes sneak into the mix as well, and they stand well next to the classics.

10 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net CLAIRE CAMPBELL Solo performance from one of Hope for Agoldensummer’s lead singers.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). caledonialounge.com THE MODERN SOCIETY Atlanta rockers that take cues from bands like the Foo Fighters.

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

JOSH ROBERTS South Carolinabased indie rock with an Americana vibe.

Club Chrome 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/clubchromeathens GEORGIA WHISKEY Athens locals know their way around bluesy Southern rock.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com BUBBLY MOMMY GUN Raucous psychedelic explorations led by members of The Lickity-Splits and Ice Cream Socialists.

MOUSER Colby Carter (vocals, guitar) and his expanding gang of backing musicians play efficient and exuberant garage-pop songs that suggest a willingness to experiment, working through noise jams to find the aggressive pop hiding behind.

WHAT CHEER? BRIGADE A 25-piece horn band that runs the gamut from European marches (like Hawk and a Hacksaw) to stranger modes. See Calendar Pick on p. 19.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/athensfatdaddys 3RD CRUSH Atlanta band that sounds like a cross between Nickelback and Bon Jovi.

Flicker Theatre & Bar Georgia Theatre Benefit. 8:30 p.m. $5. myspace.com/flickerbar BETSY FRANCK Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition, but with a modern sensibility.

JAY GONZALES Recently taking over as keyboardist for the Drive-By

Truckers, Jay plays the kind of tunes you’d expect from a member of that well established band.

HELEN, DODGE Local Americana act featuring Neal Canup, Mark Cunningham, Roger Alan Wade and Corey Holland performing both original music and obscure covers.

PAUL MCHUGH Longtime musician who spends most of his time onstage fronting Mother Jackson, the hard-charging, ‘70s-sounding rock and roll band, or his new swampy blues project Sweetbox.

JOSH STACKS Former member of Bloodkin and Tishamingo performing solo.

TENT CITY This local four-piece fuses elements of jazz, funk, blues and world music. The band says, “Come prepared to boogie!”

YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN North Georgia folk troubadour with infinitely catchy songs.

The Globe 9 p.m. 706-353-4721 COSMIC CHARLIE It’s time once again to celebrate Jerry Garcia’s birthday with this local Grateful Dead cover band. Tonight will feature two intimate sets: one electric and one acoustic. Tonight also marks Cosmic Charlie’s 10-year anniversary!

Gnat’s Landing 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5858 RYAN HORN AND RUSS PALMER This acoustic duo plays Southern rock with island flair.

Go Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ gobar HARP UNSTRUNG This local act gives melodic alternative rock a bluesy, Southern twist.

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.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 8–10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 THE HEALERS Local bona fide hardcore blues band recently re-formed with its original ‘90s lineup: Donny Ray Simonds, John Straw, John Davis, Jimmy Bolman and Steve Harding.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 9 p.m.–2 a.m. FREE! myspace.com/ littlekingsshuffleclub MUDCAT Swingin’ Atlanta blues band that takes cues from famous bluesmen like BB King.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $6 (adv), $8 (door), $5 (with UGA ID). meltingpointathens.com* THE MOVING IN STEREO BAND ‘80s dance party hosted by this high-energy retro band.

The Office Lounge 8 p.m. 706-546-8209 THE R.I.B.S. With energetic Southern and classic rock originals and covers, this band hopes to “inspire redneck behavior.”

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens FUNK CITY Tent City and Lassiez Funk collaborate for a funk project worthy of George Clinton himself.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net SERENATA ORCHESTRA Playing merengue music so you can get your dance on.

Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com ELECTRIK EELZ Veteran Athens musicians play party rock, pop, funk and blue-eyed soul classics.

Sunday 2 Calvary Chapel 7 p.m. FREE! www.calvaryathens.com CAROLINA STORY Christian folk/ Americana that sounds like Neko Case singing gospel.

JOY WHITLOCK Christian rocker plays hard-driving gospel.

Jot ‘Em Down Country Store & BBQ 5 p.m. FREE! 706-549-2110 90 ACRE FARM This acoustic trio plays traditional rock.

Square One Restaurant and Bar 1-4 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco. com SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH Rotating local jazz artists play on the patio.

Monday 3 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.

Fat Daddy’s 9 p.m. www.myspace.com/athensfatdaddys HELEN, DODGE Local Americana act performing both original music and obscure covers.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar FLICKER 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY BASH! Happy Birthday Flicker!

Tonight’s celebratory show features short solo sets from Don Chambers, Madeline, Thayer Sarrano, Shauna Greeson and more TBA!

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www. caledonialounge.com BEFORE THE SOLSTICE Heavy alt-rock trio whose weight lies in its social and political views.

SHINING THROUGH Radio-friendly modern alternative act with vocalscentered songs.

SHOOTOUT THE STARS Old-school pop-punk trio, like Blink used to make it.

WOLFGANG WILD Local indie rockers that revel in atonality and a dirty guitar sound.

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.

Lucky Dawg Billiards 7 p.m. 706-354-7829 HONKYTONK DAREDEVILS Southern rock delivered with outlaw country style.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com* THE INCORRIGIBLE STRING BAND Self-described as “hardcore bluegrass,” this band takes the darkness and attitude of hardcore and combines them with bluegrass instrumentation.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742 ASHUTTO MIRRA This alternative rock quartet features members of alterna-soul group The Revival.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens LATE NIGHT KILLERS Lo-fi garage punk/metal.

TEENAGE EYES Black Lips-style garage rock.

Half Moon Pub 11 p.m. FREE! 706-208-9712 THE PRIDE Local musician Lon Martin creates experimental melodies using synth, samples and noise.

Square One Restaurant and Bar 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco.com ROBBY WELLS Vocalist for the Savannah-based jam band Mellow Motion plays a solo acoustic set.

Square One Restaurant and Bar 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco.com MOSES JAMMOUL Local artist does acoustic originals and covers.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. www.tastyworld.net ERINA’S BIRTHDAY BASH Come celebrate Erina’s birthday with performances from Empire Down, Marissa Skolky and Touch!

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net BANG-UTOT Members of Stegosaurus mix things up with this new side project.

THE CUBISTS Augusta psych-shoegaze band in the vein of My Bloody Valentine.

REPTAR This up-and-coming local quartet sounds like the result of Animal Collective and Talking Heads teaming up to travel back in time and fight Napoleon. Dance shoes recommended.

SOAPBAR Local group plays diverse alt-rock informed by its folk peers.

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

Tuesday 4 Buffalo’s Southwest Café 7 p.m. $3. 706-613-8178.

TANGO AND LATIN DANCE NIGHT The Argentine Tango Club hosts this night of tango, salsa, cha cha, rumba and merengue.

Wednesday 5 Fat Daddy’s 10 p.m.–1 a.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 OPEN MIC Every Wednesday featuring Avery Dylan.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 8–10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193 GRAINS OF SAND This cover band performs classic Motown, soul and R&B hits from the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Jot ‘Em Down Country Store & BBQ Bill’s Surprise Birthday Party! 3 p.m.

FREE! 706-549-2110 KEN WILL MORTON Athens’ own Ken Will Morton is an engaging and

Saturday, Aug. 1

The What Cheer? Brigade, Bubbly Mommy Gun Farm 255 “Oh, yeah, man, second-graders make the best audiences by far,” says Nick Horton, trumpeter for Providence’s prime exponents of joyous punk rock marching band, The What Cheer? Brigade. He should know, too, because he and his cronies once received a grant from the state of Rhode Island to play during the recess periods of six different elementary schools over the course The What Cheer? Brigade of two days. Recess! What a dream job—and just think of the tiny minds they blew all across that ice-cold burg! Imagine what an 18-piece army of celebratory ragtag scrumblebums swinging and stomping their triumphantly martial horn-and-drum hoedowns across your grammar lessons and Curious George would do to your nine-year-old psyche. You’d be stoked all the way through puberty, Jack!

Matter-of-fact, the band has bravely maintained an unorthodox methodology—parfor-the-course, it seems, for a unit with such a high sore-thumb quotient. They travel with as many as 20-odd percussionists and horn-players (two tubas!), perpetuate a touring dress code that allows for only red and black (Go Dawgs!) and made forays into Eastern Europe before they made it to the American South.

Given their music, though, that last part seems real right on; they wear their overthe-top Balkan-street-band influences proudly on their scrappy uniform sleeves. Conjure a healthy mix of classic Providence art-damage, jarring chromatic hardcore progressions and a lot of pure healthy human joy on top of that, and you get an idea of what you’ll be dealing with here. I can’t wait to see what their explosive, idiosyncratic energy-spiels are gonna do to the patio of Farm 255. After watching this dude air-guitar to Puddin’ Tang with a forkful of free-range farfalle a few weeks back, I’ve been psyched to see it pushed further in that regard. Believe you me, these cats can make it happen—make that pleasant dining terrace feel like the final post-apocalyptic get-down: the funeral march for all the misery of the world! [Jim McHugh]

prolific songwriter with several fulllengths under his belt. His soulful rasp and sharp lyrics encompass both the heart of folk and the rough and tumble vitality of rock.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub TIMBER Frontman Daniel Aaron serves up his brand of hangoverfriendly country rock. His lyricfocused arrangements are often nestled within minimalist instrumentation, incorporating the fiddle, piano, pedal steel and xylophone.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $5. meltingpointathens.com BABY’S BLUE SWINGSET Vocalist Mary Sigalas pulls out all the stops in this classic jazz, swing and blues band.

