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pub notes Writing South Hey, y’all: the new Oxford American is out, “The Southern Magazine of Good Writing,” “Proudly published from The University of Central Arkansas.” This is the Southern literature issue (“Southern Literature Is Never Dead It’s Not Even Past”).

That’s kind of like Golf World putting out its golf issue, because the Oxford American is always about Southern literature, even in its music issue—coming next: don’t miss.

The Oxford American couldn’t make it in Mississippi once author John Grisham’s generous support was withdrawn, and it went out of business, only to be resuscitated by the University of damn Central Arkansas, which gives the OA the freedom to publish what it wants, without being bound by the iron laws of advertising. So, it’s an editor’s dream and a publisher’s nightmare: long on copy, short on ads, though the ads also tell much about literary attractions in the South—new books, bed & breakfasts, literary pilgrimages, festivals, historic homes, museums, hotels and barbecue joints.

I haven’t read it all, none of the fiction yet, but there are two types of people here in Athens who will not want to miss this issue: those who love Southern writing and those who don’t know anything about it. You could just say “writing,” without tacking on Southern, of course, but the OA is unabashedly Southern in its outlook, Arm and entertain even when viewing the South as a portal to the universal.

Even if you didn’t grow up yourself with the reading writers from around Oxford American… here, this issue is a great place to nose around, because many of the greats get treatments, along with some of the obscure.

There’s a lot of writing about writing and about not writing; there’s a wide array of writers and subjects, and as a sort of centerpiece, accompanied by sort of an apology by the editor for doing it, there’s a listing of the 10 best Southern novels of all time, with the winner being Absalom, Absalom! and the other nine being more accessible. Interestingly, the large panel of judges includes some notable Athenians, including Jim Cobb, Hubert McAlexander, Judith Ortiz Cofer and Donn Cooper. (Yes, To Kill a Mockingbird made it.) There’s also a list of the five best Southern works of non-fiction and a bunch of underrated Southern books.

Among the small collection of poems included in this issue is one, “Deep Trash,” by Jeff Fallis, unofficial Poet Laureate of Athens.

This Oxford American is so large and diverse that there’s barely space here even to list all the articles and stories. The heavy hitters get their due: Faulkner, Welty, (the original) Wolfe, O’Connor, McCullers, and there’s a lot of other writing about writers and place and what it means to black writers and to white writers to be Southern. There’s also a nice attempt

by Bronwen Dickey (yes, his daughter) to remind us of Ralph McGill’s lonely fight as “Southern Enemy Number One” to drag his beloved South into the 20th century through his daily columns in the Atlanta Constitution preceding and during the Civil Rights period.

And, there’s a lot of wit and fun in here, too. One of the resident humorists, Roy Blount, Jr., who had been sounding more and more like the professional “Southerner in New York,” is relinquishing his regular column, because he feels that he no longer has a lot of fresh observations on the South, not being here and all. But here comes Jack Pendarvis, who appears ready to hit running in Blount’s brogans, with a wonderful meditation on Blount and Woody Allen and perceptions of the South.

The publisher, Warwick Sabin, who’s trying to be a writing publisher, weighs in with a welcome push-back at Malcolm Gladwell’s cheapshot jab in The New Yorker questioning Atticus Finch’s commitment to civil rights.

The Oxford American may be too Southern for your tastes, but it is the thinking Southerner’s front porch for conversation about good storytelling, good eating, good music, good living and what it means to be Southern with your eyes and your mind open. Even if you just recently got here, the OA will help you understand who you are and where you are. Don’t let the racists, bigots and haters take away your Southern heritage and the love of your native land. Fight back! Arm and entertain yourself with the Oxford American: you’ll find reassurance and reinforcement within its pages. And your mama will be proud.

Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

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

150,000 Paul Broun constituents are uninsured, say local health care activists. (Like Broun cares.)

An Ort Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 William Orten Carlton Issues a Medical Bulletin Ort discusses his condition and his release from the hospital.

Arts & Events Modern Midnight Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Tommy Wiseau’s The Room: A Loved and Loathed Cult Classic Flagpole’s interview with the writer, director and star of the sleeper cult film.

Theatre Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Fall Preview

The fall theatre scene will be serving up Depression-era drama, modern takes on the classics and even some vampire fun.

COVER DESIGN by Larry Tenner featuring a photograph by Charles-Ryan Barber of various Kindercore/Owl Hootenanny participants

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Music Give a Hoot! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Kindercore and Owl Scooters Team Up for a New Music Fest Check out our haiku descriptions of each band on the bill!

Mark Mallman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Over the Top and Under Appreciated A rock star so nice he’s performing twice!

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LETTERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CITY DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CITY PAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 CAPITOL IMPACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ATHENS RISING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 THE READER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 MOVIE DOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 MOVIE PICKS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 THE ROOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 GRUB NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 THEATRE NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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THREATS & PROMISES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 RECORD REVIEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 KINDERCORE HOOTENANNY. . . . . . . . . . 17 MARK MALLMAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 DEREK TRUCKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 THE CALENDAR!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 BULLETIN BOARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 ART AROUND TOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 COMICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 REALITY CHECK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 EVERYDAY PEOPLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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letters CHAPMAN NO GUV If I read correctly, in your most recent edition [Sept. 9], you gave a happy hello to Jeff Chapman, offering him a swell pat on the back for entering his name into the pool of governor candidates.

In City Dope’s Chapman shout-out, you say that he is a crusader for Jekyll Island, that he has tried hard to smite the “revitalization mess” happening on this island along Georgia’s coastline. As the former reporter for a newspaper in that area, where for nearly two years I covered the revitalization currently underway, I dealt with Chapman regularly and can attest to Chapman’s tactics and demeanor.

He is a man who does not, in fact, tell the truth, but twists words and plays backhanded games to get his way. He does not have the best interest of the people in mind; he has only his own interest in mind—his own interest for power.

As far as Jekyll Island goes, his constant butting in is what has made the revitalization efforts go so far askew. If the planned, contained revitalization does not occur on this barrier island, the place will die. Deterioration will continue to increase; visitation will continue to decrease; funding to operate the state park will run out. As it now stands, this state-owned island is already losing money by the fistful as tourists—even locals—stop coming. Businesses will close shop and the local island economy will tank more than it already has. Unlike what Chapman proclaims, the already-funded project will not turn the

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CONTACT US AT P.O. BOX 1027, ATHENS, GA 30603, LETTERS@FLAGPOLE.COM OR VIA THE “TALK BACK TO US” LINK AT FLAGPOLE.COM at least) becoming known for. Your Athens island into a commercial haven. It simply will Rising column sported a stunning photoattract visitors, new and old, and bring busigraph of a wall of TVs, a wall I’ve seen many ness back to Jekyll. Though initially hesitant, island residents are now largely on board with times when visiting my dear friend Keen Zero. the Jekyll Island plans. A small, but vocal, Although you wouldn’t know it by reading the minority of residents do still fear the changes article, the caption, or even the whole magaplanned, and Chapman is showcasing these zine, Zero is the creative mind that built that naysayers to the public, proclaiming them to wall years ago—an attempt to make somebe the island saviors. thing beautiful out of an otherwise useless Don’t be fooled by Chapman’s slow appliance. His name is completely omitted.

Southern drawl. He is not trying to be charmRather than giving credit, the caption states, ing; he really just can’t think on his feet “Sights like the wall of TVs on MLK Drive serve quickly enough to talk any faster. I cannot as examples of the kind of homegrown creative speak to his charspirit that makes acter outside of the Athens what it is.”

Senate, but Chapman On the contrary, BUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: is not an honest poliI believe it is an tician; he is far too example of what uninformed to be as Athens was. There (Seen on a minivan) much. If you think was a time when art Rep. Paul Broun is a truly was an underlySend your sticker sightings to ben@ clown, you ain’t seen ing current in Athens. flagpole.com or call 706-549-9523. Thanks. nothing. Chapman Unfortunately, makes Broun look like with property taxes a scholar of informed increasing dramatithought and pillar of truth. If Chapman is to cally every year, most of the artists who gave be voted in as governor, the Peach State will this town its reputation have been forced surely rot. either to stop making art in lieu of getting Anna Ferguson a “good paying job” or, more often the case, Athens to move. In contrast, the true spirit of what Athens is is more evident in the lack of respect given to those that do create beautiful things.

“People feel more attached to a place where they leave their mark—where they feel I picked up a recent copy of the Flagpole that they belong to the place in a meaning[Aug. 26] and am reminded yet again of the ful way.” Keen Zero’s wall of TVs is just such a lack of consideration this town is (in my mind, mark, left by a creative individual, but used by

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Tammy Reeves Athens

Need Concrete Facts Can Flagpole cite the incarceration rates which justify a new jail? My hunch is that the rate has been increasing dramatically. Why? Here’s a story. As for the experience of incarceration in the current Athens-Clarke County jail for both the detained and their family and friends looking to secure their release, you don’t have to look far. A community survey— you should do this—will reveal a common theme of inhumanity. If a serious journalist could manage a glimpse from the inside, she’d find herself in agreement with many who decry the animal-like treatment in the whole ordeal. A new jail ought to come with reform conditions so that we don’t simply have the old jail in a new building.

As for SPLOST, concrete continues to be its most tangible (is this a pun?) expression in our community. The two most recent projects: to house more cars for revelers and shoppers downtown and detain more citizens outside of town, are a rather sad barometer for what was billed as a creative and progressive means of generating revenue.

S. Scurry Athens

city dope Athens News and Views Aqua Notes: Say what you will about the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (and expect whatever you will about its future), but at least its reporters are doing some of the basic footwork in this state’s capital that we all need done. The paper’s summertime diggings into certain paper trails following John Oxendine and Nathan Deal have been valuable as the Republican gubernatorial primary field takes shape, and on Saturday, Sept. 12 came a little front-page below-the-fold followup on metro Atlanta water usage in the time since Gov. Perdue lifted outdoor watering restrictions back in June. See, when the June figures on water use came in, Perdue ’n them claimed that a “culture of conservation” had taken root in Georgia, the increases over June ’08 were so negligible. Well, everybody knew the June ’09 numbers would be low, because the restrictions were still in effect for a third of the month. The thing to do was to wait for July’s figures to get a good read on any widespread changes in behavior. Fortunately, AJC

are without health insurance. Whether he cares about that end of the debate is another question. Meanwhile, those organizers say an “Athens Town Hall on the president’s plan is in the planning stages,” and that we should look for a date to be announced soon.

John Huie

Flu Notes: If you haven’t already heard, here’s some basic information from local public health officials on the H1N1 swine flu. “The H1N1 flu has shown itself to be nothing more than just another kind of flu,” says a recent press release from the Northeast Health District’s Office of Emergency Preparedness.

H1N1 is now so common that it is “likely the cause of 99 percent of all flu-like illnesses in recent months,” according to the CDC. “Because they are basically the same kinds of flu, knowing which kind of flu caused your symptoms is not important,” the press release says. And, it says, “Most who catch the flu can overcome the illness by getting plenty of rest and liquids at home. ” Vaccinations for H1N1 flu should be available next month, and FYI, they are recommended for all people six months old through 24 years old, as well as those 25 to 64 with “high risk health conditions.” Regular old seasonal flu shots are already available at the health department.

Good Work at the Courthouse: Just a quick note here that the Western Judicial Circuit (i.e., Clarke and Oconee counties) has received a $122,000 federal grant to support its Felony Seen at Paul Broun, Jr.’s recent town hall meeting in Watkinsville.

Drug Court Program. Run through Judge Steve Jones’ reporter Dan Chapman kept that in mind and courtroom, the drug court is a key piece of kept an eye out for the July numbers. And? Athens-Clarke County’s attempts to keep the The news is mixed. Usage was lower than in jail population from ballooning too high ’07 and earlier, but still represented a jump despite the draconian mandated-sentencing of about 10 percent over July of ’08. The state laws of recent years. It’s good to know take-home is that the Atlanta area has gotthat the Department of Justice recognizes ten underway on reducing water use through such and wants to support it. conservation and efficiency, but that there’s probably a lot more tightening-up that can be We’ll Believe It Here, Alright: City Dope done. A good place to start is for our elected recently heard from the folks behind “Ripley’s officials to be truthful when talking about the Believe It or Not,” whose latest book includes numbers. mention of Athens’ own Fred Birchmore. All the Ripley’s people wanted to say about him m Healthy Debate, Still Going: What’s next is that he keeps fit “by walking three miles in the health care debate? That’s a question every day, going swimming, and walking on both nationally, as President Obama tries his hands,” as stated in the book, along with to move things forward, and locally, as we the fact that—oh, yeah—he bicycled around all recover from Congressman Paul Broun, the world in his younger days. It’s odd, actuJr.’s recent visits. On the heels of Broun’s ally, that Ripley’s would include Birchmore Watkinsville town hall meeting came new U.S. in a “Yearbook of the Weird” that’s apparCensus figures showing the first statistically ently devoted more to the bizarre than to significant increase in poverty rates since the impressive, but they did, and he deserves 2004—expected given the economic receskudos nonetheless. Meanwhile, all of this stuff sion—and an increase in the number of uninand more is very easy to believe if you’ve sured Americans too. That might provide some ever met Birchmore or heard tell of his variraw material for those on the left who want to ous exploits over the years. For example, just take a back-to-basics approach to the debate walking on his hands is nothing: one story at this point and focus on the humanitarian goes that he used to wow bystanders by end of things. (Or to focus pragmatically, for walking up the bleachers in Sanford Stadium that matter, on the money end of things, since on his hands. And if you haven’t walked the emergency care for the uninsured, for example, trails near Memorial Park (on hands or feet, costs the whole system.) A case in point is either way) to see the stone wall he built, do the recent press statement from the local yourself a favor and check it out, if only to be Organizing for America group which extrapofurther impressed. lates from the Census numbers to estimate that 150,000 of Broun’s own constituents Ben Emanuel ben@flagpole.com

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city pages Study Suggests System Changes for The Bus

locations. You can also track bus locations live, or read the consultants’ report (called the “Transit Development Plan Update”), at www. athenstransit.com.

John Huie johnphuie@gmail.com

A $150,000 updated consultant’s study of the Athens Transit bus system suggests adding a lunchtime “circulator” van downtown, and also adding a surcharge to parking fees to help pay for bus service. Consultants also If your pet goes green, you might call the interviewed passengers and drivers, and their vet. But what do you do when your vet goes recommendations include changing some green? Firehall No. 4 Veterinary Hospital took routes. Several large-loop routes (including steps recently to retrofit its offices, kennels the Prince Avenue route and Baxter Street/ and clinic with green power technology, and Beechwood) should be turned into “more with a 120-gallon solar water heater online, direct two-way routings with shorter travel plus a 6.8-kW photovoltaic electrical system times,” they said, and the Athens Tech route in the works, the Hawthorne Avenue vet clinic should be extended to reach nearby industrial claims it’s the first small business in town to employers. go solar.

The biggest complaint of riders interviewed Dr. Karen Middendorf, Firehall’s owner, was that buses don’t run often enough. (Most admits some fear in making the transition Athens buses run once an hour; only four without local examples to follow, but says routes run every 30 minutes or more often.) the decision to invest in the eco-friendly And schedules are hard to read, some ridinfrastructure “wasn’t too hard of a sell.” She ers said, but Athens Transit Director Butch got the idea to go solar from Drew Bowen, a McDuffie says that’s a common complaint of licensed electrician and solar power contractor bus riders everywhere. “I think the recommen(his company is Turnsol Energy) whose four dations are fairly solid,” he told Flagpole; but, dogs have been Firehall patients since the vet he says, running more frequent buses “would hospital opened in 2005. take a whole lot more money.” Bus service has Bowen installed three four-by-10-foot solar already been extended to nights and Saturdays panels for water heating on the east-facing on some routes, but many routes don’t run slope of the vet hospital’s gabled roof, and past 7 p.m. and none run on Sundays. (The will have installed 34 200Government Operations watt photovoltaic cells Committee of the AthensThe biggest complaint on the south side of the Clarke County Commission building by the end of the may look soon at expandof riders interviewed month. The combined solar ing or changing existing was that buses don’t run water heater and solar bus routes, its chair Kelly power system should save Girtz says.) often enough. an estimated 8,000 pounds Downtown parking is a year in C02 emissions “very inexpensive,” the and save over $3,000 on Middendorf’s power report says—and that “encourages individubills in the first year of use, Bowen says. als to bring their automobiles into downtown, Middendorf’s attraction to the project was creating congestion and bottlenecks during due, at first, to her sense of environmental peak hours.” (The report’s authors looked at stewardship; once she examined the tax benparking rates prior to this summer’s increase.) efits and the return-on-investment proposal A surcharge on deck parking could “have the Bowen prepared for her, the decision to go advantage of discouraging vehicle trips and solar seemed a wise business move. In 2008, perhaps increasing Transit’s share of total the state and federal governments started trips,” it says. And civic and business leadgiving 35 percent and 30 percent tax credits, ers should be added to the “transit advisory” respectively, to homes and businesses for solar citizens committee, the report recommends: power installations. Residential and commer“Enlarging the representation would help raise cial solar users can also partake in a pay-in the profile of Athens Transit System in the tariff system in which Georgia Power Co. pays community, create opportunities for public17.4 cents/kWh for “avoided energy costs,” private partnership, support transportation according to power company documents. programs for employees, and provide a larger But the monetary barrier to entry is still perspective on the needs of the community.” high: the total price of the eco-friendly Athens bus drivers “are customer-service renovation is over $50,000. Even though outoriented and demonstrate high morale,” the of-pocket costs will end up somewhere over report says, but riders need to understand $10,000, much of the deals come in the form “that posted schedules are merely an estiof tax breaks, so the up-front costs may be mated time, not precise,” one driver told the quite stiff for many business owners. Still, consultants. Another said schedules could be Middendorf trusts Bowen and the process, and met only by driving “at high speed.” Riders complained that buses are late—or even early, adds, “We all need to be working on lowering our combined carbon footprint.” making them miss the bus. McDuffie told Bowen says he’s talked to Arbor Salon, Flagpole that buses run on-time 80 percent of DePalma’s and Terrapin Brewery about solar the time, but said “we get stuck in traffic just projects in their buildings, and he feels that like everybody else” in late afternoon. “That’s the variable that we can’t control.” Riders also Athens and its progressive population should be a leader in the emerging green economy. asked for more bus shelters (most stops don’t “Athens should be the colorbearer in green have them) and better lighting at bus stops, energy,” he says. and for more computer kiosks like the ones installed early this year beside City Hall and Andre Gallant at the bus station, which show real-time bus

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capitol impact Football at Georgia State?

Georgia State University seems to have everything going for it: the second-largest enrollment of any state college, a campus that is revitalizing downtown Atlanta, and a sterling reputation as one of the University System’s four research institutions.

Even with the academic acclaim, one thing Georgia State never had was that staple of Southern college life: a football team. While the sport is often criticized for emphasizing big-money values over academic achievements, the excitement of “football Saturday” adds a richness to the college experience for many students. It also provides a sentimental bond of support for a school’s alumni. That is the case at Georgia State, where they are starting a football program to provide that missing ingredient for students and alumni. The man at the center of this is head coach Bill Curry, who is building a football program from ground zero at a school long known as a “commuter college” for nontraditional students.

Curry has the credentials that seem ideal for this important position: an All-American center at Georgia Tech, a 10-year veteran of the NFL, and a former coach at Tech, Alabama and Kentucky.

He hadn’t coached since 1996 when he was offered the job at Georgia State last year, but Curry almost immediately accepted the chance to get back into the life he loved.

“What matters is what’s in your heart,” he said. “In my heart of hearts there was something that lingered, a longing for a huddle—a group of young men that I would have the privilege of mentoring, using the campus, the classroom and the huddle. Those are my things that I love.”

A football program, Curry agrees, is an important part of Georgia State’s transition from a concrete campus serving part-time students to a more traditional college environment. Where applications from prospective freshman students increased by 6 percent at

Georgia Tech this year and 8 percent at the University of Georgia, they were up 21 percent at Georgia State, he said.

“I don’t have the illusion football’s the only reason, but part of the reason is that kids want to go live on a campus that has a football team,” Curry said. “In the South, you want to go to your team’s football games on Saturday. So instead of having zero students living on campus, now we have over 3,000 and it’ll soon be 5,000 and it’s just going to keep right on skyrocketing.”

Curry and his assistant coaches are running that initial group of players—a mixture of scholarship athletes, transfers and walk-ons— through their first months of practice at such venues as a Boys & Girls Club field near the GSU campus. The schedule next year will range from smaller schools like Shorter and Savannah State to a seasonending blockbuster against the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Curry has been asked why he would send a first-year team out to get clobbered by a national championship contender like Alabama. The game will bring badly needed money (about $400,000) and media exposure to the new program, he contends.

When the game is over, Curry said he will tell his players: “Now men, we learned a lot today.

The next time we play a great football team, we’re going to do better. And the time after that we’re going to do better than that, and we’re going to keep on playing great football teams until we can compete with them, and one day we’ll begin to beat them.” It’s a hard way to start a college football program, but Curry is eager to take on that challenge.

Tom Crawford Tom Crawford is the editor of Capitol Impact’s Georgia Report, an Internet news service at www.gareport.com that covers government and politics in Georgia. He can be reached at tcrawford@capitolimpact.net.

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Daycare to Home: At Barber Street and Boulevard, the old daycare has been renovated into a huge duplex, which is an interesting reuse of that structure. From the outside, the building looks largely the same, only now with flowerboxes under the windows to suggest its new domestic role. It will be interesting to see how new owners might garden their front yards; the juxtaposition of residential landscaping and a modern looking school building could make that corner stand out.

Commercial Blend: The new house on the corner of Hancock Avenue and Pope Street, rather than going a more traditional route, enhances the intersection’s historic

these was built in 2005, and may well have been one of the first forays into this new approach.

See for Yourself: Go ahead and ride your bike around and check some of these out. I can’t say that these are all excellent designs, though some are. And there may be others which do a better job. (If you know of any, please share online.) But these modern houses are thought-provoking and illustrate a variety of design solutions and statements which just couldn’t be made with conventional wood siding and gabled roofs. The successes and shortcomings of these buildings ought to be taken into consideration when other new construction is coming in, or when historic guidelines are being written. Even on historic Milledge Avenue, a spunky sorority house picks up some less stodgy details and works just as well on that street as the wedding cake, wrought-iron and Greek Revival houses. If this contemporary stuff can work on Milledge, it can work anywhere.

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Sometimes Those Who Can, Teach: Local educator Danny Kofke, from Hoschton, has been working the publicity circuit lately to capitalize on renewed interest in his 2007 book How to Survive (and Perhaps Thrive) on a Teacher’s Salary (Tate Publishing), recently appearing on 11 Alive News and “Good Day Atlanta,” among other places. Kofke is riding on the current wave of popularity of books on thrift and risk-avoidance following the 2008 Everything Crash, and his book appears to be striking a chord among teachers and those folks in the same lower-middle-class income bracket. Kofke’s book is less than a hundred pages and not so much a comprehensive guide to personal finance than the story of how he and his wife started out smart and frugal— with a couple of lucky breaks—and profited by it using the principles put forth by David Bach, author of Smart Couples Finish Rich.

But for what it is, it’s not bad—plain-spoken, reader-friendly and genuinely encouraging. In these times, it sure couldn’t hurt.

Proof That Comic Books Will Make You Stupid: On Aug. 31 the Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, much to the surprise of the market and most of Marvel’s creative staff, who now suddenly find themselves subjects of the Mouse King.

This could be a good thing, as Disney has been looking for years to increase its market demographic among boys (somehow most boys aren’t into Disney princesses), and Marvel will at last have a single distributor for movies and TV properties. Or it could be a bad thing, as Disney is notorious for gratuitous and often disastrous meddling in the affairs of its subsidiaries, as shown by wellpublicized disputes with Pixar and Miramax.

The worst-case scenario is one in which Disney attempts to soften up some of Marvel’s edgier comics in its perpetual quest for familyfriendliness. I take that back; the worst-case scenario is Spider-Man Meets Hannah Montana.

On the other hand, good news for Hugh Jackman—with some Alan Mencken musical numbers thrown into the next movie, at long last Wolverine SINGS! Better Proof That Comic Books Will Make You Stupid: As reported by CNN, Denver, CO authorities recently broke up a huge methamphetamine operation, to the tune of roughly $2 million dollars per month. The operation was run by a pair of brothers, Aaron and Alfonzo Castro, who would import the meth from Mexico by way of Phoenix, then use drug mules to carry the stuff to lower-end dealers in the Denver area. Ultimately, the brothers laundered their profits by buying vintage comics, reportedly first-edition Superman and Batman titles, with the final aim of setting themselves up as comic-book dealers. First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women, then you get the comics… then you lose the women…

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Passing: Dominick Dunne, best-selling novelist, crime writer, and Vanity Fair’s man on the scene at high-profile celebrity trials, died Aug. 26 of bladder cancer. He was 83.

At one time a movie producer, Dunne was best known as a man who moved among the rich and famous and lent his moneyed-gadfly perspective to the coverage of the trials of O.J. Simpson, Claus von Bulow, Phil Spector and the Menendez brothers. The brother of novelist John Gregory Dunne, his best-known novels were The Two Mrs. Grenvilles and An Inconvenient Woman, and he spent his final months racing against time to finish one last novel, Too Much Money, before succumbing to the cancer. He succeeded.

Sheila Lukins, who with Julee Rosso coauthored the seminal guides The Silver Palate Cookbook and The New Basics Cookbook, died Aug. 30 of brain cancer at the age of 66.

Lukins was one of the owners of New York’s Silver Palate food shop, an early institution in the foodie revolution, and designed her cookbooks around elegant meals that upscale working people could prepare. New Basics is more of a guide to fundamentals and an excellent resource for people (such as myself) who find themselves often having to make the most of very limited skills. Since 1986, Lukins was the food editor and monthly columnist for Parade magazine.

And the venerable PBS kids’ show “Reading Rainbow,” the network’s thirdlongest running educational program (after “Sesame Street” and “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”) turned out the lights on Aug. 28, a victim of budgetary constraints and a shift in PBS’ focus in reading education, away from comprehensive reading and more heavily on nuts and bolts like phonics and spelling. While there is nothing wrong with teaching mechanics, it’s hard to see why there isn’t room at the table for a show like this which encouraged kids to enjoy reading once they’ve acquired their basic skills. There is nothing frivolous about books, as language acquisition increases exponentially when children are exposed to elegant and illustrative uses of language. In the words of the slogan of another institution now penniless in the post-Bush years, reading is fundamental.

Last, but Certainly Not Least: The American Library Association’s annual “Banned Books Week” runs Sept. 26–Oct. 3, to bring awareness of the ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom and its continual battle to preserve the autonomy of America’s libraries from the challenges of those who would like to protect us from our own brains. Click on the “Issues & Advocacy” link at www.ala.org for events and lists of the most frequently banned and challenged books by year or by author, including classics—I guarantee you’ll be shocked.

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An Ort Update

William Orten Carlton Issues a Medical Bulletin

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ete McCommons talked with Athens personality and Flagpole writer “William Orten Carlton=ORT” Tuesday evening, Sept. 8 in Room 4128 of Athens Regional Medical Center, where Ort was receiving blood-thinning treatment.

That treatment will lead, eventually, to an operation to repair a leaking valve in Ort’s heart. Previously, Ort had announced his surgery would take place that Tuesday, prompting get-well wishes from his legions of friends and admirers, including the Flagpole staff. Now, according to Ort, that operation has been postponed until the first of the year. Meanwhile, at the time of this interview, Ort was expecting to be released soon from the hospital. It is hoped that by the time this is published, we’ll be seeing him in all the old familiar places, including Flagpole and flagpole.com.

Okay, why I’m here: I have a leaking mitral valve in my heart. It’s something that could have come about due to a viral infection from strep throat; it could come about from other factors, but the biggest possibility is that I was born with that leaking valve, and it didn’t show up. Now, my father died of a heart attack at age 61. He got an appointment to West Point at the age of 20 in 1932, and when he got there, he flunked the physical. They said he had a heart murmur, so he had a leaking valve then. That’s what a heart murmur is: a leaking valve.

Last year, when I got congestive heart failure, and through medication and rest I was able to lick most of it…

David

Flagpole: Do you think your presence here has been confusing for the staff?

William Orten Carlton: I would never doubt that. I have had people walking out with question marks over their heads. But the reason I’m still here is that they put me on blood thinner; I have to get my blood to a 2.0 reading on something, and it’s at 1.3. I don’t know why it has to increase to get thinner, but they’ve been taking blood and checking it, and I was at 1.3 yesterday and 1.3 this morning, and they’re going to take another sample around 9 o’clock tonight and run it…

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FP: So, you’ve got to stay in the hospital?

Ort: Yeah. I can’t leave.

FP: But once you hit that 2.0 will they go on and do the operation?

Ort: No, but once I hit 1.6, I will be able to get off the drip and take the Cuomiden just by pill, because it takes a while for it to take effect, and it is taking effect a little, because I was way lower than that when they started working on me. I think I was below 1.0. But the big thing is they can’t book me out of here until I reach that 2.0 or very, very close to it because of the possibilities of infection or something: infection, or livermush poisoning. In terms of my wanting to get out of here and how I feel, I feel very good. I feel almost normal, and that’s frightening.

FP: Wait a minute. Let me see if this damned tape recorder is working. I guess it is. Okay. Good.

Ort: Okay. Good. Enough of this echolalia.

FP: Maybe you should say for those readers who are slow to tune in why you were here in the first place.

Ort: That’s not a bad idea. Actually, the truth of the matter is that I thought they were also going to give me a Thorazine drip and strap me down, but then I would be both a cardiac and a psycho patient, and the psycho ward has been done away with. They do still have Thorazine, and if I act up too much, they will give me a Thorazine drip. But I haven’t acted up that much.

FP: What?

Ort: Echolalia. That’s like you say something, and I say it back. Not to be confused with Echola, Alabama, and it’s about 10 miles west of Tuscaloosa on old route 82, where they have an iron-truss bridge across the Sipsey River and, like, six more bridges down in the valley, and it’s an amazing swamp, and then you go to the top of the hill, and there’s Echola. And it’s just a crossroads, and it has one store, and it’s Pearson’s Grocery, and inside Pearson’s Grocery is the post office for

Echola, Alabama. Well, I was talking about my congestive heart failure back there somewhere.

FP: So, right now you have the leaking valve, but they obviously think it’s okay for you to be out of the hospital…

Ort: Yes. It’s not pressing. I’ve got a pair of pants that need pressing more than that valve.

FP: It’s not a money matter? They’re not putting you out until you can raise money for the operation?

Ort: No. It’s nothing like that. I don’t need money now, but when I do need money, that’s when I’ll ask for it. People have already offered to help defray my hospital expenses, people who can well afford it.

I don’t have any insurance. In fact, my insurance was revoked, due to a combination of my mother being too ill to be able to process mail and the insurance agent closing the office temporarily to take his wife to Florida to save her life, and there wasn’t anyone to pick up the agency, so it simply closed. He thought he was coming back, say within 30, 40 days, and he didn’t come back for several months. In the interim they cancelled the insurance policy. We even went to the regional office of the company in Atlanta, and they said there’s absolutely nothing they can do. We had to deal with that agent, and he wasn’t available. There’s just nothing we can do, they said. So, they canceled the policy and then they revoked it, and that means that I may never be able to have any insurance like that again.

FP: So, you were on her policy?

Ort: Yes. Her policy covered me as well. She was covered by Medicaid, Medicare, and I may be eligible for one of those: Medicaid. I also have enough assets that I can pay them something like $50 a month ad infinitum, and they were willing to work with that. I can probably come up with some more, but I’ll have to cut my drinking back so I’ll have more money. I can’t drink anything for the time being but stout, because it’s low alcohol and because it contains tannin, like in red wine, and it’s very beneficial, and it’s also a blood thinner.

FP: Well, let us know when you do get out. Everybody will be delighted to see you around town.

Ort: I think I’m still going to be around for a while, so those of you who haven’t had a chance to kick my butt will still have a chance. I haven’t finished my writing. I’ve got much more to write. I’ve got at least 10 topics that have come to me since I’ve been in here. One of them is, I can write a column about this illness and my stay here… I think I can cram it all into one column of reasonable length and interest… Frankly, I’m like the old Tony Bennett song, “I Want to Be Around.” f

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(500) DAYS OF SUMMER (PG-13) Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a boy. Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel) is a girl. The film’s narrator lets you know from the get-go their story does not come from the happy ending department. Boy meets girl; girl breaks boy’s heart into tiny pieces. (500) Days of Summer brilliantly shows us their entire relationship, from cute beginning (an office romance ignited by karaoke and alcohol) to whiskey-drowned end.

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. Director John Schultz (The Honeymooners) won some awards for his 1996 debut, Bandwagon.

ALL ABOUT STEVE (PG-13) Eccentric crossword creator Mary Horowitz (Bullock) falls in love with cameraman Steve (Cooper) after just one date. First-time feature director Phil Traill’s 2003 short, Dangle, was well-received, but I’m not curious to see how he fares with cookie-cutter comedy. With Thomas Haden Church and Keith David (not to be confused with David Keith).

AUTISM: THE MUSICAL (NR) 2007.

Tricia Regan’s award-winning film documents the lives of five autistic children from L.A. as they prepare for their original musical production.

AWAY WE GO (R) Burt and Verona (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph) 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 (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and his wife, Vendela Vida (cofounder and co-editor of The Believer), reads like a quirky, literarily humorous National Book Award finalist.

BRIGHT STAR (PG) Jane Campion, the Oscar-winning writer-director of The Piano (she was only the second woman to ever be nominated for Best Director), returns with a period romantic drama about the short-lived relationship between poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw, one of the Dylans in I’m Not There), who died at 25, and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish, StopLoss). Nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes. With Thomas Sangster (Love Actually) and Paul Schneider, a strange choice for a drama set in 19th-century England.

CARRIERS (PG-13) Four friends (Star Trek’s Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Emily Van Camp and Thumbsucker’s Lou Taylor Pucci) try to outrun a deadly virus decimating the United States.

With the big, empty hotel, Carriers resembles a Dawn of the 28 Shinings Later, but the flick, the feature debut of Spanish writing-directing brothers, Alex and David Pastor, has a cool sheen to it. I don’t imagine anyone will remember Carriers once the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic masterwork, The Road, comes out.

CHICKEN LITTLE (G) 2005. Disney’s first fully computer animated film retells the fable of the loudmouth chicken who rallies a village to mass hysteria, this time giving him daddyissues and the voice of Zach Braff.

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS (PG) Inventor Flint Lockwood’s (v. Bill Hader) latest innovation brings food from the sky

like rain. Perky, intelligent weather girl Sam Sparks (v. Anna Faris) is assigned to cover the strange phenomenon.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the writers of Extreme Movie, “How I Met Your Mother,” and “Clone High” adapt the children’s book by Judi and Ron Barrett into the latest animated 3D extravaganza. Featuring the voices of James Caan, Andy Samberg, Mr. T and the great Bruce Campbell.

Negative on the T.P., over…

COCALERO (NR) 2007. First-time filmmaker Alejandro Landes documented how a Bolivian farmers’ union, backed by the nation’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, responded to their government’s U.S.-urged effort to eradicate coca crops. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and two Silver Condors (Best Documentary Feature and Best First Film) at the Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards. Part of the ACC Library’s iFilms series.

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I’ll go with, “District 9 Is the Freshest Sci-Fi Since Pitch Black.” For the past 20 years, insectile aliens, derisively nicknamed “Prawns,” have resided in slums constructed just outside of Johannesburg. This new underclass of illegal aliens anger the populace, and the South African government hires private military corporation, MNU (MultiNational United), to relocate the Prawns from the outskirts of Johannesburg to

a specially constructed concentration camp. Problems ensue…

EXTRACT (R) Office Space writerdirector Mike Judge may have disappointed with his 2006 follow-up, Idiocracy, but Extract looks like a return to the workplace antics at which he excels. Nice guy Joel (Jason Bateman) owns an extract plant and has to deal with a cadre of professional idiots and personal problems. The cast, including Kristen Wiig, Mila Kunis, Ben Affleck, J.K. Simmons, Clifton Collins, Jr., David Koechner and more, is shaping up as fall’s strongest comedic ensemble.

THE FINAL DESTINATION 3D (R) The Final Destination 3D is too silly to be scary. After another bland, pretty teen (Bobby Campo) saves his pals from Death’s masterplan, said bland, pretty teens must figure out a way to stop the unstoppable, unseen Grim Reaper. The 3D performs as advertised.

It adds another dimension to deaths that are still creative in a half-assed sort of way.

FOOD, INC. (PG) Fast Food Nation’s Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, peek inside the pantry of America’s corporate kitchen, analyzing the effects of a corporate-controlled food industry on the country’s farmers and the health of its citizens.

FUNNY PEOPLE (R) The dramaticcomic collaboration of former college roommates, superstar Adam Sandler and Knocked Up writer-director Judd Apatow, Funny People is a strange animal. As raunchy and immature as The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, Apatow’s third film is maturely depressing. Laughs are prolific but tempered by death’s looming visage. A devastating diagnosis leaves George pondering his life choices. His only friend is a newly hired assistant, wannabe standup comic Ira Wright (Seth Rogen), and his true love is married with two kids.

But impending mortality frees George to amend the mistakes of his past and he reconnects with Laura. While no one was looking, Apatow became the new James Brooks and Funny People is his penis-joke-filled Terms of Endearment.

GAMER (R) Neveldine/Taylor, the love ‘em or hate ‘em auteurs behind Crank and Crank: High Voltage, take online gaming to the next level in this Running Man/Death Race wannabe.

Gerard Butler stars as Kable, a death row inmate and popular “Slayer” looking to overthrow the game’s mastermind, the inexplicably old Southern Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall, “Dexter”). I’m looking forward to this overly kinetic film despite my better judgement. With Kyra Sedgwick, John Leguizamo and Amber Valletta.

G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA (PG-13) In the not too distant future, G.I. Joe is no longer merely a real American hero; he’s now a real global hero led by General Hawk (an appropriately stiff-jawed Dennis Quaid) and backed by the most talented soldiers from the world’s top militaries. The lineup includes popular characters like Snake Eyes, Scarlett, the lesser-known Heavy Duty and Breaker, recruited to battle a new threat: the world’s largest arms dealer. Where Transformers is clearly a blockbuster of the 2000s, G.I. Joe remains boxed in its original packaging from the late 1980s, to which my inner eight-year-old bellows a hearty, “Yo, Joe!” HALLOWEEN II (R) Writer-director Rob Zombie’s reimagining of the first Halloween excellently psychoanalyzes the Captain Kirk-masked serial killer Michael Myers, the sort of abused piece of white trash for which Zombie has a soft spot. The first half, when Michael was a kid, is an exploitative masterpiece of a short film. The rest of the film adequately unveiled the scary world lurking just beyond the suburban streetlights. The isolated sequel seems more rural, working-class nightmare— Texas Chainsaw Massacre—than Halloween’s middle-class terror.

THE HURT LOCKER (R) Largely plotless, The Hurt Locker follows Bravo Company’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit through the rubblestrewn streets of Baghdad, where every rubbish pile may hide an improvised explosive device, better known as an IED. While anyone waiting for an overarching mystery to solve or an explosive mastermind to catch will be disappointed,The Hurt Locker is the highest intensity, hottest war drama made about Iraq. Director Kathryn Bigelow and Barry Ackroyd, the cinematographer from United 93 and Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or-winning The Wind That Shakes the Barley, capture the explosive microcosm of bomb removal, especially when the team fails.

I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF (PG-13) With his latest, Tyler Perry continues preaching to the choir. The unconverted will be as unimpressed and uninterested in the latest faithbased, tonally bipolar dramedy starring himself in drag as mad matron Madea as they were the previous four features.

In ICDBABM, Madea involves herself in the desperate lives of three motherless children—Jennifer (Hope Olaide Wilson), Manny (Kwesi Boakye) and Byron (Frederick Sigler)—and their selfish, self-destructive aunt, April (Taraji P. Henson). Of course, all April needs is the love of three kids, a good man, immigrant handyman Sandino (Adam Rodriguez) and the Lord. m THE INFORMANT! (R) After the one-two punch of Che, Steven Soderbergh is back to silly, Ocean’s

style machinations. Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon sporting a grin as ridiculous as his mustache) becomes the federal government’s star witness in a case against an agri-business Goliath.

Too bad Mark has secrets of his own to keep. The Informant! looks like a cheery blast after Soderbergh’s unfairly maligned, downer biopic. With Scott Bakula, “The Soup”’s Joel McHale and Tony “Buster Bluth” Hale.

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (R) Once upon a time, the world was at the mercy of a madman. Then “The Basterds,” a gang of Jewish-American soldiers led by a Southern mountain man, swept across Nazi-occupied France. The world lived happily ever after. The hyperbolical trailers are right.

You’ve never seen war until you’ve seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino. Inglourious Basterds is the film both critics and moviegoers have been waiting for since the ‘90s trifecta of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. Anyone only exposed to the previews will be shocked to hear that Basterds is QT’s most mature film, despite its graphic, gratuitous violence and howling hilarity.

IN THE LOOP (NR) The U.S. President and British Prime Minister want a war, but their advisers, U.S. General George Miller (James Gandolfini) and British Secretary of State for International Development Simon Tucker (Tom Hollander, The Pirates of the Caribbean’s Lord Cutler Beckett), don’t think a conflict is such a swell idea. The potential is there; director Armando Iannucci was responsible, in a good way, for Brit polit-com “The Thick of It” and “I’m Alan Partridge,” starring Steve Coogan.

JENNIFER’S BODY (R) Juno’s breakout screenwriter Diablo Cody follows up the Oscar-nominated comedy with a silly, fun horror flick.

A cheerleader named Jennifer (Hottie of the Year Megan Fox, Transformers) starts devouring local high school boys after she is possessed by a demon. Her sweet best friend (Amanda Seyfried, Mamma Mia!) must stop her. Girlfight director Karyn Kusama attempts to recover from Aeon Flux. With Adam Brody, J.K. Simmons, Amy Sedaris, Chris Pratt (“Everwood”) and Kyle Gallner (“Veronica Mars”).

JUNO (PG-13) 2007. This little charmer lives up to all its preceding hype, most of which has deservedly swirled around hotter-than-thou screenwriter Diablo Cody and achingly talented, 20-year-old actress Ellen Page (Hard Candy), who squeeze tears of laughter from the 16-year-old’s pregnancy predicament thanks to chic dialogue and a winning performance.

LOVE HAPPENS (PG-13) While watching “Mad Men” the other day, I saw a preview for the newest romantic dramedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart and wondered how I’d missed this late-’90s/ early-’00s flick.

Then I realized it was new. Burke Ryan (Eckhart), the author of a bestselling book on grief falls in love with florist Eloise Chandler (Aniston), only to discover he’s yet to get over the death of his wife. With Judy Greer, Dan Fogler and Martin Sheen.

MY ONE AND ONLY (PG-13) I am at a loss for words after learning that My One and Only is based on the life of the tan one, George Hamilton. I wasn’t expecting that. Renée Zellweger stars as Anne Deveraux, a glamorous ‘50s vixen who cruises the eastern seaboard seeking a new husband and daddy for her two boys, George (Logan Lerman) and Robbie (Mark Rendall). With Chris Noth, Kevin Bacon, David Koechner, Eric McCormack and Steven Weber.

NO IMPACT MAN: THE DOCUMENTARY (NR) Watch as one Manhattan family tries not to impact the environment for a year. No soda cans, no bottled water, no magazines,

no newspapers, no airplanes, no subways, no taxis, no elevators! In fact, they can’t get anything new at all.

Sounds like a doozy of a challenge.

Will Colin Beavan sacrifice his family to the gods of green? An official selection at Sundance, Silverdocs and the Los Angeles Film Festivals. Directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein.

PAPER HEART (PG-13) Athens got a sneak peek at performance artist, musician, writer and painter Charlyne Yi’s hybrid romcom-documentary back in the early summer. Star-cowriter Yi (the funny stoned girlfriend in Knocked Up) and director-cowriter Nicholas Jasenovec ponder what love means to different people. Also, Yi’s more famous friends/former costars— Michael Cera, Martin Starr, Seth Rogen—show up. Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.

A PERFECT GETAWAY (R) Paradise is lost when two couples, Cliff & Cydney (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich) and Nick and Gina (Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez, the infamous Nikki of “Lost”’s despised Nikki and Paulo), discover a killer couple is stalking the Hawaiian islands, murdering newlyweds. Pitch Black writerdirector David Twohy holds a fun, informative screenwriting camp in this meta-thriller. The second act twist won’t blindside you, but it may lead you to cry, “Bullshit!” Still, the unkillable, off-his-rocker (or is he?), macho man, Nick, is Twohy’s first home-run character since Riddick, and lets a winking, twinkling Olyphant, of whom I’ve been a fan since “Deadwood,” finally shine. Thriller fans may have traveled this twisty path before, but A Perfect Getaway is a trip worth taking.

THE ROOM (R) 2003. I’ve wanted to see writer-director-star Tommy Wiseau’s personal cinematic atom

bomb since reading an article in Entertainment Weekly about the prominent billboard for the would-be auteur’s debut, an awful picture beloved by two of my favorite ensembles, “The State” and “Arrested Development.” Wiseau’s film is supposedly THE new cult phenomenon. You definitely want to see this flick in its Athenian debut on the big screen. My Must-See Pick of the Week. See story on p. 13.

THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE (PG13) The hot doc of the moment, The September Issue chronicles the production of Vogue’s 2007 fall fashion issue, which, weighing in at a whopping five pounds, was the largest issue of a magazine ever published.

The Devil Wears Prada fans should be excited to see editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, the alleged inspiration for Miranda Priestly, in action. Director R.J. Cutler won an Emmy for “American High.” Winner of the Cinematography Award and a Grand Jury Prize nomination from Sundance.

SORORITY ROW (R) See Movie Pick.

SOUL POWER (PG-13) A documentary of the legendary soul music concert held in Kinshasa, Zaire in 1974 as part of the Rumble in the Jungle, the renowned rematch between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.

Soul Power features archival footage of James Brown, Celia Cruz, and B.B. King. The film was an official selection of the Berlin Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Los Angeles Film Festival.

THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE (PG13) I won’t speak for fans of Aubrey Niffenegger’s beloved bestseller; I have no clue as to whether or not it’s a good (i.e., faithful) adaptation of the love story of Henry (Eric Bana), a regular guy with a genetic predisposition for time travel, and Claire (Rachel McAdams), the lovely lady who falls in love with grown-up naked him at the

age of six. As sci-fi nuts love to point out, Niffenegger’s time travel premise is flawed, paradoxical and perfect for her passionate story. he Time Traveler’s Wife should please romance junkies pining for their next chance to pine.

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.

TYSON (R) Controversial filmmaker James Toback (Black and White) returns to documentaries for the first time in a decade with this chronicle of his pal, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. With Tyson’s recent cameo in June’s smash hit, The Hangover, what better time to reflect than the present? Winner of the Regard Knockout Award at Cannes.

UP (PG) Seventy-eight-year-old Carl Fredricksen (v. Edward Asner) and his late wife, Ellie, always dreamed of traveling to South America. After Ellie’s death, Carl floats his house to the fabled Paradise Falls via several thousand helium balloons.

WHITEOUT (R) Based on a comic

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9 (PG-13) The names of producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov over-inflated my expectations for this extended version of animator Shane Acker’s Oscar-nominated short.

The incredible trailer, propelled by the fantastical, futuristic sounds of nu-proggers Coheed and Cambria, helped blow my excitement up to proportions that were easily popped by the pin of 9’s tedious first act.