THE JAKE MOWRER TRIO Guitarist Jake Mowrer (of Brazilian-style band Cachaça) teams ups with a couple of buddies on this new side project.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net KAOS House music every Wednesday! * Advance Tickets Available

Down the Line 8/6 Dark Meat / Dead Confederate / Drakkar Sauna / Quiet Hooves (40 Watt Club) 8/6 Lazer/Wulf / Swank Sinatra / Utah (Caledonia Lounge) 8/6 Don Chambers (Farm 255) 8/6 A Postwar Drama (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 8/6 Sonny Got Blue (Girasoles) 8/6 Drainbow / Moesha Jenkins (Go Bar) 8/6 Ashutto Mirra (Rye Bar) 8/6 Tropical Breezes Steel Band (Square One Restaurant and Bar)

8/7 DJ Kurt Wood / Reigning Sound / The Thomas Function (40 Watt Club)* 8/7 Redstone Ramblers (Broad Street Bar & Grill) 8/7 Bear / Ben Stevens & Nolan / Big John Bourbon / DJ Killacut / Molly / Stone Thrower / Terrebonne (Caledonia Lounge) 8/7 Helen, Dodge (Club Chrome) 8/7 Sean Arington / Kate Morrissey (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 8/7 Tent City (Square One Restaurant and Bar) 8/7 The Big Don Band (Wild Wing Café) 8/8 The Heap / The Rattlers / Rollins Home (40 Watt Club) 8/8 Athens Folk Society Band / Repent and Leisure (Athens Farmers Market) 8/8 Lelia Broussard / Nate Nelson / Bess Rogers / Allison Weiss (Caledonia Lounge) 8/8 Tangents (Club Chrome) 8/8 Deacon Brandon Reeves (Farm 255) 8/8 Richard Chamberlain and Andrew LaStrappes (Square One Restaurant and Bar) 8/8 Athens Habitat for Humanity 21st birthday party! (Tasty World Uptown) 8/8 High Strung (Terrapin Beer Co.) 8/9 Miwa Gemini / Ham1 / Jason Ajemian and The High Life (Farm 255) 8/9 Sunday Jazz Brunch (Square One Restaurant and Bar) 8/10 Randall Bramblett / Amber Landress (Ashford Manor)* 8/10 Buddha Heroes / So It Goes / Wrist Bandits (Caledonia Lounge) 8/10 The Pride (Half Moon Pub) 8/10 The Musicsmiths / The Solstice Sisters / The Vinyl Strangers (The Melting Point) 8/11 Adam Payne Band / Ashutto Mirra / James & The Rainbros / Space City (Caledonia Lounge) 8/11 Carl Lindberg (Farm 255)

8/12 How I Became the Bomb / The Lolligags / Marshmallow Coast (Caledonia Lounge) 8/12 Paul Lombard (Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill) 8/12 Marshall Ruffin Trio (Tasty World Uptown) 8/13 Mercury Veil (Terrapin Beer Co.) 8/14 Amy Ray / Von Iva (40 Watt Club)* 8/14 John Fernandes / Summer Hymns (Farm 255) 8/14 Sons of Sailors (Higdon House Inn and Gardens) 8/14 Monahan (Terrapin Beer Co.) 8/15 Caroline Aiken / Mary Sigalis and Friends (Athens Farmers Market) 8/15 Dr. Ian Johnson (Borders Books & Music) 8/15 Jazz Night (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 8/15 Chrissakes / GG King / Vincas (Farm 255) 8/15 The Brunettes / Throw Me the Statue (Go Bar) 8/15 Moon Taxi (Rye Bar) 8/15 Celeb Stine (Terrapin Beer Co.) 8/15 Strawberry Flats (The Melting Point)* 8/18 High Strung (The Melting Point)* 8/20 The King Live: One Night with You (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 8/20 Dave Howard (Terrapin Beer Co.) 8/20 Sensational Sounds of Motown (The Melting Point)* 8/21 The Suex Effect (Terrapin Beer Co.) 8/21 Abbey Road LIVE! (The Melting Point)* 8/22 Heathens / Mike Eudy and Sean Arington (Athens Farmers Market) 8/22 The Mantras (Farm 255) 8/22 Rachel O’Neal (Terrapin Beer Co.) 8/24 Mama’s Love / Grant Mitchell (Ashford Manor)*

8/25 Grogus (State Botanical Garden of Georgia)* 8/25 String Theory (The Melting Point)* 8/26 Gay Africa / Here Comes a Big Black Cloud (Farm 255) 8/26 The Eric Culberson Blues Band (The Melting Point)* 8/27 The Hypsys / JazzChronic (No Where Bar) 8/27 Sam Bush Band (The Melting Point) 8/28 Heavy Petty (Farm 255) 8/29 High Strung String Band / Dave Howard (Athens Farmers Market) 8/29 Kyshona Armstrong (Farm 255) 8/29 Vinyl Strangers (Terrapin Beer Co.) 8/29 Francine Reed (The Melting Point) 9/2 Matthew Pop (Rye Bar) 9/3 Holiday Shores (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 9/3 Curley Maple (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/5 Fiddle-DW / The Music Smiths (Athens Farmers Market) 9/7 Dirk Howell / Adam Klein (Ashford Manor)* 9/8 The Driftwood Band (The Melting Point)* 9/10 Tea Leaf Green (40 Watt Club)* 9/12 Will Hoge (40 Watt Club)* 9/15 Smokey’s Farmland Band (The Melting Point)* 9/17 Bloodkin / Leon Russell (The Melting Point)* 9/18 Efren (Rye Bar) 9/18 The Border Lions (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/18 John “JoJo”Hermann (The Melting Point)* 9/21 Lera Lynn / Packway Handle Band (Ashford Manor)* 9/24 Ian Thomas (Terrapin Beer Co.) 9/25 Corey Smith (The Classic Center)* 9/25 The Jesters (The Melting Point)* 9/29 The North Georgia Bluegrass Band (The Melting Point)* 10/2 A Darker Shade / Matthew Pop (Rye Bar) 10/2 Rack of Spam (The Melting Point) 10/6 Lonesome Traveler (The Melting Point)*

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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 Artists (Hampton Fine Art Gallery, Greensboro) Local artists are invited to submit one work of art for the “Third Annual Local Art Exhibition.” This year’s theme: the roaring 20s, 30s and 40s. $25 entry fee. Entries must be hand delivered Aug. 21–24, 12–4:30 p.m. www. artistcameronhampton.com Call for Entries (ATHICA) Seeking strong, focused proposals from curators, teams or potential featured artists who have missionappropriate installations or cohesive bodies of work for slots in late 2010 and 2011. Deadline Sept. 19. www. athica.org/callforentries.php

AUDITIONS Appointment with Death (Elberton Arts Center) Encore Productions is holding auditions for upcoming production of the Agatha Christie murder mystery.

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Aug. 10–11 & 13, 5:30–7:30 p.m. 706-283-1049, tking@cityofelberton.net

CLASSES Acting for Film Workshop (106 West Performing Arts Venue, Winder) Next six-week session of this ongoing workshop led by Dick Mays starts July 14, but you can come anytime. Consistent class attendees will have the opportunity to work on a short film. Open to ages 16 & up. No acting experience necessary. Tuesdays, 6:45 p.m. $95 (adults), $65 (students). 770-8681977, beckytollerson@106west.com

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Aquatic Aerobics (Memorial Park) Low-impact exercise sessions with Kim Saxton on Saturdays (10 a.m.), and Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays (6 p.m.). No preregistration necessary. $5/session.

706-613-3580 Art Biz Turn your art into your business at this one-day limited enrollment workshop. July 25 at The Point of Art in Union Point and Aug. 1 at OCAF in Watkinsville. 706-4866808, www.artbiz.biz Art Classes (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Now registering for fall classes. Offerings include drawing, watercolor, oil painting, folk art, clay arts, book making and bag pipes.

706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com Baby Signs (Full Bloom Center) Workshop that teaches parents how to use the Baby Signs program at home. Aug. 1, 3–4:30 p.m. $55/ person, $75/couple. 850-653-5016, www.babysignsprogram.com/withtraceysummers Beginning Genealogy (Oconee County Library) Learn how and where to begin genealogy research.

Registration required. Aug. 1, 2–3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 Belly Dance for Fitness (Floorspace) Women of all sizes and experience welcome. Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. $12 drop-in. bellydancebody@gmail.com Bradley Method Natural Childbirth Classes (Various Locations) Call or email Bobbi Jean Singleton for details. 706-474-4126, bj@innerbodyworks.net 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). 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Computer Classes (ACC Library) “Advanced Internet and

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Safety Skills” (July 30) and “Mouse and Keyboard Skills” (Aug. 6). In the Educational Technology Center. Call to register. 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Concrete Leaf-Casting (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn how to use large leaves to cast concrete forms that can be used for bird baths or creative garden accents.

Pre-registration required. Aug. 13, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $27. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden Conditioning Boot Camp (Canopy Studio) Boot camp using trapeze, weight balls and the body to strengthen and build muscle tone.

Tuesdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $15/class.

706-549-8501 Craft Classes (Main Street Yarns, Watkinsville) Offering instruction in knitting, crocheting, wheel spinning and more. Full schedule online.

706-769-5531, www.mainstreetyarns.com Creating More Prosperity and Abundance in Your Life (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Laurie Hart leads the class in techniques such as EFT, dowsing and meditation.

First and third Tuesday of every month. Aug. 4, 7–9 p.m. $10. 706546-1107, hartlem@earthlink.net Expressive Pottery in the Electric Kiln (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Maria Dondero leads a two-day, intensive workshop that covers techniques for bringing varied, layer surface design to pots fired in an electric kiln. Aug. 8–9, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $60. 706-769-4565, info@ocaf.com Gentle Yoga (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Bring your own mat or towel and wear loose clothing. Julie Horne, instructor.

Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $9/class.

706-354-1996

Lou Kregel will be showing new work at Studio #13 in the Mercury A.I.R. building at 159 Oneta St. on Friday, July 31, 5–8 p.m.

Maternity Aqua Shape-Up (Memorial Park) Aquatic aerobics class for expectant mothers.

Saturdays, 11 a.m. $5/class. 706613-3580 Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (Mind Body Institute) Four-week course starts Aug. 11.

Tuesdays, 6–8 p.m. $75. 706-4757329, www.armc.org/mbi Open Art Studio (Art School, Watkinsville) Led by Tracy Jefferies.

Participants work at their own pace, and instruction is provided as

requested. Reduced fee if you bring your own supplies. Open to all experience levels. Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $175 for 8 classes (includes supplies). artschoolstreet@gmail. com, www.artschoolwatkinsville.com Photography Classes (Georgia Center) Now registering for new fall photography classes (schedule and descriptions online). During FREE! open house the public is invited to meet the instructors and see their work with no obligation. Register for open house online. July 30,

ART AROUND TOWN A-Ok Cafe New paintings by Ainhoa Bilbao Canup.

Through July.

ACC Library (Top of the Stairs Gallery) Work by Michael Alexander of the GA Fine Arts Academy.

Through July. (Top of the Stairs Gallery) Paintings by Teddy Johnson. Aug. 1–31.

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.

Aurum Studio New show featuring work by local potter Maria Dondero, painter Joy Stanley from Macon and fiber artist Margaret Hunt from Clarks Hill, SC. Through Aug. 15.

Big City Bread Cafe Paintings by Ruth Allen.

Through July.

Black Forest Bakery & Deli New floral paintings by Marshall L. Reddoch. Through Sept. 20.

Ciné “Mighty Monsters” explores inner monsters and social monsters though photography and mixed media by Jillian Guarco and Liz Williams. Through Aug. 16. Reception Aug. 14.

Downtown Watkinsville Artscape 2009, an outdoor display of art boards created by 10 local artists that is sponsored by the City of Watkinsville and Grassroots Arts Program. Through Sept. 30.

Earth Fare Cat art by Robin Fay, James Dean, Cecile Moore, Josh Payne, Cathy Dailey and more. Through July.

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

Five Star Day Cafe—Eastside New oil paintings by Jacob Wenzka. Through July.

Flicker Theatre & Bar New paintings by Matt Blanks. Through July.

Gallery 110 (Watkinsville) Brightly colored terra cotta pottery and sculpture by Katie McFarland.

Good Dirt New work by Wisconsin potter Joe Singewold and a new collection by Min Soo Yuh. Through mid-August.

The Grit Ivette Spradlin’s color photographs that document small-scale domesticity and family life in Cuba. Through Aug. 1.

Highwire Lounge Black and white photography by Chrissy Reed. Through mid-August.

Ice House Underground (Madison) Exhibit

6:30–8:30 p.m. www.georgiacenter. uga.edu 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 Take One: A Fundamental Look at Screenwriting (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) An intro to screenwriting taught by veteran writer Terry Kay, a regional

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) Paintings by D.M. Kirwin. Through July. (Five Points) Paintings by Elaine Oye. Through August.

Just Pho…and More Work by Stephen Humphreys. Aug. 1–Sept. 15.

Acrylic paintings by Leslie Moody. Through July 30.

Lamar Dodd School of Art (Gallery 307) “Renovations: In Progress,” featuring work by Scott Belville. Through Aug. 21. Closing reception Aug. 21.

Lyndon House Arts Center “Light After Dark,” featuring a selection of dream-like landscapes by photographers Karekin and Ginger Goekjian. Through Aug. 15. A juried exhibition of works by members of the Southeastern Pastel Society. Through Aug. 15.

Madison-Morgan Cultural Center “The Reclamation of Memory,” an exhibit curated by renowned Atlanta mixed-media artist Lynn MarshallLinnemeier. Presented in conjunction with the 2009 National Black Arts Festival. Through Aug. 29.

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

Mercury A.I.R. (Studio 13) Lou Kregel shows new work and provides refreshments. July 31, 5–8 p.m.

Monroe Art Guild Summer Members’ Show.

Through Aug. 26. www.monroeartguild.org Oconee County Library Photographs by Jane Crisan. Through July.

Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation Work by the attendees of OCAF’s summer art camp. July 24–Aug. 1. www.ocaf.com State Botanical Garden of Georgia “Botanical Fantasy,” featuring contemporary brightly colored floral canvases by award-winning Southeastern artist Veva Dunckel. Through Aug. 23.

Reception July 26.

Transmetropolitan (Oglethorpe Ave.) Large charcoal pieces and smaller oil pastels by Mark Watkins in a style he calls expressive surrealism.

Through July 31.

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.

White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates Ceramic sculptures by Emily Tatum. Through July.

Emmy winner for his teleplay Run Down the Rabbit. Sept. 26 & 27. $150. 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com Tech Tips: Skype (ACC Library) Learn how to use Skype to communicate in a cost-effective way. Aug. 12, 7–8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Yoga Classes (Athens Wellness Coop) Offerings include Rise and Shine Yoga, Yoga for Back Pain and Yoga for Weight Loss. $14/drop-in, $60/6 classes, $108/12 classes. www.wellnesscooperative.com Yoga Classes (Mind Body Institute) Safe, effective classes for every body. Beginner and specialty classes with morning, afternoon and evening meeting times. 706-4757329, www.armc.org/mbi Yoga Classes (Sangha Yoga Studio) Gentle Yoga (Tuesdays, 12–1 p.m.) and Prenatal Yoga (Thursdays, 10:30–11:45 a.m.) led by Bobbi Jean Singleton. $14/ drop-in, $60/6-class punch card. bjm_js@bellsouth.net Yoga on the Eastside (Full Bloom Center) New classes Wednesdays (6 p.m.) and Sundays (9 a.m.). All levels welcome. www. fullbloomparent.com Yoga Teacher Training (Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution Studio) 200hour training. $100 tuition discount for students who register before the end of June. $1000. 561-723-6172, vastuyoga@hotmail.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 $1,000 gas card. 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. on any Saturday through Nov. 14.

Volunteers usually get vegetable donations from the farmers. marketmanager@athensfarmersmarket.net Become a Mentor (Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens) Volunteer one hour per week to make a difference in the life of a child. Training provided. 706-546-4910, mentor@ athensbgca.com, www.fflife.net Bike Recycling Program (Chase Street Warehouses) Join BikeAthens volunteers as they clean and repair donated bicycles for local service agencies. Bike repair skills a plus, but not necessary. Sunday, 2–4 p.m. Monday & Wednesday, 6–8 p.m. www.bikeathens.com Book Donations (Oconee County Library) Collecting gently used books for the library’s annual fundraising book sale. Drop items at the library or call Pat Hallow, 706-3100880, to arrange a pick-up.

Foster Homes Needed (Athens Area Humane Society) AAHS is looking for dependable foster parents to take in cats/dogs for a limited time (often 2–4 weeks).

Download an application at www. athenshumanesociety.org. foster@ athenshumanesociety.org Volunteers Needed (Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic) Seeking volunteers to contribute 90 minutes per week reading and recording textbooks for the print disabled. 706549-1313, kstanley@rfbd.org Volunteers Needed (CASA, 220 College Avenue) Athens-Oconee CASA, a program of Children First, is now recruiting volunteers for a fall

training session. CASA volunteers provide legeal advocacy for abused and neglected children. 706-6131922, www.athensoconeecasa.org

KIDSTUFF Babies & Beasties Series (Sandy Creek) Help your toddler discover nature. Ages 18 months–2 years. Registration required.

Summer session: Thursdays, Aug. 6–27, 10 a.m. $7. 706-613-3615 Be Creative @ Your Library (ACC Library) Calling all young authors and illustrators. 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! 706-613-3650 Kids’ Art Camps (Good Dirt) Now registering for summer art camps.

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

706-355-3161 Mommy/Daddy and Me Trapeze (Canopy) Parents will guide their children in a range of exercises on the floor and low trapezes. Ages 1–3. Sundays, 10–11 a.m. $10/class. 706-549-8501, info@canopystudio.com Red Cross Babysitting Course (Memorial Park) A Red Cross certified instructor will guide participants through the basic skills needed to babysit. Register by July 31. Ages 11–15. Aug. 4, 9 a.m.– 3:30 p.m. $35. 706-613-3580 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 Domestic Violence Support Group (Call for location) Dinner begins at 6 p.m. and group at 6:30 p.m. Call Project Safe hotline at 706-543-3331 for location. 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month in Clarke County. 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month in Madison County. 6–8 p.m.

Emotional Abuse Support Group (Call for location) Demeaning behavior and hateful words can be just as harmful as punches. Childcare is provided. Call Project Safe hotline at 706-5433331. Wednesdays, 6:30–8 p.m.

Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Informal and supportive 12-step program. Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotionsanonymous.org Mental Health Support Group (St. Mary’s Hospital) Meets in the lobby conference room.

Thursdays, 6:30–8 p.m. 706-7835706, www.athensmentalhealth.org

ON THE STREET ATHICA 4Lease (ATHICA) Dates available from July 30–Aug. 20 to use ATHICA’s 4Lease space for summer parties, exhibits and other events. www.athica.org/4lease.php Creative Consultants UGA’s student-run PR firm is looking for new clients for the upcoming year.

The group offers free PR services for businesses and non-profits. 614946-2225, kaitlyn.darr@gmail.com Men with Aprons (Downtown Watkinsville) Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build Program will host a Men’s Bake Sale Aug. 7. The program is looking for men interested in baking treats. Baked goods must be dropped off at the Habitat office by noon on Aug. 7. 706-208-1001, womenbuild@athenshabitat.com f

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Wednesday, July 29 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

7:00—7:30: Heidi Hensley

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7:45—8:15: Megan Jean

and the Klay Family Band

7.30 • thursdays

napoleon solo

7.31 • friday night rocks

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8.1 • saturday

live music with electrik eelz 8.2 • sunday

8:45—9:15: Chelsea Lynn La Bate

team trivia!

9:30—10:00: Heidi Hensley

8.3 • mondays

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$6.00 - $9.00, Suggested donation (but no one turned away for lack of funds.)

*Children under 6 free!*

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Matters Of The Heart And Loins

I think you enjoy your current lifestyle but you are obviously hungry for a little more. It sounds like you find her intriguing/ challenging, but in a way that just makes you want to try to live up to the challenge, which, if you ask me, is perfect. There is no reason why you have to give up the things you love, but there is no reason why you can’t push yourself a little while you are at it. It’s nice to have to work a little at something.

If she is willing to give it a shot, you should be, too. Who knows? Maybe you’ll rub off on each other, so to speak. And if it works out, when you get married and buy a house, you can have a nice air-conditioned shed out back for all of your man things.

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I’m 40 and never have been married. I’ve had a handful of long-term relationships, none of which turned out well. Finally, I just gave up and didn’t think about it. Instead, I focused on other things (guitar, work, etc.). Eventually, I met a girl. She’s 30, and we get along great. I think she’s the most intellectual woman I’ve ever had a date with. I really enjoyed our date. The problem is that I almost felt like she was too sophisticated for me.

I’m responsible. I hold a good, steady job. I have no debt. I don’t drink too much.

But I just don’t feel entirely grown up. My apartment has only the essential furniture and is otherwise cluttered with all the things that I love: motorcycle parts, guitars, DVDs, video games.

She, on the other hand, is very poised and reserved. She is very into style and her place is really put together—not to the point that she’s boring or unfunny, but in a way that you really feel like you’re talking to an adult. I tend to relate more towards younger people. My coworkers are all in their mid-20s. When we go out I feel like I’m being myself. With this woman, I felt like I need to act a little more mature.

So, I started thinking about it.

Am I just another Peter-Pan case? I don’t think I am, but with my dating history and current lifestyle I feel a little like a cliché. Normally, I wouldn’t waste time wondering.

But this girl has me wondering if it is time for me to think about changing. What do you think?

Chad

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I think you are right to be concerned about the drinking, but like you said, it might just be a coincidence. So, I guess I would say not a deal-breaker yet. But you know what is a deal-breaker, Anonymous? She is your fucking neighbor. Are you insane? Do you know how many ways this can go wrong? Are you willing to break your lease and move if it does?

Think about it: If things go well, you have a nice new girlfriend who lives right on top of

you and knows your every move. If they don’t go well, then you have a new neighbor with a potential vendetta. Is that any way to live? It sounds like you like her well enough, so why not just make friends? Then you can spend more time getting to know her, find out if she actually is an alcoholic, and then if you decide you really do want to date her, you can move out of the building.

norma town

I met a girl as she was moving into my building. She was pretty cute, so I asked her if she needed help moving her stuff in. After she was settled in, we started talking a bit and I asked her if I could take her out to welcome her to Athens. She had a friend in town. So, I called one of my friends to come along. The night was a lot of fun, and soon it felt like an actual date. By the end of the night, we were all pretty much wasted, but I didn’t think anything of it because we were celebrating.

The next week she had friends in town again and, again, we all drank. Her friends had to get up early, so they turned in. My neighbor and I continued to hang out at my place. I didn’t realized how drunk she was until that point.

She got kind of crazy to the point that it was very awkward for me.

So, I pretty much politely kicked her out. We didn’t talk for a couple of days, but I ran into her in the building later. We started talking and decided to go out that night. We ended up going out with my friends. She was sober the whole night. I had told my friends about the previous nights, and they were expecting the worst. They all thought she was cool and very cute. I started to rethink my decision not to date her. That night she came over and we stayed up talking. Nothing happened, but it was very cool.

The next day she offered to make me dinner. When I got there she was wasted. She was acting crazy again. I ate dinner and then tried to talk. It was impossible. Half the time she couldn’t pronounce words and she couldn’t string a sentence together. I think she wanted to hook up because when I abruptly told her I was leaving, she acted shocked. (As if it were impossible for a guy to turn down sex.) I felt like I was back to the previous nights of excess.

So, is there any chance that her being drunk 75 percent of the time I’ve seen her is a coincidence? Maybe she was just bored. She doesn’t really know anyone in town yet. Other than her friends being in town a couple of weekends, she hasn’t gone out a ton yet. I keep thinking about the one night she didn’t drink. She was so much fun and actually hit it off with my friends. She’s got a good job. She’s pretty. I feel like it’s hard to let a girl like that go.

Anonymous

Lexington Rd. LOWE’S

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Real Estate Apartments for Rent $450/mo. Alexi Apartments. 1 lg.

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

1BR/1BA + study/guest r m.

Security gates, pool, fitness center, 1 mi. from campus.

Excellent condition. $650/mo. Pets OK. Call Rob (706) 338-4984 or email robwimberly@gmail.com.

1BR/1BA some utils. $525/mo.

Garden apt. Nice. $490/mo. Call (706) 425-9626.

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

2BR/1BA. CHAC, W/D, nice yd. $825/mo. ARMC area. Call (706) 425-9626.

2BR/1BA. Central location off Broad St. at King Ave. 125 Honeysuckle Lane. Total electric.

Water/trash incl. $450/mo. w/ $300 sec. dep. Lease/dep. Ref’s req’d.

No pets. (706) 227-6000.

2BR/2BA apt. w/ FP. Just outside perimeter off Jefferson Rd. W/D connection. Big kitchen w/ breakfast area. Patio. $600/mo.

RE/MAX Realtor Michelle Watson (706) 433-2712.

2BR/2BA condo. Screened porch, tennis & pool in complex, no pets, NS. $600/mo. (706) 540-2818.

1BR apt. for $475/mo. 2BR apt. starting at $700/mo. 3BR apt starting at $1000/mo. All close to campus! Howard Properties (706) 546-0300.

2BR/2BA at Mooseclub C o n d o m i n i u m s . Close to campus. W/D. On busline.

Recreation complex w/ volleyball & swimming pool. Avail Aug. $700/mo. Call (706) 202-4777.

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New Categories! To satisfy Athens’ Classified Ad needs! All coming this August. And still the lowest rates in town, Flagpole Classifieds helping Athens keep your ear to the ground!

Blvd. 1BR apt. NS, no pets. (706) 340-1283.

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

(706) 742-8555.

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

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

3BR/2.5BA Eastside townhome.

Spacious & convenient, on bus route. Pets allowed. Incl. W/D. Only $750/mo. Call Aaron (706) 207-2957.

2BR Riverbend Rd. Incl.

CHAC, DW, W/D hookups. $500/ mo. Flexible move-in dates.

Call (706) 546-6900 or email ValerioTeam@aol.com. $275/BR. Near UGA, Riverbend Pkwy. Athens Transit Bus #12, UGA Bus. W/D, DW, pool, ceiling fans. No pets pls. (706) 543-8505. $475–525/mo. 1BR/1BA, 2 Blocks to town & campus.

Lg. BR, CHVAC, great view of city, ceiling fans, some screen porches. Owner pays water & garbage. Avail. for July or Aug. move–in. Boulevard​Property​ Management.com, (706) 548-9797.

$700/mo. 2BR/2.5BA. Woodstone Park condo. 1.5 mi. from UGA on busline. CHAC, W/D, DW, deck. Water/trash incl. Pets OK. Avail. 8/1. (706) 202-9628.

1BR apts great location! Rent starts at $443.34/mo. Move in July or August for free, on 1 & 2BR apts. 2BRs start at $506.67/mo.

3BRs start at $705/mo. Sec. dep. start at $150. Restrictions apply.

Spacious, pet friendly, on busline.

Call today! (706) 549-6254.

1BR garden apt., partially furnished, in historic Cobbham in-town n’hood.

CHAC, wireless internet, water & garbage incl. $500/mo. Avail. 8/1.

Call (706) 255-7631.

1BR, 3BR & 4BR rentals near Campus. Pictures & video online.

Go to www.OffCampusRealty.com.

(877) GO-DAWGS. 1BR/1BA Normaltown in–house apt. CHAC, W/D, DW, ceiling fans, HWflrs, near busline. Water, trash, internet incl. NS grad student, professional preferred. Dog possible. Avail. 9/1. $550/mo., neg. w/ babysitting. (706) 227-9116.

1BR/1BA in–town near both hospitals w/ renovated kitchen in a woodland residential area. $450/ mo. incl. water & garbage. $450 dep. for 8/1 occupancy. (706) 255-7631.

2BR/1BA renovated apts., perfect for grad students, nice & quiet, close to campus & Dwntn. 245 China St. $500/mo. Incl. water & trash, no dogs, laundry onsite.

Chris (706) 202-5156.

2BR/2.5BA luxury condo.

Along river. Avail. 8/1. HWflrs., W/D, DW, ceiling fans, deck, amenities galore, convenient to everything.

Call Matt at (706) 248-9088.