In a future post-apocalypse, the only living things left are nine binocular-eyed “stitchpunk” dolls—impressively voiced by a Hobbit (Elijah Wood), two Oscar-winners (Jennifer Connelly and Martin Landau), an Oscar-nominee (John C. Reilly) and Golden Globe-nominee (Christopher Plummer) —created by the scientist who was also responsible for the destruction of everything else. Opposing the dolls are giant, beastly machines used for war.

Acker’s video game-inspired milieu wants for a better story. The measly one provided

by Acker and screenwriter Pamela Pettler (Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride) cannot sustain the muscularity of Acker’s vision. 9 not only looks like a video game, but it might actually be better as one. Empathizing with the dolls, even protagonist 9, is tricky. The dolls lack traits more defining than cowardly despot (Plummer’s

1), inventor (Landau’s 2), mute librarians (3 and 4), mechanic (Reilly’s 5), etc. Sharing the danger of roaming the post-apocalyptic wasteland with 9, or soldierly 7 or brainlessly brutish 8, would have helped. I would have preferred battling the giant machines myself.

Passively watching them invited soporific disengagement.

Given better material, Acker has the illustrative chops to fashion a spectacular animated feature. The machines, most of which were constructed like metallic animals, truly frightened. The Seamstress, a snakespider hybrid with a broken doll’s head, could give kids nightmares for weeks.

I doubt Burton or Bekmambetov were terribly hands-on producers. No amount of dusting could reveal the fingerprints of either. Burton’s animation experience could certainly have benefited Acker, a feature virgin. As visually deep as 9 is, it is proportionally shallow of character and story. 9 does not fail completely; it just disappoints extremely. I expect more from a movie, even a genre “cartoon,” when the names Burton or Bekmambetov are so prominently attached to it.

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movie pick The Dangers of Greek Life SORORITY ROW (R) The week’s requisite horror flick, Sorority Row, has nothing new to offer the genre. Pretty people get slaughtered in increasingly creative ways until the masked killer gets his (or hers). Yet this silly, scary movie exemplifies everything that’s right and entertaining about slasher pics.

The unoriginality starts and stops with the characters and the plot. The one-dimensional teen-girl squad— pigeonholed by the website as the good girl (Briana Evigan), the leader (Leah Pipes), the screamer (Rumer Willis), the flirt (Jamie Chung) and the party girl (Margo Harshman)— accidentally kills a sorority sister (Audrina Partridge) during a Leah Pipes prank gone wrong. Of course, they cover it up, opening the door for a psycho killer, posing as the dead girl, to pick them off one by one. It’s Sorority House Massacre meets I Know What You Did Last Summer. And it’s not bad for what it is.

If Scream joined a sorority, Sorority Row would be its shallow little sister, trying hard to live up to the older girl and failing. Still, she’s pretty, kind of slutty, and likes to party, which more than make up for what she lacks in brains and depth.

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While the existence of most of the gals is justified by their potential for nudity or violent death, bossy leader Jessica has a much more important role. She’s not only in charge of the conspiracy, she’s also responsible for the entirety of the movie’s intentional humor.

Like Margot Kidder’s potty-mouthed Barb in Bob Clark’s Black Christmas, Jessica overshadows her peers with Heathers-ish entitlement, and her blithe handling of death and danger make you root for her, mean girl or not, over the heroine.

The flick would do well to lose its selfhating misogyny. I’m not referring to the steady stream of lone female lemmings racing to see who can run into the pimped-out tire-iron-wielding killer the first; the guys get theirs, too. Writers Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger should have dialed down the derogatory “bitches.” It’s offputting and unnecessary.

In a cinematic bar filled with underage PG-13-ers and past their prime R-rated hits, Sorority Row looks like a knockout. This blemished beauty could get herself elected Homecoming Queen at Slaughter U. Drew Wheeler

Modern Midnight Movie Tommy Wiseau’s The Room: A Loved and Loathed Cult Classic of his own film and of the following it’s developed. Read on, see the movie, then come back and read this again.

Flagpole: When you were growing up, did you watch a lot of movies?

Tommy Wiseau: Oh, yeah, sure!

FP: What were some of those early movies?

TW: Well, I guess you don’t know me. I really don’t want to talk about what movie I saw when I was little kid. But one thing I will say is I saw lot of movies. Movie is fun to see,

you know what I’m saying? General speaking, I like drama, comedy… but mostly drama.

Western movie is pretty good, too.

FP: Did seeing those movies when you were younger make you want to get involved in film?

TW: Well, you know I always wanted to be an actor, basically, and part of entertainment industry, basically. I always say like a different concept as well… not so much be part of it, I like to be comfortable in it. It’s not like it was in my head hundred percent, you know what I’m saying? It was not something where it was like I will kill for it. I always believe in hard work, and if there are obstacles, I know you do not know me, so it’s not… I can not give you straight answer, let’s put it this way.

FP: In an interview on the DVD you said everyone should see The Room and…

TW: Oh, yeah! I believe it! Well, I always say… I’m very consistent in my answers.

The different colors of the Hollywood means that… I did a lot of research, a lot of people

don’t realize that. I don’t know you, Chris, but how do you write something? What will be there for people reading your article, whatever? …As you probably did the research, some people are writing, they all say oh, this happened by accident. Nothing happened by accident!

FP: I was curious about why you think The Room can be helpful and why people should see it.

TW: Yeah, it was why I wanted everyone to… because really it’s human behavior.

You see, I can open the…

The Room is by design for American people, you really think about it. But now we have so much actually good response from overseas, I don’t know if you know, but we released it in London few weeks ago and released it as well in Canada. So, we got really a lot of emails as well, great response from public, seems to be that I always say that The Room is for everyone but by design was for American people to explore relationships. The reason for I wanted everyone see The Room because you know The Room is like sort of red flag between relationships, okay?

People are writing about technical aspects, this and that, but they are missing the point!

Most writers, again I’m not here to offend you whatsoever, I think these people don’t know what they talking about, basically! Because you see, if you look at whatever movie, I don’t care what movie, what person, they say it’s comedy. The more colors you have, the better it is. That’s number one. Number two, I’m as a director what is my job? My job is as a director to provoke the audience. And if I provoke positive way, I did my job well. All the directors probably would agree with me, okay?

Sometimes people ask me can you play and throw the football, and it’s fine with me. Some ask different stuff. People dancing, throwing… did you see The Room, actually?

FP: I’ve seen it several times.

TW: Okay, so basically you know the party scene with Johnny, and people [in the audience] throw confetti, it looks spectacular, actually, to be honest with you! So again, by the public design, they dress up in costume, et cetera, et cetera, and so everybody’s different. People come yelling and commentarying about it. I think people enjoy themselves. It makes me very very happy, if you ask me.

FP: Do you ever feel after seven years that you want to put The Room behind you?

TW: Absolutely not. I would be for the rest of my life attached to The Room. I am proud of my project, and I have other projects, but I enjoy myself. I love public; I like fans. The Room if you write about it every week or every month it would still be interesting. You could have different take by interviewing people, relationships.

FP: Do you get recognized by fans when you’re out in L.A.?

TW: …When I was in San Diego, New York, wherever I’m going people recognize me now.

But it’s nothing important for me. Why is it important for you to hear my answer?

FP: I’m just curious because I think one of the most interesting things about The Room is how it’s become a word-of-mouth sensation. So I’m curious as to whether that sort of enthusiasm carries over to real life interactions.

TW: Yeah, it does, and sometimes it goes overboard sometimes. I’m driving my car, sometimes people stop, and so on… yes, it does happen. Yes. It does.

FP: What are some of the strangest experiences at the screenings you’ve shown up to?

TW: [Laughs.] You know what, I can write the book about it. One of the strangest things was one girl said, “Can I marry you?” But she was kidding, but she was also serious, believe it or not! It is like that. We play football, we throw the football, I throw it myself.

Read more of this interview at Flagpole.com.

Chris Hassiotis

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he cult movie is a stalwart of American culture. Ignored upon its release, the film has found an audience years or decades later thanks to underground channels, backroom whisperings and recommendations from enthusiasts of the obscure. What, then, has the Internet done to the cult movie? Has the instant accessibility of all media, all the time, killed the opportunity for a small following to develop slowly? Must something be the Hot New Thing lest it be cast aside? Well, mostly. But not if it’s The Room.

The 2003 movie is a cult flick in the classic sense that it’s something passed along from friend to friend, ignored almost wholly by the media. It has taken on a life of its own, growing from an almost imperceptible several-week run at a Los Angeles theater to a favorite at midnight movie sessions from L.A. to New York to Phoenix and Atlanta. But it’s also not a cult flick in the classic sense; those movies tend to veer towards the fringe or the outré, generally trucking in sci-fi, fantasy and horror genres. The plot of The Room, however, is almost astoundingly mundane, detailing a love-triangle melodrama between our hero Johnny, his harridan of a girlfriend Lisa and his remorsefully disloyal best friend Mark.

What keeps ‘em coming back for screening after screening, though, is the magnetic presence of Tommy Wiseau, the film’s enigmatic writer, producer, director and starring lead actor, a man with a flowing mane of dark hair, an indistinct Eastern European accent and creatively unpredictable line delivery. The Room has been called “the best worst movie ever made,” but that doesn’t really capture its appeal. If nothing else, it’s an antidote to the professional-to-the-point-of-pabulum fare most of the major Hollywood studios toss off every summer. Filmed in both digital and film formats at the same time and funded with $6 million Wiseau raised himself, The Room has spread far and wide, and makes its Athens bigscreen debut this weekend. Flagpole caught up with Wiseau last month and found him to be a personable, enthusiastic, generous—and just as strange as you might imagine—supporter

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Southern Remix

Fall Preview

Here, There, and Everywhere: The opening of the Eastside location of Plantation Buffet (1055 Gaines School Rd., in the Village Cedar Shoals shopping center), in the space that previously housed El Guanaco, seemed as good an opportunity as any to tie up some loose ends. Yes, there are places I’ve never eaten in this town, but I try to minimize them, and I keep a running list to make sure. This week’s adventures allowed me to check off some more of the classic meat-and-threes I’d managed not to make it to in my 13 years here. My mom goes to a knitting store in Atlanta to get help with her socks and whatnot, and while there recently, she passed off her phone to a needle felter who’d been taken by some friends to a marvelous and indescribable Southern-cooking restaurant in Athens, some years back. From his stabs at recollection, I could gather that it was somewhere in north Athens, and that it resembled a gas station, which sounded a little like the original Plantation Buffet (1119 MLK, Jr. Pkwy.), so I figured I’d hit up both and compare. Well, both have their weird charm (leftover plastic molcajetes once used for salsa repurposed for cereal bowls, a fabulous mural of a chicken, lots of vintage photographs on the walls), but neither seemed to be among the cream of the crop when it comes to this genre of cuisine. I had decent squash at the Eastside location, and there’s a lot on the buffet for it being relatively small, but the cornbread is avoidable and some items are far too salty, even for my salt tooth. Happily, I made it to the MLK location on a Tuesday, the day that promises BBQ goat on the buffet, one of the things for which the restaurant is famed. Goat is scarcer and scarcer around Athens these days, perhaps due to gentrification, so I appreciate its continued existence at the restaurant, but it’s not what you’d call great.

Nuggets of bone lurk here and there, and the overall texture is on the side of sopping.

Stop #2: My next trip was more fortunate. Strickland’s Restaurant (4723 Atlanta Hwy., Bogart) has been in business since 1960, which means it’s older than almost every other place in town (The Mayflower and The Varsity excepted), and I sure wish it were still in downtown Athens. Sure, the fried chicken was a little too salty and the cabbage, while wellcooked, didn’t respond to any attempts to season it (salt and hot sauce both failed), but the green beans were classic …the slice of pound stuff, full of flavor without tasting like they’d come from cake was moist and a can, the biscuits were soft beautifully crusty. and perfect for soaking up gravy and the slice of pound cake Saran-wrapped on a plate was moist and beautifully crusty. The mashed potatoes had a slight graininess, suggesting they might have been cut with instant, but, on the whole, the experience was totally relaxing, clean, pleasant and promising, especially the sighting of “streak o’ lean,” a hunk of pork fat with a little meat in it, on the breakfast menu.

Stop #3: Finally, I ventured over to Chonell’s Home Cooking (2361 W. Broad St., next to the Omni), which is only open weekdays sans reservation and only then until 4 p.m., but does also do breakfast. Good fried okra, custardy mac and cheese and cube steak with rice and gravy countered sweet field peas, cornbread that was flavorful and genuine but revealed itself as far too dry after a chew or two and strange but not entirely off-putting iced tea. The famed red velvet cake wasn’t available on that day, but the stream of customers coming in the door to order at the register before grabbing a seat was unslackening.

In Conclusion: So, have I found my equal to Ole Murray’s, the best Southern cooking I’ve ever eaten and recently moved from Madison to Augusta? Not yet. Let me know where I need to go outside the Loop.

What Up?: The best thing I’ve eaten lately, as those who read the Grub Notes blog on Flagpole.com know, is the jerk pork sandwich made at Kelly’s and served at Barnette’s, the new bar across from where the similarly named newsstand used to be. A mere $3 will buy you a bun full of soft, flavorful awesomeness, served with a little cup of sauce that isn’t even necessary. Looking for the best BBQ sandwich in town? That’s it.

Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com

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One of the great things about living in Athens after graduating is the chance to watch eclectic new theatre develop: professional and non-profit drama companies, experimental clown parades, marching bands, improv troupes and friends who stage shows in a coffeehouse or a yoga studio. And while Athens’ musical and dramatic stages endured some trauma this summer, I see no better recovery than this resplendent fall season.

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Marry Me a Little: A staple of Athens community theatre for over 50 years, the Town & Gown Players start off their season with Stephen Sondheim’s rumination on bachelorhood and marriage: Company. A perennial Sondheim classic, Company boasts multiple Tonys and other awards, and is a great musical even for those not so into song and dance. The first of the post “Golden Age” Broadway productions (think Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music), Company is told in a series of short nonlinear vignettes. The T&G performance will be staged at the Athens Community Theatre starting this week: Sept. 18 & 19 and 24–26 (8 p.m.) and Sept. 20 & 27 (2 p.m.). www. townandgownplayers.org

respected Sister (whose body happens to be missing from the funeral home), Our Lady is about making peace and moving forward, while being, in the words of director Kristin KundertGibbs: “very, very darkly funny.” The play will run at UGA’s Cellar Theatre in the Fine Arts Building Sept. 24 & 25, 29 & 30, Oct. 1 & 2 (8 p.m.) and Sept. 27 & Oct. 4 (2:30 p.m.). Find more info at www.drama.uga.edu.

Let the Right One Vlog: During the Writers Guild of America’s strike last year, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” creator and paragon of sexy TV sci-fi, Joss Whedon, set out to create a film without stepping on any strikers’ toes. Result: the online musical short film, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which went on to gain an Emmy nomination.

Just in time for Halloween, Dr. Horrible and his nemesis, Captain Hammer, will kick off Town & Gown’s Second Stage season in conjunction with the infamous Vampire Lesbians of Sodom by campy drag legend Charles Busch of Psycho Beach Party fame. Expect the evening to be a cross between The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Get into the Halloween spirit at the Athens Community Theatre, Oct. 8–11 (showtimes will be determined later).

Check www.townandgown players.org for updates.

Family Matters: Town & Gown also presents a Second Space performance of Joe DiPietro’s Hard Times: Following last Over the River and Through season’s Urinetown, about the Woods, a comedy about a city destitute from water family and the efforts of two shortage, UGA maintains the sets of grandparents to intertradition of socially germane fere—for the best, of course— theatre with Frank Galati’s in the life, loves and career of Tony award-winning adaptatheir grandson. Although this tion of Steinbeck’s seminal particular family is Italian, the Depression-era novel, The dynamics resonate particularly Grapes of Wrath. well with Southerners. The “The play’s themes of disgrandparents are T&G veterans possession and loss have so Jeff Evans, Janet Robertson, much resonance for today as Gay McCommons and Rick we see more and more people Matt Bowdren as Balthazar and Vivi Chavez as Norca in the UGA Rose. Wade LaFontaine is the losing their homes and jobs grandson and Jessica Fowler is production of Our Lady of 121st Street. and struggling to maintain his girlfriend, at least in the their families’ well being,” explains director George Contini. schemes of his social directors. Allen Rowell directs, and if the Founded on the folkloric roots of storytelling and song, this audiences enjoy the play as much as the actors are enjoying production will use only found objects collected by the cast rehearsal, a good time awaits. throughout the rehearsal process to tell the story of the Joad Over the River and Through the Woods plays at the Colleen family’s attempt to assemble the pieces and reconstruct their O. Williams Theater in Winder Sept. 18–19 (7:30 p.m.), and Sunday, Sept. 20 (3 p.m.) (770-867-3106 for tickets). Then the lives. Staged at the Seney-Stovall Chapel Oct. 13–18 (8 p.m.) and Oct. 18 (2:30 p.m.). www.drama.uga.edu production moves to the Athens Community Theater Oct. 1–3 (8 p.m.), and Sunday, Oct. 4 (2 p.m.) (No reservations.) [Pete Come Hell or High Water: UGA closes the semester with Sarah McCommons] Ruhl’s Eurydice. This reimagined version of the classic myth from the perspective of Eurydice focuses less on Orpheus’ jourBut, Seriously, Folks: Veterans of TV and film, Stephanie ney to reclaim his dead wife and more on her experience of Astalos-Jones and Lisa Mende (who has appeared on “Seinfeld” descending into the underworld and who/what she meets there. as well as the Rose of Athens stage) perform a second revival “There’s a kind of structural vibration in knowing what the of their original It Was Open Mic Nite at Ye Olde Rustic Inn. bones of the story are, but not how it’s going to be told. It’s Portraying six different comedy acts at an open mic nite, the change-ups that are the sticking points,” Ruhl explained in Mende and Astalos-Jones offer up “a Borscht-belt singing sisan interview with The Seattle Times. Eurydice runs at the Cellar ter act (The Schmeckle Sisters), right-wing Christian college Theatre Nov. 5 & 6 and 10–13 at (8 p.m.) and Nov. 8 & 15 girls, red hat lady magicians, lesbian mimes and more.” If this (2:30 p.m.). www.drama.uga.edu sounds like your cup of (bourbon-spiked) tea, head over to Ciné Friday, Sept. 25 (8 p.m.) or find out more at www.athens And Something for the Kids: Local professional company Rose cine.com. of Athens Theatre will be undertaking a new educational series m Bad Habits: The UGA Department of Drama opens its this year called “Page to Stage.” First up: C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, season with Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly the Witch, and the Wardrobe. If you can’t catch the October Guirgis—acclaimed playwright, actor (Synecdoche, New York) performances, look for their November school tours and workand screenwriter (“The Sopranos”). Our Lady takes us to New shops. It will kick off at the Seney-Stovall Chapel Oct. 29 (10 York City, where an assorted cast, who once lived together in a.m.), Oct. 30 (10 a.m. & 7 p.m.) and Oct. 31 (2 p.m.). See a Harlem parish, reunite unexpectedly, 20 years later, to pay www.roseofathens.org for more info. respects to the dearly departed Sister Rose. Forced to deal with their pasts, futures and the memories of the formidable yet Amy Whisenhunt

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Tragedy: Sad news came down Monday, Sept.

7 when it was reported that world-renowned University of Georgia music professor W. Fred Mills passed away following an automobile accident on U.S. Highway 78 en route to Athens from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Mills joined the UGA School of Music brass faculty in 1996. In his lifetime he trained at Julliard, was a founding member of The Canadian Brass and performed with the American Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet Orchestra, New York City Opera Orchestra and others. Beloved by his students and colleagues, a group of his trumpet students gathered the morning after his passing at their normal morning meeting time, when Mills would conduct “warm ups.” The students said, “He would have wanted us to be here.” A memorial service celebrating his life will be announced at www. music.uga.edu.

Under the Bushes, Under the Stars: The Orange Twin Conservation Community and Athens-based arts organization AUX will present a very special event on Friday, Oct. 9 at 8 p.m.

That night, at the Orange Twin property, “America’s Funnyman” Neil Hamburger will Timi Conley perform along with Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power, Nana Grizol and Scott E. Spillane EXP. Camping is available by dropping an email to Laura Carter via laura@orangetwin. com. Tickets for the event are $12 and available at both Wuxtry and Schoolkids record shops. For more info and directions, please see www.orangetwin.com.

Speaking of Which…: Tickets are on sale now for the AUX presentation of legendary German band Faust, which will perform at the 40 Watt Saturday, Oct. 10. Tickets are a mere $10 each and can be purchased at www.40watt. com. AUX was committed to keeping ticket prices extremely low for this show so as to allow as many people as possible to see Faust.

There are many expenses related to the band’s visit to Athens that will not be covered by ticket sales, though, so AUX has started a Kickstarter campaign in order to raise the necessary funds to cover providing an equipment back line for the band’s performance and expenses related to the band’s musical workshop which will happen Sunday, Oct. 11 at 2 p.m. at Ciné. For more information, please head to www.auxfestival.com and follow the “Help Bring Faust to Athens” link at the top of the page. There are, of course, various rewards for donating at different tiers, but the real reward here is knowing you helped a very worthy local arts organization bring something to town that will be talked about for years and years.

Panic on the Streets of Austin, Panic on the Streets of Charleston: Widespread Panic has published its fall tour schedule and has confirmed two Halloween weekend shows at Austin, TX’s Austin Music Hall, a threenight stand in Los Angeles, and a slot on New Orleans’ Voodoo Experience. The closest the band will come to Athens on this run is Charleston, SC on Nov. 27 & 28 at the North Charleston Coliseum. For ticket sales information and more, please see www.widespread panic.com.

Merrily, Merrily: The inexhaustible Daniel Peiken, along with his wife Brandi, has started a new record label named Row Your Boat Records. Peiken also runs Analogue Records and this new venture is a way to simply open the door to different projects. The first project the pair have undertaken is assisting long time Athens musician Timi Conley (Kite to the Moon, Aqualove, Fuzzy Sprouts) release his first solo album, Nerd Sexy. The album is currently in pre-sale mode at the label’s website and the pre-sale should end on Oct. 31. This is not a donation toward anything. This is an actual purchase of the album that you will receive later.

Also, there are 10 different varieties of the album you can purchase ranging from $9.99 to $999.

Well, the cost of the actual album is the same at all levels, but the bonus stuff ranges from a limited-edition poster to a full replica of Conley’s guitar. For all relevant info and ordering instructions, please see www.rowyourboatrecords.com.

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Beat the Rush: Sorta-local dude Ricky Fitzpatrick has joined the ranks of major retailers everywhere by trotting out his holiday merchandise early. His newest release, an inspirational holiday album called Beside Me All Along, is now available for pre-order and will be available in physical form Nov. 1. It features standard fare such as “Amazing Grace,” “Away in a Manger” and “O Holy Night” as well as many others you either know or have heard. The pre-order CDs will be autographed and cost only $10. After Nov. 1 the album will be available in local shops and at all major digital retailers. For more information, please see www.rickyfitzpatrick.com.

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VOLCANO CHOIR Unmap Jagjaguwar Justin Vernon—better known to the musical world as Bon Iver—had a breakout hit last year with For Emma, Forever Ago. The album was a lyrical powerhouse: Vernon had just gone through a devastating breakup, his anguished and lovelorn thoughts pouring out and providing the base around which the often sparse instrumentation centered. Volcano Choir, Vernon’s new collaboration with fellow Wisconsonites Collections of Colonies of Bees, takes that idea of lyrical centrism and does away with it entirely. A majority of the songs on Unmap seem to have taken a lesson from the Sigur Rós school of music; the human voice exists not as a medium for poetry, but as just another instrument adding layers to the sound. Vernon’s piercing falsetto often provides nothing more than a wordless drone above which guitars, pianos, tape loops, bells and all manner of sonic sorcery work their magic. Grunts, yelps, chants, and what I could swear was a “meow” abound on the album’s nine tracks.