2BR/2.5BA near Little 5 Pts. W/D in unit. 1st, last mo. rent dep. at signing. Pets $500 dep. (678) 4889762, bspurloc@gmail.com.

2BR/2BA. $750/mo. Westside apt.

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2BR/2BA Harris Place Apar tments. 1 block from Varsity! Move in today, pay 1st rent 9/1! Incl. CHAC, DW, W/D. $650/mo. Flexible move–in dates.

Call (706) 546-6900 or email ValerioTeam@aol.com.

ARMC/Nor maltown area.

Only $600/mo, spacious 2BR condo, pool, 1.5mi to Dwntn, near ARMC, Avail. 8/1. Call (706) 5403491 or email thomas2785@aol. com for info.

Best deal in town! El Dorado 2BR/1BA & studio apts. in Normaltown. Free water, gas, basic cable & wireless Internet.

W/D in 2BR units. Dog runs. $420– $675/mo. Joiner & Associates (706) 549-7371.

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Woodlands of Athens.

3BR/3BA full of amenities. Gated c o m m u n i t y, g re a t s p e c i a l s .

Reduced to only $1050/mo. Call Pete (706) 372-3319.

Blvd. 1BR apt. NS, no pets. (706) 340-1283.

Condo for rent. 3BR/2.5BA, close to UGA. Dep. req’d. Pool. $800/ mo. Call (770) 307-7003.

Downtown Luxury 4BR/2BA. W/D, lg. newly renovated historic bldg., many extras incl. lg. deck.

Avail. 8/1. Call (706) 425-4048 or (706) 296-1863.

Eastside Cedar Shoals Dr. 4 min. to UGA. Preleasing for Fall!

5BR/3BA. Lg. rms. Total electric.

W/D incl. Lawncare & trash p/u paid. $995/mo. Unbelievable!

(706) 621-0077.

Luxury Studios. UGA C a m p u s L o c a t i o n . We l l apportioned, private laundry & on UGA bus stop. Move–in special: no security deposit!

(706) 540-2829.

Efficiency 1 rm. garage apt. on Lumpkin St. Lease & dep. req’d.

Avail. immediately. $400/mo. incl. water. Call (706) 714-8409.

Six months lease OK. Next to campus. 2BR duplex w/ all appls.

836 S. Church St. $650/mo. Avail.

8/1. Call Owner/Broker Herbert Bond at (706) 224-8002.

South Milledge Area.Newly renovated. 4BR/2BA, W/D, DW, private fenced backyd. $975/ mo. Pamela, Property Manager (706) 247-1805. Go to www. azevedoproperties.com to see listings. Bruce Azevedo, Inc. Special! Lg. 1BR/1BA apts.

Great location, W/D on property.

Kitchen w/ all appls., parking. $450/mo. Call (706) 546-0600, go to www.parkerandassociates.com.

Studio apt. on Meigs St. in charming house close to Dwntn.

HWflrs, porch, lots of light, NS, no pets. Avail. 8/1. $450/mo. (706) 224-5273, lv. msg.

Upscale Westside Condo.

2BR/2.5BA, HWFlrs, gas logs, sunrm., convenient, safe, $850/ mo. Also avail., 2BR/2BA Townhouse duplex on Jennings Mill Rd. $725/mo. Call Owner/ Agent, G.A.R.E.#130573 at706540-4111. Email bloyd@kw.com.

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

Converted clubhouse into a huge open flr. plan. 4BR/2.5BA, $1200/mo. 5 Pts. 2BR/2.5BA. lv. rm w/ FP. Corner lot. $700/ mo. Eastside quadraplex 2BR/2BA, $525/mo. 2BR/1BA, $490/mo. Call M c Wa t e r s Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700 or cell (706) 540-1529.

Commercial Property Paint Artist Studiofor 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.

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

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

The BEST Deal in Five Points Just Got Better!

www.athens-ga-rental.com

2BR/2BA very lg. garden apts. at 350 S. Pope St., at the Georgetown Apts. 1 block from dorms on Baxter.

Rent incl. water, monthly pest, garbage p/u, & lawn maintenance.

Call (706) 338-2534 for more details, & I can email you pics too.

Eastside offices for lease. 1060 Gaines School Rd. 170 sq. ft., $375/ mo., 500 sq. ft., $625/mo., 1200 sq. ft., $1200/mo. (706) 546-1615 or athenstownproperties.com.

Retail Suites for lease at Homewood Village. 1K–12,500 sq. ft. avail. For more info call Bryan Austin at (706) 353-1039 or visit www.sumnerproperties.net.

Salon/office. Could be used for massage therapist. nail tech, esthatician, or office. All utils except phone incl. Centrally located on Milledge/5 Pts. Awesome location! $600/mo.

(706) 202-2260.

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

2BR/1BA Blvd. area duplex. Energy efficient, total electric, recently renovated, W/D, DW, HVAC, shared fenced yd, some pets OK. Avail. now. Lease/dep./refs. req’d. $650/ mo. (706) 227-6000.

2BR/1BA Duplex on Eastside.

172 Laurie Dr. off Cedar Shoals Dr. $525/mo. Avail. ASAP. Clean w/ W/D, FP, CHVAC. Call (706) 201-9222.

3–4BR/4BA house. Great location!

Walk to Dwntn. $1400/mo. All appls. 200 MLK Jr. Pkwy. Avail.

8/1. (706) 713-0626.

3BR/1BA brick house w/ carport.

Fenced yd. Pets OK. $650/mo.

Attractive brick 3BR/1BA house also avail., CHAC, DW, W/D, & carport. $750/mo. Call (706) 548-5869.

3BR/3BA Eastside. Quiet n’hood. $1100/mo. All appls. 213 Springtree St. Avail 8/1. (706) 713-0626.

3BR/3BA. Modern style houses.

New construction! Only 1 mi. from Dwntn. Concrete & bamboo flring throughout. Energy efficient, unique materials. Over 1400 sq. ft.

Awesome opportunity to live in a brand new custom house by local design/build firm. (706) 425-9626 w/ any questions or to see houseplans.

4BR/2BA quaint house in country.

9 mi. from Dwntn Athens. Avail. now! $950/mo. (706) 540-8461. $900/mo. 4BR/2BA remodel on Greenway. 2 blocks to Dwntn.

Granite countertops, sunrm., W/D. Pets OK. Call (678) 491-4800. $950/mo. 1060 Oglethorpe Ave. 3BR/2BA house, HWflrs., CHAC, lg. deck, pets OK, lg. fenced backyd. Great for dogs, walk to Transmet, Allen’s, Navy School. On busline. Avail. 8/1. Call Bill (770) 540-5896.

Affordable housing. Houses, condos, A-frame all $550/mo. or less. Various locations. Excellent cond. Cats permitted w/ dep. Call (706) 202-0147.

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.

Huge 5BR/4BA Nor maltown home. 2 lv. rms., FP, 2 kitchens.

Safe parking, deck & patio w/ grill.

RE/MAX Realtor Michelle Watson (706) 433-2712. $2K/mo. Pets OK.

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

Features incl. DW, W/D, private BAs, pool! Leasing special! $400–$485/BR. Call (706) 543-1910 or email becky@ landmarkathens.com.

Beautifully designed 3BR/2.5BA. 7+ wooded ac. w/ pond & Beaverdam Creek. Near Athens.

Heart–of–pine concrete counters, eco-cabinets, glass & slate tile, bamboo flrs. 2 decks, cobber railings, 12V lights, hot tub, much glass. Flexible lease, could furnish. $1200/mo. (706) 714-3877.

1130 Rankin Rd. 2BR/1BA home w/ convenient location in Oconee Co. $550/mo. Avail. 7/15! Pls. call (706) 540-1810, (706) 433-2072, or email cbolen@upchurchrealty.com.

2BR house in Paradise. 30 mi. to UGA. Pine & oak floors, CHAC, huge front porch, separate workshop, fenced lot surrounded by 100 acres. $565/mo. (706) 549-4580.

4BR/4BA & 5BR/5BA brand new houses Dwntn. 1 mi. from Arch.

Incl. W/Ds. Pets OK. $1700– $2100/mo. Aaron (706) 207-2957.

New Construction! 3BR/2.5BA Historic–Style Cottage on Lake St., 1569 sq. ft., $1350/mo., tin roof, HWflrs., greenspace & trails. www.fullcircleathens.com. $1050/mo. 3BR/2BA house in country. 9 mi. from Dwntn. W/D hookup, DW, FP. Call (706) 540-8461. $1100/mo. 4BR/2.5BA house, Eastside. W/D, DW. 5 min. from campus. 2–car garage. Fenced yd. Pets OK w/ dep. (706) 6140522, lv. msg. $395 and up! 1BR, 2BR, 3BR, 4BR, & 5BR. Prices reduced!

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

Many historical houses w/ lg. rms, high ceilings, big windows, HWflrs., old–world charm, modern amenities. Porches, & yds. Pet friendly. These go fast! Email for list: luckydawg96@yahoo.com. $475–525/mo. 1BR/1BA, 2 Blocks to town & campus, Lg. BR, CHVAC, great view of city, ceiling fans, some screen porches. Owner pays water & garbage. Avail. for July or Aug. move–in. Go to boul evard​ property​management.com, (706) 548-9797. $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. $825/mo. 3BR/2BA, lg. house.

5 min. to campus. Popular Eastside, safe n’hood, excellent condition, no pets. 475 Crestwood Dr. Mike (706) 207-7400, email mikejoyner@charter.net. $825/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.

14 Altine Way. Great house.

4BR/2BA. Close to Beechwood Shopping Center & Alps Rd. School. All appls. Lg. screened back deck. $995/mo. + dep. (706) 549-5128, cell (706) 206-3350.

145 Mell St. 3BR/3BA, 5 Pts., 2 blocks to UGA, $500/BR. Free utilities. CHAC, W/D, DW, wood flrs. hathawayproperties@gmail. com, (706) 714-4486.

149 Eaglewood Way. Awesome location, 5 Pts. 4BR/2.5BA end unit condo on busline. HVAC, DW, W/D, decks, pool. Cheap! $1000/ mo. + dep. Avail. 8/1. Jimmy (706) 338-7257.

180 Old Cleveland Rd. Bogart.

Near loop, 78 & 316. 3BR/1BA ranch. CHAC, appls., W/D hookup, incl. water, sewer. $700/mo. + dep.

(706) 353-0196, (706) 247-3499.

2BR/1BA cute house. W/D. CHAC. In secluded cul-de-sac. Pets OK! $675/mo. Great neighbors, great for grad student/young couples.

On Beaverdam. Aug. paid.

Move-in flexible. Email katyg13@ hotmail.com.

2BR/1BA duplex located on Eastside. Convienent to school & shopping. All appl. incl. W/D. Great condition. $525/mo. Owner/ Agent (706) 540-0472.

2BR/1BA duplex, off Beaverdam Rd. On the Eastside. All electric.

W/D hookups, DW, lg. wooded lot. $500/mo. Won’t last! Great price! 1 mo. dep. Call D.D. (770) 868-7198.

2BR/1BA duplex. Willow Run near ARMC. Incl. W/D hookups, DW, CHAC. $595/mo. Call (706) 546-6900 or email ValerioTeam@ aol.com.

2BR/1BA, 151 Marlin St. off North Ave. Split level duplex. 4 blocks from Dwntn, recently renovated.

New kitchen, W/D, bamboo flrs., CHAC, fenced yd. $675/mo. Dave (706) 201-9222.

2BR/1BA. 270 Laurie Dr. Great quiet grad student housing, 5 min. from campus. Newly renovated, DW, CHAC, NS, no pets, alarm wired. $600/mo, lease/dep./refs req’d.

Contact 270laurie@gmail.com.

349 Oak St. 2BR/1BA. Fenced backyd. 1 mi. to Sanford Stadium. $750/mo. + dep. Call (706) 2076071, Ralph Bryant or robryant@ bellsouth.net.

3BR/1BA on Northcrest Dr. $750/ mo. Granite countertops, new paint, total electric, CHAC. Bonus rm., W/D, screened porch, storage bldg, big yd. Walk to bus line, shopping, restaurants, 5 min. drive to campus.

Avail. now. (706) 247-1398.

3BR/2BA historic home near Dwntn, off Pulaski. Brand new renovations, energy efficient w/ lg. rooms & HWflrs., laundry. Very clean & nice. $1200/mo. Avail.

8/7. (706) 614-3557.

3BR/2BA home in Oglethorpe Co. 2.5 mi. from Clarke Co. line.

CHAC. Quiet area. Well/septic. $700/mo. (706) 743-3111, (706) 224-1400. No pets, NS.

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

S w i m m i n g c o m m u n i t y. 3 6 0 Sandstone Dr. Avail. 7/1. $1025/ mo. + dep. (706) 319-1846 or (706) 548-4819. GA. R, E, lic.

300830.

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

3BR/2BA on private wooded 1 acre lot near Homewood shopping center. $900/mo. NS, pets w/ dep. Call Rose (706) 548-6222.

4BR/2.5BA. Spacious townhome in 5 Pts. Rent by 7/31/09 & 1st mo. is Free! Call Erin (706) 351-0352 and go to www.triadinv.com.

3BR/2BA renovated house w/ bonus rm. 1 mi. from Dwntn.

CHAC, W/D, water & trash incl.

320 Conrad Dr. $1K/mo. Call Brian (706) 613-7242.

3BR/2BA. $1100/mo, R e n t / L e a s e / P u rc h a s e . Bar nett near College Station. Hardwood kitchen, appls. W/D. Covered porch. 1 car garage. Pets w/ add’l dep. (770) 310-0587.

3BR/2BA. Avail. 8/15 or after.

HWflrs., CHAC, DW, W/D, bonus room, fenced yd. Close to Dwntn & Riverwalk. $880/mo. (646) 247-5646.

3BR/3BA like new! 1 mi. from Dwntn Athens. Close to campus, perfect for students! Bridgewater Subdivision. $1200/mo. Pets OK. Call Barbara (770) 237-9148.

3BR/3BA, 145 Mell St. 5 Pts. 2 blocks to UGA, $500/BR. Free utilities. CHAC, W/D, DW, wood flrs. hathawayproperties@gmail. com, (706) 714-4486.

3BRs. 180 O’Farrell, Check out these great houses in the heart of 5 Pts. Online at boulevard​ property​m anagement.com or call (706) 548-9797.

4BR cool houses. Walk to UGA & town. Renovated, lg. farmhouse, $1150/mo. or newer 2–story, 4.5BA, $1400/mo. Char ming character. CHAC, W/D, DW. Avail. now or 8/1. (706) 215-4496.

4BR/1.5BA on Northcrest Dr. $850/mo. Huge fenced backyd,. pen & storage bldg. Pets welcome. New vinyl & paint, W/D connections, CHAC. Walk to bus line, shopping, restaurants. 5 min. drive to campus. Avail. 8/1. (706) 247-1398.

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4BR/2BA. $1200/mo. HWflrs., fridge, stove, DW, W/D, CHAC, fenced front yd. Extra lg. backyd.

Walk to 24hr. IHOP & public library.

Pets OK. Lawn maintenance incl.

(706) 540-0093.

4BR/3BA townhome. Total electric.

All applsl incl. W/D. $800/mo. + $800/dep. (678) 699-2984, or after 4:30 at (770) 957-1442.

5 Points . 2–story cottage.

2BR/1BA. HVAC, W/D, extra studio rm. HWflrs. & FP. 1 block from Milledge bus stop. No pets. 1 yr. lease. $1K/mo. (706) 549-5413.

5 Pts. 3BR/2.5BA. $1100/mo. incl. water. Pets OK. 159 Gran Ellen Dr. Call Dave (706) 255-2552.

599 W. Hancock. 2 blocks from Dwntn. Avail. 8/1. New construction. 4BR/4BA. W/D, off street parking. On busline. (706) 247-3147. $900/mo.3BR/2BA. HWflrs., fridge, stove, DW, CHAC, W/D hookups. Pets OK. 100 Field Ave. Off–street parking. Call (706) 5400093.

All Around Athens & near Campus! 105 Redstone Dr. 2BR/1BA, $550/mo. 4930 Mars Hill Rd. Oconee Co. 3BR/2BA, $895/mo. 597 Dearing St. off Milledge. 4BR/2BA, $1495/mo. 105 Whitehall Rd., 2BR/1BA, $675/mo.

(706) 546-7946, Flowersnancy@ bellsouth.net. See virtual tours www.nancyflowers.com.

Avail. Aug. 1st. 3BR/1BA , CHAC, W/D. 5 mins. from UGA. HWflrs.

No pets, NS. Near greenway & bus line. $785/mo. + utils. (706) 338-1859.

Av a i l a b l e i m m e d i a t e l y !

3BR/2BA in Normaltown. HWflrs, CHAC, quiet street. Grad students pref’d. (706) 549-2283.

Beautiful forest setting.

Private & secluded, minutes from Dwntn/UGA. HWflrs., loft, wrap around decks. 2BR, lg. BA w/ view, upstairs screened sleeping porch. Great house. $950/mo.

(706) 208-9543.

Brand new construction.

5BR/6BA luxury duplex. $2500/ mo. Off E. Campus Rd. HWflrs.

All appls. W/D. Energy efficient.

Privacy fence & rear private parking. On UGA bus route.

Call (706) 540-0093.

Comfortable 3BR/2BA Brick Home. Eastside, Green Acres. Lv. rm., din. rm., den, HWflrs. 2–car garage. Private, quiet. Refs/lease & $750/mo. + dep. (706) 335-2082, (706) 540-3759. Lv. msg.

Cute cottage. 2BR/1BA on Hwy 106, 20 min from UGA. Sunroom, living, dining, laundry. Country surrounds. NS. $625/mo. + dep.

(706) 614-8875.

Eastside. Close to Campus.

3BR/2.5BA. Spacious living area. $995/mo. JS Ivy Realty. www. johnivy.com, (706) 207-5649.

Eastside. Nice, clean 2BR/1BA houses, quiet n’hood. Cul-de-sac, many extras. $525-$775/mo. Call (706) 340-4619.

Enjoy your new home located in a peaceful setting. Close to shopping/UGA. 3BR/2.5BA home on 2.28 acres. 12x20 workshed.

Priced to sell $173K. Contact Becky Smith (706) 201-2121 for an appt.

First month free. 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.

Great 3BR/4BA houses. 1/2 mi. from campus.Front porch, back deck, nice yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Pre–leasing Avail. 8/1. Special! $900/mo.

(706) 369-2908.

Great 4BR/4BA house. 1/2 mi. from campus.Front porch, back deck, nice yd., DW, W/D, CHAC. Pets OK. Pre–leasing Avail.

8/1. Special! $1000/mo. (706) 369-2908.

In–town, $600/mo. 2BR/1BA. CHAC, DW, W/D, HWflrs., fenced yd. (706) 296-9536.

Normaltown/ARMC. 180 Willow Run. Very nice 3BR/1BA. HWflrs, DW, W/D, CHAC. Lg. fenced backyard. Pets OK w/ dep. $900 mo. (404) 210-7145.