However, when Vernon finally does break out those lyrics he’s well known for, they’re… auto-tuned? Sung like a faux-gospel singer over synth buzzes and gongs? What’s all this? While Bon Iver is his outlet for folksy acoustic ballads, Vernon seems to have embraced a much more avant-garde approach with Volcano Choir. I’m happy to say it works. There may not be much to sing along to as well as one can with Bon Iver staples like “Skinny Love” or “Blood Bank.” “Islands, Is” is really the only song on the album I’d call vocally straightforward. Don’t let that get you down. There is plenty of joy to be found in the deeply layered instrumentation, off-kilter singing and, perhaps best of all, use of an auto-tune that doesn’t make my eardrums long to be impaled by a Q-tip. Kudos, Justin, I didn’t think it could be done.

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Pulling Music Town out of its neat little brown paper sleeve feels like unwrapping a surprise parcel—a handmade gift tied with string and left at your front door. The handwritten lyrics add to that sense of intimacy. You

can feel the loving care that went into crafting this compact, 20-minute gem of a record.

Primary singer-songwriter Emily Armond draws on old-time sounds and cadences, her subtle folk inflections matching the bouncing melodies of her banjo. The supporting musicians are equally vital and colorful, with proud trumpet calls intertwining gracefully around tender violin.

Opening number “Music Town” is a dear homage to dreary Sundays.

Anyone who has stuck around town after their college years will immediately relate to this bittersweet tale: the fleeting moment of existential angst and isolation that crops up between rock shows and coffee dates—that nagging self-doubt that comes with spending your days in this tiny Never Never Land.

But Armond just as gracefully speaks from points of view outside herself, like the lovelorn husband singing from beyond the grave in “My Fair Lady.” Despite the tragic lyrics, the mood feels light, almost like a children’s folksong from 1800s England.

The heart-stopper, though, is the painfully beautiful “She’s All Smiles.”

Backed by the angelic harmonies of Page Campbell, Armond’s verses wind through the familiar path of love, heartbreak, grief, resentment and recovery.

Sea of Dogs captures a certain rustic charm that makes each track feel warm and immediately familiar.

Armond manages to rein in the understated power of traditional folk and create something fresh and modern.

She just may be the most underrated songwriter in Athens.

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A.A. BONDY When the Devil’s Loose Fat Possum For a variety of reasons—including the fact that most songwriters exhaust their trove of songs in their debut albums—sophomore efforts are often disappointments. However, with When the Devil’s Loose, A.A. Bondy demonstrates that—though tapped—the well does not yet run dry. Up until his debut album, American Hearts (originally released in 2007 and then re-released

by Fat Possum in 2008), Bondy was best known for his work in Verbena, a band that achieved some notoriety in the late ‘90s, and which produced gritty, aggressive rock music in the vein of Nirvana and the Rolling Stones. His more recent work is a far cry from his youthful efforts. As he did on American Hearts, on When the Devil’s Loose Bondy lends his road-weary voice to a selection of sweepingly beautiful folk ballads with an edge. But since his debut solo album, he has matured both as a lyricist and as a songwriter. His compositions now flow effortlessly. The addition of a crack backing band (compromised partially of various Felice Brothers), adds depth to Bondy’s haunting, timeless melodies. Fittingly, his current record label is Fat Possum, and

his songs possess more than a little bit of classic blues and folk music. He also channels Paul Simon (minus the Africanized rhythms) and Neil Young.

Songs like “A Slow Parade” and “I Can See the Pines Are Dancing” are pure beauty. Sophomore slump? Quite the contrary, Bondy has produced his most accomplished album to date.

John Seay A.A. Bondy is playing Tasty World Uptown on Wednesday, Sept. 16.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS The Fine Print New West In the early days of this now waning decade, the Truckers were the lone vanguards of a reconceptualized Southern Thing now so prescient in the current era of gritty-all-over and barely-scraping-by. It became the era that defined the band that broke nationally: three guitars and three outstanding songwriters with a kick-ass rhythm section.

The Fine Print captures the gut bucket out-takes of their studio work during those galvanizing years on New West. For fans who’ve wanted one final record reeking of that time and place, the Truckers again have your back. The Fine Print reiterates the trimmings of their war years output: Hood’s slateeyed narrative (“The Great Car Dealer War”), Cooley’s wry underdogs (“Uncle Frank”) and Isbell’s gift for jerking tears (“TVA”). Also included are covers from Dylan, Tom Petty and Tom T. Hall, making for a fine last look at a lineup that the sun has long since set on. Not to be confused with “out-take” records that really shouldn’t have left the cutting room floor, this album out-leagues the attendant stigma, a true-blood Truckers record.

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THE FADES & GST CARDINALS The Split EP Cranky Girl This is the debut release from Atlanta label Cranky Girl, a split EP featuring three songs each from British bands The Fades and GST Cardinals.

It’s a solid one-two punch of the kind of anthemic rock that could only come from the UK. The Fades are up first with “Hurdy Gurdy Guy,” which is hardly the Donovan tribute I had hoped for.

Instead The Fades barrel out with fists in the air shouting “Oi! Oi! Oi!” and it’s all garage-punk guitars with no room for even a sliver of psychedelia. “TV Nation” is more like The Libertines covering Weezer, a sing-along pop song disguised as punk, propelled by relentless guitars and raw energy. The classic guitar riffs take center stage on (mostly) instrumental track “Pronto,” a blistering, squealing song that’s just looking for its commercial to soundtrack.

And then, ladies and gentlemen, welcome Liam Gallagher! No wait, it’s GST Cardinals! But damn, when the singer first opens his mouth I could swear he’s singing a line from “It’s Gettin’ Better (Man!).” Melodically, though, GST Cardinals fall just a bit short of Oasis’ sheen and land somewhere more along the lines of Jet territory. And in the following tracks, he actually loses that Gallagher snarl totally, and what’s left is more straightahead, bouncy Brit rock. Too bad Atlanta band The Hiss is no more; they would have made fine touring companions.

Michelle Gilzenrat GST Cardinals are playing the Five Spot in Atlanta on Sept. 20 as part of the Georgia Lawyers for the Arts Benefit.

MEW No More Stories…

Sony BMG With an album title that is a poem, No More Stories/Are Told Today/I’m Sorry/They Washed Away/No More Stories/The World Is Grey/I’m Tired/ Let’s Wash Away, Danish trio Mew adds another gem to its mostly obscure oeuvre, hopefully to be excavated and reappraised as one of the most consistently brilliant bands of the ’00s.

No More Stories… always goes for the grandest gesture, be it child choruses (done twice), extended climaxes (sometimes placed subversively at the opening of songs), stuffing seven different mini-suites into one song, or recording an entire track in reverse (only to be played backwards again to reveal a secret cut entitled “Nervous”). Ultimately, Mew buries its proggy pretensions beneath pristineclean stacked vocal harmonies and stadium-ready choruses, but most of the experimentation is in the deconstructed song structures and sub-genre hopping. For instance, in most tracks, ‘80s, disco or bust, synthgaze keyboards morphine drip, reverberated, into languorous dreamscapes with shoegazer foregrounding—even when the rhythm section suggests post-punk propulsion. In fact, you wouldn’t be misguided to say Sigur Rós armed with Rosetta Stone translation software and even more misguided aims for Clear Channel radio ads. Most likely an ode to Johan Wohlert, Mew’s former bassist who left the group for a domestic life, Mew’s latest is able to juggle pomp, experiment and accessibility into an erudite pop moment.

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istraction. Say it aloud, and feel your mouth And so Kindercore voyaged on in the Athens tradition, wrap around the word in disdain, sealing the seeing bands popping up and bursting apart all the while. As negative connotation. What is it? It’s what’s time went on, Kindercore went into hibernation; Lewis and keeping you from keeping your eye on the ball.

Geller busied themselves with new projects, notably the latter’s Or is it? Widen the frame: is the distraction part of the picture? interest in bio-diesel research. Lewis maintained his tireless It’s captured your attention for a reason, after all, be it the energy and enthusiasm for sundry fun opportunities, keeping annoying or the alluring. Athens is a town full of distractions: his hands stirring more than a few pots. In the last year, Lewis parties, second jobs, interpersonal conflicts, intriguing ideas discovered an interest not unlike the “green” concerns of bioand proposals, trivial obligations, spontaneous field trips, diesel: scooters. “If more people could ride scooters without political firecrackers, and attractive but tertiary concerns. having a car, it’d make Athens so much safer, so much more What’s the focus, the ball we’re all trying to keep our efficient, so much cleaner, and so much nicer to live in,” eyes on? Easy question: it’s called a music town for he says. Thus, his part in the new Owl Scooters coma reason. pany, which is issuing snazzy, mod-styled 50cc Ryan Lewis keeps his eyes on the ball and 150cc varieties of the fuel-smart vehicles. and the distractions. For Lewis, playing in The AthFest reformation of Lewis’ Hivesbands (Grape Soda, the freshly resurgent influenced garage band The Agenda created The Agenda, as well the much-beloved, the atmosphere for an old-school hamjam, broken-up Buddy System), writing a colKindercore-style. Having put on label festiumn (Athens Banner-Herald’s affably nerdy vals in ’98 and 2000, Lewis started schem“Action Five!”), graphic design and entreing on something for this fall. preneurship are all part of his day-to-day.

“The last couple of years I’d been Basically, Lewis has been “making it work” wanting to do one again,” he says. “In in Athens, octopus-style, for years—”it” 2002, Justin [Robinson] from The Agenda being: getting by as a creative adult. His and Dave Matysiak from Jet by Day and I latest contribution to the community comes put on a ‘Back to School Bash.’ It was the in the form of the Kindercore/Owl Scooters year the Black Lips played the 40 Watt and Fall Hootenanny, and if that seems like a ranhad firecrackers. I guess the opening couple dom string of nouns, allow us to provide some seconds of a Black Lips record is me going, context.

‘No fire in the 40 Watt, motherfuckers!’” He adds, Kindercore is, of course, Lewis and Twin Powers Ryan Lewis and the gang “Justin had mentioned to me, we should do a DJ Dan Geller’s long-running Athens-based record back to school thing again, now that things are label, hatched in 1996 as a torchbearer for much of the indiegetting back together. So, that sort of meshed with the idea pop that our music town has become known for. The venture that I already had—and then the scooter company was coming was homegrown college rock from the get-go, with one of along.” the label’s most notable acts handing off a demo to Lewis at The Kindercore/Owl Scooters Fall Hootenanny was born. In his then-job at Wuxtry before they’d even matriculated. “The addition to three reunion-spangled nights of music, additionMasters [of the Hemisphere] were one of the first wave of ally there will be a “scooter rally” and cookout at 2 p.m. on Kindercore bands. Sean [Rawls] and Bren [Mead], who are now the Saturday of the 40 Watt show, with free oil changes for any in Still Flyin’, were UGA freshmen, they lived in Creswell. They mods and/or rockers who show up with their scooters in tow. started this band and came to a show during orientation and Attendees of the shows will be issued raffle tickets, and believe gave me a tape. I put it on, and it was amazing. I was totally it or not, two lucky concertgoers will actually win Owl scootblown away. They were, like, 17 when they did this stuff,” ers. They will be giving one away at the cookout at Top Dog Lewis recalls. “Actually, I found the cassette the other day and Scooters and one at the 40 Watt show on Saturday. put it on again, and still, I was like, damn. Really great indiepop songs, fun and exciting with a good sense of humor.”

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eople are always getting sold in articles and press releases as “the greatest [so-and-so] you’ve never heard of,” but sometimes it’s really true, so here goes: Mark Mallman is the greatest pop songwriter and rock star you’ve never heard of. Despite the fact that he’s about to release his seventh studio album and was called “criminally underappreciated” by All Music Guide (perhaps not coincidentally, the new record’s called Invincible Criminal, and its title track should be burning up the Internet with a video featuring straitjackets, a killer robot and a hot girl), he’s not even particularly well known in indie-rock circles and is probably most famous for playing a keyboard solo with a scooter some years ago. To pay the bills, he does commercial composition work including, most recently, a theme for the Green Bay Packers, two for NASCAR, and a soundtrack to an indie film called “Happy Birthday Rita” that’s mostly jazz. He also collaborates with local dude Dan Geller (with whom Mallman went to high school) and drummer Aaron LeMay on Ruby Isle, a side project that combines hyperactive disco with Mallman’s usual tuneful tales of adolescent irresponsibility. It all sounds vaguely retro without calling one genre in particular to mind, or maybe it’s just that we tend to forget what rock stars look like. Every few years, we get a group like The Darkness or the Gallaghers spouting off at the mouth, and we spy vague glimmers of possibility out of the corner of our collective eye, but Mallman is the real deal—tall, with a lot of hair, a fashion sense that’s hard to buttonhole as either ironic or awesome, and some very, very serious dance moves that he says he learned from an alien race. “I was taken captive in the late ‘90s and was taught these special dances as part of a goat-worshiping ritual,” he says.

This weekend, Mallman plays twice at the Kindercore/Owl Scooters Hootenanny: once on Friday at the Caledonia, doing solo material, and once on Saturday at the 40 Watt, with Ruby Isle. So, which should you attend?

Mallman responds, “What a cruel question!

People should go to both shows. I would say if they are held at gunpoint to choose that they should see my solo show ‘cause it seems like all Dan Geller is concerned about these days is those damn hoodlums in The Agenda. Frankly, those Agenda guys are baaaad news. Seriously, Dan’s getting himself into a ton of trouble by slagging around with a certain Mr. Ryan Lewis [the guy who’s been putting the whole

Hootenanny together, see p. 17]. Someday, people are going to find out what those boys are up to, and it’s not going to be cool. I’ve got two words for you, people: scoo-ters.”

He’s marginally more serious when asked just how aspiring rock stars can follow in his footsteps: “Eat doughnuts regularly. Don’t forget to practice your alcoholism nightly. No, I’m kidding… about the doughnuts. I would tell young musicians to always be aware of what your hair is doing. And possibly, they should be good at dancing. It’s important also if you are going to be in the music business to be okay with getting screwed underhandedly out of money that is rightfully yours and also to be lied to by people who are supposed to be on your team.”

Who says you can’t be a real rock idol and a goofball at the same time? Have y’all ever looked at Joey Ramone? Todd Rundgren? Tom Petty? What’s important isn’t just hair, dance moves and ear-burning riffs. It’s not even songcraft, although that’s always nice to have.

What makes an artist worthwhile, at least to me, is a fiery individuality and drive: a belief, in his/her heart of hearts, that this is the right path—a commitment despite the odds. And that’s why you should go see Mark Mallman.

He says, “Personally, I try to perform every show like I’m playing for thousands,” and that’s how it feels when you’re in the audience. He admits that he feels at least somewhat underappreciated, “But that’s partially my doing. I’ve turned down stuff in the last 10 years that most people wouldn’t. But I fly by instinct and I have no regrets. I’m happy.”

And while he wouldn’t mind buying a Corvette someday, he cites the lyrics to Cansei de Ser Sexy’s “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex”: “From all the drugs the one I like more is music/ From all the junks the one I need more is music/ From all the boys the one I take home is music/ From all the ladies the one I kiss is music.” Who wouldn’t find that inspiring?

Hillary Brown

WHO: Masters of the Hemisphere (reunion show!), Grape Soda, The Gold Party, Mark Mallman, Werewolves WHERE: Caledonia Lounge WHEN: Friday, Sept. 18 HOW MUCH: $7 (21+), $9 (18+)

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Derek Trucks

Finds His Voice Paving the Way from Accomplished Guitarist to Legendary Songwriter

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to now, guitarist Derek Trucks has probably been better known as a member of the Allman Brothers Band than as a band leader in his own right, despite the fact that the new Derek Trucks Band album, Already Free, is the group’s sixth release. But in talking with Trucks during a recent phone interview, the guitarist left little doubt about how important his band is to him and, perhaps more tellingly, how much he wants the group to leave a lasting stamp on the music world.

Already Free stands apart, first of all, from the other Derek Trucks Band albums for having a much larger percentage of originals penned by Trucks himself or his bandmates.

It turns out that this facet of the album says a lot about how Trucks’ interests in the music making process have expanded as well as his larger goals for his band.

“It wasn’t really until the last three or four years that I really started appreciating the art of writing songs,” Trucks reveals. “Up to that point, most of what inspired and moved me were performances. I appreciated great songs, but what mattered to me more was Stevie Wonder singing on a great song that he wrote or Mahalia [Jackson] singing on a great gospel tune or [John] Coltrane playing. It was usually the performer and the tone and the sound that I got into. It was really only in the last three or four years that I was really struck by Leonard Cohen’s songwriting or [Bob] Dylan’s songwriting, not the performances, but the depth, the multi-layered ideas and just the beauty of some of these lyrics and the song structure.”

Trucks also came to a related realization as his appreciation for songwriting grew: “I’d definitely been thinking about the fact that to make a band’s legacy or a musician’s legacy really last, I feel like there’s got to be a healthy amount of original compositions to make it hold up,” Trucks says. “There are great artists and legendary artists that didn’t write a lot of tunes, but for the most part the ones that changed things wrote a good deal of their stuff.”

So, Trucks—one of the most humble artists one can encounter, despite his prodigious talent as a guitarist—took a major step toward making important music with Already Free.

With nine of the albums’ 12 songs at least co-written by Trucks or his bandmates, Already Free does more than any of the group’s previous albums to define the Derek Trucks Band sound. The stylistic ingredients are similar, as Already Free mixes elements of soul, jazz, world beat, country, blues and rock. But the new record is edgier, and particularly on songs such as “Something to Make You Happy,” “Get What You Deserve” and “Don’t Miss Me,” the

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group emphasizes the rock/blues/soul side of its sound more than on earlier albums.

Meanwhile, the high quality of the material, coupled with the fast growth Trucks has made with songwriting, suggests that Already Free may be just the start of a fruitful phase for the band, which released its first studio album in 1996.

While the group’s first four studio albums showed considerable promise, it now appears the fifth CD, the 2006 release Songlines, may go down as a key album in the development of the Derek Trucks Band, which includes Trucks, bassist Todd Smallie, drummer Yonrico Scott, keyboardist Kofi Burbridge, singer Mike Mattison and percussionist Count M’Butu.

In working with producer Jay Joyce on Songlines, Trucks said for the first time he was able to harness the creative possibilities of the studio: “I always enjoyed being in the studio and doing it,” he says. “But I never felt like I was tapping into something that I couldn’t tap into live. I think with Jay it was the first time I felt like there was this other side of my playing and personality that was starting to awaken.”

Trucks and his bandmates also benefited from the way Joyce emphasized the importance of songwriting and arranging during the making of Songlines.

Trucks explained the process in a 2006 phone interview with this writer: “We ended up re-writing a lot of our own tunes, writing better choruses, better bridges to the tunes, just little stuff here and there that really woke everything up,” said Trucks. “Taking a hard look at what you do and really stripping it down and picking it apart piece by piece and then re-assembling it, you just get such a better picture of what’s going on. It was really a pivotal point for the band.”

With Already Free having arrived in stores in January, it was no surprise to hear Trucks say that the new album figures to be a centerpiece of his group’s shows: “We’ll probably be playing a lot of those [new] tunes,” he says.

“We [also] finished doing all the shows with Susan [Trucks’ wife, the talented singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi], the Soul Stew Revival shows, so we might incorporate a few of the tunes we were doing on that tour.”

Alan Sculley

WHO: Derek Trucks Band, JJ Grey and Mofro WHERE: Classic Center WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 16, 8 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $12–$36

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Tuesday 15 EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walks (Call for location) Danny Sniff leads this walking tour of the Navy Supply Corps School. Space is limited; call to reserve spot. 7 p.m. $15. 706353-1801, www.achfonline.org PERFORMANCE: Ronnie Jordan (UGA Tate Center) Atlanta-based comedian featured as the opening act on the recent Queens of Comedy tour. He also performed on the Comedy Soul Fest Tour and frequents the Punchline Comedy Club.

Dawghouse Comedy Series. 8 p.m.

FREE! (UGA students), $5 (nonstudents). www.uga.edu/union MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Friendship Christian Church) Show-and-tell from summer adventures. Bring in your treasures! 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-8082 GAMES: Board Game Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Choose from the classic assortment provided or bring your own! 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/flickerbar GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) All three Athens locations of Locos Grill and Pub (Westside, Eastside and Harris St.) feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com

Wednesday 16 EVENTS: The Trial Gardens Garden Party (UGA Campus, Green St. and Sanford Dr.) Discover the hidden wonder in the University’s backyard. Live music by Sonny Got Blue, art, light hor d’oeuvres and an exquisite garden in bloom. 5–7p.m.

FREE! www.ugatrial.hort.uga.edu EVENTS: The Ultimate Ladies’ Night Out (Topper’s International Showbar) Naked grown men. 8:30, 706-613-0504 ART: Goldenficton (Ciné Barcafé) A projection of images and text with an original soundtrack by Goldensection. 8 p.m. $5. www. athenscine.com PERFORMANCE: Queers in Alliance (New Earth Music Hall) King and queen drag troupes come together for one over-the-top performance. 8 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall.com KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Eatin’ with the Critters (Sandy Creek Nature Center, ENSAT) Bring a sack lunch for an hour of learning about our world and the animals that inhabit it. For ages 3–5.

12:30 p.m. $0–$13 (scholarships available). 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Storytelling Celebration (ACC Library, Auditorium) Children’s Librarian

Jackie Elsner performs a farewell storytelling concert with puppets, stories and songs. Light reception. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday (ACC Library) Up next: Arabic Designs: Color some traditional geometric Arabic designs and relieve stress. Ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Conflict Mediation: Personal Reflections on the Release of American Journalists from North Korea (UGA Campus, Rusk Hall) North Korea expert and international affairs prof. Han Park speaks on the recent release of American journalists from North Korea. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www.law.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT.: Talking about Books (ACC Library, Small Conference Room) This month’s title is The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Newcomers welcome.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: American Sign Language Study Group (Cups Coffee Café) All skill levels welcome.

Come once or come weekly. Meets Wednesdays. 7–8 p.m. FREE! www. myspace.com/aslstudygroup GAMES: Movie Trivia Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Where movie trivia meets performance art. Sign up at 8 p.m. Trivia starts at 8:30 p.m.

8 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ flickerbar GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. 8:30 p.m.

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

FREE! 706-548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) Think you know it all? 9:30 p.m.

706-548-3442 GAMES: Trivia Wars (283 Bar) “If you know your stuff you can win great stuff.” 9 p.m. FREE! 706-2081283

Thursday 17 EVENTS: Gold in Your Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) All-day Gold Medal plant symposium, including a plant sale, speakers, silent auction and doorprizes.

8:30 a.m.–2 p.m. $40. http://georgiagoldmedalplants.org EVENTS: Jeannette Rankin Women’s Scholarship Fund’s Annual Dinner (Call for location) Network with local business owners!

Author Melissa Fay Greene is the speaker. 5:30 p.m. $50. 706-2081211, www.rankinfoundation.org* PERFORMANCE: UGA Guest Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Duo Trombiano: Trumpeter Mark Clodfelter and pianist Rebecca Wilt.

6 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4400, www. uga.edu/pac 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: Parent/Child Workshop (ACC Library, Storyroom) For children ages 1–3 and their caregivers. Registration begins Sept. 8. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 GAMES: Pool Tournament (Fat Daddy’s) 7 p.m. 706-353-0241 GAMES: Trivia (WOW Café & Wingery) Every Thursday. 706-5435510 GAMES: Trivia (El Azteca) Every Thursday. Prizes! 8 p.m. 706-5492639

Friday 18 EVENTS: Book Sale (Madison County Library) Check out the Friends of the Library Book Sale during library hours. Sept. 18–26.