Northside 2BR/1BA, lg. lot, $600/mo. Hospital area Fenced–in yd. Avail. June. $800/ mo. Five Points 2BR/2.5BA, lv. rm. w/ FP, corner lot, $700/mo.

Eastside 3BR/2BA. Lg. yd., on dead–end street. $1100/mo.

4BR/2BA w/ lg. yd. $1300/mo.

2 or 3BR/1BA w/ screened front porch, $800/mo. Cedar Creek 4BR/2BA $1100/mo. Oconee County 3BR/2BA. Lv. rm. w/ FP, din. rm., double garage, $1100/ mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700, (706) 540-1529.

Houses for Sale $79,900. Cute 2BR/1BA cottage.

HWflrs., CHAC, fenced yd., butterfly garden. In town, on bus line, biking/walking distance to Dwntn & campus. Call Michael at Full Circle Realty, (706) 255-8600.

3BR/2BA country house. 9 mi. from Dwntn. FP. $138,000. (706) 540-8461.

D o w n t o w n . Beautiful new construction. Key West–style home on hidden street next to Dwntn.

Lush tranquil setting! 140 Hendrix.

Photos at www.fullcircleathens.com.

Michael Littleton (706) 255-8600.

H u n d re d y r. o l d re n o v a t e d Athens farmhouse on .5 acre in heart of pecan orchard. Beautiful heartpine flrs. Tall ceilings, fixed mantles, 2 porches, clawfoot tub, metal roof. Contact Michael Littleton at www.fullcircleathens. com or (706) 255-8600. ➤ continued on next page

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2BR/1BA cozy country cabin. 9 mi. from Dwntn. $650/mo. Private, perfect for Grad student! Call (706) 540-8461.

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In–town historic style cottages w/ 3 acres greenspace. Green bldg. practices. Homes can be customized. $150K to low $200K. Michael Littleton (706) 255-8600 or visit www.fullcircleathens.com.

New Construction Homes!

3BR/2BA, 4BR/3BA eco–friendly homes for sale. Featuring 3.5 ac. green space, walking trails, community garden, & rear alley access. 1.1 mi. to Downtown, .3 mi. to Greenway, HWflrs, custom kitchens, artistic tile, metal roofs, Energy Star certified, & more! $174,900 & $205,000. Call Jared at (404) 797-1034 or visit website at www.jwyorkhomes.com.

Own your own rental property! 139 & 143 Strickland Ave. 4BR/3BA on each side of duplex. Entire duplex for $359,800. 1 side for rent $1200/ mo. Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty (706) 372-4166, or (706) 543-4000.

R o m ant ic 1918 Vict orian & historic 2–story guest cottage on 8 private acres. Excellent period restoration! Must see photos at www.fullcircleathens.com or Michael Littleton (706) 255-8600.

Roommates Hip roommate wanted for owner occupied home in Normaltown.

Cable/high speed/Internet. W/D, CHAC. Great front porch. No pets.

Please call (706) 202-6180.

Room avail. for student roommate to share 3BR/1BA behind ARMC. W/D, CHAC, HWflrs., renovated house, fenced-in backyd. Pets welcome. $300/mo. + 1/3 utils.

(404) 713-0655. $250/mo. roommate gets his/her own BR/BA & offered utils for providing assistance to owner w/ disabilities keeping 3R/2BA. Eastside home well-maintained & doing laundry.

Tracy, tdoggog@yahoo.com. $340/mo. 1BR plus office. 3 M students need 4th roommate to share 4BR/4BA condo. Riverbend area, near UGA Golf course, Ramsey. UGA busline, pool, tennis, W/D. (678) 467-6127 or shallowg@comcast.net.

1 roommate needed. 2BR/2BA condo at Eaglewood Court. FP. Pets allowed. Small fenced–in backyd. $550/mo., utils. incl. (478) 361-4999.

$350/mo. Roommate for 2BR/1BA awesome townhouse near Prince & Milledge Ave. W/D, CHAC, HWflrs., cable/wireless, patio, lg. courtyd. Close to campus/ UGA. No smoking, no pets. Email marygilbert06@gmail.com or (706) 474-8216.

1BR in 2BR/1BA Eastside duplex.

Grad student or professional pref’d.

W/D, DW, CHAC. $275/mo. + 1/2 utils. + dep. Cheap Internet. Avail. now! (706) 254-1534. Lv. msg.

BR w/ shared BA avail. in 3BR/2BA Eastside apt. to responsible, mature, quiet NS. $265/mo. + shared utils. $265 dep. Call Dieng (706) 207-3971.

Great location! Close to campus on bus line. 3BR/1.5BA house.

Must be pet friendly. Nice yd. $400/mo. + 1/2 utils. Avail. 8/1.

Call (706) 248-0738.

M/F Grad student/professional.

2BR/1BA $350/mo. + 1/2 utils.

Quiet n’hood. 5 Pts. Walk to campus/bus line. HWflrs, W/D, CHAC, DSL, med dog. Email thedobhran@hotmail.com.

Mature student to rent suite in 3BR home furnished private BR/BA w/ study. Shared kitchen. Incl. utils., dish, Tivo, WiFi, quiet, safe, near UGA. (706) 296-6956.

Roommate needed for 4BR/2BA older house on a beautiful street in the Boulevard n’hood. CHAC, W/D, DW & wireless. $400/mo + 1/4 utils. (414) 305-7594.

Roommate needed for Grady Ave apt. 2BR/1BA, sunny, free trash & water. Utils usually around $30$40/mo. Rent is $348/mo. Lease is 1 yr. Dep. $348. No pets. Avail.

7/31. (410) 746-7277.

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

Share 2BR apt. w/ M student.

Walk/bike to UGA/5Pts/Dwntn. 2 blocks from busline. Swimming pool. W/D. DW, $375/mo. Incl. utils. Avail 8/1. (706) 410-5989.

Very nice room w/ lg. closet in a great house. HWflrs, WiFi, CHAC, W/D, DW, screened–in porch. No pets, pls. Avail. now. $325/mo. + 1/3 utils. (706) 254-2991.

Rooms for Rent Town/UGA, N. Oconee River.

Band/storage neg. Rms. $75/wk.

Unlimited long distance, Internet, cable, computer/TV provided. No drugs. (706) 850-0491, 957 MLK. Avail. 8/1. Huge rooms for rent in historic Cobbham house. 10 min. walk to town, 12’ ceilings, HWflrs., HVAC, W/D. 2 kitchens, 2BAs. front porch, side deck, private.

Lease, dep. Grad students/ professionals. (706) 424-0901.

Min. from Dwntn. & UGA. 2BR priv. BA for grad. student or professional. New house, HWflrs., W/D, DW, sm. pet OK. $450/mo. + 1/2 utils. (706) 614-6331.

Room avail. for grad student in 2BR/1BA house. Fenced yd., dogs OK. $300/mo. Biking distance to UGA. Very quiet street. (706) 247-3487.

Six BRs for rent $300/rm + utils/ dep. 3 BRs. 3 blocks from Dwntn.

290 Barber St. Call (706) 3725384, lv. msg.

Spacious, furnished BR. Quiet, close to campus, kitchen, laundry privileges. Shared BA, priv. entrance. No pets. M students only. $275/mo. incl. utils. (706) 353-0227. Avail. immediately!

Sub-lease 1BR/1BA in 4BR/4BA cottage in The Retreat! Rent is $475/ mo + 1/4 utils! Close to Dwntn & campus! F roommate only pls!

Email bnhodges@comcast.net if interested! 6 month lease available!

For Sale Appliances KitchenAid mixer for sale. 4 1/2 quarts., white, brand new in the box $250. 300 Watts. (706) 743-3473.

Businesses Great business in Winder. For sale due to death. Full kitchen, full bar, 7 top of the line pool tables!

Price negotiable.(706) 255-5899.

Computers Brand new laptops & desktops.

Bad credit, no credit, no problem.

Small wkly payments. Order today & get free Nintendo Wii game system! Call now (800) 816-2232 (AAN CAN).

Flea Markets Recycled/Used Furniture, Antiques, Rugs, Home furnishings & Collectibles Galore. 30+ vendors selling treasures, art, locally grown produce, & baked goods. Outside tables avail. for rent. 790 Gaines School Rd. Wed–Sat 10am-5pm, Sun. 1pm-5pm.

Furniture Eat your veggies, don’t spend all your money, shop Mom’s Garage. Gently used furniture for frugal people. Sat. from 12 to 5pm and appts. Chase Park Warehouse on Tracy St. (706) 207-7855.

Tables, chairs, sofas, antiques, clothes, records & players, retro goods, & more! Cool, affordable furniture every day. Go to Agora!

Your favorite everything store! 260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

Miscellaneous Great Rugs of Athens has established an inventory of new area rugs. at the old Charmar location on Gaines School Rd. All at 50% off! This sale will continue until all rugs are gone! Kilims, Soumaks, hand knotted, tufted, as well as machine made. All sizes & materials. Come by or call Pam at (706) 206-5888 for more info.

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

Yard Sales Great Rugs of Athens has established an inventory of new area rugs. at the old Charmar location on Gaines School Rd. All at 50% off! This sale will continue until all rugs are gone! Kilims, Soumaks, hand knotted, tufted, as well as machine made. All sizes & materials. Come by or call Pam at (706) 206-5888 for more info.

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Equipment Better than Ebay! Sell your goods locally without the shipping fees! Place your ads in the Flagpole Classifieds. Awesome run–till–sold rate! 12 wks for only $36. Go to www.flagpole.com or call (706) 549-0301.