706-795-5597 EVENTS: Oconee County Library Book Sale (Oconee County Library) Hosted by the Friends of the Library. Cash/check only. Sept. 18 & 19, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Sept. 20, 2-5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 EVENTS: Opening Party: Soul Power (Ciné Barcafé) An evening of soul music, food and film with a musical performance by Kyshona Armstrong preceding the screening of Soul Power. 6 p.m. $10. www. athenscine.com EVENTS: Sidewalk Sale (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Proceeds benefit “Light the Night” and the fight against leukemia and lymphoma.

706-354-4717, http://buffalosathens.blogspot.com/ EVENTS: Sock Hop (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Do the twist, shag and other popular dances of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Every Friday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655 ART: Closing Reception (Ciné Barcafé) For “A Handful of Dust,” an exploration of the relationship between time, death and memory. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com THEATRE: Company (Athens Community Theatre) The Town & Gown Players perform Stephen Sondheim’s and George Furth’s musical comedy about the ups and downs of marriage. Sept. 18–19, 8 p.m. Sept. 20, 2 p.m. Sept. 24–26, 8 p.m. Sept. 27, 2 p.m. $18, $15 (students and seniors). www. townandgownplayers.org, 706208-8696 KIDSTUFF: Afterhours @ The Library (ACC Library) Teen coffee house and open mic. Come sing, dance, play an instrument, read poetry or juggle. Ages 11–18. 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Richard Ford (UGA Chapel) The Pulitzer-prize winning novelist will deliver the

Ed Tant’s photograph “Make Love Not War” is in the “Free Press in Free Fall” exhibit at ATHICA through Nov. 8.

Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture. 11 a.m.

FREE! 706-542-2053 MEETINGS: Drinking Liberally (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Informal, inclusive and progressive social group that gives left-leaning individuals a chance to talk politics.

First and third Friday of every month. 6:30 p.m. athens@drinkingliberally.org 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

Saturday 19 EVENTS: Afternoon Cookout and Scooter Rally (Top Dog Scooters) In the spirit of this weekend’s Kindercore/Owl Scooters Hootenanny, Top Dog celebrates its grand opening with music from DJs Twin Powers, JR Suicide and Ryan Lewis plus food and scooter giveaways. 2 p.m. FREE! 730 Baxter Street EVENTS: Athens Farmers’ Market (Bishop Park) Buy fresh, locally grown organic produce, locally crafted goods and freshly baked breads. Every Saturday. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Athens Heritage Walks (Call for location) Buck and Diane Adams lead this informal walking tour of the West Cloverhurst/

Springdale Historic District. 10 a.m. $15. 706-353-1801, www.achfonline.org EVENTS: Book Sale (Madison County Library) Sept. 18–26. 706795-5597 EVENTS: Contra Dance (Memorial Park) With music from Atlanta’s Cattywampus! No experience necessary and no partner needed. 8–11 p.m. $7 (adults), FREE! (18 and under), www.athensfolk.org EVENTS: Cultural Clays Sporting Clays Tournament (The Lake Oconee Shooting Club) The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center hosts this friendly but spirited shooting competition with awards ceremony, silent auction, raffle, cocktails, food and live music by The Apostles of Bluegrass. Visit website for schedule and fees.

EVENTS: Noche Latina (UGA Grand Hall at Tate) The annual event from the UGA Hispanic Students Association features reggaeton, samba, salsa, mariachi music and more! Ticket price includes food, served at Tate Center Grand Hall before the salsa music, and latin DJs at Farm 255. 5:30-10:30 p.m. $7 (students), $10 (non-students). www.uga.hsa EVENTS: Oconee County Library Book Sale (Oconee County Library) Hosted by the Friends of the Library. Cash/check only. Sept. 18 & 19, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Sept. 20, 2-5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 EVENTS: Saturday Stroll (Oconee County Courthouse) Oconee County

sheriff Scott Berry leads an informal walking tour of the high-tech county jail on Experiment Station Road. 9 a.m. $5. www.oconeedemocrats.org EVENTS: Sidewalk Sale (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) 706-354-4717, http://buffalosathens.blogspot.com/ ART: Gypsy Artist Market (Lyndon House) Unique open air market featuring eclectic wares by artists of all ages. Local artists demonstrating their craft: wood turning, printmaking, pottery, photography, floral design, painting, quilting and more. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 ART: Opening Reception (ATHICA) For “Free Press in Free Fall,” featuring the work of 13 artists addressing the current state of the American news media. Sept. 19, 7–9 p.m. www.athica.org PERFORMANCE: Big Bang Party (The Globe, Upstairs) Poetry from Isai, Celeste and Claire Paffenhoffer and Life, followed by music by Matt McKinney (The Incredible Sandwich), Damian Churchwell and DJ Killacut and Eightee. 8 p.m. $2. isaijaimes@gmail.com THEATRE: Company (Athens Community Theatre) A Town & Gown production. See Sept. 18 Theatre. Sept. 18–19, 8 p.m. Sept.

20, 2 p.m. Sept. 24–26, 8 p.m. Sept.

27, 2 p.m. $18, $15 (students and seniors). www.townandgownplayers. org, 706-208-8696 OUTDOORS: 7th Annual Run for the Dogs 5K (Sandy Creek Park) The Greater Atlanta Volunteer

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THE CALENDAR! Chapter of Canine Companions for Independence hosts this 5K and 1-mile fun run. Proceeds help place assistance dogs with people with disabilities. 8 a.m. $27. www.athensrunforthedogs.org* 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: Family Day: Whirligigs (Lyndon House Arts Center) Complete a gallery activity in conjunction with the current exhibit of work by R.A. Miller and then create your own spinning whirligigs inspired by the folk art you saw in the galleries. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 KIDSTUFF: Family Fun Day (Athens Area Association of REALTORS®, 1720 Meriweather Dr.) Carnival to raise awareness for the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation with activities and games for all ages. FREE! rides on a mini-fire truck. 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

FREE! 706-353-1126 KIDSTUFF: Parent and Student Orientation (ACC Library) Explore the library’s various resources in this hour-long tour. Call for times. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT.: Writers’ Workshop (Oconee County Library) Award-winning author and Georgia Board of Regents teacher of the year Brian Jay Corrigan teaches this day-long fiction writing seminar. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 MEETINGS: Athens Area Democrats Breakfast (Trumps on Milledge) Sister Margarita (Oasis Catolico Santa Rafaela) and Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of GA Assoc. of Latino Elected Officials, speak at this discussion on immigration reform. Register by Sept. 14.

9 a.m. $12. anitabarney@charter.net, 706-543-1480*

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reserve spot. 2 p.m. $15. 706-3531801, www.achfonline.org EVENTS: Book Sale (Madison County Library) Sept. 18–26. 706795-5597 EVENTS: Cut-a-Thon (City Salon + Spa) Look good, for charity’s sake. Proceeds from haircuts and facial waxing benefit Project Safe.

There will be music and a raffle with great prizes from local businesses.

Noon–5 p.m. $20 donation (haircut), $5 donation (brow waxing). 706552-1515 EVENTS: Grace’s Birthday Party (Ashford Manor, Watkinsville) Luauthemed benefit for UGA Vet Hospital and local animal advocacy groups.

Featuring costumes, art, games, picnic supper, adoptions and more.

Guests are encouraged to donate an unopened bag of dog food for rescue groups. 2–5 p.m. $5 (adults), FREE! (dogs). www.gracesbirthday.com EVENTS: Oconee County Library Book Sale (Oconee County Library) Hosted by the Friends of the Library. Cash/check only. Sept. 18 & 19, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Sept. 20, 2-5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 THEATRE: Company (Athens Community Theatre) A Town & Gown production. See Sept. 18 Theatre. Sept. 18–19, 8 p.m. Sept.

20, 2 p.m. Sept. 24–26, 8 p.m. Sept.

27, 2 p.m. $18, $15 (students and seniors). www.townandgownplayers. org, 706-208-8696 LECTURES & LIT.: Art Adkins (Borders Books & Music) Best selling author and former LAPD cop Art Adkins signs copies of his environmental thriller The Oasis Project.

1–5 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647 GAMES: Full-Contact Trivia (Allen’s Bar & Grill) Sports-themed rules with diverse categories. 9 p.m.

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

Monday 21 EVENTS: Book Sale (Madison County Library) Sept. 18–26. 706795-5597 EVENTS: Leonard Cohen DVD Premiere (40 Watt Club) Be one of the first to catch a screening of

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Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight. It’s a great way to get pumped up for his upcoming show in Atlanta!

9 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com EVENTS: Southern Circuit Film Series (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Independent film series begins with Automorphosis, a film about art-cars and their makers.

Reception follows. 7 p.m. $5. www. mmcc-arts.org 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: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Book Babies (Oconee County Library) Special storytime for young readers up to 23 months.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950, www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us/oconee/ index.html KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Nuture language skills.

10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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: Darts (Broad Street Bar and Grill) Blind Draw Darts Tournament.

Every Monday. 10 p.m. 706-5485187 GAMES: Ping Pong (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Get your paddle ready for a round of table tennis. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.myspace.com/flickerbar GAMES: Rock and Roll Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Get a team together and show off your extensive music knowledge every Monday! 8 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub GAMES: Sports Trivia (WOW Café & Wingery) Every Monday. 706543-5510.

GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef O’ Brady’s) Get a team together and test your knowledge. Every Monday!

8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Fat Daddy’s) Every Monday. 6 & 9 p.m.

706-353-0241.

GAMES: Texas Hold ‘Em (Buffalo’s Southwest Café) Play cards and enjoy Monday Night Football all at the same place. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655 GAMES: Trivia (Fat Daddy’s) Every Monday with Stan. 9 p.m. 706-3530241.

GAMES: Trivia (Transmetropolitan) General knowledge trivia. Every Monday. 8–10 p.m. FREE! 706613-8773 GAMES: Tune Trivia (Alibi) Test your knowledge of music trivia. Hosted

by Bobby Nettles. 9 p.m. FREE! 706549-1010

Tuesday 22 EVENTS: Book Sale (Madison County Library) Sept. 18–26. 706795-5597 EVENTS: Café Apollinaire (Ciné Barcafé) The Georgia Fine Arts Academy will host projections of the work of Picasso, Magritte and Dali, readings by Athens writers and a film screening in celebration of the Autumnal Equinox. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7377 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: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (ACC Library) Beginning readers in grades 1–4 read aloud to an aid dog. Trainer always present. 3:30–4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Tikes, Trikes and Strollers (Greenway) Bring the little ones for a ride and walk on the Greenway. 10–11:30 a.m. $2. 706613-3615 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

Wednesday 23 EVENTS: Book Sale (Madison County Library) Sept. 18–26. 706795-5597 EVENTS: Boybutante Bingo (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Join Sophia LoRent for this popular annual event.

Proceeds benefit AIDS Athens. 8 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub

PERFORMANCE: UGA Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Georgia Woodwind Quintet and Fischer Saxophone Quartet. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-542-4400, www.uga.edu/pac KIDSTUFF: Children’s Storytime (ACC Library) For children ages 18 months to 5 years. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Wildcard Wednesday (ACC Library) Up next: Victorian Decoupage Boxes. Decorate a keepsake box with traditional Victorian clip art. Ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: American Sign Language Study Group (Cups Coffee Café) All skill levels welcome.

Come once or come weekly. 7–8 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ aslstudygroup MEETINGS: Amnesty International (Earth Fare) Meet with others to campaign for human rights worldwide. 5:30, FREE! www. athensai.blogspot.com GAMES: Movie Trivia Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Sign up at 8 p.m. Trivia starts at 8:30 p.m. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.myspace.com/flickerbar GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef O’ Brady’s) Every Wednesday. 8:30 p.m.

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

FREE! 706-548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) 9:30 p.m. 706-548-3442 GAMES: Trivia Wars (283 Bar) “If you know your stuff you can win great stuff.” 9 p.m. FREE! 706-2081283 * Advance Tickets Available

Live Music Tuesday 15 Alibi FREE! 706-549-1010 KLASSIC KARAOKE DANCE PARTY Every Tuesday.

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 6–10 p.m. $5 (includes lessons). 706354-6655 DINE & DANCE NIGHT Beginners and advanced dance lessons every

Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. followed by open dance until 10 p.m.

Tonight features swing dancing hosted by Bugg.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com THE BLACK HOLLIES This Jersey City band presents its own take on ‘60s psychedelia, infusing it with moody synth and guitar noise to create distant, bubblegum rock.

BENJY FERREE Sounding alternately like a trip-hop version of Fleet Foxes, a modern alt-country and a straight-forward rock band, Benjy may be hard to classify, but he’s always fun to listen to.

NUCLEAR SPRING Athens natives Nuclear Spring sound like a cassette tape of Woody Guthrie that’s been left in the sun and is now warped and melted; the band’s folky undertones are twisted and distorted by experimental effects and overdubs.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com CARL LINDBERG Jazz bassist Carl Lindberg (Grogus, Squat, Kenosha Kid, etc.) performs standards, originals and some surprising tunes from divergent styles.

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

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar 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.

SIMONE Florida rockers, described as “a cross between No Doubt and Led Zeppelin,” go eco-friendly by requesting everyone to bring at least one CD to the show to be recycled.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub HOT NEW MEXICANS Vocalistguitarist Patrick Jennings, drummer Joe Dakin and bassist Ian McCord create punk-influenced power pop.

NANA GRIZOL Punk band from here in town that plays songs about

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SeepeopleS, SeaDub Caledonia Lounge With swooshes, blips and beats seemingly informed by supernatural shamanism, the contrarian opinions of Alex Jones and the breathtaking Blue Ridge Mountains of Buncombe County, the electro-rock act SeepeopleS is crafting an especially poignant soundtrack to these uncertain times. Flagpole credits 2004 SeepeopleS album The Corn Syrup Conspiracy for enlightening SeepeopleS us to the fact that the high fructose variety of said ubiquitous sweetener, found in everything from slices of American cheese to kosher dill pickles, contains just enough mercury (yes, the heavy metal) to disqualify it from our diet.

“Someday Robots” from 2007’s Apocalypse Cow Vol. I contains a lyric, “TV made the world flat again,” that instantly became one our favorite refrains ever, repeated so frequently the band should demand royalties.

On Sept. 4 the Asheville-based band offered a 12-track download-only version of Apocalypse Cow Vol. II for free. Visit www.seepeoples.com for your economic stimulus package. For fans expecting the second installment of the Cow series to pick up where the first left off, please extinguish expectations. Will Bradford, the primary Seeperson, explains: “I think one of the main objectives was to get back and sort of revisit the sound we were working on a few years before our last album. I think [with] the last album we really wanted to make a rock and roll record. [This time around] we definitely wanted to see how far away from rock and roll we could get.” As for another chapter in the Cow series, Bradford offers with a chuckle: “It’s safe to say there are certainly plans to not make a volume three.”

In 2010 the band will celebrate a decade of existence, despite having to endure line-up changes and all the challenges associated with being a hard-working, yet mostly anonymous band constantly on the road. “With this new group [featuring ex-Perpetual Groove keyboardist Matt McDonald] there’s definitely a band mentality,” says Bradford.

“Being that I am the only original member left, it would certainly seem there’s a revolving door—but it really isn’t—there’s catharsis, then rebirth.” [David Eduardo]

shooting stars, fancy cars and red guitars.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointathens. com* SMOKEY’S FARMLAND BAND This Atlanta band plays a fun mixture of bluegrass, funk, reggae, Eastern European tunes and acoustic jazz.

No Where Bar 10 p.m. $3. 706-546-4742 TENT CITY This local four-piece fuses elements of jazz, funk, blues and world music.

Tasty World Uptown 9 p.m. $5. www.tastyworld.net AMERICANA NIGHT This week host Clay Leverett presents Erica Sunshine Lee. Wild Wing Café 10 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com KARAOKE Every Tuesday night at the downtown wing chain’s upstairs space.

Wednesday 16 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $15 (adv.) www.40watt.com* CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED Oklahoma country-rock quartet.

SEAN MCCONNELL Solo songwriter with an aching soul and beautiful melodies.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 BROKEN GLASS Jam rock band from Atlanta covering everything rock and roll “from Zeppelin to Guns N’ Roses.”

Allen’s Bar & Grill 9 p.m. FREE! www.allensbarandgrill. com MIGHTY MCFLY Covering hits from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s plus some originals.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $7 (18+), $9 (21+). www.caledonialounge.com SEADUB Local DJ Colin Williams spins and mixes dubstep.

SEEPEOPLES Asheville, NC-based group performs eclectic pop-rock that draws on psychedelia, ‘60s garage, reggae, funk and more. See Calendar Pick on p. 23.

The Classic Center 8 p.m. $21–$36. www.classiccenter. com THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND Well known jam band spanning such genres as country, jazz, and blues brings its legendary live show to Athens.

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! 706-850-5858 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 DEAD STARS Loud, textured indie rock from Brooklyn featuring pulsating rhythms and emotional lyrics.

EVERYBODY RUN This local rock band offers a blend of poppy and

LEARN TO PLAY NOW! New Guitars from $109.99

Locos Grill & Pub 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7700 RACHEL O’NEIL This singer-songwriter plays an eclectic blend of jazz, indie rock, and Americana.

The Melting Point 9 p.m. $5. www.themeltingpointathens. com HIGHTIDE BLUES This Auburnbased modern Southern rock band delivers acoustic and electric guitars backed by a hard-hitting rhythm section.

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

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 19 Watch UGA vs. Arkansas in the bar

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Normaltown Flyers Valet Parking Thurs-Sun pm

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psychedelic melodies with a folkrock tinge.

DJ INCUBUS Dance party featuring electro/progressive house/’80s industrial and complimentary beats.

All on vinyl!

PONCHO MAGIC Bluegrass sensibilities with country-rock execution.

The multi-part vocal harmonies are the real show, though.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 8 p.m. FREE! www.harrybissetts.net MILLIGAN Performing a set of cover songs from CSNY to Johnny Cash to Jack Johnson to Maroon 5, this band reworks both classic rockers and more recent hits.

Fresh Seafood • Great Service

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285 W. Washington St. Athens, GA 30601 “Do you know any good duck jokes?”

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YEAR-ROUND VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY!

FREE Wi-Fi The AthFest education Committee works to connect local music to local schools.

The program aims to broaden students’ musical horizons and share opportunities in the world of music by having local musicians play and share their expertise with small groups of students.

This well received and growing program is looking to expand and needs volunteers.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

HIGHTIDE BLUES

Tasty World Uptown 9 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/tastyworlduptown A.A.BONDY By turns sardonic and innocent, Bondy’s heartfelt songs draw equally from Ryan Adams and Elliott Smith. See Calendar Pick on this page.

SEAN BONES Sunglasses-sporting hipster kid from Brooklyn who produces solid dancehall tracks.

with the SUEX EFFECT $1 Domestic Drafts 6-8pm Tickets $5 adv. • Music at 9pm

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 The return of the legendary

LEON RUSSELL

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with special acoustic guests BLOODKIN

Tickets $27.50 adv • $33 day of the show

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

MISSING CATS featuring

JOHN “JOJO” HERMANN (of WIDESPREAD PANIC)

and SHERMAN

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EWING

Tickets $15 adv • $18 day of the show $15 at the door with UGA ID

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

INGRID MICHAELSON

with GREG HOLDEN Opening Tickets $12 adv. • $15 at the door

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

A HAWK & A HACKSAW with DAMON & NAOMI Tickets $10 adv. • $13 at the door ($10 at door with UGA ID)

COMING SOON 9/25 - LUNCH with THE DAWGS SERIES 9/25 - THE JESTERS 9/30 - SUMILAN with LINGO 10/1 - SAM & RUBY with YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN 10/2 - Athens’ Original RACK OF SPAM 10/7 - EVENING with DAVE BARNES 10/8 - THE GOURDS with SHINYRIBS 10/14 - JEFF COFFIN MU’TET 10/15 - DELTA MOON with SETH WALKER 10/16 - BEARDS OF COMEDY CD Release 10/17 - MODERN SKIRTS with THE FEATURES 10/22 - MIKE DOUGHTY: The Question Jar Show (an acoustic evening) 10/28 - COWBOY MOUTH All doors at 6pm and all shows 18 + up.

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Square One Fish Co. Derek Trucks Show Afterparty.

Midnight. FREE! 706-353-8862 TENT CITY This local four-piece fuses elements of jazz, funk, blues and world music.

Thursday 17 40 Watt Club Rock for a Cure. 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.com BABY BABY This power trio can be described simply as “fun-rock.”

Look for its first album, Drinking, Drama, Dance soon.

MONAHAN Ryan Monahan backed

by Josh McMichael on bass and Lemuel Hayes on drums. Ryan has a gorgeous, expressive Jeff Buckleyesque voice that soars and sighs with equal grace.

THE ORKIDS Local electropop group guaranteed to get you dancing.

Alibi Thursdays, FREE! 706-549-1010 OPEN MIC/JAM Hosted by Tracy Carroll and Matt Joiner of The Rattlers. Open to all musicians.

Caledonia Lounge Kindercore/Owl Scooters Hootenanny!

8:30 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18-20). www.caledonialounge.com GG KING Lo-fi, snarling ‘60s-inspired garage punk like that of fellow Atlantans the Black Lips.

JE SUIS FRANCE Once based in town, now scattered across the U.S., the France swirls through psychedelic kraut rock and indie pop with a hearty sense of humor.

THE MATT KURZ ONE One-man rock machine Matt Kurz literally plays drums, keyboard, guitar and bass, by himself, all at the same time. Expect a mix of garage-rock stomps and bluesy crooning.

THE AGENDA The Agenda features a high-energy show that’s both reckless and wildly entertaining. The lineup features Dan Geller (Ruby Isle, I am the WTC), Mat Lewis and Ryan Lewis (both Grape Soda), and Justin Robinson returns on lead vocals.

TURF WAR This band takes the lo-fi aesthetic of the Black Lips and turns it into something more than just another sound-alike.

Club Chrome 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-9009 KARAOKE Every Thursday night hosted by Blueberry Bill.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com LERA LYNN The tender, jazzy folk voice behind Birds+Wire performs a solo set.

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

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar DODD FERRELLE Former Tinfoil Stars frontman and longtime Athenian Dodd Ferrelle pours heart

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and soul into his sweeping ballads and alt-country rockers.

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

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

Georgia Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-9884 THE XG-1 Brand-new Athens band plays two sets of original rock music, with a special appearance by Cassandra Sweet and the Soldiers of Love.

Girasoles 6–9 p.m. FREE! 706-310-0410 SONNY GOT BLUE Local group plays swing and Latin jazz standards for the dinner crowd every Thursday.

The Globe 9 p.m. $3. 706-353-4721 HIGH STRUNG STRING BAND This joyful local act offers three-part harmonies and ramblin’, upbeat bluegrass on acoustic guitar, banjo and mandolin.

Gnat’s Landing 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-5858 NATHAN SHEPPARD The local acoustic guitarist-harmonicist is known for his emotive singing style and his modern reworkings of classic tunes.

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

MYNAMEISJOHNMICHAEL Eclectic indie band from New Orleans offers ballads and rock songs with incisive lyrics and punctuated by trumpets.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 6 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub DAVE HOWARD Enjoy a relaxing happy hour with acoustic Americana sounds.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $27.50 (adv.), $33 (door). www.meltingpointathens.com* BLOODKIN Bluesy style of roots-rock music with big guitars and sharply written lyrics for darkly countrified bar-room rock. The band performs an acoustic set tonight.

LEON RUSSELL Celebrated for his unmatched versatility as a musician, Russell has performed, arranged, written, produced and/or collaborated on some of the most recognizable songs in popular music.

New Earth Music Hall 8 p.m. $6 (adv). www.newearthmusichall.com* THE MALAH Greenville band with slow-paced psych jams.

MO THEORY A man, a synthesizer, a laptop and hundreds of spacey beats that make the name, short for Molecular Orbit Theory, fitting.

SAVOY Heavily electronic music with a strong, irresistible dance beat.

No Where Bar 10:30 p.m. $5. 706-546-4742 BRAD DOWNS AND THE POOR BASTARD SOULS Singer/songwriter Downs performs thoughtful, story-driven songs with his band.

GEORGE MCCONNELL McConnell served for three years as Widespread Panic’s lead guitarist. His new band features straightahead rock sound with just a touch of Southern twang.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com AUTUMN ATTICS A radio-friendly hardcore sound.

Wild Wing Café 9 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com NAPOLEON SOLO The multitasking one-man rock band handles it all.

WUOG 90.5FM 8 p.m. FREE! www.wuog.org “LIVE IN THE LOBBY!” Laura Beth Wren will perform on the college radio station’s weekly program.

Friday 18 Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 TRACER BULLET Local band performs originals and some covers in a Southern rock style.

Broad Street Bar and Grill 10 p.m. FREE! 706-548-5187 REDSTONE RAMBLERS Country and old time bluegrass originals and covers.

Caledonia Lounge Kindercore/Owl Scooters Hootenanny!

8:30 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18-20). www.caledonialounge.com GRAPE SODA Local band featuring the brothers Lewis (Mat and Ryan) formerly of The Buddy System on vocals, organ and drums, playing reverb-heavy garage psych-rock.

MARK MALLMAN The lead singer and guitarist from Ruby Isle wears his glam proudly. He’s a piano-heavy balladeer, Hunky Dory-era Bowie, Queen and ‘80s synth pop band all in one. See story on p. 19.

MASTERS OF THE HEMISPHERE Athens indie pop quartet from the early ‘00s reunited! Featuring members of bands like Je Suis France and Still Flyin’.

THE GOLD PARTY Expect new wave/ electro sounds inspired by acts like Depeche Mode and The Smiths from this new local group.

WEREWOLVES Quirky and minimalist rock from Wyatt Strother.

Ciné Barcafé Soul Power Opening Party. 6 p.m. $10. www.athenscine.com KYSHONA ARMSTRONG Local songstress Kyshona sings soulful ballads over acoustic guitar.

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A.A. Bondy, Sean Bones Tasty World Uptown Auguste Arthur Bondy, AKA A.A. Bondy, most recently performed in Athens in July, when he opened for Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band at the 40 Watt Club.

Now he returns to headline his own show at Tasty World A.A. Bondy Uptown. Bondy is touring in support of When the Devil’s Loose, his second album on Fat Possum, and the follow-up to 2007’s American Hearts (see Record Reviews on p. 16).

While Bondy has quickly established himself as an indie-folk troubadour, his roots are in gritty rock and roll. He fronted the band Verbena for several years, navigating them to a Capitol Records recording contract, and then watching as they burned out earlier this decade. For Bondy, the transition from electric guitar to an acoustic guitar and a harmonica was a tough one. “The first few shows, I was pretty uncomfortable, and I couldn’t really tell what I was doing,” says Bondy. “But… I learned that even if I have to fight a bunch of drunk people waiting to see someone else who is a lot louder than me, I can make it work.”

While Bondy toured as a solo artist for several years, for When the Devil’s Loose he abandoned the life of the solipsistic singer-songwriter and recruited his friends—a number of whom play in the Felice Brothers—to flesh out his songs. “The stuff I wrote after the last record felt like the same thing to me, so I wanted to change things up,” he says. Similarly, Bondy is currently touring with a band. Though he does still perform a number of songs solo, the full band adds another dynamic to an already exciting performance. But the decision to tour with a band may have a simpler explanation: “I don’t laugh very much when I’m by myself,” says Bondy, “So, it’s better to have people around.” [John Seay]

Club Chrome 9 p.m. FREE! 706-543-9009 JASON MURPHY Country man Jason Murphy offers an evening of Southern stylings.

Farm 255 11 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com AUTUMNATTICS Dark, moody folk rock from Atlanta.

LEADING EDGE The local band formerly known as Mudra has gotten a bit more upbeat since the name change— channeling alternative rock and pop sounds from across the decades.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ flickerbar MATTRESS Weird, dark experimental electro-soul from Portland’s Rex Marshall.

SMOKEDOG Local guys Thom Strickland (vocals, guitar) and Jason Jones (drums) play a noisy motorik pulse with treated guitar. Says Jones, “noisy lo-fi boogie smeared over mechanical back-pocket beats.” See Record Reviews on p. 16.

The Globe 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 MELVIN MATHURIN & FRIENDS This quartet plays jazz essentials and original pieces. Featuring Mathurin on sax, Mitch Rothstein on piano, James Goodhand on bass and Nick Wiles on drums. Upstairs.

Gnat’s Landing 6 p.m. FREE! www.gnatslanding.net TJ MIMBS This local acoustic singersongwriter plays melodramatic pop in the vein of Dave Matthews.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DJ STAN Of Velveteen Pink and Very Disco fame!

The Library 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/thelibraryathens AMANTE DA PREZ Up-and-coming Atlanta rapper brings his crunk to Athens.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub HOLLY BELLE Atlanta singersongwriter Holly Belle sings smoky, acoustic ballads accompanied by cello.

KAITLIN JONES AND THE COUNTY FAIR Local folk guitarist/ vocalist Kaitlin Jones’ five-piece electric band performs a set of Americana-tinged tunes that feature guitars, bass, drums and keys.

The Melting Point 8 p.m. $15 (adv.), $18 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com* MISSING CATS Featuring JoJo Hermann from Widespread Panic, this duo plays New Orleans boogiewoogie with nothing but a piano and an acoustic guitar.

New Earth Music Hall 9:30 p.m. $5. www.newearthmusichall. com MEAN MIC LAUNCH PARTY Weekly hip-hop series hosted by Elite tha Showstoppa and DJ Tune celebrates its launch with a performance by local rap sensation Tommy Valentine (happy birthday!) and special guests Profound Breadth, Fresh, KNP, Frosty B, RedKlay and Rockwell Jones.

The Office Lounge 7 p.m. 706-546-0840 REDNECK GREECE Traditionally this show consists of two sets–a clean one for the whole family and a

second set full of white trash-fueled naughtiness that is as twisted as it is hilarious.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens ANIMALS THAT WILL KILL YER ASS Rock and roll dance fighting.

BESIDES DANIEL Inspiring indiefolk band from Atlanta with songs about “life, faith, daydreams and adventure.”

EFREN New, local folk-rock band makes its live debut! Efren’s broad appeal targets everyone from “the new outlaw to the songwriter fan.”

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ tastyworlduptown GOLDEN Atlanta band that combines the lyrical sincerity of David Gray, the musical sophistication of Steely Dan and the dynamic energy of Maroon 5.

THE INCREDIBLE SANDWICH Athens-based instrumental jam band with some tropical leanings.

MERCURY LANDING Funky jam band from New York with jazz influences.

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Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com THE BORDER LIONS Rock and roll trio that plays ‘70s-inspired songs ranging from beachy to bluesy.

Wild Wing Café 9 p.m. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com BIG DON BAND Real Southern rock featuring soulful vocals backed by smooth, bluesy guitars. Lynyrd Skynyrd would approve.

WUGA 91.7 FM 4 p.m. FREE! www.wuga.org “IT’S FRIDAY!” Sarah Pray and Chris Moore will perform on the local radio station’s weekly program.

University Cable Channel 15 will also broadcast the show.

Saturday 19 40 Watt Club Kindercore Records & Owl Scooters Fall Hootenanny. 8 p.m. $10 (21+), $12 (18+). www.40watt.com* I AM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER Beloved electro-dance duo reunites during the Ruby Isle set!

MASERATI Celebrated post-rock instrumental powerhouse based mostly in Athens.

RUBY ISLE This trio, consisting of Mark Mallman, Dan Geller and Aaron Lemay, offers a mixture of ‘80s rock and modern electro-pop.

STILL FLYIN’ Feel good party jams from a group of 15+ members (many former Athenians), dancing around, having a great time and singing power pop/yacht rock/reggae tunes punctuated by a sassy horn section.

VENICE IS SINKING With boy/girl vocals, a cinematic jangle and a sweeping, emotional punch courtesy of a viola, Venice Is Sinking’s pianobased torch songs burn bright.

ALLISON WEISS Heartfelt singer/ songwriter with quirky charm, sharp pop sensibilities and an avid online following.

THE YOUNG SINCLAIRS Playing dreamy, ethereal psychedelic pop, this Virginia band is heavy on the reverb and somewhere between what The Beatles might’ve been and what The Troggs were, with expansive guitar expeditions to boot.

Alibi 9 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1010 FORWARD MOTION Rock covers and originals. k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! Athens Farmers Market 8 a.m. FREE! 706-296-8000 JOHN KEANE AND NATHAN SHEPPARD Acclaimed producer and rocker John Keane will be joined by acoustic stalwart Nathan Sheppard for a set of Americana numbers. Playing second at 10 a.m.

THE SOLSTICE SISTERS Energetic renditions of old-timey country ballads, traditional folk and some ‘40sstylized swing numbers. Playing first at 8 a.m.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com IT’S ELEPHANT’S Big, soulful, blues vocals screech over edgy and erratic rock from this Atlanta group.

NUTRIA Rootsy local powerpop.

Club Chrome 9 p.m. $5. 706-543-9009 FESTER’S FARM “Georgia’s Best Southern Rock Band” is from Atlanta and doesn’t skimp on the cowbell.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar “LATE NITE DISCO” Dance party begins after the live music every Saturday.

NUCLEAR SPRING Flowing, tranquil, ambient music with sparse vocals and a touch of trip-hop rhythm.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 8 p.m. $5. 706-369-3144 KATE MORRISSEY Best known throughout this corridor for her dark velvet voice that stands on its own, Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her conversational live shows come punctuated with an offbeat sense of humor.

SARAH PRAY Melancholy downtempo piano pop accentuated by Pray’s soulful voice.

Magnolia’s at Tasty World Uptown 10:30 p.m. FREE! www.magnoliasbar. com M.R.G. Jazz trio featuring Andrew Murdison, Jeremy Roberts and James Goodhand.

New Earth Music Hall 9 p.m. $12 (adv.). $15 (door). www. newearthmusichall.com ABANDON THE EARTH MISSION ATEM is back with a new lineup featuring Josh McKay (ex-Macha), Winston Parker and Lawson Grice (Iron Hero). The band has gone in a more ambient and lush direction, driven by vibrapone, hammered dulcimer and heavier beats.

NAUTILUS Featuring James Feeney on drums, Andrew Haynes on bass and Chris Keesecker on keyboards/ synth, this band plays covers and originals inspired by hip-hop, jazz and electronic music.

PREFUSE 73 Cutting edge sonic explorations blend hip-hop, electronica and the avant garde.

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

Square One Fish Co. 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco.com INCATEPEC A combination of traditional tunes from South America and Cuba with a unique jazz twist.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/tastyworlduptown THE INTERNS New local band that shares several members with Futurebirds. Instead of Americana,

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this configuration plays dreamy, guitar-driven indie rock with just a hint of alt-country.

J. RODDY WALSTON AND THE BUSINESS An off-kilter version of The Band in the late ‘60s, combining Southern rock, McCartney pop and scruffy piano blues.

PONDEROSA Local quartet fronted

by Kalen Nash (ex-Gabriel Young) blasts through fiery classic rock, working some pedal steel into the mix and drawing heavily from bluesinfluenced Texas rock.

MICHAEL TRENT Hailing from Charleston, Trent plays somber yet enjoyable indie folk.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com OPEX Progressive rock band from Atlanta whose alternative sounds borrow from jazz, rock and the blues.

Sunday 20 Athens Whitehead Civitan Club House 2–10 p.m. 706-540-2156 CAN FOOD FOOD DRIVE FOR THE ATHENS AREA EMERGENCY FOOD BANK All ages are welcome to this benefit show which features live music from: teen band 706 (2:30 p.m.), solo guitarist Brian Matthews (3:30 p.m.), Southern soul group Mac n Cheese (4 p.m.), piano and violin duo Bobby and Wendy (4:45 p.m.), teen cover band Outlier (5:30 p.m.), alt-country group Poncho Magic (6 p.m.), acoustic act Splinter Belly (7 p.m.)

Everybody Run (7:45 p.m.) and

Kite to the Moon (8:30 p.m.)! The Civitan club house is behind Fire Station No. 8 on Jefferson Rd. Buffalo’s Southwest Café 6:30 p.m. $5. 706-354-6655 TIMMEYA TELFORD Gospel music the whole family can appreciate.

Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DESOLATION WILDERNESS These Washington state natives play dreamy, echoe-y pop.

MADELINE Bell-voiced local songwriter Madeline Adams plays endearing songs of smalltown loves, hopes and other assorted torments and joys.

Square One Fish Co. 1-4 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco. com SUNDAY JAZZ BRUNCH Rotating local jazz artists play Sunday afternoons on the patio. This week: Carlton Owens Trio.

Monday 21 Ashford Manor 6 p.m. $15 (adults), $6 (children 12 & under), FREE! (children under 6). www.ambedandbreakfast.com LERA LYNN The tender, jazzy folk voice behind Birds & Wire.

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

Caledonia Lounge 7 p.m. $2 (21+), $4 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com HAYRIDE This long-running Athens trio has maintained a steady output of prog- and metal-influenced rock.

Ciné Barcafé 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine. com OPEN JAZZ JAM Calling all jazz musicians. Join local jazz group Sonny Got Blue every Monday.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar AIR WAVES Simple, sweet songs with a smoky vibe and timeless chord changes.

THE BEETS Not the Doug cartoon band come to life (unfortunately), but rather reverb-heavy, lo-fi garage rock band from New York.

CARS CAN BE BLUE Quirky bubblegum pop with satirical lyrics.

TITANS OF FILTH This local band combines droll Southern voices with easy-rolling indie-pop rock.

New Earth Music Hall 8 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com OPEN DJ NIGHT More info TBA! Check venue website for details.

Rye Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/ryebarathens THE EPIC OPEN MIC NIGHT Athens Blur magazine and Rye Bar present a six-week open mic challenge.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/tastyworlduptown ARMS AND SLEEPERS Flowing, ambient music with sparse vocals and a touch of trip-hop rhythm.

Tuesday, September 22

Dark Meat, Birds of Avalon, Hot Breath Caledonia Lounge The standard Tuesday night rock show offering is sadly typical: a lonely guy, a guitar and the threadbare confessions of getting dumped by a master’s candidate in creative writing, or maybe even the hyperactive sounds of a pizza cook’s Black Flag cover band cranking out its version of “The Safety Dance.” But if neither of those options generate any interest, perhaps Birds of Avalon (featuring Birds of Avalon members of The Cherry Valence) could be the band to seek out this Tuesday. The band, which is a cross between the herky-jerky progressive rock arrhythmia of King Crimson and the anti-guitar heroics of Pavement, with a dash of Byrds-like harmony vocals thrown in for a syrupy-thick musical treat, is just the musical challenge a Tuesday night needs.

Even though the Raleigh, NC group’s swirling hunks of sound come at listeners like a greasy spoon-sized helping of psychedelic rock and roll weirdness, the songs have a tuneful and often danceable quality. While other fuzzed out guitar bands may lose listeners under the endless layers of guitar noise, the Birds of Avalon manage to hook them in with catchy rhythms and keep those caught under the spell around with lyrics that feature tales of subterranean children being replaced by clones.

If all of this sounds too prog-like and fills listeners’ heads with visions of Rick Wakeman’s keyboard opuses featuring knights on ice, fear not. Underneath the noise and the Orson Scott Card-like lyrics (minus the Mormonism) lies a rock band dying to get out, and come Tuesday, the bandmembers might just spring from their cage. Sure beats a Dave Matthews cover band any day, right?

Doors open at 10 p.m, and tickets cost $6 (if you’re 21 and over) or $8 for those 18 and up. [Jason Bugg]

GREEN GERRY Particularly dreamlike and subtly electronic local artist.

THE PETER PANCAKES Upbeat songs via acoustic guitar, upright bass and Rhodes piano.

Tuesday 22 Alibi FREE! 706-549-1010 KLASSIC KARAOKE DANCE PARTY Every Tuesday.

Buffalo’s Southwest Café 6–10 p.m. $5. 706-354-6655 DINE & DANCE NIGHT Beginners and advanced dance lessons every Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. followed by open dance until 10 p.m. Tonight features live music from James Hunter & Southern Pride Band.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18+). www.caledonialounge.com BIRDS OF AVALON NC’s Birds of Avalon mine numerous deep veins of rock. See Calendar Pick on p. 26.

DARK MEAT Super group of 10+ members playing psychedelic garage-rock rave-ups.

HOT BREATH Thrash trio featuring members of experimental local acts Garbage Island and S.V.A. Farm 255 10 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com DAN NETTLES Celebrated local jazz musician known for his work fronting Kenosha Kid. Fat Daddy’s 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-0241 KARAOKE Huge karaoke dance party hosted by Lynn every Tuesday.

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar JONESIN’ Sugar-sweet and sardonic electro duet from San Francisco replete with cutesy vocals and ironic moustaches.

TUNABUNNY Experimental local act featuring hazy and warped experimental psychedelia.

WEREWOLVES Quirky and minimalist rock from Wyatt Strother.

The Melting Point 7 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens. com KORT MCCUMBER The singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist breaks out the guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, piano, bouzouki, cello and who knows what else.

TOWN MOUNTAIN This Asheville band packs its repertoire with tunes touching on classic country and first-generation traditional bluegrass.

New Earth Music Hall 10 p.m. www.newearthmusichall.com MEAN MIC TUESDAYS Hosted by celebrated local rapper Elite tha Showstoppa and featuring DJ Tune, this weekly hip-hop series will host local up-and-coming rappers and beatmakers.

Square One Fish Co. 8 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco. com NORMALTOWN FLYERS This Athens roots-rock institution plays a set of good-time rock and roll with a Southern leaning.

Tasty World Uptown Americana Night. 10 p.m. $5. www. myspace.com/tastyworlduptown BO BEDINGFIELD Singer and primary songwriter for The Wydelles, Bo Bedingfield’s smooth, warm vocals are steeped in all the soul of country music without the twang.

BETSY FRANCK Soulful, brassy Southern rock and country songs rooted in tradition.

CLAY LEVERETT One of this town’s finest country frontmen, Leverett has led both The Chasers and Lona.

TY MANNING The singer/guitarist from Athens’ The Bearfoot Hookers plays a solo set.

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

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com MAXIMUM BUSY MUSCLE Local tech-metal trio featuring Jay Roach on guitar, Mary Joyce on drums and Kris Deason on bass.

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SHITTY CANDY Local femme punk crew Shitty Candy “throws some bitch punk in your face.”

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

Go Bar 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar DJS RAPEDOGG 40 Watt club employees and local rockers Jeff Rapier and Zack “Z-Dogg” Hosey make up this rad DJ duo, spinning dance classics, punk, ‘80s and more.

Harry Bissett’s Bayou Grill 8 p.m. FREE! www.harrybissetts.net NATHAN SHEPPARD WITH JOHN KEANE Acclaimed producer and rocker John Keane will be joined by local acoustic stalwart Nathan Sheppard for a set of rock and Americana numbers.

The Melting Point 8:30 p.m. $12 (adv), $15 (door). www. meltingpointathens.com GREG HOLDEN British singer/ songwriter and YouTube sensation brings his intimate solo performance to Athens.

INGRID MICHAELSON Her sweeping piano-based romances have been turning ears on numerous commercials and TV soundtracks.

The Office Lounge 9:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE Wednesdays with Stan.

Square One Fish Co. 8 p.m. FREE! www.squareonefishco.com TJ MIMBS This local acoustic singersongwriter plays melodramatic pop in the vein of Dave Matthews.

Tasty World Uptown 10 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/tastyworlduptown 3 FOOT SWAGGER The Swagger plays dynamic, high-energy rock and roll with a lot of funk.

ANCIENT HARMONY Psychedelic jam band based in Georgia.

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ROMANENKO Local trio draws from ‘70s pop with a modern rock edge.

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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 Art Classes (Blue Tin Art Studio) Classes include drawing, painting, encaustic, comics, book making, jewelry and photography. 404-5566884, www.bluetinstudio.com Call for Artists (Downtown Washington) The Washington Wilkes Arts Foundation seeks submissions for ArtFest, taking place Nov. 7 & 8. www.washingtonwilkesarts.org Call for Artists (Call for location) Seeking artists for the “Phoenix Rising Georgia Theatre Art Quilt Project.” No sewing required.

Deadline Oct. 23. 706-540-2712, www.MamaInTheMoon.blogspot. com or on Facebook.

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. 30. www. athica.org/callforentries.php

CLASSES Acting for Film Workshop (106 West Performing Arts Venue, Winder) Open to ages 16 & up.

No acting experience necessary.

Tuesdays, 6:45 p.m. $95 (adults), $65 (students). 770-868-1977, beckytollerson@106west.com Adopt-a-Stream Workshops (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Learn how to assess the water quality of our streams. For ages 13 and up.

Sept. 26, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! Preregister at 706-613-3615.

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African-American family history research experiences and methodology. Sept. 26, 1 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650, loutome@aol.com Art and Music Classes (UGA Center for Continuing Ed) Find a new way to express yourself with one of the Center’s many creative classes. Open to all. 706-542-3537, www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/ppd Beginning Golf (UGA Center for Continuing Education) Take a swing at this class for beginners. Open to all! Through Nov. 2, 706-542-3537, www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/ppd Bellydance for Fitness (Floorspace) Women of all sizes and experience welcome. Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. $60/6 weeks, $12/class. floorspaceathens.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” class every Friday from 7–9 p.m. and “Family Try Clay” every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. ($20/ person). 706-355-3161, www.good dirt.net Clay, Glass Fusing, and Knitting Classes (Good Dirt) Now accepting registration for fall classes. All levels of experience.

706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Computer Class (ACC Library) Introduction to Excel. In the Educational Technology Center. Call to register. Sept. 24, 10–11:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 Craft Classes (Main Street Yarns, Watkinsville) Offering instruction in knitting, crocheting, wheel spinning, etc. Schedule online. 706-769-5531, www.mainstreetyarns.com Dance Classes (Floorspace) Now registering for beginning and intermediate modern dance classes.

706-540-1039, www.floorspace athens.com Deep Relaxation Workshop (Five Points Yoga) Verbally guided relaxation with Carla Jennings, RYT.

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Sept. 19, 4–5:30 p.m. $15. 706355-3114, www.athensfivepoints yoga.com Drumming for Fun and Well-Being (Mind Body Institute) Led by Dr. Arvin Scott. Saturdays, through Oct. 3, 2–3:30 p.m. $75/4 classes, $25/class. 706-475-7329, www.armc.org/mbi English as a Second Language (Pinewoods Hispanic Community Library) Classes every week! Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3708 Fall Container Planting (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Landscape architect Connie Cottingham discusses the principles of design and shares tips on potting mixers, choosing a container, spring bulbs and plant choices for sun or shade. Nov. 10, 5:30–7 p.m. $17. www.uga.edu/botgarden Family Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Offering instruction for kids in grades K–5 when accompanied by an adult. Call. $40/4 classes, mbi programs@armc.org, 706-475-7329 GEN Homeschool Program (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Garden Earth Naturalist program for homeschoolers. Topics include pollination, air and water purification, pest control, soil production and recycling. Nov. 23–Dec. 11, 9–11 a.m. (ages 6–8), 1–3 p.m. (ages 9–11). $22–$36. 706-542-6156 Genealogy on the Internet (Oconee County Library) Learn how to research your family online using Ancestry Library Edition, Heritage Quest and more. Space is limited; registration required. Sept. 22, 3–4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 Gentle Yoga (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Bring your own mat or towel and wear loose clothing. Julie Horne, instructor.

Paintings by Tyler Harris are on display at the ACC Library through September.

Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $9/class.

706-354-1996 Getting Started with Genealogy (ACC Library) Monthly informal class to walk you through the basics of researching family history. Bring a pencil and paper. In the Heritage Room. Sept. 17, 6–8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 Hoopdance Workshops (Canopy Studio) Recommended for experienced hoopers. Reserve a spot. Sept. 20, 1–2:30 p.m. $25/ workshop, 706-549-8501, www. canopystudio.com Intro to Computers (Madison County Library) Alisa Claytor, computer specialist, offers an Introduction to Computers series.