Piano for sale. Cable Nelson Spinet. Great condition. $500.

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Instrument repairs avail. (706) 543-5800.

Guitar lessons taught by UGA Doctoral 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Services Cleaning Angles Cleaning Service. 12 yrs. experience house cleaning, Dependable, low rates! Space limited (706) 549-0059. Pls. lv. name & number.

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Freelancer doing PC repair & web/graphic design. Flyers, album covers, letterheads, business cards, etc. See website for more info, previous work, references. Go to www.freshby design.net.

Home and Garden Backyard Solutions. Make your neighbors jealous! Waterfalls, ponds, fences, decks, gazebos, porches, & more! Call Robin for free estimate! (706) 340-4492.

Borders! Print section of the Classifieds. Pictures! Check them out on the Flagpole website.

New Categories! To satisfy Athens Classified Ad needs!

All coming this August.

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Jobs Full-time Dental Office Person needed for busy Athens practice. Ability to Multitask a must. Mon–Fri. Following on–the–job training, the right person will primarily perform dental assisting but also be asked to perform front office duties. Bachelors degree and min 3.5 GPA preferred. Must provide work references showing long-term employment per job. Computer literate. Great opportunity for a great employee. $15/hr. during training phase.

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Multi-tasking assistant for busy plant nursery. Must enjoy outdoors, self motivated & have green thumbs. Apply at Thyme After Thyme, 550 Athens Rd., Winterville. Mon.–Fri. 9am–4pm only.

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Sexy Suz Adult Emporium now hiring 21+ retail positions. Retail experience pref’d. Email resume/ photo to sexysuz@comcast. net. No calls please. 50 Gaines School Rd.

Opportunities $600 wk. potential. Helping t h e g o v ’t . P T. N o e x p . , n o selling. Call (888) 213-5225 AD code L-5. Void in MD & SD. (AAN CAN).

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Part-time Cine needs a projectionist w/ substantial experience in 35mm digital projection & service industry/bartending experience a +. Resume w/ ref’s to director@ athenscine.com.

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

(800) 743-8535.

Kitchen & counter help needed at the Taco Stand in Watkinsville.

Experience pref ’d. Apply in person 2131 Hog Mountain Rd., Watkinsville.

Over 21 yrs old. experienced bartenders needed. Apply in person w/ resume at Fat Daddy’s between 1pm–4pm, Mon.–Fri. Project Safe seeks 2 PT Sales Associates for Eastside Re-sale shop opening in Sept. EOE. Send cover letter/resume to PO Box 7532, Athens 30604. No ph. calls pls.

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Notices Messages Hairstylist Jason Peckham, formerly of Fantastic Sam’s, has returned to Strand Hair Studio in 5 Pts. Now avail. for appointments! Reach him there at (706) 549-8074.

Mulefest 2009 is seeking artists or vendors that are interested in participating in the upcoming festival, 8/21–8/23. Please contact info@muletrainrecords.com.

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

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

Personals Pregnant? Considering adoption?

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Pets Bird, Reptile, Exotic, Small Mammal & Special needs pet sitting from knowledgeable & experienced sitters. Dog & cat sitting also avail. Salina (706) 6213091, Justin (706) 621-3309.

Ode to Downtown A Native Son Reflects on Athens

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hen parking rates went up on July 1, I was reminded of how incomplete I thought the discussion was as the Commission debated the proposed new rate schedule back in the spring. The emphasis, not surprisingly, was all on how this or that measure would affect downtown businesses.

It was natural that the focus should have been on the downtown business district as a center of commercial activity. But I thought then and still think that that’s not all it is.

It’s also an important, maybe the most important, social center of the community. I’m not talking about the crowds that gather there at night, for whom venues like the late, lamented Georgia Theatre are the happening places. I’m talking about daytime downtown which was an important social center, like a town square, long before downtown became a nighttime entertainment district. Daytime downtown is another world and holds this place together in subtler but no less enduring ways than our justly renowned music scene.

More than just about any place in Athens, daytime downtown is full of connections and continuities for me that, to poach from Stephen Sondheim, make Athens more than “just an address, a place for me to live in, no better than alright.” They make it home. So, when I feed the parking meters, I’m doing more than buying time to run errands or buy stuff. I’m renewing my ties to my town.

and offices. The waitresses looked forward to working the “coffee club” because they could pretty much count on tipping at the rate of 100 percent. Mercifully, the conviviality was only rarely disrupted by moments of high drama. The one that stands out in what’s left of my memory involved long-time Chief of Police Jake Porterfield. Chief Porterfield was a heart attack waiting to happen, almost as wide as he was tall, which was not very. And when the Big One caught up with him, he breathed his last sitting at the first table from the restaurant’s entrance chatting with my dad. It was unnerving enough to my dad that he owned the last face Chief Porterfield saw on this earth, but my dad had to go to the dress shop next door where Mrs. Porterfield worked and deliver the sad news to her.

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here came a time, when I was old enough to work legally, when my parents thought it would be a terrific idea for me to get a job. I, on the other hand, thought it was a terrible idea. I didn’t see why a sane person at my stage of life would rather spend the summer working for a pittance when he could be playing marbles on the sidewalks of his neighborhood with his buds or softball in the vacant lot that my family owned on South Milledge behind our house on Milledge Heights. There was no perimeter then, so South Milledge was the Macon Highway and

a 13-year-old and when I saw The Thing, a kid in the row behind me, who looked to be about nine or 10, leaned forward and asked in a tremulous voice if he could sit by me until a particularly nerve-wracking scene was over.

I gallantly invited him up and was hugely relieved when he went back to his seat a few minutes later without realizing that I was just as terrified as he was.

My estimate of my appeal as an employment prospect was richly vindicated when every downtown merchant I halfheartedly applied to for a job turned me down. I felt a momentary (only momentary) twinge (only a twinge) of disappointment at only one of the stores where they had better sense than to take me on. That was McGregor’s at the corner of East Clayton and Jackson. It was an office supply and, I think, sporting goods store, not brightly lit, and smelling of paper, pencil lead and waxed wood floors. I think it was the smell that moved the needle for me off total indifference. You can find things at OfficeMax today that the folks at McGregor’s hadn’t even dreamed of, but you won’t find that smell.

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hose were simpler times, and I doubt that there’s a gathering place like Tony’s now. But Mr. Haircut on Broad Street is a key community nerve center and information clearinghouse. Everybody comes in there, from judges to children getting their first haircuts and all sorts and conditions of people in between, so it’s a very demohen I go to lunch cratic place, a great leveler. Probably only at one of my favorite downtown Athens Regional and restaurants, I can St. Mary’s hospitals are more rigorous usually count on runlevelers, illness, like ning into somebody hair growth, being I know. Sometimes I meet people I don’t no respecter of social know when they misstatus.

In another one of take me for one of my those connections two brothers, a very that I’m always stumcommon occurrence. bling across, I learned Often they’re mildly surprised to learn not long ago that one of the barbers there is that there’s a “lost” the granddaughter of brother, who, unlike the barber who gave the other two, moved me my first haircut. away at 21 and didn’t 233 E. Clayton St., downtown Athens. (Half a century ago and more, that is.) From an old postcard. come back until 60.

Who knew? The barWhen I go to Lamar Lewis to look for it was a challenge for us in our turns at bat bers, who are gifted enough conversationalists to try to nail the 18-wheelers as they passed shoes, I’m going to the same store where my to keep up a constant patter with most anymother used to buy my Buster Browns and by on the way to points south. Lucky for us, body about most anything, get wind of things where it was a really big deal when I was we rarely succeeded and gave up the effort happening or about to happen before the local eight or nine to stick my feet in the machine forever when one of us pulled the feat off one media do. And even when the newspapers and that made them look green and highlighted time. The batter’s triumph turned to instant radio stations scoop the barbers on a story, my tarsals and metatarsals or whatever those regret when the trucker hit the brakes, scatthe barbers often fill in the back story that bones are. I wonder how many rads my feet tering us in all directions to the acrid smell of never makes it into the newspapers or onto absorbed before those machines were retired. burning rubber. the radio. I wouldn’t know half the things I And I can count on being helped either by Hours spent playing marbles and trying know or at least think I know about what goes the lady who kept my mother in comfortable to dent passing semis were supplemented on around here if I didn’t get a haircut once shoes or the lady who used to work in my with generous doses of horse operas at the a month. dad’s restaurant, which was at 233 E. Clayton Palace Theater, which was where the College But even without the benefit of the educaSt. for the first couple of decades of my life Avenue parking garage is now. I sometimes tion and the colorful rumors I pick up at Mr. and before. think that parents nowadays worry too much Haircut, I wouldn’t take anything for the days In the days before suburban office parks about the amount of time their kids spend on when it’s nice enough outside for Pam to prop and malls, Tony’s Restaurant was the unofvideo games and television. I’m sure that the the front door open and I drift off into a semificial meeting place for many of the commucountless utterly formulaic Gene Autry and trance absently watching people walk by with nity’s business, professional and government Roy Rogers movies I sat through shaved a few the music of the soft drawls of the barbers and worthies. Every weekday at 10 o’clock in points off my IQ, but not enough to cripple the patrons sounding in the background. No, the morning, they’d pull three or four tables me in later life. One of the oeuvre that played not just an address, a place for me to live in, together in the private dining room and swap the Palace went on to become a cult classic. no better than alright. This is home. stories and jokes over coffee for an hour I’m sure the 1982 remake of The Thing couldn’t before they all dispersed to their businesses match the 1952 original. I was pretty tall for Leon Galis

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