Three weekly meetings, and you may attend one per week or all three. Preregistration required. 706-795-5597.

Tuesdays, 2–3 p.m. or 7–8 p.m.

Wednesdays, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.

Introduction to Excel (ACC Library, Education Technology Center) Register. Sept. 24, 10 a.m.–11:30 a.m. 706-613-3650 Knitting Classes (Good Dirt) Weeks 1–3: Beginner Level: Beginning Stitches. Weeks 4–8: Intermediate Level: Reading a Pattern. Mondays, 7–9 p.m. 706355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Laugh-a-Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Laugh your stress away.

Sept. 26, 5:30 p.m. $5. 706-4757329, mbiprograms@armc.org Mama-Baby Yoga (Five Points Yoga) For babies 1–8 months old and their grown-ups. Fussy babies and tired mamas welcome. Every Monday. 11 a.m. $10. 706-3553114, www.athensfivepointsyoga. com Mama-Baby Yoga (Mind Body Institute) For mamas and their babies. Six weeks old to crawlers.

Every Wednesday. 10:30–11:45 a.m. $60/6 classes. 706-475-7329, mbiprograms@armc.org New Canopy Classes (Canopy Studio) Now registering for hoopdance and trapeze classes for kids

and adults. Full schedule online.

706-549-8501, www.canopystudio. com Online Job Application Tips (ACC Library) Learn tips and strategies for filling out job applications on the web. Sept. 24, 12:15 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 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. Mondays, 12:30–2:30 p.m. $190 for 8 classes (includes supplies). artschoolstreet@gmail. com, www.artschoolwatkinsville.com Open Hoops (Canopy Studio) No instruction. Bring your own hoop.

Every Friday, 6–7 p.m. $5. 706-5498504, info@canopystudio.com Perennial Symposium (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Discover which plants are best suited to Georgia’s gardens through seasonal changes and learn how to create and maintain a sustainable landscape in this day-long seminar.

Oct. 14, 8:45 a.m.–3 p.m. $50. www. uga.edu/botgarden Pilates Classes (Balance Pilates and Wellness Studio) Schedule and details online. Private lessons also available. 706-546-1061, www. balancepilatesathens.com Prenatal Yoga (Five Points Yoga) Get ready for birth and beyond with Jenni Derryberry Mann, RYT-200.

Every Sunday. 10:30 a.m. $10. 706355-3114, www.athensfivepoints yoga.com Prenatal Yoga (Full Bloom Center) Get ready for birth and beyond. Thursdays. 5:30 p.m. $14/ class or $60/6 classes. 706-3533373, www.fullbloomparent.com Qigong (State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Visitor Center, Great Room) Certified Qigong instructor Carl Lindberg leads class on the ancient Chinese art of self-cultivation that fosters health, relaxation and calm.

Mondays, through Oct. 5, 12–1 p.m.

$50. 706-542-6156, www.uga.edu/ botgarden Quiet Woman: Restorative Yoga (Mind Body Institute) Call for information. 6 classes/$75, 706475-7329, mbiprograms@armc.org Spanish Classes (Email for Location) Beginner and intermediate classes for spoken or written Spanish. 706-372-5570, kwindley@ uga.edu Swing Dancing (Dancefx) Social swing dancing, with advanced and beginner lessons preceding the fun.

Sept. 23, 9 p.m.–12 a.m. $3–$5. www. athensswingnight.com Tae Kwon Do & Jodo Classes (Live Oak Martial Arts) For kids and adults, beginner through advanced.

Chase St. Warehouses, next to Canopy and ATHICA. Mondays– Thursdays, 3:30-8:30 p.m. 706-5480077, www.liveoakmartialarts.com Tai Chi in the Park on Talmadge Drive (Mind Body Institute, Athens Regional Medical Center) Offering Tai Chi instruction.

Reserve a spot. Saturdays, 9:30– 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-475-7329, mbiprograms@armc.org Take One: A Fundamental Look at Screenwriting (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) An intro to screenwriting taught by veteran writer Terry Kay, a regional Emmy winner for his teleplay Run Down the Rabbit. Sept. 26 & 27. $150. 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com Tech Tips: YouTube (ACC Library) Learn your way around today’s most popular video-sharing website. Sept. 30, 12:15 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 UGA Swing Club (UGA Memorial Hall) Learn the Lindy Hop or the Charleston. Every Monday, 7–8 p.m. www.uga.edu/ugaswingclub Women’s Self Defense Class (American Black Belt Academy) Bring a friend for this free monthlong course of women’s self defense classes. Limited space; call to register. Thursdays, 5 p.m. FREE! 706-549-1671

Yoga and Tai Chi Classes (Athens Wellness Cooperative) For beginners through experienced. See full calendar online. $14/drop-in, $60/6 classes, $108/12 classes. www.wellnesscooperative.com Yoga Classes (Om Town Yoga, 190 Park Avenue) Ongoing classes with detailed asana instruction.

Mondays, 6:15 p.m. Wednesdays, 5:45 p.m. $10/drop-in. www.athens omtownyoga.com Yoga Crawlers (Full Bloom Center) For active babies 8–18 months. Every Tuesday. 10:30 a.m. $14. 706-353-3373, www.fullbloom parent.com Yoshukai Karate (AKF Itto Martial Arts) Learn Yoshukai Karate, a traditional hard Okinawan style. www. akfitto.com Zumba at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Latin rhythms comprise this dynamic fitness program. Wednesdays, through Oct. 28, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $10/ class, $48/session. www.uga.edu/ botgarden

HELP OUT! American Red Cross (Red Cross Center, 3525 Atlanta Hwy.) Seeking donors for all blood types. 706-5460681, www.redcrossblood.org Athens Farmers’ Market Volunteers (Bishop Park) Looking for people willing to help out anytime between 6:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on any Saturday through Nov. 14. marketmanager@athens farmersmarket.net Athens Pagan Pride Volunteers (Bishop Park) Now seeking Pagan and Pagan-friendly vendors, educators and entertainers for the upcoming annual festival on Oct. 24. For more information, contact athenspaganpride@gmail.com, http://athenspaganpride.org

AthFest Volunteer Opportunity (Email for Location) The AthFest Education Committee seeks year-round volunteers to assist them in their mission to connect local music to local schools. education@athfest.com Community Blood Drive (Oconee State Bank, 7920 Macon Highway) Save a life; donate blood.

Sept. 23, 8:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. 706769-6611 Scare Up a Harvest: Help the Hungry (Lyndon House Arts Center) Design scarecrows for a display at the Lyndon House! Creative scarecrows encouraged. Proceeds benefit the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia. Through Oct. 17, 5 cans of 15 oz ravioli (individual), 15 cans (group), 706-613-3623, www.acc leisureservices.com Tailgate Raffle (Athens YMCA) Tailgate4kids is looking for organizations to help with sponsorship and ticket sales in a raffle to send kids to summer camp. 706-613-9098, tailgate4kids@gmail.com.

Teach English as a Second Language (Various Locations) Catholic Charities seeks volunteers to teach adult English classes in the evenings. Training available. 706254-1371, vpflug@archatl.com

KIDSTUFF Art Classes (Art School) Eightweek classes for kids and teens begin Sept. 21. $130 for 8 classes (includes supplies). artschoolstreet@ gmail.com, www.artschoolwatkins ville.com Creative Movement (Floorspace) Ongoing class for ages 3–5.

Tuesdays, 10 a.m. Wednesdays, 1 p.m. 706-850-5557, www.floorspace athens.com Insectival! (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Family festival with

ART AROUND TOWN ACC Library (Top of the Stairs Gallery) Paintings by Tyler Harris. Through September.

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.

ATHICA “Free Press in Free Fall” features the work of 13 artists addressing the current state of news media.

Lectures and receptions Sep. 19 and Nov. 8.

Aurum Studio New charcoal work on paper by Mark Watkins and arcrylic paintings by Amy Wilmoth Watts. Though September.

Big City Bread Cafe Acrylic and watercolor paintings by Lauren Harrell. Through September.

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

Ciné Barcafé “A Handful of Dust,” featuring paintings and drawings by Adrian Cox and Lizzy Hinrich, explores the relationship between time, death and memory through the sublime landscape. Through Sept. 18. Reception Sept. 18.

Circle Gallery, UGA College of Environmental Design “Across the Spectrum” showcases the award-winning work of students and alumni of UGA’s College of Environment & Design.

Through Sept. 25.

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 September.

Espresso Royale Caffe Work by Ainhoa B. Canup.

Five Star Day Café Paintings of Athens by Heidi Hensley. Through September.

Five Star Day Cafe–Eastside Acrylic paintings

by Matt Blanks. Through September.

Flicker Theatre & Bar Paintings by Eric Simmons. Through September.

Just Pho…and More Work by Jill Leite. Through Oct. 30.

discovery stations, roach and beetle races, puppet show and lots of live insects. Butterfly release at 11 a.m.

Sept. 19, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $3/ person, $10 (family max), FREE! ages 2 & under. 706-542-6156 One-to-One Reading Program (East Athens Community Center) Read with the librarian and volunteers. For ages 6 and up. Monday–Thursday, 3:30– 5:30 p.m., FREE! 706-613-3657 Sweet Pea Club (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Program involves puppet shows, storytelling, learning games, nature crafts and garden explorations. Ages 3–5. Preregistration required. Fridays, Oct. 16–Nov. 6, 9–11 a.m.$14. www.uga. edu/botgarden Yoga Sprouts (Full Bloom Center) Yoga for kids ages 2 and up.

Wednesdays, 3:30 p.m. $14/single class, $60/6 classes. 706-353-3373 Yoga Sprouts (Memorial Park) Now registering. Session II: Oct. 20– Dec. 8. Ages 3–6 & 7–12. Tuesdays. $0–$48 (scholarships available).

706-613-3580, yogasprouts@ gmail.com

Punch Brothers Featuring Chris Thile

At the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center October 1, 2009 8:00 PM

ON THE STREET Showtime Series (The Performing Arts Center) The lineup includes the Hot 8 Brass Band, the Moscow Festival Ballet and KT Sullivan. Tickets on sale now. 706542-4400, www.uga.edu/pac Super Shredder Saturday (Georgia Square Mall) Secure destruction of confidential & sensitive materials. The ACC Recycling Division will then recycle. Sept. 19, 9–12 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3512 Tickets on Sale (The Classic Center) Singles and season tickets to The Classic Center’s music and event series are available now. 706357-4444, www.classiccenter.com f

Reserved seating: $25 - $50 Tickets available online at www.mmcc-arts.org and by phone: 706-342-4743 (877-233-0598 toll free) Madison-Morgan Cultural Center • 434 S. Main St. • Madison, GA 30650 30 Miles South of Athens on Highway 441

Lamar Dodd School of Art “Contemporary Representations of the Body,” an exhibit featuring figures by Kinzey Braughn, Andy Cherewick, Dennis Harper, Andy Nasisse, Christina Pettersson and Terry Rowlett. Through Oct. 15. Reception Sept. 18.

Perpetual Art Machine is a living archive of 21stcentury international video art. Through Oct. 15.

Reception Sept. 18.

Last Resort Grill Encaustic and mixed media paintings by Sarah Seabolt. Through September.

Encaustic/mixed media paintings by Sarah Seabolt.

Through September.

Lyndon House Arts Center “Lord Love You: Works by R.A. Miller from the Mullis Collection” includes more than 75 paintings, drawings, sculptures and whirligigs created by the Georgia self-taught artist Reuben Aaron Miller. Through Oct. 24. “Surrealist Tropical Pop,” features paintings by artists Stanley Bermudez and Carlos Solis. Through October.

Madison-Morgan Cultural Center “Reflections on Water, Earth & Sky,” featuring work by Lucinda Bunnen. Through Oct. 11.

Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation 7th Annual Perspectives Pottery Exhibition features the work of over 50 Georgian potters. Through Sept. 16.

Red Eye Coffee Photography by Jaclyn Enck.

Through September.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia “The Wonders of Nature,” an exhibit featuring silk painting, watercolor, oil painting, sculpture, photography and more. Through Sep. 20.

Transmetropolitan Photographs by Kathryn Bowen.

Walk the Line Tattoo Co. “Don’t Tell Mommy,” an annual erotic art show, features work by Joe Havasy, Nash Hogan, Keith Rein, Lea Purvis and other local artists. Through September.

Walker’s Coffee & Pub Paintings and mixedmedia by Laura Franta and Liz Williams. Through September.

White Tiger Gourmet Food & Chocolates Work by Todd Diederich, Will Donaldson and Heather Kohlberger. Presented by the 2010 Next to Last Festival.

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reality check Matters Of The Heart And Loins My boyfriend and I have been dating for almost five years and we’re both at the age where we seriously want to consider getting married. All of my friends and family LOVE this guy, as do I. Out of all of my past relationships, the relationship I have with him is almost like a fairy tale that I never want to wake up from. The only problem I have with him is the lack of sex we have, and when we do have sex, it is over in less than a minute. I’ve talked to my boyfriend about it many times. He claims he is just not a very sexual person and that I shouldn’t be offended if he doesn’t initiate having sex with me. Well, I am a very sexual person. I’ve gotten to the point where I masturbate quite often, and I even fantasize about having sex with other men! I have never cheated on anyone, ever. I feel that because I am fantasizing about other men, and having great sex with them in my head, I am totally cheating on my boyfriend. When I tell him these things, he just acts sorry that he cannot provide me the sexual life I often dream about. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a nymphomaniac, but I swear, my boyfriend and I have sex maybe once or twice every two to three months and we’ve been together for almost five years! I’m only 26 years old! I still have a sex drive!

Am I wrong to pretty much have to beg him into having sex with me? Am I wrong for having sexual fantasies? Should I reconsider marrying this man who provides me with the “fairy tale” life although we’re just lacking the sex?

Please help me!

Signed, Don’t Wake This Sleeping Beauty from Her Sex Dreams!

So, let me get this straight. You love this guy so much that you are thinking about marrying him, and your only complaint is that you want more sex. He says he loves you, too, and his response to your desire for more sex is “Sorry, but I’m just not a sexual person”? And when you tell him that you are having sexual fantasies about other men his response is to apologize for not sleeping with you enough?

Where exactly do you think a marriage fits into this scenario? This relationship makes you frustrated and guilty, so you’re thinking about turning it into a lifelong commitment?

Not without an open relationship clause, my friend. Unless, of course, you want to wind up divorced. Ugh. I don’t know what to do anymore. I have been with my boyfriend for almost a year now, and this is my first serious relationship. It has been a little difficult for me at times, and our relationship, I feel, is very strained. It is hard for me to figure him out and what is going on in his head. We have common interests but are

also very different people in the way we have been raised. What I am trying to get at is: I do not know how much longer we will be together and it scares me. We recently had a fight and he was so willing to break it off like it was no big deal. Was he just trying to be a man about it or is he not into me anymore? I cannot tell at this point because he is a different person from when I met him.

Let me just tell you it sucks!

Anonymous Since this is your first serious relationship, A, you can’t be expected to know this, but it’s over. He’s distant. He’s difficult. And when faced with a breakup, he doesn’t seem to care? Over.

Different person than when you first met? Over. I know this is hard, but before you know it, you will be looking back on this and you won’t believe how much it hurt. Be kind, but be firm. Break up and get it over with so you can repair your self-esteem and get on with your life. Good luck.

I have a guy friend who is really great, but he can’t seem to find the right woman. He complains about it all the time, and more recently he has finally started to take my advice and try a little bit harder. But here’s the thing: despite being smart and generally not a judgmental person, he is very picky about the women he is attracted to. Which is fine, I keep telling him, but then look at yourself. It’s not that he is particularly unattractive, it’s just that he always wears the same jeans (three of the same pair that he has been wearing since high school), the same shoes (ditto), and he has like 10 different t-shirts that he rotates through. I love him, and I love the fact that he isn’t into his hair or fashion, or whatever, but he likes girls with a certain look, and he can’t figure out why they don’t look at him twice. He isn’t really shallow, but it seems like he’s not thinking clearly about this. How can I make him see that he needs to try a little harder?

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So, what you’re saying is he’s not totally picky, but he has standards. And he wants women to see him for who he is and not how he looks. But he is basing his choices on looks? Sounds about right. He doesn’t realize that he is being hypocritical, and as his friend, it’s up to you to point it out. No matter what we all say is important to us in a partner, there has to be some initial attraction, and what you project is often what you will attract. Just tell your buddy that he’s going to have to up the ante if he wants to get noticed. And offer to go shopping with him. If he really doesn’t care about that stuff, he’s going to need some help.

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Real Estate Apartments for Rent 2 b e d ro o m s , 1 b a t h .

Fireplace, dishwasher.

Cedar Shoals Rd. Eastside.

Rent $525/mo., $525/dep.

Call (706) 769-8781.

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.

2 B R / 1 B A , $490/mo. Call McWaters Realty, (706) 549-3222, (706) 353-2700 or cell (706) 540-1529.

2BR/2.5BA condo. Along river. Avail. now. HWflrs., W/D, DW, ceiling fans, deck, amenities galore, convenient to everything. $650/mo. Call Matt at (706) 248-9088.

3BR/2.5BA Eastside townhome.

Spacious & convenient, on bus route. Pets allowed. Incl. W/D. Only $700/mo. Call Aaron (706) 207-2957.

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.

205 Little Street. 2BR/1BA. Water, gas, power incl. Near Dwntn. $550/mo. Call Joiner Management (706) 353-6868.

1BR/1BA. All electric, water furnished, nice! On bus line.

Single pref. Avail. now! (706) 543-4271.

Efficiency apt. in historic home.

1 lg. rm. w/ kitchen, BA, walk–in closet, priv. entrance. Close to UGA. $575/mo. incl. all utils.

No pets. (706) 543-6233.

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.

2BR/2BA apt. w/ fireplace & crown molding. By the mall.

Gated community, pool, fitness center. Retails for $900/mo., asking only $750/mo. Avail.

10/1/09. Dep. negotiable (706) 254-7474.

1BR/1BA. Completely furnished apt. Mature student preferred.

No smoking, drinking, pets.

CHAC. Quiet & safe. $525/mo.

Utils. & cable incl. (706) 5497590, (706) 296-6957.

3BR/2.5BA. Incl. W/D & fridge.

Great condition. At bus stop on S. Lumpkin. $900/mo. Call (404) 644-7983.

1BR/1BA + study/guest rm.

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

Excellent condition. Reduced $600/mo. Pets OK. Call Rob ( 706) 338- 4984 or em ail robwimberly@gmail.com.

1BRs starting at $467.50/mo., 2BRs starting at $506.67/mo., 3BRs starting at $705/mo. Sec. dep. starts at $150. On busline, pet friendly! Walk–in closets, FPs, recycling avail. on site.

Call today! (706) 549-6254.

Restrictions apply.

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

A Nice 2BR/2BA in great n’hood (ARMC area).

Centrally located, convenient to everything. Walking n’hood.

HWflrs., lots of light, big front yd. W/D. $700/mo + sec. dep.

1 yr. lease. Small pet negotiable w/ pet dep. N/S. 132 Sunset Terrace. Call (706) 850-5530.

A t hens ’ nices t duplex es .

2BR/1BA. $525/mo. Eastside.

Free month’s rent. Clean, quiet.

Tile, good landlord, on busline. We show everyday.

Rich (706) 548-3045. Hendley & Associates.

Great option! Overlook Village at China & Little St. 2BR/1BA. $480/mo. + sec. dep. Pls. call Dave (706) 207-2908.

Quiet duplex apt. 1BR/1BA E a s t s i d e . L g . p r i v. l o t .

Convenient location. Ideal for grad student. $375/mo. (770) 725-2758.

Studio condo Downtown Athens. On Broad St. & across to campus! $600/mo.

One avail. now & 2 avail. 12/1.

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White Columns Hall.

1BR/1BA, 1 block from Dwntn.

Water, gas, incl., laundr y onsite. $465/mo. Call Joiner Management (706) 353-6868.

Commercial Property 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Paint Artist Studio for rent.

300 sq. ft., $150/mo. 400 sq. ft., $200/mo. 160 Tracy St. Historic Boulevard Area, Artist/Crafts Community. (706) 546-1615 or www.athenstownproperties.com.

Houses for Rent N o r t h s i d e 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.

Affordable housing.

Houses, condos, A-frame all $550/mo. or less. Various locations. Excellent cond. Cats permitted w/ dep. Call (706) 202-0147, (706) 549-6070.

4BR/2BA. New appls., W/D, new CHAC, clean, nice yd.

260 Timothy Rd. $900/mo. Call (706) 340-3435.

3 B R / 2 B A + s t u d y / o ff i c e .

HWflrs., CHAC, DW, W/D, fenced yd. Pet friendly. Close to Dwntn & Riverwalk. $780/ mo. Flexible lease. (706) 206-3002.

4BR/2.5BA beautiful plantation h o u s e o n 3 a c re s . H i g h 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. now! $1200/ mo. + dep. (706) 319-1846, or (706) 548-4819. GA. R, E, lic.

300830.

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.

2BR duplexes starting at $450/ mo. 159 Gran Ellen, 3BR/3BA $1300/mo. 1BR/1BA $600/ mo. 167 Tibbets, Normaltown house $650/mo. Pls. call (706) 549-6070.

3BR/2BA country house. 9 mi. from Dwntn. FP. $138,000.

(706) 540-8461.

Duplex for rent. 2BR/1.5BA. Jolly Lane in Sleepy Hollow Subdivision. Near UGA, Memorial Park & Birchmore Trail. W/D, DW, CHAC, FP. $675/mo. Call April (706) 549-5006, go to www. athenscondosales.com.

First mo. rent free! Close to Dwntn. New 4BR/3.5BA houses. 2 master BR’s & 2 private BA’s within house. New appls. Pets welcome. $1100/ mo. Call (706) 540-1257.

3BRs. 180 O’Farrell, Check out these great houses in the heart of 5 Pts. Online a t b o u l e v a r d ​p r o p e r t y​ management.com or call (706) 548-9797. $1050/mo. 3BR/2BA house in country. 9 mi. from Dwntn. W/D hookup, DW, FP. Call (706) 540-8461.

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

360 Sandstone Dr. Avail. 7/1. $1025/mo. + dep. (706) 3191846 or (706) 548-4819. GA. R, E, lic. 300830. $800/mo. 4BR cool houses.

Wa l k t o U G A & t o w n .

Renovated, lg. farmhouse. Also avail. newer 2–story, 4.5BA, $900/mo. Charming character.

CHAC, W/D, DW. Avail. now.

(706) 215-4496. $750/mo. Blocks to Campus.

4BR/2BA. Tall ceilings, central air, DW, W/D conn., sunroom, pets allowed. 231 Elizabeth St. Owner/Agent. Call Mike (706) 207-7400.

3BR/2.5BA. 1 mi. to UGA. $1200/mo.1 yr. old house.

Open floor plan, microwave, DW, W/D conn. Avail. now.

(706) 410-6122.

3BR/2BA. 525 McWhorter, Five Points. HWflrs., tile BAs, FP, eat–in kitchen, study, master BR/BA w/ jacuzzi, bonus space/playroom. B a r ro w Elementary. Call (706) 5489797, boulevard​p roperty​ management.com.

3BR/2BA renovated home.

1 street mi. from Dwntn in Chicopee–Dudley. $ 7 2 5 / mo. Big yd., pest control, yd. maint. incl. Photos & info www.1596eastbroad.blogspot. com. (706) 255-0659.

3BR/1BA attractive brick house in quiet residential n’hood.

CHAC, DW, W/D, & carport.

Nice condition. $650/mo. Call (706) 548-5869.

3BR/2BA renovated Victorian. Price reduced.

1/2 mi. to UGA. Lg. rms., high ceilings. HWflrs, front porch back deck. Nice yd. lots of parking. W/D, DW, CHAC. Pets OK. $1000/mo. (706) 369-2908.

3BR/2BA w/ basement. Fenced backyd., carport. All electric.

W/D. 1 mi. from Dwntn. $900/ mo. 145 Conrad Dr. Call Brian (706) 613-7242.

3BR/2BA historic home near Dwntn, off Pulaski. Brand new renovations, energy efficient w/ lg. rooms & HWflrs., laundry.

Very clean/nice. $900/mo.

Avail. now. (706) 614-3557.

4BR/2BA house w/ sunroom, laundry room, W/D, lg. backyd., partially fenced, near ARMC. $900/mo. Call (706) 543-6604 or (706) 207-6008.

5 Pts. area. 3BR/2BA house.

CHAC, DW, laundry room w/ W/D, back deck, carport. Call (706) 255-0066.

Avail. now! 3–5BR cottages.

Close to campus & Dwntn!

HWflrs, W/D, micros. $350–$485/BR. Call (706) 543-1910 or email becky@ landmarkathens.com.

Beautiful forest setting.

Mins from Dwntn/UGA. HWflrs., lots of windows, multi–lvl. decks, open floor plan. 2BR. Upstairs sleeping porch & loft.

Photos at www.athenshouse. net. $875/mo. (706) 208-9543.

Brand new 3BR/2.5BA houses w/ HWflrs., granite countertops.

Walk to Dwntn. Avail. now! $1200. 706-713-0626.

Cute 2BR/1BA. All electric, CHAC, W/D, nice yd. $600/ mo. + dep. Call Mark (706) 202-5110.

Clean 3BR/2BA. Nice house in quiet n’hood on Eastside.

Only 3 mi to Dwntn/campus.

Avail. now! Great house! All appls incl. (706) 713-0626.

Five mins. from campus, Dwntn.

3BR/1BA home. CHAC, WD, N/S, fenced backyd., oak flrs. $750/mo. + deposit. (706) 3381859. Email bro@athens.net.

For Sale or Rent. 3BR/1BA in 5 Pts. 176 Habersham Dr. Avail. now! Pets OK. W/D & CHAC incl. $139,900 or $900/mo. Call Talley Toro (706) 424-2695 or Calvin (912) 399-4057.

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

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

Spacious 2BR/2.5BA Sleepy H o l l o w To w n h o u s e n e a r Memorial Park, wooded trails.

CHAC, DW, W/D, deck, pet friendly. Avail. immediately. $750/mo. (678) 777-6979.

Houses for Sale Full renovation! First St. millhouse. 1200 sq. ft. Big yd.

2BR/1BA. Tile & wood floors. 10 ft. ceilings. Metal roof. Custom kitchen–bathroom. $179K. Call Drew (706) 202-2712, or Christy (706) 559-4520 .

Roommates Female roommate wanted for 2BR/2.5BA 2nd flr. apt. Furnished except for priv. bed & bath.

Great location on S. Milledge busline! $390/mo. + 1/2 utils.!

No deposit! Email Rebecca at becca747@uga.edu.

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

(404) 713-0655.

1BR in 2BR/1BA Eastside duplex . G r ad s tudent or professional pref’d. W/D, DW, CHAC. $263/mo. + 1/2 utils. + dep. Avail. now! (706) 2541534. Lv. msg.

M/F Grad student/professional.

2BR/1BA. $325/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.

Room for rent in Bridgewater Sub. $460/mo. per person. All utils & cable/Internet/ alarm sys. incl. Female needed ASAP! Lg. rm. w/ walk–in closet. (678) 488-3884.

FLAGPOLE CLASSIFIEDS Find roommates, apartments, houses, etc. To place an ad call 706-549-0301.

Very nice room avail. in 3BR/3BA Cape Cod style home located in Winterville! 10 min from Dwntn.

W/D, DW, CHAC, deck, free WiFi, free utils. No pets pls. $450/mo. + dep. Ask for Brian (706) 621-3579.

Rooms for Rent 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!

Town/UGA, N. Oconee River.

Band/storage neg. Rms. $75/ wk. Unlimited long distance, Internet, cable, computer/TV provided. No drugs. (706) 8500491, 957 MLK.

For Sale Businesses Cheap restaurant/bar/pool room for sale. 243–A N. Broad St., Winder, GA 30680. (678) 9630794 or (678) 522-8891. Ask for Doug, if he is not avail., pls. lv. a msg! Full bar, full kitchen, 7 top of the line pool tables. Business is up & running. This ad will do the business no justice, you really need to come out & see the place. It’s great! We are selling & selling cheap due to death & now sickness in the family. We are asking $55K cash up front for everything! To see more about our daily activities (to get an idea of the business), g o t o w w w. m y s p a c e . c o m / wewanttomeetyou. Thank you!

Computers 20–inch iMac. $500 (cash only); 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor; 4MB shared L2 cache; 1GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM, supports up to 4GB. Call (703) 286-9174.

Brand new laptops & desktops.

Bad credit, no credit, no problem. Order today & get free Nintendo Wii game system! Call now (800) 840-5439 (AAN CAN).

Flea Markets Recycled/Used Furniture, Antiques, Rugs, Home fur nishings & 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 Tables, chairs, sofas, antiques, clothes, records & players, retro goods, & more! Cool, affordable furniture every day.

Go to Agora! Your favorite ever ything store! 260 W. Clayton St., (706) 316-0130.

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Sofas $100+, dining tables $50, bed sets $50, desks $20, loveseats $75+, chairs, accent tables, & much more. (706) 340-3969.

Pillowtop Queen Mattress set.

Never used. Still in factory plastic. $260. Full size mattress set. Never used. Still in factory plastic. $160. (706) 769-1959.

Delivery avail.

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

Baby piano $8500. Pop-Up camper $3200. Canoe $350.

NordicFlex $225. Gazelle $300. TotalGym $300. Ping Pong table $25. Van $2500.

Convertible $5900. Call (706) 850-1909.

Muscadine, Scuppernong grapes ready at the Vineyard.

8 mi. east of Lexington on Highway 78. Open 7 days. Also local produce, boiled peanuts, blueberries & more.

Photography Darkroom equipment for sale. $250 OBO. Omega D2 enlarger w/ variable condenser, extra lenses + Gralab timer, Master time–o–lite & much more. Call (706) 254-2428, lv. msg.

Yard Sales Community–wide Yard Sale.

Sat. 9/19. Pinecrest n’hood, off of Barnett Shoals Rd. Sat. 9/19, 8am–12pm. 115 Hampton Park Dr. Hampton Park Subdivision. Off O g l e t h o r p e Av e . S e w i n g machine, TVs, designer clothes, CDs, & furniture.

Mammoth Culture Schlock sale w/ live music. 9/18–9/20, Fri. 12pm–7pm, Sat. 9am–9pm, Sun. 9am–7pm. Located at 5 Pts. Jittery Joe’s. Live music, books, records, other media products for sale. Bring Flagpole Magazine for a 20% discount! For more info email mediamonds2006@yahoo. com or call (860) 208-0371.

Music Equipment Roland TD–10 V Drums. $1400, price negotiable. Comes w/ extras: sound proofing tiles, drumming DVDs, teaching workbooks. Contact (706) 2027316 or email redhubcap@ gmail.com.

Sound Design Drumset. 5 piece kit w/ 2 ZPT Zildjian cymbals & hi–hat, Remo heads, Gibralter double bass pedal. $650 OBO. Barely moved from my house.

(706) 206-1355.

Instruction Athens School of Music.

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

Guitar Lessons. Modern styles from rock, metal & country hybrid picking.

Experience incl. 14 yrs of playing/performing & 3 yrs of instruction at a hometown college. Contact rogerhbrock@ gmail.com. Check http://www. myspace.com/rogerbrock.

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 G u i t a r R e p a i r , setups, electronics & fretwork by 20 yr. pro. Thousands of previous clients. Proceeds help benefit N u i ’s S p a c e . C o n t a c t Jeff, (404) 643-9772 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 alter native to the typical wedding band? If you are looking for “YMCA” then Squatis not your band. If you want Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, & salsa, then visitwww.squatme.com/ weddings. (706) 548-0457.

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

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

Musicians Wanted Folk guitar, singer–songwriter seeking bass or stand–up bass & percussion. (678) 988-5310.

Services Health Penis enlargement. Gain 1-3” permanently. FDA approved medical vacuum pumps, Testosterone, Viagra, Cialis.

Free brochure. (619) 294-7777, http://www.drjoelkaplan.com.

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$350/mo. Grad student pref’d.

Quiet n’hood, fenced yd., dogs OK. Off–street parking. Call (706) 247-3487.

115 Hight Drive. $134,900. 3BR/1.5BA. Completely Renovated Oconee Co. home in Cedar Hills Subdivison behind Ashford Manor. Call Reign at Coldwell Banker Upchurch Realty (706) 543-4000, or (706) 372-4166.

2BR/1.5BA Condo W/D, DW, CHAC, landscaped. Totally remodeled top to bottom! Must see! $51,000. Affordable living. 307 Chalfont Drive.

Call (770) 912-1577.

3BR/2BA. Min. from UGA & Dwntn. Bamboo flrs., stainless steel appls. & a tin roof. 459 Little Oak St. $162,900. (678) 770-8772.

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Pregnant? Considering adoption?

Talk w/ caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers w/ families nationwide. Living expenses paid. Call 24/7. Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions (866) 413-6293 (AAN CAN).

Home and Garden Backyard Solutions.

Make your neighbors jealous!

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

Handyman. Lite carpentry, painting & installation. When you need a helping hand. Call Eddie (706) 433-3508.

Hardman General Contractors. Major renovations & Major additions. Completely Insured. Many references, Quality work for Commercial & Residential. For more info call Comus Hardman (404) 790-6996.

Have you won a judgement? Did you collect it? At Peachtree Judgment Recover y we specialize in locating debtors & their assets to collect civil judgments. Turn that worthless piece of paper into cash! Call (706) 621-3261 or visit us on the web at www.

EnforceMyJudgment.com/ peachtree/.

Massage Revolutionary Massage & We l l n e s s . Intro 60 min. Massage: $40. Book Online! Go to w w w. re v o l u t i o n a r y m a s s a g e . com.

Sports Martial Arts. Ladies Kickboxing, Kenpo Karate, Kali, Silat, Muay Thai, Tue. & Thu., 6pm–8pm. 4th Degree Black Belt. Call Steve (706) 410-0951, or email steve@ karatefire.com.

Legal Services

Tutors

YAZ may be linked to stroke, heart attack & blood clots. If you’ve been hurt, call James Rolshouse & Associates at (800) 969-5633. Licensed in MN. (AAN CAN).

Tutoring for kids still learning English in after–school settings.

All volunteers welcome. See CLASE’s website, www.coe. uga.edu/clase/tutoring, for more info.

Jobs Full-time Custom Surveillance is l o o k i n g f o r a n i n s t a l l e r.

Knowledge of surveillance equipment, networking, & professional customer service a +. Email resume to sales@ customsurveillanceinc.com or call (706) 316-0210. flagpole.com... online classifieds!

H a rd c o re S a l e s R e p s Needed.

Hourly + commission. PT & FT positions avail. I need the best & forget the rest! Call Chris (770) 560-5653.

Dental Office Person needed for busy Athens practice.

Ability to multi–task 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. Employer contributes 100% to retirement plan. Apply at DentalAthens@ gmail.com.

ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art presents:

Curator: Allie Goolrick

logo design by design.summers@gmail.com

Featured Artist: Kathryn Refi - All Things Considered project

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 19, 7:00 - 9:00p.m.

Free! With refreshments by White Tiger Gourmet.

Participating Artists: Wayne Bellamy (Athens, GA), Gary Duehr (Somerville, MA), Melinda Eckley (Jackson, TN), John English (Athens, GA), M. Ho (University Park, MD), Franklynn Peterson (Madison, WI), Marie Porterfield (Athens, GA), Phil Ralston (Atlanta, GA), Kathryn Refi (Athens, GA), Hannah Lamar Simmons (Carrboro, NC), Ed Tant (Athens, GA), Jordan Tate (Calgary, Canada), Michael Thomas Vassallo (Philadelphia, PA)

www.athica.org • 706-208-1613 160 Tracy St. in the Chase St. Warehouses

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M a r k e t i n g C o m m u n i c a t i o n Specialist. Join an est.

Athens company calling CEO’s & CFO’s of major corporations generating sales leads for technology companies. $9/hr.

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

Sexy Suz Adult Emporium now hiring 21+ retail positions.

Retail experience pref’d. Email resume/photo to sexysuz@ comcast.net. No calls pls.

50 Gaines School Rd.

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

No selling, any hours. $500/ wk. potential. Info at (985) 6461700 dept. GA–3058.

Bodyguards wanted. Free training for members. No experience OK. Excellent $.

Full & part time. Expenses paid when you travel. (615) 2281701, www.psubodyguards. com (AAN CAN).

Brand new laptops & desktops.

Bad credit, no credit, no problem. Small wkly payments.

O rd e r t o d a y & g e t f re e Nintendo Wii game system!

Call now (800) 816-2232 (AAN CAN).

Chronically anxious? You may be eligible for a 6–week exercise study. Compensation of $80. Complete screening (45 mins) at: https://www. surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?s m=whnwaViaanmyJpaadHNI fw_3d_3d, or contact Matt at mph8@uga.edu (URL has HN “capital i” fw_3d).

Does your daughter have symptoms of bulimia nervosa? Has your daughter injured herself on purpose?

Researchers at the University of Georgia Psychology Clinic are conducting a treatment study for teens w/ symptoms of bulimia nervosa & deliberate self harm. Open to teenage girls age 16–18. For more info email the UGA Eating, Drinking, & Personality Research lab at bnstudy@uga.edu, or call (706) 542-3827.

Ear n great pay selling merchandise from catalog! My company splits profit 50/50 w/ you! This makes it worth your time & energy! This is a great opportunity for eager & ambitious participants to earn a very generous profit w/ no investment needed! Call Gary for more info! (706) 526-7243.

Earn $40! UGA researchers looking for F age 18 & older who purge at least twice/mo. to participate in a 1–visit research study. Contact bnstudy@uga.edu.

Part-time Mystery shoppers earn up t o $ 1 0 0 / d a y. U n d e rc o v e r shoppers needed to judge retail & dining establishments.

No exp. req’d. (800) 743-8535.

Inoko Express is looking for cashiers. Apply in person from 2–4pm at Inoko Express, 3190 Atlanta Hwy. (706) 425-8828.

Maintenance person needed w/ skill sets for carpentry, light electrical & plumbing, sheetrock repair, painting, roof repair, & everything else to maintain houses & apts. Pls. fax resume to (706) 316-2007.

Vehicles Autos 1985 MB 300D, 268, XXX m i l e s . B o m b p ro o f . D a i l y driver. PW/Pl/sunroof. Run anything combustible. New Greasecar kit, w/ 13-gallon tank. Free WVO everywhere! $2750 neg. (706) 621-0135.

One owner. 2005 PT Cruiser.

Extra clean, 85K, auto, power windows, locks, AM & FM, cassette, spoiler. Death in family, need to sell. Call after 6pm. (706) 769-6208.

Van for Band. 1997 Astro Cargo, 80,845 mi., safety cage, cruise, tilt wheel, cold air, automatic, new paint, uses gas or propane. $3200. John (706) 614-0306.

Motorcycles For Sale. 2007 250 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle. Black w/ red flames. Like new, only 14 mi. $2700 OBO. Call (706) 788-3160.

Notices Messages Gain national exposure. Reach over 5 million young, active, educated readers for only $995 by advertising in 110 weekly newspapers like this one. Call Jason (202) 289-8484 (AAN CAN).

Personals Friendly, attractive 43 yr. old white male seeks male 25-45 yrs. old for tennis, friendship, & road trips. If interested pls. call (478) 451-7381.

everyday people Regi Pifer-Mills, Screen Printer & Electrician Regi Pifer-Mills is a man of many stories. The son of a pastor, Regi grew up in Evansville, IN. After graduating from high school there, he spent a decade moving across the eastern half of the U.S., working in various kitchens. Along the way, Regi dumpster-dove with anarchists in central Illinois, stayed in New York City flophouses and worked doubles in Nashville diners. In 2003, he landed in Athens and picked up a job at the Last Resort Grill, where he met Beth Pifer, who later became his wife. Beth is now a social worker, while Regi works full time at a print shop and is also an apprenticing electrician, studying the trade at Athens Technical College.

Flagpole: You’ve got a pretty interesting name. What’s the history behind it?

Regi Pifer-Mills: I was raised Reginald Luke Mills; I was named Reginald after my grandfather. But my parents called me Luke. And they never talked about my grandfather. They named me after him, but there was no oral history… so when I started high school, I went there as Reginald; changed my name for myself… that was my way of kind of assuring myself that sometime in my life I was going to learn about this char-

FP: You mentioned that you lived in a New York flophouse for a month or so. What was that like?

RPM: It was wonderfully horrible.

FP: Could you elaborate?

RPM: The first one was on the Bowery. It was like one big room that basically had cubicles with chicken coop wire over them so that you couldn’t get into somebody else’s cubicle. I mean, it was horrendous. But I loved it.

FP: Why’d you love it?

RPM: Because it was something you could write about.

You know, it was fascinating. Something I hope my kids never experience, but [something] I’m always going to tell ‘em about.

FP: Looking back, what was your favorite kitchen job?

RPM: I’ve actually cooked at a daycare for a year. That was one of my favorite jobs; that was awesome. I had the whole kitchen to myself; I got to do all the organizing, all the ordering. I didn’t have much control over the menu…

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FP: What did you have to cook for them?

RPM: Macaroni and cheese, beanie weenies…

FP: Did you consider it an insult to your culinary skills to be called on to cook beanie weenies?

RPM: No, not at all… these kids don’t want a seared filet with bleu cheese or anything.

acter. I wasn’t going to forget that there was this history to my name… And Pifer, that’s my wife’s family name. We got married as adults… we’re very independent people, so we’re kind of established and wanted to maintain our identities.

FP: You told me that you spent most of your 20s working at restaurants around the country. How did that journey start out?

RPM: When I was 18, I just booked it myself. I went to college right out of high school for three months… I really struggled in high school. I felt very out of place. I was in the punk scene, went to music shows every weekend… it was very cliquish.

FP: You, the pastor’s son, in the punk scene?

RPM: Well, that’s very common. A lot of preachers’ kids are rebels… so I went to college for a few months and at first I thought it was going to be really different. Then I got there and I was like, “These jokers are the same jokers I went to high school [with], but now they’re drunk!” So, I quit. And I went to Nashville, Tennessee and got a job at a restaurant.

FP: How was it growing up with a pastor for a dad?

RPM: Well, mine, I don’t think, is average. He’s very liberal, and he’s very educated… he’s very philosophical. Whenever we got in trouble as a child, it wasn’t about punishment—it was about discussion. So, you had to talk about why you did what you did, and what you thought you were going to accomplish… I learned that if I was going to do anything wrong, it was only going to be if I was not going to get caught, because I didn’t want to spend three hours at the kitchen table with Dad, talking all this through.

FP: How did you get into your current job at the print shop?

RPM: Before I got married, I didn’t really have that many needs—I would live in small places, live pretty simply. The only cars I had were handme-downs, but [after I got married] I wanted to start to make more income. So, I was looking for a job—I had done printing in high school, some artistic stuff—and I saw this ad for screen printing… I had no idea what I was getting into, pneumatic 16-head presses and all this stuff. But they gave me more money and hired me on the spot.

114 COLLEGE AVENUE

706-546-0966

Between Walker’s & Starbucks

FP: Do you enjoy it?

RPM: It’s okay. It’s labor. It’s a factory. It’s noisy, it’s messy, it’s grungy… and it keeps getting bigger every year.

FP: So, now you’re on your way to becoming an electrician.

Why did you decide to select this one out of all the other possible trades?

RPM: I don’t know how I fell into that. I don’t like heights, so I’m not going to do framing or roofing. Also, there’s something kind of metaphysical about electricity, you know? We can mathematically calculate its frequency—basically where it’s at.

But you don’t see it—you take on faith that it’s there.

FP: Seeing as you’ve been a mobile bachelor for most of your life, what have you learned from being married?

RPM: We love somebody, but then we want them to be who we want them to be… but if you really love somebody, you’ve gotta love them for who they are. That’s tough. It’s a daily challenge… I heard a pretty funny story recently about this old man that was being interviewed who had been married for 50 years. He was asked, “What’s the secret to a long marriage?”

[He said] “It’s not getting divorced.” That’s the whole secret.

It’s not going to be easy. There’s no key to making it nice. Just don’t quit; just keep at it.

Jeff Gore

ACROSS 1. Deficiency 5. Plod along 9. Donkeys 14. Look at flirtatiously 15. See the sights 16. An electrode 17. Adolescent 18. Bit 19. Donated 20. Undecorated 22. Happening 23. Sharpen 24. French for “Queen” 26. Paintings 29. Pressure 33. Suitable for eating 38. Dog of movie fame 39. Tribe 40. Pore 42. Initial wager 43. Jump over an obstacle

45. Senseless 47. Hardship 48. Bother 49. Governs 52. Sea 57. Displayed 60. Unforgettable 63. Delineated 64. Any minute 65. Lacquered metalware 66. Communion table 67. Part of an archipelago 68. Dolt 69. A state of high honor 70. Bottom of the barrel 71. Stetsons and derbies

THURSDAY SEPT. 17

MONDAYS

TUESDAYS

WEDNESDAYS

All Day Happy Hour

$2 Wells

Yuengling

Date Auction to benefit HEROs $2 Martinis for the Ladies

DOWN 1. Egyptian water lily 2. Spy 3. Transparent 4. Japanese stick fighting 5. Mix 6. Diving bird 7. Not inner 8. Mark 9. Deep purplish red 10. Worldwide 11. Passion 12. Biblical garden 13. Dispatched 21. October birthstone 25. It's surrounded by water 27. Sell again 28. Explosive letters 30. Feudal worker 31. Seats oneself 32. Views 33. Reflected sound

34. Aspersion 35. One of 52 in a deck 36. Undergarment 37. A male cat 41. Missing In Action 44. Workplace where clothes are washed 46. A swinging barrier to a room 50. Electronic messages 51. Detect 53. Nab 54. Hemorrhagic fever 55. Apportion 56. Requires 57. Dross 58. Small mountain 59. Not deceived by 61. Blemish 62. 1 1 1 1

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

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CHEAP DRINK SPECIALS EVERY NIGHT BEFORE 11PM • 18 + UP

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED

Maserati • Still Flyin’

I am the World Trade Center (reunion)

The Young Sinclairs Ruby Isle Venice Is Sinking Allison Weiss

doors open at 8pm • ten dollars

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

“LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT”

THE ORKIDS

BABY BABY • MONAHAN doors open at 9pm • five dollars

doors open at 9:30pm • five dollars

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 GEORGIA THEATRE PRESENTS

TWO nights of

perpetual PACKWAY HANDLE groove BAND

Southeastern Premiere of

LEONARD COHEN

CHILI’S / ST. JUDE’S 4th ANNUAL ROCK FOR A CURE:

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ROMANEKO • TENDABERRY

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doors open at 9pm • fifteen dollars adv. *

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

in honor of Mr. Cohen’s 75th Birthday

FREE doors open at 9pm • DVD on at 9:30pm Raffle for CDs, LPs, and DVDs

doors open at 9pm • fifteen dollars fifty cents • All Shows 18 and up • + $2 for Under 21 * Advance Tix Available at Schoolkids Records ** Advance Tix Sold at http://www.40watt.com

EXCLUSIVE HOME OF THE

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THE DECEMBERISTS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 8:30pm with special guest LAURA VEIRS & THE HALL OF FLAMES

All Ages Tickets available at The Classic Center Box Office and www.classiccenter.com.

To charge by phone - 706-357-4444. www.decemberists.com